Nintendo is generally pretty painless. They don’t guarantee your data of course (this is pretty standard, as depending on the failure it may not be recoverable) but it’s pretty painless overall. Call them up, troubleshoot the issue, then send it in for repair if necessary. Usually takes a week or two and they’ll get…

The slot loading slim drives are kinda pricey, but not $200 pricey. That’s Sony for you unfortunately.

Yeah, $100 or so is what Nintendo charges. At least they’re generally fairly nice throughout the whole process. They have some of the nicest support reps I’ve dealt with.

That’s the right attitude to have IMO. As long as you’re happy with the way your system is performing, don’t stress over it. This is actually the first CPU I’ve bothered to OC, and simply because I wanted to. I also upgraded an 8 year old system, so it’s an utterly massive performance boost (though I miss my PCI-E…

Eh, even overclocking the CPU isn’t nearly as much tinkering as it used to be. With the unlocked Intel CPU’s, you basically just bump the the multiplier up until it crashes, then step it back until you’re stable, and maybe step up the voltage a bit. Took me about an hour on my current PC + letting it run a stress test…

Actually looks like laws have changed a bit, only 4 infractions now. Still, it’s interesting that running a red and killing someone is only 6 here, but Reckless driving is 8 (Think they combined drag racing into one of the other categories). Looks like they lowered the threshold to 8 points. I never hit that high. (I…

Because it usually won’t hold up in court. If you fight it, you can probably get it tossed as it falls around margin of error. It’s probably why he only got a warning and not a ticket.

20 over, or more than 85MPH anywhere not a track, is “felony” speeding (it’s really a misdemeanor, but other things can push it to a felony). Understand that our speed limits our here are generally fairly high. 65 on the freeway, 75 on most major highways. 40-45 around town. To be pulled over for 20 over you have to…

Fontaine eh? All I can think is “Would you kindly jump of a cliff Mr. Jones?”

The tax credit that is soon to go away? Yup, great idea. TBH, I’m all for electric vehicles, but we need to make a jump in battery tech before they’re feasible. Too much reliance on rare-earth elements isn’t currently sustainable. Good news is there’s currently lots of interesting battery stuff in the testing phases…

I like trucks, but I’d never want to DD one. I’d rather have something fun and sporty instead of big and lumbering.

I guess they’ve gotten better over the years? I couldn’t stand the original MBP touchpads when they first introduced them. Had to setup dual boot images for the loaner laptops at my college’s computer lab, and right clicking on those things was a pita.

AFAIK, the current Intel integrated graphics can drive up to 3 monitors. More than that and I’m pretty confident you’ll need some sort of standalone graphics card.

Well, definitely a needs thing. I’m fine with a small laptop for presenting things and stuff like that. I wouldn’t want to be doing all my work on it directly though. I’d want a least a dock and a couple larger monitors for my actual work space.

A lot of the enterprise stuff is disabled / not allowed on the Home versions. Apparently you can cheat it in, but it’s not there by default. Most users don’t even know what GPO’s are tbh.

IDK about others, but if I was doing coding I’d want a 17" ‘laptop’ or a dock and monitors. There’s just not enough screen real estate on a 15" laptop, or it’s tiny because they’ve crammed a 1080p screen (or more) into a really small space. Still, the 15 seems like a nice piece of hardware, and I’d consider one were I…

FWIW you can’t turn them off on 10 (at least not on the Home version). You can delay them, but eventually they will install no matter what. TBH, Windows isn’t terribly aggressive about it unless you keep ignoring it. Otherwise it does it when you’re typically not using your PC. I suppose it might be annoying if you’re…

Several of the characters are already in the game, so it feels a bit greedy.

I’ll give you FE:W, but that’s par for the course there. The rest though has felt pretty good overall. 4 characters for $3.75 each doesn’t seem bad to me. Kirby update was free unless I’m reading wrong.

No, never heard of a chording keyboard. Interesting though. My thought was actually like...a cellphone keyboard (think older slider phones/Blackberrys).