Recent content by pparks1

I've not had too many problems with a USB device working off a hub. Only rarely have I found a microphone or something that had a lag on the USB hub, and in those cases that's often resolved by 1). Buying a high quality name brand powered USB hub 2). Just plugging the problematic device into...

Yeah, threw me for a loop too. I'm like wait, NewEgg is selling a computer that is almost 15 years old on their website. i had to google it to see that they released the optiplex 7010 again and confused everyone.

yeah, i have been running 24H2 on my mini for quite a while. No issues to report.

Ah so they changed their stance, i thought that I was loosing my mind there for a bit. Originally the security updates were supposed to stop with Windows 10 support on Oct 14, 2025, but now we have an additional 3 years...

I upgraded my wife's desktop from 10 pro to 11 pro today. I would have NEVER even thought of doing an "upgrade" back in the 95/98/XP days. But the upgrade experience going from 10 to 11 at work was smooth. And the change from 10 to 11 isn't massively substantial, IMHO. I took a...

I've been using WIndows 11 on a Beelink miniPC for years. And I've also had it on my work laptop for a few years as well. My desktops at home (mine, wife's and son's......all hardware compatible) have still been running on Windows 10 because I wasn't having any problems and they were...

We don't run any windows containers in docker. Couple of reasons. Host machine would have to be running Windows in order to utilize the operating systems resources and drivers. The containers would be huge, and would take a very long time to pull the image, extract, install, etc...

I historically prefer VMWare, but need Hyper-V components to be able to run WSL2 (Windows subsystem for linux). Since VMWare Workstation and VMWare conflict with each other, based on how they implement virtualization, I just started using Hyper-V and it's been working fine enough for me.

No problems with my Beelink either. It will be 4 years old in September. If anything happens to it's activation, I would just obtain a cheapo license from one of these websites and call it a day.

While you don't have to activate it, you cannot get it installed without a valid payment method...even if you plan to cancel before the trial period ends, unfortunately.

Don't see the AI flop happening. People are using AI for all kinds of everything. I have several friends who discovered how powerful and helpful ChatGPT was and are now both paying for subscriptions to it. Tons of enterprises are using AI for loads of workloads. I use a site called...

You mentioned that your kid is a gamer. Your biggest advantage to that fiber over satellite is going to be latency. It would be greatly reduced on the fiber connection which would have a very positive increase on gaming. For me, as far as downloads go, I'm totally happy on 600mbps. My...

Yeah, Fiber in my area is slightly more expensive than my cable provided broadband options. Unfortunately, I don't have fiber yet to my address, so I don't have the ability to switch over, but I will when it becomes an option. At present, my home internet is via WOW, and I have 600/50...

I guess I just don't feel that the feature releases are really "massive changes". It's like a service pack used to be. In most respects, I struggle to even find the changes, and instead have to hit a review site or YouTube video to ascertain what is new. Lot's of people seem to like...

Windows 10 and 11 have about 10 years of support as well. Your assumption here is correct, the LTSC version is not made available to the consumer directly. It's for special use cases. i guess the annual feature updates don't bother me much. I don't jump into them right at the start, and I...