Recent content by Scannerman

Kind of like a vendor selling coffee but he keeps on adding more water to the machine with very little coffee. As long as people keep buying the stuff he's making record profits but the coffee has no kick. Back in my day we called that inflation. No matter how you slice it or dice it this is...

I knew this question was forthcoming. Let me put it this way: Everyone hopping on the AI band wagon is generating this so-called AI bubble. Meanwhile, the exception proves the rule. The rule? That there is this huge demand for AI that most people cannot justify, cannot support, cannot afford...

I missed V3 too but I have sooo many computers keeping me busy now that it's just not on the radar for me anymore.

Yes, it usually means to plan to do something malicious with others. The word literally means, "to breathe together" but in the last century it has taken on a more sinister meaning. My view is that this consortium is looking to its own ends above and beyond the welfare of the consumer and/or the...

Only if you are conspiring with your neighbour. :)

Oh, here's another one: "TPM was originally created by a consortium called the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) in 2003 to enable trusted computing features in computers, mobile devices as well as network equipment." https://www.cassianetworks.com/blog/tpmsecurity/ To say that there is no...

One can lead a horse to water. . . https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/?__cf_chl_f_tk=UER9FhT6iJzWkG9HDgdl7L_FPaX0jd2kRKB06TP7mgE-1782861017-1.0.1.1-SumtEMLo4xJehPMcSZOsblIDxB90daBuf6WJMv6bptw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module...

Given what I know about the economy I'm inclined to think that I would not make the same decision to increase profits considering the fact that without the end user there is no further profit to be had. Potentially, this move can seriously backfire. Diversification has always been a cardinal...

This should give you some idea: https://www.techspot.com/news/92362-scalpers-selling-ddr5-kits-up-2500-ebay.html

RAM prices have already quadrupled in a year. Not sure what that "as much as 50%" means except that prices are still about to go higher.

Not sure if it offers much hope but it's something.

This is why most folks today just use their phone.

A glimmer of hope on the GFX horizon.

IMO the real horror show was Win 11. Macrium is hardly to be blamed for this. MS seriously dropped the ball on backward compatibility in their dubious pursuit of security protocols and they don't care. So much software has been rendered either incompatible or obsolete at the advent of Windows...

Thanks! :)