I have a computer at work that has like 10 phones plugged into it. Opening “this PC” part of file explorer freezes it for about 5-10 minutes. It’s a very fun issue when I forget about. Normally I just avoid that screen.

It’s a fun bug.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7

You can still buy it yourself. It’s only $1.

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Using an older OS is only a security issue if you actually do stuff with it. If you’re downgrading just to reinstall a newer OS then what malware is going to exploit your phone in that short period of time?

As others have said the real issue will probably be running old firmware for other things like your modem. But even then someone still has to be looking to explicitly exploit that.

Most current Gen. thinkpads have fully upgradable ram. The T4XX/14 series had half soldered ram until a year or two ago. SSDs have basically always been replaceable.

They’re also very easy to work on since it’s only a couple of screws and you have full access to the inside of the machine. Those older thinkpads were nightmares if you had to take the whole mobo out. Even MacBooks were easier.

You can only “roll back” to 10 if you just upgraded from 10 to 11. If you bought something new then you can’t “roll back” to something that was never there.

Also if it’s a newer laptop expect a lot of things to be broken or work poorly. A lot of new hardware has come out post Windows 11.

SSDs also have essentially no wear from reading.

SD cards just die out quickly because people don’t treat them the same as their internal drive. When you’re replacing the main drive to your most important machine do you go to aliexpress and sort by price low to high? Or do you do some research first and see if it’s a well rated drive?

SD cards are tiny so getting one in high capacities, speeds, and high write cycles is a lot harder without paying a lot more money. The SD cards I have in my dashcam have been recording 4k + 1080p video almost continuously for 5+ years and they’re still going strong. But I also bought drives rated for that kind of use.

Swap would probably destroy that thing. And be unbearably slow.

I agree with the others, a rescue partition type thing is probably the best option.

The case around it does. That’s what I want to replace.

That brings up my following question.

If the thumb sticks are capacitive and they wear smooth over time how do you replace them? Are the capacitive sensors under stick caps? Do you just have to replace the rim only?

What you lose shuffling between CPU and GPU you gain by not having your GPU and CPU sharing the same bandwidth.

Apple gets away with it by having an ungodly massive memory bus. I don’t think valve is getting a 512 bit memory bus on what’s probably a RX 7400/Ryzen 7600 tier CPU. Both of those combined would be like half that?

Ah, I was looking at the DP specs not the HDMI.

Is it an APU, or is it a “desktop” CPU and GPU on one board? CPU specs are close to the 7600x but downlocked. And with dedicated vram I’d assume the GPU is it’s own separate thing.

GPU looks like it’s probably a tweaked RX 7400 based on the specs.

I mean if you’re playing older stuff it will output 4k 240. You can probably run Crysis at 4k 240 on that thing.

I want someone to make a slow charger with PPS to compare them. My phone on a “slow charger” gets about as hot as when I use a fast charger with PPS. But a fast charger without PPS and it gets extremely hot and slows down charging a lot. Especially when I leave it on my bed. That definitely is not good for it’s health. They charged their phones in little stands which gets them plenty of airflow to keep them cool.

It looks like the iPhone 12 doesn’t support PPS. Fast charging could be even better if they used a device that supports it.

1000 horses sounds cooler than 735 electrical pixies a second.

Like this?

Most antenna towers aren’t saucer shaped.

They just reused an existing building which happened to fit a fuck ton of antennas on it nicely. Most tall buildings will have some sort of antennas on them.

Just don’t write bugs. Problem solved.

You don’t have to quit cold turkey.