I am hooked on this channel. It's interesting watching his method
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.” ― Steve Jobs
Photo: Steve Wozniak's Apple I computer (1976)
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I met Steve Wozniak got a picture of me and him .. amazing person..
I'm just waiting for those capacitors to burst and piddle all over the place.
Silly joke aide, Steve Wozniak and Jay Miner are two I look up to in awe, that's for sure!
All that computational power, three or four levels of on-die cache depending on model (or more, conceptually), integrated random access memory instead of modular and easily-upgradable designs, microcode firmware to allow software-based patching since it's harder to rewire 8 billion transistors inside a 16-core microprocessor... never mind overclocking, which also involves the happy fun-time question of "is the cost of the increased electricity, heat output, and potential lifespan degradation worth a 25% faster clocked CPU speed, which does not translate into 25% rendering time acceleration" for which the answer isn't a straight yes or no...
Now riddle me this: The day a microchip can do all the functionality of four Ryzen Threadripper 7995WX chips with quad- nVidia 5090, 2048TB of DDR5 RAM or whatever will be out by then, with embedded SSD because who wants modular anything anymore, and can also multitask as a 12x12" pancake skillet (mostly for the IHS required, ha!), inquiring minds want to know! Well, maybe keep the SSD separate as even with wear-leveling and TRIM, it'll wear out by five~ten years of regular use and with luck all the other components of that SoaC would remain viable for several years' worth of use longer... probably all within fifteen years once they get fabrication technology so minuscule ( < 0.5nm, industry is already at 2nm), assuming silicon is still used and not some other substrate (Gallium nitride appears to be promising, but it'll still be a while...) What version of Windows will be running it, or will it be some FreeBSD or Linux clone OS? Now look at if BeOS were to be made for such a theoretical system and drool...
We're getting there...... Almost to the point where a high powered laptop could only have a 4 or 5 chips on the mainboard including memory and everyone will call that a win. In some ways it would streamline production of these devices but not the cost to purchase, maybe the reliability might rise a slight bit because also by then you could offer options on such a board like more external storage slots. less chance of user damage from trying to "fix" stuff.
Someone made a Frankenpc out of a mini pc and external gpu dock
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500 watts, that is some scary power for a pc, i have a oil radiator room heater that pulls 500 watts to heat the room. Lol
Have you seen the power requirements for some of the recent GPUs on the market?
Actually if anyone can help I'm in the middle of updating an ASUS TUF F15 gaming laptop and I disabled the touchpad but when I use the mouse to scroll pages it isn't smooth but janky sometimes and the page will scroll down part way then go back up a little.
What is your screen refresh rate, have you tried a second mouse in to see if its a actual mouse isssue, dirt or dust.
144hz is my refresh rate but not sure if that's only for gaming but not regular use where it would scale down wouldn't it?
OK this is going to sound like the oddest solution ever but it totally fixed my problem. I have two identical mice on the laptop and my desktop, same brand, same model. I just swapped the mouse and receiver from the desktop machine and now it's working perfectly.. I'm not 100% sure how this fixed the issue but maybe it was related to the wireless signal or something.
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Try putting the screen refresh to 60hz and then try the mouse that was having issues via some browsing.
I just tried that before reading your post and surprisingly the other one works as well now, even with the screen reset to it's default refresh rate of 144hz. Can't explain why both are now working
Computers can be quirky that's for sure.Gremlins..
The only other explanation I could come up with is that maybe the wifi router was interfering with the mouse signal and now it isn't The router is on the same desk as the laptop is right now at the back of the desk and I'm using Ethernet from the laptop to the router. I only have the wifi on because of my phone, which uses that.
I had the same issue with a wired mouse when i bought a 1440p 120hz monitor, and found dropping it down to 60hz solved the issue, and i can't seem to see any difference between 60hz and 120hz anyway so it was not a loss so i never looked into why it was affecting the mouse, and only while using a browser, as in a game at 120hz there were no issues with the mouse.........so yeah who knows what was causing it.......alien or ghosts maybe. Ha
Jesus Christ, i'm such a moron.
I was downloading some 3D files to print for a friend when Windows tells me the drive is full. No biggie, i'll just delete some temporary files to make room. So i check the Windows Cleanup Tools and it says i have over 600 GB in my Downloads Folder and i think Yay, this should cover me for a while.
The problem is that all the files i downloaded ( 3D print files, documents, pdfs - everything) i had saved conveniently on the C: drive in the automatic downloads folder, never thought about the implications and i have other drivers available on my PC so it's entirely my fault.
So i click yes, the PC works a while and after it's done i check back and almost all my private files are gone!!
Since this was a data cleanup the trash bin can't recover and after doing research and trying different things i decided to eat it and bought a license for a professional recovery tool that was not cheap (almost 80 Euro).
It's working now and it may take a couple of hours to recover, hopefully it can recover my main files.
Lesson for you all - treat data storage and security as important as it is, you might never know if you or the system/hardware might screw up and you lose valuable data.
If this works well enough i might need to think about some long term backup system for files like this, any suggestions?
I don't want an online cloud service as i don't trust any provider with private data ( not that i have government level secrets but still). I may look into external drivers, any recommendations?
I was downloading some 3D files to print for a friend when Windows tells me the drive is full. No biggie, i'll just delete some temporary files to make room. So i check the Windows Cleanup Tools and it says i have over 600 GB in my Downloads Folder and i think Yay, this should cover me for a while.
The problem is that all the files i downloaded ( 3D print files, documents, pdfs - everything) i had saved conveniently on the C: drive in the automatic downloads folder, never thought about the implications and i have other drivers available on my PC so it's entirely my fault.
So i click yes, the PC works a while and after it's done i check back and almost all my private files are gone!!
Since this was a data cleanup the trash bin can't recover and after doing research and trying different things i decided to eat it and bought a license for a professional recovery tool that was not cheap (almost 80 Euro).
It's working now and it may take a couple of hours to recover, hopefully it can recover my main files.
Lesson for you all - treat data storage and security as important as it is, you might never know if you or the system/hardware might screw up and you lose valuable data.
If this works well enough i might need to think about some long term backup system for files like this, any suggestions?
I don't want an online cloud service as i don't trust any provider with private data ( not that i have government level secrets but still). I may look into external drivers, any recommendations?
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What about an external storage like an external hard drive or one of those boxes you can shove a few into at once for more storage
That's going to be likely the solution. Did a quick check and once i can hopefully recover most of my data i'll have to reorganize all and get some external solution.
Go learn the "3-2-1 BackUp Strategy", and follow it religiously.
You'll thank the "Data Gods" later.
