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hdsrob

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  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • Yea, the 2012 build was a 3770k with 16 gb ram, multiple SSDs, a GTX680, etc. So it was a pretty fast machine back in the day.

    I upgraded the video card and SSD drives several times, just didn't have the budget to replace it all at once for a long time.

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • Minus the case and video card, I have an entire 3rd gen i7 machine sitting in a box that would actually make a pretty good machine for a lot of different uses.

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • Same .. I hadn't upgraded since 2012, and had some extra cash, so rebuilt in August. Feeling pretty lucky to have done it then, and really glad I went ahead and put 64GB RAM in it.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • I'm that old too!

    But that's way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice

    Reminds me of my high school buddy that had a beard / deep voice, and looked just like his older brother. He would use his brother's old drivers license to buy beer and smokes for us.

  • TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost

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  • Thanks.

    Looks like it has improved quite a bit over the years.

  • Recommendations

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  • They are QMK based boards: QMK is open source, and can be modified by anyone. All of their boards are in the QMK repository. It's impossible for their boards to be abandoned.

    https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/keychron

    So you can always just pull the source for whatever board from the QMK repository, and modify, build, and flash the board directly from your PC.

    In fact you can do that instead of using the web based configuration tool as soon as you get the keyboard if you want.

    They keymaps are separate text files in the firmware, and pretty easy to work on even if you don't have any development experience.

    The web based configuration tools are a relatively new thing, and just offer a simpler solution for people that don't want to have to compile the source.

    The Chromium dependency is annoying, but I have a few things that only work in Chromium, and keep a flavor around for those things.

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak .. back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).

  • Recommendations

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  • The Keychron software is only for loading a config to the keyboard, or pulling a config for backup. The entire config lives on the keyboard after that.

    You only have to use it temporarily while making changes to the keyboard, it's not running or connected beyond that, and isn't required at all if you don't want to change anything.

    You can also use VIA (also online but only when needed) with Keychron, but I've not had much success lately with it.

    You can also just download the firmware source files, and then modify, build, and install the firmware locally without ever connecting to the internet.

  • TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost

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  • It may have changed since then, but after my dad left the USAF in the early '80s, my mom was a civilian employee on the base for a bunch of years, and we didn't have access to any of the additional benefits. I know that we couldn't go to Aaffes, the Px, or use any base services. Not sure about retirement / insurance at that time, but we certainly didn't take advantage of insurance if it was available.

    About the only thing we had access to was some of the Recreation services: My mom worked at Arts and Crafts, and that was attached to the Auto Hobby and Wood Shop so they let employees use those facilities, along with the place where we could rent lawnmowers and other recreation equipment.

  • look at this junk!

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  • 2 months.

    I've been writing the same software since 2003.

    Someone left some real crap in there.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Running Windows in VMWare Workstation: I do development work that really has to be done in Windows, so that's where I spend my day. Even on my Windows machine, I keep the dev environment in a Virtual machine so that I can go anywhere with it, or use if from any machine with VMWare loaded.

    I find myself having to stay booted into my Windows Drive to run VMWare without a bunch of lag / weird issues. So at that point I just kept working from that drive and don't really boot back to the Linux drive.

    I also seem to have a heck of a time seeing files on my NTFS drives from Linux.

    Some of this is probably the older Nvidia card that I have, and the fact that I run 3 monitors, and running VMWare on 3 monitors acts weird in Linux.

  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • So much this. I actually pulled all of our servers from Azure and went back to a regular provider. Way cheaper as well.

  • Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare

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  • I've been either self employed, or worked for a very small company for 25+ years, and never had reasonable access to insurance.

    With the covid era subsidies, we finally had insurance for the first time for the last few years.

    Between the policy doubling in price, and the loss of subsidies we would have been paying way almost $2000 a month, so now we don't have insurance again.

  • First code coded

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  • There's no such thing as 2.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • I feel much of this, especially the installer situation right now.

    I've setup and maintained a number of Linux servers from scratch, and I'm used to installing / updating / maintaining server software (via bash / SSH), but desktop kills me.

    I didn't think my Windows setup would be that crazy to get working, but VMWare Workstation, and Splashtop have both been killers (and good triple monitor support to some degree). Steam has been 50/50 for games for me, but I'm running an older NVidia card, so that's probably my issue.

    I started with Open Suse, and liked the OS quite well, but could never get past the errors installing and configuring VMWare (I develop in Windows inside a couple of VMWare images, and will for the next decade at least), so fast / stable VMWare support is key to moving off of Windows.

    I also couldn't get Splashtop running: I need remote access to my machine when outside of the house, and to client machines quite often, so need two different apps installed. There's also no LogMeIn desktop app for Linux, so that becomes very painful (one of our dealers uses LMI instead of Splashtop).

    After a week of that, I paved the disk and loaded Kubuntu, figuring that the better support for those packages would help. I did manage to get VMWare and Splashtop Business installed but everything feels unstable, and there have been lots of issues (third monitor is often black, had to disable 3d acceleration in VMWare, Solarr never seems to see my mouse, can't browse shared NTFS drives), and have to re-sign VMWare modules every time the OS updates.

    I've been using Windows for decades, largely without any issue, and would like to move, but it's been problematic enough for me to put the entire thing on pause, knowing that I'm going to have to start all over again and burn several more days trying to get a base setup working.

  • Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days

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  • It’s sad that nobody made some crossplatform WPF implementation for modern dotnet

    That's basically Avalonia UI.

    I believe Uno Platform is similar, but less of a WPF variant, and closer to Xamarin or MAUI in the style of Xaml that they use.

  • Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

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  • Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

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