Alright, thanks for the breakdown. It feels a little weird to me that processors are so "focused" on multitasking all these different apps at once with all these cores—I always figured that was mostly the RAM's job... But I guess the workload is kind of split up now, sort of like how you can choose to use the CPU for rendering instead of just relying on the GPU. So, if that's the case, it leads to one pretty logical question: why even bother having a separate CPU, RAM, and graphics card? Why not just smash them all together into one massive, super-powered processor?
Take a few months ago, for instance... I was working on some rendering and things got pretty messy. The software actually crashed on me because it absolutely devoured all my RAM, and I ended up having to go out and buy another stick of memory—all while the system was trying to juggle the CPU and the GPU at the exact same time.
So, I’ve been falling down a rabbit hole looking at Intel processor prices lately, and honestly, some of this just doesn't add up... Like, sure, the i3 chips are basically what they've always been—the budget option compared to an i5 or an i7—but the math gets weird when you look at clock speeds. Sometimes an i3 actually looks "faster" on paper because the GHz is higher, yet it's still way cheaper than a chip with lower GHz but more cores and cache. I pulled together a few examples of i3 models that look almost identical, yet the price tags are all over the place...
i5 2.9GHz, 12 MB cache, six cores $0.54 i5 3.1GHz, 12 MB cache, six cores $0.63
i7 2.9GHz, 16 MB cache, octa core $1.00
It makes me wonder if GHz isn't actually the big deciding factor here(?) and if the number of cores is where the real value lies... I mean, take this i7—it only hits 2.9GHz, but it's easily three times the price of an i3 that boasts much higher GHz. So, how much do these cores actually matter in the real world? And what does having "more cores" even mean, really?
Thanks for letting me know. I was wondering—could I just donate it to some kind of parts service, or do those places usually just strip it down themselves once I drop it off at an e-waste center?
I’ve got this monitor where a chunk of the screen is totally shot—take a look at the photo... I'm trying to figure out if it's actually worth dropping money on a repair shop, or if I should just bite the bullet and buy a new one instead?
Alright, thanks a ton for all the help. For now, I’ve settled on the workaround suggested by gentlecyclist16—so, a huge shoutout to gentlecyclist16 for that one... it's working just fine so far.
I'm looking for some advice on how to sync my computer and phone so I can actually move files back and forth without the headache.
My setup is a desktop running Windows 10 Pro, and my phone is an Android device.
Up until now, my "solution" has been pulling the SD card out of my phone and plugging it directly into the PC—which works, sure—but honestly, it feels like a massive gamble... you know how it goes, one wrong move or a tiny glitch and suddenly the computer demands a format, and just like that, every single file on that card is gone forever. Total nightmare.
I did try messing around with Bluetooth, but I’m completely lost on how to actually enable it on Windows 10. I even went out and bought a USB dongle for it, but I still can't figure out how to wake up the Bluetooth or get these two devices to finally talk to each other.
Also, why on earth do they need this extra dongle nonsense between them? Why can't I just use my home Wi-Fi router to handle everything?
Basta. said: LOL, what kind of video is this even supposed to be? So they ask Greta Thunberg one single question, she gives her answer, and now suddenly that's "proof" she wasn't following a script? Give me a break... Seriously? She gets grilled with hundreds of questions every single day—and we all just assume there’s a script for everything else—but apparently, for this one specific moment, she was just winging it? Please...
lonebadger6 said:This nasty little Stalinist-style forum is actually one of the few places left on the planet that even allows this kind of freedom—we've even got an entire sub-forum dedicated specifically to grievances. So, by all means, users can come here and whine all they want... but don't expect anyone to actually bother answering you.
They aren't going to get an answer, but instead, the forum is just going to ship them off to work in Siberia...
Basta. said:You must be thinking of that Greta girl—the one who can't even pull off a basic stunt without a script and someone like Luise-Maria Neubauer there to hold her hand... ☕
Oh, man... did you see that script? Seriously, did you actually watch it? Of course you’re just talking nonsense and spinning some wild conspiracy theories—it’s clearly just because you can’t find a single way to debunk the facts she’s laying out right there...
Noah Fowler3 said:Come on, explain to me—what exactly does Greta Thunberg know that some random guy on a forum doesn't?... 🍿
Look, can you actually explain to me why you're struggling to just read what the guy wrote? It’s pretty obvious—he clearly hasn't got a clue about global warming and is just throwing around random conspiracy theories like they're gospel... honestly, it's a bit much.
Anyway, this is all getting pretty far off-topic now... The guy finally got his answer as to why he was banned.
Considering Greta Thunberg probably knows way more than you do, I’d say she’s more than qualified to give out lectures. Just imagine—a sixteen-year-old girl is actually sharper and better informed than you are... honestly, she's probably eating you alive.
Timothy Nelson5 said:Besides, didn't Nina Raspudić write and publish an article titled something about "Gretenism"?
If Nina comes over here and starts flame wars or posting nonsense, he’ll get what's coming to him.
Anyway, you already got your answer. You're just trolling and picking fights because you can't handle the fact that some young woman actually knows more than you. Boo hoo. Go cry about it at home and maybe when you've calmed down, you can come back.
So, I recently made the jump over to Windows 10, and I’m hitting a bit of a wall—I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get all my torrents to actually start downloading in The Great Flood instead of just sitting there stuck on "Waitlisted." I’ve spent way too much time digging through random tutorials online, but nothing seems to stick... So, I figured I’d check in here to see if anyone else in the States is dealing with similar bandwidth quirks, especially since our home internet setups can be such a headache. I'm currently running on a standard Xfinity combo plan.
Yeah, my cat decided they were her new favorite toys and dragged them off into her little hiding spot. But seriously—I kept the drive right next to the TV and would glance at it every now and then, only to realize some folders had just... vanished. Then I plug it into my PC and see exactly what I'm capturing here in this screenshot. Honestly, I think SanDisk just cut corners on this one. I really should have stuck with SanDisk instead...
So, I had these video files sitting on my SanDisk micro SD card, but the second I plug it into my reader and pull up Windows Explorer, I’m staring at this
That’s literally all there is. What the hell happened? 🤔
It’s showing up now, but I swear, just yesterday it was nowhere to be found. I actually went as far as hitting "find" on Chrome to search the whole page for those specific words, and nothing... absolutely nothing came up.
I noticed something weird—there’s a thread over in the "theology and religious practice" subforum titled "The impact of alien discovery on religion," but it’s completely missing from the main list. It really should be sitting right at the top since the last reply was posted just today... yet, strangely enough, the direct link still works perfectly fine.
What's actually going on here? Is this some kind of soft censorship? 🤔
This is honestly such a headache. I went to open up a thread earlier today and—poof—it’s just gone. I can't tell if it was moved somewhere else or if it was deleted entirely, especially since I can't even find my own posts anymore...
Microsoft released a ton of those old CD-ROM bundles back in the 90s, and nowadays you can find them all for free online. I’m running Windows 7, so getting the Windows 95 versions up and running is pretty straightforward—no real headache there—but I've hit a bit of a wall trying to figure out how to launch the ones designed for Windows 3.1. I tried scouring Google for a solution, but nothing really clicked. For instance, I managed to download a version of Windows 3.1 that comes bundled with DOSBox, which launches automatically when you click it. I even successfully installed the CD-ROM software inside that Windows 3.1 environment—the icon actually showed up and everything! But here's the catch: whenever I try to click the icon, it just sits there asking me to insert the CD into the drive... So, I guess I need to find a way to somehow simulate a physical CD-ROM drive within that emulation layer.
I did stumble upon some info about using VirtualBox, though I haven't actually sat down to test that out yet. Does anyone here have experience with that? Any idea if that would actually work for this kind of thing?
Here’s a screenshot from a folder like "Windows," running on Windows 7... You can see how those little dots—the ones you click if you want to jump back to the previous folder—are missing right between the "Name" tab and that first "Add-ins" folder.
I think I might have accidentally clicked something because now my Windows Explorer is acting weird—those little three dots you usually see at the top when you're inside a folder, right above the first file, that let you jump back to the previous folder... they've just vanished. Any idea how I can get them back? I already tried toggling the view settings from list to details to icons and everything else, but still nothing... nothing at all.
I used to pick up Paramount Pictures back in the day, too. If I remember correctly, the whole reason they folded was because advertisers bailed—they were totally offended by some piece TF ran about internet piracy and how people actually do it. It was such a stupid move, honestly, because if my memory serves, that article didn't even provide any actual instructions... it wasn't like a "how-to" guide or anything practical.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that it looks like the magazine is on its last legs over in England, too. Ever since they stopped printing here in the States, I’ve found myself popping onto their website every now and then, but lately, it feels like they don't even have enough cash to maintain their own domain—which used to be totalfilm.com—since they got swallowed up by that bigger site, GamesRadar. It makes me wonder if they even bother making physical copies anymore...
