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brucek
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Airbnb continues to have a serious hidden camera problem
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My four(?) experiences as an AirBNB renter were all positive, and brought me benefits I could not have gotten from a hotel offering...
Yesterday at 7:14 PM
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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning
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Thanks. If it were me I'd want at least one copy on write-once media that could not be further altered and was not controllable via any...
Tuesday at 5:26 PM
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Not many companies use offline storage anymore. They use off-site storage/backups in many forms though. Off-site RAID systems...
Tuesday at 5:22 PM
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1) Tapes. Places often use LTO tape. The capacity is very high, up in the dozens of TB range per tape. That's what Amazon and them...
Tuesday at 5:21 PM
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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning
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If it's not going to be optical media, what are enterprises and other users who accumulate large amounts of data that needs to be...
Tuesday at 1:01 PM
brucek
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The Best Gaming CPUs of the Past Two Generations: The Full Update
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And here's the link for the dunces like me who are still not entirely sold...
Friday at 6:06 PM
brucek
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European Union mandates speed limiters on all new cars to enhance road safety
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The last time I saw a study of average vehicle speeds it said the typical flow of traffic on a road marked for 55 MPH was 66 MPH. In my...
Friday at 3:53 PM
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When I don't like the policies of a company I work for, I seek employment at a company that does suit me. Especially if I was hired as...
Jul 2, 2024
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Windows 11 will offer new secure application "enclaves" to protect sensitive data through virtualization
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I've gone for long periods with VBS both on and off, and I'm skeptical most people would notice the small performance hit outside of...
Jul 2, 2024
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Trying to save money on ram is pointless unless the rest of your system is also budget borderline. The point of just going 64GB+ is to...
Jul 2, 2024
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Bill Gates says we don't have to worry about AI energy use
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I tend to agree that all IT technology including AI is ultimately a net energy savings for the same "work" done. It just took a lot more...
Jul 2, 2024
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Steam shatters concurrent user record thanks to Summer Sale discounts
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I've seen you make this assertion repeatedly, but I know I've seen prices on EGS or Amazon or elsewhere that beat Steam's. I also see...
Jul 1, 2024
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Steam shatters concurrent user record thanks to Summer Sale discounts
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I don't remember hearing of Standard Oil having a lot of 95% off sales, but then again they were an actual monopoly. When this consumer...
Jul 1, 2024
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Upgrade Your Monitor, Not Your GPU
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A little opinionated and obviously the advice varies greatly depending on your current monitor, but still maybe a nice wakeup call to...
Jun 29, 2024
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Game Pass ads infiltrating in the Windows 11 Settings app is just too much
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It looks they are or will sell all the other Microsoft services on this page as well. My Settings top level has cards for Microsoft 365...
Jun 29, 2024
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