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[Colif]

this would make a lot of money if they also had a time machine and could go back to a time when no one had a mobile phone.

I guess they couldn't get the Star Trek name as its very communicator like

 

[Colif]

one fault of my keyboard is it never tells windows how much battery it actually has. Look on Bluetooth devices and it always shows as 100% - My battery isn't that good.
Instead I only know it doesn't work right when I am typing a sentence and half the keys don't work. Answer is to plug it in but be nice if it started showing the light at a certain percentage - my mouse starts flashing its power light at 30% meaning I get about 5 days use before it needs a charge. I can't really tell with keyboard and its not running any rgb. Its battery only meant to be 205 hours which is nothing compared to Logitech ones that go for months without a charge. I wanted real keys though.

Apart from that I really don't have any complaints apart from wifi being spotty. BT is mostly okay.

 

[Brian Boru]

never tells windows how much battery it actually has

I got in the habit of plugging stuff in when I go for dinner or to run errands. If I had a longer-lasting item like your KB, I'd pop a recurring weekly alarm into my reminder app. Those set it and forget it approaches work better for me than trying to remember to do stuff.

 

[Colif]

Meanwhile, 30 years ago

 

[Why_Me]

Saw this today and my heart skipped a beat.

ELECOM Unveils Groundbreaking IST Trackball Mouse with Swappable Bearing System

Decades of providing relief from wrist and shoulder discomfort have established the trackball mouse as a compelling alternative to the standard mouse. ELECOM, with nearly 30 years of experience in innovating trackball mice, now introduces the IST trackball mouse, a revolutionary device boasting...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Colif]

Hope they fix the cable length problem or people will have to mount monitor to PC soon for it to reach

Works fine for laptops I guess.

Not in a rush to get a DP2.1 monitor anyway. Even though GPU supports it.

 

[Frindis]

@Colif I just strap the cable around a carabiner hook and then pull the cable down with my body weight. I promise you, it stretches just like licorice strings.

 

[Colif]

Buying a monitor now looks like bobbing for apples unless you research first.
Not looking for/at a new monitor myself, I just found this.

 

[red_5ive]

Buying a monitor now looks like bobbing for apples unless you research first.
Not looking for/at a new monitor myself, I just found this.

I haven't noticed any VRR flicker on my 2 OLEDs that I game on (LG C1 and Alienware AW3423DWF). Both are set up with G-Sync. But now I wonder maybe it's there and I haven't noticed it or maybe it doesn't bother me.

I also just picked up the Odyssey G9 OLED that the video mentions at 7:10. It's still sitting in the box, which I'll setup this weekend. Hopefully I won't notice it, either.

 

[Colif]

Reducing thread count to increase speed seems a large sacrifice to me. Frame rate increase comes from a higher CPU speed, I expect. Obviously only helps if the game is the only thing running on PC. Having half the thread count would be noticeable in normal operation.

feels like a nerf to me.

It can also increase clock speed of CPU but with E Cores & hyperthreading off, its missing a lot of performance - this does depend on how application works - so it may not work as expected.