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20€ for a grey market key is not exactly a massive expense. That said, I already said that you can disable a lot of the stuff from group policies that people consider annoyance since Windows 10 where as Home is much more locked down. This alone already makes Pro worth it to me. Pendragon covered...

Is it available for regular people to buy or do I have to sail the high seas for it? 😁

I do not disagree with any of your points. We are just pointing out that if anyone is a "power user" they are doing a disservice for themselves if they get a Home version of Windows. But yes, Windows has become so user hostile that I am really wishing for Linux to get their shit together and get...

Then this discussion doesn't concern you. But as Linux user you are familiar with having absolute freedom over your operating system, something Windows also used to have but is slowly being eroded. Pro version still has SOME semblance of user freedom and control but Home has none unless you...

Indeed... 😑

You can install what ever version you think is profitable for your customers, but the question is what you (clearly a poweruser) use in your OWN system? If you use Home edition then you are at the mercy of Microsoft. Pro version atleast allows you to have local account without work arounds but...

This is what I want to know. I do not care about hacky solutions when there was an official way to do it.

The tide pods were simply a practice round.

The test is flawed simply because cheese makes everything taste good no matter if it is your hat, shoe or like in this case potentially toxic glue.

If Duckduckgo ever released a search engine that uses Google for their results instead of Bing, that would be a perfect name for it. 🤣

I was just an hour ago wondering why DDG was not working. I *gasp* had to use Google.

Ycbcr and RGB should look the practically the same and the image should not dramatically change when switching between the two. Technically RGB Full range is the best choice because you have the most color steps available to you but difference is slight. If your image is washed out and dull (or...

Beve Sturk is probably working as we speak.

I hope someone adds Spotify and Tidal integration. I'd rather use nostalgic Winamp than their PC apps. 👍

That is why I said use glasses cleaning liquid that is safe for plastic lenses. When your lenses get dirty and greasy enough, water and microfiber simply are not enough. They just move the grease around.

So far that I know of it only works in forks of MPC-HC with the latest MPC Video Renderer..

What the hell? AFAIK that is illegal. If there is an issue, for example in a screen and you send it to warranty repairs for that, it shouldn't matter if there is a scratch somewhere else in the plastic which can be just a sign of normal use. They have to prove that the issue on the screen came...

AFAIK in the Discord there are only their community managers, PR guys, and they are not exactly more privy for information than their bloody CEO is, a person who was in the middle of this and who originally decided that they should drop the PSN requirement when it was not working properly when...

Where and when it was said that? Last time I checked they did not know what was going to happen to those in countries without PSN and were desperate to reach out to Sony for clarification and hopes to reverse the decision. Even fricking Steam pulled the game from being sold in those countries.

Democracy and liberty has prevailed. 😁 It was possibly the dumbest game Sony could have tried to pull this stunt on. For months people have been learning to work together against a common foe, building passion for the game, and now that this shit was about to happen they turned that energy...

Precisely my point. The option to go over limits should be there but it should be an OPTION, not factory default.

In this case AIB's are clearly wrong. Intel has clearly defined the max safe operating conditions but instead of following them motherboard manufacturers by default allow those CPU's run at unlimited power draw, which pushes temperatures to the max until the CPU temperature throttles. That is...

AFAIK just like mixing aluminum and copper water cooling parts are a bad idea because of galvanic corrosion, so is silver. That is why antigrowth chemicals became a thing so that we could get rid off a yet another metal part in the system that can react badly with copper parts.

But still, that should be the users responsibility to figure out these things. As much as I hate Microsoft, in this case I say they did nothing wrong. At least with the little information I have now about this case.

It is much faster than writing 'Microsoft' every god damn time. 😁

What? How on earth did that happen? How is that microsofts problem if someone gets locked out of their PC?

The argument "Microsoft would argue that some users may not know about the benefits of a Microsoft Account" falls flat on its face the moment you think how well Microsoft is trying to hide the option of local accounts. You have to have some computer skills to find it or know where it is, so most...

This may be heresy but I am sensitive to low framerate stutter anyway, LCD or OLED, so I always keep motion interpolation on at very low settings. On TV's with a scale 0 to 10 it is somewhere between 1 and 3. And in the case of of my Panasonic OLED, at minimum setting. Gets rid of the stutter...

Whoops. Fixed. Yeah I always get those two mixed. 😅

For me going for FALD miniled TV as a PC monitor was a concious choice. While OLED burn in has gotten better, to the point of almost non existent unless you abuse it, I would still rather have a no risk at all. But also the good sides of LCD are more apparent in games. For movies, OLED is king...

Now that I own both Oled and miniled backlit VA, Panasonic JZ980 oled 55" as a TV and TCL C805 50" TV as a monitor, I am shocked how good the TCL is. The native contrast ratio is really high and what ever halo glow there is almost imperceptible in test images, and completely non existent in real...

I would argue some luxuries are also a necessity. We are not just lumps of flesh that only need basic sustenance and everything else is unnecessary extra, we also need something to stimulate our minds and souls. Without SOME luxuries it doesn't matter if we have all the basic necessities...

I have been playing with the new MPC Video Renderer version with the RTX HDR support. My first test was with the Last Samurai but surprisingly, it does practically nothing. The movie does not have a lot of scenes with strong contrast and bright lights so I guess the upscaler does not know what...

Billy is a gift that keeps on giving. The moron probably did not even understand what the settlement was even about and acted all high and mighty like he had won. And now reality hit him, "Wait, this isn't what I wanted!" 🤦‍♂️😂

Only calibrate using SDR and for SDR. For now HDR calibration with colorimeters do not really work from what I know, not with the free software we have available anyway, and definetly not color mapped ICC profiles. I do not know what is the situation with monitors but in TV's the built in...

True. But if you are like me who takes my Quest to parties and family gatherings and the headset gets handled by all kinds of people from kids to ladies with long eyelashes caked in makeup, mine tends to get real mushy real quick. 😂

Clean microfiber cloth with an eye glasses cleaning spray that is safe for plastic lenses. The manual says that no chemicals but as usual that is just an overcompensation to prevent people from scratching their lenses with paper towels and windex. In all honesty the lenses in your VR goggles are...

I would hope so because the game on PS5 has possibly the best use of HDR that I have seen and is a benchmark to other developers on how it is implemented correctly.

Because HDR is not the same thing as if you were maxing out the brightness of your SDR screen. Doing the latter pushes up the brightness of everything, from whites to dark greys and makes everything look uncomfortably bright. With HDR the maxed out the brightness (which they are by default) only...

There goes my theory as I am also 40. Well, in couple of days will be.