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    Apple Pencil with iPad - useful for making illustrations?

    How useful is the Apple pencil if you mostly do vector graphics for illustrations and diagrams? What software is used for that on the iPad, anyway?
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    What are your favorite LAN party games?

    X-Wing vs Tie Fighter.
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    Hardware Nexus: ASUS Scammed Us

    Trashcan.
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    Hardware Nexus: ASUS Scammed Us

    I don't buy Asus mainboards because of price or features. I buy them because the chance of it being outright broken is low and for all their faults their BIOSes are pretty good. Note that I buy low or medium priced Asus brands such as Prime. I had bad experience with higher end desktop boards. I...
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    Hardware Nexus: ASUS Scammed Us

    I wrote rants like this about Asus' RMA policies 20 years ago. I still buy Asus mainboards, but I wouldn't send them in for RMA.
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    Does that mean it has separate VM cache and ZFS cache like the other openzfs OSes?
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    Unity appoints new CEO...

    Yeez. Worst imaginable choice.
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    Schiit Audio Moving Sale - Ragnarok 2 amp for $999

    Hope you enjoy it, Zarathustra.
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    Open-ZFS on OSX and Windows

    ZFS ftw.
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    Target joins Best Buy and discontinues sales of DVD's and Blurays

    Heck. At this time I am not quite over Netflix discontinuing disks.
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    Sound card vs. USB DAC

    Why is everybody talking about "preamps"? No preamps are involved in the chain from DAC to amp to speaker.
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    Sound card vs. USB DAC

    That is a common complaint of mine, lack of USB-controlled hamster volume. And you can usually not find out about it before purchase. But doesn't it have an easy to use volume knob?
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    Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

    "All Apple products"? That sounds unlikely, just think of the Watch.
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    Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

    I do ssh around for actual work, but the problem is that the web browser which I also need is local. And that can be a RAM killer when you have many tabs.
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