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It took some work to find, but this https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-DisplayPort-Supports-displays-3840x2160/dp/B00S0C7QO8 is an active DP to HDMI adapter. It says it does 4K60 and 1080p @ 144Hz.

If I apply a BIOS upgrade that adds this, can I still use whatever MCE options the board came with? My i7-14700K runs fine with the Asus MCE settings (all-core 5.5GHz), and I don't want to cut the performance. (The newest bios for my board doesn't mention this.)

Could you use a pair of 4x cards, each with one port? Do such evern exist?

Apparently, as far as I can tell from the TH article, you can't pre-emptively disable this, but only when you are actually doing the install/upgrade. I didn't see a mention of what happens if/when Windows Update rolls out 24H2, whether it will try to do it to you.

I found out this morning that the studio knew that PSN linking was coming, but if I heard why they didn't enforce that on release, I've forgotten. That doesn't reflect well on them. I read yesterday that Sony was refusing refunds, but Steam was granting them. That's probably what tipped...

So, not people who walk into Best Buy or Walmart looking for a new laptop.

I'm already annoyed by the little red dot next to my account name that got added recently, nagging me to fix an issue with my account, which is that I'm not signed in with my MS account instead of my local one, for example. Oh, and the truncated context menus in Explorer.

My guess is that Copilot was thinking in terms of whole numbers. It's not as if generative AI actually knows anything but how to string words together. 5 (rounded) is not greater than 5.

It's WCCFTech, so, you know, treat with skepticism, but the claim comes from GoldenPigUpgrade who I guess sometimes is right. This appears to be only talking about the discrete cards, not the iGPUs. Intel Battlemage Xe2 GPUs Reportedly On Hold, Celestial Xe3 GPUs Might Be Delayed Too...

If you click through to the MS article, all it says is "VPN connections might break...". I think from that you kind of need to assume any VPN could be affected.

Today I noticed a little orange dot on my user icon at the bottom of the new, ad-friendly Start blob. Moused over it, saw this: So I clicked on the icon Damn it.

If a fraction of what Steve says is true, his (and Jayz2cents) earlier comments about EK being able to recover from this are just not possible. Some of that stuff is the kind of thing that puts people in jail.

It's all fun and games until the Butlerian Jihad kicks off.

Don't forget Diablo Immortal.

Steve's video mentioned this. I kind of wonder why they didn't buy a bunch of CNC machines and laser cutters. You'd think they could build a lot of their own parts JIT that way. I'll grant I have no idea how many they'd need, but you'd think it'd relax the 3rd-party MOQ dependencies.