Recent content by pparks1

No problems with my Beelink either. It will be 4 years old in September. If anything happens to it's activation, I would just obtain a cheapo license from one of these websites and call it a day.

While you don't have to activate it, you cannot get it installed without a valid payment method...even if you plan to cancel before the trial period ends, unfortunately.

Don't see the AI flop happening. People are using AI for all kinds of everything. I have several friends who discovered how powerful and helpful ChatGPT was and are now both paying for subscriptions to it. Tons of enterprises are using AI for loads of workloads. I use a site called...

You mentioned that your kid is a gamer. Your biggest advantage to that fiber over satellite is going to be latency. It would be greatly reduced on the fiber connection which would have a very positive increase on gaming. For me, as far as downloads go, I'm totally happy on 600mbps. My...

Yeah, Fiber in my area is slightly more expensive than my cable provided broadband options. Unfortunately, I don't have fiber yet to my address, so I don't have the ability to switch over, but I will when it becomes an option. At present, my home internet is via WOW, and I have 600/50...

I guess I just don't feel that the feature releases are really "massive changes". It's like a service pack used to be. In most respects, I struggle to even find the changes, and instead have to hit a review site or YouTube video to ascertain what is new. Lot's of people seem to like...

Windows 10 and 11 have about 10 years of support as well. Your assumption here is correct, the LTSC version is not made available to the consumer directly. It's for special use cases. i guess the annual feature updates don't bother me much. I don't jump into them right at the start, and I...

If you are running on a 27" monitor at 100% native resolution, it's 2560x1440. At 4k, it's 3840 x 2160 and at 100% native resolution, that text should be small. I prefer to not scale if I can avoid it as it's far crisper and sharper, but unfortunately too small to be used. If you aren't...

i used to install a handful of things with ninite and would use that to keep things updated. These days, I honestly don't update a whole lot. My games update their own. My browsers automatically update. Other things like Macrium throw a pop-up when new updates are available, but i am...

Yeah, i usually won't go over 2k with anything smaller than 27" monitor. My eye site is getting worse with age, and I typically run 1440p at 125%

i have an older Ecotank from around 2019. I've not had to fill any ink...we don't print a ton. However, almost every time we do print i have to do a head cleaning in order for it to print correctly. This seems to be a common issue with the Eco tank printers. As long as you print frequently...

Yeah, everything is more expensive in AUS. I used to work for an Australian company for 8 years, so i've seen that first hand.

So, previously the 365 Family plan was $99.99 a year...which is what I have had. A few years ago, I get the 30% discount rate through my employer, so my cost has been $69.99 for the Family plan for the past few years. My understanding was that the new price for Family is going to be $129.99 a...

And I've always felt like Office 365 has been a great value. For somebody who uses OneDrive storage space, the fact that I get 1TB per user for up 6 users, for the previous cost of $99, made this a no-brainer. I've not been able to buy that much storage space from any cloud vendor for $99 a...

While I'm not super excited to pay more for my Office 365 subscription, I am rather happy that the price has remained the same since I signed up for it back in 2017. Not many subscriptions to anything have remained at the same price for as long as my Office 365 sub. Not my tv bill, my...