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> Is that really worth it to get back what I would assume is on average a 3 year old laptop? Do you then re-issue this old, used gear to your new hires? It depends on the device. A…

Servers piss away power at idle because they're not designed for low idle power consumption. I personally just a regular PC desktop because I need the expansion slots. But SFF PCs …

Positive negative and meh is my preferred. Some things aren’t great, but were cheap enough to justify it. Maybe make it a really tiny box in the middle that you need to zoom in to …

They're much better than verizon who will just terminate your line with maybe a little bit of heads up. We found out the hard way when they terminated our line after having a sim c…

You don't fall back to the actual 2g connection. You're supposed to fall back to 2g speeds aka 128kbps or 256kbps. You'll still be connected to LTE towers, just at painfully slow s…

Especially an infrequently driven classic car. Unless you're running no cats and drive it well over a thousand miles a year you'd never reach a net neutral emissions.

It's not just the EPA fuel economy requirements. Safety requirements mean cars need a lot bigger doors, more crumble zone etc.

Fires from gasoline cars are at least extinguishable. Lithium fires aren't really.

I have 32 gigs of ram just to browse the internet and maybe fiddle with some other things. I'm using 26 at the moment with no virtual machines running.

4k displays are peanuts these days. A Mac mini + a 4k display would cost about the same as an iMac. But in a few years when the mac mini is useless you can keep the same display. O…

My biggest issue with the 4k iMac is that it's highest scaling option (smallest elements) is less than what you get on a regular 4k display. The iMac I belive is capped at "looks l…

I don't understand why more device don't have ambient light sensors built into them. Phones have been doing this amazingly for 15+ years but almost no displays do. I think I saw a …

Most modern displays support DDC/CI or whatever it is that lets your PC talk to the monitor and adjust brightness (and other settings). Monitorian and other apps let you adjust tho…

And not enough pcie lanes. I want the opposite of what Intel is offering for my home server. Give me lots of pcie lanes, but not insane power consumption.