HiWire
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Indie bands have been releasing cassettes for a few years, but now a new cassette player has been released. I was cleaning my place and stumbled on some old cassettes... taking some time to listen through all of them (especially since many of them are unlabeled/mislabeled) on my ancient Walkman. Unfortunately, this new player doesn't measure or perform very well, but perhaps it will stir the big players into producing something better. https://www.wearerewind.com
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday, Renato! 🎂
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday!
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It's hard not to binge the show. Already watched a few episodes of Season 2.
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Finally finished the first season of The Expanse!
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday!
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Wonderfalls
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Happy Birthday!
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Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 Zapp
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Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
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Happy Birthday!
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Windows 11 upgrade - yay or nay?
HiWire replied to jpelg's topic in GoRedwings19's Computer Help Hotline
Saw this article on Ars Technica today... seems to be relevant: Discmaster, a website archive of floppy discs and CD-ROMs files, etc. that includes automatic media playback: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/lost-something-search-through-91-7-million-files-from-the-80s-90s-and-2000s/ -
Happy Birthday!
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Yes, the 4090 is a good value if it performs like Nvidia claims and if the prices are in the ballpark of what they listed. I'm not sure what availability will be like... will the high-end market be indifferent after such a long drought... at this point, some people are probably trying to figure out whether it's worth purchasing a 30-series or wait for the new products. The GeForce RTX 30-series is mature (and upgraded with the Ti products) and the drivers should be relatively stable, likewise regarding the hardware power and cooling implementations, mux output, etc. I can see the 4090 and its relatives being popular for content creators (i.e., graphic rendering, etc.), given the significant performance improvements that could pay for themselves very quickly.
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Yes, that's one of the big problems of PC gaming... chasing the never-ending specs inflation (480 Hz monitors?) and parts cost. I'm disappointed that the energy/heat limits for CPUs and GPUs keep escalating too. I know you can't get something for nothing, but I'm a bit more focused on efficiency and reliability over absolute performance these days.
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The jury is still out on AMD. The Radeon 6000-series have demonstrated impressive performance, sometimes surpassing their Nvidia counterparts, but it's hard to find any AMD GPUs in mainstream gaming laptops, for example.
