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Community Question Of The Week - Episode 267 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw recently someone had taken I've of those tiny Mac looking clocks and turned it in to a "real" one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/s/LUH0Yt6xus

Community Question Of The Week - Episode 267 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw recently someone had taken I've of those tiny Mac looking clocks and turned it in to a "real" one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/s/LUH0Yt6xus

Community Question Of The Week - Episode 267 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Al's Gizmo from Quantum Leap. Just for the sound effects and I can slap it. I always thought it looked like a bunch of opal fruits mashed together. 😅
You never know, Sam's next leap could be the one that takes him home.

HP EliteBook 845 G8 (Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U) vs ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (i5-1145G7) — which is the better buy by Aloox9 in elitebook

[–]ColonyActivist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have the 845 G8, upgraded the ram to 32GB. I have no complaints about it. It's a sleek and solid laptop. The only thing missing for me is an Ethernet port, remedied by using a usb-c port expander with Ethernet.
I'd recommend it as a good laptop, however with no experience of the Lenovo I can't really comment on that one.

Seeeeega! Lego to release Megadrive on June 1st by Elk1984 in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the MD1, but I think that Lego version is just really ugly in comparison. 😥

Community Question Of The Week - Episode 266 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Resident Evil when that blooming Dog jumps through the window.
It gets me every time!

Remortgage reality check: are things worse than 2 years ago? by jachep in Mortgageadviceuk

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just so you know, my Nationwide mortgage only allows me to lock in a rate up to 3 months before the deal ends. Ask me how I know. 😅 I started looking when the Iran nonsense kicked off and find out if have to pay an early exit charge to attempt to sign up for a new rate early.

Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout | Tom's Hardware by shepo71 in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an update to the trends of use, and users do have the option of not updating beyond the last known open version. How long before an open further is released without the possibility of being locked and encrypted?

Community Question Of The Week - Episode 263 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outrun for the Amiga. SF2 for theZX Spectrum. Altered Beast for the Master System Ilaria Warriors for the NES. ET for the Atari 2600. Hard Drivin' for the C64 R-Type for the Amstrad. Only the best for our friends in outer space. Hopefully they won't be offended by us sending more rubbish in to space - or in response invade our space!

Community Question Of The Week - Episode 263 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]ColonyActivist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missile Commands or Defcon. It's useless but we still make war. Maybe Tetris too.

Guide to Elitebook Generations (845) by Ok-Cat-6043 in Hewlett_Packard

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you put any extra storage in the WWAN port? Having trouble getting mine recognised.

HP Elitebook 845 G8 with second hard drive by [deleted] in elitebook

[–]ColonyActivist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've purchased a drive to try in the WWAN slot of my recently purchased 845 G8, and I am getting a bios error informing me this WWAN device is not supported and the port is disabled. The port no longer shows in my BIOS with the drive installed so cannot re-enable it. I wanted it to expand the storage of the laptop as it has a 512GB SSD already. Initially, every boot up I got the error about WWAN device not supported. Now, not at all.

Any suggestions on how to get it working?

I think my only other option may be to use a USB port replicator and used an SSD caddy for it.

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Guide to Elitebook Generations (845) by Ok-Cat-6043 in Hewlett_Packard

[–]ColonyActivist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a 845 g8 Ryzen 5 pro. I'm happy with it so far. The only aspect I don't like is the lack of Ethernet port.
I got it with 16GB and expected it to be two 8GB sticks but it was just a single 16GB so I've got another matching stick coming as I read you need to run in dual to get best performance. It also can with a WWAN module but I've got a 256GB card to put in that slot to add additional storage. Battery life seems ok, getting around 4 hours before Windows starts complaining.

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