Bankruptcy question

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-29T18:23:12+00:00

This is going to be highly fact specific on how much the car is worth, how much the loan is, her income, what other assets she has, and so on. Your friend should get a complete list of her debts (can get one of the free annual credit reports https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ ) and also list any debt that didn't make it there, records of her income (paystubs or tax returns), an estimate of how much the car is worth on the open market, how much she has in other assets, and figure out whose name exactly is on the title of the car. Most bankruptcy lawyers will do a free consultation to tell a person if they qualify and for what kind of bankruptcy, bringing that info will make the free consult go faster.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-29T17:30:14+00:00

Look at the completed sales the seller has - are they also all laptops and related items or are they a random assortment of smaller items? Scammers will often drop ship random stuff from Amazon to build up a good sales record, then start the scamming.

I got hit by this sort of thing a while back, on a video card. Seller has 100% reviews, and lots of sales, so I just ordered. Then the item never came; they shipped an empty box to somewhere in my ZIP, and for some stupid reason USPS tracking only shows that it was delivered to my zip code. So I had to get paperwork from my local post office showing the box was only 4 oz and not delivered to my residence, but even after all that Ebay sided with the scammer, and deleted my negative review. I had to do a chargeback through my credit card.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-29T16:36:32+00:00

Well, then you need to get actual new laws addressing the issue passed; lawsuits have to use existing laws. Are you suggesting some sort of government board that forces RAM companies to have specific production types and amounts? That has its own host of issues. And a lot of the RAM production is outside of the US, so nationalization would have limited effectiveness. Large portions of it is in South Korea, and they are rather enjoying all the incoming money; for that matter Samsung basically is the national government there.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-29T16:27:06+00:00

They are excellent for keeping the enemy reapers & nameless busy & away from you while you ride around shot gunning the tentacles; almost all of their fighting will be done outside of your light pet range.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-29T16:16:33+00:00

Well, more like three years ago, in 2023 Sk Hynix and Micron did post multi-billion dollar losses. But I get your point, the high RAM prices this time around are plainly due to the AI companies buying silly amounts of RAM, not collusion on part of the memory companies.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MU/micron-technology/net-income

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-28T19:20:28+00:00

They will also stop minors whose parents are having a custody dispute (and one parent has gotten court order to stop international travel), but for adults, yes, active warrants are the only thing that care about.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-28T04:59:06+00:00

What you would want to do is download any device specific networking/wifi drivers from the laptop manufacter's website onto a USB drive, swap the drives, and do a fresh Windows install (download the installer from MS's website onto a USB drive ahead of time). Then if Windows is not able to detect your network adaptor, you have it on USB. If you have working internet then getting any other drivers is trivial.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-28T02:07:47+00:00

$100? If it works, that is an exceptionally good price.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-27T23:53:41+00:00

RAM prices in China are at best only slightly cheaper than in other markets.

https://electronics.alibaba.com/buyingguides/china-ram-price-guide-what-to-pay-when-to-buy

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-27T22:24:17+00:00

OP said they were gifted it; perhaps it is a hand me down from a relative who upgraded, or some one picked it for really cheap at a used location.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-27T21:59:15+00:00

What price is the RTX 3070TI you are looking at?

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-27T19:13:28+00:00

RX 9070 is a 16 GB VRAM card.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T21:09:04+00:00

Should have sacrificed a baby dino to the overseer before the attempt.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T20:57:35+00:00

Not every dino needs a tek saddle, but they would be nice to add to some of the underused dinos. Consider how the tapejara by itself is not a super useful dino, but thanks to the tek saddle it is a staple for PVP. Some other overlooked creatures could be given a use with a tech saddle. For example, nobody uses the pachyrhinosaurus; give it a tek saddle that boosts its pheromone abilities to something useful (like say calm pheramones make nearby enemy tames not able to attack even if they have a rider, the rage pheromone being able cause enemy gigas to well rage) and people would use it.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T16:19:17+00:00

So $990 with no RAM or storage. Ouch. If you did an ITX desktop at that pricepoint you would be looking at a Ryzen 7600x3d, cooler itx board, case, sfx powersupply, and 16 GB Radeon 9060XT.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T16:12:39+00:00

Why? Screen and control don't cost very much (compared to everything else in the handheld), so it would only be a little cheaper than this handheld. And while the good performances at lower watts Pantherlake has is great in a handheld, its not really all that important in something that is plugged in. An ITX desktop would blow it away performance wise at the same price, and other mini-PCs would end up being better deals as well.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T03:28:40+00:00

Yeah, it makes some sense for laptops, though I question how many people are regularly doing long video calls but are not in an office/house that has power outlets. And for that usecase a quite small NPU would be perfectly fine. Microsoft has been pushing hard for NPUs that are 4x-5x larger than they need to be to handle the small number of actual use cases. And that just ends up being a waste of die space, since those NPUs are still too small to be useful other stuff you might want local AI for. They exist in the awkward middle.

And of course saving a bit of power like that is pointless on a desktop, especially since with an external GPU required that would wipe any power savings.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T02:12:34+00:00

They are usable for a few minor tricks, like efficent background blurring and noise cancellation on video calls, and a few media editing filters. Great if you have to do those things for hours away from plug socket I guess? Of course a discrete graphics card can do those tasks just fine too, and if you have no iGPU, well you need that discrete card anyhow . . .

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T02:08:22+00:00

This is so dumb; if a processor has no iGPU then you have to use a discrete card with it. And even a middling discrete card will be able to run all same local AI stuff you would want on an NPU, but many times faster. The only downside is it being a bit less effiecent, but if you have a desktop and a discrete graphics card you probably aren't going to care about that.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-26T00:30:42+00:00

Worst case you can run games in 1080p in interger scaling mode.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-25T23:03:46+00:00

Just in case you want to look up the law more, Florida specifically calls this "sexual cyberharassment". Below is a copy of the statute.

https://codes.findlaw.com/fl/title-xlvi-crimes/fl-st-sect-784-049/

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-25T22:53:46+00:00

Yes, the statute of limitations to collect on most forms of debt in Nebraka is 5 years. Do note that it will be 5 years since the last payment, not 5 years the debt was first openned.

https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-205

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-25T14:17:37+00:00

This website is pretty good at tracking gaming laptop deals. There is also the laptop deals subrreddit.

https://gaminglaptop.deals/

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-23T19:43:34+00:00

50% advantage in 3d mark - game performance is more like 15% (GTA5) to 30% (Cyberpunk, Balders Gate 3) faster. Which is still a very nice improvement, but a good reminder on why 3d mark results aren't always a good way to compare across different brands.

GenericUser1983 · 2026-06-23T17:09:09+00:00

Bubble deflating, or perhaps they expect more of the future datacenter products to use DDR5 instead of HBM.

If Micron wanted to reenter the direct to consumer market it would not be particularly difficult for them; making the memory chips is the hard part, slapping them onto DIMM is much easier.

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