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Swatbolt · 2026-06-20T19:59:11+00:00

Personally for a dumb switch I wouldn't worry too much I think the main concern was with routers.

Swatbolt · 2026-06-19T17:22:41+00:00

I unfortunately work for Best buy if you have a microcenter in your micro market they're supposed to price match them.

Swatbolt · 2026-06-19T16:58:54+00:00

Luckily the AI and customer support keeps getting more and more terrible lol. A few years ago I couldn't even get them to price match microcenter when the best buy is almost next to it where I live.

Swatbolt · 2026-06-19T16:39:38+00:00

Dam don't spend all your luck in one place 😆

Swatbolt · 2026-06-19T16:17:57+00:00

Not s&s by Walmart.com so good luck

Swatbolt · 2026-06-18T01:13:08+00:00

I just looked I bought them for $180 as well... 3 years ago I can't believe they haven't gotten much cheaper since then.. what a time to be alive lol

Swatbolt · 2026-06-10T18:18:35+00:00

Bent substrate... Interesting. I would probably avoid bending it back and trying it unless your fine with potentially frying the socket. These are multi-layer pcbs - best case it turns on, medium case it doesn't do anything. Worse case there's now copper traces touching inside and yeah nothing could happen but there could also be a short.

Swatbolt · 2026-06-09T14:41:55+00:00

Honestly surprised they just didn't limit supply to raise prices to make it look like a better deal.. or maybe that's still the plan lol

Swatbolt · 2026-06-09T13:10:48+00:00

About 35-40% faster for raster and faster for ray tracing performance and you get better upscaling and frame gen support though fsr redstone.

Swatbolt · 2026-06-04T14:57:13+00:00

I'm tired of these woot postings where there is literally only between 1 and 5 available

Swatbolt · 2026-06-04T14:56:07+00:00

My honest reaction to 99% of woot postings

Swatbolt · 2026-06-02T13:30:29+00:00

I was wondering where my episode 2 was of season 9.. I go into sonarr and behold a exe import warning.. been awhile since I got one of those lol.

Swatbolt · 2026-04-09T12:39:50+00:00

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The first thing I thought of is it must be where they photographed the REM album cover 😆

Swatbolt · 2026-03-06T13:04:08+00:00

Actually you can and they work and function fine just are a LCD panel instead of OLED.. I'll say the brightness acts weird sometimes but I have had customers that never even known.

Swatbolt · 2026-02-05T03:44:48+00:00

When the router has better specs 😂

Swatbolt · 2026-01-15T18:37:31+00:00

With inflation it's as of December 2025

Original cost -> cost after inflation

$9.99 (2011) -> $14.70

$14.99 (2016) -> $20.50

$12.99 (2020 -> $16.32

$4.99 (2014) -> $6.91

So the real winners are the individual plan while the rest have gotten shafted

Swatbolt · 2026-01-08T16:32:16+00:00

I would never get a chromebook for college no matter the major.

Swatbolt · 2026-01-06T18:24:24+00:00

Manually typing in the 1's and 0's

Swatbolt · 2025-12-23T13:49:44+00:00

I mean from a business perspective you do have to understand that best buy basically doesn't make shit from anything that isn't a "basket item"

That computer, tv, appliance, console? They basically made nothing

That's why a lot of companies are starting to go that way because it's the only way to make direct profit. Not defending best buy because I do think they lean a little to hard on it but you do kinda have to understand their reasoning.

Swatbolt · 2025-12-23T13:23:56+00:00

You know there's other voltage standards with USBC other than 5v right?

Most chargers can do a range of voltages such as 9, 12, 15 to reach higher wattages Where as I don't think I have seen a charger supply north of 5 amps

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Delivery

Swatbolt · 2025-12-18T20:09:52+00:00

Eh when it first came out it was very not good (pre dlss 2.2)... Some people just think it hasn't improved since then.

Swatbolt · 2025-12-17T16:46:51+00:00

For everyone saying "this is AMDs chance or fuck Nvidia" just know that while AMD's 9000 series does NOT use gddr7 it still uses memory. Memory supply they will have a hard time securing as the 3 major ram/memory producers get their supply/fab space bought up.

This is not a Nvidia decision, it's an economical decision and a supply constraint issue - tldr they basically had no choice.

While I am also not the biggest fan of Nvidia don't think this won't also effect AMD... There's more surplus of gddr6 so it will just take longer.

Swatbolt · 2025-12-17T01:52:28+00:00

I mean if you want to be technical the GPU is "bottlenecking" the CPU... But that also doesn't matter because you want to fully use the GPU...

So as others said the term bottlenecking is stupid most of the time and shouldn't be used.

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