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  1. How to install and use Neofetch on desktop and mobile

    I'm afraid not; Windows 10 does not have "Aero". Aero was the codename for Microsoft's design language for Windows 7; it was replaced by Metro in Windows 8, and with Fluent in Windows 10. Someone on Wikipedia, by mistake, has listed Aero, Metro, and Fluent as Windows desktop environments. (Like most wrong info on Wikipedia, this wrong assertion does not cite a source.) The desktop environment on Windows has always been Windows Shell. You can look it up on Microsoft Docs. Edit: The entry point of Windows Shell is explorer.exe.
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  2. What music video is this picture from??

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  3. i7-6700 vs i7-10700F - Big enough difference to justify the cost?

    No, installing an SDD would be an actual upgrade to your current system and cost less. The only reason to go for a new system is you want to upgrade to an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU.
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  4. i7-6700 vs i7-10700F - Big enough difference to justify the cost?

    Why are you upping the CPU and downgrading the GPU and RAM? (I know, you can change it, but still) I'd stay with what you have. I mean, your current computer can run everything, right? Unless there is a need/reason to upgrade. If it is in your possession, it isn't new. Think the term is actually like-new. Is it worth $1000? I'd say no. I think the 10 series use a new chipset/socket, and new RAM. (IIRC) I'd pass until you "really" need it.
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  5. How to install and use Neofetch on desktop and mobile

    You don't need Scoop for a neofetch-like thing. https://github.com/JulianChow94/Windows-screenFetch This is just a Powershell script.
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  6. If you have evidence that Microsoft is a terrorist group, I'm sure the FBI and DoJ would love to have it.
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  7. If YouTube allowed the downvote button to actually be used, and comment aggregation based off of that, this problem would correct itself for the most part, anything left over could then be moderated by YouTube. Same with Facebook. Where's the dislike button? The positive reinforcement only approach allows hateful comments to breed and validate, and ironically reach the top of the lists based off a hateful minority liking them and the rest of us not being able to down vote.
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  8. Were you involved in auditing that system? Saying that... I have been very suspect of Trump getting to 72 million votes.
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  9. "far left" "terrorists" ... And the numerous other examples of hyperbole in your comment show how out of touch you are.
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  10. Rethinking requires thinking in the first place.
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  11. Long overdue. You should have been much more aggressive in the political arena. There is no need for Facebook to condone mis-information. There are many alternatives available.
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  12. I guess much depends on why you're thinking of getting a new computer. Is it just because a certain amount of time has transpired and so you feel you need to 'upgrade', you have money that you have nothing else to spend on, or you genuinely need an upgrade for whatever it is your working on because you've noticed a laginess recently in your current system. Frankly, your system is in a higher speed bracket than mine, and I'm not thinking of upgrading. I recently got an extra 16 GB of RAM (total of 32 now), and recently upgraded my video card. The CPU is the least thing you need to upgrade frankly; it spends most of its time doing literally nothing in your computer. So I would say no, it's not worth forking out $1,000 for something that will literally have no effect on your performance. I would upgrade the smaller SSD boot drive, or get a larger HDD for storage. The i7-6700 is a multi-core processor. Frankly, your video card is better than the one I upgraded to as well.
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  13. Home treadmill

    Did you try any classified websites. You should get a used treadmill in very good condition in this budget.
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  14. Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses

    Scott Manley's published an analysis of what exactly happened, in slowmo...
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  15. i7-6700 vs i7-10700F - Big enough difference to justify the cost?

    Cheers, sounds to me like it's worth it when I'm next building a new system but not for the sake of it on this current rig.
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  16. i7-6700 vs i7-10700F - Big enough difference to justify the cost?

    You would go from around 550gb reads to 3GB reads. Over all boot speeds, it's not THAT noticeable. I have a new Samsung 970 pro NVME and I came from an msata ... I don't really notice that much of a speed difference, other than in the benchmarks. There are a few places here and there I see a little speed improvement.
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  17. i7-6700 vs i7-10700F - Big enough difference to justify the cost?

    Some people still don't realize the speed of SSD, or M.2 for that matter.
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  18. "monopoly" Why the quotation marks? Youtube has a monopoly on user created VOD content. Google has a monopoly on search. Tons of user created video sites, and there are CMS templates to do your own. There are at least 5 search engines I can name right off-hand, and know there are more. Just because something is popular, doesn't make it a monopoly.... Jeez, I wonder why every platform except for Youtube died... and why Youtube is not profitable either... Youtube does have a monopoly. It is THE video platform on the internet. You want to find something? You go to Google, you go to Youtube. You don't go to Bing or Vimeo. Sure, other search engines do exist, but I wonder who do they buy results from... Hmm... Google and Bing. With the latter being absolutely useless in most countries on the planet. Again, being popular doesn't make something a monopoly. They're not prohibiting from making something else. They don't control what users upload. Search providers can use their own bots, not always others: https://help.duckduckgo.com/du...help-pages/results/sources/ They might be considers a monopoly on Android, similar to Apple, with one source for apps, and bundling their own services, etc.. But a website anyone can go to or choose not to go to, is hardly a monopoly.
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  19. Japan's asteroid return mission arrives on Earth

    Well that's really not going to have happened. First, viruses need to target a specific organism and they can only do that by being around them, e.g. bird flu transferring into humans is a real threat because people are around the infected birds and it can mutate to infect humans but it can't do that without humans present/knowledge of human biology. And secondly this is from an asteroid, asteroids do not have any kind of atmosphere or anything to protect their contents from any of the harmful radiation being emitted from the sun which would have destroyed them long before the craft visited the asteroid Protomolecule.
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  20. Japan's asteroid return mission arrives on Earth

    Well that's really not going to have happened. First, viruses need to target a specific organism and they can only do that by being around them, e.g. bird flu transferring into humans is a real threat because people are around the infected birds and it can mutate to infect humans but it can't do that without humans present/knowledge of human biology. And secondly this is from an asteroid, asteroids do not have any kind of atmosphere or anything to protect their contents from any of the harmful radiation being emitted from the sun which would have destroyed them long before the craft visited the asteroid
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  21. I have earned my PhD!

    Hi Guys, As a milestone, I would like to post that as of November 15th, I have achieved the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing Education. That was 5 years in the making. Now I can devote more time to everyone here!!!
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  22. I have earned my PhD!

    Good job! 👍
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  23. I have earned my PhD!

    Congratulations Barney.
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  24. I have earned my PhD!

    Truly an accomplishment. Congratulations Dr. Barney!
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  25. I have earned my PhD!

    Aweszome, congrats Barney!
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  26. Twitter updates its policies to prohibit racism

    The Shroud of Turin was proved to be a medieval fake painted on cloth by science decades ago. Additionally, it was even reported by the pope's own bishop in 1390 as a scam forgery sold to a rich sucker in the middle ages when it was painted. Science has confirmed this assessment by dating the pigments, etc. There is no doubt about this. Even today's POPE doesn't make any such claims about ANY relics anymore...not since the invention of carbon dating...ahem. http://www.independent.co.uk/n...ting-debunked-a8450101.html Nothing you listed has been verified with testable evidence under repeatable scientific scrutiny. In fact, they've all be debunked as common events (e.g. sewage leaking through a backed up pipe through the eyes of an old statue) or the unsubstantiated claims of charlatans and kooks. It's the oldest scam in the book...literally. These are the facts supported by evidence, which is how we determine the actual TRUTH of, well, everything. Welcome to the 19th century. Please, come join us in the 21st.
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  27. Acer ConceptD 3 Ezel review: The unique design blows me away

    Mainly because this is an Acer, a brand synonymous with poor quality. Also, a 16:9 screen, is heavy and has a thunderbolt port (security issue). I would definitely buy a Surface over this. Right and the surface isn't poor quality? LOL! Dodgy batteries, dodgy screens, dodgy drivers, dodgy docks, dodgy connectors, etc. i've had many surfaces. all high quality.
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  28. MS has an awful history of doing that with ARM-Windows, the Surface RT was also (performance-wise) outdated from release with its Tegra 3 processor...
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  29. Who calls it XS leaks? It's called XS scripting. No-one I've ever heard calls it 'leaks'
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  30. Shhhh.. it's a lot more fun to throw conspiracy theories and pretend it's got evil intent hidden in the code.
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  31. Yes a capitalist company is a far-left terrorist organization. Do you guys actually have any evidence for this stuff that you spout or do you just have the "feels" because you isolate yourselves in right-wing social media echo-chambers (I feel Trump won and these people who are also Trump supporters tell me so, so I believe it and everyone else is wrong and either are or in cahoots with the vague far-left terrorists who are behind all of this).
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  32. Google now lets anyone capture and share Street View imagery

    Well, the app seems to record as you move and tie images to your location, so you'd likely have to be creating obscene imagery in public to be able to submit. I also assume that if Google can automatically adjust the position and location of images, they can detect inappropriate images and block them. I was thinking less extreme, and harder to detect automatically. Like posting signs with inappropriate messages, ads, etc. When you give that kind of power to people you can pretty much guarantee they'll find a way to abuse it. A random / stupid example. Lets say you have a crazy ex. What's to stop them from doing a streetview shot holding a big sign in front of your house with a bunch of personal info about you? Well, now that you mention it, I do hope there's some review process in place. I also hope no one is crazy enough to do what you exemplified lol
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  33. Things take time. 8cx is a custom version. It's more aligned with the "Plus" variants. After all, it performs better than vanilla 800 series. Expect it in 6 months or so. Time is something that always harms Microsoft. It did so with the Windows Phone platform, the Surface RT, and now the Surface Pro X. If they really want to push ARM, Microsoft needs a different strategy.
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  34. Were you involved in auditing that system? Saying that... I have been very suspect of Trump getting to 72 million votes. He likely wasn't, but the military information security guy and his team who have been looking into the system has been extremely concerned with it as they've done research for the last few months. States have rejected it as an option for voting because they say it doesn't meet their standards for security. Also, when people expressed concern about the 2016 election and speculated outside countries tampering with it, one of the concerns brought up was the poor security of these systems. So now both Democrats and Republicans in the US have expressed security concerns with these systems. Didn't I express concerns about the system? LOL I have been concerned about these systems since day one that are run by private companies with little transparently and certainly not running any open source code. Maybe I am wrong but the reason for my sarcasm was is that usually someone throwing out the word "Dominion" is an election denier.
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  35. It's OK that Qualcomm didn't announce a new chip for Windows at Snapdragon Summit

    Microsoft has had unbelievable success with Windows on x86 - something that no other company has had. Microsoft doesn't have to do everything Apple does (even though they themselves try to).🤦🏻‍♂️ I am very happy with Windows on x86 - it is AMAZING and it's given me decades of delightful computing experience. I never bought a Mac or iPhone, iPad (even though I've tried and used them) because I loathe Apple products for what they really are - very restrictive and limited, proprietary, vertically integrated ecosystem. Windows stands for everything they aren't. It always does a lot more - more customization, more options for everything, more versatile, more open. With compatibility being the core advantage of Windows, moving to Arm for battery life will remain a niche market for quite some time. They will have parallel codebases and see what platform offers the best advantages. Right now, it's not Arm for Windows.
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  36. Have you ever noticed why it is usually right wingers who complain about this kind of thing. It's almost like they know what they post is toxic and want to keep doing it.
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  37. "hate speech" basically means anything the left disagrees with, pretty much. which that often means anything resembling the truth
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  38. Really? It's hardly there.
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  39. No one is stopping my thoughts or opinions, mate. Then again, my positions are based on facts as supported by evidence instead of self-serving lies spread by con-men and kooks to target the ignorant, gullible, vulnerable, or cowardly for profit or power. Everyone has the right in the USA to lie. Just as everyone else has the right to call them out for their lies, prove they are lying, and then ridicule, satirize, or otherwise shame them for being lying fools and suckers. Or, as seen in recent events, vote the proven pathological liar and infamous con-man out of office. The best defense against this kind of blowback is, of course, to have one's facts straight in the first place.
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  40. Google announces new Android features, including new emoji

    It's so exciting when app updates are billed as new OS features.
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  41. It's OK that Qualcomm didn't announce a new chip for Windows at Snapdragon Summit

    A lot of people are asking that question now that Apple has released their gamechanging M1 Macs.
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  42. where in the article was a political party mentioned at all?
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  43. Hopefully it works well and is a step in the right direction. Eliminating the notches and random holes in the screen would be nice, if the camera and facial recognition still works reliably. I look forward to the day that all flagships have the full screen design plus quality optical zoom for the camera.
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  44. To me this says, Qualcomm isn't trying hard enough and their focus isn't on making something competitive with Apple. Their focus is on mobile SOC's for Android devices. ARM on Windows isn't an appealing platform (who wants/needs it), as Intel/AMD dominate the Windows PC market.
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  45. It's OK that Qualcomm didn't announce a new chip for Windows at Snapdragon Summit

    Personally, I am not interested much in ARM on the desktop as I care more about performance and having the largest native apps library available than battery life. My next laptop will be a AMD Ryzen device. Saying that... TBH Rich I had problems following your logic... For the people that care about ARM on the desktop (and Windows) Qualcomm really does need to step up. They need their next gen ARM SoC out ASAP if they are going to compete with Apple on the desktop. Microsoft must be concerned since the Mac M1 laptops came out unless they don't really see ARM as the future on the desktop but more a niche platform.
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  46. How to cut/splice a USB3 cable for outdoor webcam project?

    Whelp, here's my take on this. Not worth the trouble! If you have 9 wires to solder/join and you happen to screw just one of them up, or the contact isn't perfect, you could spend hours cutting and splicing and testing and trying to find the one that isn't any good. It turns out too that all that 'insulation' probably does play an important role too and that a USB 3.0 cable is quite a well engineered thing. Nothing like the simplicity of the 4 wires of a USB 2.0 cable. So scrub that for a plan. Instead I'm going to go with this, with the USB port obviously pointing inside the box rather than outside. All I have to do then is make a hole big enough for it. https://amzn.to/3g2Wlhx This will plug into a spare USB 3.0 hub I have inside my project box and given it comes with rubber sealing grommets, it should provide decent protection from the elements. But hopefully that's it.
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  47. Cathy Free Database. FAST! Very FAST!

    A couple years ago I was looking around for a cataloging program which let me scan external hard drives and just save a list of the contents to a catalog file. What I found was very small and FREE program called Cathy. Website - http://rva.mtg.sk// http://rva.mtg.sk//Cathy2_33.zip The speed in which it catalogs is VERY impressive. I just cataloged my entire system32 folder in 1 blink of my eye. No seriously, it was that fast. I was going to count it, but I hit go, and it was done. This is of course on a nvme drive but still. So then I thought well how about my entire C drive. It cataloged the entire C drive in 9.25 seconds. Searching the database is instant. Microsoft needs to hire this person. You can have an unlimited amount of catalogs. It can be run without installation or over a VPN without issue. Try it. It's very neat here is me searching the data base for sys files.
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  48. Home treadmill

    I agree with others. Check the Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, etc. for a quality treadmill that the owner is trying to offload. Going to be hard to find a treadmill fitting your requirement for $400. Basically would be doing the searching for you...if one exists in the first place.
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  49. Home treadmill

    You would need to look on Craigslist and Offer Up, a quality Treadmill brand new goes for $700 plus.
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  50. Home treadmill

    Agree, hard to find a 'good' one for 450. If that's really your budget, just tool around Amazon.
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