A Fan Control (getfancontrol.com) update (from V248 to V249) just bricked my entire Windows 11 install... Made my main SSD unbootable. Thank goodness I had JUST updated my backup via Acronis True Image an hour earlier, and was able to restore everything back! This saved me hours of frustration! 🙏

Exactly what sooo many of us have been feeling lately... I, for one, am going back to Linux after years away. I'm not replacing Windows on my desktop yet... But instead building a new "sidekick" PC (w/ older parts), to slowly migrate tasks from the main Windows rig (minimizing workflow disruptions).

The sound of late 90's nostalgia... "Welcome to Windows 98" 90's Trip-hop was the bee's knees!!! soundcloud.com/dmitrij-udal...

This 👇, plus another fact the writer forgot to mention (optical drives no longer being manufactured), is driving the prices of remaining Blu-Ray drives to new highs... www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

Huh?!? Another gem in @lgr-yt.bsky.social collection I guess... (youtu.be/CaNDeyYP98A)

Today was a good day! Finally got my hands on an elusive Nvidia FX5950 Ultra from 2003 (new old stock XFX branded)!! #nvidia #geforce #retropc #pcgaming

What a sad (and poetically appropriate) end for EA... They made a name for themselves buying and killing legendary game studios for decades (before Microsoft asked us all to hold its beer). Now, it is EA's time to die at the hands of unscrupulous vultures.

The original 3dfx Voodoo was fast, sure. But what was it REALLY capable of? Turns out, FAR more than most people knew! youtu.be/C4295RCp0GQ

Silly money... #retrotech #nostalgia

For all polyglot homies out there livid with YouTube's crappy auto-dubbing translations, that can't be turned off (and with a stupid AI voice no less), check out this Chrome/Firefox extension that blocks this annoying "feature" (at least on the desktop): youtube-no-translation.vercel.app

@asianometry.bsky.social has been one of my all time favorite YouTube documentarians. This particular video is, by far, the most comprehensive research about the capacitor plague I've seen to date. Impeccable work!

Nostalgia induced inflation never ceases to amaze me... If someone from the future told me in 2005 that a 50 bucks 5-1/4 inch drive bay PC audio peripheral would cost this much 20 years later, I think I'd laugh that time traveler out of the room! And yet, here we are...

Digging some old mags out of my family's attic. I guess I have some 90's tech reading to catch up to this weekend... . . . @pcworld.com.web.brid.gy

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