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This was doing the rounds a few weeks ago: https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa tl;dr they gave folks a choice between the same product "Made in USA" vs "Made in Asia" and no one bought the more expensive USA product

I'm seeing 'Renewed' 2080 Super on Amazon for $250...

The last time I messed with Armoury Crate it got into a loop of saying there was an update, downloading whatever update it was, and then giving a 'update failed to install' message I tried a couple of things to fix it, but ended up throwing in the towel and uninstalling

Was surprised to find that although my old Latitude charges over USB-C, my much newer Inspiron doesn't Fortunately I happened to bring the latter's charger with me when I made this discovery, but come on

On Windows I prefer WizTree (although iirc it doesn't actually scan the drive, rather presents metadata) On Ubuntu baobab (aka Disk Usage Analyzer) is probably already installed

My beard is grey enough to remember manually setting app RAM usage on pre-OS X Macs

I just resorted to using the MS wushowhide tool to ignore the 4441 update It still tries to install even if BitLocker isn't in use Edit: evidently MS has marked as wontfix https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/microsoft_windows_recovery_environment/

Sounds like you had RAM caching and over provisioning turned on From dabbling with Crucial/Micron and Samsung's SSD tool, turning on over provisioning shrinks the C by around 10% and leaves that space unallocated (technically it isn't a partition) The conventional wisdom seems to be that over...

It's strange that the Recovery partition size varies from install to install It also doesn't seem to always be in the same position - in Disk Management sometimes it's before C, and other times after

Nitpick - which version of 3080 was tested?

Worth mentioning that 6E isn't supported in Windows 10

I don't think removing it is possible - what's referred to as the 'internal SSD' is made up of chips attached to the main board (see Step 7 here: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+5+Teardown/138280) It does let you transfer to and from the internal to the M.2 slot, so I'm guessing...

I always found this confusing, but it made more sense once it was described as being like if you had an account with a blank password If you enable BitLocker on a self-encrypting drive the utility jumps from 0 to 100% encrypted because it knows the drive is already encrypted - it just sets a key

Strange - so even if you disable sw encryption there's still no way to go to hw without a reinstall?

"If you don't feel like you need encryption, the easiest thing to do is just to turn BitLocker off" but soon after "The real bad news is that if you already have a Windows 11 Pro install running with software BitLocker encryption, you're out of luck. You need to start fresh with a new OS...