Recent content by ComputePronto

At least for games on Steam, most are now fully playable on Linux. I can't remember the last time a game I cared about wouldn't run on Linux through Steam's Proton. YMMV

Exciting stuff. I've been waiting for this major hard drive capacity jump for a long while. Hopefully other hard drive brands are not far behind. It's a little concerning that WD has been silent about increasing hard drive capacity lately. There is still the question of whether or not these...

It's interesting how different the results are compared to Backblaze's drive failure statistics. Maybe most of the drives received by Secure Data Recovery were not used in a data center scenario? That seems possible, but I really have no idea. It might just not be a very good study. For...

Not a bad idea. It's just that most games are only available on Steam or other DRM-ridden platforms... I have about that many 10-15 year old CDs and DVDs made by random brands like HP, Maxell, and Memorex. At this point, less than half of them are fully readable. The others are only partially...

While this is not the best AI upscaling I have seen, it is pretty good when considering that it is done with only an extra 4-8 W in real time. The browser requirement is pretty limiting, though...

I never said I supported the idea of hiding the fact that a graphics card was used for mining. It is just plain cowardly for sellers to do that. I also never said buying used GPUs was a solution to "they cost too much". The solution is for manufacturers to deflate their egos. Also, don't forget...

Ditto. I've personally bought multiple generations of graphics cards over the last 5 years that I'm pretty sure were mined on. They never had problems. I heavily tested them so I could catch any issues well before eBay's 30 day cutoff. The testing turned out not to be necessary in this case...

At least in my experience, MSI motherboards have poor UEFI implementations in their BIOS. It tends to cause boot entries to be randomly deleted. I have never seen another brand's motherboards do this. Even if Secure Boot works, you're still on thin ice. It's really unfortunate that so much of...

While there is a loss of clarity when scaling 1080p up to 1440p, it's not THAT terrible. I watch 1080p video all the time on my 34 inch ultrawide 1440p monitor (13.1 inches tall). On an 18 inch 16:10 monitor (9.5 inches tall), it probably won't be too noticeable unless you put your face very...