Governments have always been trustworthy?

That was sarcasm

Too bad its generic I guess. The cynic in me says that's why it doesn't get the interest it deserves

it sounds like it would be great for bunkers

Printer drivers rarely if ever come in MSI format. They most commonly use self extracting exe archive.

Yeah, start the installer, quickly look at the temp directory for the files, nab em then quit the installer. This and many other janky techniques are what I use to survive in the jungles of the Windows platform.

I would also like to promote one of my most favorite tools ever: InstallWatch Pro by Epsilon Squared

It takes a complete HDD and Registry snapshot, you install something then it takes another snapshot and shows you the diff in a easy to read format.

Thank you for InstallWatch Pro mention. That app tends to get reinvented every so often. I remember seeing something like it as early as 1996.

Yeah Im sure even ChatGPT can spit out a script that can do this work. It just seems like this particular software by this company is really simple and super solid.

I wish there was an equivalent for MacOS & Linux as the scripts I have tried to make(or had ChatGPT try to make) just don't cut the mustard. I'd rather just have some commercial software do this even if I have to pay for a license.

What’s its homepage? I only see the usual fake software sites on google

Sorry it seems like their site is not accessible: I think its www.epsilonsquared.com

This seems like a non sequitur.

Are you arguing non technical people should have root access to company owned and managed PCs? Because I can tell you from experience, that will result in a very bad time at some point. Even if it is just for the single end user and not the wider org.

In situations where the budget matters, you need to take that 20-50% better performance and drop it by the 25% higher launch price.

And the generated frames are misleading because they don't work very well if your source framerate is low.

The generated frames thing is interesting as it's an obvious example of the whole discussion around halo products (the x080 or x090 cards), "the rich get richer", it takes up a lot of air in the room but is only appropriate for a small vocal proportion of the market.

As you say you need a good framerate to start with before generated frames make sense so either you're already running well with a high tier card and are further able to show off the combination of framerate/resolution/detail level, or running a lower tier card at lower settings turning the graphics down further which can be a very obvious trade off. Less demanding games which are generally online competitive usually wouldn't do as well with any extra latency introduced, and the situation where I've heard it would be a good fit is emulators or any kind of game where the CPU is the limiting factor

I just don't think the 5090 is for gamers; it's for hobbyist AI people who want to buy multiple to run high parameter LLMs. Fake frames are irrelevant to this crowd, even if they take one of their 5090s aside to game once in a while.

I was lucky to get in early and buy a lifetime perpetual account, otherwise I probably wouldn't still use it.

Wild, that its been 15+ years since then. The price model was "it gets more expensive (the one time price) the more people join". I think it was less than 20 dollars for me, even way less.

it's crazy :-o I cant imagine paying that much for a gpu.

You can disassemble and replace mouse switches quite easily and very cheaply if you already own a soldering iron and some basic tools - mouse switch failure is the typical reason for misclick double click problem

This is a skill I would benefit to learn.