A pleonasm shirely? Aren't they one and same?
I hold out the hope that Brexit might be a bit more whimpery than the other thing.
Aye, but will be dependent on who's in charge come the actual day. :-Y
Anyway, here's a ridiculous thing about my backup PC because I knew you're all hanging on my every word, I got a replacement motherboard (different make) and stuffed it and all the working bits in a new case and plugged it in and - FUCK ME! A few minutes of hesitation, wiggle the video cable and reboot - and it all works perfectly. No OS reinstall, no non-functioning devices, no exclamation marks in device manager*, not even anything odd in event viewer. It's as though the Update Pixie, or Sooty, has sprinkled my new build with oofle-dust and Izzy-Wizzy Lets Get Busy it all just works. Backups are back-upping, Plex is Plexxing.
*well, one, because of shitty Intel AMT which I hope a BIOS update will lose
I think Willy wants to get busy with you.
Have you finished the music thing?
I've lost track.
Well, I wanted to be able to leave it alone again for a few years.
...Oh, and it invalidated the Windows license key and 'deactivated' it. But using an old Windows 7 key worked fine.
Got all the bits now but haven't got round to building it yet.
But the tiny little motherboard and case are very cute.
Here they are next to a medium tower case and my size 9 for scale.
Teeny.
What was the reason for STX over a NUC or similar barebones "nettop" type device.
Though I know nettops aren't exactly widespread these days.