"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/24/2019 at 21:00 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/24/2019 at 21:00 • Filed to: None | 2
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This feature is so cool. Here is the screen, low-mid brightness (maybe 35-40%?)
Press Fn + F2 to toggle a built-in privacy filter.
Normal angle
Angle with privacy filter on
Angle with privacy filter set to max. Machine is an EliteBook 840 G5
Pretty neat feature on select HP laptops. Here’s a video
Even Linus Tech Tips covered it.
facw
> Nibby
07/24/2019 at 21:08 |
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Doesn’t look as good as a dedicated privacy screen (which work surprisingly well), but no doubt handy on a plane.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Nibby
07/24/2019 at 21:13 |
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i was watching a movie with my kids and the teacher in the movie was talking about planets and when she mentioned Uranus, the class laughed. My daughter asked why that was funny and I got to explain it to her. For the next day she would just randomly star t laughing and I’d ask what was so funny and she would say Uranus.
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Nibby
> OPPOsaurus WRX
07/24/2019 at 21:15 |
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when she’s old enough have her read the solar anus
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Nibby
> facw
07/24/2019 at 21:22 |
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idk if i’ll ever use it on a plane but it’s a pretty sweet feature to have
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> Nibby
07/24/2019 at 21:35 |
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Lenovo has the same thing, wouldn’t be surprised if it came from the same supplier.
Even Linus Tech Tips covered it.
He covered it because it was sponsored... literally right at the beginning of the video, lol.
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Nibby
> 404 - User No Longer Available
07/24/2019 at 21:47 |
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waev still cool
and HP did it before lenovo!
7:07
> Nibby
07/24/2019 at 22:03 |
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My Lenovo T440s has this feature. Its TN screen has such poor viewing angles that everything becomes unreadable unless you are sitting dead center and the screen is in just the right position. I guess you could say I have a cool physical “dark mode” ui switch. I just lean the screen back and everything inverts. It’s pretty cool
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Nibby
> 7:07
07/24/2019 at 22:05 |
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you can upgrade the screen to an IPS FHD one... and you should ditch that awful touchpad for the *50 and newer one.
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7:07
> Nibby
07/24/2019 at 22:08 |
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Before the warranty expired, I sent it in and they replaced the screen. It’s no IPS, but it’s better. And the trackpad is so hilarious. The long travel ca-CHUNK sound it makes reminds me of the old radio preset buttons that were so wonderfully mechanical
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
07/25/2019 at 00:55 |
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So when you collude with the Russians, you should use this laptop?
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/25/2019 at 08:41 |
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... maybe. How’s that Precision so far?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
07/25/2019 at 16:32 |
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No comparison to any laptop I’ve ever known, including a brand new MacBook Pro. I’m sitting in the hair saloon right now, typing on it.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/25/2019 at 18:32 |
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woah woah woah you’re getting your hair did WITHOUT me?!
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
07/25/2019 at 20:10 |
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But I'm not carving the turkey without you
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/25/2019 at 20:43 |
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well THAT is what matters <333
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
07/25/2019 at 21:54 |
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
08/01/2019 at 19:39 |
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Nibby, do you remember the Precision workstation you helped me pick out a year ago? The OS drive is Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). I’m having some trouble installing Windows 10. When I installed Windows 7, I had to connect the drive to the “regular” SATA port, in place of the optical drive, to get the OS to install. Then switch it back. At least, that’s how I remember it...
So I’ve gotten Win 10 to u pgrade over top of Windows 7. I did this by swapping the SATA cable as before. But now I seem to be stuck on the SATA connection. If I switch back over to where the drive ran before as SAS, then boot fails because bootable drive not found.
Can you help me understand what I need to do here? I have a fresh drive I can use to make a clean install, but I could not get that to happen either. This SAS thing has me confused.
I’m installing from a USB drive that has the latest Windows 10 downloaded from Microsoft.
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/03/2019 at 08:25 |
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try doing the install from the main bay. idk why that method worked for 7 but windows is pretty picky about changing SATA ports.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
08/03/2019 at 14:37 |
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Hey Nibby, I wrestled with this on and off for two solid days and finally resolved it. Yes, move to SATA0, install the OS, then move back to HDD0. —BUT— even though Dell signed off on the T3600 for Windows 10, there’s no driver for the SAS controller. Minor oversight, right? So had to get the driver direct from Intel, C600 onboard controller. FURTHER, there’s “PCI Serial Port” that has no driver and I finally found it packaged for an HP product, the old SMS/AMT/LOL wutevs that you have to deal with every time and why hasn’t anybody every figured that one out?
So I am up and running on a clean installation of Windows 10, and I have my 2TB mirrored data drive back in place, and life is GOOD.
Also, BTW, that Precision laptop rocks . Best laptop money I’ve ever spent. Better than the $1100 MacBook Pro I bought brand new. (Waste of money, that; traded it for a Canon 7D camera body, though the camera depreciated much more rapidly than the laptop...)
Cheers!
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Nibby
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/06/2019 at 08:59 |
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aww ye, this is precisely what we wanted!
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
08/06/2019 at 09:07 |
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It was a good outcome. Maybe I can buy you a coffee someday.