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They didn't sell out, they got bailed out. Pebble was effectively bankrupt and fitbit bought them out for little more than what they owed. They must be feeling pretty silly for having turned down offers of 750 million from Citizen and 70 million from Intel. Edit: They scummy bit is that they...

Glitter from the Christmas decorations in the office is fucking everywhere.

If you're going to go the OnePlus route, the 3 has been (or is in the process of being) discontinued in favor of the 3T. For $40 extra the SoC gets bumped to a Snapdragon 821, the battery to 3400 mah and it gets a 128 GB storage option. From what I've read the screen really isn't that bad...

I bought a cheapass case back when there was hardly any selection. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LRMWHPA It's fits well and isn't terrible. I'll likely replace it when something comes along that catches my eye. I don't need much from a case though, I just want something relatively thin...

Question for those of you on Fi. I tried calling a local number today and didn't include the area code since it was the same as mine. The call goes to an area code on the other side of the state, so I wake up somebody at 1 am instead of calling the office I intended to. Has anyone else had this...

I don't see why there would be any problems. I'm running 2 old as fuck monitors without issue. It will be nice to finally retire the secondary monitor as it was scavenged from a former employer and the screen had been abused and scratched.

Motherfucker. I think I'll have to grab that. That looks like a pretty much perfect replacement for my 8 year old viewsonic, as I'm not quite ready to put down the money on a really nice gsync monitor yet.

I just installed the M.2 version of that drive on the same motherboard last week. If you go that route make sure you update the bios, as it didn't recognize the drive until I did. This was the first build I've done with a motherboard with a UEFI bios and I was surprised to see that I could check...

One thing I'll always respect Apple for is not letting carriers fuck up the phone with bloatware. Granted, some android manufacturers manage to fuck up good hardware with awful bloatware without carrier help. I got some cheapass chinese case off of amazon for $7 just for some basic protection...

I bought one of these earlier this year and am very happy with it. It's far better than buying canned air.

Any suggestions on a 1200p monitor that I will eventually move to be my secondary monitor when I finally feel like spending money on a good gsync one? I'd like to keep it to $300 or less but will go over that for a particularly good deal. Either type of panel is fine and I'd like to keep to...

Just had my first update on the Pixel. The seamless update worked as advertised. Got a 5 second flash of "android is upgrading" during boot and then a roughly 30 second notification after boot that the system is finishing the update after boot, during which the phone was perfectly usable. While...

Having that port always occupied just rustles my jimmies when I need it. I think I'd put up with occasional disconnect, but maybe I'll just have to keep sucking it up. The M705 has been good for several years but the slow pointer speed, even when cranked to the max, annoys me. Every time I...

Anybody have a recommendation for a decent bluetooth mouse? I'm tired of the only USB port on my Surface being taken up by the receiver for my Logitech M705. Thumb buttons are a must and it needs to be durable enough for travel, but otherwise I've got no special requirements.

I've been quite happy with mine as well. Being back on stock android is nice.

Upgrading the CPU on that would be throwing money away. he should wait until he can afford to replace the motherboard and CPU with something not 6 years old.

Create a MS account if you don't have one and link your windows 10 key to it. How to re-activate Windows 10 after a hardware change Otherwise you would end up having to call up MS to reactivate it. Yes, removing windows from the old HDD is mainly to conserve space and have a cleaner drive to...

Since it's using a Qualcomm SoC, I would think it would have all the regular radios. It might be split by GSM and CDMA providers though. Not a lot of phone support all 4 major carriers in the US. They're annoyingly still mostly split between AT&T/TMO versions and Verizon/Sprint.

Easiest way to do it would be to disconnect your boot HD from the computer , install the SSD and put a fresh install of windows on it. Then reconnect the old HD and move stuff over as necessary. Ideally you'd want to empty the old HD and format it, but you could just delete the windows...

Technically in Honecomb, Android 3.0, but that was tablet only. Once Google gave us on screen buttons and I had them on my Galaxy Nexus, physical buttons became a dealbreaker for me. I would not be able to go back to being able to deal with them.

Also keep in mind that you don't want to fill a SSD. SSDs slow down as they get close to full.

The side bezels on the Pixel are thin enough that I accidentally touch the screen just holding it. This thing looks like it would be even worse in that regard. Thin bezels are great up to a point. I hope the accidental touch rejection mentioned works well. Otherwise that looks pretty nice. That...

I'm aware of the separation of hangouts messages from SMS, a change that would have annoyed me if anyone I message uses both SMS and Hangouts instead of just one. This is 2 separate SMS threads for each person: one for before I was on Fi, one for after. The SMS threads from before have a grey...

Unless you're doing things that benefit from the hyperthreading on the i7, an i5 is all you'll need. Shit, im still using an i5-2500k, though it is starting to show its age.

Same here. The only phone that didn't feeil like that for me was my OPO, because of the textured back. After dropping that once, I put a case on it anyway. I just buy cheap, thin TPU cases to add a little protection from general wear and minor impacts. I've been using Google fi since Saturday...

So far I really like the Pixel. Build quality is very good. It feels solid and there is almost no play in the power and volume buttons. It is fairly slippery, but so is every phone compared to the textured back of the OPO. The bottom speaker is fairly loud and decent quality, but the right side...

Well, Fed Ex delivered early, so I'm heading out to pick up my Pixel. I'll be going to a hockey game tonight, which my OPO always struggled with camera wise. I figure that should be a decent test of the Pixel's camera. I'll post my impressions later tonight, let me know if you guys have any...

Absolutely. It's still a shitty thing if it eventually goers through, just shitty in a slightly different way.

The article doesn't do shit to inform you of that. I only knew it because I saw the Bloomberg article earlier and someone else mentioned it.

Keep in mind this is Time Warner the media company, not Time Warner Cable, which was recently bought by Charter.

Well, it looks like I lucked out. My Pixel has shipped and FedEx says it should arrive on Monday.

I already ordered the Pixel after the 10/4 event and I got a 26th-28th delivery window. I completely agree with anyone not wanting to upgrade from a 6P, as the pixel doesn't have enough over it unless you are desperate to get in on the Daydream VR. I mainly justified this to myself that I had...

I wouldn't quite call it atrocious, but it's very meh for me design wise. The overly large chin being the biggest offense. Hopefully they used all that space well. My Oneplus One is showing its age I want to get back to stock android (without having to root or flash roms), so I was willing to...

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. I figured it would be total crap that I would ignore, but it ended up being one of the best parts of the game.

Despite Google claiming to have designed the phone themselves, it's a partially recycled design from HTC, who actually built it. It's loosely based on the HTC A9, which had physical buttons on that large chin.

You have to put a good chunk of blame on Syfy for that with the fucked up way they aired the show.

Best Buy employee took the Pixel for a spin for a bit. Had a brief AMA on reddit but has since deleted a lot of stuff. Somebody saved the youtube video showing of the EIS for video and uploaded it to Vimeo. Video quality isn't great because of the multiple times it's been converted, but the EIS...

Yeah, it was HP that did it. From what I remember, they used a security update to the firmware that made the printer report the cartridge as damaged if it wasn't an HP cartridge.

The big road trips were the best part of Top Gear and it looks like they're doing even more of them for this show. This will be glorious.

I just noticed that preordering the Pixel gets you the Daydream headset as well. Makes me feel a bit better about about giving in and ordering it.