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It looks like the Blue Jeans HDMI cable I currently have is probably is an active HDMI cable after all, this is what it says on their site for the one I'm looking at for either 30 or 35 ft: And to @Mr.Vic20's point about reputable vendors, part of why I'm inclined to go Blue Jeans again is because although there's the downside of them only selling 18 Gbps HDMI 2.0 cables (which @Ghost_MH is saying is apparently more futureproof than I was thinking than anyhow) there's the upside of them being a reputable no-bullshit vendor.

Well the point is that since I haven't been in the market for a new TV, receiver, etc in years I have not been keeping up on the latest with AV specs and thus have no real idea what spec I want. If my current TV is from 2013, my graphics card is from 2015, my receiver is so old it doesn't have HDMI at all, and the only thing I could see upgrading in the next couple of years is the graphics card if I somehow hit the lottery on one at MSRP (or more likely just buy a prebuilt), does it make much sense to spend ~$150 buying something the more future proof 48 Gbps cable instead of just buying another 18 Gbps cable for $50? And the current one is about 50 ft and worked fine for 10 years. I don't think it's an active cable, I think Blue Jeans just used an extra chonky gauge of wire to get it to work.

Digging around slightly more the Monoprice one says it's 18 Gbps, and based on Wikipedia if it's not 48 Gbps then it's not HDMI 2.1? The Monoprice option that says it's 48 Gbps is $162 for 30 ft, whereas Blue Jeans is $49.50 for 30 ft or $53.25 for 35 ft, and then the first Monoprice one I linked to in the OP is $59.99? Which seems like the answer is to go with one of the Blue Jeans ones because going from ~$50 to say $75 to future-proof seemed okay but going from ~$50 to $162 seems not worth it given that by the time I upgrade the rest of my setup (the TV especially probably has at least another couple of years left) there might be something newer than 48 Gbps HDMI 2.1 anyhow.

Does the Studio not do the thing where it can switch between the dedicated GPU when you're plugged in/tell it you don't care about power draw even though you're on battery, and defaulting to the integrated graphics for when you're on battery?

The super-long HDMI cable I use to connect my PC to my TV appears to no longer be working and even though I have no near-term plans to upgrade my GTX 970 () or 2013 Panasonic plasma, I figure I may as well future proof this replacement cable if I have to spend the money anyhow. I can't find my tape measure right now but I think 30 feet is about right to give me plenty of slack on both ends (the damage to the current cable probably came from not enough slack at the PC end causing the connector to get bent around as I moved the PC around). My current cable came from Blue Jeans Cable, which would be my preferred choice for where to buy the replacement, except their site says they're still only shipping HDMI 2.0 cables. The last time I bought an HDMI cable on Amazon that was this long I had bad experiences with crap where the AWG was way too thin for the length of the cable and it either wouldn't carry a signal or the picture would be total mess. This Monoprice one says it supports HDR but that apparently doesn't guarantee that it's HDMI 2.1??? Basically is 2.0 still okay, or is it so much more money to get 2.1 instead of 2.0 that I should just stick with another 2.0 cable if I have no near term plans to upgrade my TV to something that supports HDMI 2.1 and then replace the cable again once I eventually get a new TV? In either of which cases I'd probably just get another cable from Blue Jeans. Or if I should avoid 2.0, is that Monoprice one okay? @Mr.Vic20 @Spork3245 @Ghost_MH @Ominous

The only good Republican is a dead Republican.

Trump would have preemptively nuked Kyiv for Putin.

Make sure to ctrl c all of them to your downloads folder.

I've got 2, 4, 5 and wtf is this word.

Wade could have his own Netflix special with the way he constantly recycles joke.

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Motorcycles? In WWI there were bicycles with machine guns strapped to them.

Known gang leader demands people stop calling his gang a gang: Sheriff Villanueva demands L.A. County leaders stop using term 'deputy gangs' WWW.LATIMES.COM His cease-and-desist letter to L.A. County supervisors targets the use of “deputy gangs” to refer to secretive, often tattooed groups within department stations. 'Executioners,' 'Reapers,' and 'Banditos': Gangs of Sheriff's Deputies Are Wreaking Havoc in L.A. WWW.ROLLINGSTONE.COM Executioners, Reapers, and Banditos: Report finds efforts to clean up decades-old gang culture in L.A. Sheriff's Department are failing.

If people were able to rationally account for gas prices then back in 2008 people wouldn't have been selling Hummers and shit at a loss that could never possibly be even broke-even on with the Priuses they were swapping the Hummers for.

I think if the president goes on TV and says something classified then yeah the president is covered by being able to declassify anything. I don't think furtively carting classified documents out of the White House counts as automatically declassifying them.

We know it was funded in large part by rightwing American money and we also know that rightwing American politics has become a Russian money laundering funnel so I think it's pretty reasonable to connect the dots here.

Also more accurate to how our attempts to kill Al Qaeda leadership went.

Wouldn't shock me if Mamao, Miller, and whoever they had standing in for Superman and Wonder Woman weren't on the same set as everyone else, let alone in front of the same green screen as each other, but yeah.

Yes, ulcerative colitis. Even when I'm in remission like I am now my baseline state has always been a bit constipated. Which leads to fun "paradoxical diarrhea" like today's sludge shit because the poop just keeps building up and building up and compacting to the point that the pressure results in the shit achieving a semi-liquefied state.

Now it's showing as approved, but that they're only covering $51.31, and that I'm also on the hook for the sales tax of $8.15. The full EOB isn't available yet but for the before-tax amount, what they're saying I'm on the hook for works out to about 35%, which is my out of network coinsurance rate. For even more fun, this $28.21 they're saying is my responsibility does not seem to have applied against my deductible nor out of pocket max. I'll check again once the EOB is generated I guess but if this counted against the deductible then I would think they would have just said they're not reimbursing me shit but that I'd made progress of $79.52 toward my deductible. Just really impressive what a clusterfuck this is, this is definitely not what people are going to go in thinking "your insurance has to cover 8 at-home tests a month" means.