The Trench Reynolds Report

  • I really wanted to like this NIMO laptop

    NIMO computers is a company out of Delaware that makes computers. I first found out about them after seeing the following video from Laptop Retrospective, possibly my favorite tech YouTuber. To say the least, I was intrigued. Not only was this an AMD laptop, but I could get one bare bones, meaning I could add…

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  • I loved this laptop, I’ll never buy another one

    I originally discovered the Chuwi Corebook X after watching this video from Linus Tech Tips. I was intrigued about having an affordable 1440p laptop with a 3:2 screen ratio since I never had one before. However, I didn’t want to pay the $500 Chuwi was asking for at the time, so I took to eBay.…

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  • Don’t buy the Koss KPH30i headphones. Buy these instead

    Back in November, I wrote about my love for the Koss KPH30i headphones. I also wrote about how they were my second pair since I snapped the first pair by putting them on my head with one hand. So, guess what happened to my second pair over the Christmas holidays. That’s right. They snapped, again.…

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  • My Koss KPH30i Headphones

    Back in June, I bought myself a pair of Koss KPH30i Headphones. I wanted to use them in the living room, where I watch an inordinate amount of YouTube on my laptop. I didn’t want to use a super expensive pair of headphones in the living room since I’m constantly chasing the cats away from…

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  • So, I killed another laptop…

    (AI Prompt: Laptop Killer. To be fair, the picture’s not too far off.) Late last year, I came into possession of an HP ZBook 17 Gen 1. It’s a 17″ beast of a laptop from 2014. I named it Chungus due to its immense size. In 2014, this was a state-of-the-art workstation complete with discrete…

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  • Trench gets an antivirus scam email

    As I mentioned in my previous post, (which you should really read by the way) I help my boss craft blog posts for his corporate blog. We do a lot of posts about consumer level scams. One scam that’s been around for years is the antivirus scam. Before I tell you about how the scam…

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  • Laptop Problems

    So my work laptop came preinstalled with 8GB of RAM. Recently, I started using three different browsers to keep all my projects separate. Those browsers would be, Vivaldi, Firefox, and begrudgingly, Chrome. I need to use multiple tabs on all three browsers, and that eats up a lot of memory. So I ordered two 8GB…

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  • Don’t charge your vape with your laptop

    I don’t like to talk much about it anymore but I vape. I smoked for 30 years and vaping was the only thing that’s allowed me to stay quit. I haven’t touched an actual cigarette in 7 years. Some of you may think that’s not quitting smoking but that’s not what I’m here to talk…

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  • Running Linux on the Motile 14 laptop

    So the last time I posted about the Motile 14 laptop from Walmart I said I was going to upgrade it with 16 GB of RAM and a second SSD so I could dual boot Windows with Linux. Well, it didn’t quite work out that way. The first thing was that I felt like a…

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