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Day 1915 of hating NZXT

Microsoft AI Explorer

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/ai-explorer-could-revolutionize-windows-11-but-can-your-pc-run-it-heres-how-to-check

Yay, my 5900x doesn't meet requirement.

@Poinkachu, is this you?

Scored a new microphone for streaming and vocal work - and it's absolutely gorgeous.

Yes, I unironically bought a 1960s microphone for voiceovers.

This is the Altec D90P, a paging microphone for which very little information exists online. Can't find manuals, datasheets etc. but I DO know it's a capsule-based dynamic microphone, and it uses the same capsules as Altec's highest-end "salt shaker" mics of the era.

I can't shake the thought, though, that it looks like a hose sprayer from the side.

Got this one for pretty cheap ($50), as it'll need some work. Cable is severed so I'll need to solder a new one back on, I might also need to re-work some of the tone circuit as it has a built-in system for adjusting the tone. I'd prefer not to replace any part of it that still works, though, as I'd like to preserve the authentic original sound. I did something quite similar with the crossover in my Voice of the Theatre A7 speaker: reforming its 70-year-old capacitors with 24 hours of classic rock, slowly increasing in volume. Sounded awful when I first dragged the abandoned speaker home, but after giving the transformer and oil caps some love, they came back to life. Wouldn't be surprised if I end up taking the capacitors in this mic out-of-circuit and pumping them with signal from a tone generator to re-form them and have them warm back up to the frequencies they're built to handle.

I also don't have the nice metal stand, but I do have spare wood and a belt sander. I'll carve something nice for it to sit on, rosewood would complement the silver quite nicely.

Very excited to see how it sounds! 

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hey all, i have a question for you. do i tell my dad that all final exams will be over before the actual date they will be over so i can skip them... or do i tell the truth?

Some eBay hunting for a 1TB SATA M.2 SSD (long story, I have a motherboard with a SATA-only M.2 slot) found me this gem:

Yeah, buddy, not a (legit) Samsung... or NVMe... or M.2...

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"for complex deep hole applications"

honestly, for 25 dollars, this is a steal.  https://www.mi.com/us/product/xiaomi-electric-precision-screwdriver/

Going to watch the Simpsons to get an insight into the future

Today's goal - figure out why the Voodoo2 runs so poorly on my K6-2 500.

Edge's dark mode everywhere plus the forum emojies breaks in a very amusing way:

lmg flies this airline:

progress on the server rack. 
Bottom is getting filled with:
- synologies
- a plex server
- a rack-mounted ups at the bottom to replace the current APC 

 

I love Dell but sometimes they are on some insane super crack.

Today I installed Windows 10 from the slotloading optical drive on my Studio 1737, ejected the disc out, then put in a disc with software. But that disc would not eject when the time came to remove it. Rebooted, still nothing. Reset BIOS, nope. Going back into Windows, pressing the eject button on the computer would disconnect the SSD on the same drive controller and bluescreen the OS - but the DVD didn't move an inch out of the drive.

Clearly this was not intended behavior so I looked into it.

Apparently, certain BIOS versions with certain optical drives will just DO this? Like, it just happens sometimes for no reason at all?? And it took them until BIOS version A05 to actually fix it. It was most common on A04 and A01 (my BIOS version). 

I don't even understand how that happens. How do you make your BIOS suddenly forget what the eject button is supposed to do? The eject button is on the laptop's touch bar, not on the drive itself, so firmware has to communicate the eject command to the drive, but seriously? How hard is it to make that work? 

It’s official. I am currently in better shape, than I was as a high school kid. Did a >mile job here, with some uphill. Definitely couldn’t do that as a teen. 

The EU just approved a "right to repair" bill!

The goal is to force manufacturers of goods to provide repair service for their products as well as encourage consumers to extend a product's lifecycle by repairing it.

Some key parts of the bill are that:

• Manufacturers have to provide timely and cost-effective repair services.
• Manufacturers have to inform consumers about their right to repair.
• Once a product is repaired by the manufacturer, they have to provide an additional 1 year warranty extension.
• Manufacturers are required to still offer repairs for common household items such as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, TVs, smartphones, etc, even after the warranty has expired.
• An online platform will be established where consumers will be able to find local repair shops or shops that sell refurbished goods (and I assume spare parts).
• Manufacturers will have to provide tools and spare parts at "reasonable prices".
• It will be illegal to write contract clauses that prohibit repairs, and it will also be illegal to use "hardware or software techniques that obstruct repairs". (Note: This won't be enforced if the manufacturer can provide "legitimate and objective factors" for why they have to implement such techniques. It will be up to the EU to decide of the arguments are valid or not though).
• They specifically state that manufacturers are not allowed to prevent second-hand or 3D-printed spare parts from being used at independent repair shops.

EU members will have 24 months to write a local law that complies with this directive.

It is also worth noting that the EU already has a directive that states that spare parts have to be available for 5-10 years after purchase (depending on the type of product). This is more of an extension of the already existing right-to-repair laws in the EU. 

Tim Apple: "OK, we need a cooler for our MacBook Pro with an 8-thread i7 and discrete graphics."

Engineer: "Alright boss! My 8-year-old made this model of the fallopian tubes from a tin can for a science project! We should use that as our heatsink!"

This cooler is unbelievably pathetic. Putting CPU/GPU on the same heatpipe is already a sin, combine it with those tiny finstacks and the 0 airflow a MacBook provides and you've got the perfect formula for 87 degrees at idle. 

Framework wants to go in other product categories

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new

I hope they aren't trying to go too big too fast.

Screw you Coolermaster.

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K80 in da VM! FInancially good desicion? hell no should have gotten a M40 since it actualy has vgpu. and its like 79% faster and has double the ram per GPU.

I... don't know how to answer this... question?

Sounds like quite the thrilling Job: