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Parental controls are gonna be a mixture of layers. especially for PC. One is using a DNS that filters that naughty stuff like Open DNS for free for families https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ Then create a Kid account via windows which is easy to setup. To time them, set more parental controls etc. I heard the website blocking can be tedious but you can ignore that and just use the open DNS, for filtering. Then of course. With a kid account/Primary/Parent account. The parent has control of what the kid installs, and then protects the PC. Of course the parent has to be diligent in making sure the password doesn't leak etc.

Hello everyone,I'm currently experiencing some overheating issues with my PC and could really use some advice on how to handle it. Here’s a quick rundown of my setup and the problem I'm facing: System Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Cooler: Cooler Master MasterAir MA410P GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070 RAM: 32GB DDR4 at 3200MHz Motherboard: Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Case: Kolink Observatory Lite Mesh ATX Mid Tower Problem: While gaming, my CPU temperatures spike up to 90°C, which seems excessively high. I've noticed that my current cooler setup only allows for the cooler to push air upwards rather than towards the rear exhaust, which might be contributing to the problem. Despite attempting to reorient the cooler, I’ve had no luck; it seems to be a limitation due to the motherboard and case configuration. Questions: Is pushing air upwards significantly less efficient, and could this be why my temperatures are so high? Are there specific coolers you would recommend that might fit better with my motherboard and case, preferably those known for easier orientation adjustments or more efficient cooling? Would switching to an AIO liquid cooler provide a more flexible solution given my case and motherboard layout? Any general tips for improving airflow or reducing temperatures in this specific case model? I appreciate any insights or suggestions you can offer! Thanks in advance for your help.

With SSDs unless there is a root encryption key that can be re-set to a new random value the BIOS SSD wipe does not destroy all the data and it can be recovered by a data recovery lab. (on PC many of the root keys can't be fully rotated you can change the user-portion but if someone has a backup of this then they can still decrypt the data, root keys need to be private and need to never leave the device sec enclave to be considered as a method for whipping the drive). The reason lots of companies now insets of full device distraction is they do not trust the recyclers (or the sub-cotnracter that the recyclers will use) to bother even with un-screwing it and standing or shrewd the M.2... There have been to many cases of companies just not doing what they said they would do in the contract or sub-contracting to someone else to do this and not checking up on it. This is no considered so common that it would not be a legal defence in court to if data leaked that was under a protected status. You need documented evidence of destruction and best to also have a witness who can testify that they were there when it was shredded. The laws need to be updated such that if there is a cyrptogrphicly signed report of the root key being rotated then this is evidence. Then we could put pressure on vendors like apple to provide this feature to DFU reset mode such that the sec-enclave could sign this when it re-sets the key and provide it as a report or even upload it to apples servers so that anyone with the SN can validate the time and date that the device was fully wiped. But currently in most of the world the laws around data destruction (think schools with child data) are such that this is considered a grey area by lawyers and your advised to just destroy it.

Thank you. That is looking like the case, my motherboard (MAG B550 TOMAHAWK) lists the ports under the "AMD Processor" with a 1x type A and 1x type C at 10GBPS with not much information beyond that. Being something non standard off the chipset I bet it some weird power issue like you said, a shame as it means there isn't much of a work around.

I assume you meant shredded. Data privacy mainly, but to tell you a short story, the engineering company I was doing work for sent stacks and stacks of laptops to be recyucled. These laptops still had mechanical drives in them. The company that sent me there didn't want me properly wiping the machines "That's the recycler's job" With the SSD's, its' actually a lot easier to ensure they are wiped, you just go to the BIOS and tell it to wipe the SSD and it's done in 4 seconds. Where as the mechanical drives it could take 6 hours to do. But if it came down to it, it took two minutes to just unscrew the back's off all but the Precision 5520's , pull the M2 drive out and snap it in half through the NAND chip, or push it into the paper shredder.

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Yeah, a lot of people want a lot of things that are not attainable. Questioning whether I 'understand' some completely unattainable utopia where game developers just hand you your subscription money back and refund you for stuff you willingly bought in-game, is honestly wild; You seemingly do not understand that developers don't have and should not have a responsibility to give you money back that they used for operating/payroll/marketing costs, nor do they have any compulsion to release the code to run servers when they deprecate an old game, especially when they may be using aspects of that programming in future titles. I used to play on Quake III servers back in the day, and I even ran my own Minecraft server a few years back for some of my friends and family, I'm aware that private servers for certain games have existed. That doesn't mean every game is built that way or could run on consumer hardware, something like an MMORPG is going to be very expensive to upkeep, just one example like GTA V doesn't describe all online games.

It is a crime for them to break a contract, if they were paid to shred and then recycling raw materials then it is a crime if they break that contract and do not shread. Why do lots of companies insist on used phones (and other tec) being shredded? Well the laws about data destruction are very badly written, while we can re-set the root encryption key making it impossible to retrieve existing data most laws about data retention do not consider this one explicit permitted method, many talk about full physical destruction. This is why most companies and schools etc will pay a recycling company to shred the phones, I have envelopes seen companies pay to have perfect working (just 2 year old OLED high end TVs) destroyed since the liability that someone gets them then someone (through burn in or other methods) extracts even a single line of text is not something your avg IT manager wants to take. Those companies ands schools would love to just sell these phones to a recycler but they would only every dream of doing this if there was a clear legal easy pathway to absolve them of any legal resposiblty for the enviable data breach when someone forgets to properly wipe them. Many companies require the recycling firm to turn up on site with a shredder and then have a staff member witness the shredding as they no longer trust the recycling firms to properly destroy them and there have been multiple instances of company HW (including medical and even defence contractors data) ending up in devices being re-sold. As an IT manager for some of these companies you might even end up in jail if you did not take the needed steps to ensure the data was destroyed (the corporate protection does not apply to medical, child or defence data in most of the world). Companies would be more than happy to click the single button in MDM to release the find my locks, (and get some payment form the recyclers or at least not need to pay them as they currently do) on all they reyclinged devices if this did not increase the chance the they recyclers just lie to them and sell them on as is whiteout wiping the data.

Tried WoW once, back in the early days, I afterwards swore never to play that again. I knew myself well enough to know that i would be utterly obsessed if i allowed myself to get started.

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Does it boot to BIOS or is it just doing nothing? Did you install an OS? What parts are you using?

A lot of talk about dying SSDs lately

Yeah, 760's have been in since before 6.2, we are at 6.8 now, you'll be fine.

Similar experience, was able to use an SDcard to "put android" on an ancient WinCE device. Bending embedded stuff to your will is not for the faint of heart though.

Yeah that ssd is like nope i can't do it anymore I'm going to sleep forever. Time to buy new one

Redirect yout transcodes to /dev/shm (shared memory). It will utilise your Ram as a RamDrive that way; and its non persistant, so you never have to worry about the cache being full; and less writes on your SSD. If you're using Docker then you can just map /dev/shm to /transcode (or whatever your transcode path is).

How can we create a "wife-approved" computer rack? We're thinking of using regular cabinets (Ikea) to reduce costs and make it blend in more discreetly. But still have good performance and cooling. This is for those of us who need to keep the rack visible rather than tucked away in the basement.

Phones is arm processor. Any armOS should theorically work. Although there are no drivers for it. About dual booting it's possible you can certainly try. I would recommend old phones first to see how to install and not to brick it. Look up pinephone 64 that phone I've done was fun to play around. Was able to switch OS with SDcard. Arch and andriod and nixos. Maybe learn more about arm processors.

Sorry mate im away from home at the moment so havent been logging on here. As nice as an NVMe is; if its primarily a Plex Server; unless you have like a 10Gbit fibre connection; A SATA SSD will do just fine. I'd get something like a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD (or similar series from Kingston, Intel, etc..) and use that. The mover runs nightly so you shouldnt need a 4TB SSD. Unless youremoving huge volumes of data. If you're wanting to host Docker, VM's, etc...id keep that on a seperate array (UnRAID now does multiple arrays); and keep the cache purely for cache.

i will take a look at it, every time i see corsair AIOs and their new fans im just thinking: sir u wanna say goodbaay too all ur money and get no performance in return?

Thank you, will try out OCCT with the parameters you mentioned.

I have to wonder why nvidia didn't build anything like this. Considering how much die space the encoders take up: AD102. Those 3 NVENC's and 3 NVDEC's could all fit in one GPC. Consider there's 12 of those, one AD102 should be able to fit 75 NVEC's + 3 NVDEC's. If Google is spitting out 10 resolutions in two codecs, you could probably have 4 input streams and 20 output's at once in that die space. At any rate, I'd like to see an example of where Youtube actually is using AV1, because I've not run into any that I can think of.

The cable may be rated for 100W but the USB-C port will not be, so having the hub in the middle (assuming it has no PSU of its own) is using too much power. USB drives need all the power a standard USB port can provide, and even with a powered hub may run into problems as they don't always play nice when not plugged directly into the PC port. Just the extension cable alone may be enough to cause the drive to fail to work.

Reapply the thermal paste and check again or Do you have another AM4 tha you can borrow for testing the CPU? If not then RMA the cooler, most likely the microfins on the copper plate are clogged leading to less cooling.

I am making a computer for my sister and her 4 kids. She says that it'll only be for the kids school work, however I want to make sure they don't look up any type of porn on "accident". I know kids their age are always gonna be curious about the internet. And can't seem to find any type of program for it. Anyone got any good programs I can get for them? Any help is appreciated.