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Hi everyone, I have this file in AppData Local Temp. It is called R8a23596, and it takes up 35GB on my drive. Any idea what it is? Windows Defender and Malwarebytes haven't detected it as anything when I scanned it. Can I just delete it? The file extension is just ".file". Thanks for any help in advance!

True.... except the falsehood of human activity causing a sudden shift of the environment and causing climate change. It's a hoax now just like it was when the sky was failing over the predicted Ice Age blamed on human activity. Why people can't accept the fact that the climate of the world does not stay constant year after year is numbing.

For non professional mediocre labor? Damn right it's a luxurious wage. That's the problem with today's people entering the workforce. They feel entitled to start out at the top of the pay scale with zero skills or experience.

I take issue with what the script has to say about Kodak. While Kodak did undergo chapter 11 bankruptcy back in 2011; they exited it in 2013 after shedding their debt and several divisions. It's still the same company from before the filing. For the most part they still make film for cameras, and other photography products; most of them for the film industry. The youtube channel SmarterEveryDay has a series of three videos of tours documenting the Kodak film production process. Heck the wiki even states they entered the pharmaceutical industry recently. Yes.... they license out their name for some cheapo electronics; but those items were also very likely never meant to be sold on the North American continent. Case in point? The x300 Linus is holding in the video is not the one that is officially sold here in the States. Different form factor, different packaging, different pcb. Saying that everything licensed out is poorly made; just isnt always true.

Hey everyone, I'm seeking some advice as I've been feeling quite disconnected from my friends lately. My passion for technology and gaming has been a significant part of my life, which I used to keep quiet, but have opened up about in the last year or so. Unfortunately, it's something my current friends don't share. In fact, some have started mocking me for it, which has started to affect my mental well-being as it was something I faced throughout my school years, almost like a trigger. Having just become a new dad, my interests in tech have changed. I've started to enjoy researching on how to create a healthy tech and gaming environment for my family. Lately, I've been playing around with building HTPCs to move away from subscription services, exploring handheld gaming options, and learning how to create a safe environment for my children online and while gaming. Now, I'm struggling with the feeling of not having like-minded friends or the sense of being unable to meet new people who share my interests. If anyone has been through a similar experience or has any coping strategies to share, I would greatly appreciate your insights. P.S. I play Assetto Corsa, ACC, iRacing (when I have time to commit), American Truck Simulator, Battlebit, Farming Simulator 22, and Hell Let Loose. I'm also Australian... which can suck for timezones

we need more context. what is the cooler for and why another cooler wont work. heat and mass is how it works well serface area is how you cool that mass. but making more fins the less mass it has so its a balance. if you dont have aenuff mass you need more air flow but demising return. heat dose not travel across metal evenly it will be a circal around the heat source. if you dont pull the heat away then it will heat soke and w/e cooling wont get cooled.

The motherboard is receiving power because when I unplug the PCIE cord from the GPU is shows red and none of the CPU pins are bent.

Cooler will prolly have no problems at all handling that 5 nm CPU... let's get real here, I, for one, does NOT want a big ass PC. Lately I've been doing ITX / SFX conversions to ALL my PCs so far... and the OP's should also go great. Less space the better. Easier to just pull the plug, take it out and clean. Trust me, a big ass PC, due to the center of weight, is ALWAYS a burden when the cleaning time comes. Less much space spent too, on the desk. SFF is love, SFF is life. I can understand some wanting a normal sized PC, but once you go small, you wouldn't want to go back. Surely so.

Of all the random things; reseating the CMOS battery fixed it, lol.

fun fact, global average temperature of the earth is much warmer compared to today. 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous, there was no polar ice cap and much of the lands were flooded as a result, forming a shallow inland sea. there is no reason why earth shouldn't warm up other than the fact the warming caused by human activity is much faster and too sudden than what's possibly normal on a geological time scale. there were instances of such sudden changes of climates in the earth's past, all accompanied by massive extinctions. earth's biosphere simply cant adapt to such a sudden shift without losing much of its diversity.

I replaced my motherboard because the other one was faulty and when I got everything in it posted and told me about a new CPU and I pressed the key I needed to and after that it stopped and hasn't done anything since. I understand there is no CPU cooler and that is because it is a pain to put on and wanted to make sure everything worked before I put it on. I have tested reseating the ram, unplugging the ATX and CPU cable and the powersupply power cable. The Front Panel header is also connected.

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Troubleshooting update: - Disconnected all external peripherals except the power cord - Have tried both memory sticks in each individual memory slot, one at a time - Have tried a different power supply and as a result, have also re-seated both the 24 pin, PCIe and CPU power connectors - Have re-seated the graphics card - Have disconnected the front panel headers and tried manually shorting the power button pins with a screwdriver - Have disconnected power and data cables for all storage devices It still powers on just for a split second; long enough to cause fan spin but immediately shuts right back off. I almost think the fan spin though is just the capacitors draining because if I try to power it on a second time immediately after, I get nothing. The only time I get fan spin and a light is if I turn off power to the power supply and drain the capacitors by holding the power button down for a few moments, then flip the power supply back on and hit the power button again. It's almost like it just drains the capacitors into a power on attempt but once they're drained they don't get recharged.

Any fan can be quiet, just turn the rpm down.

Step one is to actually start doing something. You want to recycle tech? You don't need to talk to Linus to start doing so. You need to source things, fix em and find new homes. Have you worked in the existing recycling market? Maybe they do things the way they do (extracting precious metal) for a reason, and you could learn that and other things getting a labour job in a facility doing the work. Have looked online for people doing recycling the way you want to?

you think 18-27$ an hour is a luxurious wage?

You will need to test each components separately. Remove or unplug all non essential components. Unplug or remove all external and internal drives. Remove GPU, Remove all but one module of RAM, swap the slot and RAM modules around. If you have another computer or Voltage Meter, test PSU. If all of this fails, the motherboard is most likely been shorted out and will need to be returned.

Well that certainly is sad, this PC is 2 months - 3months old. This is the reason I highly doubt its a dead PSU and maybe something got moved around when I bumped it. Do you have any recommendations or anything to say before I go ahead and take everything out?

OK, the UPS not complaining should be enough to say that the outlet is wired correctly, and since it was new it's almost certainly up to electrical code, though since you do seem to have the knowledge you might as well open the outlet and double check that it's good. A bootleg ground can give weird issues and IIRC some UPSes can't pick up on it, so it would be worth checking, though if that was installed out of the factory there would likely be a class action suit against the people manufacturing the trailer at this point.

If the PSU is dead / dying, you don't really have a choice. Especially if you need the PC up and running ASAP, too. I would NOT recommend that you try to "self diagnose / self repair" a malfunctioning PSU, too.

I haven't tried each one in every individual slot; but I tried each one in one slot from each channel. Swapping power supplies didn't fix it, so I'll try this with the RAM next.

Did you try testing individual RAM modules in each slot, or even taking them out entirely?