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    JoeCoke reacted to Cosmic Emotion in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    How could people seriously think that Steve feels, or even is, threatened by the LTT Labs? Steve wasn't even the first one to bring the inaccurasies to attention. He's just doing his job. Please think before you post something.
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    JoeCoke reacted to LinusTech in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

    To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

    To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

    Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
     
    With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
     
    I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
     
    Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
     
    Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
     
    With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
     
    We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
     
    Thanks for reading this.
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from cipher_hawk in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke reacted to Zando_ in Wendy's is replacing humans with AI next month   
    You new to large corporations? 99% chance that savings is not passed to the consumer and merely goes into shareholder's pockets and the C-suites yearly bonuses. 
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from porina in Two Nvidia GPUs, stop games from using the 2nd one?   
    Okay so wait, I'm dumb, I've made a finding. It's because I'm duplicating my main monitor to my TV, but my TV is being treated as the main monitor, which is on the 1030. Undoing the duplication fixed the problem. So.... I guess I'll keep messing around with it to see if I can get the duplication to treat the monitor as the main display and not the TV. (I can't believe I didn't think of this before going to the trouble of making a post, oof.)
     
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    So I'm just gonna rework things to where my TV and main display are on the GPU, screw all this LOL. It always wants to treat the 1030 as king when duplicating displays across both GPUs.
     
    1070:
    Main monitor
    CRT (right monitor)
    TV
    Free HDMI port for VR
     
    1030:
    Left monitor
    Top monitor
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from Ottoman420 in Two Nvidia GPUs, stop games from using the 2nd one?   
    Okay so wait, I'm dumb, I've made a finding. It's because I'm duplicating my main monitor to my TV, but my TV is being treated as the main monitor, which is on the 1030. Undoing the duplication fixed the problem. So.... I guess I'll keep messing around with it to see if I can get the duplication to treat the monitor as the main display and not the TV. (I can't believe I didn't think of this before going to the trouble of making a post, oof.)
     
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    So I'm just gonna rework things to where my TV and main display are on the GPU, screw all this LOL. It always wants to treat the 1030 as king when duplicating displays across both GPUs.
     
    1070:
    Main monitor
    CRT (right monitor)
    TV
    Free HDMI port for VR
     
    1030:
    Left monitor
    Top monitor
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from Bersella AI in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from MadPegasus in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from Mitko_DSV in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from NJrelictron in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    I just did a fresh install of W10 LTSC and think it looks pretty. 😁
    Desktop:
     
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    JoeCoke reacted to NJrelictron in Show off Your Setup! (Rev.2)   
    Hey guys. Casual gamer here.
     
    i painted what was i think an Apevia X cruiser case
     for now it has Asus rampage V Extreme
     a xeon 2660 v3
    a gigabyte eagle 3060 12gig
    16gigs of corsair vengeance 
    cpu cooler is snowfan from Amazon
     
    this was assembled on a budget guys plus I’m not that tech savvy but it works for what i use it for




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    JoeCoke reacted to DeScruff in Intellivision launches yet another round of crowd-funding, reveals massive debts, contemplates NFT's   
    Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

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    JoeCoke reacted to emosun in Botherations, You’ll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro   
    I didnt start using 10 till just this january . 7 is bae
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    JoeCoke reacted to mr moose in Windows may start watermarking unsupported user PC's   
    This is why I am urging all my Aussie friends to make an official complaint to the ACCC (in their state or federal).  I already have, I kept my complaint solely to the fact that windows 11 does not support many of the hardware purchased in 2019 (mine being a 3600), with win 10 being advertised heavily as a service that would be updated indefinitely.  which essentially means by them dropping support for 10 and limiting support for 11 many of us who jumped on the AMD 3000 series when they released will have to buy new hardware if we want to continue to run a supported windows.   In a nutshell those of us who bought new machines literally just over 2 years ago only have 3 years left then we have to buy a new computer.  5.5 years for a PC is way too short, my last one was over 8 years and is still running strong as a family computer in the lounge room.
     
    I believe this line of arguing is the one with the most likely chance of being investigated because it clearly is a violation of advertising laws in Australia.  The whole accounts thing is too grey and will only result in watering down a chance at getting windows 11 support for all hardware or extending windows 10 support longer.
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    JoeCoke reacted to GeeklySpeaking in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Ok so last summer I traveled to my parents house in Minnesota (I live in Ohio) and I went through my old room and found some goodies I'd like to share.  First on the top left is a delicious pizza from the local bowling alley.  The next three pictures are a small collection of my PC games I had back then.  Then is my beast of a DOS machine that I played some classic games on.  Next is a box of Magic Cards from the early 90s, then my old GameCube, a receipt showing I paid $70 for Madden 64.  Then a couple 3DO games (If anyone remembers that system).  Next is my copy of Tetis for the Famicom.  Then random games like Asheron's Call, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot and Nights for the Saturn (with controller) and lastly my 32x.  Crazy finds!
     
     

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    JoeCoke reacted to WhitetailAni in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    I learned about them today via Technology Connections.
    Best channel ever for sarcasm, interesting videos, and the best subtle humor ever.
    "Now that we've finally discussed the VHS vs. Betamax war, all of you Betamax snobs can continue being smug about it, even though VHS still won. There. The video is done - where is my HD DVD player?"*
    *Paraphrased because brain
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from e22big in Fellow gamers, do you like the "gamer aesthetic"?   
    I really hate the gamer aesthetic, but I also hate the super minimalist "glass on all sides, every case looks identical, fuck airflow" look too. Computer/phone design has been pissing me off the last couple of years honestly. Don't even get me started on rainbow puke RGB...
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    JoeCoke reacted to GDRRiley in Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to Get "Right To Repair" Legistation Passed Through a Direct Ballot Initiative.   
    apple electric engineers and cooling design do deserve the hate. who the hell puts high voltage backlit right next to a data line?
    butterfly keyboard is fine even though the day we launched a laptop with it we added it to extended support
    the NVIDIA GPU issues came about because apple acts like 95C+ is good for a laptop
    at this point their view of your data is oh well given they don't have any way of removing it if your laptop is not working.
    they consistently work to put more software locks on parts to phones. replacing the rear camera stops face ID from working ect.

    the only 2 things apple gets constantly right are good screens and a solid chassis, the first of which is mostly just choosing a supplier and a few requirements.
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    JoeCoke reacted to Blademaster91 in Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to Get "Right To Repair" Legistation Passed Through a Direct Ballot Initiative.   
    I think people are too focused on Louis complaining about Apple, he is an Apple repair tech so of course he talks about apple. And his complaints with apple are justified because Apple is the one doing anti-consumer crap like serializing components to the device that forces you to go to the store, instead of having other options which can also be more cost effective to the consumer.  Other companies are following the trend of serializing components, for example Samsung with the A51 fingerprint reader, or laptop manufacturers moving away from RAM slots, and M.2 slots, and soldering everything onto the motherboard.
    However right to repair is about more than just phones or laptops, its about being able to obtain parts and schematics for lots of things like your refrigerator, washing machine, or an infotainment display in a Tesla for example as the infotainment screen is a key part to driving the car.
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    JoeCoke reacted to CivBase in Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to Get "Right To Repair" Legistation Passed Through a Direct Ballot Initiative.   
    He's an Apple repair tech.  He runs a shop that exclusively repairs Apple devices - and only a subset of them at that.  He talks about Apple products and practices because it's what he deals with all day every day.  He has a history of giving Apple credit when they do good and he regularly points out that most other major tech companies are similarly terrible.  Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, LG, etc also have terrible track records when it comes to repair, but Louis can't share as much information about them because he doesn't repair those devices.  If Apple were the only problem, Right to Repair would not be necessary; anyone who cared about repair would just buy non-Apple products.  But that's not the case and that's why his effort to advance the Right to Repair movement is important.
     
    Regardless what anyone may think of Louis, I really like his approach to Right to Repair.  He cares about more than Apple and more than just consumer electronics. He doesn't want to force manufacturers to re-design products for repairability or make their designs open source. He doesn't even want to force manufacturers to offer repair services or to supply parts. He just wants to stop manufacturers from going out of their way to screw over independent repair.
     
    For instance, a manufacturer shouldn't be obligated to sell a part exclusively to another manufacturer in order to do business with them. Third parties should be allowed to ship used goods and parts through customs without having the seized as "counterfeits". Third parties shouldn't have to "partner" with manufacturers just to be able to buy parts. Third parties should be permitted to share technical details about a product (eg independently-developed board views or circuit diagrams).
     
    That's what I want to see. I'd much rather see independent repair start with better legal protection than have a bunch of half-baked, hard-to-enforce regulations piled onto manufacturers who will inevitably find loopholes anyways.  Regulations like that may be worth pursuing eventually, but I think starting with them sets the movement up for failure.
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from kelvinhall05 in Minecraft Java Edition to get performance improvements in 2021   
    If the game could run a quarter as well as it did on 1.2.5 I'd be thrilled. Server performance is a joke right now, even with paper.
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from sub68 in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Got a 36" Sony Trinitron!!! Was watching a video about one, the guy said he got it on offerup, so I opened up offerup and there it was. LMAO 20 bucks well spent.
    It has the remote, front cover and everything.
     

     
     
     
     
    Got her all calibrated. It has some minor bowing at the top that couldn't be fixed in the service menu, but oh well. Still incredibly stoked about this! My Panasonic Tau has a better image, but it's only 27" soooooo yeah this is still a big upgrade.
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    JoeCoke got a reaction from Cirga in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Got a 36" Sony Trinitron!!! Was watching a video about one, the guy said he got it on offerup, so I opened up offerup and there it was. LMAO 20 bucks well spent.
    It has the remote, front cover and everything.
     

     
     
     
     
    Got her all calibrated. It has some minor bowing at the top that couldn't be fixed in the service menu, but oh well. Still incredibly stoked about this! My Panasonic Tau has a better image, but it's only 27" soooooo yeah this is still a big upgrade.
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