The_Hawkeye

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Trying to download: The Switch games on Steamdeck video. I've tried other (recent ones) as well, same issue. Also tried logging-off and -on again, makes no difference.

Hi, I'm a Floatplane "LTT Supporter (OG)" subscriber. When I tried to download a video today, I got the following message: No download could be found for your subscriber level. Has this changed recently? I've always believed the downloading of videos was part of the basic package? I'm also not seeing it mentioned in the perk tier mentions (at any level).

Nobody has an idea on this? That's unfortunate

Hi, When researching the upgrade of my Gigabyte RTX3080 gaming OC, I found out there are actually 5 diffirent VBios of this card "in the wild". I used the already available info to figger out I'm on F40 and so I know I'll need to flash F41. But I don't know (and couldn't find) why there are so many versions available... Yes I realize there are possible revions of cards over time, but still why would the VBios be different for another variant and do the different variants/VBios mean anything for performance? It should al be the same SKU in the end... Who can enlighten me?

New development SKY ECC claims it was not hacked! source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/03/10/2190026/0/en/SKY-ECC-platform-remains-secure-and-no-authorized-Sky-ECC-device-has-been-hacked.html

For USB 2.0 you mean? If so, you buy this (or similar): https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00DKWY1H8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

No that it's known today, could be a little strange though: Today: Hey I've cracked your encryption, please give me my 5 million Tomorrow: Oh by the way, we've listened in to your customers communications and are now making around 50 arrests, so sorry not sorry?????

To be clear, almost no details are currently known on what they did and how they achieved to break in. Yesterday the news just broke about the fact that they did it, using 1600 policemen, performed 200 raids, made 48 arrests (including some well known lawyers apperently), captured 17 tons of cocaine, 1.2 millions of euros of cash and multiple fire arms. Which is an impressive feat by itself, but for me the "techy" part of it was really that they managed to break into an ecosystems specifically used by (top)criminals because it was seen as safe and un-hackable. For example SkyECC offered a bounty of 5 million USD if someone managed to break their encryption. Some more facts about the cryptophone/SkyECC ecosystem: The Belgian attorney general expects there to be 171k of SkyECC phones active in the world Of which 70k in the middle east and 18k in the Benelux (12k Netherlands, 6k Belgium) In Belgium they are mainly used in criminal activities around the ports of Antwerp A 3-monthly subscription is costing you between 1349 and 1539 euro, depending on the type of phone used The phone hardware (based on an iPhone or Pixel4) is stripped of the camera(s), microphone, GPS and USB connection The phone can only communicate with other cryptophones using end-to-end encryption The app can be cloaked as a calculator The phone can be remotely wiped I'm sure that many more details will follow in the days/weeks/months to come and who knows, they might turn it into a movie Source (in Dutch): https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20210309_98162894

Summary Officers of Belgium’s federal judicial police are involved in a major series of raids targeting organised crime and drug dealing. After an investigation that started more then two years ago, yesterday night police have raided 200 properties in the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Antwerp and elsewhere. Over 1,500 officers are taking part in this operation. The basis for the raids was the fact that the Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit reportedly broke into the encrypted chat application Sky Ecc, which was announced as "unbreakable" and "The World's Most Secure Messaging Platform". The police was able to capture 1 billion of encrypted messages of which 500 million have already been decrypted Quotes Sources https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021/03/09/200-properties-raided-across-belgium-in-drugs-probe/ https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/159039/cracking-of-encrypted-text-messaging-service-sky-ecc-app-dealt-major-blow-to-organised-crime/

Summary A new way has been found to copy a key-fob of the Tesla Model X, take full control and drive away with it within minutes Quotes Sources Article on Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-hack-bluetooth/ Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clrNuBb3myE

Not officially available in Belgium, can drive south to France in order to buy one, but then the invoice becomes a discussion point

So, I'm in need for a new phone and I've roughly 400 euro's to spend. For that money I can get -in Belgium*- a Note9 (Exynos) or a A71(Snapdragon 730). Why one of those two? Because I really would like to keep the headphone jack for my QC25 when I travel abroad (out of covid times, 20% of my time). But I'm really torn on which one to get: the Note 9 is feature packed, but will 'soon' run out of Android (security) updates the A71 has just gotten extended support for Samsung, but is the lesser phone performance wise Or should I just accept that the headphone jack is dead and go for a Oneplus Nord? *PS: I need an official invoice for my work, so going online to some web-shop for a grey import, is not an option.

Apologies

Sources: Announcement - https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2020/04/02/tour-of-flanders-becomes-virtual-race/ Winner - https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/52175417 Summary:

Hi All, I recently have been giving more attention to editing down my *.raw photos and started printing the best of them out on paper using my Canon photo printer (TS8150). I use DxO Photolab 2 for managing my collection and the editing in raw, but I'm still searching for a good solution to do the printing part. Make sure the scaling and alignment is right for the paper size etc... Off-course you can print from Photolab2, but their settings are really limited. It's seems the software is more geared to edit, do an export to JPEG and then use something else to finish it. I don't have access to light-room and I don't want to go into a monthly subscription plan for it. So I'm looking for a free or one-time-buy alternative. Thanks!

In all the reviews from freeNass I've read that they suggest a thumb drive above an (full-sized) SSD, but this might be a good alternative. I believe it also depends on how big the freeNas image becomes when you start building a Plex server on it: Where does it save Media the metadata like posters etc? if it's stored on the OS "drive". A regular thumb driver maybe won't be enough ...

Hi Guys, I've been thinking about buying a NAS to run my plex server for some time now. However, a decent model that is able to trans-code 1080p on the fly is still quite expensive (e.g. Synology DS415+ --> €520 without the disks). On the other hand I have quite some PC parts laying around, so that got my thinking in just building one myself and using Freenass. There is no real budget limit, but I'm trying to get as much bang for the buck as possible. Parts already owned: Case: Silverstone Precision PS10b Power supply: Cooler Master G450M RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333MHz Storage: Western Digital Green 3TB (1x) OS: FreeNAS on a USB thumb drive (Optical: some DVD drive) Parts on the buy list: CPU: Intel Celeron G1820/2.7GHz MB: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Storage: Western Digital Green 3TB (2x) Questions: Is this CPU good enough or should I go for a Pention G3258 Annv. instead? Any thoughts/suggestions on the motherboard? I know WD greens aren't ideal for a NAS, but it's mostly non-critical data and I'm searching for a cost effective solutions, so I hope they will be "good engough" Any other remarks from you guys? Thanks!

Are you asking advice on the projector or speakers? Personally I would never use the speaker from my projector. The small tweeter they put inside can never give a decent audio quality imho... Looking at this projector of this brightness level in general, you should make sure that you have no daylight entering or the lights turned on when you're looking to a movie. 800Alm (on the box) is way to limited to watch something with some form of ambient light in the room (eg. curtains open). I you're unable to make the room all dark, I would search for a projector in the region of 1500-2000 Alm, but they don't have those with LED's yet. Also with only a resolution of 800x480, you should not expect a very high quality picture. In conclusion: You might ask yourself the question if it is even possible to buy a decent projector for 100$?? When I'm looking for a projector I use a site like projector-central (http://www.projectorcentral.com) to help and guide me. Good luck with you search.

@Whiskers. Thank you! I searched the bios for a WoL setting, but could not find that wording. Searching for PCI-E did the trick :-)

Hi, This weekend I build my new rig with an Asus Maximus VIII Ranger and a 6600K, but I cannot get my Wake-on-LAN to work :-( The NIC is an Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V and the OS is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit: I cannot find any settings to be turned on or off in the UEFI bios I disabled the "Turn on fast start up" in the power settings (S4 vs S5 state) I installed the latest driver for the intel NIC (20.3, it's newer then the one on asus.com/support) Wake on magic packet is turned on in the NIC properties (Advanced tab) but nothing helped... So any ideas? Did I miss something obvious? Thanks!

FYI: I went for the ranger, thanks for al the advise!

Hi All, With the skylake release the forum will probably be flooded with these kind of requests, but I couldn't find this specific one (yet): I'm going to upgrade my rig with a i5 6600K, but haven't made a choice on the motherboard. I'm looking for either the: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Asus Maximus VIII Ranger I know the Pro Gaming has probably more bang-for-the-buck, but budget is not really an issue and I'm wondering if the uplift of around 30-40 euro might be worth it. Thanks for the advice!

I would like to win this mouse because the razer software sucks monkey-balls and I want to try something completely different.

Small update: They went over $200.000 with 3500 backers Let's help them to get to $600k! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/descendentstudios/descent-underground/posts Edit: Does anyone know how we can get this featured in the next WAN show?