manikyath

because selling harvested iphone displays is SIGNIFICANTLY less profitable than the hundreds of parts that can be sold on the second hand car market with little to no oversight or customer expectations. besides, as far as i'm aware the "meta" for profitable car theft these days is still VIN swapping. besides, parting out a stolen car requires an idiot with an impact driver in a back alley, parting out an iphone requires a cleanroom. also - you're arguing that this is a requirement to reduce phone theft, why isnt your car's door bound to the computer by serial number? do you also lock your bike with a lock on the back wheel *and* a lock on the front wheel? is your TV chained down so that it cant be stolen? should your laptop's parts be tied on serial number to make sure you wont get robbed each time you are in public with a backpack? fact of the matter is that apple is unique with this implementation, and yet we're not living in the theft armageddon you imagine. maybe you live there, but in that case i suggest either moving or advocating for better policing. on top of that.. this entire debate assumes that the majority of those thefts are at least somewhat organized crime, not some methhead taking something that looks valuable hoping to trade it for a good time not even understanding what "activation lock" even is. or.. let me spin this argument the other way; - apple stops binding the display and battery by serial number. - apple makes replacement parts readily available for a fair price, essentially destroying any market for stolen parts. excluding the motherboard ofcourse, because that's what's locked on a stolen device. - when you trade in an iphone tied to your apple ID (that way a stolen device cant be traded in) you get a $100 voucher towards a new phone. this both covers the "no motherboards available" catch, and provides apple with a supply of old parts to make available. just maybe, perhaps a very big part of this apple mentality comes from their desire for old iphones to *not* keep working to the extent permittable by law? as for addressing "where do these parts come from if not theft?": well.. people who "recycle" their phone because they bought a new one? as for addressing "what else do they steal the phone for?" well.. - meth heads who have no idea. - perhaps this factoid i randomly bumped into: now.. i'm not saying that half of the people at large are idiots.. but statisticly speaking half of the people out there are not as attentative as your average human. --- let me share you a few examples from the E-bike battery industry, where i've felt quite at home for the past year. there's 3 examples i want to share... - one brand i see a lot has their battery controllers tied to the bike trough some sort of handshake, this means that the bike wont work with a battery it wasnt paired with. this is BS, but at least affiliated retailers will pair them for you. (independant retailers cant, because they dont get the software) - another brand we luckily dont see all that much (presumably because of the following story..) has rather troublesome batteries, basicly the moment a drop of mositure gets in the wrong place on the BMS a connector gets fucked, and the BMS is functionally broken... and because the batteries are tied by serial number there is no fix, so the entire bike is now trash. - a third brand we see A LOT has an actual counter in their batteries (we've been able to reverse engineer the entire thing, so we dont guess, we KNOW.) that counts down the lifespan, essentially programming in an exact 2 year lifespan, at the exact legal minimum they have to provide warranty for. oh - and if you even think of replacing the cells; their latest revision has a feature for that too: the BMS selfdestructs if any of the cells go out of spec. - oh, and this brand's BMS is perfectly capable of counting the actual capacity of the cells, it has 3 things it keeps track of: the current charge level, the remaining total capacity, and how much capacity it should tell the user it has based on it's internal warranty clock. now.. how is this relevant? - the first brand claims this is for theft prevention. - the second brand actually makes the bike say "theft protection" when you slot a different battery in it. - the third brand claims it's "for customer safety" in their public facing channels.. but even their salespeople cant keep a straight face about that when pushed about the details. - i know A LOT of e-bike owners, i dont personally know any e-bike owners who have had their e-bike stolen. i do know several people who've had to replace their bike because some brands make it impossible to find replacement batteries. or to make a very long post very short: you're advocating for something that impacts the majority of users, because a very small portion of users could have the theft of their phone prevented by this. now - i totally think locking should be a thing, because this is a MASSIVE hurdle, even if there are ways to gain profit from a locked phone, it just reduces the profitability to the point it's probably below something else on the list of illicit gains. locking should just never get in the way of repairability.

off the top of my head the CX is acceptable enough, and defenately better than the "unknown value of a power supply known to have been a bait&switch and potentially lying about their 80+ cert as a result".

steam has classifications on the catalog: - verified to work out the box - requires tweaking - untested on that note, there's a very big difference between "mainly for gaming", and "only for gaming". the steamdeck isnt exactly a very usable productivity device.

because read and seek error rate.

yes.

can - theoretically yes.. on that note, you appear to be facing an issue i see a lot with seagate barracuda's.. it's starting to have issues seeking. just about every test you'll do on this drive will return fine, other than it'll appear slow.. but that's a doomed drive.

well.. there's this "rule of thumb" to not have more than 7 lines ona slide, and not more than 7 words per slide. i'd assume it goes the same way with numbers. also, if you're having a presentation about what is in a spreadsheet, you may as well show the spreadsheet. the point of powerpoint (bahdumtish..) is that instead of just taking the source documents, you compress that information down to something that's easy to digest. you'd want to distill the data on the spreadsheet down to bulletpoints, perhaps with simple graphs.

storing frames actually isnt *that* memory intensive, so as long as the game does nothing else under the hood when you change resolution (like, if bumping up to 1440p also loads up higher res textures) it's pretty much entirely core load. for example: a frame of 1080p with 8 bits per color is 49MB a frame of 1440p with 8 bits per color is 88MB a frame of 2160p with 8 bits per color is 199MB so while this number rises significantly... it's a very small number compared to the VRAM available these days. case in point.. i've been doing both 1440p and 2160p gaming on my GTX970, and while the vram limits how high i can put texture settings, this problem is fairly universal across resolution choices. on the flip side, core load scales pretty linearly with pixel count.

i'm gonna say an asshole thing here.. - ask your manager to define it more clearly before you sign it. - if they will not, or force you to sign away your rights on the spot, find a different job. maybe that's coming from a very european viewpoint, where companies literally cannot find enough staff..

what motherboard, what cpu, and what +4? if you're running some i5 on a board with 8 + 4 cpu power connectors, that's fine. if you're running some threadripper or epyc, you want all of it plugged in.

you're using displayport, you're encountering my least favourite feature of displayport. *some* monitors have a configuration option to not disconnect when they go to sleep, but it's often well hidden for some back-asswards reason.

the problem is that they cant make assumptions about the taxes if shipping across the pond. despite being pretty large at this point, lttstore really doesnt have the international volume to know the ins and outs of import/export taxes of every country they may ship to. it's at least in part why i've never ordered from LTTstore, and some other NA brands i'd really like to have stuff from.. but i'd rather not deal with shipping from outside the EU.

unscrew the motherboard and carefully move it down to the right until you can get the plug at least started in the socket, then it's just a matter of pushing down.