manikyath

i cant go into much detail because NDA's, i wasnt directly involved, and i havent seen ayone of the team actually involved in two years... but i know of one company that produces machinery that uses VR to "test" the layout of their designs in CAD witha human before they actually start ordering parts. oh.. and they play beatsaber over lunchbreaks, ofcourse.

the way forge deploys the server installation provides a "user_jvm_args.txt" file. the explanation is in there, with an example to configrue 4GB ready. this is an example i just grabbed off my server: default: # Xmx and Xms set the maximum and minimum RAM usage, respectively. # They can take any number, followed by an M or a G. # M means Megabyte, G means Gigabyte. # For example, to set the maximum to 3GB: -Xmx3G # To set the minimum to 2.5GB: -Xms2500M # A good default for a modded server is 4GB. # Uncomment the next line to set it. #-Xmx4G the way i run my stuff: # Xmx and Xms set the maximum and minimum RAM usage, respectively. # They can take any number, followed by an M or a G. # M means Megabyte, G means Gigabyte. # For example, to set the maximum to 3GB: -Xmx3G # To set the minimum to 2.5GB: -Xms2500M # A good default for a modded server is 4GB. # Uncomment the next line to set it. -Xmx4G also, the RAM usage of a minecraft server doesnt necessarily increase all that much past the initial "modpack load". more ram doesnt mean more faster. it's either enough or it isnt.

when it's ready.

that's a motherboard standoff, it's supposed to remain in the case but this happens... best way to get it off is to grab hold of it with some pliers, and then screw the screw out. from the first picture it looks like the screw is inearly out, so chances are you can just hold it with your hand while twisting the screw out.

gas is cheap <> power is free. also, there's your answer why the power company doesnt pay for excess solar: in tropical regions it's a royal pain in the butt for them to manage.

you're either running two OS'es (one virtualized presumably) or you arent running two OS'es. there's no middle ground of 'forwarding some calls to a windows kernel' the problem isnt in handling the calls to the OS layer, it's translating them to something that'll hook into linux. actually having windows components there doesnt actually help you all that much.

just how much excess solar do you have? first thought, is there anything gas powered you could replace with an electric equivalent? also - are you assuming you will have this surplus year round? if you use electric heating in winter, that combined with reduced solar income in winter will probably negate most of the bill you built up in summer.

hold windows key and press up arrow, this should maximize the window. then you can hold the title bar to drag it down, now you have the window floating again, with access to the title bar to move it around so you can get to a corner, to shrink it down from there.

is this "hugely multithreaded" or not?

they are real keys, in the same way that smuggling hardware without paying import duties is real hardware. you are arguing beside my point. i can try to keep making analogies, but i'm pretty sure they're all going WAY over your head. how about.. both places i worked for are VERY successful, because as it turns out the customers with the most cash to spend prefer to go for businesses that dont risk licensing disputes to save 90 bucks on a $2k purchase. also.. i do need to address this: none of this has to do with state law, this has to do with EULA's and moral choices, at which point microsoft theoretically has every right to block every key you've ever sold to any of your customers, and potentially launch a civil suit against you for damages, which as you've shared before is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. wether they're in the right or not in suing for damages is largely irrelevant, because you as a business should not value saving a bit of money on each sale over the potential for a huge massive lawsuit.. in which essentially your customers are the victim, no matter the outcome, because they end up with a breach of the EULA they had no part in. what i'm saying is.. it's a matter of what is morally right to do. and even if you consider microsoft's choices to be morally wrong, making your own morally wrong choices dont make this a right. if you're just buying a shady key for yourself to save a buck.. go right ahead, but you should NEVER, EVER sell something as a business that has potentially questionable origins. on which i should note.. if it turns out those keys you bought on the grey market originate from stolen credit cards.. you may be facing charges for posession of stolen goods, or heck, perhaps if some FBI investigator finds a computer shop buying TONS of keys from this origin.. they may think you're laundering money for a crime rink. no one's gonna start a trial over one singular license key.. but when we're -again- potentially talking 6 figures.. that is a risk you should not be fine with if you have an ounce of integrity in your soul.

i'm not saying the keys dont work, i'm saying the means trough which they got so cheap are not legitimate. what you're essentially doing is lining some crook's wallet to feel good about yourself, only relying on the exceptionally poor license key management on microsoft's part. if this practisce were to come to light to the right people, *you* are on the hook for these hundreds of thousands of dollars, by the way. likewise, you'd most likely not hear any complaints from pirating every windows install that leaves your business, why pay at all if you dont give a hoot about doing things above board anyways? it's not about it working, it's about your business actively participating in something that could be seen as false advertising to your customers, and could be seen as (a form of theft this falls under, i think?) by microsoft. i'd also wager a guess that the feds would love this one, especially since you explain this is company policy.. as well as mentioning in the other thread that it's company policty over there to tell customers the "boys" will be going trough your private material anyways. again.. if you're so confident about this, please do post which business this is which.. by the way, i've done first-line IT support for 6 years, the place i worked at had an EXTREMELY strict privacy policy, and even slight skirting of the rules that didnt even come near customers' actual privacy were handled very strictly. and the idea that a system from our hand would be running a potential grey-market key would have been unthinkable, borderline "fired on the spot" level of bad.

but, the only way to get a license is from microsoft. if you find a license for 10% of that price *something* has gone afoot with that key. what is that something? well.. it can be a lot, brief set of examples: - selling a single key multiple times (because activation will only get wonky after a few actvations) - selling GVLK keys separately, which is directly against the license agreement - selling keys fished off scrapped OEM desktops - and in fact yes.. using software licenses to launder money. software licenses are apparently the modern day equivalent of a shady laundromat. it's essentially like saying apple is scamming you charging 1000 bucks for an iphone when shoplifters will sell a new in box iphone for half that on ebay.. which again, is a practisce that happens. you can choose to ignore this, but that doesnt change that two wrongs doesnt make a right, and you're still being extremely dishonest to your customers. and again.. opinion on the matter is separate from what is correct to do as a business.

i'm trying to delve trough your mind twists here.. and i think the part you're missing is this: the reason USB-PD chargers all have type C ports, is because afaik PD is only part of the spec of type C ports, and type A ports are only meant to ever output 5 volts (as opposed to PD going 9, 12, and even higher) as for needing "all sorts of cables" in two forms.. i can actually list every 'standard' cable you could possibly need right here: - USB-A to mini B - USB-A to micro B - USB-A to USB-C - USB-A to lightning - USB-C to mini B - USB-C to micro B - USB-C to USB-C - USB-C to ightning this list assuming you still have anything at all that still has a mini B port, and that you might have a micro B device that you wont just charge off the computer. so.. in practisce, realisticly, we're talking about 5 different cables if you have an iphone, or 3 if you dont.

you've got this so backwards i need to slice it up into separated replies... that's not a scam, that is microsoft setting the price of their product at 100 dollars, it is their product so they can determine the price. wether 100 dollars is fair or not is a matter of opinion and not applicable here. assuming these are devices you are selling to customers on the premise they contain a valid licensed installation of windows.. you're doing the scam here. you're actively breaking the EULA for a piece of software you're providing to customers, in their understanding they get a full and valid licensed version, but it is essentially a version that only exists because microsoft cant be arsed to fight grey market key sales. which, by the way, volume licensing exists, and if you've saved hundreds of thousand of dollars, that's thousands of licenses.. you're well into volume licensing terretory. please do share which company this is, so i can avoid you like the plague, because if you're willing to grey market the license you sell to your customers, i dont want to know what else you'll do to line your own pockets.

ditch the liquid cooler, other than that i dont think i have much to say.

you get "falsely" banned off gmod servers on a weekly basis? on topic: i feel like we "as a community" should be a healthy amount of weary about what i'll refer to as "key marketplaces". you never really know where the key you bought came from, if the key was sold to multiple people, and if the party in control of honouring these license keys will ever shut them down (like has happened with keys that were gotten trough fraud in the past) in this way the "kinguin and g2a exist" mentions are IMO fine, but any user going there "by our recommendation" should have at least some level of "you're on your own here" just to express that this really is a wild west type of situation where truly anything goes, and you're left to a honour system between anonymous individuals. i suppose my viewpoint is that it should be "an edge case in the CS", more than the CS acounting for it.. because if the CS specificly mentions grey market keys, i believe the only reasonable thing to do is ban linking to sellers of grey market keys.

i'd deem this a niche enough technology to assume average joe isnt gonna buy a more high end GPU just for the sake of potentially having upscaling tech in the hardware potentially making some content look better. also - the same tech exists to work with AMD cards.. but again, it would assume OP is gonna spend "gaming GPU" levels of money to watch video. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-edge-video-super-resolution-announced/

i forget if it's the XBOX or the PS3, but at some point consoles were being "fixed" by baking them...

it's a REEEEALLLY old joke.. like, so old i couldnt even go dig up the relevant status updates.. long story short; i found that my space heater's turbo setting was perfect for heat cycling whatever was broken in some old TP-link switches i had laying around, and it got them going for a week or so with quite solid success rate. this was around the time baking broken GPU's was briefly a hype for some reason...

it's all digital video, the hardware that sits between the youtube and the TV doesnt matter one bit. if all you do is consume video, you pretty much just sort by price on your hardware retailer of choice, and pick the first option that has the output ports you want/need.

you can (or rather.. the intended way is to) enter the key while installing windows. but what you really want to do is go trough setting up the latest drivers and updates. as @Needfuldoer mentioned, sysprep and it's relevant documentation is your friend here. really, if you want to make it as a PC builder / reseller / shop / whatever... this is where you make your service stand out. flipping computers is something everyone can do, but selling a smooth and tailored experience is something very few care to invest their time into. these days there's only two ways to get successful in a market: either you're the cheapest, or you're the best. cheapest isnt gonna happen, so the goal is to be the best.

given that it's probably running a high end CPU and RAM as well.. i probably wouldnt, because however small the impact on voltage stability may be, that is a lot of value in components to risk it for the biscuit.