manikyath

is this win10 or win11?
 
win10 has a habit of replacing your outdated GPU drivers with whatever is WHQL.

because that is the way it is. the certs have some basic requirements to be allowed to have them on your device, but past stuff like "things that are plugged in the mains should actually be mains rated" it doesnt really mean more than "they bothered".
like - never trust a mains power cable that doesnt have *any* certs on it.. but if it has CE, and a few local certs from vareous countries, it essentially becomes irrelevant which countries, and how many of them.
 
we're also discussing a "component" - not a finished product. for how little these certs matter for finished products, they're essentially meaningless at the component level. 

having your MFA and password sitting in the same place kind of creates a security hole though. it's a matter of if this "one" place gets compromised, you're SOL. it's still better than not having that second factor, but it's worse than having that second factor in a different place.

there's reasons why you might want to stick the MFA generator in your password manager, for example for shared accounts, where otherwise there may be a douzen phones with the MFA generator on them.
 
but for the backup codes.. those should be in the digital (or real world) equivalent of a safe you only open when you need your backup access, stored in a place you never otherwise come.
 
when i worked in IT we had a separate password manager that was manual access only to store the backup stuff, and the main storage was in something more accessible to actually use on a daily basis.

having your MFA and password sitting in the same place kind of creates a security hole though. it's a matter of if this "one" place gets compromised, you're SOL. it's still better than not having that second factor, but it's worse than having that second factor in a different place.

having your MFA and password sitting in the same place kind of creates a security hole though. it's a matter of if this "one" place gets compromised, you're SOL. it's still better than not having that second factor, but it's worse than having that second factor in a different place.

there's reasons why you might want to stick the MFA generator in your password manager, for example for shared accounts, where otherwise there may be a douzen phones with the MFA generator on them.
 
but for the backup codes.. those should be in the digital (or real world) equivalent of a safe you only open when you need your backup access, stored in a place you never otherwise come.
 
when i worked in IT we had a separate password manager that was manual access only to store the backup stuff, and the main storage was in something more accessible to actually use on a daily basis.

Hey all! Happy new year. We’re back at it with a couple long awaited follow ups.

ASUS
I know you have all been waiting for more information regarding the influx of ASUS complaints we’ve seen over the past half year or so. When we last posted an update a few of us had a sit down with our ASUS contact and laid down both short term and long term goals and expectations. Internally, we had a date in mind of when we expected them to hit those short term goals. We are not going to hit that date. While many of you may be happy to hear that we are not renewing with ASUS for 2024, in the end we are a bit disappointed that they have made no progress towards those short term goals. 

There are a couple of additional things I wanted to note, just to offer some transparency. The members of our business team have different relationships with different brands and partners. And ASUS was a long standing one. We truly believed that the contact we have spoken with wanted to facilitate the changes within ASUS. But the problems were so deeply rooted and systemic that we don’t see a timeline where the smaller fixes end up being addressed anytime soon. We really did want to give our contacts the benefit of the doubt, but in the end we have sadly just been left with doubt.

That being said, there are some projects that you may see that are rollovers from last year that we still need to get out in the near future. But after that, we have no plans for 2024. That doesn’t mean the door is closed forever. We do want to keep talking with them, keep monitoring them to see if they take any strides to fixing the issues, especially in their customer support department. 

We also just want to make a quick note that this is on a sponsorship end. I can’t speak if non-sponsored coverage will pop up at some point. Or if one of their GPUs will end up in a build we do on stream. But we will not be taking money or product from them in exchange for anything we produce until we see follow through on improving their products and customer support.

Secretlab
I also wanted to follow up regarding Secretlab because we did see an additional post regarding a customer support rep using some…questionable language. When we last did an update for Secretlab we had expressed that we expected better from them. At that point in time, internally, we had pretty much come to the agreement that we wouldn’t be working with Secretlab until we see much needed improvements.

We appreciate everyone for sharing their experiences with us. While we can’t rectify every problem you may face with a brand, it does help shine a light on larger issues when we talk with our partners. And we like to try different avenues to see if we have any luck. One of which can be putting you in touch with reps from different brands. Again, we ask that you’re respectful to those contacts, to each other, and to LMG staff and moderators as well. 

Thanks again.
 

some stuff is manufactured in china, but i'll guarantee you none of those manufacturers are even remotely interested in the idea of being a dropshipping partner.
it's not the cost of the warehouse, it's the cost of manageing the warehouse. you're talking setting up an overseas business, doing staffing, managing inventory across multiple warehouses, cross-ship dead inventory, handle QC at the overseas location to the same standard as the on-sit team, ...
 
even more problematic, if you'd believe it.

some stuff is manufactured in china, but i'll guarantee you none of those manufacturers are even remotely interested in the idea of being a dropshipping partner.
it's not the cost of the warehouse, it's the cost of manageing the warehouse. you're talking setting up an overseas business, doing staffing, managing inventory across multiple warehouses, cross-ship dead inventory, handle QC at the overseas location to the same standard as the on-sit team, ...
 
even more problematic, if you'd believe it.

and people say lmg does clickbait.. 😛

some stuff is manufactured in china, but i'll guarantee you none of those manufacturers are even remotely interested in the idea of being a dropshipping partner.
it's not the cost of the warehouse, it's the cost of manageing the warehouse. you're talking setting up an overseas business, doing staffing, managing inventory across multiple warehouses, cross-ship dead inventory, handle QC at the overseas location to the same standard as the on-sit team, ...
 
even more problematic, if you'd believe it.

some stuff is manufactured in china, but i'll guarantee you none of those manufacturers are even remotely interested in the idea of being a dropshipping partner.
it's not the cost of the warehouse, it's the cost of manageing the warehouse. you're talking setting up an overseas business, doing staffing, managing inventory across multiple warehouses, cross-ship dead inventory, handle QC at the overseas location to the same standard as the on-sit team, ...
 
even more problematic, if you'd believe it.

and people say lmg does clickbait.. 😛

i mean.. LTSC2021 gets a whole 14 extra months of support, and i dont suppose you're gonna "sidegrade" your systems to windows 10 IoT Enterprise to get more than that. (in case you missed it - IoT = internet of things - it's an embedded flavour.)
 
realisticly, the choice here is to upgrade, to walled garden your production machine(s) so that being out of date isnt as much of a security issue, or to go for an alternative solution.
 
on that note.. you dont need said "AI none-sense", instead of spending your time trying to find ways to stay on 10, spend your time to learn how to configure and/or modify windows 11. i've been tossing a modified windows 11 ISO on some side machines here and there, and it's honestly a pretty nice experience, and unlike windows 10, on windows 11 customizations appear to stick.
 
EDIT: LTSC 1809 gets you until 2029.. 
as for how to get LTSC - it's a B2B thing only, and only for business accounts with at least 5 licenses, trough a microsoft partner.
EDIT EDIT: if you are gonna bother with setting up a busines account for this stuff - set up policy management on your windows 11 clients, disable all dat sheit you dont need, and call it a day.

Fast As Possible
tech "quickie"
Verified Actual Gamers In North America
floatplane "if it wont fly, at least it wont sink"
 
naming things with jokes is a thing at LMG.

behind the scenes bedrock is essentially a completely different game. they're doign an amazing effort at making it walk like a minecraft and quack like a minecraft, but once you go into the more edge case mechanics, it is a completely different game.
 
bedrock's origins lay with the mobile app version of the game, and it's basicly a C++ game from scratch. at the face of it there is mostly feature parity, but everything behind the scenes is fundamentally different, and essentially has had the benefit of being made "with hindsight".

my question is, how are people allowed to use PCs with internet in jail

i mean.. LTSC2021 gets a whole 14 extra months of support, and i dont suppose you're gonna "sidegrade" your systems to windows 10 IoT Enterprise to get more than that. (in case you missed it - IoT = internet of things - it's an embedded flavour.)
 
realisticly, the choice here is to upgrade, to walled garden your production machine(s) so that being out of date isnt as much of a security issue, or to go for an alternative solution.
 
on that note.. you dont need said "AI none-sense", instead of spending your time trying to find ways to stay on 10, spend your time to learn how to configure and/or modify windows 11. i've been tossing a modified windows 11 ISO on some side machines here and there, and it's honestly a pretty nice experience, and unlike windows 10, on windows 11 customizations appear to stick.
 
EDIT: LTSC 1809 gets you until 2029.. 
as for how to get LTSC - it's a B2B thing only, and only for business accounts with at least 5 licenses, trough a microsoft partner.
EDIT EDIT: if you are gonna bother with setting up a busines account for this stuff - set up policy management on your windows 11 clients, disable all dat sheit you dont need, and call it a day.

if you have a web server running on a common port accessible from your public IP (80, 443, and probably some alt ports too, by now) it's sort of 'normal' to see a handful of crawlers per day poking those ports on every IP in the IPv4 range.

i just bit the proverbial bullet and got a router with a VPN server.

if you have a web server running on a common port accessible from your public IP (80, 443, and probably some alt ports too, by now) it's sort of 'normal' to see a handful of crawlers per day poking those ports on every IP in the IPv4 range.

i just bit the proverbial bullet and got a router with a VPN server.

You seriously expect Asus, a multi-national company, to meet once with someone and then draw up an action plan from that meeting that disseminates to and trains all employees on the new operating process in under two weeks?
Seriously?? Two weeks to implement company wide changes is your timeline....
 
I'm not defending Asus here in the slightest but the level of bullcrap on how fast people think changes can be made and how vast those changes can be in such a short amount of time is mind numbing.

the exact structure highly depends on your company's specific needs, but i do have some bits of advice from experience:
 
first, dont use client names in folder structure. make a standardized abbreviation for every customer, and use that. at a place i used to work we abbreviated every customer to a 6-letter abbreviation.
 
beyond that, for spinoffs, use a variation on the main project's denomniation that differs at the end, so that when sorted alphabetically they are together.
 
as for the month\project project\month issue - the thing you have to weigh is this: how many projects do you have that will span across multiple months, vs how fast do you get new clients being added?
if you largely get the same clients returning for more, i'd stick clients at the top, and then seperate out by year or month, but if you largely get new clients doing a one-off and moving on, i'd stick year at the top.
 
something else to consider is that perfection doesnt happen, and if the current folder structure is "workable but occasionally annoying" it's probably not worth the hassle of changing everything.