Monkey Dust

I think it depends a lot on your browsing habits. 30 tabs open at all times (guilty)? You could run 8GB very close to the wire. If you're using an application that isn't well optimized for RAM usage, 8GB could easily prove to not be enough. If you have old tech that you can't, or don't want to, upgrade, 8GB may not seem like an unreasonable limitation. But I wouldn't buy a new PC/Mac with less than 12GB. My hot take. If you just need a laptop for browsing, word processing and note-taking, get a tablet with a keyboard case. Does everything you need with less size, weight and power consumption.

A proper financial audit would have showed up a problem in a matter of days. The expected revenue that Horizon system was generating for the prosecuted post masters was so far in excess of the sales they were making. It would have been pretty obvious if anyone cared to look. It was a problem of culture in the Post Office, far more so than an IT problem. Expecting all government software (not that the Post Office is owned by the government any more) to be open source, as noted above, isn't realistic, or necessary. After Brexit, GBP was deemed 'too metric'. We now use non-metric UKP. There are 19⅔ ounces to the UKP and 14 furlongs to the shilling.

You could try Beatport, a much better selection of dance music than the other streaming services. I've ripped all my CDs onto my PC, but I haven't bought any new ones for years. Still can't bring myself to cull my CD collection in the same way I culled my DVDs though. I still listen to most of my music on Spotify, though, even if I have it on my SSD. A lot of new music, at least the kind of music I listen to, is rarely released on CD now. I could get most of it on 12" vinyl, but that would be both expensive and take up a huge amount of storage space.

Weird how this has been known about for years, but the government only took serious notice when a prime time drama was aired about it. So many people must have known something was up, the finance department being an obvious one, but clearly no one in senior management wanted to hear it.

Why is the power going off so frequently? A new freezer, that turns back on when power is restored, might be a cheaper option? Fridges & freezers do pull a high wattage when the compressor is running, most will pull over 1000W. Either, you need a much more powerful power station, or a portable fridge/freezer that is designed to operate at a lower peak power.

It's amazing what some people are willing to believe & invest in. It never passed the sniff test. Even if it could be made to work, the costs would be so astronomical it could possibly turn a profit. I'm surprised they only burnt through 500 mill. That won't go far if you're buying land, large bits of tube and prototype vehicles. Suggests to me even hyperloop weren't taking it seriously.

Won't someone think of the shareholders? Spending time and money on security is not time and money spent on making line go up. Probably also doesn't help that contracts are awarded on either lowest cost, or who plays golf with who.

So much of corporate culture is fucking stupid. But that isn't a controversial opinion.

I haven't turned on my Wii U for a few years, so my memory of how the Wii mode works may be rusty. If all the Wii U functionality works, I'd 99% rule out a hardware issue. Assuming the console isn't modded, it might be worth asking Nintendo support about it. It might be possible to reinstall the Wii emulator, or do a full factory reset on it.

Looking at the Keychron website, yep on some K Pro boards, ANSI only, soldered is an option. Well Keychron, that makes perfect sense

You have the Apple keys on. The Windows keycaps will be in the box. The 2 should have the " not the @ above it. The 3 should have just the £ with no #. And the 4 should have the $ and € symbols. And that weird double s key should be the ` ¬ button on Windows. There are a few other swaps you will have to make too.

All the K Pro series boards are all hot swappable. It's the regular K series boards that are available as either hot swap or soldered.

Laptop CPUs are hard to review on their own, as they can't be separated from the rest of the hardware. Maybe laptop reviews don't do well enough to justify such a video? I'd expect them to cover it when desktop parts are released. I expect we'll still get GPU reviews, though I think LMG have passed on some of the meh products.

I think watching customers in their own house, would be a step too far, and cause a huge consumer backlash.

Cheap stuff with lithium batteries, you should run far, and run fast. Cheap stuff that plugs in to your mains socket (or outlet for our American cousins) normally has less scope for burning your house down, as it should trip the breaker before reaching that point. Do you feel lucky? Personally I wouldn't. There are so many cheap, dangerous, electrical goods out there that claim to be certified, and even have the CE mark, but aren't. Looking like ones that are for sale in more traditional retailers is no guarantee that they are the same product. They could be the same, but have failed the QC, or they may have entirely different internals.

I'm firmly in the 'from my cold dead hands' camp on the Windows key. But the problem with replacing the scroll lock key instead, or any of the other almost useless legacy keys, is that these are already absent from laptops. The space to the right of the space bar is at a premium already, on smaller keyboards. Many are already missing a right Ctrl & win in favour of function shift keys. It seems like a really stupid place to try to place in an extra key.

Yes, I can see the EU picking this up. E-waste is a huge problem, and devices with an artificially short life due to support being dropped, are a big part of that problem.

Offering employees more money to move to your company isn't stealing, it's merely outbidding.

One of the best defences is not broadcasting that you have something worth stealing, particularly if you are into crypto. If you've found yourself in a situation where you are being threatened with serious injury, or death, no approach to cybersecurity is going to help you. Agreed that a password manager covers almost all needs. But in the event of a big breach of the service, Lastpass style, you could lose everything. Probably a good idea not to put everything in there. Obviously, if you are being targeted specifically, it's probably not going to save you. But you are very unlikely to get individually targeted. The far more common risk is having usernames and passwords leaked in a big data breach, and using precautions, such 2FA, can limit damage. You don't need to be impenetrable in the event of a data breach, just more secure than most of the other victims of the leak.

There is a golden rule; Don't write down your crimes. Keeping evidence of your crimes on your PC or phone also falls under this rule. The police aren't kicking your door in for piracy (unless it's actual ship boarding piracy), or if they think you have a gram, or three, of something you shouldn't. Passwords that you don't want to keep in your password manager, & seeds for 2FA apps, written on paper and stashed in a small document safe, isn't a bad option for all except those running a criminal enterprise. Passphrases are good, but human memory can be a fickle thing. A backup of some form is always a good idea.

I guess they don't have the same torrent of unverified users uploading all kinds of stuff. They are maybe easier to moderate?

So much this. Fake it until some idiot buys your company for billions you make it. Though to be fair, at least they're not mentioning AI...

Yeah, if you have put your GPU in a slot that only supports 1x, there is your problem. You need to get the GPU to fit in the top slot, buy a new case if necessary. Also, another vote for reinstalling windows.

Engines and gearboxes (or transmissions, if you prefer) are now pretty reliable, at least early on in a car's life. What goes wrong often on cars now is the electrical systems, and as they get older the suspension. Sure, EVs don't need oil and belt changes, but they have all the other car stuff to go wrong. I don't know what it is like elsewhere in the world, but in the UK we have a shortage of people qualified to work on EVs. So if your EV does break, and the fix involves any of the high voltage equipment, you could be in for a bit of a wait. Could that be one of the reason EVs seems to be spending more time off the road?

True, if the game has been pushed out before it was ready, waiting for performance patches is a good move. A depressingly large number of games these days need to be given 6 months following release to get a good experience. I'm holding off buying Cities Skylines 2 until performance is fixed. I'm not buying a 4090, and still probably running into issues.