Principis

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

Plex, a company mainly known for their versatile Media Server application, which even Linus uses at home, has been hacked, resulting in users panicking after their cloud-based instances became inaccessible while signing out. The company's website went down just mere hours after the first emails went out to customers, and has since left people manually claiming their servers. https://swizzin.ltd/applications/plex#manual-claiming instead of using the plex PIN and claim tokens to login to their apps. If you are using the LSIO or Hotio docker image, see these instructions https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2022-08-24-plex/.
 
This hasn't been the first time that Plex has had issues like this, where authentication remains the central business they can't seem to just get it quite right. In June, the company also had issues with their API, leaving people unable to access their servers due to authentication being down. Hopefully this stops happening soon. This is the second breach that Plex has suffered, the last being in 2015, where their forum data was held for ransom and user credentials were not using strong salt.
 
Plex authentication continues to have issues, presumably due to their 4 digit pin system being overloaded with requests. Issues extend to both sign-ins and automated claims of servers. The password reset is not mandatory for users, but the company is pushing it to the community pretty hard.
 
The Email
 
Sources
https://status.plex.tv/history?page=1
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319570/plex-security-breach-exposes-usernames-emails-passwords
https://www.engadget.com/plex-reset-passwords-potential-data-breach-082347517.html
https://www.xda-developers.com/plex-reveals-data-breach/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwb8uy/plex_breached_were_passwords_encrypted_or_hashed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwcekh/ive_leveled_my_fair_share_of_criticism_against/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwf9oy/plex_down/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwchdc/changed_password_now_server_not_found/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwfjqm/how_to_reclaim_your_server_after_resetting_your/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwf5o9/plex_website_is_down_and_preventing_password/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/wwje5x/i_cant_claim_server_after_password_update/
Email Correspondance
 
Updates
Add hotio/lsio docker instructions

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Sorry guys

It'll be back. Just waiting on an edit to process

Kuch bottleneck kuch...

Nope

Heb de afgelopen dagen nog even zitten knutselen aan mn pc en hij ziet er echt gewoon als herboren uit. Heb enkele stukken tubing opnieuw gedaan zodat het er cleaner uitziet, meer RGB LEDs erin gezet (ze staan eigenlijk altijd op blauw of uit, maar het gaat om het idee), wat cable management gedaan, hier en daar wat dingetjes opgepoetst, geluidskaart toegevoegd (die je niet ziet aangezien die vlak achter mn gpu zit), de PCI-e 1x riser cable van mn geluidskaart helemaal ingetaped in zwarte tape zodat hij niet meer lelijk is, enz. Hieronder wat foto's van hoe die er nu uit ziet. Blijkbaar is het ook een ding dat als je leds redelijk uniform op een rooster schijnt dat het er redelijk cool uitziet, aldus de laatste foto, die is van de achterkant.
Mijn toekomstige plannen zijn om de PCI-e 16x riser cable van mijn GPU te vervangen door eentje die wel PCI-e 3.0 support i.p.v. 2.0 op de huidige (ik zit al op 8x dus 3.0 is dan wel fijn). Ik wilde ook de zilveren stop fittingen van EK die op de GPU en res zitten vervangen door mooie zwarte van bitspower, er custom sleeved cables in zetten en mss nog een klein 5" scherm voor mijn PSU hangen met system parameters (is een gebruikelijke mod bij deze case). Ook moet ik nog ff wat extra schroefjes in de achterkant zetten, mss een grotere buis voor mijn res halen en hier en daar wat dingen verstevigen voor het geval dat.
 
Ben benieuwd wat jullie er van vinden.

Nope

None of those are 4k ultrawide, they're 1440p ultrawide  except the LG one which is a standard 4k monitor.

I would get a new monitor 24"is really small IMO.
 
Do you do a lot of cpu intensive tasks? If you don't, I don't see the benefit of upgrading.

On the Windows Install environment at this screen:

Select "Repair your computer" > Troubleshoot > Command Prompt On the command prompt, enter in diskpart In the diskpart tool: Enter in list disk and verify which disk is the SSD. To make it easier on yourself, boot only with the SSD installed. Type in the following (assuming the SSD is disk 0):
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt That should turn it into a GPT disk that you can install Windows on. If for some reason that doesn't work, you can try setting the boot mode to Legacy BIOS instead of UEFI.

Ik geloof dat ik spontaan dyslectisch ben geworden.

It's the Canadian equivalent of Svalbard, where vast stores of maple syrup are kept in a hermetically sealed chamber, sequestered from the impending apocalypse.
 
 
...no?

N.... No. That's incorrect.
 
Sure, alcoholics, and people who only binge drink, drink because of the effect (getting drunk).
 
But many many people enjoy the taste of beer. That's literally the entire reason the Craft Beer market exists.
 
I personally dislike most beer, but the beer I do enjoy, I generally drink for the taste. When I was younger? Sure, I mostly drank to get drunk. But I don't enjoy getting drunk enough to do it very frequently.

i hear that's a great place for sun bathing

A store that sells warm clothes =) 
 
I once was in Toronto a week for work... I think it was in february and it was friggin cold. But the Valhalla in was great.
 
The last days I even shouted "PHA! Tourists!" at a group of asian tourists that were like from the picture book... all their cameras in front... while they were blocking the exit of the CN Towers tourists trap shop.

I don't really like that people here are talking about "common sense". "Common sense" is also the wrong way to put it I think, and in my opinion it sounds really cocky. It would be more correct to talk about general internet knowledge rather than common sense. It's also not something you can quantity in a binary manner. 
 
So people here saying "Windows defender and common sense" are actually saying "Run Windows defender and read up alot on internet security to compensate for the lacking protection". I don't think that advice is fair to give unless we're very sure about the user's level of experience and use cases.
 
Not a rant, but I'm seeing a lot of people putting it like that, and I don't think that's the right way to put it. It's not to hate on Windows Defender either despite both the performance and detection rates sucking a bit.

That joke is so old...
I think 2010 was the last really bad version or something... 
Anyway the new ones are really good (except that it removes every fucking torrent...)
 

So Sony just turned its tv and video tab into a bloated disgrace as a whole page of irremovable ads. Utterly sick of their practices in first having to pay for a largely inferior online community with mostly p2p hosting of multiplayer , a ps store that is a broken nightmare to navigate and now a full page of ads rammed down my throat just to access other services I pay for on a product that I own . Lifelong console gamer but im fucking done.

https://us.creative.com/p/sound-cards/sound-blasterx-ae-5

RGB cpu's? You won't even see it, it's under the heatsink...

As long as you have thermal paste on there, you should be fine.

Bedoel je de keuze tussen 1080x2560 en 1440x3440?
Curved of niet, dat ligt eraan wat je zelf beter vind.
 
Qua gaming zou ik met een 1060 persoonlijk voor een 1080x2560 monitor kiezen. Met een 1060 kom je op 1440x3440 net wat te kort. Je zou inderdaad met een lagere resolutie op een 1440x3440 monitor kunnen gamen, maar zelf houd ik er niet zo van als je resolutie niet 1:1 of 1:4 is. Dan kan het beeld namelijk wat onduidelijker worden.