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Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

ASUS do have a UK store, but the article doesn't mention whether it was bought directly from there.
 
The fact that they settled doesn't set a *legal* precedent, but it does set a precedent - that they are likely to settle similar cases.
 
Unless they have thousands of people all trying to get refunds, I imagine ASUS will probably just do the same thing they did for this case.

Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

ASUS do have a UK store, but the article doesn't mention whether it was bought directly from there.
 
The fact that they settled doesn't set a *legal* precedent, but it does set a precedent - that they are likely to settle similar cases.
 
Unless they have thousands of people all trying to get refunds, I imagine ASUS will probably just do the same thing they did for this case.

Zenfone 9, I remember when the bootloader unlocker was still available on their site when I bought it. Sucks their current model is no different to any other phone out there.

That's a good point. With a big IANAL there are some factors that leave questions open. This is based on my limited understanding of UK law.
 
Do Asus sell directly? Generally a consumer contract is between a buyer and seller. If a product does not perform as claimed, you go back to the seller, which is not necessarily the manufacturer.
 
The loser of a case will pay the winners reasonable costs. So if Asus needed a lawyer, and they were confident of winning, they could claim the cost back. This might not cover all costs though, I'm not sure how it would work on indirect costs or things that are harder to quantify. So Asus settling could be for one or more of many possible reasons: 1, they were not confident of winning, 2, presumably the entity was Asus UK, and they might not be well set up to fight such a case and just want it to go away as quickly as possible. 3, they may have thought the publicity resulting from this would be worse than settling.
 
The article in OP said it sets a precedent. It doesn't, at least not in a legal sense of the term. I think a ruling from a higher court would be required. The Small Claims Court is probably the lowest tier, meant to be accessible and low cost for "small" disputes.

Definitely nice to see. Hopefully they will open the boot loader on those phones at somepoint.

Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

It's interesting that we're finally getting some legal precedent set on this. Along with some of the other stuff that has been happening in the space, I bet more companies will think twice about just slapping AI/LLM chatbots all over their sites.

It's interesting that we're finally getting some legal precedent set on this. Along with some of the other stuff that has been happening in the space, I bet more companies will think twice about just slapping AI/LLM chatbots all over their sites.

It's interesting that we're finally getting some legal precedent set on this. Along with some of the other stuff that has been happening in the space, I bet more companies will think twice about just slapping AI/LLM chatbots all over their sites.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if they tried to cross-examine a chatbot, though?

Summary
Air Canada has been ordered to pay compensation to a grieving grandchild who claimed they were misled into purchasing full-price flight tickets by an ill-informed chatbot.
 
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My thoughts
It's a pretty wild argument to suggest that the chatbot hosted on your website is a separate legal entity. I think my only issue is that this was only in B.C. small claims court, so we may need a bigger legal case to establish an actual legal precedent.
 
Sources
 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416

Having just rewatched the coverage of the Billet Labs cooler in this context honestly I think LTT isn't that bad here. Obviously if they were supposed to return the block and auctioned it off instead that's pretty awful, but in terms of what they said about the product I think it was a fair take. Testing with the 3090TI would have been better, but probably won't actually affect the purchasing decision of anyone who would buy that thing.

Data issues aside; @LinusTech Regarding the Billet Labs situation, could you please publicly state and justify the monetary compensation paid out to Billet Labs for the “loss” of their prototype? What steps are you taking to prevent such issues in the future?

Calling people delusional is just going to reinforce their belief that this is a hit piece and not something borne out of genuine concern for the community.
 
That said, there's definitely a lot of takes in here where people are acting personally attacked and that's a little out of touch.
 
The video is good natured. The message isn't an attack, it's a concern. And after trust me bro, Steve said point blank he was no longer treating ltt as an individual but the corporation that it is.
 
Corporations don't care about your feelings. Corporations aren't people. Corporations don't get handled with kid gloves.
 
They get publicly discussed, and allowed to make their own decision on how to respond to that discussion.

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.

Lmfao with these kind of old platforms overclocking is an absolute must, esp since these old platforms dont have good ipc or high boost clocks or dynamic ocing, or any good auto oc tech
 
You can expect around a 20-40% performance gain with these older cpus that dont have high boost clocks
 
if you dont wanna overclock go with newer platforms like ryzen or 10/11th gen cause ocing only gives marginal gains so no need to oc

Your computer as you built it has no WiFi capability. Wifi isn't something you get automatically with a desktop PC like it is with laptops, you either buy a motherboard with it built in or you buy a standalone adapter. 

sigh, i know i did something wrong
cpu: ryzen 7 3700x
cpu cooler: kraken x63 cooler
motherboard: asrock B550 steel legend
16gb ddr4 3600mhz ram 
1t ssd sabrent rocket q
gpu: gtx 1660 super
case: lian li O11 mini
power supply: silverstone 500w 80+ gold 
monitor: 144hz philips computer monitor
fans: 6 corsair LLseries, LL120 rgb
 

You'll need to purchase a PCIe or USB wifi adapter before you can connect to wifi. Your motherboard does not have built in wifi.

Summary
Remember the post awhile back that Valve was developing some sort of handheld console. Well it turns out that the SteamPal is true. Valve has introduced their new piece of hardware called the Steam Deck. It is a handheld device similar to the GPD devices and of course the Nintendo Switch. The console will start at $399 with 64GB eMMC storage and also a carrying case. Following versions are: 
$529: 256GB NVMe SSD, carrying case and an exclusive Steam Community Profile bundle $699: 512 NVMe SSD, premium anti-glare etched glass, exclusive carrying case, exclusive steam community profile bundle and exclusive virtual keyboard theme  Reservations are available in select regions such as: EU, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. More info on other regions will come later. 
 
Specs: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech
 
Quote from Valve
Quote from PC Gamer
My thoughts
Didn't expect it to be announced so soon, especially with the current global shortage of chips and what not. Though with that said, I do wonder if they'll be able to deliver enough of the hardware since their Valve Index kind of flopped on that regard when they started selling it.  
 
Sources
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-handheld-announced/