Oshino Shinobu

That's my experience with it. It's all down to experience with toolsets and certifications, no one seems to care about your education, unless it's really recent. I enjoy it, plus it's industry agnostic, I can work in any industry as basically every company has IT requirements and IT security is a growing part of that. It's constantly changing, new attack methods are constantly popping up. Currently looking into methods and policy changes to deal with AI/Deep fake voice calls to service desks. It's a method on the rise, getting service desk to just reset someone's password and MFA method, even if they're a known person by faking their voice.

Have you studied for it? Even with really good knowledge, there's a load of stuff in the A+ that is easy to get wrong as you never really need to know it. Best to take some practice tests online to see where you may fall short. Can't say for North America. I'm a Cyber Security Engineer and I don't have a degree, never even been asked about my education outside of my very first position. May be different in NA, but once you've started working in the industry, it all becomes experience and certifications, not a degree that will most likely already be outdated by the time you complete it. Yeah, data entry is much more likely to be taken by AI or outsourced. The more technical stuff will just evolve with new/different roles that AI creates

1. Really depends what part of IT you're going into. From my experience CompTIA A+ isn't taken very seriously. There's a lot of irrelevant stuff covered and little practical usage for it. If you have an employer that will pay for it, worth doing as many as you can, but not really worth the cost for A+. Microsoft's Role based certs are generally a good start and are widely respected. CCNA is widely respected as well. 2. Can't say for North America specifically. Most people start out on the service/help desk and end up specifiying as they go. I started on the service desk and now work in IT Security. If you're really interested in the hardware side, you may want to try going into a field engineer position, but they're not super common. As things move more and more to the cloud, the bar to entry is going up as you're looking at working in Microsoft, Google and Amazon datacentres as an end goal. 3. Unlikely. The roles are changing, to managing systems that are AI based, but the roles are still very much required. In IT Security, we're in the process of deploying some AI powered systems to defend against AI based attacks. AI's fixing some things, but also creates new things to manage within the same roles. You may be a bit dissapointed though, as honestly most IT jobs don't really involve dealing with servers and networking equipment much. Most servers you'll work with in support/admin roles will be virtualised and that is going for networking stuff as well now.

That measures input latency, not response times. I imagine OP actually wants to measure input latency, but still, they are different things.

Pull it fron the bottom 1:11

The N300 will have some NAS specific features, where it can handle running alongside other drive for long periods, but from a heat and vibration perspective. But for desktop use, you're really not going to see much difference. Both have 512/256MB cache, depending on the capacity of the drive. I'd say go for the N300 for the 1 year longer warranty (3 years vs 2 years) if they're similar in price.

Top one under the cover is 4.0, bottom one is 3.0. It's in the manual https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_z590m-gaming-x_e.pdf?v=ef801a2350383174fc10d778f0ee7da4

It wasn't that long ago when under screen finger print scanners were a sticking point for development, but now they're everywhere. Under/behind screen cameras will come, or some other innovation.

CPU prices rarely go up. Typically they'll go down over time and motherboard prices start going up when a platform is EoL.

When I moved house, I just removed the GPU and CPU cooler and moved it that way. Doesn't take much effort and better than trying to use something to pack it inside the case

KB5029351 is a CU preview, so the latest Windows Creation Tool ISO/download shouldn't include it as it's not in GA yet. Also, Windows Creation Tools will download the latest ISO version available rather than a specific version, so using an old version wouldn't do anything. Just don't install it. Preview updates shouldn't install automatically. If it does, just uninstall the update after.

Refurbished ones almost certainly will be decommed ones. Will just be a seller that gets them in bulk from business and then resells them.

If you're using a Microsoft account, you must use a password (or some Windows Hello option, like a PIN or fingerprint). You'd need to use a local account, which you can remove the password for. Last two sections of this MS article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/can-i-sign-in-to-windows-without-a-password-a72b85ae-75ae-4cfa-5c7d-186a61fcce92

1. Technically, yes. However, it's in a matter oif less than a milisecond for a router to process a packet on a home network. It's not going to make any noticable difference. 2. As @Levent said, you need the router plugged in after the modem and before any devices on your local network in order to provide internet access for multiple clients through NAT. Without it, only a single device would be able to connect to the internet at once and it would be an awful idea as your public IP would go straight to your computer with no firewall other than the OS's built in one between you and the internet.

Download Autoruns from Sysinternals (Microsoft) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns Unzip it and run it, then click on the logon tab and delete any entries with File not found errors. For example, I have a few in my startup that are the same as yours: In Autoruns: Delete it and it's fone. Ignore that blank program, that's something else. EDIT: You can also just untick them in Autoruns. That blank program for me is TeamsMachineInstaller. You can just untick them one at a time and see what it removes from the StartUp menu With it: Without:

It'll definitely be harder for them. Gaskets are ultimately more difficult to manufacture with consistent water ingress resistence, especially at small sizes when compared to just gluing the thing together. I imagine one of the most difficult bits will be making it easy enough to maintain the IP rating when a user replaces the battery. They may end up not rating them so they can't be held liable if a gasket or something fails after a user replaces their battery. That said, it's also not a new thing to have waterproofing at small sizes while still being servicable. Phone makers have been stagnating in terms of design and innovation for a while, basically just slapping on more camera for the past few years. Hopefully this may help manufacturers start innovating again, with legitimate reasons for getting a flagship model or something.

2280 is just the dimensions. 22mm wide and 80mm long. the enclosure doesn't support that drive as it uses the NVMe protocol but the enclosure only supports SATA.

Would be a good idea to detail the difference between breakout and reverse breakout SAS to SATA cables so people don't try to replicate adding an HBA and get confused why it's not working.

Definitely not common. Came across them in some Toshiba laptops. May be a matter of some OEM using the same PCB for SATA and NVMe drives to save some money

Not necassarily. Some NVMe drive come with M+B keying, making it even more confusing when it fits into a SATA enclosure but doesn't work. Came across one at work that confused us for a while while trying to remove bitlocker. EDIT: In this case, yes you can't plug it in, but not all are only M key

No, the enclosure only supports SATA drives. You need one that supports NVMe.

He uses ChoEazyCopy. It's basically just a GUI for the built in RoboCopy in Windows. Main reason they use it (apart from the funny name) is that Windows file transfers using the GUI are inexplicably still only single threaded, so can't saturate high bandwidth connections. https://github.com/Cinchoo/ChoEazyCopy EDIT: Assuming this is for file transfers, I didn't watch the video closely. Good for getting an idea of what actual transfer speeds will be, rather than theoretical bandwidth numbers.

Yeah the pry tools are useful, even for non-tech things. I used one of the little triangle spudgers to tuck in some weather stripping on my car recently.

I have the Pro Tech toolkit, have had it for like 6-7 years, well worth the money, I use it all the time. If you're just looking for the screwdriver and bits kit, they're really good quality, I've considered buying a smaller kit to keep in my car or something