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GeorgeKellow

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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Kilrah in 14900K hitting 100c   
    Not much to say without knowing anything about the rest of the system, especially the cooler.
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Virixiss in Thoughts on Asurion   
    Please do not.

    I worked for Asurion both directly as a mobile repair technician doing warranty work, and as a repair tech for UBreakIFix, which I worked for during the Asurion buyout. Asurion calls their service warranty. It's not, it's very bad insurance. Repairs and replacements require deductibles, their service is full of weasel clauses to avoid paying out to their customers, and horrendous business practices are pushed on employees in order to sell the service to customers who do not want it. Some of the examples that steam my buns thinking back on the experience:
    Scheduling customer appointments when they can clearly see that a needed part is not in inventory, then throwing techs under the bus when a customer is kicked back to them. HEAVILY pushing their new "Home Plus" plan, to the point where employees had negative reflections on their reviews if they were unable to sell plans. We were actually encouraged to sell the plan without the customer's knowledge just to keep Asurion happy with the sign-up rates, doing shit like selling them a phone case, but actually signing them up for Home Plus instead, since the cost was the same to the customer at point-of-sale. Send customers to our stores with devices that were going to be automatically rejected by Asurion, despite the customers telling Asurion that some kind of out-of-scope repair was needed. (Broken back glass on iPhones was a common reason to turn customers away, as an example.) They sell their plans with the idea that almost everything electronic in your home is covered, but have a nasty reputation for rejecting almost everything that you can claim. Laptop need a replacement battery? That's normal wear-and-tear and is not covered. Smart thermostat fried due to a power surge? Sorry, that's a problem for your electric company to fix, and not covered under the plan. I have watched 2 Asurion reps actually argue with each other about how their Home Plus service actually works, and almost every rep from their call center has a different idea of how the service works, which means your device may or may not be covered depending on who picks up the phone that day. After quitting the company, I decided to open a small repair shop on my own with my personal tools and knowledge, only to get called by Asurion lawyers under an apparent non-compete clause that I could not find evidence for. But I couldn't afford a legal fight, so my business failed just after starting. (I include this to be transparent with you that I am not completely unbiased, but I did leave the company before deciding to try to start the business.) Basically, Asurion purchased uBreakiFix as a front for their repair services. Instead of expanding their repair capabilities, they swiveled HARD into pushing for their warranty service and began firing employees and closing stores downsizing when sign-up quotas were not met. Their entire business model is to sell an "extended warranty" to as many people as possible, then weasel out of their responsibilities as often as possible to keep their pockets full.

    This is not a company that LMG should associate with, in my opinion.
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Pratham244200 in Backpack delivery to EU   
    They should open a proxy store somewhere in eu, this would reduce costs and shipping, there stuff is great but is so expensive in the eu it is not worth buying. I am not paying over 400euros for backpack. Plus opening even a warehouse in eu would make them able to access sooo many new customers....
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to LWM723 in LTT Waterbottle has Rattle   
    Cut it open with a hacksaw, shake out debris, no more rattle.
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to LIGISTX in How to find quality ethernet cords?   
    I buy my Ethernet cables from monoprice.com, but I typically buy a 1000 foot spool and make my own. 
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from Origami Cactus in graphics card running at 90% for no reason   
    Knew it was Malware. 
     
    New install of windows for you, sir 
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to venomtail in graphics card running at 90% for no reason   
    Pretty sure there's so many trojans they started fighting amongst each other over who's gonna get the VRAM
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from Origami Cactus in graphics card running at 90% for no reason   
    You don't do any cyrpto mining do you? 
     
    I would run a virus scan to check for any gremlins.....  
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from JKRsega in graphics card running at 90% for no reason   
    You don't do any cyrpto mining do you? 
     
    I would run a virus scan to check for any gremlins.....  
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Kilrah in Burning a BluRay disk?   
    What error?
    What are you burning? An image, files, video?
    With what program are you burning it?
     
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from DJ46 in Desk PC build with pen display   
    This is against CoC
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from maartendc in Saying Goodbye to our Home   
    Don't watch it then? Simple 
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to VirusDumb in I’m tired of winning (and it's awesome)   
    This is the reason why I haven't built my pc yet (and also I don't have the money to do so)
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Pandur in PC keeps disconnecting from wifi   
    Make sure you have the latest Intel wifi driver installed, which is version 22.130.0.5 today.
     
    Some older versions have had issues with dropping the link.
     
    If you have a low-ish signal strength it is also not unheard of that the link will drop with high traffic. This is normal behaviour for wifi. So if the driver update does not fix this, you might have to look at how good your signal really is.
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Skiiwee29 in Shroud Has LTTSTORE WATER BOTTLE!!!   
    <-- thread locked -->
     
    Welcome to the LTT forums. This type of content is better as a status update rather than a new thread. 
    https://linustechtips.com/status/new/
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from cudlik in Broken connector on GPU?   
    Totally normal. It fooled me too when I first got my gpu many many moons ago. 
     
    George
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Marhier in GPU price drop coming soon?   
    Depends if you can afford it or not.
    1) Is all the money you have for the PC?
    2) If you made a saving on the card, would it go to improve something else in the PC, or would it just be a saving?
    3) How long have you been waiting?
    4) How long are you willing to wait?

    I've seen about a thousand videos, from all tech YouTubers, stating the prices are going to come down, which they have, but they're still not at MSRP, and likely not to fall to that level for a while, as there's potential for more drop in supply.

    It's like waiting to upgrade you PC... Should I wait for the next gen.... That comes out, but then should I wait for the next gen... I vicious cycle.
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from Kid.Lazer in 750GB HDD clone to 480GB SSD?   
    Use Macrium reflect to clone the drive 
     
    I always clone a bigger HDD to a smaller SSD works just fine https://forum.macrium.com/21582/Cloning-to-a-smaller-SSD
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Hairless Monkey Boy in Selling a house in Crypto   
    Or a brilliant idea.
    Sell an NFT of your house to some idiot who thinks they are buying the house. Pay off your mortgage.
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from porina in Ryzen 7 5800x Intel Equivalent   
    I have tried to fix this problem. I have a thread about it here if you want to have a look... 
     
     
    I do think its a change back to intel for a while 🙂
     
     
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Levent in Installed SSL Cert. not showing up in IIS   
    You didnt set bindings for https, did you?
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from IAmNik in PC Crashes   
    I will try this when I'm home to see if this fixes it for me 🙂 
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    GeorgeKellow reacted to Velcade in Thoughts on Extra.App?   
    This seems predatory... 
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from Cr33ps in A WiFi question   
    A powerline adapter essentially turns your house's internal wiring into a ethernet cable (This is a very very very rough explanation) 
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    GeorgeKellow got a reaction from Pixelfie in Fortnite 3060 low fps   
    What CPU did they have? What CPU did they have? 
     
    How much RAM did they have? How much RAM do you have?
     
    What speed of RAM do they have? What speed of RAM do you have? 
     
    Are you on the latest drivers? 
     
    Have they overclocked their CPU/GPU?
     
    Have you got your card actually plugged into a x16 slot on your motherboard? 
     
    A lot of unknowns here 
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