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Oh no, no no no no and just in case once more no. You need at least 3M VHB tape to hold SSD anywhere near your PC, Loctite Super Glue Gel (Gel part is important so it doesn't cure completely hard) is a good substitute for VHB tape. To be very sure you should weld the SSD into the case to be sure it will never move again. Joking. The velcro is just fine. Unless something goes horribly wrong nothing in your PC will catch on fire, even if you were to fill it with paper scraps. It's an SSD so you can pretty much mount it with few all sticky rolls (you take a piece of tape and roll it on itself so the glue side stays outside) of scotch tape. If you want to be super sure just tape them on the floor of the case they cannot drop even if the adhesive in the tape gets too old and crumbles away.

Sennheiser uses 2.5mm TRRS wired differently from "normal" balanced 2.5mm TRRS wiring (tip=L+, ring1=R+, ring2=L-, sleeve=R-). IMO this is kind of stupid from Sennheiser since they don't provide any balanced cables at this price range of headphones. As in, all of the cables for HD 560s have TRS plugs in the other end with the L- and R- wires connected at the plug. What I would do is open the headphones and solder the L- and R- wires together basicly turning the 2.5mm connector into normal TRS connector and just get either ready made 2.5mm TRS male to 3.5mm TRS male cable (2.5mm->3.5mm AUX cable) or just normal 3.5mm AUX cable and 2.5mm->3.5mm TRS adapter.

He turned to the tech world's own Guitologist, dude can fix and made great videos about fixing old guitar amps and stuff but holy shit his political rants and takes are bad. What it comes to funding YouTube, I am really amazed one very simple way to up their ad revenue without making the ads as awful as they are today is simply starting to auction the ad-space. I wouldn't have a problem if there was a static banner under the video, maybe couple elsewhere as long as they aren't flashing and screaming and all that shit and someone like Alphabet could pull shit ton of money out of those by simply going "You want your ad under this video from this person who will pull couple million views per hour, outbid the advertiser who's ad is shown there now." Same with Google search, you want your site to the one of the 3 allocated ad-hits on certain search, outbid the ones shown there. Simple as that. Someone wants their ad under the Mr. Beast video, be ready to pay couple kidneys for it, there is some pool of random ads that get placed in the banners automatically, but viral videos and advertisers need to start competing who really wants their ad under it. No need for complex bullshit. Few static image banners per page and that's all there is. If mobile game company doesn't like that their ad doesn't make everyone with more than 2 working brain cells vomit, they can fuck off, I believe Alphabet can find some bank or whatever else pay $100,000 for their ad image and link being under Mr. Beast video. The random ad pool can be problematic to fill but pulling extreme moneys from viral videos and the huge content creators will be a goldmine.

It's nice to get new toys for yourself in change of always getting stuff for the company. - Facebook Quest 3 128GB - Club3D 5m active USB-C USB3.2 Gen.2 cable - 1m USB-C USB3.2 Gen.2 extension to get the port from behind the PC to the front - Club3D USB-C angled adapter kit - Otterbox 65W dual USB-C charger Now the kicker. Only Quest 3 128GB and official Link cable would have costed 699€ in total without shipping, but people don't like things and you get customer returns and when you know what you need you can get some savings, like all of that costed me "only" 630,40€ with shipping. And yes, now I was ready to sell my soul to the Facebook, mostly because Quest 3 is more AR-headset than VR and costs a lot less than the competition in there and most likely actually works unlike most of the competition.

They seem to use normal TRRS (4pin 3.5mm) on both ends so, getting TRRS AUX-cable works as replacement as long as you don't need volume or mute control (or the mic in the second cable). If you change the cables often you might have strained the connector on the headset. The best solution would be to take them apart and solder in new connector, knowing Logitech it's doable but in the quite difficult area. You can also try contact cleaner but most likely you need to give a little lift to the contacts (just get sewing needle or pin and bend the sharp end 90-degrees from <1mm, just so you have a tiny corner in it, and CAREFULLY feel around in the connector for the contacts and when you find one, get the tiny corner under it and give a a slight, just barely touching them, lift).

I feel horrified and annoyed to the hell. Not that I have just a smartphone that I keep on my ear to talk to someone but the god damn awful narcissistic pieces of shits who cannot hold their phones on their ears neither use headsets and talk with the speakers at 100% volume trying to compete with each other to hear and to be heard. No matter even if the thing on your chest has the HAL 9000 build into it, it cannot block your ears from the person next to you and it ends up into a shouting contest and all because people cannot use their devices so anyone else doesn't need to suffer from it.

USB4 is a bit "problematic" question. There's basicly 3 things that are going on: 1) The USB4 specification 2) Intels Thunderbolt3 certification and 3) Microsofts Windows 11 certification. 1) USB4 may or may not have full Thunderbolt3 support by the USB-IF specs, they're fine if the manufacturer just supports the minimums Intel requires for Thudnerbolt3 support which are 40Gbit/s data speed, at least 15W power supplying and implementation of Thunderbolt clock. 2) Full TB3 support requires Intels TB3 certification which has been kind of bumpy road for anyone who competes with Intel any way. But apparently they have opened for it so even AMD has managed to get CPU's and chipsets with TB3 certifications and so basicly USB4 supported. Again even Intel doesn't require 100% TB3 support from USB4 devices. 3) Microsoft Windows 11. For a laptop or PC to be sold with Windows 11 with USB4 ports by the Microsoft Windows 11 certification MUST 100% support BOTH USB3.2 features AND Thunderbolt3 features from the USB4 port. So, out of USB-IF which manages USB licensing and development, Intel which manages Thunderbolt licensing and development and Microsoft which just manages with what Windows 11 machines shall be sold, only Microsoft requires complete support for every possible feature there could be on USB4 port. This seems to have become a huge problem because USB3.2 and TB3 do support some very different features and there still haven't been anyone who would have managed to develop USB3.2/TB3 chip that would support everything they have to offer. The few USB4 things there is have both USB3.2 and TB3 chips behind that port to have the full feature support. But don't worry, if you see someone marketing their laptop with USB3.2 "40Gbit/s" ports, those are basicly USB4 ports but don't just satisfy Microsofts certificates for them and that is the reason why USB4 is so damn rare. Same thing with USB4 accessories, if your external storage supports 40Gbit/s transfer speed but is only "USB3.2 and TB3" that is only because it couldn't boast Windows 11 support with only what USB-IF and Intel require from it to really be USB4 accessory, in reality it is fully fledged USB4 external storage, it's USB4 port just probably doesn't support HDMI and DP connectivity and 100W power delivery output because that would be rather silly from external storage, especially portable one, but Microsoft does require those features to be supported COMPLETELY for it to have "Windows 11 support".

Give me ONE usecase where 2069€ M3-14" Macbook Pro Fur Hat edition does justify the 700€ price difference from M2-13" Macbook Air at 1349€ and it would be complete overkill to invest the 230€ more for double the shared memory. I will accept also the more balanced version with just 500€ price difference if we configure the MBA with the same 512GB SSD. I will predict you will reply with something that requires more physical ports to which I would reply a dongle is still 10-times cheaper than the MBP, that is one huge price premium. And do notice that in the part that you cut off because your rage about that someone doesn't agree with the stupidity of low-end Macs, that I did specify that in common browser/office work the price difference would be better used for ergonomics of the workplace than to get the MBP. And yes, I do use Mac, though as a tablet replacement and it's "just" early-2014 MBA fur hat (i5, 4GB, 126GB) that I got for fixing it, I haven't even upgraded it to the "best" MacOS it could run jsut because I believe I get more out of 32-bit software support than some extra glitter. It's hardly a computer by modern standards but for my use, I don't need 2000€ machine to run browser.

This something I have always said and will still be saying: The real stink in Apple is in the low-end. The high-end you can justify with special usecases and whatever and they are absolutely great machines, the low-end is just garbage sold as gold for fools. At the point where you can get by with the lowest specced Mac, unless you have some very specific thing where you absolutely need Mac, you can get by with just very basic laptop for less than half the price or bit over half the price and get some extra features. With 8GB of shared memory, yeah, you can browse the net and do some office work, but you don't really need over 2000€ (2069€ in Finland) laptop to do that. Basicly everything else in that machine is just bloating the price at that point and you could get more for less. With the money you save from Apple logo, you can totally brutalize the little aspects low-end Mac gives over the basic PC with accessories, you can get good ergonomic monitor, keyboard and mouse for the office work, probably even the motorized table and good chair for the over 1000€ you would otherwise use for things that don't really matter (for office work you don't need "cinema" screen, battery capacity isn't also that big thing, the 6 speakers are completely wasted, the 1080p webcam you can get for 40€, we can argue about small size, Apples "security" is basicly level of going to Swiss bank to store the keys for your 400€ 10th hand 40 years old completely beaten Toyota, the more powerful processor... People at that point hardly know what is a processor and they want snappy machine which can be done just by not buying a complete garbage like Acer). I will underline that there are cases where the over 2000€ MBP with 8GB of shared RAM and 512GB SSD could be the best (or more likely the only) option but those are very rare, like we are talking about people who either really, really, really need something Apple exclusive or you want a fashion statement.

I would believe BMW being totally into it, I wouldn't suspect a second BMW jumping in and moving the charging port to the undercarriage just to sell BMW M3 Ultra Racing Jack for extra $5,000 (not included in the price of the car, using any other jack to turn your car on it's side to access the charging port will void the warranty).

So, they compared 2m active Thunderbolt cable to 1 extra cheap passive USB2 cable, 1 a bit more expensive USB2 charging cable and 1 passive USB3 cable. Is this some ad for poor people to feel better for their spent money? Like come on! If you want to make cable ad at least bring the real deals to the table and not some puny 2m copper piece of junk that is hardly any better than the Amazon Basic piece of junk. If you want to impress someone and not look like some normal mortal pleb with a bit more expensive Apple cable, at least bring something like the Corning Thunderbolt3 cable to the comparison: 5-50m optical that you can pull through AC electromagnet without your data even noticing. And the price, $400 for 15m of data moving fibre-optic greatness.

I use VR quite a lot from productivity side but it's mostly when I am dealing with tight time constraints and I need to make sure the environment and objects are in right scale, look good in VR and everything gets put in their right places. But then I work with VR/AR/MR/generally XR prototyping so it's kind of no-brainer that building up the environments for VR is much easier within VR when you can see the end result instantly. If generally VR in other uses than gaming. Well, I can't speak about a lot but there's kind of a lot going on. Only from more public projects I can say the places where VR/AR has been already developed fora good while span from forests to gyms to shipyards to operating rooms to power plants. So, a kind of lot is going on but a lot of it isn't my thing to make public. Our in-house tools are kind of build to allow using Unity to the fullest from within VR but then, again, we do VR things, it would be kind of stupid if we couldn't set things just right from VR when basicly everything that matters is that everything looks and "feels" good for a VR user. I wouldn't change normal screens for VR headset for coding or making initial 3D models and textures but figuring out the lighting and all that, doing that with monitor for VR is dead to me, just too much jumping in and out to get something just right.

On one hand, f**k thieves. If my phone was stolen, I would love to have a control over it no matter what the thief decided to do with it, sell it to some third party and still "Hello, this phone is mine, send it here or I will keep spying you with it. Lovely house, BTW." I also think it is only natural that companies start to default on locking phones before they have been sold and the sale have been registered to their systems. Again, f**k thieves. If it comes haunting the unsuspecting people who just want to get stuff cheap, well, that is going to be a very good lesson to be careful where you shop. But on the other hand companies overstepping their boundaries for fat profits is just as bad as stealing. If it is just phone manufacturers crying over lost profits then that is clearly overstepping their role unless they have made it crystal clear that you should buy your device locally because reasons. Steam for one has made it clear that the regional pricing isn't for companies to profit from buying games from cheaper areas and selling them elsewhere and have taken steps towards blocking this and I am completely fine about it because Valve did warn about it for years. So, if there's some more legit reason than just the old corporate greed and it came to that Mexican authorities or whatever didn't want to help track down the problem, I am completely fine phone manufacturers doing this. They could be more clear like instead of something BS just directly put "This device was stolen, return it to some store and we give you discount for a new one. Sorry for the trouble." I can understand this because I wouldn't give a single cent if my phone was stolen and someone bought it and me nuking it from the orbit would destroy their last photos of their granny that they took with my phone, it would be sad but maybe next time, don't buy stolen s**t. Legit safety reasons are also one that I can understand, like using those phones there could cause actual danger if the user didn't completely know what they were doing like at some point Samsung phones did support QC charging but some of their chargers didn't but their fast charging protocol was still somewhat same as QC and I managed to partially fry the USB-C port from my HTC U11 with samsung charger. But again being more clear about it would be much better (and when it comes to the people not getting their spend moneys back, again, that's the price of the lesson, it is not the company's fault that people bought phones from somewhere else and they are becoming dangerous, it would be actually be quite considerate to give the 30% discount). But if it's just corporate greed, then f**k them.

I wouldn't say it's all about the consoles, it's more about the tech in general. DX12 is a huge leap technically, it requires new hardware which requirement we really haven't seen since DX9 was released but back then no one cared that much because it was norm that new features required new hardware. More or less in history of gaming we have couple decades of being brought up in cotton pad and now with DX12 entering the native state it's hard landing back to the reality that your almost decade old hardware is just too old. DirectStorage won't really change a thing unless there would be huge rearrangement of Windows and all kinds of policy changes on how PC OS's work or just simple "throw money at the problem" solution of getting dedicated game storage media as fast or faster than your OS/app media. Unlike console OS which can "hibernate" most of it's processes when game is running, Windows cannot or at least it hasn't been designed to do so, so all the time it is accessing the storage same as any program running in the background is accessing the storage and eating that bandwidth and there isn't a magic trick to make that happen without huge changes or throwing money at the problem. But that is mainly just loading times unless the game streams assets or otherwise preloads things in the background and even then it's pretty much nothing unless you're still running HDD's, but if you haven't already, dedicate NVMe drive for games and you have done already more than DirectStorage alone can do.

Magnets. Those f***ing miraculous magnets.

Oh boy! Microsoft reviving Windows Black Editions, what a time to be alive.

Even the more "impressive" looking triple fan Gigabyte is most likely GTX 470 SOC, there isn't many Nvidia cards that has that setup of DVI-ports (two side-by-side) with that kind of coolers. Later cards have DVI-ports on top of each other and earlier cards have NVidia Blowers™ mostly or two fans at most.

That was the exact reason why YT Red failed so hard, they took high-profile YT channels, paid them to make more professional content and then locked it behind YT Premium. The thing that failed was that Red was pretty much the only reason back then to get YT Premium and then the channels who were in it low-key said the videos they made would be coming to normal YT at some point (which only probably 1 did). ---- Personally if it comes to that I either need to start watching the conveniently 14 seconds long ads (because over 15s ads would get the 5s skip button) and multiple of them back-to-back or pay Alphabet, I would just either get yet another HDD and start ripping YT videos to it and watch them there or just stop watching completely. And all that just because I don't think YouTube as it has been and it still is deserves my financial input. They have Alphabet with their datahoarding habits behind them to fund the whole thing and get the data from it, if they want to do shitty ass job, fund it with that. I could rethink my stance if: 1) YouTube started to handle every creator as equal or made it absolutely clear that big and trending creators have different set of rules and benefits. - It is not "fine" that smaller creators get their videos deleted in less than couple minutes because automated systems while Logan Paul needed to delete his video after the whole internet screamed at him over dead body and suicide jokes while YouTube did shit nothing. 2) Fix the copyright system so that either the claims are handled before monetization is cut or the AdSense money is actually hold and then given to the one who wins the claim. - It's pure bullshit that YT doesn't know how much money demonetized video wouldn't make especially when they still show ads with it. At the point when the CR claim is done YT, especially if it's challenged, should start to keep extra care to store viewing data and all that because that is money. 3) Stop burning money on stupid shit and then cry over why they don't have money. - The VR YouTube, 16K resolution support and what not are cool technical things that should be developed on their time. But if at the same moment quite significant part of the service is filled with 1080p still images because separating video and audio compression is seemingly impossible, there's probably some "minor" priority problems when it comes to spending development funds. This is a bit older example since YT has defaulted to use Opus (251) with any video resolution from 240p up with only 144p getting Opus (250), there's still some bitrate differences between resolutions but not that bad as they were some years ago when putting that 1080p image really boosted the audio quality. 4) Show that they are willing to take steps to make ad funded YT better experience. - If ad is over 5s long, it should have the skip button, not the 15s bullshit that has driven every ad to be 14 seconds so none of them can be skipped. The ads should be way better curated, seeing thrice the same ad on single video shouldn't be a thing, even less seeing them back-to-back and of course they are 14 seconds and unskipable. - And yes, $1.76 trillion (that's $1,760,000,000,000) valued corporation should make the first step, not me with magnitudes less on my bank account. If they cannot afford the change, how the fuck they think I can? And while this is me going "me me me" the underlying reasoning for me is that I am not taking the first step fixing my bad habits for me to do that I need the far more capable and resourceful party to show that they are willing to fix theirs. I do wrong against them but I am just valuing my experience higher than their financial success, they can choose to value them differently and try to make me change my valuation but that's on them. For me to pay for YouTube: 1) Stop tracking me

Just YOLO it with the pre-built HP, just be careful and systematic and think a bit before doing. Also take pictures so you can reference later. If you're going to be IT technician your job most likely will be opening a lot of things up that you have close to zero idea how they come apart before you start. And a lot of them will be harder, scarier and expensive than a pre-built HP. And don't worry too much about the couple extra screws you're left with afterwards. If nothing rattles too badly and everything works, they clearly weren't anything important.

Mostly just common sense. Even Google doesn't really want to hold personal information that hard especially when there is the chance that if it leaks out and it's taken to EU court that could be up to 10M€ or 2% of annual global turnover (which one is higher) for violation or up to 20M€ or 4% of annual global turnover for severe violation, just not worth it to risk it. And if you get fined and don't pay the fines, you will get more fines and most likely you can say bye bye for any foothold on European markets until you pay your fines. But in the US I don't know is even the California able and willing to really strong arm companies the way EU has shown to be willing to.

Depends how the law is written. EU's GDPR is very similar, as in I as a EU citizen can demand even US companies to delete their data about me since the GDPR isn't written from the perspective where the data or company is but where the person, about who the data is, resides. As in, while Facebook tried to shovel their data from Ireland to US in hopes to run from GDPR and the fear of needing to give people access to their data with hopes that if the data is in US it would fall under US jurisdiction and EU couldn't set sanctions on Facebook for not giving GDPR accesses to EU citizens. However the GDPR isn't about where the data is but where the people are, Facebook just wasted bandwidth since if they wouldn't have given that GDPR access, EU could have fined and sanctioned them. Same here if they were wise, they wrote the law the way that company must delete the data about Californian demanding it and not "Californian company must delete data in California if Californian demands it", it could be the same as GDPR and at least bigger companies won't try to fight it in fears of getting hefty fines.

You most likely can remove the lenses by yourself but in reality it is so far in the area of "just don't" that it is better not to market such a feature, actually even deny such a feature. One of the mods to do with original Vive and Vive Pro is to change in the lenses from Samsung Gear VR, with small 3D printable adapters it's a 5 minute job and you just pop the old lenses out and new lenses in. The "DO NOT DO" part is that you really need a dust free environment with hopefully possibility to do it in overpressured clean space because one spec of dust between the screen and the lens will be a huge problem. Not only will the dust spec float there and annoy the living hell out of you but the screen is FRAGILE (if you take the Vive screen out and drop it from half centimeter height to hard surface, it will crack), I would believe it's some kind of resin screen instead of glass since you can also scratch it with basicly anything (even with q-tips). And kind of knowing Apple customer base, giving them separate lenses to attach into a device that is probably even more vulnerable to a dust spec between the screen and the lens (less space -> more distorted and magnified lens -> even more annoying spec of dust), they probably rather do the change themselves than get the wave of very angry people demanding repairs because they fucked up something.

If it would be that profitable and easy, we would burn garbage to heat TEGs instead of boiling water and using steam to run turbines (even the most modern power plants basicly are using steam to run turbines that generate electricity, yes, even the nuclear power plants use the heat of the fission reaction to boil water though very much simplified).

The inflation in itself isn't the problem, the interest rates are the main thing. Pretty much every business running mainly on loan money is currently shitting themselves because interests on loans are rising, suddenly the $10M loan for a game project isn't free budget for years with 0.something% interest but suddenly there's 5% interest rate even on good loans and banks are really counting them every 6 months. Before you could kind of surf on funding for free as long as you could show that you have a product that will turn into profit in the future and you can give at least something back to the investors, now it's whole new season of Shark Tank and free money is no more on the table. While this is bigger hit for startups and small companies without almost any own capital, it's also disaster for bigger firms that have played with investor funding keeping the lights on. Even the recent announcement of Unreal going per-seat licensing for industry use is telling that the Fortnite money isn't covering everything and fixing that with couple "this is a cool thing and it will bring you a shitload of money in the future"-presentations aren't going to cut it.

With 2.5m cap you are needing the center support unless you're going to use some really thick and sturdy table material (like +5cm solid) or steel reinforcements. 2m starts to be the point where you really need to start thinking about the weight and how much the table can hold.