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I have said it every time this melting piece of firehazard has been on topic, I will continue to say it every time this piece of firehazard is on topic.
 
This is Molex Mini-Fit (actual modern Molex version, you can probably notice the little differences to "modern" ATX standard connector):

 
It was designed in the 60's, not 2060's, 1960's, it is well over 60 years old connector designed for wire-to-board connections back then with plenty of headroom because over-engineering a board connector isn't that hard.
 
Why the f**k we are using 60 years old design that is by the manufacturers standards right at the upper limits of its design with 2000€ GPUs in the lords year 2023?
Because Chinese are so cheap they cannot buy new connector molds to make a lot newer connector designs that have been developed in the 60 years after Molex Mini-Fit?
Because actually changing to newer connector would require end-users to renew pretty much everything as they need to do anyway because pin changes and all that?
 
And yes, there's a LOT more wire-to-board connector designs than this piece of antique firehazard.

I am still kind of disappointed why we steered off from the external cooling solutions. I give that they weren't "elegant" solutions and there was certain problems with them and back then liquid cooling itself was exotic already. But considering todays power requirements and cooling needs, I would say stuff like Zalman Reserator and Alphacool Eiswand could actually make a comeback, especially if the cooling requirements keep getting crazier and people notice the 4-slot GPU is just idiotic and you could just as well use one PCIe IO cutout to get tubes out and so remove the space restrictions from the cooler (thou that would need a company to use actually good quick connectors and not the cheapest designs they can find, as it seems to be the PC company goal these days when it comes to connectors).

Firstly, known "bug" (more like they just don't care since most of their customers don't complain enough) in Shopify, it collects the EU taxes even when it shouldn't do it in the first place with orders totaling higher than 150€. Backpack is still over 150€ so the VAT is collected by the customs and not by the seller.

Secondly, "bug" in the Wizmo tracking. Generally the IOSS (paid VAT) info is logged with the tracking number, but since with LTTStore purchases, at least sometimes, the tracking number changes in the middle of the delivery because Wizmo uses their own tracking number system that isn't the same as the global standard tracking number system so IOSS can be lost in the middle of that change because everyone else does use standard system. As in, Wizmo doesn't use standard "CA948752475NL" ("[origin country code]tracking number[destination country code]") tracking number system which DHL or whoever does the shipping from Wizmo center to the customer do use.
 
Not really fault of the LTTStore but their partners. LTTStore probably has a ton of these cases in line waiting for processing so if you already sent them the receipt for paying the customs again, just wait, they will process and refund you when they get so far down the line.

Why would you? Do you pay more depending on what devices you have? If there isn't some magical kingdom where energy companies go around and snoop what devices customers have, no, your rate will remain the same, you will pay the same for your energy. If your consumption changes then your monthly bill will change but your rate for the energy will be the same no matter even if you bought a supercomputer or just extremely wasteful space heater.

Magnets. Those f***ing miraculous magnets.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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). 😄

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). 😄

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). 😄

Magnets. Those f***ing miraculous magnets.

Magnets. Those f***ing miraculous magnets.

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

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).
 
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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.

Most of the time when you use stubby, you're already so tight place that it would be better to get "Skewdriver", basicly offset adapter that gives you bit over 90-degree corner to your screwdriver/power drill with 1/4" heads.
 
I have old passes down set but it seems that SpecTools are still a company so https://spectools.com/product/skewdriver-high-capacity-model-p9801hc/ there you go. Have been saving me quite many times when even stubby drives are way too huge or I just couldn't get enough power to the stubby thing.

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.