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Robots for a "good time" purpose about to be ruined with thought and reasoning. 

There are a few videos I've remembered and thought were fever dreams as well. Just gotta fight through the ruined search algorithms and SEI's 

Awesome, hard to find high capacity drives at this price point that aren't """refurbished""" AKA pulled from some dude's server, dropped a few times, then passed off as new.

Hi all,
 
Found this sweet deal on WD Red Pro NAS 18TB HDDs for $275 each on WDs website. Minimum purchase of 2 for the discount to take effect however. I bought 2 of them myself. They regularly go on sale for about $350 for a frame of reference.
 
Promo ends March 17th.
 
Link to deal: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

Hi all,
 
Found this sweet deal on WD Red Pro NAS 18TB HDDs for $275 each on WDs website. Minimum purchase of 2 for the discount to take effect however. I bought 2 of them myself. They regularly go on sale for about $350 for a frame of reference.
 
Promo ends March 17th.
 
Link to deal: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

Hi all,
 
Found this sweet deal on WD Red Pro NAS 18TB HDDs for $275 each on WDs website. Minimum purchase of 2 for the discount to take effect however. I bought 2 of them myself. They regularly go on sale for about $350 for a frame of reference.
 
Promo ends March 17th.
 
Link to deal: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

Hi all,
 
Found this sweet deal on WD Red Pro NAS 18TB HDDs for $275 each on WDs website. Minimum purchase of 2 for the discount to take effect however. I bought 2 of them myself. They regularly go on sale for about $350 for a frame of reference.
 
Promo ends March 17th.
 
Link to deal: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

Hi all,
 
Found this sweet deal on WD Red Pro NAS 18TB HDDs for $275 each on WDs website. Minimum purchase of 2 for the discount to take effect however. I bought 2 of them myself. They regularly go on sale for about $350 for a frame of reference.
 
Promo ends March 17th.
 
Link to deal: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-pro-sata-hdd?sku=WD181KFGX

I purchased one of these (the 240 in black) the second they launched on Amazon. Been running it the past couple of days and its incredible. Absolutely silent while in stock configuration and keeps my 7800X3d cool. Plus, happy to support a company like Arctic who actually give a shit about their customers and the quality of their products.

I purchased one of these (the 240 in black) the second they launched on Amazon. Been running it the past couple of days and its incredible. Absolutely silent while in stock configuration and keeps my 7800X3d cool. Plus, happy to support a company like Arctic who actually give a shit about their customers and the quality of their products.

I have an Asus Zephyrus M16, and I love it. However, it is large, and it is heavy. However, it is sleek looking and wouldn't look out of place in a lecture hall. If the cons are incompatible with your expectations for a laptop that you will be lugging around with you on campus, I would look into the Asus G14 series laptops. They strike a nice balance of size and performance. Note, there are new ones coming to market soon, with upgraded displays (might want to wait and look into those). 

You just told me why I need to buy one, I just remembered I have a ton of data at home I need to xfer to my server in another city and I dont have a T1 at home lol.
 
Dammit, ordered LOLOL.

The 2TB is $70... Great deals for sure. Would be great for an external NVME enclosure.

except they showed that (sometimes) they could get 8 (or more)

And sometimes even 2-3 wasn't working.
 
At no point did they say the keyboard had N Key rollover.  What they said was accurate, and you're salty about..  IDK what, honestly.

256-bit bus with GDDR7 exceeding the bandwidth of an RX 7900 XTX, absolutely insanity. Looking forward to next-gen GPU's. Hopefully the price stays within reason.

This is a massive disappointment from Nvidia. They definitely could have put out a more competitive product lineup this generation... Instead, they opted for the most egregious launch I have seen. The performance of the 12gb card is inadequate considering the price jump, and the 16gb card is way overpriced considering its price/performance gap from the 4090.
 
While the 4090 is a good deal relatively speaking - unless you are in the market for it, this generation is an absolute wash from Nvidia.
 
Overall, a disappointing launch that I will personally be skipping. 

This is a massive disappointment from Nvidia. They definitely could have put out a more competitive product lineup this generation... Instead, they opted for the most egregious launch I have seen. The performance of the 12gb card is inadequate considering the price jump, and the 16gb card is way overpriced considering its price/performance gap from the 4090.
 
While the 4090 is a good deal relatively speaking - unless you are in the market for it, this generation is an absolute wash from Nvidia.
 
Overall, a disappointing launch that I will personally be skipping. 

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Content like this is best suited as a Status Update

wow, that looks stupid as fuck.

I did about 5 minutes of digging about "The Dawn Project". The founder of that company, Dan O'Dowd, is also the CEO of Green Hills Software. 
 
Did some digging on Green Hills Software and they appear to offer a competing product: https://www.ghs.com/products/auto_solutions.html
 
Cool.  

I adopted Windows 11, no complaints from me - it works great!

Not vanced enough 

I didn't say it was the ultimate goal but it is a convenient side affect.

>90GB folder called "cp"
No thx
 

Yes, it would realistically take too long to use.
 
Notes:
Password cracking for decryption is harder than just password cracking with hashes.  With that said, apparently the 3090 can do slightly less than 3.5 billion a second (let's round that up to 10 billion a second though) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/316266-the-nvidia-rtx-3090-gpu-can-probably-crack-your-passwords
 
Assume they used just an 8 character password, 0-9....that's 50,000,000 on average guesses needed (worst case 100,000,000).  So cracked in milliseconds easy with modern hardware (a-z,0-9) [The formula being 10^8/2 for average case)
Let's add on the fact most people would have a letter.  (a-z,0-9)[36 items].  36^8/2 roughly 1.4 trillion on average.  So yea, cracked in ~140 seconds.
Now, lets say they actually used capitals.  (a-z,A-Z,0-9)[62 items].  62^8/2 roughly 109 trillion on average.  Still solvable though, might take 3 hours on average
Let's add 8 special characters, (a-z,A-Z,0-9, [.<>!_$^?]) [70 items]. 70^8/2 roughly 288 trillion on average.  Those 8 extra characters nearly 2.5x the time it would take.
 
Let's say since they were hackers they decided to use a still small password length of 12 (anyone trying to protect data would likely use more)
70^12/2 roughly 6,920,643,600 trillion on average. (Assuming 10 billion a second, and 10 million people using their cards to try solving that's about 19 hours)
 
Let us say though they used a 15 character password.  70^15/2, assuming 10 billion a second, and 1 trillion cards, which is wildly unrealistic (10b * 1t = a whole lot); that's still about 3 days with 1 trillion cards