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On 8/15/2023 at 6:59 PM, Doctor_GLaDOS said:

Dude LTT is an entertainment channel not a serious tech-review outlet. You needed GN to see that? LTT videos are fun like Tiktok or Netflix and it's ok to enjoy that.

Is that the argument against the misinformation now? It's for entertainment but yet they're still uploading review videos with blatent errors and misinformation in them. In that case, any review should come with a warning "This video is for entertainment purposes, in no way a serious review"

1 hour ago, venomtail said:

Alternatives I also watch:

GamersNexus - PC's

Hardware Unboxed - PC's

Monitors Unboxed - Monitors & TV's

Daniel Owen - PC's

Optimum Tech - PC's & Tech

Dave 2D - PC's & Tech

Rocket Jump Ninja - Mice

HDTVTest - Monitors & TV's

On this list I can vouch for GamersNexus and Daniel Owen, find their content to be very insightful.

I'd like to add Digital Foundry to the list, their videos are amazingly detailed when it comes to games

I'll find myself probably only interacting with the forums in future, I've lost faith in Linus which I'm surprised to say as I've always looked up to him. These recent events have severely made me reconsider my opinion of Linus.

I have sadly made the decision to unsubscribe from Linus, I don't see the value of watching his videos anymore.

As a original subscriber back all the way in the days of NCIX, it does hurt me to see what I slowly believe is the decline of what was once quality content. I no longer watch any of LTTs review videos simply because I don't trust them to be accurate. However that isn't an issue for me (personally) as I've got other outlets for that kind of content, I've learned to watch LTT for the wacky content. However what I cannot forgive is the slandering of a start up company who trusted you to review their prototype product properly only for you to ignore their instruction, then drag their name in the mud by telling people to not buy, and then now to top it all off, sell their one of a kind prototype that costed them probably a lot of money to make.

I'm not sure I want to stay subscribed to LTT anymore, and I seriously hope that your response changes and that its just a heat of the moment snap response to what has happened, I don't usually comment on things like this but I feel very passionately about this as LTT has to be one of my longest subscribed channels after NCIX back in the day. It would be a real big shame if I felt that I didn't want to support LTT anymore. 

2 hours ago, hassam222 said:

The part where it is alleged LTT auctioned off a prototype water block they promised to return is troubling. That requires an official response.

Out of all the things, this is the thing I am most concerned with, I am still concerned about all of the other points made in the video. However what LMG/LTT did here, its not right, with all the horrible things he said about the product (even though it was his fault for not following their explicit instructions), then doubling down and not apologising when called out for making these blatent errors, to then auction something that was not there's to auction. He's not only verbally discredited this company which has likely ruined them, but also gotten rid of their only known working prototype which he had absolutely zero right to do.

Adds another reason to not purchase an Nvidia GPU....

I'm very happy with my 7900 XT, when I was looking to upgrade I wasn't prepared to let myself get shafted by Nvidia. Glad I picked my 7000 series card.

There is already so many other Mini PC's out there, such as Minisforum. I have a HX80G from Minisforum and its great.

Its all about money in the right pockets, whoever Micro$oft pays off....

Now we need companies to allow anti-cheat to work on Linux using WINE/Proton - If I could play Destiny 2 on Linux i'd jump over to Linux in a heart beat.

Why? Seems stupid to me to rename something which everyone already knows about. Thats like if McDonalds stopped putting Mc before burger names or changed the letters, just dumb. Makes no sense.

I saw this mentioned the other day, very cool. I'm looking forward to seeing handheld manufacturers put these in their products 

I own a QNAP NAS and its got to be one of the best purchases i've ever made, worth every penny. I wouldn't touch anything cloud like MyCloud, just don't trust it.

3 hours ago, PrismaWhite said:

Hello, i was looking all over the internet trying to find a solution for this and found nothing, so I took action on the matter. The thing is, when you do the "Set Services To Manual" tweak, between those tasks there's one called "NDU" which stands for "Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver". I looked in the powershell to see which services were being set to manual start. Then i began to start each service one by one, until i found the root of the problem.

All you have to do is:

1- Do the "Set Services To Manual" tweak.

2- Open registry editor and go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu

3- Inside Ndu there is a dword named "Start"

4- Change "Start" value to 2. (3 and 4 is for disabling it i think)

5- Restart and done.

What does this do exactly?

Since Nintendo has turned into this anti-consumer company I refuse to purchase any of their products. I miss the old Nintendo, now they just alienate their consumers.

2 hours ago, WereCat said:

You already hit a brick wall at 1080p if you set textures to Ultra with 8GB of VRAM.... On high it works fine though.

 

Look at the 1% lows with the 8GB cards, unplayable stutter mess. RTX 3060 with it's 12GB is beating 3070ti.

 

You know its a bad port when I can play Cyberpunk which is more demanding at a much higher frame rate (6800XT)

I don't mean to resurrect an old threat but I wanted to say I have also done the CTT debloat on my machine (done on Win 11 and 10) and my Task Manager also does this occasionally when closing it. I usually find it happens more frequently if I close immediately after opening it.

What might be happening is task manager is starting a service which has been stopped and when suddenly closing task manager while the service is still starting causes it to "hang" for a moment before it closes.

Thats my guess anyway.

I wish Microcenter would come to the UK, need a store like that in the UK. Closest we've got is Currys.

4 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Source? 

https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/HPQ/Probability-Of-Bankruptcy#:~:text=Based on the latest financial,of the Information Technology industry.

Fluctuations obviously as this is a live tracker

2 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

 

Maybe I'm super lucky, but I've always had great experiences with HP products and customer service, which is why my last three laptops have been HP and never had a major problem. 

Maybe you are, the last HP laptop I owned was made of metal but the chassis was warped out of the box. No damage to the box etc so retailer wouldn't accept a return, they wanted to blame me but wouldn't use those words directly and told me to speak to HP. HP as you can imagine wanted nothing to do with me and pointed the finger back at the retailer and basically said "You shouldn't have bent it".

I used the laptop as it still functioned but after a year I ditched it for a Lenovo.

HP are a failing business, they currently have a 45% chance of bankruptcy

I honestly can't wait to see the day, they're a scummy company.

I've been using Bitwarden for years now, a lot better than Lastpass.

Tempted to self host but requires setup and i've not got the time right now to do that.

Goes without saying Windows 10 is better than Windows 11, which makes sense if you go through Microsoft's "Good" and "Bad" release cycle.

Windows 7 = Good

Windows 8 = Bad

Windows 10 = Good

Windows 11 = Bad

OS is buggy and Microsoft is pulling bull like this on hardware which otherwise can clearly run Windows 11 without any issues.

I'd have point blank just refused and then said i'd take matters higher if they threatened me with any further action

Think i'll wait for the amernimezone modded version of this driver, happy with the version ive got installed from them currently.

2 minutes ago, Athan Immortal said:

No, OPs point is that they posted these unpopular guidelines, did a 180 and claimed it was a mistake, then they've now done another 180, back to "Yes we're doing it", so 360.

I see, makes sense