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The moon mission will use Vista.

>heart rate detection
 

Banana for scale

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Well it seems the timeline for the cat uprising has been moved up.

Summary
 
Despite PCIe 5 just now gaining traction, the PCI Special Interest Group is continuing to forge ahead, with today's announcement of version 7 of their Peripheral Component Interconnect express standard. Continuing the historic trend of each generation doubling the speed of the previous, PCIe 7 tops out at 128 GT/s over 6's 64 GT/s. This translates to a 16x connection being capable of sending 512 GB/s in both directions. Additional features include better power efficiency, improved reliability, and lower latency. While the spec has been announced, it's not planned to be formally released until 2025.
 
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My thoughts
More more is more better, but with the current adoption rate trends and diminishing returns in the consumer space, it's possible that manufacturers just won't bother for most PC's.
 
Sources
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PCI-Express-7.0-Spec
https://pcisig.com/blog/announcing-pcie®-70-specification-doubling-data-rate-128-gts-next-generation-computing

They really just said. Screw I/O optimizations we just gonna make everything twice as fast every year didnt they? 😛

The sponsored and recommended items are a different product. I have a feeling this could seriously confuse someone who isn't paying attention to the fact it's a different cable, they just see the cheaper price and buy it instead... (Item on the left is a DP to HDMI, the other items are HDMI-HDMI or DP-DP.) 

User: "I'm getting warnings about viruses in my corporate computer, help!"
Me: *checks computer* "Hhmm, these are just browser notifications. You're not infected, they're just trying to trick you into thinking you're infected. Just a new kind of spam."
User: "Oh, ok, phew! So it's fine, then?"
Me: "Kinda... what did you do with the computer, anyway? You must've done something out of the ordinary for this to happen."
User: "Well, I downloaded a few e-books yesterday night."
Me: *seeing where this is going* "...from Amazon, or something like that?"
User: "Uhm, no..."
Me: *I already know the answer, you utter buffoon* "Did you download pirated e-books using your corporate computer?"
User: "...yes?"
 
I think shotgun usage should be part of all IT certifications. Would solve so many problems!.

almost fell for that one

I was going to suggest Grabholma.

someone just insisted on paying me to drag a .app to their Applications folder from their downloads, and I feel terrible about it

There's so much in here I would rant and correct you on.
 
But given you're in Highschool, the important thing is yes, Don't do drugs. There is a good reason why Alcohol and Drug use laws are typically 18+ (and if we want to go by science, should be higher). However, don't generalize people who use Cannabis.
 
 
As for your non-techie friend's lack of knowledge on how to use technical features of their device? There's always a first time someone learns something. Hopefully you helped him learn these features and he was grateful.
 
 
I had a CEO who demanded we get them an iPhone and MacBook because "I'm an executive and need to loook it". But then when receiving it, immediately ran down to the IT area, and demanded a "cable guy" help her understand this fancy doodad. She not only didn't know what an iCloud account was, but didn't even know how to use the iPhone at all and this was her first phone and CEO job back in 15 years.
 
the thing you will be shocked with in the world even after highschool is how absolutely ignorant the vast majority of the population actually is in technology. I have employees who are in their 50's, who have literally been sitting at the same desk for 30 years using a computer, and can't even understand what the word "reboot" means and still take photos, print them, than try to fax them.

That's what they get for hosting anything Linus related - the service got dropped.

3 hours into my work day and I already had to deal with 30 emails thanks to this issue. Also, another source:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/20/cloudflare-outage-knocks-popular-services-offline/

Summary
Cloudflare faces issues and outages,many websites affected including the forums and LTTstore.com,Cloudflare released a fix & explains what went wrong
 
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My thoughts
This was a hassle,i tried to surf the web and some websites that i use didn't work or had issues due to the Cloudflare CDN issues.
People shouldn't put all the eggs in one basket and think of alternatives as backup in case something happens.
A large portion of the internet was down because of that,so think about Multi CDN for redundancy people!
 
Sources
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/cloudflare-outage-internet-websites-down-outage-globally-crypto-down-7981643/
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/21/cloudflare_oops/?td=keepreading-original-top
 

No, I'm suggesting that if ISPs can push 12 terabit through a cluster of servers and switches that consists out of 7 entire buildings and did cost multiple billions of euros, then they should be able to provide at least 80% of the population with fiber - especially when other countries with less money and manpower do that already.
 
The fact that it needs to be a right enforced by the government just shows how bad the situation is.
 
And to say that you should simply "take your business elsewhere" is uttlerly insane and one of the stupidest things I've read the entire year on this forum and I'm sure I've seen at least one person trying to upgrade their toaster with a RTX 3090.

German citizens now have the right to fast internet. To be specific there needs to be an ISP available now, that has to provide you with at least 10mbps in download and 1.7mbps in upload bandwith for residential internet connections.
 
However, this does not mean that you can make your current ISP deliver more bandwith, unless there is no other ISP available that already delivers at least the specified speed.
 
But in case you live in an area where you have to live with speeds of less than 10 / 1.7mbps you can now contact the federal network agency (Bundesnetzagentur), which will make it their goal to upgrade the network infrastructure.
This is what that process looks like:
 
You contact the federal network agency (FNA) The FNA contacts an ISP within 2 months. The ISP now has 1 month to offer a new plan to meet the requirements. If no offer has been made, within 4 months the FNA will require an ISP to provide your household with an internet connection that meets the requirements. The ISP now has 3 months to start building up the necessary infrastructure for the new plan. The new plan should then be offered within the next 3 months to you.  
That means that between you contacting the FNA and you finally being able to experience your new internet connection, it is possible to take up to 13 months.
 
 
 
 
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My thoughts
Oh how much I love Germany and its stupid bureaucracy.
 
Germany could be the most technology advanced country on the planet, but decided not to be that for whatever reason. We're happy to forward your money and data through our giant servers in Frankfurt, but we do not want to provide our own citizens with proper internet.
 
The fact that ISPs get away with anything below 100mbps in a country where DE-CIX is constantly pushing for new bandwith records is utterly insane to me.
 
Don't get me wrong, this law is great. But only for a country that's like 10% the size of Germany and has 5% of its gross domestic product. The German government needs to understand that if we want to keep competing with the most technology advanced countries on this planet, then we need to behave like them.
 
The cherry on top is the 13 month upgrade period. It's probably better to just move at this point.
 
 
At least the law will sound funny to all you natively english speaking people:
Telekommunikationsmindestversorgungsverordnung
 
 
 
 
Sources
https://winfuture.de/news,130266.html

As someone who has been stuck on 10/2 for the last 3 years, I cannot begin to think how they came up with that number. ISPs lobbying hard in Germany too?

GamersNexus Unity with Ukraine T-Shirt:

GamersNexus Unity with Ukraine T-Shirt:

GamersNexus Unity with Ukraine T-Shirt:

I've been playing raft with a friend recently and it was a lot of fun. They just released the last of the story updates so now seems like a good time to get into it.

Took advantage of the Steam Summer Sale and got lots of games with big % off that were on my Wishlist:

Also I've bought two T-Shirts from the "For Fans by Fans" Merch Store to test their quality. I'm hoping for them to be great quality because I really like some of the other designs they have as well but first gotta be sure that it isn't total crap:

Took advantage of the Steam Summer Sale and got lots of games with big % off that were on my Wishlist:

Also I've bought two T-Shirts from the "For Fans by Fans" Merch Store to test their quality. I'm hoping for them to be great quality because I really like some of the other designs they have as well but first gotta be sure that it isn't total crap:

Took advantage of the Steam Summer Sale and got lots of games with big % off that were on my Wishlist:

Also I've bought two T-Shirts from the "For Fans by Fans" Merch Store to test their quality. I'm hoping for them to be great quality because I really like some of the other designs they have as well but first gotta be sure that it isn't total crap: