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The images with the lighting don't do it justice, the lighting actually gives it a very subtle orange glow that really goes with the wood on the front, makes it look super clean!
But anyways, specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Deepcool AK500 Zero DARK Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX G.Skill X5 32GB 5600MHz RAM Inland Professional NVMe PCIe 3.0 256GB SSD 2x Inland Professional 1TB SATA SSDs Gigabyte Windforce OC 3X RTX 2070 Super Fractal Design North Thermaltake Smart Pro RGB 750W PSU Gigabyte M27Q monitor HP Omen 25 monitor Arzopa portable monitor Redragon K631 Pro (customized) Logitech G502 Hero

How old are these people?
I didn't think a lid latch is so incomprehensible.

Remove all of the italicised text before posting.
 
Summary
 tdlr: apple made headlines in Canada for using ontario based company GEEP for shredding old devices
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 Apple should have still sold them, its a waste of good hardware
 
Sources
 https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/04/19/apple-ontario-geep-destory-old-iphones-report/
 
 

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It's alive and well, got an entire aisle of them at the hardware store here....
 
https://www.stanleytools.com/systems-campaigns/stanley-systems/stanley-fatmax

A company overcharging for their parts and having their quality drop significantly in the past 4 years is struggling to do basic business things? Say it aint so!
 
Hopefully people start learning more of these companies are scummy. It will be interesting to see how the EKWB fanboys that try to defend them on this.

Watching a little of the video. It sounds like the owe the state of Texas money and the fact that some people havent gotten paid or had their time altered is a big violation of both state and federal labor laws. EK is going to get sued.

So confirmed? YouTubers destroying companies
 
 

So, Artesian Build ver 2.0 ?

Summary
Gamersnexus followed up on a LinkedIn post by a former employee of EK Waterblocks and uncovered significant problems within the company:
- Employee wages not paid on time
- Business allowances not paid or not paid on time
- Pressure from EK management to employees to sign inferior contracts (e.g. removing sales dividends) 
- Suppliers not paid on time
- US branch and HQ (Solvenia) fighting each other to the point where the US branch sourced some items from the supply chain instead of ordering them from HQ
- excessive inventory (of some SKUs) binding capital/liquidity
- EK has fired some manager(s)
- EK is confident that it can resolve the current liquidity crisis.
 
Quotes
My thoughts
The writings have been on the wall for a long time. Customer service quality has noticeably deteriorated.
 
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73xG1HlFhY
 

Regardless of being the best in the business, if you fail due your own incompetence then you fail. It sucks for us, but life moves forward. 

New PSU installed, and freshly dusted.. booted up first try 👌
 
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A couple of our internal apps stop working. I inform IT, they put the updated apps into our internal app store. I download them and check that everything works. I notice that one of them has trouble logging in, so I restart my phone and everything works fine after that. Given the hiccup and knowing the complete lack of tech affinity among my coworkers, I decide to write a short guide on how to go about downloading and installing the apps in question with plenty of screenshots and mention that in order for them to work properly again, they might have to restart their phones too. I send an E-Mail to everybody in my department with all the information. A couple of minutes pass and someone asks me for help with the steps I clearly outlined in that little guide. More people come by asking for help doing the things I outlined in the guide. One person managed to nuke her enrollment in our corporate MDM entirely. I reevaluate my will to live and question why I even bother writing guides for people who are either too stupid to follow them or too disrespectful to put in the effort before consulting me.

Digitec Galaxus which is Switzerlands biggest Online Shop has also expanded to Italy among other European Countries:
https://www.galaxus.it/en/s1/sector/it-multimedia-1
 
As long as your total is at least 50 Bucks in value shipping will be free.
 
They're great, I buy all of my Tech and other things there.

Melon bag

 

New camera/mic setup.  Finally putting the Canon 100D to rest on my telescope try and get some real pictures of the moon.  It's been a good run on it with the cheap, aftermarket power adapter I bought for it.  However since the move it's just not been happy.  It'll just shut off/freeze.  Some nights it would be really hot in the battery compartment.  Some night's it just wouldn't turn on at all.  The Logitech StreamCam seems to be a really good alternative to at least those 20-30 buck webcams you see in Supermarkets and stuff and I got this one for 60 quid, never used, on eBay.
 
 
Also i don't think i put it in the latest purchases but I've replaced my Presonus USB96 with a Steinberg UR 22 which I got from Cashies.  It was missing a knob when I got it but a replacement was only a couple of quid.  Seams good so far but my HD599s sound a little warm on it still
 
 

Stop the dramatics Gracie. I missed you by a mile...

got a 7900 xtx , wanted to get the vapor-x version but the shop had no stock , so went with this instead , cheaper then the vapor+ edition,got for about USD 1050 (converted to usd from local currency).. so old old 6800xt going into the backup pc .. 
 
 

My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

this thread is absolutely adorable 💜

Harvey is enjoying the SoCal weather's return to form this week.

I got this off eBay. Mostly as a joke.
Well they're here and making a stack on my desk. I got a bonus 8th one too!
 
However I can't currently power them all. I don't have enough power cables.
So I purchased these along with some 18awg wire (collectively the ATVs draw 0.4 amps from the wall).
Going to create the most cursed power cable of all time. Probably going to make a rackmount shelf for them all too (that's why I got the C14 connector, for my PDU)