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Summary
A Zenfone user in the UK filed a small claims court case against ASUS for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as they had previously promised.
ASUS has settled case with the user, who received payment covering the phones original cost (£700) and the court filing fee (£70)
 
 
I'm glad somebody has finally called out phone manufacturers over broken promises and 'won'.
If any of you are in the UK and have a bootloader locked Zenfone then this is certainly an option
 
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-bootloader-unlock-settlement-3431818/

Summary
 Bell (Canadian ISP, Television service provider, and content licensor to other Television services) is now going to delete your cloud PVR recordings after 60 days.
 
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My thoughts
 Given that it's direct competitor in the market, Rogers, has a 1 year expiry, Telus has 90 days, why is there an expiry at all? So the ISP can free up disk space? So they can force their users to watch the VOD version of the same show they don't have all the episodes to? To force people to watch Netflix or CraveTV if they want to watch the entire series?
 
Like I've long since complained about Telus's complete incompetence about having any shows on their VOD service. You might click a TV show and you might have the most recent episode and one episode from 2 years ago, and nothing else. The ISP's VOD services are absolutely worthless because they want you to pay for CraveTV, because they directly profit from that.
 
Given that ISP's no longer even offer local PVR's and you can't buy PVR's that hook up to HDMI (legitimately) is this yet another attempt and destroying media?
 
Sources
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/pvr-pullback-bell-to-delete-viewers-saved-tv-shows-and-movies-after-60-days-1.6834904

Oh lmao, LMG can't catch a break from doing f*ck ups it seems. This one is pretty bad too.
 
If you can't stop yourself from making way too inappropriate Sex Jokes then just stop making them altogether. You'll just end up looking way less professional then you already are and piss off your audience even more.
 
Maybe get inspired by the Hardware News Episodes from GN. They're very well made, straight to the point, no annoying Background Music and if there are Jokes then Steve presents them in a tasteful and relatable way. Without making it seem inappropriate.

Summary
Nearly 20 years after the debut of LiMux, the project where the city of Munich, as well as Lower Saxony, migrated the majority of their computer systems from Microsoft Windows to a custom Linux distribution before being cancelled in 2017, someone else is now ready to take on the challenge. This time, it's the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Citing the goals of independence, sustainability, and security, the state is planning on migrating its 30,000 computers to Linux and other open source software.
 
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My thoughts
I hope them the best. Chipping away at Microsoft's business monopoly is always a good thing.
 
Sources
https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/

Trombone maintenance stuff. Flexible cleaner to clean the inside of the instrument, grease for the tuning slides and lube for the big slide.

 
Cables. Since I got the Kemper amp, I only used it with headphones. I look forward to rip apart my desk, redo all the cable management and put these cable in there as well. The speaker cable goes from the Kemper to my 4x12 cabinet and the XLR cables go from the Kemper to my audio interface. I'll mostly record the guitar through those XLR cables, but maybe I'll try to record from the cab with my mics sometime too. Honestly though, I just want to jam out on the Kemper with my cab, I like that better than through headphones.

Yeah everything which came after the OnePlus 6 was just weird and so overpriced. I liked my OP3T and OP5T. OnePlus once was the cool and really affordable phone Maker. Now they're just like their Competitors who they once swore to destroy by being more affordable.

Summary
Roku has filed a patent for a system to display ads on the TV screen when a pause has been detected from the HDMI output. It could even detect what kind of content is being outputted so it can serve the user more targeted adds
 
 
I can see uses in the technology to detect pauses in the HDMI output, like turning of the TV after a few minutes to save power or to show a screensaver to prevent burn-in on OLED TVs. It is kinda sad that even when you just want to pause something on the TV Roku immediately whant to shove ads down your throat.
 
Sources
Tweet about the article
The lowpass article
The filed patent (google)

Utter BULL SHIT. If you ask me. All these greedy companies are doing is giving me a reason to NOT buy their product.

So I won't paste excerpt here because of its nature. But my timestamp starts with what it fine (to me). Its very old joke and tied in part to American higher end lifestyle of 90s and early 00s. Also portrayed in media of that era. Its also bit poor taste, but not worst and probably would have been fine (since its about lying/cheating and nothing beyond that). But latter part of that joke goes over, talking about intoxication and what men supposedly do when that happens. With the wording making it sound like what happens does happen regardless of the other person agreeing.
 
While it might read out like that to all, being intoxicated has been very commonly used as excuse by men when they are investigated for sexual abuse during parties. You can search up some notable cases, some of them are too political to discuss here.

The part at 4:39 is worse.

Timestamped if anyone is interested. I must agree @LinusTech @LMGcommunity @RILEYISMYNAME, thats very poor taste your audience and recent events in consideration.

What? rent free.
 
Not everything men say is "sexual harassment".

So you let a sexual harassment joke slip into the TechLinked video on April 3rd... Too soon buds, um rather poor taste. I'll let this one slip as a late April Fools joke, but, do better guys.

Summary
Petitioning multiple governments around the globe to stop game companies from shutting down online functionality of videogames, without letting the consumers host private servers.
 
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My thoughts
This is very important to everyone playing games. If this goes through, the persistent for how future and current games are made/played will be changed forever. This is for the benefit of everyone. Its a lengthy watch, but he explains everything in great detail in the video.
 
Srces
 

Summary
 
The German automotive club ADAC (Algemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club) warns against retractable door handles, as they can be a safety risk to those trapped in a car due to an accident.
 
In order to quickly rescue people from an accident vehicle, it is important for first responders to be able to open a vehicle from the outside quickly, easily and intuitively. Even more so if there is a vehicle fire. From the ADAC's point of view, retractable door handles, i.e. those that retract flush into the side of the car when parking and driving, could make this task significantly more difficult, especially for laypeople. But even professional rescue workers would take longer to get to the occupants.
 
 
 
 
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My thoughts
 
I'm completely with ADAC on this one. These things suck! Not only are they a pain to use compared to regular door handles, but they also are a major safety risk that is seemingly ignored by authorities. Not only can they fail and stop working, it's also not very intuitive to know where the emergency release is located and how some of them operate. If I would find a person stuck in a Tesla, BMW, Mercedes or any other car with such door handles, I would not know how to get the door open, if they stopped working or are still retracted.
 
 
 
 
Sources
 
https://de.motor1.com/news/714788/sicherheitsrisiko-versenkbare-tuergriffe-adac-warnt/
https://presse.adac.de/meldungen/adac-ev/technik/adac-warnt---versenkbare-tuergriffe-koennen-ein-sicherheitsrisiko-sein.html

Summary
 
Intel shares fell 4% at one point in extended trading Tuesday after the company revealed long-awaited financials for its semiconductor manufacturing business, commonly called the foundry business, in an SEC filing. Intel said its foundry business recorded an operating loss of $7 billion in 2023 on sales of $18.9 billion. That’s a wider loss than the $5.2 billion Intel reported in its foundry business in 2022 on $27.5 billion in sales.
 

 
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My thoughts
Bad news for that guy on the WAN show that said he invested all his life savings. Still i think he'll be fine if he hodls long term. 
 
Sources
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-discloses-financials-foundry-business-2024-04-02/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/intel-shares-fall-after-company-reveals-7-billion-operating-loss-in-foundry-business.html

me playing spider solitaire

(this is the last one i swear)

My current main computer! No RGB except on the motherboard (when I was buying my first round of parts, the RGB version cost less than similar boards without RGB), nearly all fans are Noctua fans. Started in December 2022.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Corsair DDR4 3600 (4x16GB, 18-22-22-42 timing)
RTX 3080 10GB (Noctua Edition)

The internal storage is all SSDs, with both NVMe/M.2 slots used, but I don't recall the specs. The new drives are mostly Samsung ("Pro"?) and I have some OCZ drives from a previous build in there. The screwdrivers and Lego minifigure were added for the photo, but I keep the Lego scaffolding in there to hold up that chonker of a graphics card.

I don’t actually know what this means.

Summary
Just the facts. TSMC "Still assessing, and Framework temporarily paused production.  This will have an effect since the region of the world these products are produced in was disrupted by the quake.  Our first thoughts must be for any and all whose lives were lost or lives altered by this event. 
 
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My thoughts
It is probably too soon to know what effects this will have on the tech sector.  Thankfully this 7.5 magnitude quake hit Taiwan which has high building standards and an economy that can meet those standards in practice. The buildings being strong enough to not totally collapse likely saved a great many lives.  Compare to the Quake which greatly damaged Por Au Prince Haiti some time ago which was about the same magnitude.  Well-built modern structures stood but a great many did not live in such structures.   
 
Vibration and shaking is probably not good for precision Manufacuring equipment or for things that were in production at that moment.   This likely won't be some big systemic effect.  I really hope it won't be.  I would not be surprised if there weren't some defective parts in the supply chain for a while. 
 
Sources
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/tsmc-still-assessing-chipmaking-facilities-after-7-4-magnitude-quake-hits-taiwan/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/framework-pauses-production-earthquake-hits-taiwan
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/world/asia/taiwan-earthquake.html
Reuters (tweet above)
Interesting Engineering (Tweet above)

So it was powered by AI! (Anonymous Indians.)
 
Sounds a lot like the "Scan It!" system Stop & Shop and Giant have had for at least 20 years.
 

 

Amazon Go with its Walkout technology that was introduced a while back, where customer with an Amazon account can simply walk in, take what they need and walk out has ended. The shopping experience may be convenient as you won't have to wait for the check out line, but it actually
Amazon is going to replace their Walkout technology with what they called Dash Cart, which is a
Gizmodo (article link)

not the fanfic I was expecting