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Yeah, there was a more recent BIOS so I flashed it earlier but no success Not sure why it happens at all, seems like Windows just suddenly forgets it's there.

I've updated any drivers I can think of, but I hadn't thought about checking my BIOS tbf. I'll take a look and see if there's been an update.

Bit of a strange one - every so often (but most days at least once) YouTube/Spotify/Plex/whatever will just start seeming to buffer indefinitely. It's definitely not a connection issue, however - in fact if I mute the video it will continue playing fine (though ofc with no sound). Pulling the USB out and putting it back in again usually solves the issue, however sometimes it requires a reboot. If I have my PS5 controller plugged in via USB then unplugging/replugging the DAC usually doesn't work though, which I suspect might be related to Windows seeing the DualSense as an audio device as well. But yeah, I've no idea what causes it and it doesn't seem repeatable. Sometimes it'll be midway through playback when I'm doing nothing else at all, sometimes it'll be when I'm using another browser window/tab, etc. Sometimes having no audio for a period of time will be fine when I go back to the video, sometimes not. I've tried reinstalling the drivers for the DAC (iFi Uno) and it hasn't helped. I've seen a few people posting about similar things when I've googled it, but nobody seemed to have a solution beyond "pull the USB/headphones out and plug them back in". And most of the time trying to google it is just unhelpful trash anyway about how having a faster internet speed will reduce how often videos buffer. Truly amazing insight So if anyone's had anything similar or has any suggestions then please let me know. Thanks :)

Would definitely recommend Doom Eternal - fast-paced action but no real pre-planning or knowing meta strats or anything. Lots of on-the-fly decision making though! I found it great fun from begining to end. Personally I preferred it to Doom 2016, but that's also good and technically Eternal does follow it story-wise, though you don't really need to have played it to get what's happening. A lot of the fights happen as large horde-ish set pieces, so very easy to drop in/drop out even part way through a level.

Apparently functioning in the real world means guessing at what someone's job entails, belittling it based on your guess and then acting smug like you've somehow won the conversation? You so clearly don't know what you're talking about that it seems pointless even trying to explain what a social media management position typically entails. Would be like asking a dog to grasp the concept of Norway.

I would think Linus, as star of that video, CEO of the company, and primary custodian of the LMG brand, would not allow the publication of a video that contained jokes he was uncomfortable with, especially so if he considered them to be to the point of harassment. He had full power to say let's do another take, or let's edit that part out. And he can't exactly claim no knowledge of it, because he was the presenter in the video. So sure, nobody except Linus can ever truly know how he felt in that moment. But I think there's an incredibly strong argument to be made that, if he felt harassed by it, he had ways of addressing it that would preclude them being featured in a sponsored piece of content.

You don't have any evidence she made sex jokes at work generally, all you have is evidence she made sex jokes on camera. Jokes that are extremely on brand for LTT and are made in plenty of videos across their channels from a broad range of people. These videos range from the highly scripted to off the cuff first impressions. All of them, save for live broadcasts which Madison never appeared in afaik, are produced, edited and signed off by multiple people. Even the rig reboot video, which was before she was employed, went through that process - if anything it was probably vetted more than most, given it was sponsored content. It must have been considered okay because it was published. And, again, that kind of content is very on brand for LTT's humour in general. If you genuinely cannot see the difference between comments in that context and ones said offline in an office environment never intended to be seen or heard by anyone else, then I really don't know what to tell you.

Honestly I think it will remain quite like it has been. The problem was never really with the entertainment side - just the graphs being shown, or the on-screen data usually. Occasionally the unwillingness to correct a mistake via reshoot or cutting it. I guess there may be some more stuff that gets cut if they can't reshoot (e.g. Alienware keyboard "stickers" thing) rather than left in as it was, but I don't think that really makes or breaks that video as a whole even if they do cut it. I'm with you, I hope their tone and type of video doesn't vastly change, just with a little more fact checking built in to the various processes along the way.

I hope one day I can be a Real Man so I can say homophobic and ableist slurs to my friends too

They probably do have some that were wrapped and scheduled to go up as well, so even as it ramps up it will probably be fairly quickly. Though I'd imagine that whatever the first review or review-adjacent video is has been super thoroughly checked for accuracy at this point. A lot of eyes are gonna be on whatever comes first for sure, and some people will for sure be trying to find any little mistake they can. Which I sorta get but is also kinda unfair. Ideally it has no absolute howlers of course, but it probably doesn't deserve the full on nitpicking bonanza it's likely to receive.

Honestly that's up to you - it you can have it with you as well and you feel like you can keep both safe and secure then go for it. I'd probably wrap it in a blanket or something either way. If you can't fit it up front with you, same sort of thing applies really - find a way to keep it well padded and in a secure enough place in the back that it won't move around too much. Whenever I've moved house I've tended to put my TV in last so I can find a nice place to wedge it where it's not going to slide about. Monitors I've usually had on people's laps, but that's mostly because I've always tended to have a few car journeys back and forth in addition to the van because I'm just that disorganised

Yeah sounds like it - could try something like Fan Control of Speedfan (both are free afaik) and try a slightly less aggressive fan curve. As long as her temps aren't getting out of hand it should be fine. I suppose another thing that could be contributing to noise is what it's placed on - could be that it's directly on the floor/desk and those are carrying the vibrations through the house a bit. Maybe some kind of rubber feet on the bottom if her case doesn't have them could help. I'd try playing around with the fan curves though and see if her temps are stable enough at a slower speed.

There's a program called Fan Control that should be able to give you some indication of whether the fans are running at full speed, etc. But I suppose the first question is - loud in what way? Like they're running full speed always? Whiny? Choppy (like a vibration)? That may help find the root cause. There are some physical things you can check - are they connected to PWM headers on the motherboard or molex from the PSU? The latter is pretty much just on or off, whereas the former allows control over the speed, so having them in a way you can lower the speed might help. Are any of the fins damaged? Having one missing fan blade can make an uneven choppy sound. If they more just whiny honestly it might just be age and worth replacing them.

To be fair, we don't actually know what their turnover rate is. New hires aren't allowed to be on camera at least until they've passed probation, and even then some rarely, if ever, appear. Think about it - out of 120 employees currently, how many can you name without looking them up? It's not a ton. I'm not suggesting they do have high turnover necessarily, or low turnover either. I'm just saying we probably can't draw any useful conclusions from the handful of people we see regularly on camera.

<quoted comment deleted> I didn't say it was healthy, or normal, or anything like it. In fact I'm pretty sure I said it was serious and alarming. All I did is call you out when you started guessing she had several other mental health disorders and acting like anyone should take you remotely seriously for it.