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    Spotty got a reaction from Fat Cat11997 in Is 20 yr old gpu better than modern igpu?   
    Unscrew the GPU from the rear bracket and then push/lift the retention clip on the motherboard slot to release the card.
     
    Also a good point that I missed. Lack of HDMI/DisplayPort connectors. A 20 year old graphics card will most likely only have VGA and DVI output.
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    Spotty reacted to BlueChinchillaEatingDorito in Is 20 yr old gpu better than modern igpu?   
    I mean a 20-year-old card, we're talking mid-late 2000s. You'd be lucky if the damn thing even outputted to 1080P to be honest. And even then, it'll probably struggle just doing that. 
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    Spotty got a reaction from ThundyUK in Two Systems, One Result   
    Skylake (i5 6600) supports TPM 2.0. Microsoft's decision to not support Skylake CPUs for Windows 11 is not related to TPM support. Microsoft just did not add Skylake to the approved CPU list. I'm not sure if Microsoft ever gave an official reason for not including them.
    Microsoft is still supporting Windows 10 until October 2025. End of Life for Windows 10 is over 18 months away. Not "very soon" like you claim. It's not like Windows 10 is going to become unusable after that date, it just won't receive further security patches. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro
    Microsoft is not going to force install Windows 11 on systems that do not support it.
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    Spotty got a reaction from ThundyUK in Two Systems, One Result   
    Moved to CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory.
     
    The i5 6600 will perform better than the i5 2500k and will support DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0, and depending on the board M.2 NVMe boot storage.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Holmes108 in Two Systems, One Result   
    ... Can you play Valorant on Linux? You didn't bring that up when you recommended Linux so why bring it up now when somebody recommended Windows 11?
     
    OP asked which of two CPUs are better and you come in telling them to switch to Linux. Don't be that annoying Linux user that goes around everywhere telling people to use Linux when they aren't even asking about it.
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    Spotty reacted to Somerandomtechyboi in Two Systems, One Result   
    got a z170 that has a bclk bios? non k skylake can be oced via bclk on z170 usually to 4.6-4.8ghz
     
    though id just sell both systems or atleast both cpu + mobo + ram combos and get a used 3100/3300x/3500(x) for ~30$ or a 3600(x) for ~50$ and a used b3/450 like the gaming plus/tomahawk for ~50$ or less which will obliterate both the 2500k and 6600 even if they are overclocked, you even get an upgrade path to a 5800x3d (200-250$ used)
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    Spotty got a reaction from BLKBRDSR71 in Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned   
    Inspired by
     
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    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in ChatGPT data leak exposes limited user chat history, ChatGPT Plus customer information   
    Summary
    Due to a bug introduced to OpenAI's ChatGPT on March 20th limited user chat history was exposed. The issue also exposed customer information of a small number of ChatGPT Plus subscribers, including payment details.
     
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    The reason that only 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus customers were affected is because it only affected customers who were active during a 9 hour period between 1am and 10am Pacific Time on March 20th.
     
     
    It's too long to share here but more details about the data leak have been shared by OpenAI in their blog post here, including details about the bug that caused it: 
    https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
     
     
    My thoughts
    It's worth noting that this was the result of a bug, not a hack. It's not part of any hack or ransom attempt. The exposed customer details were not widely exposed. It was only when a user opened a subscription verification email or went in to the "manage my subscriptions" settings during the 9 hour window that the details of another user were incorrectly displayed instead of the correct user information.
     
    The bug was caused by the Redis-py library which OpenAI uses to cache user information. Due to a change made by OpenAI, Redis returned errors when attempting to retrieve requested data and as a result in some cases caused Redis to deliver the wrong customer information when requested. For more technical details see OpenAI's Blog Post
     
    This issue is what caused a recent outage of ChatGPT. https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd
     
    Exposing the first message from a conversation a user has sent to ChatGPT isn't really a big deal, and you shouldn't be sharing any sensitive information with ChatGPT anyway. The customer information and payment details that were exposed for a small percentage of ChatGPT Plus users pose a much bigger concern, though thankfully it seems that the data exposed is limited to a very small number of accounts and that data was not widely available.
     
     
    Sources
    https://www.securityweek.com/chatgpt-data-breach-confirmed-as-security-firm-warns-of-vulnerable-component-exploitation/
    https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
  9. Agree
    Spotty got a reaction from LumpyCrumpet in Thoughts on TrulyOffice   
    I refuse to believe that a company founded a few months ago has managed to develop an office suite that rivals Microsoft Office and Google Workspace with only a couple of employees - most of whom are in marketing, sales, or customer support according to linkedin profiles. Something is missing...
     
    Almost all of the backlinks for trulyoffice.com come from fake news websites and are articles TrulyOffice have written about themselves advertising their website and trying to boost their SEO. (Shoutout one of the other sponsors you were considering ahref for their backlink checker tools). There's websites listed there that they're using to post fake articles that I recognise as sites that are blocked on the forum because of how frequently they're used by spammers to advertise scam websites.
     
    Reading the reviews for trulyoffice on review websites I'm fairly certain they're all fake reviews.
     
    This company is super sketchy. Way too many red flags. I strongly recommend you avoid dealing with them.
    I appreciate you guys asking the community for feedback about potential sponsors, but I feel companies like this should really be filtered out before it reaches the ask the community stage.
  10. Informative
    Spotty got a reaction from BrandonTech.05 in there was a databreach on this website recently, according to google   
    There was a data breach on the linustechtips forum 9 years ago. The breach was disclosed at the time and all forum passwords were reset.
    A website called Leak-lookup collected data from various data breaches and hosted that data on their servers. Leak-lookup was hacked earlier in 2024 and their entire collection of data breaches from thousands of websites were stolen, including the data for the linustechtips.com website from the breach 9 years ago. This old data resurfaced after the Leak-Lookup breach which triggered that warning from Google.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    If you're using the same password you used here 9 years ago on other websites you should change those passwords.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in there was a databreach on this website recently, according to google   
    There was a data breach on the linustechtips forum 9 years ago. The breach was disclosed at the time and all forum passwords were reset.
    A website called Leak-lookup collected data from various data breaches and hosted that data on their servers. Leak-lookup was hacked earlier in 2024 and their entire collection of data breaches from thousands of websites were stolen, including the data for the linustechtips.com website from the breach 9 years ago. This old data resurfaced after the Leak-Lookup breach which triggered that warning from Google.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    If you're using the same password you used here 9 years ago on other websites you should change those passwords.
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    Spotty got a reaction from filpo in there was a databreach on this website recently, according to google   
    There was a data breach on the linustechtips forum 9 years ago. The breach was disclosed at the time and all forum passwords were reset.
    A website called Leak-lookup collected data from various data breaches and hosted that data on their servers. Leak-lookup was hacked earlier in 2024 and their entire collection of data breaches from thousands of websites were stolen, including the data for the linustechtips.com website from the breach 9 years ago. This old data resurfaced after the Leak-Lookup breach which triggered that warning from Google.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    If you're using the same password you used here 9 years ago on other websites you should change those passwords.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Eigenvektor in there was a databreach on this website recently, according to google   
    There was a data breach on the linustechtips forum 9 years ago. The breach was disclosed at the time and all forum passwords were reset.
    A website called Leak-lookup collected data from various data breaches and hosted that data on their servers. Leak-lookup was hacked earlier in 2024 and their entire collection of data breaches from thousands of websites were stolen, including the data for the linustechtips.com website from the breach 9 years ago. This old data resurfaced after the Leak-Lookup breach which triggered that warning from Google.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    If you're using the same password you used here 9 years ago on other websites you should change those passwords.
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    Spotty got a reaction from da na in there was a databreach on this website recently, according to google   
    There was a data breach on the linustechtips forum 9 years ago. The breach was disclosed at the time and all forum passwords were reset.
    A website called Leak-lookup collected data from various data breaches and hosted that data on their servers. Leak-lookup was hacked earlier in 2024 and their entire collection of data breaches from thousands of websites were stolen, including the data for the linustechtips.com website from the breach 9 years ago. This old data resurfaced after the Leak-Lookup breach which triggered that warning from Google.
    https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
     
    If you're using the same password you used here 9 years ago on other websites you should change those passwords.
  15. Agree
    Spotty got a reaction from jaslion in Can I revive my PSU?   
    Remove the RGB cables from the system. Flip the switch on the back off the power supply off. Flip the switch on the PSU back on. Try to boot the system again. Does it work?
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    Spotty got a reaction from Likwid in Can I revive my PSU?   
    Remove the RGB cables from the system. Flip the switch on the back off the power supply off. Flip the switch on the PSU back on. Try to boot the system again. Does it work?
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    Spotty got a reaction from Average Nerd in Can I revive my PSU?   
    Remove the RGB cables from the system. Flip the switch on the back off the power supply off. Flip the switch on the PSU back on. Try to boot the system again. Does it work?
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    Spotty got a reaction from Robchil in Can I revive my PSU?   
    Remove the RGB cables from the system. Flip the switch on the back off the power supply off. Flip the switch on the PSU back on. Try to boot the system again. Does it work?
  19. Funny
    Spotty got a reaction from Lightwreather in How much to become a mod?   
    If they're invisible, how do you know you're not wearing them? 🤔 Try poking yourself in the eye. For science.
  20. Funny
    Spotty got a reaction from Lightwreather in How much to become a mod?   
    You guys better be nice to OP. Once his cheque clears he's going to be able to ban you. 
  21. Funny
    Spotty got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in one of the threads of all time   
    @IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.
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    Spotty got a reaction from da na in one of the threads of all time   
    @IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.
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    Spotty got a reaction from Needfuldoer in one of the threads of all time   
    @IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.
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    Spotty got a reaction from TVwazhere in one of the threads of all time   
    @IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.
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    Spotty got a reaction from sub68 in one of the threads of all time   
    @IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.
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