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  1. No idea on how exactly the "modelling" comes to fruit at LTT, but I do guess its a company wide mail with an open invitation free to ignore, in any company, some ppl are fine with doing so... My guess is that they didn't ask anyone to do it, leaving it to the ppl themselves to volunteer, given which people are modelling on it. OP questions: 1. For example, let's imagine you employ female X as a graphic designer. Is it OK for it to even be an option for her to model your company underwear? 2. If so, doesn't that create an informal expectation for other female staff? 3. When you know you will model along side one of the owners, is there an unspoken advantage due to the opportunity to mingle with an owner and gain the trust and approval needed to advance? 1. ofcourse it's ok for it being an option. 2. Expectations is a tricky word, for that can be derived into: other people's expectations or expressed expectations, or felt expectation by the person. The first 2 do NOT automatically mean the 3rd. Tho there is a strong correlation between the 2nd and 3rd, there isn't with the first, which mainly depends on power dynamics and the form of expression. The difference between "we're looking for models for this" (implicate/searching) vs "you should model for this" (requesting/pushing) vs "you are going to model for this" (forcing) and the many possible intermediary or maybe even outside those boundaries. All the expressed ways become very fast abusive if not asked broadly without requiring responce (ie: asking for volunteers). 3. I doubt that even the photo shoots between them where at the same time for the different models. As the company has some 200 employees last I heard, everyone is approachable. All this can be fairly quickly be understood by anyone having some basic understanding how companies work how decision making works at such, which is why I agree with the sentiment of others that this is mainly a bait/trolling thread.
  2. It's so simple, M$ can only track you if the laptop is ALIVE!!! They don't want you to let it sleep. Just turn it OFF.
  3. Very true on windows DNS not going to the other DNS server... the primary has to fail and keep failing at boot of the PC and even then only rarely it will take the secondary... its teribad, you'd almost put another DNS server in between to just split it up.... PS: Steam used to use its OWN DNS within steam.... no idea if they still do, think so, but that means it goes outside your defined one.... lol but I guess it still looks at the defined one to see if the local environment has some caching to get it faster. I can imagine ISP's having those servers up and running as well to lower the load.
  4. As the backpack is rather large, it can become quite heavy I'd imagine. The better larger backpacks often have a belt at the bottom of the backpack to alleviate weight from the shoulders. I know there is a link between the 2 shoulder straps (prevents the shoulder straps to pull shoulders back), but the belt would help with it too. It's the only thing holding me back really to buy it atm. Looks great, seems well designed and very usable.
  5. It's bout that their systems must run. <--- that period is understated. As a pre-build it MUST run at business that acquire those systems to just work, and any goofiness that enthusiasts do can't be supported for that would hit their bottom line, clog up support, repairs, etc. It's loss prevention. Linus does not account for that in the video.
  6. Instead of the fastest video card, find the cheapest that still delivers a punch. Current market breaks going for good cards...
  7. It was not in the "instructions" of how to use it, but I wonder if it would have done more if it had been grounded....
  8. I would mount 2 of the monitors above eachother, not get 3 in wide angle....
  9. I regularly go lan-parties. anything wireless becomes a messy pile of s**t there. Way too many sources on 2.4ghz, headphones, mouses, keyboards, the sorry piece of WiFi under all that, the neightbours using same wireless item and getting their input and vv and whatnot. I don't think "lightspeed" will work much at those shitty conditions.
  10. Ehm, @mariushm , you missed some... static discharge works both ways. Touching ground can charge or discharge you with an amount. The idea of using a wristband is to be connected at all times to keep the charge DIFFERENCE as close as can be at all times. You touching a grounded surface can discharge you, or charge you, doesn't matter, it's bout the difference of charge between you and the electronic component you're working on, so you charged or discharged, but the electric component will be a different charge anyhow. This is why the wristband with wire is connected to the antistatic mat. The antistatic bag does give off the charge, but it basically insulates the content from external influences. Once you grab the component.... it's charge will be equalized with you, Every time after that that you touch ground and the component again, it will have to re-equalize with your charge. As for the 1 megaohm resistor between you and the mat, that will invite charges to go through your hands instead of via the wristband off to the mat. I've set up a lot of workplaces for this, generally you better use a low value resistor between you and the mat if absolutely needed, couple kiloohm's at best. Only exception is when you work with live high voltage equipment... you don't want to become the pathway to ground then...
  11. The ESD / Antistatic is useless as shown there. You as a person being directly "grounded" means that the anti-static mat below on the desk isn't and that the motherboard on top of the box for sure is NOT as well. The ESD wristband should lead to a connector on the anti-static mat and (often) from the other side of the mat to the ground THROUGH a 1 megaohm resistor. Why the resistor? Because if some is put on it with a high charge, the 1 megaohm resistor will slowly dissipate the charge to protect the equipment. Also, any charge coming from ground is also attenuated, because there is other equipment on the ground connected, you'd gain charge from it if not through a large resistor. The idea is that it's all at the SAME charge (the difference in charge is what the "static" electricity is making it flow). Basically you have in this video a different charge all the time because you're wrongly grounded. So in short: [your wristband] ----> [Anti static mat] ----> [1 megaohm resistor] ----> [ground connector at socket] Sometimes a floormat is also being applied for higher sensitivity.Those are connected commonly together before the resistor. If multiple workplaces have to be setup, those should all be connected together so no one can charge someone else due having different charge. Also, it does happen that the ground in a socket is not connected, I've had issues in buildings where they put 20 cm cable of "ground" in the pipe, but didn't connect it through.... so that needs to be checked.
  12. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2011/05/31/installing-windows-7-on-uefi-based-computer/ Quote from it: Note: One of the common issues we see is that users try to install X86 version with UEFI enabled in the bios. X86 does not support UEFI so you would have to configure the machine for Legacy boot to install X86 versions of Windows. If you do try to install X86 version setup will run but on the 1st reboot you will get BIOS error similar to “No bootable devices –Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics” So that means you MUST run a x64 version of Win7 on it, but the 2GB ram on it will not be enough for it to run properly imo. You'd need to expand / replace that to at least 4 GB ram, but with that expense, i'd consider to look for 8 gb ram for it. (as a follow up on our convo on discord)
  13. Yeah, correct. In a FAT (8/12/16/32bit) partition its stored in the FAT (File Allocation Table, often 2 copies on a partition depending implementation/version) In a NTFS (New Technology File System, many versions over the years since Windows NT 3.x) partition its stored in the MFT (Master File Table, can be multiple parts over the drive, has journallling, tiny files that are smaller than I believe 4kb will be stored inside the MFT itself instead of outside with a pointer) And so every filesystem has its own "table" or system with where files are being located and managed with. Seems like somebody didn't do their homework writing for the video. The point of that key is to wipe the entire drive, which includes the partition table and the partitions with their filesystem on it.
  14. Linus's Drop Tips, how to drop things without breaking them (disclaimer: practice runs may still break it blah blah)
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