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    badreg got a reaction from jazzguitar1440 in Requirements for Dual 4K set up?   
    An RTX 3080 can power 4x 4K displays. In fact, many less powerful GPUs can.
     
    7680x4320 is four times the number of pixels of 4K, so any GPU that can output 8K60 can do 4x 4K60. (Edit: provided that the card has four output ports that can each do 4K60.)
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    badreg got a reaction from Electronics Wizardy in CrystalDiskInfo says SSD at 68% - Should I be worried?   
    The endurance of the 840 Evo NAND has been tested to 1000 P/E cycles, or roughly 120TB of writes on your 120GB drive. There are currently 31TB of host writes on the drive, so if you continue at the same pace, expect it to die in about 15 years.
     
    CrystalDiskInfo doesn't know the exact endurance of the NAND and is just giving an appropriate number. 68% ≈ 74%.
     
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand
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    badreg got a reaction from piratemonkey in Something is overriding my color profile when certain games are opened   
    You can experiment with this yourself by changing the color profile in your Color Management settings. Your display will be visually different when viewing the same image, but if you take screenshots, they will be identical. There are no such things as software/logical/physical pixels. The GPU simply takes a set of RGB values and outputs a set of brightness values to your display. An .icc profile modifies a GPU's LUT and gamma table, which changes the brightness values that are sent to the display. However, the RGB values that are used as input do not change.
     
    This was the suggestion in one of my previous posts.
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    badreg got a reaction from OfficialTechSpace in Something is overriding my color profile when certain games are opened   
    You can experiment with this yourself by changing the color profile in your Color Management settings. Your display will be visually different when viewing the same image, but if you take screenshots, they will be identical. There are no such things as software/logical/physical pixels. The GPU simply takes a set of RGB values and outputs a set of brightness values to your display. An .icc profile modifies a GPU's LUT and gamma table, which changes the brightness values that are sent to the display. However, the RGB values that are used as input do not change.
     
    This was the suggestion in one of my previous posts.
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    badreg got a reaction from piratemonkey in Something is overriding my color profile when certain games are opened   
    You won't be able to capture any changes in a screenshot, because the actual RGB values don't change when a different profile is applied. Profiles tell a display how to interpret and display the RGB values.
     
    When you make a screenshot, the images will typically have an sRGB profile attached to it, not the display profile, so it doesn't matter that the display profile changed.
     
    If you don't get a black screen, then no setting on your monitor was changed, so this would not be fruitful.
     
    This is entirely software. The Nvidia driver is changing the color profile in the background. Here is a Reddit thread with more information:
     
    https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/aavgbw/41758_hotfix_driver_now_automatically_applies_icc/
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    badreg got a reaction from OfficialTechSpace in Something is overriding my color profile when certain games are opened   
    You won't be able to capture any changes in a screenshot, because the actual RGB values don't change when a different profile is applied. Profiles tell a display how to interpret and display the RGB values.
     
    When you make a screenshot, the images will typically have an sRGB profile attached to it, not the display profile, so it doesn't matter that the display profile changed.
     
    If you don't get a black screen, then no setting on your monitor was changed, so this would not be fruitful.
     
    This is entirely software. The Nvidia driver is changing the color profile in the background. Here is a Reddit thread with more information:
     
    https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/aavgbw/41758_hotfix_driver_now_automatically_applies_icc/
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    badreg got a reaction from Booterbotter in Can't dual channel memory, is it compatibility issue or what? 3600Mhz   
    To clear up your confusion regarding the QVL:
    Single and Dual refer to the ranks on the DIMMs, not the number of channels.
     
    The size in GB refers to the size of each DIMM, and the check boxes refer to the number of DIMMs that were successfully validated. For example, 8GB and three checkboxes means that 1x8, 2x8, and 4x8 were all validated.
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    badreg got a reaction from maplepants in How to add HTML data to image?   
    By default, a GET request to "/images/9e3a0083a37d03274c0f733fbcf389ba/tenor.gif" returns an HTML page, which sends another GET request with different request headers to the same URL, which returns the image itself.
     
    First request and response:
    :authority: media1.tenor.com :method: GET :path: /images/9e3a0083a37d03274c0f733fbcf389ba/tenor.gif accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9 ................ content-length: 2180 content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Second GET request and response:
    :authority: media1.tenor.com :method: GET :path: /images/9e3a0083a37d03274c0f733fbcf389ba/tenor.gif accept: image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/*,*/*;q=0.8 ................ content-length: 3119003 content-type: image/gif There is definitely something server side going on. Removing text/html from the Accept request header will return the gif immediately when loading the image URL directly. curl (which uses Accept: */* by default) will also return the gif.
     
    It seems that the server is exploiting the fact that all modern browsers have "text/html" in the headers by default, and simply uses this as a check. If the Accept header contains this string, it means that the request was initialized via the address bar of the browser or via an HTML <a> element, so the server returns an HTML page to the user. The second request was initialized through an <img> element, which has different default Accept types, and the server returns the actual image.
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    badreg got a reaction from GhostRoadieBL in Subscription Vehicles coming to Amsterdam   
    This is a fair point. With a lease, you get exclusive rights to use the vehicle for the term of the lease. However, the tradeoff for this right is the fixed term, and being liable for the entire MSRP of the vehicle if it is totalled. Most leases, especially those that are $0 down, are underwater for at least the first half of the term, requiring leasors to carry additional insurance.
    That is technically true, but there will be a reckoning at the end of the lease if you are over mileage. Either you pay the penalty, or are stuck with buying out the car.
     
    Most people who lease do so because they value the flexibility. I suspect that a lot of them would gladly accept the tradeoffs and pay a higher price to be able to jump in and out of a car within a month.
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    badreg got a reaction from thedangerine in 2.5Gb   
    Got it. The other posts above are correct. You'll need to configure the point to point network between the two devices. Right now, the traffic is routed through the router.
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    badreg got a reaction from Analog in what upgrades do I need for a 3080   
    Start from scratch. Nothing in there is worthy of being paired with a 3080.
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    badreg got a reaction from TukangUsapEmenq in How do you respond to someone who "doesn't care" about internet privacy?   
    It's already a reality, so instead of being afraid of it and trying to fight a battle that has already been lost, you should be trying to figure out how to adapt to it. In a world without privacy, security is what becomes important. It doesn't matter if bad actors have your personal data if they can't breach your accounts. It doesn't matter if Google or Amazon uses your data to serve you personalized ads if you block the ads in the first place.
     
    Hiding behind privacy is the same as security by obfuscation. Yes, it makes you harder to track, but just because you use a VPN, it doesn't mean that a neural network can't make a very good guess about who you with just a digital fingerprint. The solution is not to find better ways to hide. The solution is to make your data worthless to whoever might be interested in it.
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    badreg got a reaction from Doqtori in How do you respond to someone who "doesn't care" about internet privacy?   
    It's already a reality, so instead of being afraid of it and trying to fight a battle that has already been lost, you should be trying to figure out how to adapt to it. In a world without privacy, security is what becomes important. It doesn't matter if bad actors have your personal data if they can't breach your accounts. It doesn't matter if Google or Amazon uses your data to serve you personalized ads if you block the ads in the first place.
     
    Hiding behind privacy is the same as security by obfuscation. Yes, it makes you harder to track, but just because you use a VPN, it doesn't mean that a neural network can't make a very good guess about who you with just a digital fingerprint. The solution is not to find better ways to hide. The solution is to make your data worthless to whoever might be interested in it.
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    badreg got a reaction from Electronics Wizardy in What is this thing on the Asus ROG X570 motherboard?   
    You plug a CAT 5, 5e or 6 cable into it, and you get Internet/networking?
     
    An ethernet jack is not something rare, so what exactly are you asking? If you're wondering why there's two, the other one has a faster link speed.
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    badreg got a reaction from PeterT in Tesla charging for speed updates now...   
    Any canned tune or piggyback device that costs in the neighborhood of $500-1000 will improve 0-60 times by 0.5s or more. However, an ECU flash voids warranties, whereas a factory tune would not.
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    badreg got a reaction from Abdullah Bhutta in VPN and ISP Question on local network   
    Your ISP can do deep packet analysis to get metadata on your traffic. Most web traffic is encrypted, so they won't be able to see the actual data, but they'll be able to make a very good guesses about the data. However, in practice, no ISP is going to monitor its customer base in this way. For the average consumer, most of the data they gather come from your DNS lookups. Change your DNS settings at the router level, and they'll no longer have this information.
     
    Regarding your local network, if you use the ISP gateway, it is possible that it could phone home about what devices are connected to it. But they don't have access to the individual devices on your network through the gateway. If you use your own router behind the gateway, all the gateway will see is the router, and will have no way to see individual devices behind the router (unless you deliberately set your router a certain way).
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    badreg got a reaction from Abdullah Bhutta in VPN and ISP Question on local network   
    Local traffic does not route through the WAN, so it only goes between your devices through the router. Again, an ISP gateway could conceivably (read: highly unlikely) collect metadata on your local traffic, like how many bytes are transferred to and from each device, but no one outside your network will be able to see the packets (unless there is something seriously wrong with your network security or you have malware on your devices).
     
    Using your own router will completely eliminate any chance of your ISP knowing anything about the activity on your local network.
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    badreg got a reaction from LAwLz in VPN and ISP Question on local network   
    Local traffic does not route through the WAN, so it only goes between your devices through the router. Again, an ISP gateway could conceivably (read: highly unlikely) collect metadata on your local traffic, like how many bytes are transferred to and from each device, but no one outside your network will be able to see the packets (unless there is something seriously wrong with your network security or you have malware on your devices).
     
    Using your own router will completely eliminate any chance of your ISP knowing anything about the activity on your local network.
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    badreg got a reaction from Midevil Chaos in Casting From Windows 10 to Smart TV   
    Do you have a problem with the term "Wi-Fi" as well? Evidently not, because you have no problem using it. Wi-Fi is also a marketing invention and its name tells nothing about its technical implementation.
     
    The only difference between "Wi-Fi" and "cast" is how long they have been in the public consciousness. Nevertheless, the phrase "casting to another device" is not new, and has been relatively well understood for at least the last five years. When OP says "cast", I immediately understood that to mean that the goal is to connect to another device wirelessly, either to mirror an entire display or to play media on one device using another device as an input. It certainly does not mean to connect a display with a cable.
     
    The "cast" in Miracast and Chromecast essentially mean the same thing. Even if it is a marketing invention, the fact that multiple companies use the term in the same way is evidence of adoption. That's what I mean when I said that cast is the correct term to describe what OP is trying to do. The fact that a CS rep did not understand the term has no relevance here. OP is asking the forum for help, which presumably has greater technical knowledge than an average CS rep.
     
    And just think about how difficult it would be to ask this question without using the word "cast". The right-click context menu of a media file in Windows 10 literally has an option to "Cast to Device". Is OP supposed to say "I tried right-clicking and selected 'Toss to Device' but all I got was a black screen. Please help"?
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    badreg got a reaction from Midevil Chaos in Casting From Windows 10 to Smart TV   
    Cast is the correct term here. As in Miracast or Chromecast. It means to either mirror a display wirelessly, or using one device as a remote and playing media on a separate device.
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    badreg got a reaction from mbntr in 14 year old camera in 2020   
    I use a 13 year old camera for certain commercial projects, because it is the only APS-C body I own. The 10MP sensor is perfect for the amount of compositing I need to do on the images, and is sufficient for the output specs. I charge thousands of dollars a day for a camera that had a <$1000 MSRP at launch and is worth probably around $100 today. It is by far the best ROI camera that I own.
     
    Cameras are tools. If they get the job done, then they're fine. If you need to do something that your current tools can't do, then get a better tool.
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    badreg got a reaction from mcbaes72 in Tesla charging for speed updates now...   
    It's not at all. If you frequent car forums at all, you will find plenty of people who are willing to pay a hefty premium for an "inferior" (i.e. less power) tune that comes with a warranty over a better one that voids the powertrain warranty.
     
    4.8s -> 4.3s amounts to roughly a 75hp/100lb-ft gain, and would bring the power numbers close to the next trim level up, so $2k is quite a bargain if it mattered to you. This is only a story because Tesla never used to charge for speed upgrades before.
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    badreg got a reaction from mcbaes72 in Tesla charging for speed updates now...   
    Any canned tune or piggyback device that costs in the neighborhood of $500-1000 will improve 0-60 times by 0.5s or more. However, an ECU flash voids warranties, whereas a factory tune would not.
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    badreg got a reaction from MarvinKMooney in Tesla charging for speed updates now...   
    Any canned tune or piggyback device that costs in the neighborhood of $500-1000 will improve 0-60 times by 0.5s or more. However, an ECU flash voids warranties, whereas a factory tune would not.
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    badreg got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Tesla charging for speed updates now...   
    Any canned tune or piggyback device that costs in the neighborhood of $500-1000 will improve 0-60 times by 0.5s or more. However, an ECU flash voids warranties, whereas a factory tune would not.
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