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Hey everyone. Been a while. A falcon 9 is about to launch and watching a rocket as good and reliable as it go up is always cool.

One that the algorithm does not suggest enough is called https://www.youtube.com/@GearSeekers/videos This channel actually did influence building my current PC. This Monolith of a case CRIES OUT for a THREADRIPPER build. Instead I choose the AMD 5700G APU the thread ripper of APU's. The Killer feature really is the ability to hot swap sata SSD's, HDD's etc. To be able to do that is to have practically limitless storage. Another good one is UFD Tech. They are a great channel

At this time if someone is going to have just one computer they should get a well balanced convertible laptop and be done with it. A laptop that is good and portable but can dock to an EGPU enclosure and peripherials using Thunderbolt for desktop use. IF however one really truly needs a desktop computer then building VS buying makes a lot of sense. Especially if you need anything out of the ordinary. Want to do virtualization or run Linux build your own. Want more than 1-2 expansion slots build your own. OEM's tend to charge way too much for these things. I built my system because I wanted to use Linux based scientific applications and also run Windows apps for productivity and gaming at the same time. With this set up I can do that. This is possible using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 though but I wanted Linux to be the host OS and not sacrifice performance in those applications.

I was referring to wafers that were being worked on as the ground beneath them was shaking violently. Very true. Consider the skyscrapers of Downtown Chicago. I don't think they are founded on bedrock because the bedrock here is very VERY far down. The area of Chicago where the John Hancock building is, streeterville, was at the bottom of lake Michigan at first. It started out when a boat, headed by a captain Streeter, ran aground. Sand built up around it ... then it became a sort of island shantytown/ red light district. Now it has skyscrapers with just the sort of deep foundations you describe. https://informedinfrastructure.com/31619/building-skyscrapers-on-chicagos-swampy-soil/ Don't know how well that would hold up if the New Madrid fault had a big 8.0 magnitude quake. Something which hasn't happened since just before the war of 1812. Lets just say I would not want to be on lower Wacker drive under all of that when the shaking happens.

The big news there is that their EUV tools are apparently undamaged. Those are what makes our CPU's and GPU's etc. I can't imagine that any wafers that were on the line are just ok. The defect rate in those will have to be higher. That the tools themselves are ok is great news. Then there are all the indirect effects of the disruption around TSMC, and other companies, that will have an effect. IMHO This is why the world needs to try to create more than one place that is really good at semiconductors. Taiwan has used being indispensable for semiconductors as a national security priority though. If we see an invasion suddenly an 8 core CPU in your rig will be like this.

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. Quotes 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)

What if the real April Fool is that this is the April Fools video? That there is an even more foolish April Fools video out there.

Should this thread be allowed to exist? Had I the godlike power to moderate I'd blank the first message, not penalize anyone, and advise people to not spoil this one for anyone. IT's funny. It's too bad that Terren....

Yeah I mean they don't want it to blow up so yeah.

Hey last ever Delta Heavy launch EVER. Take a look at the end of an era. SCRUBBED and will try again tomorrow due to a technical fault during terminal countdown. It's the rocket version of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYFt-jI184 --- Last of the V8 interceptors.

WORSE. It'll have money you can grind for OR a special premium Crypto currency that you can buy with real money 100X easier than perhaps, maybe, possibly, grinding for in game money to then use to buy the premium currency. Want to drive OKish cars and vehicles and maybe have a pistol grind for it. Want to have a flying saucer that rapid fires homing munitions from orbital cannon altitudes ... pay up. Oh that will be a thing. Get ready for the oppressor mark 3. I get it. The thing is just about all entertainment is kinda Meh. Movies meh, music meh, video games were the last bastion but they had to get so SOOOOoo greedy that they became meh and not worth it.

I agree with this move. Consider that if you own an Apple computer you need to have an Apple phone or tablet to recover your password. They act like a monopoly over those who buy into their ecosystem at all. Then they use their influence to monopolize key applications in various areas. For example. For the longest time there was an app called forflight which pilots would use and it ONLY ran on iPad. WHY? Then there is the way Apple more or less ran every other company that tried to forward a new and in some ways better OS out of business. If it wasn't for Samsung would Android still have decent hardware OR would it basically be a feature phone OS?