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    dogwitch got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    2 iphone  plus 128gb .
    for my mother and her brother.
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    dogwitch reacted to Space Potato in This TINY TV Costs $20,000   
    If you do get the opportunity to looks into it and there's enough here to turn it into a forum post or even a video you can count me as an interested party.
    As far as using Plex to stream video, I'm a noob myself.
    I got into plex mostly for the bit-perfect audio streaming of my CDs with digitizing my 4k blu-rays mostly being an afterthought. However, now that I've seen how much better my streamed 4K content looks than the online streaming services on my low-to-mid range 4k tv I'm curious if a "bit-perfect" video stream is possible and what that might look like. (maybe it's placebo effect. Haven't really looked into it)
    I'm also kind of curious how content is mastered differently on the different services. I suspect it's not all the same due to random little things like Disney+ being generally quieter than Netflix, Prime video, or Youtube Movies.
     
    Anyway, appreciate the great content!
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    dogwitch got a reaction from leadeater in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    one other did for awhile. zotac i think? years ago.
     
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    dogwitch reacted to Kilrah in JellyFin 4K Media Playback = Buffering   
    That'll be the key. CPU transcoding on a 8100 isn't gonna cut it.
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    dogwitch reacted to TVwazhere in F@H and BOINC Badge Request Thread [Last Update: 2024-APR-13]   
    *back from vacation, meme showcase*
     
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    dogwitch reacted to SansVarnic in F@H and BOINC Badge Request Thread [Last Update: 2024-APR-13]   
    Thank you for the offer but there are no plans to implement an automated process for issuing badges.
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in BOINC Pentathlon 2024   
    Dates: 05 May 2024 00:00 UTC - 19 May 2023 00:00 UTC
    https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/start.php
     

    The Pentathlon is an annual event for several BOINC teams to compete across five disciplines (five different BOINC projects) to gain points and win medals.  Several teams, but only one team comes out as the winner.  The event last for over two weeks.  If you up to the challenge, come on and join the team in competing in the pentathlon and see if your hardware can handle the heat.
     
     

    Team Name: LinusTechTips_Team
    Contacts: TBA
    What is BOINC?: https://linustechtips.com/topic/151235-official-ltt-boinc-faq-guide/
     
     
    Events:
     
     
    Marathon
    Project: TBA Website: TBA Resource Usage: TBA Start:  05 May 2023 00:00 UTC End:  19 May 2023 00:00 UTC User Provided Setup Guide:  TBA  
    Sprint
    Project: TBA Website: TBA Resource Usage: TBA Start:  05 May 2023 00:00 UTC End:  19 May 2023 00:00 UTC User Provided Setup Guide:  TBA  
    City Run
    Project: TBA Website: TBA Resource Usage: TBA Start:  TBA End:  TBA User Provided Setup Guide: TBA  
    Steeplechase
    Project: TBA Website: TBA Resource Usage: TBA Start: TBA End: TBA  
    Javelin Throw
    Project: TBA Website: TBA Resource Usage:  TBA Start: TBA End: TBA  
    Bunker Technique
    An advance technique used during the Pentathlon to hold a large amount of WUs (Work Units) before a discipline start date.
     
    Windows 7/8/10
     
    Linux (conformed for Ubuntu and Mint) - if anyone else manage to get this to work on other Linux branches, please ping me or Ben so those can be added to the list.
     
     
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in YouTube Embraces AV1... But it Might Kill Your Battery   
    Yes you can, you can do as many sessions as you want on a Pro card and 5 on a Geforce. People have been doing this for ages, if you can't get it working either it's something you are doing or you are trying an unsupported scenario, which btw wouldn't change if you had 100 nvenc encoders on a card since most have 2 already.
     

    https://developer.nvidia.com/video-codec-sdk
     
    Also real-time encoding aka live streaming has it's own requirements, it has nothing to do with whether or not you can do multiple sessions. Your scenario is also only relevant to client side streaming, server side wouldn't care about any of that and would multi session just fine up to the real time limit due to performance (for live streaming only). But as mentioned requirements for live streaming and encoding in general are different.
     
    If you want to ingest a video file and encode it to 12 different output files of different settings then no problem, just let it run.
     
    You might want to have a look at this, possibly helpful to you when available:
    https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/multiple-encodes?language=en_US
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in YouTube Embraces AV1... But it Might Kill Your Battery   
    Just because it is the default doesn't necessarily mean there isn't another codec source available. Already lots of videos are VP9 and H264 and which is played is picked via device hardware support.
     
    Devices that don't have AV1 won't necessarily be playing AV1 source and software decoding.
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Since when is that a "finish" issue? Btw I don't even dislike that look heh. I think it's pretty bold to proclaim the entire range of products is garbage and bad because they don't polish finish areas you don't see and are not part of the cold plate either when everything else is good and additionally some people actually like those tool mark finish (so long as it's patterned nice, eh you get the gist).
     
    Not saying it's unfair to expect higher grade finish on those areas for the price though.
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    dogwitch reacted to Dellenn in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    EK CEO issued a statement:
     

    Let's hope that with EK himself back at the helm that the ship gets righted and those who are due payment are taken care of in a timely manner.
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    dogwitch reacted to ToboRobot in We can do THIS now! - Lumafield CT Scanner   
    If the company closes, it has assets, and those assets will belong to someone, be it a financial institution, investor or other company.

    Whoever has those assets at the end, will want to find a way to get their money back and will either sell them or try to run a business using them.

    I think it was mentioned in the video that there is the option ($$$) for those who don't want a cloud service to have a self hosted version, so that is a possibility.
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    dogwitch reacted to atxcyclist in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Jay’s video is illuminating; EK pre-paying for content and basically ghosting creators is crazy stuff. EK clearly mismanages funds.
     
    Edit: To be clear it’s much worse that they are currently not paying invoices and employees they owe, though that is a much more common scenario. They’re seemingly unreliable in all aspects of business relations.
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Not paying wages is, it's literally a criminal offence. That's our law. It's also a crime for a business to not pay taxes. Also here Health & Safety Volitions can be held personally responsible to managers if serious or systemic.
     
    Corporate crimes are still criminal offences, whether or not a person does or does not, could or could not go to jail.
     
    Criminal offence != jail or potential of jail.
     
    That doesn't make it a Civil Action. The fact that only the State/Fed can do this typically makes it criminal. You might want to re-check if that is actually Civil or Criminal.
     
    https://www.egattorneys.com/wage-theft-penal-code-487m#:~:text=Wage theft is criminalized under,the underpaid wages exceed %24950.
     
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/#:~:text=All forms of wage theft,get caught%2C according to Uribe.
     
    I think you are confusing the issue of only being able to hold the company itself, it's assets etc, accountable and liable. For one that is kind of the point and secondly individuals can be liable for corporate actions. Like the safety issue, if the company refuses to pay for safety equipment and you are in charge of safety and your force your direct reports to work then "you" are liable as well as the company, it's your responsibility and obligation to have the employees not work until they have the required safety equipment.
     
    Enforcement of laws tends to be more the problem than something like this being illegal, laws after all are worthless if not enforced.
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    dogwitch reacted to MarkPol88 in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Are we really that far down a drain that people think that faking harassment claims is proper way to fight with company you do not like?
    Fuck me...
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    There are a lot of people that think the expense, and risk, of having your own manufacturing is too great a cost and that contracted manufacturing is cheaper or lower risk. This isn't necessarily  wrong either, there are a lot of situations where this is more than true however for EK they simply don't have the sales volume along with just having too much products for them to be in this group that would benefit from it.
     
    There are a lot of EK products that should actually be made to order but they can't do that because they don't "make" their products. Anything high volume, if they even have that, sure contract out but bespoke things like motherboard/GPU full cover blocks for non-reference designs that really does need to be made to order or on a similar scale to that.
     
    There are some smart things EK have done, like my PowerColor Liquid Devil GPU that comes with a pre-installed branded full cover GPU block.
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    dogwitch reacted to QuantumSingularity in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    I was about to purchase over €1000 of custom loop parts from them in just 2 weeks at the beginning of May to start my custom loop build, but with that news breaking out i no longer have the desire to do so. The question about warranty coverage (if the company sinks) aside, there is the bad taste of sliminess in doing business. But they were so good for so long, that i can't help but wonder if some of their competition sabotaged them by having a mole in the higher management positions. Someone deliberately kept their policy of outsourcing manufacturing instead of having it inhouse. You can't simply miss the ever increasing numbers of the expenses. You either have to be a complete and actual idiot to not see the trend when looking at the graphs or you do it on purpose to sink the company. 
     
    As for the US vs EU office - sadly this kind of interactions is not that uncommon. Most EU offices really see the US offices as lazy, because of the difference in the work flow scheduling. The 9 - 5 day with 30min or 1 hour launch break in that time is more like 8 - 5 in Europe. Some companies and offices (mainly the tech ones) have the practice of including the commute to and from work in their work hours, which is ok in the EU where you simply hop on a train, a metro, a bus or even if you drive a car and you are rarely more than 10-15 minutes away, but many people in The US spend an hour or more each way, which when added as an overtime to the already seen as the lazy 40-hour work week, pisses off not only the managers, but the rest of the employees as well. My current employer doesn't include the commute in the work hours, BUT we get the fuel paid based on the average consumption of our cars and the distance to and from our workplace which is a compromise everyone is happy with.
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    dogwitch reacted to pstrick2 in We can do THIS now! - Lumafield CT Scanner   
    I work in a lab that does some materials engineering.
     
    That floral foam is incredibly toxic. You should not be breathing in the dust and I wouldn't even touch it with my bare hands.
     
    Cool video. Cool machine.
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    dogwitch reacted to ToboRobot in We can do THIS now! - Lumafield CT Scanner   
    Now we know why Colton never gets fired.  He can drive a fork lift!
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in I Can’t Believe They Threw This Away   
    Or man who puts finger in high rpm server fan, that is also very loud 😉
     
    But those rads and fans aren't actually that loud, sure they are 3 phase fans but it's not like I run them at 100% rpm. Servers in the room are louder.
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    dogwitch reacted to Needfuldoer in I Can’t Believe They Threw This Away   
    Why is anyone astonished that 50-ish gallons of water adequately cooled one gaming PC (which "only" draws about 1200 watts)? That's a huge thermal mass, even if you ignore the radiator itself.
     
    What's the plan for these things? Is the Labs building going to get a chiller plant? 
     
    If it's loud you want, try Liebert chillers hooked up to a Trane plant that isn't set up properly.
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in I Can’t Believe They Threw This Away   
    If they are too loud then may I suggest something like these
     

     
     

    Not the exact same product as above but same same, this is what we actually have. Bring your own fan OFC, just pick something quiet (fan on other side, not visible).
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    dogwitch reacted to leadeater in I Can’t Believe They Threw This Away   
    @18:47 I'm not sure those are going to be quiet enough for your liking... 🤷‍♂️
     

     
     
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    dogwitch reacted to RejZoR in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    That's pretty rough. I always looked at EK with pride since they were the apex of custom cooling and being from small country of Slovenia to make such huge impact on industry, it was quite something. Hearing this stuff is very rough and saddens me that they went this way.
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    dogwitch reacted to FlyingPotato_is_taken in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Not a review. YouTubers only destroy companies with bad reviews. /s
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