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I'm not sure how much more of the the winking and nodding from Linus and Luke about his supposedly controversial political opinions I can take. Linus is a smart enough guy to know that being vague about it isn't exactly going to help matters. The whole thing is just so smug and circlejerky that I find myself being put off from LTT in general.

Right, but the audio will only clip after a certain point, so the loudness isn't making its way to your ears.

As a headphone user I've never really understood this phrase. It seems like it would only apply if something is mixed very low and then has very loud spikes. Otherwise, if something is mixed to reference and the user doesn't turn up their volume I don't see why it would hurt anyone's ears. Is this just a meme at this point? It's just a pet peeve of mine whenever someone mentions it, like on the WAN show, for example.

I've recently run into video streaming issues on certain sites that use Akamai CDNs. It turns out that it was my Cloudfare DNS that was causing the issue. The DNS was causing the CDN to assign me servers in remote regions. As a result, streaming was very slow for me. This is making me rethink the DNS servers I use for my PC and game consoles. On one hand, I would lose anonymity and look up speed, but on the other hand I would get much better performance on CDNs. If you're having issues with streaming/downloading from a network, it's worth looking into your DNS configuration. Is there another solution to this issue? Do you use alternative DNS servers or do you stick with your ISP's?

Sure, but I would still imagine there are people who would be willing to contribute to an open source project. It isn't just about looking nice, it's about functionality as well. Backing up your fan curves, smart learning, remote access, and seamless startup would all be welcome additions, for example. I'm using SpeedFan at the moment and it takes a long time to initialize on startup. There isn't an option to "start minimized" either. It's 2018 and it's just strange that fan software hasn't progressed at all.

Seriously, why!? Fan control is something that is essential to everyone who builds a computer. I would think that as the market demand has gone up for building your own PC, someone would've taken it upon themselves to make a great fan control software. The only one that seems tolerable is SpeedFan, and even that is insanely outdated. Most motherboard manufacturers have options in the BIOS, but they often leave out GPU temp which makes it useless. This is something that I just struggle to understand. Why is it so hard to make a piece of fan software that: is lightweight intuitive to use clean GUI fast and hidden startup flexible speed configurations On paper it doesn't seem like it should be rocket science, yet even manufacturers fail at it. A fan control server that you can access from your browser seems like a no-brainer.