Reputation from WillOfTheLand

WillOfTheLand got a reaction from da na in We need a law to stop scalpers. February 3, 2023

The only way this problem ever gets solved is via legislation, an actual act to stop scalpers. Now I may be drawing some inspiration from Louis Rossman but we all know bureaucrats aren't going to do anything unless we get the ball rolling. So who's with me? The first thing we have to do is come up with a draft, a proposal, a idea for a law that would effectively mitigate scalpers without causing harm or issues for anything else.

WillOfTheLand got a reaction from da na in Let's help the Verified Actual Gamer program by getting more AIB's on board and getting more cards February 3, 2023

These are the AIB's that have partnered with the Verified Actual Gamer program. Asus, MSI and EVGA. AMD isn't a AIB but also are partnered.

These are AIB's that aren't.

Gigabyte
https://www.gigabyte.com/Contact

Asrock
https://www.asrock.com/general/about.us.asp?cat=Contact

Power Color
https://www.powercolor.com/contact

Sapphire
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/contact-us

XFX
https://www.xfxforce.com/support/contact-us

ZOTAC
https://www.zotac.com/ca/support#contact

PNY
https://www.pny.com/company-footer/contact-us-company

Palit
https://www.palit.com/palit/contact.php?lang=en

INNO3D
https://www.inno3d.com/static.php?langid=1&refid=2

Colorful
faq.en@colorful.cn

If even a few of us asked them to join on, they may actually consider it. All it takes is a few requests making it up the line to pique interest.

If even a handful of these see the potential for some good PR and join on it could significantly boost the Verified Actual Gamer program and the amount of cards available.

WillOfTheLand got a reaction from da na in Worst Tech mistake you have ever made? November 4, 2021

Using compressed air to clean out the fans and heatsinks on my media PC that files I had no other copies of on it including very dear pictures that can never be had again among a plethora of other things, without anchoring the fans in place so they wouldn't spin while the air passed through them.

Turns out if the fans spin without being actually powered they can build up a slight charge, enough to cause issues. Upon booting the PC after I was greeted by no display output and after leaving it for half a hour with still no display and hitting the power button to initiate shutdown it still hadn't shut down another hour and a half later, at which point I made the call to hold down the power button and do a hard power off, to which I was greeted by the sound of the HDD screeching as is grinded to a halt.

That said (and this was a complete idiot move) I wanted to see just how bad it was figuring I'd wrote off the drive, I powered it on again and surprisingly it booted up just fine.....It just somehow was lacking ethernet drivers, and upon trying to restart again it just failed to boot, not the drive in total, but windows itself would get part way and fail, even safe mode you would see loading up modules only to see it crash about 2/3 the way. And the drive didn't sound the greatest when this happened.

So it's been powered off and the media PC has just been sitting aside ever since, the drive at least isn't completely total'd and probably mostly recoverable as it's probably just a bad sector that was made even worse by what happened (the fact it booted once at all would indicate the heads are fine at least, and most of the platter), even enough that if was recovered and you ran startup repair on the clone it'd probably fix whatever is missing and boot, but data recovery is expensive, even from the cheapest companies, so it's just going to sit there as a reminder to stupidity.

Always hold the fans still if you're cleaning with compressed air.

WillOfTheLand got a reaction from dogwitch in Is a Sony PS3 Leak Now Leading To Banned Consoles? June 28, 2021

https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/06/27/0246252/is-a-sony-ps3-leak-now-leading-to-banned-consoles

"Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network," Threatpost is reporting, calling it "just the latest in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers."

tlhIngan (Slashdot user #30,335) shares Threatpost's report:Sony reportedly left a folder with every PS3 console ID online unsecured, and it was discovered and reported by a Spanish YouTuber with the handle "The WizWiki" in mid-April... Now, several weeks later, players on PlayStation Network message boards are complaining that they can't sign on and are receiving the error message 8071006. After enabling two-factor authentication (2FA), one player was able to sign back in without issue, according to posts on the PS3 subreddit, which includes a link to instructions on how to opt into 2FA on the PS3.

It appears threat actors have started using the stolen PS3 console IDs for malicious purposes, causing the legitimate players to get banned... Sony has not responded to Threatpost's request for comment or confirmed a connection between the PS3 ID breach and player reports of being locked out of the platform...

Sony is hardly the only gaming company leaking data like a sieve. A report from January found a half a million credentials stolen from the Top 25 gaming companies on caches of breached data for sale in criminal marketplaces. In June, the "Battle of the Galaxy" mobile game leaked 6 million gamer profiles, and attackers are working out how to use gaming platforms like Steam to host or deliver malware.

Looks like sony is getting their way on killing the ps3 whether people like it or not.