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    panzersharkcat reacted to YoungBlade in What are good temps for a Ryzen 9 7900x?   
    Ryzen 7000X series parts, when under an all-core load, like Cinebench or a Blender render, usually go to around 95C. This is normal and expected behavior.
     
    When gaming, it depends heavily on the game, but you can see anything from 50C-80C. So your temps are to be expected.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Hinjima in What are good temps for a Ryzen 9 7900x?   
    The temperatuers you are reporting are good temperatures for a Ryzen 9 7900x.
    The 7000 series from AMD is actually designed to run at 95c 24/7 and anything under that is just a bonus.
    You have good temperatures and nothing to worry about 🙂
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Avocado Diaboli in iFixit drops repairability score of iPhone 14   
    Splitting a score like that risks that some people might assume that they could still attempt a repair themselves only to end up shit creek without a paddle when the software won't cooperate. I feel like this is an instance where the lowest score you get on any metric is the score you get overall. No point in flattering Apple for making hardware repairs easy for their own technicians and certified corporate slaves when the end user isn't getting anything out of it.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to JoshuaScholar in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    I didn't say it was acceptable.

    I meant that it makes me tend to believe her.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Danman2026 in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    https://twitter.com/suuuoppp/status/1691693740254228741
     
    I think this is my last straw. Unsubbed from everywhere. to have a place of employment where employee has to injure themselves to take sick days. Awfull deplorible
     
    Linus and ltt should be ashamed. We need more employees to come forward and expose this shit show and unionize.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to wanderingfool2 in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    No there wasn't, the amount of evidence is likely the same amount of inteligence that Russia is current using.  The fact is, I think it's a very dangerous move to say they are doing it for "disinformation" again, all of the examples I wrote were disinformation.  Sure I used the word misinformation, but there isn't much difference between misinformation and disinformation when the media parrots the governments stance.  Otherwise, I could claim some of the Russian sites that are going to be downgraded for disinformation are merely just presenting the information that is being said by the government.
     
    I get that there is a difference between what is going on, but things should be held equally.  It's why I am saying it's semantics, because the cases I said can very well be construde as disinformation.   Again, start of the pandemic (even when it was clear it was being spread by air-bourne) the government response was still that masks weren't necessary [with a general though being they said so to try protecting the supply chain for N95]...but it was still information that was put out to the media by the government.
     
    You think whataboutism doesn't apply, but the fact is when beginning to talk about censorship yea it very much applies.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to wanderingfool2 in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    My point is that both sides are spinning their own narratives, and if they are willing to downgrade the searches (which pretty much has a same kind of effect of censoring) then it does create issues.  Don't get me wrong, it's a tricky situation to navigate, but to effectively nerf the order it shows just because it's viewed as disinformation is a very dangerous precedent to set.  Again, if WMD/Iraq kind of rhetoric happened now should DDG filter the western sites for pushing that narrative/hiding the truth? 
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Ydfhlx in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    Today Russia is the enemy, and it is clear to anybody.
     
    However, yesterday truckers were the enemy; and who knows who will be tommorow. I'm worried about this concept of government/corporations controlling what you can or can't see being normalised.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to williamcll in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    So instead you get Ukrainian misinformation.
     
    No side is innocent in this conflict.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to wanderingfool2 in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    Semantics.  You completely missed the entire point though.  Again, under the whole concept of censoring if they conclude they need to sensor russian disinformation then they NEED to also do the same for the west.   Examples again, being WMD in Iraq
     
    The thing about disinformation and misinformation is all about the source.  Notice how all the examples I said can be construed as disinformation.  Again, the police brutality situation (intentionally dropping the bit where the officer was attacked first), WMD in Iraq (government said so, and the media ran with it), masks don't prevent spread (media took it an ran with it)...until the government said "new evidence" suggests it did.  Those are all disinformation campaigns that are misinformation because the bodies don't have as much evidence.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to wanderingfool2 in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    The thing is problem A and problem B aren't mutually exclusive.  They are very much intertwined.  The announcement that they are doing a targetted campaign against misinformation by a certain party is what bothers me.  If they are going to say "misinformation" then they very much need to put in the same effort to dissuade from the other side.
     
    Examples being, when the western world were stating masks made no difference at the beginning...and people were getting censored for saying the truth [that masks were important].  During the Beijing protest there was a video that all the news sites posted showing the "police brutality" of a cop beating a man, but watching the full video (not shown on news sites) you see the protestor literally hitting the cop with a stick.
     
    Or when the Canadian press decides to utilize total number count to express how bad things are elsewhere, when per capita counts are roughly the same.  There rarely is a day I go by watching the news where I see actual factual reporting (without bits of misinformation or lacking information misrepresenting what happened).
     
    There is actually an US news company that I can think of right now that is equally bad at constantly putting up misinformation.  At a certain point, it's about how do you know something is misinformation.
     
    The thing is, if they decide to tackle problem A, then they need to tackle problem B because otherwise it's just them essentially saying they getting political.  I think it's the general idea of filtering search results.  After all, if DDG was around for the invasion of Iraq would they be filtering the US sites that spread the word about WMD?
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Master Disaster in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    I dislike the slippery slope argument usually BUT....
     
    Who exactly gets to decide what is and isn't misinformation? What evidence is that person using to make that decision? Isn't the entire concept of misinformation subjective?
     
    We've seen it time and time again, apparent good faith changes that usually end in catastrophe because the wrong person was put in charge of the wrong thing, human bias kicked in and things were done that shouldn't have been.
     
    Yes they should be trying to keep on top of SEO manipulation however a human actively choosing what is and isn't shown is going a bit too far. Just like there is no unbiased search engines, there are no unbiased people as well.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to williamcll in Using censorship to fight censorship (don't actually do this) - DuckDuckgo to donkrank russian sites related to war.   
    Popular search engine DuckDuckGo has decided to adjust search results related to the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict. This has led to controversy.
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    My thoughts
    What's the point of using DDG if all the things you read are the same anyway? Seems very biased to think that disinformation only exists on one side when last week the "ghost of kiev" turned out to be just a video game recording.
    >Inb4 tankie
     
    Sources
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/duckduckgo-slammed-for-downrating-russian-search-results
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    panzersharkcat reacted to bmx6454 in DuckDuckGo downranks Russian disinformation   
    this is dangerous though, no matter where you align politically. who decides what the "standards" are? you may agree with them one day, then disagree the next. i agree with op that information should be freely given, and allow people to decide for themselves.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to steelo in DuckDuckGo downranks Russian disinformation   
    It's a shame because it seemed to be the best mobile browser while (supposedly) protecting your data and not skewing search results.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to steelo in DuckDuckGo downranks Russian disinformation   
    I get it, Russian propaganda is bad. However, this is a VERY slippery slope, I mean, what will they censure next? Will it be based upon their own geo political views? IMO, their job is to serve the information and allow the end user to decide.
     
    https://www.fox5ny.com/news/duckduckgo-down-ranks-websites-linked-to-russian-disinformation-ceo-says
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    panzersharkcat reacted to bmx6454 in DuckDuckGo downranks Russian disinformation   
    duck duck go has been going downhill for some time now, not surprised that they are outright censoring now.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to FloRolf in Experiences with non-techies   
    GF: My laptop doesn't turn on!
    Me: ok
    Me *pushes power button* - nothing
    Me *holds power button* - nothing
    Me: is it charged?
    GF: Of course, it's fully charged!
    Me *plugs into charger anyways*
    Laptop *turns on*
    Me: ....
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    panzersharkcat reacted to soldier_ph in Experiences with non-techies   
    Some people think that Operating systems are like Wine: The older they are the better they get. 
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    panzersharkcat reacted to FakeNSA in Experiences with non-techies   
    Congratulations: You are now the local IT guy.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Quivz in Experiences with non-techies   
    Either this or he couldn't be bothered trying to explain to the IT teachers what was actually happening and just smiled and nodded. He seemed pretty competent to me. But a few of those who taught IT didn't. It took another semester, but they changed to a client image or virtual machine or something. Not sure what terminology i'm looking for here, because its something I've never done, but the computers took several extra minutes to boot and you couldn't do any permanent damage anymore. If you logged off and back on again you had a brand new clean desktop with all your applications and any changes you'd made in your previous session were gone. And if you were in year 12 (Australian school system, year 12 is your final year), you got an extra application... GTA, playable across the network. We were allowed to play it in our free periods.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to vinc3nz0 in Experiences with non-techies   
    be me
    be in third grade
    mom walks in
    we have a family computer given to us by my dad's office
    "Enzo you really need to stop playing these games, if i see you wasting more of your time like this, I'll have to uninstall them from the family computer"
    fast forward a few weeks
    I'm still playing videogames
    mom walks in super angry and drag and drops all my game shortcuts on my desktop
    then proceeds to empty recycle bin
    mfw she thinks that's how you uninstall programs
    mfw I had to tell her years down the line that that isn't how you uninstall software from your computer
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Bitter in Experiences with non-techies   
    My guess? IT guy would rather spend a day working alone in the computer lab than dealing with people around the school.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Quivz in Experiences with non-techies   
    Actually there was also a time back in 99 when i was alone in a school computer lab at lunch. I had just needed to print something and the IT teacher had been cool with it and left me to it. After printing i had the humorous idea to make a quick powerpoint slide that simply said "Virus" in big letters and then changed the font to one that flashed different colours. I started the slideshow and left the lab. The next day, that lab was closed and the IT guy was formatting all the computers in that room.
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    panzersharkcat reacted to Quivz in Experiences with non-techies   
    My mother keeps everything on the desktop. When i upgraded her machine yonks ago, i moved her from Windows ME to 7 with a new build. She made me put everything from the old desktop on the new desktop in a folder called "old desktop". Not long ago i upgraded her machine again. There is now a folder on the desktop called "old desktop" that contains a folder called "old desktop". I got curious recently. The highest tier had a last modified that matched the day i did the upgrade. The lower tier was around the time she moved to windows 7. She's never opened either folder again. I've nearly convinced her that she should move to windows 10 and expect to be making a new "old desktop" folder soon.
    EDIT: I almost forgot that on the initial computer when she finally ran out of space for new icons she bought an external hard drive because she thought that meant the hard drive was full.
     
    There was a time she thought the sound was broken and when i came round it was a driver issue. I dont remember the exact conversation but i do remember only realising days later that must have been why she left the room, came back and put her drivers license on the desk next to me. At the time i thought she must have been prepping to do something that required id when i had finished. I imagine she still thinks her drivers license fixed the sound issue.
     
    She constantly complains about voices on the tv being too soft, but wont raise the volume because "no, its loud enough".
     
    She's convinced her 2008 bravia had hdr and i must have broke it when i connected the wii for the first time. She's also convinced her 2016 LG had hdr (her model doesn't have hdr) until i plugged in the PS4.
     
    My dad thought the whole internet was owned by bill gates and was stored in a big industrial structure called "Silicon Valley".
     
    And the one that really gets me down, people who think they're tech savvy because they can (barely) use an iPad, but still think Wi-Fi and internet are the same thing... 
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