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    StDragon reacted to leadeater in Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event - M4 SoC already, dual-stack OLEDs, haptic (spatial?) Pencil, laptop-style aluminum keyboard   
    Apple MacPad Air
    Apple LapPad Air
    Apple PadTop Air
    Apple MacSheet Air
    Apple MacPlank Air
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    StDragon reacted to LAwLz in VPNs are basically useless as confirmed through testing.   
    VPNs are not meant to anonymize you. They never have, and never will. If you want anonymity, use Tor. If your selling point (anonymity) relies on a "trust me bro" policy about not logging then it is not a good service. 
     
    VPNs have some other benefits though. So don't take my post as saying "VPNs are useless". 
     
    This vulnerability isn't really about anonymity though. My guess is that Microsoft will patch it, if the VPN providers can set their route priority lower than what the dhcp option then Microsoft won't have to do anything. 
     
     
    Please note that this attack requires a malicious DHCP server. It won't be an issue at home, but it might be an issue at for example a coffee shop. It is also detectable. So if you are worried, check your routing table. 
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    StDragon reacted to Levent in VPNs are basically useless as confirmed through testing.   
    Clickbait title. Should have said "VPNs are basically useless for anonymity..."
     
    VPNs are quite useful, just because you leak DNS doesnt mean you leak the entire traffic. Just because as example my home DNS leaked, doesnt mean my entire network is open to internet. I would still be suspect of MITM sure but you would need to try harder to leak data from my VPN.
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    StDragon reacted to IkeaGnome in Intel says "Buy an overclockable motherboard that disables Current Excursion Protection, Set PL1 to 4000 amps, and your i9-14900KS may burn out"   
    Intel is now sending out guidance to motherboard manufacturers to enforce power limits more closely.
    Intel wants Default Settings with PL1/PL2 at 125W/188W to be implemented by motherboard vendors by the end of May - VideoCardz.com
    About freaking time!
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    StDragon got a reaction from sub68 in Sony Portable Data Transmitter - Broadcasting phone for professionals   
    No, I would never do that.

    So, will this device require a PSN account?
  6. Funny
    StDragon got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Sony Portable Data Transmitter - Broadcasting phone for professionals   
    No, I would never do that.

    So, will this device require a PSN account?
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    StDragon reacted to suicidalfranco in Helldivers 2 requires PSN account linking and creates a lot of backlash   
    Jumping off the PlayStation band wagon after the PS3 was a damn good decision. The less i have to deal with Soyny the better i am.
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    StDragon reacted to Salted Spinach in Helldivers 2 requires PSN account linking and creates a lot of backlash   
    Both Steam and Sony had willfully allowed sales of the game in countries where you cannot create a PSN account.
     
    Refund the game or retract the requirement.
     
    Or this will be escalated to the media and consumer protection authorities in the 190 or so countries where customers are about to get burnt. They will collectively send Sony to the depths of hell
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    StDragon reacted to dizmo in Razer fined for their supposedly N95 Zephyr RGB Mask.   
    IMO they should be heavily fined for making false claims about a product tied to safety. These slaps on the wrist are pathetic. 
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    StDragon reacted to CarlBar in Razer fined for their supposedly N95 Zephyr RGB Mask.   
    Yeah i think this falls firmly into "Fuck Around, Find Out", or possibly "Do Stupid Thing, Win Stupid Prizes".
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    StDragon reacted to porina in Intel says "Buy an overclockable motherboard that disables Current Excursion Protection, Set PL1 to 4000 amps, and your i9-14900KS may burn out"   
    If one manufacturer does something to get ahead, everyone else has to do it to keep up. So they end up all about the same anyway.
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    StDragon reacted to Kisai in Intel says "Buy an overclockable motherboard that disables Current Excursion Protection, Set PL1 to 4000 amps, and your i9-14900KS may burn out"   
    I bought a new i7-14700k, the out-of-the-box motherboard configuration turns on optimizations of "ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING WIFI II"

    Notice what's default. First thing I did was "Enforce All limits" and then turn XMP off so I could update the BIOS. Cause it literately would not update the BIOS with XMP on.
     
    Right beneath that:

     
    Note what BIOS version introduces the Intel baseline profile:

     
    Anyhow, I'm disappointed that manufacturers are still "cheating the benchmarks" after all these years. The out-of-the-box configuration should be the CPU manufacturer's settings. I don't know how these MB's pass QA checks being able to burn out the CPU.
     
     
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    StDragon reacted to Kilrah in Intel says "Buy an overclockable motherboard that disables Current Excursion Protection, Set PL1 to 4000 amps, and your i9-14900KS may burn out"   
    Which is why Intel is blaming the mobo manufacturers for using these unsafe defaults in their BIOSes.
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    StDragon reacted to porina in Intel says "Buy an overclockable motherboard that disables Current Excursion Protection, Set PL1 to 4000 amps, and your i9-14900KS may burn out"   
    Overclocking has always been at the user's risk. The problem we have is that mobo manufacturers haven't made it clear what settings would count as overclocking and/or setting it as default. Even on an AM5 build I recently got I might have the opposite problem. Asus description for a setting in bios was "overclock CPU and ram for more performance" so I disabled it. The CPU wouldn't turbo. Put that setting back to Auto, I get turbo.
  15. Funny
    StDragon got a reaction from BentleyOwen123 in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Alibaba is looking like a good option about now.
     
     
  16. Funny
    StDragon got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Tarkov Devs Introduce New P2W Edition, Fans Outraged   
    I'm surprised the devs haven't thrown the publisher under the bus for this. If there's been any internal revolt over this decision, I wouldn't be surprised if a dev goes public with it.
     
    Meanwhile, I hope the devs have their resumes up to date and ready to jump ship when the time calls for it.
  17. Agree
    StDragon reacted to Spotty in Tarkov Devs Introduce New P2W Edition, Fans Outraged   
    Escape from Tarkov is self-published. Battlestate Games is both the developer and publisher. You can't blame publisher interference for this.
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    StDragon reacted to RejZoR in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Your claim makes no sense. No one just charges premium and everyone's like "yup, all fine". You earn the right to charge premium and EK has always been the premium brand. Guess what, premium brands charge premium prices. People also forgot how copper prices increased through years and how machining specific blocks simply costs more.
     
    As for EVGA, do you realize EVGA was actually making the "NVIDIA" branded graphic cards for NVIDIA back in the day and that it was known as brand with toughest PCB's and power delivery circuits? In similar way how Sapphire has been making "Built by ATi" back then. Also your warranty claim makes no sense. Last thing any company wants is for most of their products to be processed through warranty. It's just absolutely worst for business. Either you lower the warranty period and risk people avoiding your products or you raise the warranty to attract customers with longer warranty and ensure most of your sold products survive warranty period without any need for service. This is the best outcome. But if something goes wrong, users have the peace of mind warranty will cover their expensive graphic card and as far as I know EVGA has always correctly dealt with warranty claims and was actually know to be very "pro consumer" oriented.
  19. Funny
    StDragon got a reaction from williamcll in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    Alibaba is looking like a good option about now.
     
     
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    StDragon got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Dell Inspiron not connecting to Wi-Fi?   
    This is the service manual in PDF

    https://dl.dell.com/content/manual13059505-inspiron-15-3511-service-manual.pdf?language=en-us

    Page 14 shows the two WiFi antenna cables connecting to and through the Display assembly. You need those those reconnected, or obtain an aftermarket antenna and connect it to the WiFi module.

    If you look on Page 68, you'll see why you need those reattached: the backside of the display is basically the antenna array as you trace both the blue and orange wires around the perimeter of it.
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    StDragon reacted to SolarNova in US lawmaker proposes a public database of all AI training material used by AI models.   
    Cool ! government oversight on Ai training models, im sure this wont be co-opted for political and/or social agendas........   /s
     
     
    You give these models ALL info ..or none ...otherwise they end up biased. if you dont like the outcome from said Ai after giving it ALL the data available ..dont interact with the Ai to begin with.
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    StDragon reacted to hishnash in YouTube Embraces AV1... But it Might Kill Your Battery   
    Most video decoders these days are not as fixed function as you might think.  

    https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/#hardware-video-decode
     
    The HW itself, even the firmware, does not know how to decode any video. The instructions on how to decode the video are provided by use-space applications (the sys lib) when you call the apis to decode a video.  There is a good reason for this, once you look into all the differnt permutations for a given video coded (including color formats etc) you very quickly sendup with a huge permutation of possible sequences of tasks, having dedicated HW pathways for all of these would take up a massive amount of silicon. 

    Some other SOCs do the same but they do not have it on a co-prososor they have these units within the GPU or within the CPU (see intel cpus) and in those cases some of the compute is offloaded to the cpu or GPU (or cpu's vendor engines) were that is possible. 
     

     
     
     
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    StDragon got a reaction from leadeater in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    There was probably a minimum quantity they had to order and expected to profit from low volume with high margin. That's a very bad idea when dealing with a enthusiast market with high turnover in technology.
     
    In this market, you need both high and low volumes. High volume for market share, stability and to keep your suppliers happy, and markup the high-end because you're also catering to a very noisy enthusiast market; you want brand recognition.

    These guys fucked up in a multitude of ways.
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    StDragon got a reaction from Mark Kaine in EK Waterblocks: Liquidity shortage and mismanagement   
    From fire to water. During bankruptcy, liquidation can be part of that process.
  25. Informative
    StDragon reacted to leadeater in YouTube Embraces AV1... But it Might Kill Your Battery   
    Well that's all fine and good but we can more accurately go by past history from YouTube itself and also it's technical information on what they actually do.
     
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips/
     
    So I can very confidently tell you they aren't going to be AV1 only, not for a very long time/ever.
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