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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.

From fire to water. During bankruptcy, liquidation can be part of that process.

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.

Sounds like having many dozens of bespoke designs for custom supplier GPUs and high-end motherboards, things that will be low-volume sales, yet EK has to have larger production runs of each SKU made to keep production costs down, is an unsustainable practice.

Just to make my position on this more clear. In a **perfect world, I'm not opposed to an official ID. However, there's three outstanding problems I take issue with.
When the SSN was debated in Congress, it was forewarned it would be used carelessly and abused. This turned out to be correct. SSN are being exposed with regards to how Personal Identifiable Information (PII) gets secured; or the lack thereof. It rewards false intentions, if not outright lies when being legislated by our elected officials. This is a moral hazard where the ends don't justify the means. If there's going to be a national ID, there needs to be stricter regulations with how this is applied, accessed, and stored. Though it's a bit late when over 143 MILLION records have been exposed from one of the three largest CRAs (in this case, Equifax).

**We don't live in a perfect world, so I'm exceedingly skeptical that this wouldn't be abused; either willfully or through negligence. Identity theft is a big deal.

I quote SSA.gov in bold per the PDF linked above from page 1.

"We don’t give your number to anyone, except when authorized by law. You should be careful about sharing your number, even when you’re asked for it."

Uh huh, about that...

^ LOL, you just described the US Gov. The SSN is one giant moving goalpost in terms of scope-creep.

How We Got Social Security Numbers | HISTORY

Not being paid for MONTHS as an employee is terrible, and nobody should have to deal with that... I hope EK winds up making things right to all of the employees, and then to the vendors they also owe a ton of money to. Employees should come first.

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.

Watching a little of the video. It sounds like the owe the state of Texas money and the fact that some people havent gotten paid or had their time altered is a big violation of both state and federal labor laws. EK is going to get sued.

So, Artesian Build ver 2.0 ?

Regardless of being the best in the business, if you fail due your own incompetence then you fail. It sucks for us, but life moves forward. 

If this is a new build, then I highly recommend running Memtest86 for at least 12 hours with as many passes as you can. Just crank the pass count up so you can at least run it that long. Don't worry if you can't finish them all. What's important is that of the passes that it completed or is working on doesn't throw any errors. You'll know if you have any.

https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

Don't ignore memory errors. At best that can crash a game, general apps, or the OS. But the worst is when data in flight gets corrupted and written back to the disk. You might not know how badly your files on disk have been corrupted until it's too late.

It looks to be a well balanced system. I think the only concern is if it's been stable with that memory.
 
Other than that, be sure you're running at least PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives; specifically one in the first M.2 that connects lanes direct to the CPU. The the M.2 slot through the X570 chipset will work too, but it's shared bandwidth.

lol, so Laptron was generating with a keygen?! 🤣

Yeah, those are very version specific. So the algo gets rotated upon the next version release so only legit keys work, and the pirated ones from the keygen program are invalid. This cat-and-mouse game is very common in the software world that uses activation keys.

Alternative headline:
US lawmaker proposes to backup the Internet
 
If we assume that the likes of ChatGPT have crawled large parts of the Internet, then that's effectively what would be required. Simply providing links is nonsense, since these will either become stale or the content behind them might change over time.

When dealing with thousands of machines at an org, you need a platform that can be centrally managed within an IT department for policy enforcements (GPOs), patching, provisioning, and software deployment. Windows is "easier" in that there's a whole lot of official documentation with Microsoft backing it along with a 3rd party ecosystem.

With Linux, you're relying on a vendor implementation of it for support; say for example a virtual appliance or as a packaged solution with their lifecycle support behind it. Or, you just have far fewer Linux servers running with dedicated admins maintaining them.

I wouldn't say you can't run an entire org on FOSS, but rather it's the devil that you know vs the one you don't. Often is the lack of Linux admins in the market place (Windows admins are cheaper) too.

The irony is that if the world changes to Linux from Windows, it's because they will run a Microsoft flavor of Linux. 😂

So, by the time Win10 EOL rolls around, 8th gen intel chips will be 8 years old.
 
So the youngest incompatibile computers will be 8 years old hardware.

That's nothing new; that has always happened for products that are EOL. As a private consumer, why wouldn't you simply move to Windows 11 at that point?
 
If you want a much more severe Microsoft issue, it's this one:
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf

Honestly changing settings like this through outside software seems really uncomfy to me in the first place. 
This actually doesn't seem like Microsoft trying to shove edge down your throat as much as it is trying to minimize security risks. 
Personally I don't think any outside software should be messing with any of your settings period. 

When dealing with thousands of machines at an org, you need a platform that can be centrally managed within an IT department for policy enforcements (GPOs), patching, provisioning, and software deployment. Windows is "easier" in that there's a whole lot of official documentation with Microsoft backing it along with a 3rd party ecosystem.

With Linux, you're relying on a vendor implementation of it for support; say for example a virtual appliance or as a packaged solution with their lifecycle support behind it. Or, you just have far fewer Linux servers running with dedicated admins maintaining them.

I wouldn't say you can't run an entire org on FOSS, but rather it's the devil that you know vs the one you don't. Often is the lack of Linux admins in the market place (Windows admins are cheaper) too.

The irony is that if the world changes to Linux from Windows, it's because they will run a Microsoft flavor of Linux. 😂

Cause browsers and AV products change it, but more to the point, other things have hijacked the "default browser" setting to intercept links you open from your email clients.
 
Like OTP logins.

I mean, one could try something like PiHole, no?

That's correct.
 
Also correct, however keep in mind that the NPUs use significantly less power. So probably not much of an increase in battery usage (but it would be a measurable consumption).

The LMM of Siri would be small and complex enough to perform local tasks within the phone. Think of Siri being the same, but with common sense.

It's probably trained so that if it can't answer your question appropriately based on the locality of data, it will just forward it to the cloud to a much larger GPT. To the user, it will seem like one seamless operation regardless of the bifurcation between local and cloud based LLMs.  

100% agreed.

You should have a government ID, but it should never be used for tracking outside of finance and government.

And yes, I'm in favor of anonymity and pseudonyms. Once everything is tied to a RealID, it will take milliseconds for an AI to data-mine and profile you based on everything tied to it. In fact, over time it would probably know you better than you know yourself.

If you call your company `DarwinAI` then you clearly have your targets set on being purchased by apple.