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    givingtnt got a reaction from starsmine in Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone   
    Nah, the real reason to not do this is that 99.999% of employees are idiots and will get the company in trouble w/ social engineers & people stealing their data.
    Companies "spying" on employees is the least of everyone's concern.
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    givingtnt reacted to Kisai in Quebec passes "anti-lemon" law to protect consumers from planned obsolescence.   
    Yet another reason why companies don't sell to/in Quebec.
     
    If this came from the federal government of Canada, maybe it would matter, but foreign companies already avoid Quebec, and even companies in other parts of Canada won't open in Quebec because of the absurd bureaucracy surrounding languages and taxes.
     
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    givingtnt reacted to LinusTech in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

    To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

    To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

    Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
     
    With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
     
    I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
     
    Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
     
    Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
     
    With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
     
    We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
     
    Thanks for reading this.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from TVwazhere in 10 Years of the LTT Forum   
    It's about time we just

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    givingtnt got a reaction from adarw in 10 Years of the LTT Forum   
    It's about time we just

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    givingtnt reacted to GoodBytes in Microsoft announces Windows Dev Kit 2023 PC - ARM64 based PC for Devs   
    Designed to help developers to port or make new applications under Windows 11 for ARM64 based CPUs, Microsoft releases a new powerful PC.
    Teased back at BUILD event earlier the year, this PC is designed to offer a more affordable powerful system for developer over the costly Surface Pro X.
     
     
    Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC, it features:
    32GB LPDDR4x RAM 512GB NVMe SSD Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.1 Windows 11 Pro Heatsink and fan to maximize the SoC performance, and provide continuous high performance. Stackable design 90W power supply included This small compact system features:
    3x USB Type-A 2x USB-C with Video out HBR3 Mini-Display with HBR2 Ethernet (Can drive 3 displays at once)
     
    Interestingly enough, besides its power button, it also features:
    UEFI Button, which allows the system to boot straight to the UEFI of the device. Boot from USB device Button, which allows a dev to start the system and boot to connected bootable USB Flash drive. The system is available for purchase to all through Microsoft online Store in the following regions:
    Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
     
    Price:
    There is only 1 configuration:
    US: $599 USD Canada: $799 CAD You can get it now in the US, date varies for other regions. Canada is Oct 27, so just in a few days.
     
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    Microsoft also mentions that the following dev tools at available to developers have been ported to ARM64 for the best performance (avoids going through the x86/x86-64 translation layer)
    Visual Studio 2022 17.4 IDE Windows App SDK VC++ Runtime .NET7 NET Framework 4.8.1 Windows Subsystem for Android Windows Subsystem for Linux Microsoft highlights the following applications who have been ported to native ARM64 for delivering the best performance out of ARM based systems running Windows 11:
    Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom HP Smart Universal Print Driver Crowdstrike Falcon Panda Security ESET Endpoint Antivirus Sophos Intercept X NetWitness XDR   Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Cisco Anyconnect F5 Big-IP Edge Client Ivanti Pulse Secure NetMotion VPN OpenVPN  PassMark PerformanceTest Nexthink Collector 3Dmark Night Raid & Wild Life Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)   Microsoft Edge OneDrive  Microsoft 365 (aka: Office 365) Microsoft Teams Zoom (VLC is missing from the list, but it exists... Stange, maybe it's not a fully ported... dunno)
     
    Reminder, Windows 11 not only brings x86-64 instruction translation support (aka: 64-bit applications for Intel/AMD CPUs) but also supports partially converted applications via Arm64EC technology, as Microsoft calls it. Allowing a native ARM64 application for Windows 11 on ARM to use x86 or x86-64 libraries, a feature missing in Windows 10 on ARM which made it difficult for developers to port their applications as not all libraries that they use are availible yet.
     
    Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/10/24/available-today-windows-dev-kit-2023-aka-project-volterra/
     
    It is very nice that Microsoft finally has converted its dev tools for native ARM64 architecture and is now offering a more decently priced system that developers (or anyone really) to use to help develop /port and test their application. It took the company a very long time to get there, but they finally arrived. It is clear that Microsoft is putting focus on ARM based system. Having more apps available for that architecture will only help the adoption rate of ARM based systems. It will open doors for lower-end SoC being an option (as users won't have to worry too much about support, and not have their experience massacred going through a software translation layer)
     
    Over time, this will also help Rasbery Pi owners who want to run Windows 11 on it a bit, of course driver support is their biggest hurtle that they are facing, but sure sounds like a fun weekend project. https://worproject.com/
     
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    givingtnt got a reaction from da na in Shekeling citizens - security hole with Star citizen servers show odd numbers with backers   
    A con 6 years in the making I tell ya


    But.. Please.. let me dream >.>
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    givingtnt reacted to Forbidden Wafer in Power plant in space by 2035   
    I'm in favor of shooting down any attempts of building death rays in the space. 
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    givingtnt reacted to YoungBlade in Faceboo- I mean Meta announces they are going to take up to 47.5% of any virtual asset sale in its metaverse.   
    Overall, I think this is a good thing...
     
    Because it will heavily dis-incentivize companies from investing in the platform, thus keeping it irrelevant forever - as it should be.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from wall03 in ThinkPi - Old Chassis, New Tricks.   
    Unfortunately no, the chip I needed for the keyboard is not in production and the person who made it decided not to make any more or share the files.. 
    And other than that.. I mean making the battery is not that much more and I just don't have time. (And other, more important projects)
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    givingtnt got a reaction from Quackers101 in Virgin Hyperloop axes half its staff to focus on freight   
    I can't wait for the business to get dissolved entirely, because it's ALSO worthless for cargo.
     
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    givingtnt reacted to Moonzy in (Yet Again) A Possible Goldeneye Remaster   
    will i finally get a HD version of this meme?
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5c_MEs9mo
     
    unlikely because it's caused by a glitch where u remove the catridge mid-game, but one can dream
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    givingtnt reacted to Sauron in I've been from this forum when using Edge   
    serves you right for using edge /s
     
    jokes aside looks like something didn't like your web traffic and flagged your browser canvas fingerprint. give this a try https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/canvas-fingerprint-defend/giglaifdfkimffokoomllcpmdjeomckf
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    givingtnt reacted to Sauron in Microsoft to buy Activision-Blizzard   
    I'm not sure that follows... microsoft seems to have mostly given up on keeping games exclusive to the xbox platform.
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    givingtnt reacted to Salv8 (sam) in Comcast’s new router includes Wi-Fi 6E, Zigbee, and Matter   
    i'm going to assume that you are either high or drunk so i'll be nicer then normal.
    this router has a coax connection, while i can be quite blind at times, i'm quite sure that the Comcast one doesn't have one.

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    givingtnt reacted to Lurick in Comcast’s new router includes Wi-Fi 6E, Zigbee, and Matter   
    I know what a fucking coax port looks like:
     

     
    I've zoomed in some more for you:

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    givingtnt got a reaction from Freakwise in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from WolframaticAlpha in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from EphraimK in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from Heliian in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from PLME888 in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from Paul Thexton in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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    givingtnt got a reaction from Salv8 (sam) in Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support   
    I swear I'm gonna run out of those fucking gifs.
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