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    orangecat 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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    orangecat reacted to minibois in Ducky USB C connector broken   
    Do you have a picture of the entire right side of the board?
    I have done a repair on a Ducky keyboard with just about the same issue (broken off USB Type C port and ripped pads) and ended up repairing it with a small custom designed PCB going to some pads next to the caps lock key that had GND/D+/D-/VCC hookups:
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    orangecat reacted to GuiltySpark_ in Ducky USB C connector broken   
    It seems some of the solder pads have been lifted. Its fixable, but that's going to be a very, very fiddly job, even if you have the right tools. Might require scratching away some solder mask and VERY fine jumper wires. 
     
    I don't envy trying to fix that. 
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    orangecat reacted to Eigenvektor in PC won't detect any SATA devices   
    Which SATA ports did you try? If you check the board's specs (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/PRIME/PRIME-B450M-A/techspec/), you can see the following:
    So depending on which ports you tried, this could be the reason
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    orangecat got a reaction from Bombastinator in PC won't detect any SATA devices   
    Hmmmm. I tried using 5 and 6 however I'm 99.9% sure I also tried other ports. I will double check.
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    orangecat got a reaction from tryton-vanmeer in My opinion on Linus and Luke's Linux challenge   
    Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes...

    So I watched the latest WAN Show and during the show Linus and Luke did a poll to see what distro they should use. I just wanted to say I personally think they should use Arch Linux. I know someone will call me a fanboy or whatever but I seriously think it's what's best suited for both of them if they actually do plan on daily driving Linux. The main reason I think they should use arch is because both of them tend to be what I would consider power users. Arch is a very power user friendly distro and if the point of the challenge is to learn linux and see if you can daily drive it then what better distro to use than the one that you setup yourself. You can pick your own desktop environment and all the accoupling packages. Plus the arch wiki is by far one of the most useful linux documents out there and it all directly applies to arch (and other distros).

    You guys could have the first challenge being getting through the arch installer and getting to a working desktop. it's really not that hard and I'm sure Anthony could give you guys some tips like how to use and setup sudo on your user accounts. it also offers the most vanilla experience out of all the distros imo and I think that will make it easy to start with something basic and over the course of the challenge try and make your arch install your own. I'm almost certain Linus will want to use KDE or maybe GNOME and most other distros come skinned pretty ugly out of the box and I think that might be a bit of a turn off for Linux and Luke. maybe not but I know a lot of people don't like how Linux looks as it's not always flashy.

    I also think it would be a good reason for them both to dive deeper into Linux and learn how it works. Maybe they can both come out of this more experienced linux users than they were before. Arch is great and if they need any pointers I'm sure the arch community will help them out.
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    orangecat got a reaction from konstant213 in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    Yea but LMG has grown alot since then and I think some of the new people could benefit from a workshop kind of thing where they learn how to build a PC.
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    orangecat reacted to Levent in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    Her effort was admirable. She did much better than that guy from The Verge claiming he built PCs before and continued to make insane mistakes. I agree though, they should do a video starting from planning phase to all the way down to installing drivers.
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    orangecat reacted to minibois in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    @Kilobytez95I've merged your thread into the official video suggestion thread, where it would be most likely to be seen by the LMG staff
    Your video suggestion kind of reminds me of this moving vlog video:
     
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    orangecat got a reaction from Levent in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
    So I just watched the latest video where Sarah built a PC and as much as I enjoyed the video I couldn't help but cringe along side Linus. I know Sarah isn't the only one at LMG that doesn't know how to build a PC well so I think it would make for a good video if Linus held a sort of class or workshop where the LMG staff learns the correct way to build a PC. Maybe there can be some kind of test or grade at the end to see how everyone did.
     
    Thoughts? 

    Also Idk if this is the right place to post this.
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    orangecat got a reaction from da na in Experiences with non-techies   
    I hate when i tell people to enter the BIOS and they go UHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... how.
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    orangecat reacted to TehDwonz in How to stabilize PCIe slot power?   
    But have you tried undervolting/underclocking, just to see?

    This might seem nuts, but you could try one of these Totally Not Suspect AliExpress cards...
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000770345682.html
    Their alleged use is for noise filtering, but the way that's achieved is... a load of capacitors on the PCIe power lines. You can get DIMM module versions too. No clue if they work, or are even safe. Maybe convince @jakkuh_t to be a crash-test dummy?
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    orangecat reacted to TVwazhere in F@H and BOINC Badge Request Thread [Last Update: 2024-MAR-11]   
    You ask nicely  
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    orangecat got a reaction from Slayerking92 in How does Windows 10 network permissions work?   
    So for ages now I've been trying to figure out how to share files and folder across my home network but I haven't been able to figure it out. I turn on stuff like network discovery and under network in file explorer I will see the name of the PC I want to connect to but when I click on it Windows asks me for a login/credentials. I am signed in to my Microsoft account on both PCs but I have no idea what I'm supposed to type. Do i put my user name as it spelled in Windows? Do i use my microsoft account email address? What password do I need? Microsoft account or Windows pin? Only way I know how to get access to the files is by allowing GUEST user to access files over the network but that seems kinda insecure and improper. I assume I have to let Windows know that there's other PCs on the network that are allowed to connect but I have no idea how to do that and Google searching hasn't worked.

    Here's what shows up when i try and connect...

     
    I'm not sure what Windows is asking me for as nothing I type works.
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    orangecat got a reaction from Mateyyy in Would there be any serious bottleneck in a system with a 3200g and a 1650 super?   
    3200G is an alright CPU but you might wanna go for something with a minimum of 6 cores and 12 threads as some more modern games tend to be heavily multi-threaded.
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    orangecat got a reaction from Lurick in HELP - CPU GPU Not fully being utilized?   
    Get a new CPU. That CPU is old and will bottleneck that GPU. 
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    orangecat got a reaction from maroammar in My pc freezing after installing new card rx 5500xt   
    Reseat the GPU.
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    orangecat got a reaction from itskieran in Whats your current PPD?   
    lucky you. I got 3PCs going and when they all have WU's I can barely hit 1mill.
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    orangecat got a reaction from FloRolf in It's not much but it's honest work   
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    orangecat got a reaction from Psittac in Multiple WU's on multicore CPU?   
    You can do it via Ryzen Master software but you're better off doing it in UEFI. Just set your PPT limit lower than the default 88 watts. Maybe try 65 and see how it goes.
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    orangecat got a reaction from GDRRiley in Multiple WU's on multicore CPU?   
    You can turn down the package power limit to compensate. Load clocks might be slightly lower when you hit the CPU hard but it shoudl helpo the temps. Also stock ryzen cooler should be enough to fold on. Maybe TIM wasn't applied properly?
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    orangecat reacted to GDRRiley in Multiple WU's on multicore CPU?   
    you can easily split up a CPU.
     
    OP:
    CPUs have so little work no need
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    orangecat got a reaction from ViscountStyx in Whats your current PPD?   
    Currently I'm getting about 900K PPD but my CPU and the CPU in another system I have aren't working on units at the moment. In total I got 24 hardware threads and 3 GPUs.
     

     
    Broke 1 mill PPD
     

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    orangecat reacted to Spotty in CPU not getting any WU's   
    That error just means the server didn't have any work units available at that time. Everyone's getting it. It's a problem on their end not a problem with your setup.
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    orangecat got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19   
    I'm gonna start folding for the team again. It's been a while since I last did some folding. Might as well do my part.
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