Computers and stuff...
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there was a peugeot 305 using the Elmore loop country lanes as a race track today and road was closed cos some twat barrel rolled it and ran away over the fields and blocked the road.
plod said the speed limit round these country lanes is 60mph and there is horse $hit all over the road for miles
plod said the speed limit round these country lanes is 60mph and there is horse $hit all over the road for miles
Astronomers accidentally spot runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars
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NASA spots rogue black hole creating trail of fresh stars
Move fast, make things
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I have not been interested in those hacking stories before, but recently, watched a guy on youtube demonstrating how to do reverse SSH with netcat, how easy it is to attack wireless IP cams, how to make a 'bad stick', a USB stick that claims it's a keyboard. It's frankly scary.
I switched off wifi connections on my phone for the first time when I went out shopping today.
I switched off wifi connections on my phone for the first time when I went out shopping today.
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I anticipated these dangers long, long ago and have always avoided wireless use. Once compact mobile phones had arrived I bought a Nokia 1112 for £10 solely for the benefit of having communication in the event of an on-road breakdown. But it has spent its entire life switched off, with a PAYG card I make a dummy call to my home phone once every two months to maintain the account. Easy to remember to do that since I top up all my lithium batteries every two months to keep them healthy.
My home computing network is all hard wired and even when I dig out my laptop, which is backup for my PC, I have a hard wired ethernet connection for it!
And I've never joined into the smartphone revolution and never will, despite being given one. That's a decision made even easier for me since I have no mobile signal at home, despite being in London. Our government speaks rubbish about mobile coverage as our energy companies know with the failure of the smart meter program, many millions of them unable to operate due to no signal on the mobile networks they use.
And the effect smartphones have had on the public concerns me. It's been established that excessive smartphone use can disrupt sleep, can have a serious impact on overall mental health. It can impact memory, affect ability to think clearly, and reduce cognitive and learning skills. And to all of us as we go about it is blindingly obvious that many do use their smartphones to excess, the younger the user, the greater the excess.
Smartphones have an addictive quality, thus gaining entry into the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
It's healthier to remain out of touch with society at large for most of our lives, as we once always used to be.
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Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’ (Published 2020)
The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say.
the point that they even released a beta bios that did not fix the problem ans stated that if you did use it and the board kills the cpu then not there problem and warranty void.
these mother boards are 8-900 quid so take the money and $hit on the customers just like shitmano and apple.
so i will not buy asus or anything made buy corsair either with there $hit psu with coil wine or if you are really lucky they just blow up.
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now look where that fan is, it does nothing bar make a sound
these mother boards are 8-900 quid so take the money and $hit on the customers just like shitmano and apple.
so i will not buy asus or anything made buy corsair either with there $hit psu with coil wine or if you are really lucky they just blow up.
Corsair RM650 PSU Blows up
See pinned comment for context. Thanks all for watching my PC die a quick death :)
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now look where that fan is, it does nothing bar make a sound
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I reckon you've been buying cheap factory seconds from somewhere, Cosair power supplies work fine for me.
Asus wouldn't dare upset the server crowd like that.
didn't AMD release a fix for their SoC voltage control? if so, is the fault AMD's though?
AMD investigating reports of Ryzen chips frying themselves
Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit
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Asus motherboards have always been a bit fussy with RAM (especially newer RAM with fast timings), even types they stated as supported often weren't, with BIOSs updated. The same RAM would work fine on MSI, Gigabyte and Supermicro boards with the same CPUs. But once happily set up, Asus boards are very stable and do work for many years. Except those of course.