UltraMega

I'm not really in a position to help financially as I'm still recovering from being off work during covid, but I'm definitely down to help in other ways if possible. Maybe you should change the title of this thread to something like: figuring out the future of the site.

I'm not very familiar with the apple specific stuff like this. What does that do? Could this be a dying CMOS battery, or whatever the apple equivalent is? That's probably it... Freaking apple, of course it would be on the back of the motherboard and require basically 100% disassembly to replace a battery.

Yea; white screen, apple logo, then reboots.

So a customer brought me a 2010 27 inch iMac that he said wasn't booting up to the OS. Turned on, just didn't boot. When he brought it to me and I turned it on, it booted up just fine. I rebooted it a couple of times and it worked every time. Given the age and the fact that it had apparently failed to boot at least a couple of times, I asked the customer if he wanted me to replace the hard drive since that is a likely cause and pretty cheap and easy to do, so I replaced the HDD with an SSD, reinstalled high Seirra 10.13 and everything worked normally. I gave it back to the customer and he has been using it for a few days at least without issues. Today he reached out to me and told me it's not booting again, and it never boots. It's not an intermittent issue, it fails to boot every time now. He removed all devices except the mouse and tried booting it that way, same issue. Kinda at a loss, I would expect most hardware issues to be intermittent if something was failing but this hasn't been very intermittent so far. I didn't see a lot of dust when I opened it, but there are a lot of areas you can't seen on the inside of an iMac without digging further. Could dust cause something like this? Bad ram? The customer replaced the ram on his own and he had some issues after that so he switched back to the original ram. He never had any issues before that.

I feel like the SEO payments/costs could be canceled since the site isn't currently really pulling in new users anyway. For now it seems like it would make sense to pair back costs to the bare minimum to keep the site up and running, then work on fleshing out the roles for content creation and make it less of a one man show. Once the flow of content is good, adding costs to boost the site can be revisited. And what about ads? Is that still happening? I think I've got some good ideas for coordinating content creation. For real, I'd be happy to volunteer for that. I'd just coordinate with people here to get them going on stuff they're interested in writing about and oversee the process of getting it posted.

Perhaps I'm ignorant to the costs of running a site like this, but I have a website for my business and it's like $100 per year. Of course it's a much simpler website, but the costs do seem pretty high. Any insight on why it's so expensive? SquareSpace would host a website like this for a pretty low monthly fee I think. I do agree with you that you have been trying to do too much on your own. OCN had decades to develop and it started with a much simpler layout that worked for the time. Trying to build a site like that now as one man seems like it would be extremely difficult. One immediate suggestion as far as keeping the flow of content on this site would be to appoint someone as a content coordinator. Someone who can basically get a list of content goals and assign them out to people who want to write reviews and such, and then do the proof reading and such before they go live. That way we could have a running stream of content without you having to be the bottleneck trying to keep up with everything. I'd be happy to take on such a role. What happened with adding ads to the site? Is that still possible? Can that offset some of the costs? Seems like the costs are too high to realistically be obsorbed by the current community so what steps can we take to reduce the costs?

A razor or similar sharp flat edge should work fine. You don't need to remove all of it, just enough to make sure the heat spreader doesn't rest on it.

I've said it before and I'll probably say it again. Love to see Intel getting their act together now that they're under serious pressure. That said, is long as AMD remains as competitive as they have been in recent years, I don't see myself going back to Intel. AMD is definitely the more consumer friendly of the two.

I had it happen with my 3700x, hasn't happened with my 5800x yet, but it wouldn't happen just in games. It was usually triggered by some kind of copyright check, like when starting a stream.

AMD AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 Microcode To Fix fTPM Stutters (guru3d.com) I'm sure a few people here will be glad about this.

I don't know how much of the financial info about the site you're willing to talk about publicly, but my two cents is in the form of a couple questions and suggestions: How much does it cost to run the site on a monthly or yearly basis? Knowing the cost would help people gauge if we can come up with a path forward. Is there anyone here who would want to donate some time towards working on the site as far as whatever else needs to be done? What else needs to be done here? Are there back end goals that still need to be met? Is it mostly about the cost?

E, you've been fighting an uphill battle. These kinds of forums have to complete against so much more than just other forums now with discord and the likes having gotten so popular. It's been fun and the effort has been appreciated. Just a thought but I wonder if this site could continue development as more of a community project. I'd imagine it took more than one guy to get OCN originally to a point of success. Maybe a few ppl here would want to work on it?

'Unprecedented' study appears to cure 14 patients' rectal cancer. What about other types? NEWS.YAHOO.COM A small clinical trial of drug dostarlimab, a monoclonal antibody, got rid of rectal cancer in all patients. More about immunotherapy for cancer treatment. Good news is pretty rare these days. Apparently the doctor who presented these finding was not able to finish her presentation before being interrupted by joyful tears and applause.

Like I said, I don't doubt it can happen in a car but the root cause wouldn't be the flow itself. It would be some other flaw in the system that causes uneven flow. Also, a cars cooling is designed for high pressure which makes it a totally different ball game. For a non-pressurized system like a PC cooler it's just not possible.

I don't doubt that there are situations where more water flow can cause problems for a car's cooling system, but if that is the case the cause would not be the water flow itself from a physics perspective. It would have to be something else like air in the system to begin with which is a lot more common for cars compared to computers. I don't think it is possible in a PC cooling system. In theory it could be but you would need a much more powerful pump and the system would have to be able to tolerate high pressure. Basically, the thing would break long before it got hotter. Asking if more water flow can cause higher temps is different than asking if there is a flaw in the way water flows through a waterblock.

Just for the sake of being thorough and not having anything else to do at the moment... If the water flows quickly enough, even without any air in the tube, at a certain point there can be enough pressure the cause the molecules to separate into gases. That could be what happens in the waterblock mentioned on the OCN thread you made for the same topic, but it's also highly possible that is just where tiny bits of air get settled. I think it would be very hard to create a scenario where that would bring down the overall temps even if it does allow for a hotspot to exist. But assuming there is not enough pressure to cause that anywhere in your system, it would be impossible for the temps to be higher due to more flow unless the ambient temp was higher than the water temp in the system. Maybe in a lab it would be possible to create a situation where more water flow did lead to more heat because water does heat up from friction, but the amount at which it heats up from friction alone is so small that it's totally overpowered by other cooling effects. I suppose if you had water that was the same temp as the ambient conditions and you started to add friction to the water, you could heat it up to some measurable degree.

It would be physically impossible unless higher flow lead to some kind of bubble issue, but assuming there is no air in the tube, no because physics.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/tsmc-adopts-nanosheet-transistors-for-the-2nm-process.html

Not a big issue, but an annoying one none the less. I support this.

Intel thought they could design a totally new architecture without worrying about how that would work on the software side at all, and just make drivers for whatever hardware they came up with. Clearly that's not working out. I think we may never see these GPUs release at all. It's possible Intel designed a dud in the sense that they won't be able to get the gaming cards working anywhere near well enough to justify releasing them. It may turn out that this first Arc series turns into a beta for Intel that teaches them what not to do for the next gen and sends them back to the drawing board. Given these cards still feel like they're at least 6 months away at best, but probably won't even be good by then, by the time Intel does get these out its going to be too little too late.

I might be wrong but I don't think used stuff is taxed. Nvm, used items are taxed. Kinda lame but probably not ebays fault.

I don't get it. You're mad at ebay because they are going to charge sales tax? Most eBay sales are already taxed. I don't get why this would be an issue. Lot of states allowed for tax free online sales in the past but have cracked down on it over the years as more and more sales have shifted to online. Ebay is probably just trying to make it clear to buyers that they should expect to pay sales tax. Seems pretty normal. Ebay fees to the seller are only 10%. Sales tax is usually 8%. You want them to take the 8% out of the 10% they charge for service fees and be left with 2%? Seems pretty unreasonable.

Upcoming emulator plugin will add ray tracing, motion blur, widescreen support and more to classic N64 games WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Darío teased some of what is already possible on Twitter, noting that the project is still several months away... https://twitter.com/dariosamo/status/1532736513183731713?s=20&t=AyQ6tOBGeBC_iET1SBTjug Looks pretty cool.

Seth Green Created A TV Show Around His NFT Ape, Then Someone Stole It KOTAKU.COM The Robot Chicken creator’s new project is in jeopardy after someone stole his apes Not an important story, but an interesting one. Hearing about this story is probably more entertaining than the show would have been.