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4 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

lol,that makes everyone feel much more secure using 1 of these. Plug your new build in with your monitor on 1 line and the wires in the wall catch fire because the breaker doesn't trip in time....

Not really. Romex, used in houses is rated at 90 degree's so if we look at the 90 degree column we see that 14AWG can handle 25 Amps and 12AWG can handle 30 Amps, but by code the sizes with the ** can only be breakered at the 60 degree rating. 

36 minutes ago, Avacado said:

So it can do it independent from the AC input from the wall? I get that they are addressing transient spikes. I just didn't think it was possible to sustain even 1ms without matching input. 

It's just marketing, that it can handle more than it's rating.  Also the most common breakers are thermal-magnetic breakers, they don't trip instantly.  I've seen in rush currents exceed a breakers rating many times.

They're just saying it has a lot of headroom.  It's a 1300w power supply that can handle double it's rating for short periods.

A couple of years ago I was hit in my new work van by a car with NO driver.  I was making the left here.

As soon as I turned the corner, about where the green dumpster is, I see a woman running next to her car with the door open.  The door knocks her over, the car literally runs her over and continues down the hill.  I tried to get over as far as I could in what little time I had, but it slammed into the side of me.  She had the car in reverse instead park when she got out.  Everyone was alright, even the woman that ran herself over.    After it happened, I was glad her car ran into me instead continuing into 3 lanes of traffic.

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

I don't know the exact mechanics of it, but after installation of the NAS OS, if you go to operate it on a NIC that is not similar, you can't connect to the drive no matter what you do. 

Wait.....What???   That doesn't make any sense.   Even if you are using encryption, it wouldn't be tied to the NIC.

You forgot the link.

These are more than double the cost of a Raspberry Pi.

The mitigations are performance killers...at least on Linux.

Benchmarking The Linux Mitigated Performance For Retbleed: It's Painful

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Yesterday Retbleed was made public as a new speculative execution attack exploiting return instructions.

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The Linux mitigation for Retbleed is invasive at nearly two thousand lines of new code and nearly 400 lines removed, across dozens of files. In the Retbleed whitepaper by ETH Zurich COMSEC researchers, they characterized the mitigations as result in 14~39% overhead. I've been testing the Linux patches out on various systems locally and indeed it's quite severe. The Retbleed mitigations are some of the most performance-wrenching mitigations I've seen in a few years going back to the early Spectre/Meltdown days.

19 hours ago, Storm-Chaser said:

The black 90 was due for a complete suspension rebuild, and i did it at a campground in one day. Brutal!

You did a suspension rebuild at a camp ground?    I've replaced a water pump in the parking lot of a bank, but I didn't CHOOSE to do it there...it was just where my friend happen to break down.

4 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Google designed the OS that doesn't give users the option to remove certain apps. 

 

Seems like a google issue to me, but the blame can be shared. 

It's the carrier or the phone maker that is stopping their app from being uninstalled not Google.    The OS is open source, you can install a different flavor of Android if you wish....even one without any Google services.

5 hours ago, UltraMega said:

They're not worried about things like file explorer or parts of the OS, they're worried about stuff like atnt apps that can't be removed even on an unlocked phone. If you buy a PC that comes with pre-installed apps like Norton or Dell whatever, you can remove them. It's a simple concept. 

I guess I've never had a phone that had non-OS apps installed.  I've always had Google branded phones with vanilla Android, which is ironic that they're the easiest to degoogle.   The problem seems to be more with phone carriers and manufacturers, not Google.

1 hour ago, UltraMega said:

I think the part that pertains to google is the part about removing preinstalled apps. 

That's hard to do when one app can be a dependency of another, like on Windows, you can't uninstall file explorer without breaking the system.  The best thing is to nuke the OS and install a degoogled ROM.

I tried running this, since it's a windows only benchmark and I'm using Linux.....it crashes when starting the Skill bench.  The bench doesn't detect my memory, drive or my GPU.  It see's my 6900XT as it's code name.

I don't know why they always mention Google in articles related to side loading and third party stores when both are available on Android. 

When I was a kid, every week I looked forward to the beginning of The Fall Guy just to see Heather Thomas in that bikini.   And I've always wanted that truck.

On 04/07/2022 at 13:10, UltraMega said:

There's a big difference between the below the knee outfits in real life and the mini skirt style dresses in TOS, but it's hardly the only reason I haven't watched it. It's also just hard for me to get into a show that old. Still, I think the decision to make the women in TOS look the way they so is completely contrary to how they are in every other ST show in which they are treated as equals and not objects. 

TOS was first, so it's the new shows that are contrary to the original, not the other way around.  The shows were based on the times in which they were created.

But then there's this...

On 02/07/2022 at 14:46, iamjanco said:

 

helped make me what i am today. 

I didn't know that Mr Potato head started out needing an actual potato....or that it would eventually go woke.

3 hours ago, PCSarge said:

they will call it.....skinux!

They would probably call it Vindows...like when they made a knock-off Wii and called it a Vii or something off the wall like "YippyYah" just like all knock-off stuff on Amazon.

The correction still doesn't present a clear picture of what the OS is.

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the MARSIS instrument was designed with a development environment that was based on Windows 98

Which could mean that they wrote a Unix or Linux based OS using Borland C++ in Windows 98.

Have you changed your brake hoses?  Recently I had a brake caliper that would stick sometimes, so I replaced my calipers along with rotors and pads and since I had to bleed the system anyway...I replaced all the fluid.   Next day, the same wheel locked up so tight the wheel was smoking like it may have been on fire.  The lug nuts were so hot I couldn't touch them.  My shiny new rotor was now purple.  

It was a bad brake hose.  It looks good from the outside but the inside swells up restricting flow which causes the caliper to not release.

Since you posted the Hip. I'm the one person outside of Canada that listens to the Hip....maybe because I've been Screeched In and became an Honorary Newfie at a bar in St John's.

Open source makes the world a better place.

It's on github.

GitHub - GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2: FidelityFX Super Resolution 2

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FidelityFX Super Resolution 2. Contribute to GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

21 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Even though the article doesn't use the term "settlement", this sounds like a settlement. It seems the cheat company may have decided to pay to end the lawsuit to avoid the potential for much higher fines. 

It was a settlement, from the original article linked in the IGN article.

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The parties were as far apart as ever and the lawsuit seemed to be heading towards trial. This week, however, news of consensus appeared in the form of a stipulated motion asking the court to enter a consent judgment to end Bungie’s legal action.

5 hours ago, bwalker36 said:

The SEC has sued him a few times if I recall for manipulating things.  I do believe he loves creating drama but I really thought he would buy twitter.  I really wanted him to just to see how the world reacted lol. 

Musk will eventually buy Twitter, he's just trying to lower the price.  Twitter still wants the deal to happen.