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by techrat 5y ago
It's due to DeJoy's ratfucking. Let's not obfuscate this.
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by techrat 5y ago
The date on this post is around that time. It was considered something that would void your warranty to use a third party cooler. https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/Does-the-use-of-an... > Yes, the usage
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by techrat 5y ago
Intel has been misrepresenting the TDP requirements of their CPUs for some time. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/319402-intels-desktop-... Something they list as 65W can draw over 200 Watts at full load. Consider
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by techrat 5y ago
You miss the whole issue with Intel's CPUs. How much power they draw. They hit thermal throttle quite often. Especially the high end chips where Intel is maximizing the clock to bin them as i9s. 1% overall decrease in performance to en
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by techrat 5y ago
To the point to where you often could get better performance UNDERCLOCKING what Intel sold you. Often to the amount of 1% less performance but also 15% less power draw.
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by techrat 5y ago
Ripple effects. Humans have ruined a lot of ecosystems that had a natural balance. Wolf culling being one of the most obvious examples of our cause and effect. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/
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by techrat 5y ago
It took until now for you to lose respect for him?
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by techrat 5y ago
> I would mention that you can find an equal amount of controversies, if not vast amounts more, about the US government, Whataboutism isn't an argument but a concession to the person you're replying to.
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by techrat 5y ago
This sort of whataboutism isn't an argument, but a concession to the person you're replying to. Instead of meeting an example with a counter, all you've done in this conversation is show that there are now TWO examples.
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by techrat 5y ago
> They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads. I'd argue they largely still are incapable of handling image uploads. Their gallery system sucks and the redesign just makes it harder to even see what w
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by techrat 5y ago
'Choosing a side' is what ceased to allow him to claim he was an impartial leaker and/or journalist.
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by techrat 5y ago
Like with thispersondoesnotexist, the toons also tend to have severe problems with the ears. Nearly every one of them has an ear that blends into the background or is disproportionately unmatched.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Explain I'm naive: why would Apple's bug bounty program be so poorly run? Hubris. Apple's culture is still fundamentally the same from the day they ran ads saying "Macs don't get viruses" to today. They us
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by techrat 5y ago
Again, nothing there specifically puts weight into the argument that "Fuchsia is replacing Android." And also, Fuchsia's license is more permissive than Android's.
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by techrat 5y ago
In other words, rumors are started because people imagined cross-code commits to be something more than it really was.
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by techrat 5y ago
Code gets shared between projects all the time. Nothing in there specifically says that Fuchsia will replace Android. In case you had problems comprehending it the first time, ChromeOS and Android were not * merged.* The rumor has been aro
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by techrat 5y ago
> This irks me. Not everyone has such choice about what to buy. Not an excuse anymore. Motorola has universal devices that work on all carriers. Including the most difficult ones in the US, Verizon and AT&T. The unlocked Motorola dev
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by techrat 5y ago
> With Google's eventual transition to Fuschia OS I still have yet to see even the most remotely reliable source that indicates Fuschia is actually going to replace Android. Reminds me of when people were so absolutely sure that And
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by techrat 5y ago
> Most Android devices these days have bootloaders that cannot be unlocked [citation needed] I'm finding the majority of devices to be unlockable as long as you don't buy your device from a carrier. Carrier locked devices are n
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by techrat 5y ago
"made" in this case tends to refer to created, not just manufactured. it (as the article states) is mostly an issue for chinese brands with poor quality control or ulterior motives.
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by techrat 5y ago
The size of the board has little to no bearing on the quality of the VRMs. VRMs are VRMs. There's nothing that prohibits an mITX board from having the same VRMs as an mATX board or even a Full ATX board: The reserved CPU area still app
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by techrat 5y ago
The old style tokens were widely in use in the late 90s through to the early 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID
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by techrat 5y ago
Expresscard was supposed to replace it. It's literally a pin for pin pci express slot. But the "market" spoke (more like Apple decided they were too good for useful ports) and laptops got slimmer and less able to be expanded
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by techrat 5y ago
I think most of the teenager mindset moved towards the Apple camp. Apple has been far more restrictive and anticompetitive than Microsoft ever was at its worst. Mention something like how Safari being the only allowed web engine on iOS and
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by techrat 5y ago
Oh the days of being on Slashdot and getting downmodded to -1 Troll because you dare to suggest that Windows is a usable operating system and not type Micro$uck or some other variant. I was actually quite fond of WinNT4. Lean and stable.
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by techrat 5y ago
When I first saw this car (pre-internet), it was in the music video for Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again"... I refused to believe it was a real model that wasn't just made for the video. It just seemed so impracti
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by techrat 5y ago
Windows 10 was what pushed me to start using Linux full time. It just broke me, how nonsensical it was. Going through several layers of new UI style sidebars, submenu items just to end up... in classic Control Panel with configuration eleme
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by techrat 5y ago
I ran into this recently even on Facebook Messenger. A friend of mine was hunting for a short domain name and I had a list of some three character .net and .org domains I recently had found that were available. Cut and pasted the list and t
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by techrat 5y ago
Never thought I'd see the day where calling out a webhost known for giving shelter to white supremacist shooter manifestos and doxxing murder lists for atomwaffen would fall under 'moral panic.'
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by techrat 5y ago
> We can not fight uncivility with uncivility. Paradox of Tolerance. https://i.imgur.com/ve1VDvK_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra... > Doing so only makes the situation worse. “Bad men need nothing more to compass

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