Bankers gonna bank. Until we have better choices than a party clown, a cirque du soleil clown, or a mime, we are going to get fucked at every election.

Aluminum is hard on the ass and Carbon makes those cracking noises that cost 5K each time you hear one. Steel is the metal to beat for service life.

Every election is the choice between a party clown, a cirque du soleil clown, or a mime.

Politicians are the only invertebrate mammals.

My latest build is a 9800x3d, and like fuckwit said, it’s pretty easy to keep cool, even at full load.

I definitely have more than the required cooling capacity on my PCs but I build with the goal of getting a minimum of 10 years of daily use. My 2010 build was used for gaming until 2017 at which point it was turned into a server and ran 24/7 until last year. My 2017 built was used daily until earlier this year and I expect to get at least another decade out of it as a workhorse.

I get that the parts are rated for a maximum of 95c and that cycling puts physical stress on parts, but both the magnitude and number of cycles are important there. A year of 25-65 is less physical stress than a year of 25-95. There is also the the fact that semiconductors just don’t work as well at higher temperatures, they have a negative temperature coefficient and will conduct in the reverse direction the hotter they get, putting them under electrical stress.

I just find it surprising that running right up to the throttling limit is an “ok” practice.

Oversized coolers. I built a PC in 2017 and put a 120x360 AIO cooler in it, at full load and the fans going full speed the CPU sits at 65-70c.

Holy hell, 95c? I never let my gear get above 70 for fear of reduced service life.

Bankers gonna bank. We only got this party because the alternative was MAGA north.

Account security should be a legal requirement for a cell operator.

You think developers WANT to work with Windows?

No shit, Valve releases tools to help users that are taking a bite out of Valve’s pie, for free, and that makes Valve the bad guy.

The last thing Microsoft gave you for free was Cortana and ads in your start menu.

Are you a shitty bot or just a shitty troll? Every webservice you use is based on free/open software, without it you would be getting all the speed an reliability of Windows ME from your doom scrolling.

It blows me away that EVERY machine I have worked on in manufacturing runs on Windows or some fuckin one-off HMI thing that has no documentation and can never be upgraded.

Which means that at the very least it’s been vetted, and potentially is a self-developed, self-hosted service, in which case your data doesn’t even leave the police.

Boy do I got news for you. If they are like every other slop addicted business they are just renting from one of the major providers and rebranding the UI.

Humanity wants ChatGPT, TikTok and plastic straws, maybe it shouldn’t be advancing.

I don’t even buy US apple any more. Been going on 2 years of home made/baking meals with Canadian meat, flour, and vegetables.

You should not be forgiving a multi billion dollar company for unexpected operation of the most basic part of thier device. You pay a premium you should expect a minimum stardard of operation on par with that price.

If the surge protection circuit is tripping during normal operation or when incoming power is only a few % out of spec then it is very much a hardware design issue. A universal supply should be able to handle ~90-260v at this point, power semiconductors are a very well understood field and it is not unreasonable to expect a nearly 300v input range.

That’s the truck I want, damnit. You can fill it with dirt, or knock it flat to carry sheet goods and lumber!

If you search “compact pickup” in Canada you get the godamned Jeep Gladiator, the Hyundai Santa Cruz, and the Chevrolet Colorado. All three are enormous and one of them just an SUV that’s missing row of seats! And despite weighing 1300lbs more than my shitty old ranger they have the same payload capacity!