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Raxiel

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Did the boss drop any good loot?

AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)

In another attempt to convince us that "AI PCs" are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we're already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists 64-bit...

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If Weird Al died on a Friday and came back the following Sunday, would he be Ryzen Al?

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I always used to use "Let me bing it for you" at least then it was probably something they hadn't tried, and it was proper trolling instead of just being passive aggressive

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See also: The less hostile but equally useless advice to "Search online"

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The trick is to say "Linux sucks! It can't even X!" Where X is what your issue is preventing. You'll get the answer, to prove you wrong.

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Go team!

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Maybe he's not fleeing the states crumbling infrastructure, maybe he's taking his wife and/or daughter(s) for out of state abortions.

Better Sue him to be on the safe side.

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Where else are you going to suck balls... All day... Because you like it so much?

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Have they tried firing most of the neurons, keeping only the most hardcore?

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That was the point the mask slipped for me

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How about Dr Matt O'Dowd?

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Not to mention the huge amount of carbon emissions resulting from cement production, for the concrete that steel is fixed in

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You can still get something like that.
Richard Scarry's busy, busy day in Trumps America depicts news events from 2020 I the form of a children's book

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There's some loon still plastering their ill informed, anti Vax / anti mask stickers on every bit of street furniture across the nearby town centre.

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This is the same for both gas and electricity (both import and export for those who can) in the UK.
It generally works quite well, and could be pretty competitive if you knew to shop around. Since Vlad's 3 days began and natural gas prices spiked the entire market (the companies that survived) has pretty much been at the government price cap. There are some deals starting to re-appear but the main reason to switch right now is customer service. Amazing how much brand loyalty let's the big firms treat people like shit and get away with it.

The best deals tend to be time of use for people with smart meters.

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In 1999 I spent a week in Cornwall (south western tip of the UK), staying in a spot right in the middle of the path of totality for the eclipse that summer. Every day, glorious sunshine, even got a bit burnt. Except one day. Day of the eclipse was thick clouds horizon to horizon. Ended up watching the BBC coverage from an aircraft via a 3" portable TV.

Did get to see the approaching shadow over the ocean, so at least that was pretty cool, but still disappointing.

Don't think I'll have another opportunity in my lifetime unless I travel internationally specifically to see one.

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it's not as bright as youd think. Just close the curtains

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So I should also close the window, before shutting the curtains?

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I started dosing the prewash with a bit of powder after that video

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I'll be fine, I took a lactase tablet twenty minutes ago.

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I understood it to mean: updating to 11 will have a cost, which comes as no surprise, but this time NOT updating also has a significant cost*. Meaning it's not a clear cut decision for the beancounters, like the endless delays some firms had moving off XP and 7.

*Assuming you still give a shit about being secure.

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At this guy.
Brad McGuire

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My Logitech G500s had the funny clicker, I have a soldering iron but that felt a bit too fiddly (at the time) but I was able to dismantle the switch itself on the board and bend the contacts a bit. Been three years and it's still behaving. The cable went too at one point, with random disconnects as it moved. Was surprised to discover I could just order a new cable that plugged into the internal socket and it was good as new!

Sometimes it can be an exercise in frustration. My wife's Redmi note 10 is on its 4th screen, the original and third ones were dropped, the second was shit and crapped out after a couple of months, the fourth is showing signs of going the same way. Along with occasional locking up and WiFi problems that are fixed with a reboot (pretty sure I didn't break it on my many delves into its guts) I decided fuck it, its a ~£200 phone, get something else this time.
So instead I'm tearing my hair out trying to get her new Samsung A54 to restore the last Google backup.

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I haven't watched Louis' video, but I do have a Blizzard account, and up until a couple of days ago I had an active WoW subscription (ended because I wanted to play other games, not to make a point).

I didn't get presented with any new terms recently, presumably I will in the future should I decide to sign up again, or even dip in on a free trial account.

I did look up the terms though. I'm not in the US so it's not clear if I'd be bound by it anyway but not only do they have an opt-out clause (11.A.vi) they're actually less egregious than some EULAs, allowing opt-out via email, rather than requiring a mailed in letter (Roku) and being prominently highlighted at the top.

Lot of folks here dreaming about them going bankrupt, I have to say, I think that's wishful thinking. The current WoW expansion has been very successful with the highest signups and retention in a long time as they've apparently figured out what players actually want. Even without their other IP's they're doing ok.

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"You worry too much son, Google already responded to the subpoena with a link to the data, so go get it! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

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Adicts gonna addict

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Pappa don't preach with a boner

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They might not get discarded separately, but do they get recycled separately?
I always loosen caps when throwing them in the green bin so the bottles will compress more easily. Others might just throw them in separately or they might even pop off once compacted.
I don't know how much of a problem having them separated might be (I'm just wondering out loud) but I could see how keeping things together and not having lots of small fiddly bits in mixed loads prior to sorting could be beneficial.
Sounds like it doesn't take much contamination for recycling companies to redirect whole loads to landfill, so it it helps there it's good I guess?

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When I was about a year old I found a bottle of Tabasco and got the lid off. Wondering what was inside I peered into the bottle and shook it.

Or so I'm told. I have no memory of it but my parents had it burned into theirs.

I didn't like it apparently.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

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The legal term is "consideration". To form a contract you must have three elements: Offer, consideration, and acceptance.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure it would help here. They would argue their consideration is whatever online services are tied to the product, but even without that, the contract isn't being formed at this point (unless someone is going through first setup, at which point they can still return it). The contract was already formed and this is an amendment to those terms that the original wording likely has weasel words to permit.

That's not to say the consumer has no recourse, consumer rights are probably the best bet. If the previous terms don't expressly grant them the right to take away access to all features in circumstances like this, it may be possible to find them in breach, but unfortunately EULAs are usually pretty toothless when it comes to penalising the vendor.

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And as Elon found out, mandatory arbitration clauses can come back to bite you, like when a large number of claims have to be paid for separately all at once and can't be consolidated to save costs.

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Just make sure they have audio out too (unless your source can drive a soundbar directly). I just got a new monitor that had built in speakers. They're dog shit, and I didn't plan on using them anyway, but I hadn't appreciated how useful it was having a device that can decode the audio stream from HDMI or DP.
I still have my old usb soundbar for the times I want a loudspeaker, but I can just leave my headphones plugged into the monitors jack and switch the output device on the computer.

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I dumped my satellite TV subscription service last year when I realised all we ever watched on it were on-demand services. I hooked one of the dish feeds into the TVs own socket since it was there, but beyond testing it worked it's had no more than an hours use in the last six months.
We just watch stuff on the TVs streaming apps instead of the satellite decoders streaming apps (saving about 100kWh a year).
One of the few times we watched live TV, it was just on in the background and we realised the show that was on seemed interesting, we'd missed the first 10 minutes but there was an option to press a button and open the on-demand app and restart immediately from the beginning.

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"How can one party reserve the right to unilaterally change the terms?"
When it comes to business to consumer contracts, often they can't, due to "unfair terms" clauses in a lot of consumer protection laws.

In this specific case, the fact you can opt-out retrospectively (and inconveniently of course) is certainly due to those laws.

But like you say, it needs to be tested.

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Aww and I was looking forward to a chipped windscreen requiring the replacement of the entire cabin, unless the car had ever been in the rain, in which case fuck you buy a new one.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

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A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old

Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns (www.cbsnews.com)

Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns::There's been a surge of young problem gamblers since sports betting was legalized. An addiction therapist warns AI-powered sports betting has spurred a public health emergency.

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I don't trust the Gamble-Tron 2000, I only place my bets according to Smooth Jimmy's Lock of the week

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    Here I am trying to pay bills, and a fucking ravine is earning enough to just by $40k of shit from Amazon

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    Technically still a neural network.

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    I'm aware of the community this is posted in, but my kid talks to her grandparents via the chat features in Google photos. Works over WiFi with specific contacts and no phone number required. It lets her show them pictures she's drawn.
    Google are involved of course, but there's no algorithm pushing promoted posts or any of that BS

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    I'm kinda hoping there's a GCU already in orbit. If there is, and you see this, ship, I'm ready to be uplifted now.

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    Nadella has a side gig, dumpster diving for old electronics

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    Presumably the same way the F-117 does

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    Weathering steel, we used it for bridges all the time a few years ago, although it seems to have fallen out of favour recently. Asset owners liked it because you don't have to repaint it every few years (good for both reducing disruption and avoids having people work at height).
    The patina can look quite nice (in my subjective opinion) but it's not particularly resistant to impact, and requires a thicker section size than painted steel.
    Automotive application could certainly be... Interesting.

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    Don't worry, they mean the bed of their truck. The airflow at highway speeds ensure all crumbs are carried away immediately!

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    Their foil is pretty good at keeping stuff fresh too (as well as making good anti-mind-control hats)

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    Blizzards CEO Mike Ybarra is out "by mutual agreement"

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    Well, they've definitely been created by a neural network.

    My belief is that it's the animal that underpins the conscious mind. The same animal we start out as at birth, but grow beyond (some more than others). Dreams are it's way of interpreting the sea of sensory input we absorb, but being an animal - a ball of instinct wrapped around a pattern matching algorithm - it can't read, or count, it doesn't really understand any of it at all, it just recognises how things are usually related (not entirely unlike the AI image generators) on an instinctual level. Occasionally, on waking, the conscious mind will catch a glimpse of what's happening and try to contextualise it, applying more complex, learned thought processes to fill in the blanks and explain the nonsense, but dreams rarely make sense in their raw form.

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