Recent content by eichwana

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    Lenovo's hot-swappable batteries made my colleagues nostalgic — but today's USB-C solutions are better

    How many of these hot swappable batteries swell up, pushing your touchpad out of the socket? I'd wager none. When your hot swappable battery did eventually stop holding a charge, how hard was it to unscrew everything, void the warranty and fiddle around with a battery glued to the chassis?
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    News Zalman returns to its roots with turbine engine-inspired ZET lineup of CPU air coolers

    20+ years ago I had a similar looking cooler called the Asus Star Ice
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    News Google tools for required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student

    GDPR would make this illegal. Too bad privacy laws are on the block
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    News U.S. Gov't eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn't dead yet

    Likely it’ll be stored on some kind of twitter cloud storage costing millions a year. Good luck uploading those backups then attempting to restore them
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    News Some RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Report

    Hey babe wake up, new 5090 issue has landed. I know you’ve only just closed your eyes after the last one
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    News Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet President Trump at White House today

    How much will he pay to have nvidia exempt from the semiconductor tariffs.
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    News Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, require rack redesigns and cause delays for customers

    Is this down to nvidia’s designs and clock speeds, or the rack mount company’s designs? (ignorance on my part as to who the rack mounting is produced/supplied by)
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    News US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China, violating U.S. sanctions

    Right?? It seems the US gov is surprised that a Chinese tech company is making stuff for a Chinese tech company… this shouldn’t have been unprecedented. For now the US should focus on their own interests like Intel and their business with TSMC, this will allow them to maintain their chip...
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    News Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve globa...

    Something tells me he has stock in energy companies so it's his bottom line he's thinking about. Who cares if we don't have a planet to live on, so long as he's richer, right?
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    News Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — 'intelligent media search' referenced in newest build

    As someone who recoils at the mere mention of AI, I like the sound of this. I am a little concerned though, what if you have vids you don’t want to come up in searches…
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    News Ryzen 9000 delid leads to first Zen 5 death — shared photos expose cracked dies and leftover solder

    That’s how I delidded my 3770k, I used a bit of wood against the cpu and hammered that with the ish in the vice. So glad I didn’t drop it when it came off! I used coolabatory Liquid Metal and got 10C drop in temps under all circumstances so it wasn’t a waste
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    News Buckle up! Apacer launches seat belt for RAM sticks — protection for DIMMs from vibration damage

    In the 20 years I’ve built and shipped computers, I’ve never seen RAM come loose during shipping. Heavy graphics cards and CPU coolers yes, but not RAM.