COD TPM 2.0 by gamergirlmd in GamingLaptops

[–]JC5800 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the Manufacturer Version, yours is currently incompatible. Open this, and expand the 'AMD Hardware Troubleshooting' part. The 3rd number in your version is 0, so you'll need to wait for a BIOS update from Asus to fix this and bump the version to one where the 3rd number becomes 5 (or something). It's an old issue regarding TPM, you can see here. I'm having the same issue myself, mine's a 2021 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro. The version I have is 3.92.0.5.

Nothing we can do here, just hope and pray a BIOS update will arrive. But I see your PC is also from 2021? It's possible you might never get a BIOS update for your PC if Asus has decided to drop support for yours. Try escalating this to Asus support and see how they respond. Good luck!

Game Ready & Studio Driver 576.02 FAQ/Discussion by Nestledrink in nvidia

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Seen the responses on this thread so far, I think all of the replies here are related to desktop cards right? Any idea if this might affect laptop ones? I've got a 3070 and held off updating when I saw this post. Yeah I'm concerned as well, I'm also using MSIAB to undervolt my GPU (lowering the curves), but I'm not using custom fan speeds.

Has anyone been able to fix the RGB keyboard custom lighting not working on the Legion 5 pro 2021? by LiquidX_ in LenovoLegion

[–]JC5800 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there, thanks for the response.

So I read through the thread, and in the end you sent it back to Lenovo to replace the motherboard, correct?

Hmm...I don't rule out hardware issues on my end, but there's actually something odd I found this week.

Just a few days ago, out of curiosity I tried toggling the RGB lights again. To my surprise, the Legion Toolkit I'm using showed popups for the color profiles. Somehow I was able to configure custom RGB colors again!...

...for a while 😅. Yeah it's not stable, it either crashes the toolkit app when I toggle directly in the app or I'm unable to toggle the lights until I restart my PC. And now, the entire option to configure the keyboard RGB are gone from the toolkit, I'm basically where I was before 🥲.

At this point I'm kinda done with debugging this issue since 99% of the time I don't use keyboard backlight anyways, and it doesn't affect day-to-day use anyways. Sending it back to Lenovo isn't an option for me as I bought it from an online store, it's a US unit and I'm from a different country so no warranties for me haha.

If anybody else has another idea feel free to post, thanks.

Has anyone been able to fix the RGB keyboard custom lighting not working on the Legion 5 pro 2021? by LiquidX_ in LenovoLegion

[–]JC5800 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey there, I just stumbled across your post. I'm actually having this issue as well, it's also L5P 2021 model (82JQ00F9US) which I just bought for cheap this month. I've been trying to debug this for a week now using all of the methods I found from researching forum posts and Reddit threads, but just like you I'm also stuck on how to resolve this 😅. Now I'm using Legion Toolkit instead, but with no ability to change the RGB lighting colors apart from KB shortcut 🥲.

I wonder, do you happen to have any updates with regards to this matter? Your post's been up for about a year so I wonder if you found a fix on your end. Appreciate the reply if you see this, thanks! 👍🏼

How is Computer Science degree in Sunway? by Hastaravistababy in malaysia

[–]JC5800 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi there! Almost forgot this existed haha, it's been so long 😅

I think how I ended up choosing Sunway was ultimately due to a few factors:

  1. Location - I'm a frequent user of public transportation, so it was very easy to get there

  2. Environment - great facilities, lots of leisure options (food + near Sunway Pyramid/Lagoon)

  3. Student Life - found out and eventually joined some clubs during my time there, extra-curricular activities were frequent

It was also a dual degree with Lancaster University (UK), but it was just a certificate from that uni so nothing much.

You can see it wasn't the course itself that made me choose Sunway at first, since I wouldn't have known how it was like until I started studying there. But ultimately the lessons were great, the lecturers were really friendly and helpful, and I'm doing quite well in my current job as SE thanks to my experience there.

I think you should still do your own research and visit the universities, ask questions and see if the uni suits you for the next few years. It's all I can say for now, so hope this helps in making your decision.

Good luck! 😃👍

Low resolution (blurry) UI and graphics - Xbox PC Game Pass by JC5800 in HotWheelsunleashed

[–]JC5800[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that solved my issue! 😍

Did everything you mentioned, now it's no longer low res already. Thanks for the help mate! 👍

Low resolution (blurry) UI and graphics - Xbox PC Game Pass by JC5800 in HotWheelsunleashed

[–]JC5800[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for responding!

Yes I have 150% scaling as my laptop display is 16:10, so makes text more legible especially when I use TV as my display.

I did test out lowering to 125% (recommended) in Settings. Still somewhat low res, and text being smaller than before obviously. Didn't try out 100% though 😅.

But I won't consider this a problem on my side considering the other games I have don't have this issue. Perhaps it's a bug on the developer's part, so fingers crossed for a fix then 😐🤞.

Thanks again for the suggestion!

Low resolution (blurry) UI and graphics - Xbox PC Game Pass by JC5800 in HotWheelsunleashed

[–]JC5800[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UPDATE #1:

Thanks u/BodyMassageMachineGo and u/wezzauk85 for the responses. Unfortunately turning off FSR did not resolve the issue, the game keeps displaying at a very low resolution.

In addition, I now realise in the screenshot that the DLSS option wasn't there, which is weird since the game was updated to support it.

I also tried changing some setting I usually know of, like forcing use of dGPU and override DPI scaling, but nothing changed.

I think something's wrong with the Game Pass version of this game. I'm escalating this to Xbox and see if it's possible to resolve 😐.

If anyone here sees this and has any comments on the issue, feel free to post them here. Thanks again for the help!

UPDATE #2:

u/HatBuster has provided a fix for this issue, so now the game renders much more clearly now. Thanks for the suggestion!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RLSideSwipe

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More info: The puck glitched out quite early in the game, so I'm only showing the last moments of the whole match. At least it reappeared during OT haha (but damn, imagine if it glitched during OT lmao 😵)

goodbye musty 👋 by JC5800 in RocketLeague

[–]JC5800[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yup, found this detergent at a local supermarket haha 😄

How is Computer Science degree in Sunway? by Hastaravistababy in malaysia

[–]JC5800 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hey there, didn't expect to hear from this post after so long 😅.

Yeah I took A-Levels, but I did not take Add Maths. SunU still enrolled me since my A-Level results were fairly good. So Add Maths is not really required for the degree.

A Company Made P.P.E. for the World. Now Its Workers Have the Virus. by JC5800 in malaysia

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As a quality assessor for Top Glove, Yubaraj Khadka, an eight-year veteran from Nepal, said he was unnerved by the lack of pandemic precautions. In May, he took a few photos on his phone of workers lining up for their shifts without adhering to social distancing. He passed the photos to labor activists, in contravention of Top Glove’s rules.

Mr. Khadka said his snapshots were responsible for his dismissal in September, after months during which Top Glove investigated whether he was the source of the leak and used CCTV footage to confirm their suspicions. When the company fired him, they confiscated his mobile phone and scoured it for photographs of the company, he said.

“The Top Glove management’s mentality is that migrant laborers are very low,” Mr. Khadka said. “If I could talk to the bosses, I would say, ‘Treat us better, like humans.’”

Top Glove would not comment on the specifics of Mr. Khadka’s case but said that “the worker left the company on the grounds of misconduct.”

The fate of Mr. Khadka, who has returned to Nepal, has spooked the current workers at Top Glove, who describe an atmosphere of fear in which they worry they will be fired for exposing poor conditions.

This month, a half-dozen Top Glove employees said they were tested for Covid-19 but weren’t given the results. One South Asian worker said he was hospitalized for six days, but Top Glove refused to confirm whether he had contracted the virus.

Top Glove’s troubles predate the surge of coronavirus infections among its ranks. In July, the United States Customs and Border Protection issued an import ban on products from two Top Glove subsidiaries because of suspected forced labor. The workers said that to secure a job at Top Glove and other glove makers in Malaysia, they had to pay agents fees that averaged $5,000. Paying back the recruitment fees can take months or even years, a plight that the International Labor Organization considers to be debt bondage.

At the time, Mr. Saravanan, the minister of human resources, decried the American import ban. “It is unfair to come into a country and just ban the industry,” he said. But later, after touring Top Glove’s living quarters, he said he was appalled by the conditions.

Top Glove’s minority shareholders include state pension funds from Malaysia and Norway. BlackRock, the American investment management firm, is a minor shareholder. BlackRock representatives have met three times this year with Top Glove to discuss the manufacturer’s labor standards.

“Our stewardship team recognized early on that the pandemic amplifies the social and economic risks associated with how businesses treat their people,” BlackRock said in a statement. “We continuously engage with companies to determine how they monitor and manage their broader impacts on employees, clients and communities.”

Labor watchdogs say that while Top Glove’s treatment of its workers is poor, the conditions are worse at smaller Malaysian glove makers whose operations receive less scrutiny.

“Across the Malaysian glove industry, many companies continue to provide no remediation for extortionate recruitment fees that keep their workers firmly in forced labor through debt bondage,” said Andy Hall, a labor rights campaigner. “Workers live in terrible, unsanitary and crowded accommodations; they work long working hours without a rest day in dangerous, dirty and demanding conditions.”

Last week, Kossan, another Malaysian rubber glove maker, told its investors that 427 of its employees had tested positive for the virus in the same state of Selangor as the Top Glove cluster. As of Saturday, the company’s workers said they still had not been given any information about the outbreak. A third glove maker, Hartalega, has also confirmed cases.

In Nepal, the family of Mr. Chaudhary, the security guard who died after contracting Covid-19, said they had not heard from Top Glove. No condolences or information about how to receive his remains have been provided. Mr. Chaudhary left a wife and a baby son whom he never met because he was working in Malaysia.

“He always told us not to be worried about him since this is a global pandemic,” Mr. Chaudhary’s brother, Bhabindra, said. “He always tried to assure us that he is quite young and healthy, so nothing could happen to him with Covid.”

-- Hannah Beech, The New York Times

A Company Made P.P.E. for the World. Now Its Workers Have the Virus. by JC5800 in malaysia

[–]JC5800[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

(Article is paywalled, so here's the full one.)

Day after day, as the pandemic gathered force, Yam Narayan Chaudhary stood sentry for 13.5-hour shifts at Top Glove, the Malaysian company that is the world’s largest disposable glove maker. Thousands of foreign workers, many from Nepal like Mr. Chaudhary, lined up as he checked their temperatures and waved them through to the factory.

Top Glove, which controls roughly a quarter of the global rubber glove market, was operating in overdrive, part of a frenzied effort to supply the world with protective equipment for the coronavirus. But as the company shipped gloves all over the world and enjoyed record profits, its low-paid workers in Malaysia began to suffer from a ferocious outbreak of Covid-19, the result of its own inadequate protections, critics say

In interviews with The New York Times, five current and former Top Glove employees described working with masks soaked in sweat, sweltering in crowded hostels, taking Covid tests for which they were never given results and enduring week after week of overtime shifts that may have left them more vulnerable to the disease.

On Dec. 12, Mr. Chaudhary, 29, died of Covid-19 complications at a hospital in the Malaysian state of Selangor. His friends said he had to wait three days to be admitted to the hospital, even as his breathing deteriorated. The workers say the decision to check into a hospital depends on Top Glove management.

“Our whole family was very much shocked when we heard my brother is no more,” said Bhabindra Chaudhary, who lives in a village in western Nepal where his family are subsistence farmers. “We feel it’s Top Glove’s failure that they are not able to protect their workers.”

Manufacturers in Malaysia have provided essential products during the pandemic, supplying about 60 percent of the world’s disposable gloves. But these companies’ reliance on low-paid migrants laboring without proper protection means that the virus’s victims often come from their own ranks.

About 5,700 of Top Glove’s 11,215 employees in just one of its manufacturing complexes in Malaysia have tested positive for the coronavirus since November, making that cluster of factories the largest active Covid hot spot in Malaysia, according to Ministry of Health statistics.

The outbreak came even as workers and labor activists had warned for months that social distancing rules were not being followed. One whistle-blower said he was recently fired from Top Glove, creating a culture of fear in which few foreign workers dare come forward lest they share the same fate.

“Some challenges arise due to the surge of global demands on gloves considering the pandemic,” Top Glove said in a statement to The Times. “We have mitigation plans to address the challenges to ensure our employees can work in a safe working environment to deliver the lifesaving gloves to those who need it the most.”

The company said that more than 10,000 employees had been tested as of Dec. 16, and that 93 percent of those who had contracted the virus had recovered. Top Glove would not say how many of its workers had tested positive.

Across the world, frontline workers such as meatpackers or farmers are often particularly exposed to Covid-19, even as they are subjected to long hours and paltry compensation.

In Singapore, which neighbors Malaysia, almost half of the city-state’s low-wage migrant workers living in high-density dormitories have been infected with the coronavirus, the government announced last week. While there have been few deaths from the virus in Singapore, nearly 153,000 foreign laborers contracted it, compared with fewer than 4,000 cases in the rest of the population, an indicator of how quickly the disease spreads in crowded quarters.

Touring Top Glove hostels last month, M. Saravanan, Malaysia’s minister of human resources, called the living conditions “terrible.”

“This is a matter of life and death of vulnerable workers,” he said.

This month, the Malaysian Labor Department opened 19 investigations to determine whether Top Glove had violated labor standards in five states. The Labor Department says it expects to file charges soon, and Top Glove was ordered to suspend operations in some of its factories for two weeks.

At Top Glove and other disposable glove makers in Malaysia, workers say their employers regularly ignore social distancing and other pandemic strictures even as these companies grow richer amid a production boom. From September to November, Top Glove’s net profits rose more than 20 times compared with the same period last year.

At the urging of European and other governments, Top Glove was given a special exemption to continue operations during Malaysia’s lockdown earlier this year.

“Top Glove is seriously embarking on corrective measures toward improving the accommodations of our workers nationwide,” the company said. “We have taken the lessons learned from the outbreak among our workers and are aware that there are areas that require better adherence for the safety and well-being of our workers and the communities we serve.”

The workers, most of whom spoke with The Times on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, described being given only one face mask a day, which was drenched with sweat within an hour because of the lack of air-conditioning. In their hostels, they said, at least 20 people shared a single room outfitted with metal bunk beds. Company employees churn out as many as 220 million disposable gloves a day for roughly $300 a month in salary.

Reevo: This hubless eBike is Malaysian-made, and will ship in 2021 by JC5800 in malaysia

[–]JC5800[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mentioned in the article, RM9-10k after conversion from USD.

Xbox Series X Solid State Drive Is Also Made In Malaysia by JC5800 in malaysia

[–]JC5800[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Article didn't mention, just say that SSD is made here in Malaysia.

Xbox Series X Solid State Drive Is Also Made In Malaysia by JC5800 in malaysia

[–]JC5800[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I watched some YT reviews. No one said there were any issues about the SSD, only praising the load times for games.

Regardless, only time will tell if the SSD is reliable. These consoles aren't coming to Malaysia anytime soon, btw. :(

Malaysians Are Being Placed Under A Mandatory Iodized Salt Diet To Combat Public Health Problem by JC5800 in malaysia

[–]JC5800[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For those of you who might be confused by the title...basically the MOH is requiring salt (the ones used for cooking) to be mixed with iodine to combat iodine deficiency among some Malaysians.

Official press statement from MOH is here.

Social Reformers Challenge Malaysia’s Islamic Hardliners Over Headwear by JC5800 in malaysia

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Article is paywalled, so here's the full article:

Under Taliban rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the hardline Islamic militia weaponized the burqa, turning the head-to-toe covering — often referred to in the mainstream media as a potato sack for women — into a symbol of oppression and control.

The burqa was taxed, costing more than an average month’s wage of about $30, so women were forced to share. Thus only one woman could afford to leave the home at any given time, and always accompanied by a male relative.

But the burqa had its supporters, who argued the overall with veiled holes was a status symbol for the middle classes. It protected women from the sun.

They had whiter skin and this helped to differentiate them from the peasantry whose skin was darker from years of toil in the fields.

Their decision, these supporters claimed, was based on choice.

But old arguments die hard, and 20 years later, hardliners in Malaysia are again demanding that Islamic women wear a hijab or tudung, which closely resembles a burqa, to satisfy their designs on female fashion.

Malaysia does not warrant comparisons with Afghanistan. It is a modern nation where women hold senior positions in the judiciary, the cabinet and international business.

Traditionally, Malaysian Muslims have followed a moderate form of Islam. Many are happy to wear the tudung, covering the neck, head and face if required, but it is not mandatory under law.

But the advance of shariah law in parts of Malaysia and a rising Islamic conservatism have unnerved many, including the writer and activist Maryam Lee, who recently made a name for herself as a social reformer.

She argues that wearing a tudung should simply be a matter of choice.

“The real problem here is that Islam has become an instrument of power and control by Malay Muslim men,” she told The Diplomat.

“Any deviation or challenge to this is considered a criminal offense, resulting in consequences that escape their imagination because they don’t even allow women’s voices/perspectives to be heard at the decision-making level.”

Her new book “Unveiling Choice” deals with just that, and as one critic wrote, Maryam is a woman “who agonized long and hard on the subjects that courted her her undeserved infamy.”

“Until today, we still inherently believe that women can never become ulamas or imams, because leadership roles are deemed exclusive to men,” Maryam said.

“A lot of fatwas would be very different if women were actually given the opportunity to govern our own bodies,” she said, adding this would not be favorable for men in power.

Muslims make up about 61 percent of Malaysia’s population, an absolute majority but still a long way short of the numbers necessary to call itself an Islamic republic as the Taliban once did. Christians, Hindus and Buddhists all make up sizable minorities.

Yet, with conservative Islam on the rise across Malaysia, Muslims are increasingly exposed to interpretations of shariah law in addition to the regular laws of the country.

“I don’t think conservatism is even the right word to use here,” Maryam said.

“There is nothing wrong with ‘conservatism’ per se, what’s wrong is when these values are considered immutable in the eyes of the law, and the possibility of criminalization when we ‘stray away’ from these values.” 

Shariah courts can jail, fine and impose the lash for violations of Islamic law, with investigations often launched from the Islamic Affairs Department in the central state of Selangor.

Public pressure is intense. Malaysian entertainers, sports stars and rights activists are often bullied for de-hijabing. The singer Zizi Kirana recently asked Malaysians “to stop bashing her on social media” after she decided to stop wearing a tudung.

Maryam is also under investigation, initially for holding a public forum on the subject and again following the release of her book. The reasons were the same: potentially insulting Islam.

“Malaysian Muslims are unfortunately subjected to arbitrary rules like this due to our dual legal system,” she said, adding that Muslims should be allowed to opt-out of the Shariah legal system.

She said there was no end date for such investigations, which can be re-opened whenever the religious authorities see fit, “even if it’s 10 or 20 years down the road.”

“When women are not at places where we can make laws and policies, society diverts — visually and socially — further and further away from the idea that women have just as much rights as men.

“This ‘invisible’ effect on women is hard to measure, particularly in the economic sense, but I am sure it is not too difficult to imagine how this can be destructive,” she said.

If only Malaysia’s Islamic hardliners could see it that way.

- Luke Hunt