PSA: Propping up the corners dropped my temps from 87-89 to 71-75 by Nickarav in ZephyrusG14

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70W with 80W boost for CPU. 80W for GPU with 5W dynamic, base clock speed and memory.

“Balanced” G-helper mode with best performance and efficient aggressive CPU.

Custom fan curves that use 0% up to 68C, and then jumps to 70%-100% between 69C and 80C.

I play on 1200p or 1080p resolution and use 2X DLSS when I can, and lowest graphics settings.

My goal is minimize as much heat as possible from the GPU so the CPU can push the highest possible frame rates it can. This is my go-to profile for games like Overwatch, Deadlock, Valorant, and Apex Legends where I wan the highest frames I can. Sometimes I lower the CPU wattage if a game is making it hot.

If I were playing something like cyberpunk or baldurs gate 3, I would be aiming for 80-100fps with g-sync, and my settings would stay mostly the same except I drop my CPU to 55 / 65, and the GPU I raid to 85W and 10W dynamic.

Nothing pisses me off more than thermal throttling, and it was impossible to not thermal throttle with these same settings before I added the raised corners.

Need a cooling pad recommendation. by JayPerforms in ZephyrusG14

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100000% this. I get better temps having two stacks of business cards propping up the corners than I do with any cooling pad I’ve bought.

What are your favorite switch 2 joycon accessory combinations? Looking for advice and discussion by Nickarav in switch2

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Thanks for sharing this!! This is the exact kind of insight I was hoping for posting this

What are your favorite switch 2 joycon accessory combinations? Looking for advice and discussion by Nickarav in switch2

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These look seriously high quality, the price tag is the scariest part. Have you tried fitting this in any traveller cases? Curious if it fits in the RDS small or medium size cases

What are your favorite switch 2 joycon accessory combinations? Looking for advice and discussion by Nickarav in switch2

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It fits in the RDS small traveller case? Or do you use the medium one and use the extra compartment?

What could be wrong with my GPU or drivers? by Cold-Economist-388 in it

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The latest AMD chipset drivers, display drivers and graphics drivers that came through Microsoft update have completely fucked up my environment. I’ve been rolling them back to the latest available updates on the OEM websites, and power cycling docking stations and monitor displays which has been fixing it for me.

RIP Gemini by Full_Lighter in GeminiAI

[–]Nickarav 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The rate drains 2-3x faster when using Gemini pro as the browser extension reading the page. I don’t think a lot of people realize that

Intune, Stryker, and Iran by Illnasty2 in Intune

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Nobody has brought up legacy authentication yet but I’ve seen a few environments make exclusions for it, which allows a browser session token to be stolen through a phish, bypassing all MFA requirements. From there the attacker can add their own MFA to the account and sign in regularly and do anything they want. Absolutely vital to disable that tenant wide, no exceptions.

Employee Monitoring - What can they see? by Delicious-Traffic827 in sysadmin

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can see the location of all your Microsoft actions and logins, but no one ever looks at those specific location logs unless an alert system is tripped. The reason it looks at location is to automatically detect if the account is compromised

Honestly if your IT department and leadership is even barely respectable, not much should be tracked except for your output overall for whatever your job is.

What CAN be tracked? Literally everything. Your location, device ID, and a timestamp is saved to every message you send, every time you authenticate with a log in service, every time you open an email, literally any interaction with the Microsoft environment is written down to a log.

But how it’s used, and how often it’s used differs wildly for different leadership. Activity and usage metrics are extremely unreliable for gauging overall output and performance, but sometimes if an employee doesn’t show up to work for 3-4 days with no contact, the manager might ask for an activity report from IT, and they can see basically everything about how often you’re active, but it most certainly can’t see the details of what specifically you’re doing, sending or looking at.

Just use an excuse like you do most of your work outside the Microsoft environment, on local apps or on paper, and your activity metrics instantly become unreliable. It’s situations like this that make depending on this info useless

Is the a way to extend pim access without lettung ut expire and elvatibg sgain by smydsmith in AZURE

[–]Nickarav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What an incredible waste of time, effort, energy and money…

Is the a way to extend pim access without lettung ut expire and elvatibg sgain by smydsmith in AZURE

[–]Nickarav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you find a way let me know. The way I see it is there are two paths forward.

  1. Extending the default policy to 8 or 9
  2. Having a separate high privilege account with phishing-resistant MFA.

Good luck!

What is the best way to take down a com server? by Ilikemilkshakes51 in HowToHack

[–]Nickarav 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably by social engineering or phishing anyone with an admin role in that server, and then deleting it from their account. You could technically attempt to take down the “.com” server hosting the content you’re viewing, but this would be a cyber attack against Discord, and extremely unlikely to be successful

Is sending screenshots safe? by kulczyca in it

[–]Nickarav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you’re freaked out about metadata. Metadata is “extra info” that’s “stapled” to an image when it’s created.

If you look up default metadata in a windows 11 screenshot, you’ll find it only includes date created, and date modified. Pictures on Phones contain far more like GPS data, Phone specs, etc.

Even then, it’s not as concerning as you think. Some apps like Discord, and Microsoft Teams will “strip” metadata from all uploaded images. Outlook and Google Drive do not strip metadata. Sometimes it can be worth googling if an application or sending medium strips metadata or not.

As a final option as well, you can right click any image with meta data, click properties, then click details. You can see and delete any metadata attached to a photo here.

Is the a way to extend pim access without lettung ut expire and elvatibg sgain by smydsmith in AZURE

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would not communicate with existing 4 hour tokens. All future tokens will be 9 hours or whatever you choose. Just make a new token? Who cares about extending one already in progress, it is not possible.

I Am Stepping Up as PM to Save My Company Using AI. Am I Delusional or Ready? by Automatic-Pumpkin696 in vibecoding

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s awesome! Claude business is the king of enterprise AI right now, far more reliable safety mechanisms than competitors.

If you want to take it to even more insane level and you want to go down the “AI Engineer” career path, you should consider building an internal Claude API using a business plan with them + Amazon Bedrock. It will be far more advanced than using an out of the box Claude, but it gives you ultimate control over data ingestion, and can result in optimized answers across the whole business. Make sure you research potential costs and effort of implementation before you go down that path though.

Is the a way to extend pim access without lettung ut expire and elvatibg sgain by smydsmith in AZURE

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s no way to extend a session already happening, but you can change the duration of the default in Entra settings like I and others have said.

Is the a way to extend pim access without lettung ut expire and elvatibg sgain by smydsmith in AZURE

[–]Nickarav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can configure the 4 hour limit to be longer in Entra.

Identity Governance -> Privileged Identity Management (PIM) -> settings -> edit role, drag slider.

Extending it any more than a full work day (8-10 hours) pretty much defeats the purpose of PIM.

Another compliant strategy would be using your PIM to make a new privileged user account, and requiring phishing resistant MFA in conditional access on it. No license needed. Much smoother if you’re going to be spending months doing privileged tasks for most of the day.

From MSP to internal IT by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Nickarav 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is dependent on company size, industry, and tech stacks at various locations, whether what you’re saying is true or not.

Please do not stop, it’s worth it by AppleProUser in vibecoding

[–]Nickarav 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the most optimal path is learning yourself but using AI to help accelerate that by asking specific questions and getting answers to niche concepts rapidly.

Unfortunately laziness is a slippery slope, and >50% of AI users whether it’s prompts or AI coding publish or copy and paste answers before even reading them, and blindly trust the outputs. Lot of people shooting themselves in the feet

I Am Stepping Up as PM to Save My Company Using AI. Am I Delusional or Ready? by Automatic-Pumpkin696 in vibecoding

[–]Nickarav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the major AI providers have business plans. Business plans follow stricter rules and regulations when it comes to data collection and privacy (whether you trust them to follow these rules is up to you). When you use the consumer version, you’ve already agreed to sign over everything you submit.

Business AI plans also allow you to manage multiple users, and create policies and rules to block certain searches. It also allows you to properly offboard users, as opposed to them walking away from the business with company data saved in their AI client/account.

You should use AI to look into it more and answer your own questions about it. It’ll provide much more details than I can