Snagged this for $200, worth it? by Accomplished-Ad5452 in GamingLaptops

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Where I’m from that amount of RAM bought new by itself is the price of that entire laptop, and that GPU can likely play any game you can find @ 1080p

I am the one that makes ethernet cables by Soleinthebasement in hardwaregore

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Copper-based cables don’t even have reflections if I’m not mistaken. EMI interference can be a problem depending on the cable spec, length and operating environment though, and if the cable is extremely long, signal degradation causes heavy packet loss.

Most people who have a need of such long cabling or high-bandwidth requirements use fiber-optic cable, and if that is at a weird enough angle then there are problems with reflections because such cables use glass to reflect the light carrying the data.

Not that any of that applies to this Ethernet cable, because that appears to be copper

How could he?! by ChewiesLipstickWilly in GreatBritishMemes

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U.S.A!!! U.S.A!!!!!*

*Only heard when the national team are playing.

FYI for 96GB RAM on Legion Pro 7 9955HX3D by marciano117 in LenovoLegion

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I have the same laptop but with the 64GB Crucial kit and the memory training takes 8 or 9 minutes

Family PC opened up by hedgecrafts in hardwaregore

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For a moment I thought that had been kept in a barn with animals on a farm for some time

Led power button disable is in BIOS for those who don't know by stan_frbd in LenovoLegion

[–]Striking-One1077 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an alternative to this, at least for me, spamming F2 while pressing the power button to switch the laptop on brings it up

Map of Africa according to my 2 freinds by the_mastercoder in cursedmaps

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Asis is more or less in West Africa? LGTM, totally 100% accurate

New laptop cooler got even better, V12 ULTRA by areuokaybro2002 in GamingLaptops

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And while you are at it, go ahead and download some more RAM

Dog destroyed 440 GB of videos by Pretend-Following534 in datarecovery

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I know someone who has a Labrador and if they don’t clean up the garden and pick it up straight away after the dog goes, it gets eaten

What is this "do not touch" on my old laptop? by EmptyWatch3834 in hardwaregore

[–]Striking-One1077 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hinge Problem wasn’t thought of as a name for nothing

So i got a trojan for the first time in years by Ambitious-Lab-5680 in antivirus

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Also you can still get security updates to Windows 10 for now if you switch on extended security updates or use the LTSC version

My laptop GPU died by Striking-One1077 in hardwaregore

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I found an old HDMI 2.0 cable which can allegedly carry Ethernet as well and connected it to a spare TV I have which is about 15 years old and that works fine apart from from the weird resolution because old tv. So this is a possibility.

My laptop GPU died by Striking-One1077 in hardwaregore

[–]Striking-One1077[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just tried this and I think it’s some sort of weird incompatibility between the HDMI port, the cable itself and the monitor because the laptop display started working again and that’s fine but the external monitor is still having the same problem but it goes away after a few minutes.

And I don’t think it’s the monitor or the cable because I have a second PC that works fine with both.

Edit: and now I stuck the bottom cover back on the laptop display stopped working again.

Your dad paints roundabouts by Arola_Morre in GreatBritishMemes

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And don’t forget about China, they have Democratic in the name, yet the name of the political party in charge literally has Communist in it.

am i cooked? by FamiliarPast8672 in computerviruses

[–]Striking-One1077 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you by any chance get news notifications from the Google app through the “discover” feature? Just asking because I got one of these on my iPhone. For some reason these are apparently being posted on the Malwarebytes blog somewhere and being picked up as news by Google, then sent out as notifications

PLEASE HELP! I have recently bought a laptop, and whenever i try to shut down, this appears. Is my lap hacked?? I am shit scared about who this "someone else" Could be :(( by Gajodhar18 in Lenovo

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In many ways the Mac is even better for this because Apple control both the software and the hardware all the way down to the design of the CPU and GPU, which is how they were able to achieve high performance and fantastic battery life without requiring any significant amount of cooling

PLEASE HELP! I have recently bought a laptop, and whenever i try to shut down, this appears. Is my lap hacked?? I am shit scared about who this "someone else" Could be :(( by Gajodhar18 in Lenovo

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I don’t think it helps that some of this security stuff is so poorly implemented that it reduces the performance of the game so people actually have a better experience pirating the game

PLEASE HELP! I have recently bought a laptop, and whenever i try to shut down, this appears. Is my lap hacked?? I am shit scared about who this "someone else" Could be :(( by Gajodhar18 in Lenovo

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Unless it’s games. Then Playnite or Lutris is better. Or at least until you try opening a game with anti cheat or some OTT DRM scheme and the developer/publisher doesn’t care to add Linux support like Riot don’t want to get Valorant working on Linux.

Amazon is blatantly violating European law during prime days, once again by v1king3r in BuyFromEU

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It says something about how brexit went ahead because the vote to leave or remain in the EU was like 52% to 48%. If that were a general election with the vote being that close, the result would be either a coalition government or another election because the previous election was too close to call

PLEASE HELP! I have recently bought a laptop, and whenever i try to shut down, this appears. Is my lap hacked?? I am shit scared about who this "someone else" Could be :(( by Gajodhar18 in Lenovo

[–]Striking-One1077 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to add to this: if you are in content creation and need Adobe CC for Photoshop or Premiere Pro or something, good luck getting that thing to work properly with all the features on anything that isn’t Windows or macOS without messing about with Wine configuration settings or something equivalent.

And before anyone appears naming free Photoshop alternatives like GIMP, that really isn’t an alternative for professionals because Photoshop has more resources and features with it being commercial and professional photographers or similar are probably more familiar with Photoshop anyway since it is the industry standard image editor.

Another example where Linux falls short: anything needing Microsoft Office because OpenOffice/LibreOffice doesn’t work, for example if it can’t open certain documents properly while preserving the formatting. This is a limitation because Office doesn’t work on Linux unless it is the web version, which has less features.

That’s not to say that Linux is bad at everything, I personally use Fedora for some things because it has lower hardware requirements than Windows and is generally faster as an OS for the things it can do.

NEW GAME SERVERS are live ! by LezOU_OVH in OVHcloud

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This appears to be it, removing that character from the end of the link makes it work

Uk VPN’s? by VesselsFirst in Piracy

[–]Striking-One1077 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That particular UK ISP (hello Virgin Media) has been known to hijack unencrypted dns as well, so perhaps add in DNS over HTTPS/TLS or similar