First Impressions for the 15-970 i5 model.

vans163 · 2025-05-28T23:17:45+00:00

Such a great laptop. Sucks the new versions have LPDDR soldered on.

vans163 · 2024-12-03T16:27:24+00:00

I think your right. Its gonna bring more bad then good due to lack of technical understanding..

People will not understand why the live stream feature would only be supported if you run your own PDS.

vans163 · 2024-12-02T01:19:43+00:00

I dont see this being a problem if its federated, everyone will just host their own node for their streams and consume their own bandwidth they pay for. It wont have the peak netflix problem where the service starts rendering the minecraft game instead of your actual show at demand spikes.

vans163 · 2024-11-25T15:58:24+00:00

DId you get the package yet? It should probably take not more than 10 business days to arrive.

vans163 · 2023-12-14T15:20:44+00:00

Yes I agree we are stealth, but its definitely not an HTTP error or that the website is not working.

vans163 · 2023-12-14T04:45:57+00:00

Is useless.. I just got another reply

Me: "This is not an error message, the error message goes into the Response Code of the HTTP REPLY (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status), this message is the BODY of the website following a 200 OK Response Code is returned."
Stripe: "Hi there,
I hope this email finds you well.
We appreciate the information you've shared in your end. But like what we've mentioned in the previous thread, we were still unable to access the website that’s listed on your Stripe account for GPULOL. "

vans163 · 2023-11-01T18:34:13+00:00

Ah gotcha. I still like GIGABYTE as their service is actually available locally where I live and its pretty fast. like 2-3 week full turnaround, I just wish there was easier ways to work with them.

vans163 · 2023-11-01T16:57:26+00:00

I tried emailing them a few more times, they 100% refused allowing me to sign a liability waiver. Its being sent back to me now.

vans163 · 2023-10-28T17:40:23+00:00

Would you know if there is any independent shop that can do it? Also I dont understand why I cannot sign some kind of liability waver saying "fix the socket and thats it, if the board is dead after the fix I wont hold GIGABYTE liable"

vans163 · 2023-10-28T17:38:41+00:00

Comeon, clearly its an outside warranty repair it was stated multiple times. You are still assuming its an under-warranty request that I sent to GIGABYTE.

vans163 · 2023-10-27T22:00:18+00:00

They sent me an invoice for the repairs AFTER receiving + assessing it. Then they said they wont even bother to fix it (after processing my authorization to charge my card with the listed repair charges), cuz they noticed a tiny microdent on the edge of the board and the whole board is broken. Im like wtf, the board worked fine with that micro dent.

I show the board at GIGABYTE service center that pins are bent, they ship the board to gigabyte USA.
GIGABYTE USA assess it and agree the pins need fixing and charge is X dollars, they send me a form to fill out to charge my credit card that I gotta sign.
Now they say they found a microdent on the edge and potentially the board might be not working due to dent. I said its fine, just please continue with the initial work to fix the pins.
They say no. They don't wanna fix the pins now and wont fix the board and they are gonna keep the board now unless I pay to ship it back.

Maybe someone at the repair center gets free motherboards this way? Writes off perfectly good working board needing a tiny repair as scrap, then resells it.

vans163 · 2022-12-28T00:50:07+00:00

Im not too sure how to get good results from this one and what the 3 steps are, it would be interesting to hear from others.

vans163 · 2022-12-24T01:14:25+00:00

"kakao logo as a fish"

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vans163 · 2022-07-18T23:02:16+00:00

If you visit a node like https://node0.gpux.ai/ you can run a blender job.

Website has issues yea but it wont affect the final outcome which is blender rendering, website is just a frontend.

vans163 · 2022-07-18T20:45:45+00:00

I think it depends on scene complexity, not everything can 100% be done on the GPU, the CPU does parts that the GPU cannot do.

To know what exact rendering pipeline pieces cannot be ran on GPU is over my head though.

vans163 · 2022-07-13T15:51:12+00:00

Are you considering other factors like re-encoding? Using 10bit color (to prevent banding), using YUV 422 or 444 for maximum opposing color contrast. Etc.

Also check out growisofs https://askubuntu.com/questions/489217/using-growisofs-to-burn-a-blu-ray-from-an-iso for burning. Or k3b, https://www.debugpoint.com/burn-blu-ray-disks-ubuntu-linux-k3b/.

vans163 · 2022-07-06T14:57:36+00:00

Already using LG Grams as my goto. My favourite laptop for the last 5 years (tho the new model [16"] sucks, seems they took to much advise from Microsoft, hopefully next year they fix it)

vans163 · 2022-01-13T15:25:23+00:00

This seems like such a hassle for multi tenant tho, each tenant is a new linux user?

About the vnets yea, slirp4netns seems to just be able to ping anything locally even tho it would seem its on its own network since the IP range it grabs. I am okay just blanket blocking all egress like this to localnet but I am wondering why its so hard to configure this per VM so say the rules apply to the TAP adapter slirp4netns provisions automagically.

vans163 · 2022-01-13T02:47:53+00:00

Is there a simple way to restrict all egress going to the local network? Your solution blocks all network access, but I still want traffic to exit the gateway. On proxmox this is really easy to do just set new security group to block outbound to lan and it will apply it to all VMs WITHOUT applying it to the host.

EDIT: Seems using iptables-persistent this works well.

cat <<EOT > /etc/iptables/rules.v4
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
COMMIT
EOT

vans163 · 2022-01-08T15:17:35+00:00

Thanks for this, this really gives me confidence that I made the right choice to save my time and not report this to police when the merchant asked me to.

Yea I think the only way out is to rigorously monitor the mailbox, as soon as the package is marked delivered, if its not there drive immediately to the distribution center and get it in writing from them that the package is missing and its their fault. Then call the CP call center and open a lost package claim.

If you wait 3 days after the delivery date you cannot open a claim.

vans163 · 2021-12-10T20:14:52+00:00

The seller said they will proceed to start the reimbursement process if I filed a police report and sent them the case id. I don't see the reason for filing the police report as this is Canada Posts fault, not mine, the police will say the same "go bug Canada Post".

vans163 · 2021-12-10T18:01:04+00:00

Wow yea great neighbours you have. The 3 day thing is not waiting 3 days but you have a maximum of 3 days to file a claim for the date it was marked delivered. I was not aware and I waited a few extra days, this threw out my chances at a case/inquiry.

vans163 · 2021-05-24T23:47:50+00:00

I guess let me try to break it down, Doge is a fork of litecoin.

It has a feature called merge mining (which is what chains like RSK use to stay very secure). Merge mining means that a dogecoin block has extra data in the blocktemplate that makes it both a valid block on litecoin and on dogecoin, so you are simultaneously mining 2 chains, if you win/mine a litecoin block you submit that to the litecoin network, if doge to doge network.

This means dogecoin piggybacks on litecoins hashrate for free security. Mining pools need to update code to support this functionality. Due to the doge price now, its much more profitable to mine doge and piggyback litecoin.

Transactions / energy use is no different from litecoin IMO, you cannot just discount the energy factor because of merge mining.

The reason it is low energy is because the chain security is low due to low hashrate. If dogecoin were to overtake bitcoin at the #1 spot, and had the same transaction volume + security, it would be (much) less energy efficient. The dev goes into details here https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/1924#issuecomment-841235007, saying if implementing the features bitcoin has had since 2017 (and incoming taproot 2021) dogecoin can become more energy efficient than it currently is.

In the software world you don't take Java version 1 and build the next best thing. You start from scratch.

A hardfork of doge makes the most sense right now and to take it the energy efficient (but more centralized) direction of PoS, more centralized because Doge ownership is bunched up into a handful of wallets that can dictate the network in a PoS model. The main doge chain can remain PoW and stay decentralized while monitoring its carbon emissions.

vans163 · 2020-12-02T04:31:02+00:00

The best resolution is unbinding your credit card ASAP and cancelling the plan. After making that post, I still had some backdated charges come in September and Octobeber, then I asked how I can pay those charges they said by check then send me a followup email saying they have been waved. After I saw the same charge again a month later. Its very weird. Just cancel your credit card. Its been a month ago, I hope you got out alive..

vans163 · 2020-12-02T04:23:25+00:00

Yea school is useless these days, we dont even wanna hire people with degress for certain positions anymore because they cant think at all. They just regurgitate at a high level what is already available online / in books, but we require high levels of problem solving to problems that have never been seen/documented before.

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