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Elpenor said:
My hub is working fine, so I now have 2 big monitors and that’s great but have just realised I now need a webcam for calls. Am I going to be fine with a £10 Argos one?
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What's your budget? I had to get one last year. Went for a Logitech C something. Sorry can't recall exact model but it's billed as the standard, old but decent web cam. Seems fine AFAIK. Though it cost about 65 quid.
 
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What's your budget? I had to get one last year. Went for a Logitech C something. Sorry can't recall exact model but it's billed as the standard, old but decent web cam. Seems fine AFAIK. Though it cost about 65 quid.
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much less than that, in the end I got someone in the office to tell me what ones we had at work as it’s a similar docking station / two screens setup there and got it off eBay for £15 (was £20 on Amazon!)

I was on do not disturb most of the day anyway
 
Been rebuilding the PC. The Lian Li is very nice to work in, but I can't help feeling impressed with past me who built in such small case last time and did it neatly.

It's my first time playing with RGB. I didn't think I was that fussed, but the AIO came with it, so I thought I'd embrace it. Who ever designed the 3 pin ARGB connector needs taking out and shooting. You know it's shit when the pins need a plastic shield when they aren't being used. And if I ever had to move my PC often, I might consider duct taping them.
 
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UnderOpenSky said:
Been rebuilding the PC. The Lian Li is very nice to work in, but I can't help feeling impressed with past me who built in such small case last time and did I neatly.

It's my first time playing with RGB. I didn't think I was that fussed, but the AIO came with it, so I thought I'd embrace it. Who ever designed the 3 pin ARGB connector needs taking out and shooting. You know it's shit when the pins need a plastic shield when they aren't being used. And if I ever had to move my PC often, I might consider duct taping them.
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Taking a moment here to issue a hearty FUCK YOU to that bundle of pins that you plug power switch/power led/speaker/hdd light into. It's been that way for 40 years now, it was shit then and it's especially shit now when literally everything else is better.
 
Chz said:
Taking a moment here to issue a hearty FUCK YOU to that bundle of pins that you plug power switch/power led/speaker/hdd light into. It's been that way for 40 years now, it was shit then and it's especially shit now when literally everything else is better.
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I think I posted similar when I built in the cheap Coolermaster case. The Lian Li has a single plug that goes over the header. It baffles me why this isn't universal. It can't cost extra.
 
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UnderOpenSky said:
I think I posted similar when I built in the cheap Coolermaster case. The Lian Li has a single plug that goes over the header. It baffles me why this isn't universal. It can't cost extra.
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Do motherboards not come with a single plug that you can plug the individuals into? I seem to have acquired a load of them, but I don't recall whether they came with motherboards or cases.
 
Saul Goodman said:
Do motherboards not come with a single plug that you can plug the individuals into? I seem to have acquired a load of them, but I don't recall whether they came with motherboards or cases.
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The motherboards come with a set of pins. A sane case has a single plug that goes over the top. Weirdly, like my old coolermaster and the ones Chz hates, there are some cases that come with a lead for each pin.
 
UnderOpenSky said:
The motherboards come with a set of pins. A sane case has a single plug that goes over the top. Weirdly, like my old coolermaster and the ones Chz hates, there are some cases that come with a lead for each pin.
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I've definitely got one with ASUS written on it, so I assumed it must have come with a motherboard.
But yeah, it's about time that was done away with, and a standardised plug fitted on all cases.
 
Sasaferrato said:
Well, I finally bought this:


I had a £100.00 in Amazon vouchers so it cost me £70.00.

It is used as a web browser and TV watcher, and is performing perfectly.

Advertised as renewed, it is absolutely perfect, the isn't even the tiniest of scuffs on it. I stuck in a 256Gb card.
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I was going to be an asshole and deal shame, but it turns out all the cheap N100 laptops on Amazon are Chromebooks and not Windows. The N100 really is a quantum shift in "minimum processing ability" though. We had ten years of Celerons creeping up faster 5% at a time and then bamf N100 replaces them with something as fast as a 2016 i5.
 
www.techspot.com

Linus Torvalds is "fed up" with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds recently expressed frustration with change proposals to the Linux kernel that are only "required" due to faulty hardware. Phoronix notes that Torvalds ranted...
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Part of the problem is that addressing hardware faults at the OS level complicates matters for developers and creates potential compatibility problems with other fault-free hardware. An example would be proposed kernel changes that will not work with Linear Address Masking (LAM) on Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, which is what got Torvalds fired up in the first place. This feature allows user space to store metadata in some bits of pointers.

According to Intel Engineer Kirill Shitemov, Intel is replacing LAM with LASS (Linear Address Space Separation), which is more secure as it prevents hackers from accessing virtual address spaces across user/kernel mode. Shitemov indicated that there was supposed to be a patch that disabled LAM until LASS was ready for implementation, but the fix "never got applied for some reason."

Since earlier this year, Intel's 13th and 14th-gen issues have caused headaches on many levels with consumers, developers, and within Intel. The company has addressed the problems with recommended BIOS settings and microcode to varying degrees of success. Couple that with the long-running issue of Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, which keep making headlines even six years after their discovery.
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Indeed, depending on who was responsible for the changes.

I missed off this paragraph, which gives some context:

The problem, as Torvalds sees it, is that Intel can afford to pay its engineers to address its hardware issues. Meanwhile, FOSS developers are unpaid volunteers who are under increasing pressure to get Linux working on bad hardware while keeping it bug-free on good hardware. So, his frustration is understandable. Of course, Torvalds has never shied away from telling hardware OEMs where they can go.
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Silly. But amuses me. Part of me now feels annoyed Lian Li cheaped out and didn't make the rear fan RGB as well.

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Anyway, quite pleased the £8 RGB controller worked, as I found very little about it online. I was tempted to add another two fans at the bottom, but it would have just been for asthetics, so I added the tube which worked out much cheaper.
 
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Oh this is nice. I've had my Prime run a torture test on my CPU for the last 15 mins an hour and the temp is sitting about 46 and the fans aren't even making much noise. :D

To tired for a proper Helldivers II session, but suspect the days of it going over 90 are over.
 
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a_chap said:
What is this obsession with silly lights in computer cases???


Here's mine as a sober reminder of what the inside of computers should look like...


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Look at you fancy pants with a glass window.

TBH I've never been into the idea, but the watercooler AIO came with 3 and the case came with two, so thought I'd embrace it. The cheap controller came with a remote control to turn it off if i want (or change colour)
 
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Is there any reason why 5G can't be delivered via masts like mobile phone masts? It would be a damn sight easier than by cables.
 
Sasaferrato said:
Is there any reason why 5G can't be delivered via masts like mobile phone masts? It would be a damn sight easier than by cables.
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It is delivered via the masts


Like its predecessors, 5G networks are cellular networks, in which the service area is divided into small geographical areas called cells. All 5G wireless devices in a cell are connected to the Internet and the telephone network by radio waves through a basestation and antennae in the cell.
 
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