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HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs

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The 100+ people at the company are not responsible for what happened, the 2-3 people that should have dealt with it are.

That's not how businesses work.

Those 2-3 people were acting as employees of the company, executing business for the company. The company is responsible for those actions.

You can't just hand-wave it away as "our employees suck at their jobs".

You hired them. You authorized them to do those jobs. You are responsible for the manner in which they were done (or not done)

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Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger

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as every accessory with a lightning port just became e-waste. I guess Mother Nature didn’t see that.

I think it's interesting that you see this as USB-C's fault.

If Apple had stuck to a standard connector they would have been on usb-c in a year or two anyway and none of that e-waste would exist.

Or if they went back on their word and switched to usb-c from lightning after a couple years, there would also be way less Lightning e-waste. What do you think happens to all those Lightning accessories when someone switches from iPhone to a different device?

Apple's proprietary Lightning connector is responsible for the e-waste, not USB-C or regulators.

These regulations will stop companies like Apple making proprietary connectors purely for profit that generate all the e-waste in the first place.

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I agree with that other reply.

Linus knew just enough to be dangerous.

My experience with most Windows users and their first encounter with using a Linux terminal is every single warning/error they see no matter how mundane is a big deal.

Things like the boot text or a random apt install on Linux will often display various warnings or even "errors" that are really of no concern but ime tend to freak out new users.

Linus is in that narrow band where he doesn't really know shit but knows just enough to be falsely confident and ignore all the warnings/errors instead of just the irrelevant ones

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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user

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Use KeePass.

My concern with using a text file is you have to defrost it to use it and whenever it's not encrypted it's potentially exposed. You are also vulnerable to keyloggers or clipboard captures

KeePass works entirely locally, no cloud. And it's far more secure/functional than a text file.

I personally use KeePass, secured with a master password + YubiKey.

Then I sync the database between devices using SyncThing over a Tailscale network.

KeePass keeps the data secure at rest and transferring is always done P2P over SSL and always inside a WireGuard network so even on public networks it's protected.

You could just as easily leave out the Tailscale/SyncThing and just manually transfer your database using hardware air-gapped solutions instead but I am confident in the security of this solution for myself. Even if the database was intercepted during transit it's useless without the combined password/hardware key.

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OpenSubtitles Hostility

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Yeah this is one of my pretty peeves.

When I ask you for the logs I don't mean cut out the one or two lines you might think are relevant.

Please provide the entire log file unless instructed otherwise.

I have no reason to believe the bits OP removed were relevant. In fact it sounds as though none of it was. But that's not always the case and support people or the actual developers are just as capable of using the search function in a text editor to locate the relevant parts of a log file as anyone else is.

Please provide the entire log, this "helping" concept causes now issues than it solves, trust.

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Introducing Raspberry Pi 5

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That's quite an understatement.

It has:

  • a new SOC
  • a new Southbridge
  • 5A USB-PD
  • a dedicated fan connector
  • a dedicated uart connector
  • 2 dual purpose DSI/CSU connectors (you can now use two displays or two cameras instead of one of each)
  • A PCIE FPC ribbon connector like the one used for DSI/CSI (you don't need a hat, just a ribbon) also the pi4 did not have any accessible PCIE lanes, only the cm4 did. Also the pi5 is capable of PCIE Gen3
  • More bandwidth for the usb3 connectors
  • more bandwidth for Wi-Fi (reports are it gets about double the bandwidth despite using the same Wi-Fi chip)
  • Fully SMD board, no through-hole components.

There's plenty of stuff I would have liked to see that didn't make it, but there definitely a lot more to it than an RTC and a power button. For $60 this is not a bad SBC at all.

I would have liked to see normal HDMI connectors, 2.5G Ethernet with PoE included, and higher RAM options.

More PCIe lanes would have been nice too but probably unlikely given the price point