Aaron44126

Have you paid attention to the max fan RPM speed that you have observed? (Dell Fan Management can report the fan speed.) Mine seems to top out at around 3500 RPM, whereas in older Precision systems I have regularly observed mid/upper 4000's. I'm wondering if the other fan models are different.

Ha. Twitter account "@ElonJet" was taken down. This account tweeted updates about the location of Elon Musk's private plane (...I assume using publicly available flight tracking data?). https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23508898/elonjet-twitter-ban-elon-musk-jet-tracker There was already some drama over this account... Before taking over Twitter, Elon Musk (supposedly) contacted the account operator and offered to pay to have the account taken down (paywall). After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk said that he will not ban the @ElonJet account, because, free speech. The account operator noticed that the account's visibility had been reduced, posted about that and somehow obtained an (alleged) internal screenshot of someone in Twitter's internal Slack asking for its visibility to be restricted. Perhaps in reaction to those posts, the account's visibility was restored to normal. (I saw an article about this a couple of days ago but can't find it right this moment...) ...And now, the account is dead. [Edit] Another article. Apparently the same guy has plane tracker accounts set up for other planes (Bill Gates, Russian oligarchs, Air Force One, ...) and those are still working. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-suspends-elonjet-plane-tracking-bot-after-musk-pledged-to-leave-it-up/

Normally using Ethernet. Ran on Wi-Fi overnight and woke up to find my system had crashed from a BSOD (Netwtw10.sys ... Wi-Fi driver). I have the current Wi-Fi driver installed, 22.170.2.1. Great...? This system has been normally quite solid for me, stability-wise. (I'll just go run an Ethernet cable to where I was sitting yesterday and do a more in-depth stability test after another Intel Wi-Fi driver is posted...) Also, I inspected the fans after about four months of use. Very dirty. Regular cleaning required.

The many lies of Sam Bankman-Fried https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23507361/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-alameda-cftc-complaint-lies (Basically summing up the charges) The guy clearly got himself in a hole… and then kept digging it deeper 😕 [Edit] Denied bail, extradition hearing Feb 8. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23508217/sbf-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-bail-john-ray-congress-hearing

Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council" (established in 2016) has been disbanded. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-ditches-trust-and-safety-council-as-musk-tweets-fuel-harassment/

Didn't realize that we were looking at new MXM cards that don't support eDP at all. Hmm. Guessing these weren't really designed for laptops 😕

NPR picked it up pretty promptly yesterday. (Heard radio coverage on the situation through them this morning as well.) https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1142361088/bankman-fried-ceo-ftx-crypto-exchange-arrested-bahamas-charges-sdny I don't follow any sort of cable news, but I can actually see it on the front page at edition.cnn.com (and regular cnn.com as well). https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/13/business/sam-bankman-fried-charges/index.html

Apparently, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested today. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-bahamas-says/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23506483/sam-bankman-fried-arrest-us-extradition-ftx-crypto

This doesn’t make sense… eDP is still the standard used in modern/current laptops; all newer mobile GPUs support it. …That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something about the eDP implementation in Precision M4800/M6800 that they don’t like.

Oh… Twitter Blue is back for real. ($8/mo if you sign up via web, not $7 like I posted earlier.) https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23506335/twitter-blue-verified-checkmarks-return-impersonation

Leaked email shows Musk threatened to sue Twitter employees who leak to media https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/leaked-email-shows-musk-threatened-to-sue-twitter-employees-who-leak-to-media/ (...as Musk himself leaks emails and documents from the previous management) Also a bit at the bottom there about the conservative response to the "Twitter files" posted by Musk; once actually looking into the details, there isn't really anything there that was not already general knowledge... Definitely not a "smoking gun". Also this one about Elon Musk's appearance on a Dave Chappelle show which has drawn some negative reactions. A video from the show was uploaded to Twitter, went viral, and then the account that posted it disappeared... (Talk about censorship?) https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505354/elon-musk-dave-chappelle-booed-san-francisco-twitter ——— I mostly agree with @Etern4l's perspective on the social media echo chambers. Though I don't think that the end goal of social media companies is necessarily to divide users into opposing camps; that's merely a side-effect of their actual end goal, which is simply to maximize revenue. The "algorithm" is basically tuned to feed you whatever will keep you scrolling (...maximizing their ability to serve ad impressions, and thus derive a profit). Same thing goes for YouTube's "recommended next video" suggestions and so forth. They just want to keep you engaged on the platform for as long as possible. Eyeballs are money. End users are the product. (This is why I actively avoid any use of social media whenever possible. I think that this is a gross business model.) ...So, it follows that if you engage with left-wing content, you will start to see nothing but left-wing content. If you engage with right-wing content, you will start to see nothing but right-wing content. Their ability to track user behavior is highly sophisticated and refined at this point. You don't necessarily even have to click on something to "engage" with it; they pay attention even to how long you leave it up on the screen before scrolling past. (There is also tracking code that ends up many sites that results in data about what pages you look at making its way back to Facebook, Google, Amazon, or other advertising/tracking entities. They can tell what you're interested in based on sites that you visit, in many cases.) It follows that social media platforms are not a reliable source of "news" or "truth". This, of course, leads to echo chambers and extreme ideology becoming more entrenched, does not help foster reasonable discourse between people of differing opinions (everyone is so sure that they are right), and is causing all manner of societal issues today. The notion that the those people on "the other side" have an evil, secret hidden agenda is unrealistic. If this were true, it would be reasonably easy to turn up some hard facts beyond suppositions — for instance, leaked communications or internal documents confirming as much. No one could keep such a supposedly well-orchestrated evil plan so secret, especially with hundreds or thousands of individuals involved. (I know there are smaller scale unsavory/corruption leaks from time to time. These occur on both sides. I'm talking about the supposed-big picture plan.) And I want to be clear that in this paragraph, I am not trying to "defend" social media companies (as I rather despise them). But, as far as the law/constitution goes... "Freedom of speech" is something that people like to overextend. It sounds like it means that anyone should be able to say whatever they want on any platform or venue. But, in actuality, the first amendment simply puts limits on the government's ability to limit people's speech. It doesn't put limits on business' ability to do so. In fact, in recent years some state legislatures have tried to enact laws dictating how moderation on social media platforms should work, and courts have found these to be unconstitutional freedom of speech violations. Florida's law is largely blocked from taking effect by an appeals court while legal proceedings play out because it likely violates the first amendment (page 4), and the one from Texas is in a similar situation but the block came from the conservative-leaning Supreme Court. So, like it or not, it appears for now that social media companies have final say over what content is allowed or not (other than illegal content, for instance that espouses violence or human trafficking). ...And while the Texas and Florida laws were an effort to force social media companies to loosen up moderation, California and New York have introduced laws to make social media moderation more strict; these are rather new and it is not yet clear how they will shake out. ...And that's about as far as I care to venture into the "political" space. I won't follow up any further and will stick to posting interesting "what the heck" Twitter headlines that I run across. 🙂

Alright. I use Open Hardware Monitor for reading the CPU temperature, but the GPU temperature uses NVAPI directly, if you have an NVIDIA GPU. (Actually, I'm using a fork called Libre Hardware Monitor.) They would need to fix this and then I could incorporate a newer version of their library. Try this new dev build. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsIwJHFk4EFdqNc2I45BxBqHhwaKIA Needs .NET 6 if you do not have it -- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0 (grab the "desktop runtime"). Before launching it, go to regedit, navigate to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Dell Fan Management, add a "DWORD" value named "DisableCpuTemperatures" and set it to 1. That will disable CPU temperature reading in Dell Fan Management and hopefully work around this stutter. ("Consistency mode" won't work properly with this setup because it needs to be able to see the CPU core temperatures.) It could be a Windows 11 issue? I have done very little testing on Windows 11. I'm not running it on any systems right now.

Very strange. I am also showing it unavailable on the U.S. site. Maybe it will come back. Or maybe sales have been slow enough that they decided to discontinue it early? You can always get an XPS 17 which is essentially the same thing, aside from the lack of a pro GPU.

What was the max you saw from the 240W? (288W is likely around 235W going to the system after AC/DC conversion loss.)

Apparently, today is the day that Twitter Blue is coming back. Will it work out better this time ....? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-blue-is-coming-back-with-more-colors-and-assurances-from-musk/

Twitter to start deleting inactive accounts (1.5 billion of them) -- https://www.neowin.net/news/twitter-will-purge-around-15-billion-inactive-accounts-to-free-up-usernames/ I have an inactive account myself. I've had it since like 2010 and it has no tweets. (I do sign in from time to time, I follow some other accounts, but I've been using it way less since the Musk stuff started.) Will it just go away?

AFAIK, Tesla cards will only work in a laptop if the system has graphics switching / NVIDIA Optimus so that there is an Intel iGPU driving the display(s). You can use the Tesla card for rendering in this case, and it will work about as well as a GeForce 980M or Quadro M5000M. (I've never heard of someone successfully activating the direct display output, but who knows, you can pretty easily flash the vBIOS on these guys.)

Does the newer build have the NvAPIWrapper error? (It's caused by newer versions of the NVIDIA driver.) https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsIwJHFk4EFdqKJP4MOlZA6NwrWAPg (Needs .NET 6.) I've never had stuttering with this software, but I've heard other complaints about this. I think it is caused by the constant temperature/fan speed measurements but I am not sure if it is CPU temperature sensing, GPU temperature sensing, or RPM speed sensing that is causing it. Do you experience the same issue if you just run Open Hardware Monitor?

Is Raptor Lake going to be with us for two years? Meteor Lake launch delayed? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-roadmap-leaks-raptor-lake-refresh-hedt-replacement-in-2023 ("Raptor Lake refresh" desktop CPUs coming in 2H 2023.) They could launch the new node first on the laptop line... they've done it before, i.e. Tiger Lake (10nm laptop) / Rocket Lake (14nm desktop). This to say that we could see a generation with desktops on "Raptor Lake refresh" but laptops getting something newer. We'll see...

Gotta do something with all that extra space freed up by employee departures, I guess... Twitter Blue to cost $11/mo if you sign up on iPhone, $7/mo if you sign up on the web. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/8/23499696/twitter-blue-relaunch-7-11-dollars-apple-tax-30-percent-commission Does Apple have rules about price disparity? And wouldn't he only need to charge $10/mo on iPhone to have Apple's 30% "tax" covered? Android is not mentioned but I'd imagine he'd try the same thing with them...

Interested to see if the 330W power supply helps at all, but I doubt it. Users have tried this with older 17" Precision systems and they would not utilize the extra power. NVIDIA Dynamic Boost 2.0 is "supposed" to shuffle power allocation between the CPU and GPU when both are under load and strike a balance that gives best overall performance in the given situation. Not sure if that is working well in these systems or not. I noticed in the Precision 7X60 line that they enabled NVIDIA Dynamic Boost 2.0 in BIOS 1.8.x, and then removed it in a later BIOS update...

This was my experience. It shows a 150W power limit in NVIDIA control panel, but practically it seems to be limited at 130W. (HWiNFO64 shows it sitting right at 130W during a 3DMark run the whole time.)

Tesla stock was just under $400 on January 3, 2022, and is currently sitting at $173. That's a >50% loss from the peak. It spent much of April in the $330-340 range (that's when the Musk-buying-Twitter stuff was first starting as I recall) so it's even around a 50% loss from that time period. Part of that is due to global market forces (stocks everywhere are mostly down; inflation, supply chain issues, Ukraine war, etc. aren't helping). But Tesla is having a bad run of it. And, as I understand it, the loan that Musk used to in part pay for his Twitter purchase is secured against Tesla stock. Twitter owes about $1 billion per year in interest. (The loans are actually to be paid back by Twitter, not Elon Musk.) I wonder how those lenders are feeling right now, given both what is going on with Tesla's stock value and how Musk's running of Twitter is working out.

Windows 10 does mobile hotspot as well, from Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile hotspot. You can choose which connection that you want to share and it will host a new Wi-Fi network from your laptop, basically turning it into a wireless router. I "assume" that this would work for sharing a 5G/LTE connection, but I have never tried it.

Yes, Alder Lake H has a more powerful iGPU than HX so it should be able to top my result.