Mr. Fox

I watched that video earlier today and baking a video card to reflow is a terrible idea. I have always thought it was a terrible idea. This video showed a great example of why it's a bad idea. But I'm not sure about the accuracy of whether or not that is how an EVGA refurbish repair is handled. I suspect Tony is going off of what the owner told him. They probably do not even have any electronics repair staff left, so it probably got refurbished by another company on their behalf. The decal could be a forgery as well.

They (Micro$lop) can kiss my hind end, Brother Papusan. I will be sure to let a big wet and smelly fart right as their lips touch my butt.

Latest and greatest Kubuntu with Plasma 6. Loving it.

Winduhz 11 is just a scummy piece of crap any way you slice it. The best way to run Windoze is in a Linux virtual machine because it is not a respectable solution any more. I am half way through week #2 of using exclusively Linux and only launching Windowz in a vm when it is absolutely necessary to perform a task that can only be performed using a Windoes-only application. But, I am still not using that ultra-filthy malware version of it. It feels better than it ever has to avoid Micro$lop garbage. Since I'm more or less no longer benching, I don't need it for that and benching was one of the excuses I used for continuing to use it. If things continue playing out this well I will have three NVMe SSDs in each desktop (6 in total) that I can erase and use for something other than a Weendoze digital cesspool.

Your nephew will (should) be super happy. Those are some decent upgrades from Uncle Electrosoft. ❤️ He should be commended for exploring Linux as a solution to the Micro$lop cancer dung OS. I am approaching the end of week #2 using Linux exclusively and only resorting to opening Windoze in a virtual machine when I need to do something that only PowerBI and Excel can do. As soon as I am done I shut it down. No regrets. If I didn't need to use those applications for work I would not even bother with the virtual machine. Kubuntu with Plasma 6 is fantastic. Very satisfied and even more impressed than I have been in the past with Linux. I'm so sick of the nonsense from the Redmond Retards. 25H2 is going to be the most vile strain of colon cancer to have ever emanated from their posterior orifice.

If you haven't already, maybe give kubuntu a try. I like Mint with Cinnamon DE a lot and it used to be my favorite. But now I prefer KDE Plasma over Mint. Both are an easy GUI for Windows users to embrace. One of the nice things about Linux is you can change the desktop environment on almost any distro to satisfy personal preference. Imagine how much happier some Windows users would be to have the ability to install a Window XP, 7, 2000 or 8.X desktop environment on Window 10 or 11 if they dislike the default GUI. Using "skins" works to a degree, but it is never more than a partial and superficial transformation. And doing it tends to break things and sometimes requires some pretty sketchy tweaks. There is certainly a learning curve and those of us that have grown used to Windows over the decades can find it frustrating navigating unfamiliar waters. I am forcing myself to become as well-versed in Linux as possible so I can eventually (hopefully) no longer have any use for Windows. I am closer than ever and hope I can reach a point that Windows becomes as irrelevant and worthless to me as MacOS.

That was a good video. Looks like I got really lucky with the Elite. Clocks higher anyhow, and I bought it for less than it is currently going for. I am looking forward to seeing how the hotspot and memory temps look on water. High hotspot and memory temps is really the only thing about it that I dislike. Otherwise it is a real banger that offers excellent value to performance. I'm not a huge fan of the Adrenaline driver model. It seems very bloated and has lots of unnecessary consumer garbage, but the same is true of a "stock" GeFarts driver install with the NVIDIA App and all of its associated crap. If I didn't have NVCleanstall to exorcise all of the rubbish it would be equally bloated as Adrenaline IMHO. Once I get the GPU block I will tinker more with the RadeonSlimmer application to see how much trash I can remove without breaking things. I really don't get why NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers have such a huge payload of garbage. Maybe some people actually find value in it. I don't.

Check this performance optimization thing. Uses https://grok.com/

I haven't needed to use Windows with a Windows 10 VM available to run the stuff for work that doesn't function on Linux. It's good having a largely Windoze-free experience. The only game that I have tried lately that is not working (yet) on Linux for me is Doom: The Dark Ages. All prior versions of Doom run like they are native. I decided to play with Bazzite and installed it alongside Zorin, Windows 10 and 11. It's OK but I am not liking the distro. One of its features that many actually like I do not like. The OS itself installs to a relatively small read-only ext4 partition and everything else on a btrfs partition. Installing applications using apt and other repositories is more restrictive as well. That's the part I do not like. I think for a user wanting it to function as a Steam OS for gaming and doesn't do much else with the OS it is an excellent no-fuss option that remains very stable and reliable. I don't really care about having or need for the OS to be in such a guarded state. Security is fine until it interferes with freedom or slows things down, then I'm done caring about it.

There are ways to control the scrolling speed in the mouse setup options. Sometimes things are harder to find and more limited in Zorin. It's a great OS for those new to Linux though. Probably the best option overall. KDE Plasma DE has much more robust configuration options. It can be installed on Zorin. Depending on what kernel you are running you might find WiFi/BT support in a newer kernel.

So, Alphacool Core finally became available for my 9070 XT. I ordered one and should receive it in a couple of weeks. https://shop.alphacool.com/shop/gpu-wasserkuehlung/amd/14780-alphacool-core-rx-9070-xt-aorus-elite-mit-backplate

Breathing air and drinking water causes cancer.

Never-ended drama with security stuff. Kind of like literally every substance known to man causes cancer.

The FTC decision was a good one. It allowed subscriptions to be easily cancelled at will. The panel of three judges decided it wasn't good for corporate interests. At least that is how I read it. They were clearly doing what was best for corporate interests. My original point was that government is not always bad, and judges are often more liberal, more left and more corrupt.

You are mistaken or have been provided with wrong information. The vast majority of Federal Judges are extreme left and totally out of touch with mainstream Americans. Most are abject failures that legislate from the bench based on personal and political bias and breach their duty of upholding the law. You are probably confusing them with Supreme Court Justices. Neither group have the power or authority to create or modify codified law. Their sworn duty is to apply the law.

This is an interesting one. Good video and very unflattering for NVIDIA. Steve talks about how liberal and empowering Intel is with AIB partners and how NVIDIA is a control freak in stark contrast.

If you want to see the soldering stuff you can start from the beginning. The mod killed the PSU.

A glimpse of what the future holds for a world filled with AI. Those that have jumped on the bandwagon are artificially intelligent (aka stupid).

Pompous, over-confident and dismissive. Like the story of the tortoise and the hare. They felt they didn't need to try, and for a long time they didn't. I can see NVIDIA experiencing the same bump in the road. Their arrogance is truly stupefying, and matched only by their greed and lack of regard for the people that purchase their products. They are reaching a point of being so expensive that smart people won't be able find enough value in their products to justify the cost. I'm already leaning that way pretty hard. Not because I like the alternative better. I don't. But, I also don't like being screwed like a blow-up doll stuffed in the bedroom closet of a serial rapist.

It's true. How long it will last nobody knows. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Intel found out. I think NVIDIA is whole lot more dishonest and sketchy than Intel ever thought about being. None of these big tech companies are worthy of our trust or confidence. They'll all screw us over if given an opportunity. If it is not predatory pricing and shady dealings, shoddy support and warranty service, it is stealing our information, stockpiling it insecurely, sharing it with "partners" and creating vulnerabilities that place us all at risk for identity theft with data breaches.