Mr. Fox

I still have not received one.

PC enthusiast do not have any friends left in the industry where hardware is concerned. We are an annoyance and inconvenience that has been cast aside.

I've applied for a lot of jobs I am ideally suited for and could do with my eyes closed that have not worked out. Ageism is illegal, but it is more real than anyone wants to admit. I have one that looks even better that I have my third interview for today that I pray works out and it would probably end up being the best one I have applied for. The one that looked promising that you referred to is not off the table, but the President wanted to see how how the financials looked for 2025 and how January revenue looks before adding a new c-suite resource to staff. On the WireView Pro... when you get around to it, this screenshot might be useful if you run into any complications getting Windows to correctly identify it. I think the key is manually installing the driver in Device Manager, immediately powering off and unplugging the PSU long enough for the board and everything attached to lose power. It appears there was some sort of delivery failure. I replied and it shows to have been sent, but you evidently cannot see the reply on your end. Thanks for checking on me, brother. I really appreciate it.

Thanks, brother. Still kickin' and looking for work. Sorry to hear that you have been ill, brother. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.

I literally just now watched this video and was coming here to post it. 👍 @tps3443 might want to watch this.

I hope that they go to trial, lose, spend a fortune in defense costs in the process and get slammed with an absurd jury verdict that breaks their bank and leaves them with inadequate capital to continue with the AI nonsense and nothing left to offer Jensen's commie crony bastards in China. Not just NVIDIA... OpenAI (ChatGPT), Microsoft (Copilot), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini) and Apple all deserve to burn in the same fire pit as the Green Goblin.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm optimistic when I shouldn't be most of the time, but I honestly believe (and truly hope) the AI clown circus house of cards will very soon collapse super hard and burst into flames. I hope that it spooks investors badly enough that they all pull out frantically and leave the developers with no operating capital to function with and cause GPU and memory prices to hit history-making rock bottom prices with an oversaturated market flooded with new and used parts and cancelled orders that have to be sold for pennies on the dollar in order to get rid of it. I think there's a good possibility that the stock of parts available, (or visibly seeming to be absent,) in reality, is not an accurate reflection of the apparent lack thereof we see at the storefront. I suspect there are secret GPU and memory stockpiles that nobody knows about that are being held for the highest bidders and reserved for corporate customers that pay excessive prices and submit to scalping just to get whatever they want and need. It would be awesome and hilarious if the highest bidders and corporate buyers all suddenly have no money and most of them go out of business, vanish or change their focus to something else. It would be fun to watch Micron/Crucial, NVIDIA, Samsung and others in the silicon production space have to get down on their knees and beg consumers to buy their brand and offer it dirt cheap, even below cost just to unload it, after their back-stabbing treachery.

@jaybee83 in case you were not already aware, the WireView Pro II sensors now show in the latest beta version of HWiNFO64, but the drivers need to be installed for it to be visible to Windows for sensor reporting. Otherwise, HWiNFO64 will not be aware it is present. If you haven't already tried to get the WireView software working (which is NOT needed for HWiNFO64) I found it to be a bit tricky. Hit me up here if you run into any issues. It took three tries for me. If you change vBIOS after installing it you also need to delete it from Device Manager and let it reinstall itself for it to be visible to the software. Also very important after installing the driver in Device Manager to shut down and disconnect the PSU from power completely. Then restore power and boot up. Otherwise, the software update will not take effect. The WireView Pro II requires a full removal of power from the motherboard and GPU to initialize after the driver installation. Of course none of this is necessary to use the WireView Pro II as a standalone device without any software monitoring features.

If this is accurate it is wonderful news.

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💯 ‼️ Very well said and highly accurate.

When a person relies on or invests too much trust in technology rather than leveraging and utilizing it is where the problems start. Technology is an assistive tool, not a substitute for the ability to think and make good choices. Technology can only process information. GIGO... garbage in, garbage out. The "leaders" of technology are hoping we lose sight of that and allow ignorance, apathy, laziness and complacency to replace prudence. What makes it particular dangerous is that all of those attributes are so common.

Really liking MX Linux. I am glad that I decided to give this distro a go. I've got all of my Windoze applications working in Winboat. Micro$lop PowerBI, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Windoze is continuing on the path of become irrelevant by all measurements.

Really liking MX Linux. I am glad that I decided to give this distro a go. I've got all of my Windoze applications working in Winboat. Micro$lop PowerBI, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Windoze is continuing on the path of become irrelevant.

It is difficult for anyone to find something nice to say about Winduhz because it is not a nice OS.

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More good news for us Micro$lop digital filth haters. Combined with the damage Steam has already inflicted, this might be just the silver bullet we are hoping pierces the heart of the behemoth Digital Data Vampire from hell. I hope GOG concentrates all or most of their energy on Linux. We need to be done with the Redmond Reprobates and their cancer OS. Now independent, GOG is thinking about publishing games and embracing Linux | TechSpot NVIDIA needs to go out of business. I hope they go bankrupt and all of their stockholders lose everything.

More good news for us Micro$lop digital filth haters. Combined with the damage Steam has already inflicted, this might be just the silver bullet we are hoping pierces the heart of the behemoth Digital Data Vampire from hell. I hope GOG concentrates all or most of their energy on Linux. We need to be done with the Redmond Reprobates and their cancer OS. Now independent, GOG is thinking about publishing games and embracing Linux | TechSpot

We need either federal legislation or an executive order forbidding the transfer of costs of any kind to communities for any business. Be it AI, manufacturing or anything else, companies that cannot survive without subsidies or consumers living nearby footing the bill should not be allowed to operate. They need to stand on their own or die. No tax breaks or energy breaks for businesses, no free rides. Swim or drown. If their presence increases the cost of energy, they need to absorb the difference so the end result means private property owners pay no more than before they arrived. Any violators have their assets seized.

This is related to that topic.

Maybe the dead RAM sticks that Brother @Rage Set and others I have been seeing randomly is a sign of things to come. In more ways than one, we are living in the bad old days. The good old days are behind us now. I'm glad my sticks are on water. My derrogatory reference to "heating blankets" instead of heat spreaders for the worthless garbage stock RAM heatsinks is finally being recognized.