We already do, but that still doesn’t mean you’re safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access

Except when it’s your own data, then usually you’re fucked.

Took me a long time to find decent headphones that last long.

I’ve tried several times with beyerdynamic, my DT 880 lasted for quite a while, but then got issues. I sent the DT 990 and the DT 1990 PRO back, they both lost audio on one side after a few weeks. I totally gave up on headsets (with a microphone), they are always shoddy quality wise and either the mute button breaks or one side gives out… or the headband snaps.

I’ve had the Sennheiser HD 660 S for 5 years now and the best thing about it: The cable goes to both sides. So when the cable finally broke on one side I could simply replace it for 15€. It’s also much easier to switch out the earpads, they just click in. Compared to the DT 880 where it feels like you’re going to tear something and you have to stretch the thing onto the plastic.

Q: Running TPFanControl I encounter strange spontaneous unexpected actions as shutdowns and standbys. Is there any workaround?

A: Newer versions of Thinkpad Power Manager don’t team up with TPFanControl well. You can avoid these spontaneous effects by uninstalling Thinkpad Power Manager Program and Thinkpad Power Manager Driver. For testing purpose saving the installation of Thinkpad Power Manager run autoruns with admin rights, uncheck all checkboxes of Thinkpad Power Manager instances as program, service and driver, and have a reboot. You can use Windows Mobility Center as a workaround for some of these FN functions. To reactivate Thinkpad Power Manager check all checkboxes of Thinkpad Power Manager in autoruns again and reboot.

Yeah, no, for a work laptop this is all way too hacky. Somehow ThinkPads are really locked down when it comes to fan control.

If you set the fan speed manually to 100% it will sustain almost 40, but then it’s screaming and burning hot.

How do you actually set the fan speed? ThinkPads seem quite resistant there, the one software I found for it wanted me to install a driver, which failed as it has security vulnerabilities :-/

I wish Dell would offer AMD CPUs, they are mostly an Intel shop.

Mine actually has a dGPU and at 20W it doesn’t thermal throttle, but it still runs way too slow. Today I tried unlocking the boost again so it goes up to 50W or so… but it barely makes a difference as the CPU hits 100°C in 0.5 seconds (:

I was even toying with the idea of repasting that crap, but it’s a work laptop, so nah. Annoyed the IT department about a replacement PC again. We switched to Dell, so the new XPS 14 looks kinda nice, but when you look at benchmarks and noise it also sucks. So desktop PC it is, I’m sick of it.

i7-1260P, I did try limiting the boost, but the CPU runs like ass anyway.

Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.

I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (:

I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.

Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.

I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.

Yeah, I stumbled over that when I wanted to charge my phone while I’m away in a meeting. Plugged it into the USB-C at my desk, suddenly the content of my phone opened up on my two office monitors, lol.

Whoops, you’re right, I meant light novels :)

I did try to read “Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1 (light novel)” and had to give up. Like the most the author could use to describe Emilia was “she’s beautiful” about three times on a page. Overall it could just be bad English translations and the novels are totally fine in Japanese.

This is not about Toradora, but general visual light novels: I quite liked the Re:Zero anime, so I thought I’d read the visual light novel as it’s much further ahead (and I actually love reading). But the quality of the writing was so damn bad.

Are all visual light novels like that? Simplified English to get the point across, but not a good read overall?

Sent this to my PO, he replied that’s exactly how we’re working 🙃

No domestic mass surveillance. So fuck everyone not from the US.

C# in Excel

What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o

Red/green isn’t really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.

I honestly care less about the war mongering and more about the “domestic surveillance” part. Like domestic just counts for US citizens, which I’m not. So fuck him too (:

It’s Iran, not Iraq.

Just calm down, I’m not pro AI, but we can still be positive about someone making the right choice for once.

Throwing enough money around there’s plenty of other options for the DoW, be it Microsoft, Google or even hosting their own LLM (open source models are pretty much on-par now).

Dario Amodei is busy calling out the pile of shit that’s the US government. Fighting Altman doesn’t get him anything right now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Okay, so listen:

The DoW offered Anthropic the contract and they declined, as it has clauses that would allow the government to do whatever they wanted.

Then OpenAI signed the same contract.

How can you say they are the same, when the first company refused the contract? I’m not even from the US and definitely not pro Trump. But there’s things besides black and white.