My father-in-law and mother-in-law use the computers I built them quite a lot. They're in their early 80's and late 70's, and not tech savvy at all (my wife's side of the family are all not techy). They prefer downloading and sending photos...
75W slightly overstates it actually. It's 65W of 12V and 10W of 3.3V. The latter is what legacy parallel PCIe used, providing it eased the transition by allowing makers to take existing designs slap a one dollar bridge chip into a bit of dead...
The YouTubers ARE making tons of videos about it, showing the failures of the connector in great detail, including Gamers Nexus, which does more than just the single link you posted. Hardware Unboxed has a video of their own 5090 cable melting a...
Fake news. Any time you see a radical change in some stat, open the language section. There will be a massive spike/slump in China vs everyone else. The prevalence of gaming cafes with shared PCs (combined with them having a different mix of...
This kind of stuff makes me think all these companies hate their customers. PNY knows the connector is marginal. They also know the connector is easy and pretty cheap to replace - this is something the company should fix out of good will...
But you know what that is one of the things that keep this place interesting... You have definitely added a lot of character to this place over the decades and it probably would have died out many of years ago if you didn't somehow enjoy putting...
So there's this school teacher (high school level) who moolights at my local bar once a week. She's young, in her 20s, and dealing with a bunch of cheating kids. From her point of view the frequency of kids getting an F has gone way up due to...
Our process is that if the termination form is missing a date/time, then it’s executed immediately upon ticket created notification.
We get a bit testy when HR or the department manager don’t send us a form. Apart from that form and responsible...
Basically was going to say this.
The process often gets in the way of getting shit done.
If the IT team disabled access without the HR approval, it's possible they would have been punished for violating the process, following the process...
SOP for letting anyone in IT Admin go is to terminate their admin access (if not entire account) before they know they're being let go.
The job I worked at with a formal IT dept had 2 buildings a mile or two apart, IT was centralized in one...