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    Target joins Best Buy and discontinues sales of DVD's and Blurays

    Every Thanksgiving and X-Mas break my family has played National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and Plains Trains and Automobiles on repeat, I have literally seen these movies hundreds of times. Other Movies I've seen at min 10 times: The Time Machine (1960 version) Forbidden Planet T2 Aliens...
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    Can i smoke in the same room where is pc?

    All you have to do is put a mask on it and social distance, 6' does the trick.
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    Can i smoke in the same room where is pc?

    I suggest smoking right next to it each time you smoke for the next couple months, then look at the damage and realize what it does to you is even far worse. (From a guy that does enjoy Cigars on a frequent occasion)
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    *Sniff* Farewell Atlas Robot.. You boogied with the best of them...

    And the new: https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M?si=l_TYGEn3vArnrOhC Almost freaky.
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Any chance TSMC will bring their latest process to the US or only the mid range process nodes?
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    Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

    Any rumors of an upcoming AI something or other? Or is this going to be another Apple Car?
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    xz-utils backdoored

    Thankfully this was caught essentially in beta before reaching some fortune 100 companies. Imagine the $100s of billions in ransomware that could have hatched, this could have brought some very serious stuff down dead. Months worth of auditing to come.
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    Claude takes the top spot in AI chatbot ranking — finally knocking GPT-4 down to second place

    From Tom's linked article above: "Meta, which is heavily focused on open source AI, is expected to release Llama 3 in the next few months which will likely enter in the top ten as it is expected to be similar in ability to Claude 3 — after all Meta has 300,000 + Nvidia H100 GPUs to train it...
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    Post your hard drive Power On hours!

    I really need to upgrade this: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 1TB ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 077 077 000...
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    Latency Pipeline, "Input Lag," Reflex, & Engineering Interview

    Wonder how this varies between Win/Linux/Mac.
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    30tb hdd for consumers this year

    Mine was 40Meg!
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    Do 8x m.2 IT mode HBAs exist?

    Not available yet, but a (21) slot card is on the way.
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    Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th

    I'd rather wait months than face the horrid experience of visiting a walmart in person.
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    Voyager 1 has finally started glitching after a near-constant operation of 46 years.

    Hopefully it's been captured by aliens and they are just figuring out to reverse engineer it to send back messages.
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    Intel giving ARC a respectable barrier of entry.

    Do they still whitelist? I quit buying cause of that.
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