Perfect dark has a fan PC port that's really good. I couldn't stand it on console (low fps made me motionsick) but it was a hoot when I played it on PC.
https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
An inconvenience is not being able to get someone on the phone in minutes or hours. Screwing is making someone spend days, weeks or months trying to get you on the phone and navigate a system that's supposed to help them, not hurt them.
My dad isn't at pension age yet and has been struggling the last few years whilst being a full time carer of my grandmother. It has often taken days to weeks of calling to get through and weeks to months get things approved.
Whereas, there are so many services we have that are for ACTUAL emergencies, and require fast service, where the money would save lives.
You have this so backwards.
Centrelink saves lives. Support saves lives. Welfare saves lives.
If you don't support people then they end up having to use the emergency services. Is it cheaper to support people before the need emergency services rather than after. You can't house all the unemployed, disabled, pensioners, veterans (and other people I've probably forgotten) in emergency wards, these people don't magically end up fed, housed and cared for if make Centrelink and related services a nightmare to deal with.
My dad has been keeping my grandmother out of hospital. She's now in a nursing home, funded mostly by government, that is keeping her out of hospital. It is extremely costly to put her in a hospital bed.
I click on my "From" address and then select "Customize From Address...". I can then type anything I want up there. It's a little annoying when replying to an email chain with an alias, but not too many steps.
In pure, stable form, yes. A hundred or so grams released in my house won't be noticed or cause any problems.
But a few hundred grams of burnt fluorine hydrocarbons? 😬 That's a whole other story.
Most modern domestic fridges stick with a plain hydrocarbon refrigerant anyway (akin to butane) these days.
I'm yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges, I thought we were lagging in that department? Can you just get them at retailers now?
if you’ve got burning refrigerant there are much bigger problems going on seeing as the refrigerant circuit is hermetically sealed
Strong disagree xD Inhaling burning fluorine compounds > fridge not cooling any more
That kind of thing would also provoke a product safety recall.
I'm not diagnosing the most likely cause of a normal fridge failure, but considering some interesting causes that align with the unusual scenario depicted in the article. Don't panic, I'm not going to go all "fridge bad" on you.
A lot of phone modems ship with their own SoC (processor) running its own OS. It's much smaller and slower than the main phone SoC but, depending on its implementation, it can have full access to all of your main processor's memory through DMA.
I was amazed that we transitioned from one GPU heavy bubble (Crypto) to another (LLM/AI). Whilst the hype for crypto imploded the use for the hardware sort of didn't. I wonder if the next bubble with be the same, or if we get some refreshing variety to our money sinks?
Microsoft et al are subsidizing GenAI to an insane degree. [...] prices shoot up for their customers and serve as a rough awakening to all the websites that integrated a crappy chatbot.
I've run some much simpler chatbots on just my desktop PC, so they will have some fallback (if they really choose to take it). Still it locks up my entire computer for a few second for each reply, so even a few hundred users per second peak would be an expensive service.
(Insert joke here about customers not noticing or caring about the difference between website chatbots built on big company services vs smaller ones, because they have exactly the same problems just in different hues.)
I'm having trouble looking for work for the past few months. Very few replies, the first "no" I got actually made me feel a bit more human.
I'm convinced that some of the jobs I've applied for or enquired about are not real or just for external-advertising-before-hire requirements. I've gotten some rude responses after daring to ask questions (eg: jobs funded by research money tend to have fixed funding start dates that might not be for another several months). Most straight up ignore me.
An old boss of mine thinks that my CV isn't conforming and mundane enough, so I'm giving his suggestions a go.
What sort of work are you looking at? I design electronics and get into arguments with computers.
Windows update fetches all sorts of things now. If the hardware advertises X device then Windows update will check if it has anything for it. Approved vendors can provide all sorts of guff. Historically that has included drivers that intentionally brick your devices. HP probably packaged up some software that updates the BIOS and got it into the Windows Update DBs.
If a bad update is rolled out then it's the responsibility of the software maker partner (HP) and the distributor (Microsoft), not just one or the other.
Those laptops are THEIR products, not Microsoft’s.
Both Microsoft and HP have branding on their laptops and a responsibility post-sale for the reliability of their systems. Hardware, firmware and OS responsibilities are all party to this chain of failure.
Here they are in an MSY (Australia) catalog from 2012:
Ritmo == SHAW == A-Power, all were in-house brands at MSY. I suspect the 1500W and 1200W might have been the same thing with varying amounts of lying, but perhaps they did also size the components slightly differently.
The bed is make of pork mince and the house is flooded. No bushfires though, so not realistic.