if you want to get my tech news i might wait am i allowed to do the melody or is
that like uh it's fine probably
we'll do a sound alike if you want to do my tech news you got to watch this tech
linked make it last forever tech news never
ends although Windows 7 is officially dead in
that microsoft is no longer regularly releasing security updates for it you
might not be completely on your own if you happen to be someone who never
internalized the value of letting go and
moving on microsoft recently discovered that a particular update was causing
users desktop backgrounds to change to
plain black if they tried to set an image as a wallpaper in stretch mode
well not everyone wants to stare into the abyss every time they used their pc so
the company has actually issued a patch that is freely available to everyone
which is a break from microsoft's usual approach of charging a fee to update
out-of-date products although microsoft has been trying hard to get everyone
onto the Windows 10 platform go on get going go and get
tons of people are still using Windows 7 so a bug like this
just isn't great pr for the company as for me i'm just glad that i can keep
using my Linus face wallpaper on my circa 2010 laptop that i definitely
don't have connected to the internet you don't have your own face as a wallpaper
i do while the tech world is no stranger to knock off gadgets made by
unscrupulous folks trying to make a quick buck it's not too often you see
counterfeit stock CPU coolers but this
is exactly what's happened with AMD's wraith prism cooler which is included
with the higher end cpus in AMD's ryzen lineup you can spot a fake cooler by
counting the heat pipe so the knockoff has six heat pipes while the real deal has
four i guess they weren't content to just copy it they wanted to also improve
it way better as for me the quality of heat pipes actually
matters as much as the quantity so i'll take a real four heat pipe one over six
fake ones any day now the heatsink and fan otherwise look pretty legit but AMD
has announced that this counterfeit version is not tested and so they
therefore advise against buying it because who buys a stock cooler anyway
like it's it's not clear where these fake coolers are coming from or why
anyone wants them but i'm guessing whoever's making them has better
equipment than we did when we tried to make our own heatsink from a block of
metal we tried to knock off but it didn't
we got knocked off it's common knowledge that youtube comments tend to be a
cesspool of trolling hostility and terrible grammar except for the ones on
techlink of course honestly you guys are pretty well behaved and also Floatplane
love you guys too but the extent of the problem elsewhere is apparently so bad
that folks contracted to moderate content on the youtube platform have
recently had to sign agreements acknowledging that post-traumatic stress
disorder is an occupational hazard due
to having to review disturbing content as part of the job requirements the
workers are also required to seek mental health care for job-related stresses if
advised to do so by a counselor contracted moderators are in charge of
making sure that illegal violent and extremist content doesn't make its way
onto youtube or other google platforms so the agreement does cover a lot more
than just silly flame wars in the comments section it is a great reminder
to be nice on the internet like is that so hard i mean just look at our guys
down there they're like they're like sweet little you know
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if you're still rocking an old-school nintendo wii you might be on your own if
you want to fix any problems that arise as the company has announced it will no
longer service them because they cannot get enough spare parts so make sure to
use the wrist strap so that your wii remote doesn't you know slam into your
tv it's bad
although this doesn't seem like a great time for boeing to come out with a new plane for fairly obvious reasons the
company is forging ahead with its new 777x
which is billed as the world's most powerful twin-engine jet airliner boeing
successfully completed a test flight and the plane is supposed to be in service
next year it's cool it's got like these folding wing tips yeah the wing tips
they're so cool they fold up so that it can fit where the old 777 went
apple isn't quite hopping on the foldable display train
yet but it has patented a design for a curved desktop that is essentially a
j-shaped piece of glass with a keyboard on the bottom and display up top
it's one of those beautiful apple designs that make you just go
why though like it seems worse to use in every way
now for something from the department of irony the antivirus program avast which
is of course designed to keep your data safe i mean i always trust people who
are like hamas you know they're under fire for selling
consumer data to a number of large companies although users did have to opt
in it was unclear to consumers that their data was actually being sold for
money that's right security programs are compromising your security social media
makes you anti-social up is down
how sad and on a more cheerful note folks living in vermont may soon be able
to add emojis to their official state issued license plates that is brilliant
yeah because you get to have even more options for unique license plates and
they get to be cooler all at the same time a bill has been introduced in vermont
state house to give drivers a choice of one out of six emojis to add to their
plates for a little bit of personal flair
although i have a feeling eggplant enthusiasts might be out of luck on this
one and you're out of luck because that's our show so come back on
wednesday for another helping of tech news it'll be a lucky helping which i
promise it'll be more satisfying than a plate of eggplant parm
i don't know it was a combination of you know luck unluck juxtaposition and also
the eggplant jokes that were worked into the end of the thing
that's what happens i'm just confused what happens when i go off script