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if you want to get my tech news i might wait am i allowed to do the melody or is

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that like uh it's fine probably

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we'll do a sound alike if you want to do my tech news you got to watch this tech

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linked make it last forever tech news never

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ends although Windows 7 is officially dead in

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that microsoft is no longer regularly releasing security updates for it you

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might not be completely on your own if you happen to be someone who never

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internalized the value of letting go and

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moving on microsoft recently discovered that a particular update was causing

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users desktop backgrounds to change to

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plain black if they tried to set an image as a wallpaper in stretch mode

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well not everyone wants to stare into the abyss every time they used their pc so

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the company has actually issued a patch that is freely available to everyone

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which is a break from microsoft's usual approach of charging a fee to update

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out-of-date products although microsoft has been trying hard to get everyone

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onto the Windows 10 platform go on get going go and get

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tons of people are still using Windows 7 so a bug like this

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just isn't great pr for the company as for me i'm just glad that i can keep

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using my Linus face wallpaper on my circa 2010 laptop that i definitely

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don't have connected to the internet you don't have your own face as a wallpaper

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i do while the tech world is no stranger to knock off gadgets made by

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unscrupulous folks trying to make a quick buck it's not too often you see

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counterfeit stock CPU coolers but this

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is exactly what's happened with AMD's wraith prism cooler which is included

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with the higher end cpus in AMD's ryzen lineup you can spot a fake cooler by

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counting the heat pipe so the knockoff has six heat pipes while the real deal has

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four i guess they weren't content to just copy it they wanted to also improve

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it way better as for me the quality of heat pipes actually

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matters as much as the quantity so i'll take a real four heat pipe one over six

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fake ones any day now the heatsink and fan otherwise look pretty legit but AMD

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has announced that this counterfeit version is not tested and so they

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therefore advise against buying it because who buys a stock cooler anyway

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like it's it's not clear where these fake coolers are coming from or why

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anyone wants them but i'm guessing whoever's making them has better

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equipment than we did when we tried to make our own heatsink from a block of

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metal we tried to knock off but it didn't

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we got knocked off it's common knowledge that youtube comments tend to be a

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cesspool of trolling hostility and terrible grammar except for the ones on

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techlink of course honestly you guys are pretty well behaved and also Floatplane

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love you guys too but the extent of the problem elsewhere is apparently so bad

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that folks contracted to moderate content on the youtube platform have

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recently had to sign agreements acknowledging that post-traumatic stress

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disorder is an occupational hazard due

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to having to review disturbing content as part of the job requirements the

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workers are also required to seek mental health care for job-related stresses if

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advised to do so by a counselor contracted moderators are in charge of

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making sure that illegal violent and extremist content doesn't make its way

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onto youtube or other google platforms so the agreement does cover a lot more

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than just silly flame wars in the comments section it is a great reminder

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to be nice on the internet like is that so hard i mean just look at our guys

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down there they're like they're like sweet little you know

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nice people now it's time for the quark barks

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is it possible to drag the number tiles so that every row and column add up to

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large some beside it i don't know but heck i want to find out so head to

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i have discovered an entirely new bark of quarks

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if you're still rocking an old-school nintendo wii you might be on your own if

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you want to fix any problems that arise as the company has announced it will no

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longer service them because they cannot get enough spare parts so make sure to

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use the wrist strap so that your wii remote doesn't you know slam into your

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tv it's bad

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although this doesn't seem like a great time for boeing to come out with a new plane for fairly obvious reasons the

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company is forging ahead with its new 777x

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which is billed as the world's most powerful twin-engine jet airliner boeing

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successfully completed a test flight and the plane is supposed to be in service

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next year it's cool it's got like these folding wing tips yeah the wing tips

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they're so cool they fold up so that it can fit where the old 777 went

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apple isn't quite hopping on the foldable display train

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yet but it has patented a design for a curved desktop that is essentially a

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j-shaped piece of glass with a keyboard on the bottom and display up top

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it's one of those beautiful apple designs that make you just go

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why though like it seems worse to use in every way

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now for something from the department of irony the antivirus program avast which

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is of course designed to keep your data safe i mean i always trust people who

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are like hamas you know they're under fire for selling

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consumer data to a number of large companies although users did have to opt

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in it was unclear to consumers that their data was actually being sold for

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money that's right security programs are compromising your security social media

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makes you anti-social up is down

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how sad and on a more cheerful note folks living in vermont may soon be able

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to add emojis to their official state issued license plates that is brilliant

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yeah because you get to have even more options for unique license plates and

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they get to be cooler all at the same time a bill has been introduced in vermont

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state house to give drivers a choice of one out of six emojis to add to their

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plates for a little bit of personal flair

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although i have a feeling eggplant enthusiasts might be out of luck on this

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one and you're out of luck because that's our show so come back on

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wednesday for another helping of tech news it'll be a lucky helping which i

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promise it'll be more satisfying than a plate of eggplant parm

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i don't know it was a combination of you know luck unluck juxtaposition and also

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the eggplant jokes that were worked into the end of the thing

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that's what happens i'm just confused what happens when i go off script