oh man i wish i could tell you what the
tech news is today because it is wild just crazy
that's what you're doing tell them now that's oh oh okay sure
lenovo is continuing the annoying trend of making the pc as a platform less free
and open than it used to be by using AMD's platform secure boot feature to
lock ryzen cpus to a specific system oh
good i mean why would you want to take a CPU from one system and put it in
another one anyways that's where it goes
do i take the salt and put in the pepper shaker
madness you don't do that no no no never
the feature essentially bricks a processor if you try to put in a pc from
a different manufacturer and although this technology was more meant for
servers in the name of enhanced security according to serve the home lenovo is
now doing us all a favor and bringing it to desktop pcs
thank you lenovo so you want to check a model's compatibility before you reuse a
CPU try to do some troubleshooting on another machine or buy a processor
second hand and make sure you thank lenovo for the higher security while you
do it
or you i'll protect you cold if you're thinking
about picking up an xbox one as a cheaper alternative to the price inflated xbox series x and s you might
want to move quickly it turns out microsoft actually stopped making them
at the end of 2020 which is something you just assume a console maker would do
when the next model is released if not for the fact that sony recently
increased production of ps4s to provide a budget-friendly ps5 alternative which
is a bit like grilling extra veggies to make up for the lack of steak at the
stake grilling championship right across the street from a steakhouse restaurant
i don't think that what if that technology is weak
who wrote this what does this say obviously you can still find new xbox
ones in stores but with no new units rolling off the production line they're
a dying breed don't worry microsoft will probably release the xcloud streaming
HDMI dongle thing soon till then you got
a phone don't you candy crush is waiting pokemon go yeah you got you got options
and netflix is ringing in the new year by surprising its fans with another
lovely price hike wow thank you for american users the price increases are
between one and two dollars per month depending on what tier of service you
subscribe to joker or yokel they're playing for you
for a full year they got you
this may not sound like very much but with people trying to eliminate extraneous expenses as a result of the
pandemic it may push up quite a few subscribers who now have plenty of other
streaming services to choose from virtually all of which
are less expensive of course to justify the higher prices netflix has also been
aggressive on getting rights to more and more content because the more something
you have the better you are as a person right riley i'm going for a yacht you're
a maximalist i like it big boy
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at the link below i'll take any bits you got but it's nice when they're quick i
don't know not a complainer i got some long bits give me the bits it turns out
you can overclock the non-k versions of Intel's new alder lake cpus after all
the news was made public by tech youtuber der bauer who was able to get
an i5 12600 up to 5.1 gigahertz on all
cores using only base clock overclocking which enabled in the tweaker's paradise
section of the ASUS motherboard BIOS is that a real thing
but keep in mind this was only supported on boards with an external clock
generator which most cheaper motherboards lack the other ones do not
live in a tweaker's paradise let me be clear yeah
amazon made headlines recently for its plans to stop accepting uk issued visa
credit cards allegedly due to high processing fees but the retailer just
announced this will no longer be the case and british shoppers will still be
able to use their visa cards the cut-off date was supposed to be january 19th but
many speculate this was all just a bargaining tactic what what no amazon
was doing this for the good of the people i honestly want to buy one of those
sanity booths it might help i hope so
something needs to help crypto heist made plenty of headlines in 2021 and it
turns out north korea might have been behind a good chunk of them the regime
reportedly stole nearly 400 million dollars worth of crypto last year and
1.5 billion dollars over the past five
given that the north korean economy continues to face sanctions from
international community the stolen crypto is believed to make up a
significant portion of the country's treasure to get it back we need nic cage
on this stack i love nick cage there's a pyramid
involved do you ever wonder what it'd be like to try and use modern internet on a
super old pc one tech enthusiast recorded himself
trying to connect with a 31.2 kilobit
dial-up connection on a Windows 98 system it turns out he couldn't even connect to
most websites directly at all and instead had to use a proxy which
downloaded the pages to his pc you can check out the whole 23-minute experiment
at the link we provide in the description or you can watch riley unbox
a phone he doesn't even care about oh up to you i didn't say that you didn't like
it eh i thought it was fine fine
all right this might soon be a reality as fedex has asked the faa for
permission to install them as one of them
what are you doing riley i said faa
the fad come on get with the program bud
fedex has asked permission to install them on one of its new fleets of cargo
planes fedex is concerned about civilian airplanes being targeted by portable
anti-aircraft weapons such as those that have made headlines in russia and iran
over the last decade no word yet on what the odds are the plans will get approved
but i don't think a plane with a freaking laser beam attached to its fuselage is too much to ask for
come on give me give me the lasers oh come on it is too much to ask for
more tech news at this point so come back on wednesday for more oh i can't
wait to tell you about all that stuff either right we don't know what it is yet we're gonna find out yeah we don't
have together next episode