i don't know are you okay
sorry i'm late you guys i was i was busy making myself pretty before i
hosted tech link you probably can't tell though so you
know how we recently reported on how miners were already finding workarounds
for the rtx 3060 hash rate limiter well
it looks like another one has been uncovered and it is ludicrously simple
an HDMI dummy plug that costs six bucks
although miners were already aware that there's a beta driver floating around
that enables ethereum mining on one graphics card this dummy plug actually
allows a multi-GPU setup you see part of
how the limiter works is by requiring a monitor to be connected to each graphics
card but these cheap little dummies can fool the card into thinking there's a
monitor connected in fact i have one right here
there that's the one they're also useful for virtualization so that's why we've
got a bunch of them lying around one user was able to mine ethereum at a
total of 192 mega hashes per second on a
4-way 3060 setup so it shouldn't take
him too long to make back the 24 dollars he spent on those four little plugs
you know how apple has been selling iphone 12s without a charger ostensibly
to reduce e-waste well one state in brazil is not buying it as the state of
sao paulo has nailed apple with a fine of nearly 2
million u.s dollars that's right us dollars
the state's consumer protection agency was concerned that apple's
environmentally friendly explanation was just a cover to screw over consumers and
was also upset about apple's claims about the iphone's water resistance now
2 million bucks is chump change to a company like apple but the bigger deal
here is that they might end up being forced to include chargers when selling
iphones in brazil which is a huge
market samsung actually ended up having to do this with their phones so maybe brazil's
fight against apple will go a little better than that time they had to play
germany hey got em if you're into mechanical keyboards
there's a good chance that cherry switches lie underneath your keycaps but
so far only on desktops well with one
exception but we won't talk about that it looks like that whole thing is about
to change though as cherry has released information on its upcoming ultra low
profile switches for laptops also known as alps switches wait no not that
as you might expect the switches are tactile and give acoustic feedback so
they'll probably appeal to fans of cherry mx blues and importantly they'll
support RGB backlighting as far as when you'll be able to get your hands on some
it looks like alienware will be one of the first companies to feature the new
switches though you will have to dig pretty deep into your pockets for the uh
money to to get one because the cheapest laptop they offer with the cherry
switches starts at eighteen hundred dollars and then guess what you get to
pay another hundred and fifty dollars for the switches themselves but is any
price too much for tactile satisfaction
yeah our slash mechanical keyboards would say no
and you know who else would say no um oh it's no bad segue now it's time
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microsoft promised dolby vision HDR support for the xbox series x and s well
guess what it looks like it's finally starting to arrive for a few games such
as gears 5 and borderlines 3 and only
for xbox insiders but it should be released to the general
public before the end of the year hopefully we'll see more titles
supporting it soon as i can't wait to play techlink simulator 2021 in glorious
HDR on playstation 5. just kidding acer
has reportedly been hit with a major ransomware attack with a group of
criminals demanding 50 million us
dollars as for how acer got hacked in the first place it looks like a security flaw in
microsoft exchange left their network exposed acer has so far been
tight-lipped on the situation so let's just hope that predator monitor you've
been eyeballing won't suddenly shoot up in
price and if you're in the market for an imac you should know that your buying
options are continuing to shrink apple
has already said no more imac pros that's exactly how they said it and now
there are no more 21 and a half inch models with a 512
Gigabyte or one terabyte SSD that leaves your storage options for
21.5 inch imacs quite limited indeed the
move comes ahead of the transition to m1 processors but it would be nice if
people who need an imac now could you know actually store things in it instead
of in a nas where everyone should be storing their data instead of on their
computer's internal drive it's been well publicized that
microsoft's latest Windows updates have given users major problems when trying
to print including blue screens and graphical glitches microsoft has since
released a fix but now users are reporting problems getting it through
Windows update the good news is that you can download and install the patch
manually but hey feel free to continue being dumbfounded at how printers still
always seem to find a way to mess with us just die already
and cd project red has given us details on what its upcoming 1.2 patch for
cyberpunk 2077 will address does anyone care anymore uh one big fix will be how
police behave they should no longer be instantly appearing out of thin air
right behind you and other reported fixes involve being
able to unstick cars that get stuck on obstacles and having more flexibility
when it comes to assigning keys hopefully when it comes out this patch
won't cause more problems again and that's our show come back on wednesday
for another episode that we hopefully won't have to issue a correction for did
we do that never had to do that i don't think well
maybe we should have sometimes remember when we said no one's buying
iphones and it turns out that one was like the best-selling one ever i haven't
seen an iphone since