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i don't know are you okay

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sorry i'm late you guys i was i was busy making myself pretty before i

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hosted tech link you probably can't tell though so you

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know how we recently reported on how miners were already finding workarounds

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for the rtx 3060 hash rate limiter well

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it looks like another one has been uncovered and it is ludicrously simple

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an HDMI dummy plug that costs six bucks

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although miners were already aware that there's a beta driver floating around

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that enables ethereum mining on one graphics card this dummy plug actually

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allows a multi-GPU setup you see part of

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how the limiter works is by requiring a monitor to be connected to each graphics

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card but these cheap little dummies can fool the card into thinking there's a

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monitor connected in fact i have one right here

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there that's the one they're also useful for virtualization so that's why we've

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got a bunch of them lying around one user was able to mine ethereum at a

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total of 192 mega hashes per second on a

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4-way 3060 setup so it shouldn't take

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him too long to make back the 24 dollars he spent on those four little plugs

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you know how apple has been selling iphone 12s without a charger ostensibly

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to reduce e-waste well one state in brazil is not buying it as the state of

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sao paulo has nailed apple with a fine of nearly 2

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million u.s dollars that's right us dollars

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the state's consumer protection agency was concerned that apple's

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environmentally friendly explanation was just a cover to screw over consumers and

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was also upset about apple's claims about the iphone's water resistance now

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2 million bucks is chump change to a company like apple but the bigger deal

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here is that they might end up being forced to include chargers when selling

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iphones in brazil which is a huge

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market samsung actually ended up having to do this with their phones so maybe brazil's

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fight against apple will go a little better than that time they had to play

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germany hey got em if you're into mechanical keyboards

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there's a good chance that cherry switches lie underneath your keycaps but

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so far only on desktops well with one

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exception but we won't talk about that it looks like that whole thing is about

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to change though as cherry has released information on its upcoming ultra low

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profile switches for laptops also known as alps switches wait no not that

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as you might expect the switches are tactile and give acoustic feedback so

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they'll probably appeal to fans of cherry mx blues and importantly they'll

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support RGB backlighting as far as when you'll be able to get your hands on some

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it looks like alienware will be one of the first companies to feature the new

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switches though you will have to dig pretty deep into your pockets for the uh

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money to to get one because the cheapest laptop they offer with the cherry

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switches starts at eighteen hundred dollars and then guess what you get to

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pay another hundred and fifty dollars for the switches themselves but is any

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price too much for tactile satisfaction

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yeah our slash mechanical keyboards would say no

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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

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guess what it looks like it's finally starting to arrive for a few games such

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as gears 5 and borderlines 3 and only

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for xbox insiders but it should be released to the general

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public before the end of the year hopefully we'll see more titles

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supporting it soon as i can't wait to play techlink simulator 2021 in glorious

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HDR on playstation 5. just kidding acer

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has reportedly been hit with a major ransomware attack with a group of

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criminals demanding 50 million us

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dollars as for how acer got hacked in the first place it looks like a security flaw in

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microsoft exchange left their network exposed acer has so far been

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tight-lipped on the situation so let's just hope that predator monitor you've

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been eyeballing won't suddenly shoot up in

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price and if you're in the market for an imac you should know that your buying

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options are continuing to shrink apple

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has already said no more imac pros that's exactly how they said it and now

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there are no more 21 and a half inch models with a 512

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Gigabyte or one terabyte SSD that leaves your storage options for

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21.5 inch imacs quite limited indeed the

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move comes ahead of the transition to m1 processors but it would be nice if

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people who need an imac now could you know actually store things in it instead

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of in a nas where everyone should be storing their data instead of on their

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computer's internal drive it's been well publicized that

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microsoft's latest Windows updates have given users major problems when trying

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to print including blue screens and graphical glitches microsoft has since

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released a fix but now users are reporting problems getting it through

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Windows update the good news is that you can download and install the patch

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manually but hey feel free to continue being dumbfounded at how printers still

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always seem to find a way to mess with us just die already

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and cd project red has given us details on what its upcoming 1.2 patch for

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cyberpunk 2077 will address does anyone care anymore uh one big fix will be how

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police behave they should no longer be instantly appearing out of thin air

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right behind you and other reported fixes involve being

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able to unstick cars that get stuck on obstacles and having more flexibility

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when it comes to assigning keys hopefully when it comes out this patch

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won't cause more problems again and that's our show come back on wednesday

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for another episode that we hopefully won't have to issue a correction for did

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we do that never had to do that i don't think well

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maybe we should have sometimes remember when we said no one's buying

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iphones and it turns out that one was like the best-selling one ever i haven't

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seen an iphone since