The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Jam USB port on his PC might have glitched too I guess but, in the source Reddit thread, he said he measured it. Dunno. Definitely more your area of expertise than mine.
Five watts is pretty low power and the port should have shut down with a “dead short” or attempt to draw excessive power.
That said, there could have been some minor level of heat generated with five watts continuous consumption - like a five watt light bulb or lamp.
So maybe some of the content of the old mouse was particularly flammable . . . is what I am thinking, assuming the report is accurate.
I am not suggesting that “it did not happen.”
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It might not have happened given how everyone seems to be chasing upvotes these days (something I’d never do myself of course).
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It could be fake? The internet has lied to me before…
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
It could be fake? The internet has lied to me before…
The internet is a faithless lying hussy!
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I actually meant to suggest that the story was s fucking flaming fake.
I’m just trying to avoid being confrontational!
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Whoofe said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
shoulda used a water-cooled mouse
Seems odd.
With only a max of one ampere at 5 volts likely available? Perhaps the shitty mouse had some kind of cellulose content?
How Much Power does USB Port Output? (USB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
Different USB ports give different output power. The output power from a USB port varies according to the version of the USB as well as the
Jussie Smollett?
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Well-off Americans are more likely to steal from online merchants than the poor, and they do it in enormous numbers
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@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Well… Speaking of LOT. Peggy and I installed an app on Daphné’s phone so that she can’t freely install new apps and, above all, access the internet.
What I didn’t tell Peggy is that what I feared the most was not Daphné finding things like the black web or Japanese p0rn.Your former WWIIOL life?
Yeah. I told her I had a 100 K/D ratio to seduce her.
I wouldn’t want her to find out it was actually only 80. I know I’m a bad person for having lied to her for so long, but I feel now it’s too late to redeem myself.Wow, 80/1 K/D is awesome! Best I ever did was 158 kills for 4 losses - 39.5/1.
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Where’s Bilton, anyway?
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IT Support
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Is this a knee-jerk example of investor hyperventilation or is there substance to the issue?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-deepseek-sets-off-ai-market-rout-2025-01-27/
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Is this a knee-jerk example of investor hyperventilation or is there substance to the issue?
Yes.
(Article you linked was well written but I don’t know the answer).
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I crunched the numbers and we are all doomed!
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Maybe ATI video cards will return after this.
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If only!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Is this a knee-jerk example of investor hyperventilation or is there substance to the issue?
Yes.
(Article you linked was well written but I don’t know the answer).
Us stocks are significantly overvalued because the investors are projecting future gains from selling AI services into them. This threatens to pull the rug under it, getting the money withdrawn and put into emerging markets, if investors start believing that it will give higher returns.
Is any of this based on any understanding? I don’t really think so. I’m in the middle of this and I have a lot of opinions, but it’s hard for me to predict what will happen tomorrow despite thinking that most of the people in the world have it wrong.
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I think I can explain it: everybody wants to eat for free.
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As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?
The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?
The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.
Nothing about the stock market is rational.
Nothing.
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Economic votes. That explains how a business can be successful. Either by purchasing their product or stock. Essentially you voting for a company by doing either.
