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    • TazzT
      Tazz
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      I was with Verizon for cell service but AT&T for internet because Fios isn’t available here.

      I had a Verizon credit card too which offered a 4% rewards at all gas stations towards the bill, 16 cents a gallon when prices were high helped.

      AT&T finally came through with their latest fiber network so I switched cell service to get the further discounts.

      GTFO

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      • JamJ
        Jam
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        I kinda did the reverse.

        I had AT&T cellular for many years and didn’t have too much of an issue with it bu I did have Verizon FiOS at work and in Nassau County.

        I found that, by switching my phone and that of the wife and son to Verizon. With the discounts the monthly billing on the three wireless phones was lower than for just my phone on a business plan. The business plans are cheaper when you have half a dozen or more phones on the same account, but the reverse is true when you only have a couple. Our employees use their own phones as they’d rather not carry two and I cover $80 a month on them, which is a damn good deal for them and I’m OK with it.

        I get another $30 a month off for the three Verizon phones by letting them take the $$ from a separate account I set up for Autopay. The three personal phones with unlimited data are down to about $120 a month, total.

        "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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        • ?
          A Former User @Jam
          last edited by A Former User

          @Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          Our employees use their own phones as they’d rather not carry two and I cover $80 a month on them, which is a damn good deal for them and I’m OK with it.

          Every phone I’ve bought here (easily more than 6 for myself, plus more for other people) has been dual sim. I dunno about iPhones but the Android ones seem to all have that feature. That it’s not in every phone in the US and Australia etc makes me suspicious that there’s some sort of collusion going on between carriers and manufacturers to prevent it.

          Edit: later model iPhones all have dual sim apparently via eSIMs.

          Using Dual SIM with an eSIM - Apple Support
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          • tiggerT
            tigger
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            I have a pixel 5 and I also have a work and personal sim in it… Work one being an esim.

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            • TazzT
              Tazz
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              Nov 12, 2023  /  Pro

              Someone has used diamonds and a high-end Nvidia GPU to build perhaps the world's fastest graphics card ever — but you won't be able to buy it yet

              Someone has used diamonds and a high-end Nvidia GPU to build perhaps the world's fastest graphics card ever — but you won't be able to buy it yet

              Diamond Foundry used heteroepitaxy to create single-crystal diamonds on scalable substrates

              GTFO

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              • Gators1G
                Gators1
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                Why can’t I buy my diamond encrusted GPU now?!?!?! I want my elite FPS!!!

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                • tiggerT
                  tigger
                  last edited by

                  Doesn’t lob have one of these? Some of the carbon soot in the oven could have baked itself into a diamond on his GPU…

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                  • Gators1G
                    Gators1
                    last edited by

                    Has anybody tried backing ketchup into their GPU? That could be the secret sauce!

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                    • TazzT
                      Tazz
                      last edited by Tazz

                      Lithu has a Zircon encrusted card with matching tweezers.

                      Sry Zappa

                      GTFO

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
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                        Andy Maxwell

                        Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak

                        Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak

                        Two men who allegedly bombarded Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs are being sued by Google.

                        Google goes on to highlight its position as a major intermediary that processes DMCA notices targeting 600 million URLs every year, and the requirement under the DMCA to remove or disable content notified as allegedly infringing. If the company fails to act expeditiously once in receipt of a DMCA notice that complies with the statutory requirements, the company risks losing its safe harbor protection, Google notes.

                        That last line explains why DMCA enforcement on YouTube is such a criminally unfair mess. Not surprised it’s the legislators fault.

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                        • Gators1G
                          Gators1 @A Former User
                          last edited by

                          @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          Andy Maxwell

                          Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak

                          Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak

                          Two men who allegedly bombarded Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs are being sued by Google.

                          Google goes on to highlight its position as a major intermediary that processes DMCA notices targeting 600 million URLs every year, and the requirement under the DMCA to remove or disable content notified as allegedly infringing. If the company fails to act expeditiously once in receipt of a DMCA notice that complies with the statutory requirements, the company risks losing its safe harbor protection, Google notes.

                          That last line explains why DMCA enforcement on YouTube is such a criminally unfair mess. Not surprised it’s the legislators fault.

                          Most of the legislators are almost Tazz’s age and would be better at regulating wagon wheel builders than internet companies. Also why can’t those Viet Cong assholes just stop abusing the system?

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                          • TazzT
                            Tazz
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                            TikTok doesn’t care about anything anyone posts

                            GTFO

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                            • Gators1G
                              Gators1
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                              Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach

                              Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach

                              The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation has taken extortion to a new level by filing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against one of their alleged victims for not complying with the four-day rule to disclose a cyberattack.

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                              • Gators1G
                                Gators1
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                                Omegle is dead before I ever had a chance to try it.

                                Also this dude can shred.

                                TheDooo's Best of Omegle (RIP OMEGLE)

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                                • Gators1G
                                  Gators1
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                                  • JamJ
                                    Jam
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                                    I hope he removed the guts first. Even a drill-stop would not have helped.

                                    "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                    • ?
                                      A Former User
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                                      I guess he never opened it so he didn’t void the warranty.

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                                      • B
                                        Blanks
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                                        Speed holes!

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                                        • TazzT
                                          Tazz
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                                          He may have changed the airflow pattern so the CPU will even run hotter.

                                          GTFO

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                                          • Gators1G
                                            Gators1
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                                            Dumbass would have baked the fan if he knew what he was doing.

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