He explains the whole situation in clear easily understood terms, a tech industry newsread divided into subjects/chapters in the usual style of Gamers Nexus. I don’t recall hearing any anti-China rhetoric ever from Steve and I’ve watched hundreds of GN videos. China is mentioned frequently in matter-of-fact ways as part of whatever is being explained.

He fucking hates what’s happening now and the reasons behind it.

I’m suspecting the same. This 230 thing, the massive surge in datacenter construction of the last few years, the memory and storage disruption which is just beginning and growing (and already expected to have bad long-term effects on all personal computing devices), the sweeping i.d. verification bullshit around the world and in many U.S. states now, the unilateral and unaccountable influence that demons like Thiel and Yarvin seem to have on politics.

It all feels like a complex, orchestrated push toward total individual surveillance and removal of personal (thus private) computing device ownership and open communications.

Add the “Home Alone” movies and popular sitcom “Friends” to the list, the latter was even featured or mentioned in a video I saw on YouTube once on this exact subject. I remember watching these shows and others mentioned in this topic when younger while being raised in a single-parent apartment with a barely functional beater car, wondering when our telephone or electric service would be cut off next from overdue bills, or when we’d have to call the local food bank for emergency supplies again.

Not guaranteed, no. It depends solely on whether the torrent in question is monitored by a copyright troll firm, in which case they’ll catch your IP in their regular sweeps and fire off automated complaint letters to the ISP, who then forward it on to you. The ISP itself doesn’t monitor your traffic in that way.

Not all torrents are watched by these firms, not even close, and ISPs often forward the complaints along without taking any action against the subscriber. Some ISPs, however, were successfully sued by the copyright mafia over not doing enough to “fight piracy” or whatever, and now will cut you off the internet entirely and close your account after some stupidly low number of complaints.

Try straightening the pins on the 1500X like another user already suggested. I’ve used a pocket knife blade between and outside CPU pins to get them aligned enough that they dropped back in with a slight push, and the lock-in action straightened them further. If no pins are broken off or bent too severely and the socket contacts weren’t damaged, it should start up again.

That board has dual firmware feature, so if/when you get to the Q-Flash screen, make sure to check “also flash to backup slot” or you may have this problem again in the future if the boot slot ever gets toggled somehow.

To respond to your other question, no, it won’t get firmware updates through Windows Update. That generally only happens with branded prebuilt systems like Dell, HP, etc. and laptops. You can and should get the latest firmware and drivers direct from Gigabyte’s support page for your model, just as you are now. The firmware update image can be read by Q-Flash from a USB stick or any internal or external non-encrypted hard drive partition.

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Also love that reactionary bit about being Finnish, and history. One of the users in the commit comments took issue with it too, maybe you saw this one already:

A few more good ones that resonate with me:

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The entirety of Torvalds’ angry tantrum in response to the backlash, posted about 17 hours ago (emphases mine):

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.

If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too.

So, Russia taunts this bitter man in his dreams, it would seem. Russia in his laundry. Russia in his fucking corn flakes. Nanoscale Russian worker gnomes in his CPU changing the words of news articles he reads. It couldn’t possibly be that fucktons of people out there see this political Western-influenced kernel clownshow for what it is, or that they might disagree with Western narrative on global issues. Russia Russia Russia! Dude sounds like the average reactionary USian did when China was at the forefront of COVID news.

In a follow-up he posted:

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

In asserting that his toys are his and nobody else is allowed to look at them, he sounds like someone who’s been watching way too much Alex Jones.

Yes he is, and always was. His ‘techbro asshole’ archetype was a point of immense pride among his devoted followers, it was most visible on slashdot and newsgroup discussions back in the late 90s to early 00s. My personal take is that he’s an undiplomatic, impatient, total prick, always has been and still is, regardless of whatever personal redemption arc people claim he took on in recent years.

If that old billy be the Devil, I’d have danced with him myself

Did you ever see that ‘investigation’ or insider reveal bit about the mods of 4chan? Their Discord names were all posted, with screencaps of conversations etc. and some explanatory narration about who they were or how they acted. I think this was a few years ago, I don’t remember the details, just recall thinking that at least half of them should’ve been put to the wall immediately, starting with that piece of dogshit head mod with the edgelord screen name.

The reveal showed that the site was deliberately and knowingly steered toward neo-nazi and reactionary dominance in discussions and mod actions. /b/ with its juvenile nO rULeSSszZz had been like an open barn door to something like that happening for years and finally it did. A fucking gold mine for psy ops of the CIA and FBI, ever in pursuit of their anti-communist wetdreams while they pretend to be impartial to any political affiliations in all their PR.

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Proles in the U.S. be like: “First time?”

Across England, 83% of dental surgeries were refusing to accept adults as patients seeking NHS care

This sounds like the class discrimination that comes with U.S. states’ medicare programs. A state here never has enough funding to meet the high financial cost of many medical practitioner fiefdoms, so the poor and most needy get de-prioritized and kicked to the curb. Waiting times for care are long and few places will take such patients, in addition to giving only the bare minimum of material assistance (i.e. the cheapest “get them out the door” fix for their ailments). Story as old as time under privatized capitalist healthcare regimes.

“Further measures to improve access and increase the number of NHS dentists through our dental recovery plan will be set out shortly.”

access

Being a citizen of Burgerland I twitch reflexively when I see that in healthcare discussion.

Never seen that on my Firefox install with uBO, I’m only getting that passive-aggressive 3-second delay (which is definitely not intentional…) on every video page load since the war on adblockers started.

Related, the “free with ads” section under “Movies & TV” on the left column is completely broken for me, it’s just a blank white page on Firefox with or w/o uBlock Origin active for at least three months now whether logged in or not, in regular and private browsing mode. And now it’s broken on unmodified Edge too (was working until a few weeks ago, was copying & pasting the movie links into Firefox). I used it all the time when looking for something to run in the background since like 2019, checked it every week or three when new titles got rotated into the catalog.

The page in question is here if anyone wants to try it.

Goog just doing what Goog does best. Breaking shit, never fixing the shit they broke, and generally chipping away at the dwindling good will and user experience they’ve held onto for some years now.