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    Data-driven sport: How Red Bull and AT&T move terabytes of F1 info

    This article in no way answers the big "How" in the title. In no way and shape is there any explanation provided for kind of technology they are using. This is where "How" could be answered, but it's not. Delay of 0.3 second UK to AUS is nothing special, so there must be some other thing they...
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    How the heck do you buy a keyboard these days?

    Have a giant gripe with Logitech never continuing with their Touchpad T650. I use it at work, use it at home, am hoarding the leftovers I find on eBay. And for beeing leftovers they are mighty expensive :D
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    How the heck do you buy a keyboard these days?

    It's very simple IMNSHO :) Logitech MX Keys S. The one to rule them all.
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    A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

    That's not a problem with diesel backup, that's a problem with people stealing. Diesel backup is reliable as backup can be. Maintenance? Oh yes, has to be done. Testing regularly? 100% necesary. But it's cheap and it works. The two cases beeing shared here show 1. a problem in design with the...
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    Monitor Backlighting

    A lot of assumption going on here, all missing the point by hundreds of miles. Backlight is a light ON THE BACK of the monitor, shining the light into the WALL BEHIND the monitor. It's a thing some TV manufacturers are doing with more expensive models already. It's that simple and it would be...
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    Monitor Backlighting

    I'm using some generic POS LED lamp with selectable colour temperature and brightness. I think it was even supposed to be an under cabinet kitchen light initialy. It's nicely thin (about 1.5 x 2.5 cm) and about 30 cm long, so I've stuck it on the monitor arm with some double sided tape. There...
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    Tesla recalls Cybertruck to fix wiper motor and piece that may fly off the car

    (don't own a Tesla, don't care about Musk) There is a use for brake and gas pedal at the same time to serve as a kind of limited diff because the breaking force on the faster spinning wheel is greater and some of the torque transfers to the wheel with at least some traction. It's not blacka...
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    Report: Superconductivity researcher found to have committed misconduct

    Kudos for the wordplay in the title! :D Beth Mole is the master at it and this is spot on :D
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    Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage

    Came here to write that. My personal experience confirms it.
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    UK Police blame Android for “record number” of false emergency calls

    UK is not even Europe anymore ;) Europe is 112 for emergency services. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/112
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    Lenovo updates ThinkPad laptops with fresh CPUs, recycled metals

    Please stop regurgitating the "recycled metals" PR [censored] they started spewing a while ago. There is absolutely no difference in having recycled aluminium, magnesium or steel used in the product. This is not plastics, where it there's a loss in parameters every time the raw plastics is cut...
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    Checking on recommends for sub-$100 video cards

    Had a MB and i5-10400, wanted a conservative new machine, had some problems with UHD630 graphics. I hate that GT1030 doesn't have DP, but HDMI works OK. See the use case, nobody is going to use this card for gaming. I payed 106€ including VAT of 22% and it's still available at that price...
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    Checking on recommends for sub-$100 video cards

    Double post, can't delete. Apologies from a newbie from 2003 :)
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    Checking on recommends for sub-$100 video cards

    I went for the fanless GT1030 from Asus. Wanted the fanless card and this one was the best available here at the end of December 2021. Drivers are still updated, got the latest from Nvidia. Works much better then Intel UHD630 according to my benchmarks (no big difference in real use)... but I'm...
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    Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change

    There are 1079 women called Meta in Slovenija alone as of this day. Nearly all of them born before Zuckerberg changed Facebook's name.
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    Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

    That's been done in the UK in eighties with quite a glowing result. There was a documentary* filmed on the efforts of one entrepreneur Derek DelBoy Trotter and his family and their results with glow-in-the-dark paint and it realy shines! :D https://youtu.be/M5_pcaXJIo8?t=95 *comedy series...
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    Any way to disinfect/sterilise hardware (cards, laptop, board, etc)?

    UV-C sterilisation is the way. It works for MRSA and some realy scarry hospital bugsies and it could probably be enough for your use :) BigClive tested a UV-C lamp like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0TQjBRcFo There are some whole room ones for hospital use...
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    US flight regulators consider whether to allow or bar in-flight Wi-Fi calls

    And they can do jack shit about it while in flight. Even if their child has just run under the bus, there is absolutely no way you can stop a plane and jump out or something. It can wait, it will wait.
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    System76 Oryx Pro review: Linux in a laptop has never been better

    It's a "Featured article", basicaly a not very well hidden advertising. I'm so very much against this [censored] it hurts. I'm very sad that ArsTechnica is going so low as put a marketing "news" article. I'm with Ars since black/orange days of the beginnings and this saddens me a lot :(
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    System76 Oryx Pro review: Linux in a laptop has never been better

    Can you realy write an ArsTechica review of a PC/notebook without even ONCE mentioning what CPU it has? There's this: "The Oryx Pro that System76 sent for me to test was not the fully maxed out model, but it did have a GTX 1060 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. It also had the 1080p matte IPS...