Computer Thread

[PopeCrisco]

Yesterday I had a customer complaining that our software was slow on her new PC.
That monster was rockin a full 4gigs of ram. Easiest call of my day.

 

[raratt]

Yesterday I had a customer complaining that our software was slow on her new PC.
That monster was rockin a full 4gigs of ram. Easiest call of my day.

I got 8 hangin...

 

[solakani]

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To bypass requirements check during setup of Win11 run setup /product server. Server setup does not perform requirements check and can be used for Win11 install.

 

[shimbob]

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Even electricity is optional

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[raratt]

 

[solakani]

 

[solakani]

QR Scanner with file

4qrcode - Free online QR Code reader camera or with image

Free online QR Code scanner from images with webcam or from photo (QR scanner, QR Code reader from image online, QR Code scanner online, how to scan a qr code)

4qrcode.com

 

[BarnBuster]

"OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model ignores basic instructions to turn itself off, and even sabotaging a shutdown mechanism in order to keep itself running, artificial intelligence researchers have warned."

New ChatGPT model refuses to be shut down, AI researchers warn

OpenAI’s o3 model raises AI safety fears after sabotaging commands for its own self-preservation

www.the-independent.com

OpenAI ChatGPT o3 caught sabotaging shutdown in terrifying AI test

OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands. A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company’s ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down. The results are raising eyebrows across the AI safety community, and not because the model is alive, but...

betanews.com

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[raratt]

 

[solakani]

Do you play?

 

[raratt]

Swapped out my old router for a "new upgraded" one. Supposed to be faster than the old one. Guess I'll see when the boy does his gaming stuff. Yes I changed the password from password to something better, like 12345.

 

[raratt]

They were nice enough to let me keep my wifi ID and password so I didn't have to change everything to a new one. Had to activate it online and use a QR code to ID the router, that's new and different.

 

[solakani]

Router from my ISP is running in bridged mode with wifi disabled. It has an ethernet connection to the 2.5gb backbone of my home network managed by an enterprise router with a mesh of wifi7 access points.

 

[BarnBuster]

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www.pcmag.com

 

[solakani]

Wifi6 protocol changed from OFDM multiplex to OFDMA multiple access. Upgraded my Win11 desktops to wifi7. Got a nice bump up to 2.8Gbps link speed.

 

[BarnBuster]

FWIW, Google's prompt engineering book:

22365_3_Prompt Engineering_v7 (1).pdf

drive.google.com