My wife and I just sold our house, and for the next seven or so months, while we build a new home, we are renting. The rental property has NBN installed, and annoyingly the NBN box is located inside of the garage. Googling seems to suggest that this is quite common, especially for NBN fibre connections. The problem with the NBN box being located in the garage is obvious: the reception sucks, and in larger homes, you get blackspots.
If you are not familiar with Marak on GitHub, you might be familiar with some of their work, most notably Faker.js which is a Node.js package for generating fake data. Well, Marak is taking a stand and honestly, it’s commendable and I 100% support it. In a Github issue on the Faker repository titled No more free work from Marak – Pay Me or Fork This, while it might appear that this was prompted by a Fortune 500 company asking for things, the following Tweet might provide some insight.
Chances are, you and everyone you know or love has heard about the new iPhone 12 that Apple just announced at one of its cult-like keynote events. Now, Apple releasing a new iPhone is not surprising, it’s about as expected as the sun rising tomorrow. While Apple has run out of ways to surprise and delight their customers as competitors and Apple find themselves on equal footing in terms of features and power, sometimes Apple finding themselves behind, they have managed to shock consumers once again and it’s not a new feature that has everyone talking.
I recently published a review here on this blog about my experience buying the Galaxycove projector. In the review, I talked about how the projector was a poorly made dropshipped projector, how it is unbranded and the company has an intentionally misleading website. It appears that Galaxycove is desperately attempting to control the narrative by scrubbing any negativity of their projector from the Internet. Although, the Galaxycove website might have glowing endorsements from alleged customers and their Facebook and Instagram, over on Trustpilot the story is different.
As great as AMD CPU’s are, Intel has had a distinct advantage even though the Zen 2 architecture was stellar and I upgraded to a Ryzen 3900x not too long ago and absolutely love it, it’s a performance and core monster. Intel’s only advantage against AMD was single-core performance. All of the benchmarks for 1080p gaming had AMD trailing behind Intel, with AMD beating Intel in multicore benchmarks. Thanks to a different architecture in Zen 3, the amount of latency between the CCX’s which resulted in some reduced performance on Zen 2 is now gone. If you’re wanting to know what core complex is and how it works, Tom’s Hardware has a great explainer here. The performance is claimed to offer a 2.4x performance per watt increase and 19% higher instructions per clock.
Well, the day has finally come and gone. The Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics card has gone on sale and all but sold out at every retailer in a matter of minutes. The limited quantities of the card, have created a frenzy. Firstly, if you thought about getting one of these new cards, you’re going to have to wait a long time. Those wanting RTX 3080 GPUs, here’s some info: This morning we experienced more traffic than the morning of Black Friday
This is a really strange issue I encounter sporadically in Windows 10. Even freshly installing Windows and the issue will still occur. I use a Presonus Audiobox for my audio needs, so it is possible that the device itself might be the culprit or the drivers I am using. The sound I hear is this distorted/pixelated sound which sounds like what Minecraft would sound like if it were in audio form. This fix I’ve discovered I can’t vouch it fixes it permanently, but it does work without having to restart your PC.
Footage of an alleged device from LG called the LG Wing have leaked out onto YouTube ahead of a planned September 14 event. https://youtu.be/FYRZOREZR0k It appears as though the smartphone race has taken a drastic turn. It started out with phone makers battling each other for the best camera, the biggest battery, the highest resolution screens. Now that all major phone makers are on an almost equal playing field, companies like Samsung and LG are taking it to the extreme.
I do a bit of live streaming over on Twitch (give me a follow if you’re interested in coding and this post helped you) and while I primarily use my desktop PC, I was travelling recently and wanted to use my gaming laptop to do a little code streaming (scroll down to the “fix” section if you’re in a hurry). Like many, I use Streamlabs OBS for my streaming needs. While I attempted to enable display capture for my live scene, my webcam was working fine, but none of my laptop display was being captured. All I got was this black screen and no explanation.
I have had my current Core i5 6600k PC for a few years now and it has served me well and if I wasn’t upgrading, would continue for years to come. However, now I am working from home more and find myself branching out into streaming, video editing and trying to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, I needed something stronger and more future proof. Five years for a PC is an incredible run. I never turn my PC off, not to mention, I overclocked it and it never skipped a beat or reduced its lifespan. I have always been Team Blue (Intel), but the price and compelling benchmarks of the Amd Ryzen chips had me intrigued.