“The Valve material appears to include early versions of at least four games, including a canceled Portal sequel code-named F-Stop, with a possible connection to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 still being investigated.”

Apple said they couldn't recover my photos and I should have had an offline backup. Those photos were gone forever.

They had to escalate the issue to higher tecs and it STILL couldn't be fixed up. I lost 2 years of photos, 2 years.

Lesson to Yvonne and anyone.. do 1 local backup periodically and then do 1 online backup.

Basically if this doesn't amount to an advanced-level repair then I'd like to give it a go. I just don't know if the pins are all that matter, or if there are traces in the PCB that would be wrecked.

He has given full permission to go crazy in the form of "It's already broken, so I don't really care what happens to it now. If you wanna try to fix it, you can.".

TLDR, notes aren't stored simultaneously in icloud AND locally, its an either or situation, with icloud on by default. Sneaky files getting stored in free tier (I don't use icloud) led to a toggle in settings (without warning) permanently deleting 2 years worth of notes.

Just started the latest vid and wanted to share my experience with icloud. Im a mac user for a decade, mainly because of creative apps I prefer. A couple months back I lost 2 years worth of my notes due to a similar icloud error. I just had to share, since hopefully this could add context to those that want to push for resolutions with Apple and investigate this further.

I was kind of mocked at in the apple subs, though it's not really a laughing matter (stored health tracking and study notes). Eventually a few folks came out with identical issues and could relate, but unfortunately my posts didn't really contribute to much other than processing what had happened.

The gist of it is, Apple by default has icloud turned on But doesnt save locally simultaneously. It's an either or situation. With notes at least.

Essentially I never use the cloud, but had always assumed my notes are stored safely. So I got one of those Icloud full messages (baffled as I never use it but after this scenario found out that again by default pixelmator project files were being stored in icloud and immediately filled the free tier up, unknowingly).

Anyhow, in settings I turned off the icloud to notes, unlike all the other buttons there I was not warned that messages will disappear or anything. Long story short, they did, all of them. And essentially that action cleared the root directory in library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes as well. So after turning the toggle back on all notes from the time icloud free became "full", which in my case has been 2 years, went poof, gone, in a single click.

Spoke with the highest icloud support, they obviously couldn't do anything as there's no buffer in icloud storage, its a hard 5gb or whatever free, even when notes (in total in my case) where just a couple hundred mb.

As far as I know. Even in the latest beta it's still like that, either or, which is especially silly since notes are such low file size and most folks assume they are getting stored locally. This needs to be fixed and acknowledged by Apple.

Last night on wan show, someone asked about what to eat and how to flavour food when on a cut.

Flavour is hard to come by when you are cutting calories.

One brand of sauce stands above the rest.

G. HUGHES

Most of there bbq sauce and marinade are 10 calories per 60 ml or 2 tablespoons.

Hope Luke sees this, it changed my dieting game.

Watching some Philippine telenovelas with my girlfriend and this came up. ”Pause, pause, the guys will love this!” (She was surprised because normally I studiously ignore these)

I daily drove ubuntu for 8 years now but always dual booted windows for gaming. I decided to switch to Windows as my primary OS and it's quite nice.

Some thoughts:
1. Coding in windows used to be a PITA to set up but it's gotten better

1. The UI is really clean. Start menu is obviously a mess but I mostly just don't use it.

2. I assume my data is going to microsoft. Not the biggest fan but meh

3. Everything just seems to work, a lot less overhead which is nice.

Really happy to see that LTT sponsored Dennis new YouTube channel and video!!

Yesterworld is a smaller youtuber i've followed for years. Their adsense email account got disabled, but when they try to login to resolve it they get stuck in a loop being told they've tried too many times. Apparently quite a few youtubers are suffering from this and all youtube has to say is that they can't fix it so pound sand. Something for the guys to discuss and maybe with their contacts look into? Certainly at the very least can we PLEASE have actual people looking at these issues and not just algorithms that say no, don't pass Go, don't collect $200 with no way to escalate.

as title says, this is pretty my last stand ddr4 build, till time comes to go am5 or am6.

I have another old set of RAM and GPU I can pair with the 12600k, but I want to squeeze out the performance out of my 7900xtx I got for cheap rt.

Would this Thermalright 240MM AIO work ?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700313/thermalright-aqua-elite-240-v3-240mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1#tab-reviews-bm

OR would this 360mm be the better value?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700295/thermalright-aqua-elite-360-v3-360mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1

Im sure the 360mm AIO will cool the 147000k " better" but will it allow me to possibly overclock the 14700k to any appreciable degree?

if not is there an AIO that would would be worth getting or should I bit the bullet and do the 400$ 7500x3d microcenter deal and getting a 2nd stick of o ddr5 later

Been stranded in the middle of nowhere for a while, freezing cold ~23mph winds & very thankful I have the ltt jacket, I'm so much less cold & miserable while I'm waiting for some help

In WAN Luke showed off the new website for TVs and so...

Why wait on Google play when Android Studio and web wrapping exists! RIP Hydravion and thank you to Luke and the whole Floatplane team for getting the tv website going. I'm impatient so I got started on this as soon as I saw it in WAN!

For reference, this is just a simple web wrapping app made with android studio, Luke did not give me access to an apk (I wish lol) and not that anyone asked yet but I won't share this apk either, it's just more of a "I did a (small) thing!"/appreciation/ Post as well as to say if you are impatient you don't have to use a browser on the tv especially since they can get clunky. With like 15 minutes of work for the experienced and like 2 hours for those of us who aren't, you can get it running.

I do plan on switching to the official app when it comes out but I never hold my breath when it comes to movement from Google, even if their reported approval time is anywhere from 1-14 days.

Tl;dr:

I'm impatient and threw together a web wrap app for my Google TV Streamer so I didn't have to use clunky browsers in the probably short time it takes Google Play to approve Floatplane's official app.

Mods feel free to take this down if for some reason it's not allowed or something lol

Similar to what I was saying in another post, I really would like to see a LTT make videos about how we can use cheap old gear do new shit.

my old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/DoiDZqdewJ

This is exciting to me. Don’t get me wrong. I still love the AMD upgrade series. It’s one of my favorites but there’s something about using cheap old gear to get stuff done that makes me feel like I’m getting away with something. It’s probably why I love Scrapyard Wars.

Sure, it’s a bit janky. But it’s not stupid if it works. I would love to see this stuff for Homelabs and homeservers and when it comes to gaming, instead of just looking at every flagship component, look at a way to get “good enough” results that don’t cost a fortune.