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  • A

    How do I patch up the ugly bar on the top and bottom when I mod a aclyics side panel?

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    I bought a dremel and about to start cutting soon. Should I make the corner of the hole rounded or straight right angle? And how big should the hole be? I added a rgb strip on the very bottom, the ram lights up and the fan is rgb too. Also I am planning to attach a t-force delta rgb ssd on top of the CD from or replace the CD rom if I run out of heights [image: 622b1759-fb4b-45ba-bbe7-5f606d8a943d.jpeg] [image: 081d24a4-3e5c-4e1d-8ba0-737f76af22e3.jpeg]
  • A

    What book did you read last and what book are you currently reading? Would you recommend either of those books?

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    Honestly Heath Miller set an incredibly high bar for audio books for me. He brought to life the other characters so well. The MC isn't even the most enjoyable character
  • realcalliopa@lemmy.worldR

    What do you think about Binaural Beats ?

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    realcalliopa@lemmy.worldR
    And what about DELTA frequencies?
  • B

    Yeah man full send

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgT

    plug it straight into the PSU, just splice the wires.

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    Solder for brighter LEDs.
  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techS

    What does the doc say that came with it?

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    Plugging in 5v things in 12v will blow it up. I am 99% sure RAM sticks'REGB is 5v. So OP should find a 5v RGB header on their motherboard. They'll need to read both, motherboard's and RAM's manual.
  • M

    What will be the top news headline on the day that you die?

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    is his corpse on a rotisserie for all eternity?
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    Are the Sentinelese still alive?

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    Idk, lemme swing by and check rq Update: [image: 86f1a2b2-2569-4f91-96f1-8e32380b06d0.gif]
  • C

    Do you ever drink "strategically"?

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    It's not a form of censorship, it's a form of democracy. If you are not ok with a downvote reducing visibility, then by extension you should hate upvotes just as much, since they reduce the visibility of everything else.
  • marighost@piefed.socialM

    Let's say you are teaching a basic, 1-hour-long class to the general public about privacy and general tech hygiene. What kinds of topics would you include?

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    Even a dedicated lab might not be able to read your data once you've hammered nails through the platters. Usually what they do is they take out the platters in a clean-room environment and place them in an otherwise identical drive, then read from that. But a deformed platter with a hole in it will cause extreme oscillations once you start rotating it at thousands of RPM. Which will crash the head(s) pretty much instantly. So realistically, outside of an MI6-style lab with Q and his team using custom-built equipment dedicated to reading data from purposely destroyed drives, I don't see how anyone could do it. Would love to hear from someone who works in data recovery or is in contact with people who do, though. One thing we haven't talked about, by the way, is how to prevent SSDs from having their data recovered. That should be straightforward though, just schwack the NAND chips with a hammer until they're all broken. As with the HDD, be sure to wear appropriate PPE to protect against eye injury and dust inhalation.
  • M

    Have you ever had a close friend die and it changed your view of life?

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    [image: d7233707-88dc-4aed-aa9a-d6683ab8f119.jpeg]
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    Keyboard questions! Can you type without looking at the keys? Do you have a preferred format or make of keyboard?

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    Yes, QWERTY at 110wpm with standard left hand and only using index and middle fingers on my right hand, on a normal ISO layout on my Wooting 80HE.
  • L

    Does anybody play Fortnite on PS5?

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    hatchetharo@pawb.socialH
    Wrong community, but with cross-platform you don't even need to specify your platform anymore!
  • C

    Good things to watch in DXM?

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    I got tired of tracking what show is on what, torrent has them all.
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    Have we already passed the tipping point?

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    I should have been clearer that I totally think that's the correct thing to be doing. Sorry for any confusion, I think you're on the right track.
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    How would you reach in this situation?

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    halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldH
    It's not about hurting the case, it's just irrelevant to the charges in court. How a suspect is stopped while fleeing isn't usually relevant to the charges against them. Especially since it wasn't an officer that stopped them, but a civilian. That information will of course be in the report, but it wouldn't be relevant in the court proceedings, especially not needing them to testify in person.
  • L

    What's it like to have a dream?

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    If you want to have lucid dreams, set an alarm clock to two hours before you have to wake up and another one to when you have to wake up. With this two-hour interval you should wake up right in the middle of the dream. Once that works out, keep telling yourself that the next thing you'll experience will be a dream when you fall asleep after the first alarm. With a bit of practice you should be able to get to lucid dreams. For what it's like to dream: Imagine being in a simulation, and whenever you look somewhere or you think of something, your brain autofills whatever you focus on. Say you are on a beach. So you think "How did I get here?" and while doing so, your brain generates a memory of you driving there with other people in the car. "But who are these people?" And the brain fills in your wife and your son. "I didn't know I had a wife and a son." And the brain fills in memories of your first date, the wedding and the birth of your son. And so on. For me, the biggest tell that I am in a dream is that electronics UIs don't work. My brain isn't fast enough to simulate e.g. a working smartphone interface. They are always screwed up and non-functional.
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    You get new speakers or you start your music library from scratch. Which is the first song/album you play?

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    It has a good mix of vocals and instruments. The guitar is a bit overpowering but that could be just my earphones. Lyrics are dark sad, like old Linkin Park. 8/10 The cover art is so cool.
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    Speaking of tv, it is weird when you get to around 30-40 and realize the majority of people on shows and in films are now younger than you.

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    depends when you graduate, some people graduate pretty late 20s because of thier schools curriculum is is horrendeously unkind to students, so people ended up getting delayed and graduating later, and people graduating at 22, looks like they just came out of HS.
  • skyline969@lemmy.caS

    At least for me, turning 30 felt liberating in a sense.

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    they are starting to shift the blame to genz now.