Democracies are notoriously slow to react to outside threats, but when they finally do, they can be incredibly effective. See: WW2. This doesn't mean it's inevitable, but the thing with democratic countries is that they are also by far the most successful and resilient economies and leading in research thanks to their strong institutions. Meanwhile, strong institutions and research are threatening to autocratic rule, which means they are constantly hampered in countries like Russia and China - while the rampant corruption inherent to autocratic regimes limits economic success after the initial mass mobilization boost. You can see both of them falling behind already as Xi's and Putin's grip on power is intensifying. A typical symptom of this are mandatory ideological classes being rolled out and taking up vital time in the curriculum.
Both countries are also hampered militarily by corruption and nepotism - and loyalty being valued more than actual competence is an inherent disadvantage, since competent military leaders are an inherent threat to any autocratic rule. Russia's embarrassing performance against the much smaller, poorer and weaker Ukraine even long before significant Western help arrived is an obvious symptom of this, but China is even worse in this regard. We haven't seen their performance in an actual full-scale war yet, but previous military encounters - e.g. during UN missions in and around Africa - showed just how incompetent, inexperienced, poorly trained, -led and -equipped the Chinese military is.
Another aspect to democratic rule is that it remains so attractive that even the majority of autocratic regimes at the very least pretend to be democracies. No amount of democratic backsliding in the world changes the fundamental appeal behind the concept or democratic participation, of each individual citizen having a say in matters of state.
I was troubleshooting someone else's cable - in this case the USB cable that came with their rather expensive Sony smartphone.
Also, it's not self-correcting, because online stores are flooded with subpar cables, adapters and hubs that don't even adhere to the most basic standards.
How on Earth is this very real issue a "botspam talking point"? The USB standard is a mess.
Yes, but which USB standards are supported by your USB-C cables? I've had fun troubleshooting unmarked cables that looked like any other Type-C cable, but only support USB 2.0 data rates or even only charging.
The only people who claim that legitimate criticism of the Chinese government is "sinophobia" are 1) the Chinese government, 2) their trolls and 3) tankies.
Please don't be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.
In case it was unclear, the training material of most LLMs will almost inevitably include propaganda. If that propaganda is not deliberately added to the data, then that's unintentional, a byproduct of poor vetting at worst. That's obviously fundamentally different from an LLM being both deliberately trained with propaganda and having hard checks built into it that filter out certain keywords the government doesn't want citizens to inform themselves about, which is what China is doing. You can't honestly believe that the two are the same.
There is a difference between censorship and propaganda. We were talking about the latter.
There is also a difference between government-mandated censorship and self-censorship. ChatGPT is almost exclusively doing the latter in order to avoid civil lawsuits, not the government busting down the doors. That's obviously not even remotely the same as a Chinese LLM cracking down on Winnie the Pooh, because the God Emperor has a fragile ego.
Then there is the whole matter of training material. You won't get most LLMs - including entirely open source ones with no commercial interest behind them - to spout your fringe political opinions as facts, because there is very little training material out there that agrees with you (or talks about how to launch an armed resistance - how many books and websites do you think exist on this topic?). A flawed democracy is still a democracy - and no serious scholar on this topic will call the US anything but that or variations of the term. Whether or not this remains the case after another four years of Trump is an entirely different matter. It's not unlikely that the country becomes a hybrid regime like Hungary or worse, but an LLM that has difficulties with answering two questions about the past or present without hallucinating once can't look into the future.
What annoys me the most about your comment is not that nearly everything about it is factually wrong, but that it's nothing but whatsboutism, an attempt at defending what the Chinese regime is doing. That's not a good look.
Apparently, it depends on whether or not a specific BIOS setting is available. I don't think there was on this board, but I might be wrong, since I already had the plug lying around and immediately used it when QuickSync refused to work. If you haven't had any experience with this before, it can definitely be annoying though.
There's just a big ol' heat sink covering most of the board. Even under sustained 100% CPU load, I've never had it getting any hotter than 72° C, which is not even close to the maximum operating temperature of 105°. It's sitting under a desk in a corner with practically no air flow, almost completely enclosed from all sides.
You might need some limited active cooling if you are using the device for gaming, like a large and slow fan as shown in the video, but I wouldn't be surprised if you can get away without it.
Take this seriously, people. I've been there and it caused tons of issues on an older server of mine. That's why I was very adamant about my current system having built-in error correction for its RAM.
Kind of how they went after marijuana in order to target Black people.