News, Articles, Events, and Shenanigans. [Potentially NSFW]

Bill Gates is getting a divorce!

Massive global sting operation a huge success.  
The FBI tricked criminals around the world into using an “encrypted” phone system they came up with.

At least 1 dead, 99 others unaccounted for following partial building collapse in Surfside [Local 10]
 
And since the incident at 1:20 AM, many were likely still asleep when the incident occurred.

Bf109 restored to flying condition.  
Hope it’s kept in a high security hangar because Antifa will be out to destroy it.
 
Edit” My state the least dependent on federal dollars.

He created a logo to honour residential school victims. Now retailers are using it to ‘make a buck’
 
Virtue signaling Corporate “social justice” in a nutshell.  
It’s fucking outrageous for big biz to capitalize on a national tragedy like this.

3 outbreaks of a superbug fungus resistant to all medications.
 
Oh why not. Let’s throw another log on the doom fire.

@lonewolf  
Sadly it’s been predicted for many years, was only a matter of time until the eagerness to give out small doses of antibiotics for trivial issues would lead to increased resistance.

@lonewolf  
Welp! I guess we’re just going to have to rely on our white blood cells to fight those fuckers funguses off, and hope they’re up to snuff.

@lonewolf  
We are doomed. It going to wipe out most of the Human race.

@MLPFIMfan 97FD  
Let’s not panic…yet.

@Goku Black  
It not going going to turn into a pandemic is it?

Hasn’t this superbug thing been going on since the 90s iirc?

Government sells one of a kind Wu Tang album to cover Martin Shkreli’s debt. (the turd who skyrocketed the price of Daraprim).
 
It satisfied his remaining debt which means it sold for at least 2.2 million. We won’t hear it though as it can’t be released commercially for 88 years.

@lonewolf  
What a waste.  
Where’s the album now?

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ  
They didn’t disclose who bought it so who knows.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ  
According to all available information, this only concerns the computer’s “idle” power consumption. When the computer is in sleep mode or otherwise not being used.
 
Because of a law that went into effect in 2016 with a scaled roll-in of compliance expectations.
 
So Dell has known about this for 5 years and with this limited range of low-expandability systems they decided to just not ship them to states with Energy Star requirements. All of their high-expandability systems are fine and you can still order those.
 
There’s a fairly informative writeup of this on Reddit with a lot of details and links to the relevant laws.
 
2LDR: Turning off sleep mode in the bios and then complaining about laws from 2016 is a weird way to advertise, but it seems to be working for Dell.

@Ciaran  
Yeah. I just got clarification on the topic not too long ago.  
It’s pretty shady what Dell is doing to the consumers with their products. It sounds almost like the Dieselgate shenanigans with VW years back. But regarding PCs instead of cars.  
The way the initial articles were written made it seem like it was going to affect the other OeMs as well.
 
I know the existing machines are exempt of course. This just applies to newer makes in certain categories over a certain function.
 
Thanks for the clarification though.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ  
Yeah, it seems an entirely self-inflicted wound. And a lot of those states don’t even have those laws in place - they’re just adding states that ‘tend to do what California has done’, even though those states don’t even have these Energy Star restrictions in place.
 
The whole thing seems so contrived. The only thing that makes sense to me in all of this is that Dell is worried about the requirements for monitors that are coming in the winter. Dell has a lot of really inexpensive monitors that they sell to accounting departments, and maybe one of those is slightly over the energy expectations … but, again, that’s just speculation. It’s hard to figure out what they are trying to accomplish.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ
 
@Ciaran  
And this is only towards Prebuilt Gaming PCs, so if you have a Custom Built PC, you’re fine.

We just found Spongebob and Patrick