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On newer laptops, and I’ve seen this specifically on thinkpads) if the power supply you are using is not the correct wattage, the system will throttle down significantly. I started noticing this by looking at windows task manager and noticing the CPU would not scale above 0.8 GHz. Not sure if Chrome responds in the same way, but it’s worth looking into. Fix was easy, just get a proper wattage power supply (i went with oem)


Amazing, perfect app! I use it frequently, and I love the response I get from customers or friends whom I turn onto it (or install it for). I also encourage others to donate to this developer. The sad thing is casual users would not even think of donating as they assume this type of feature should be (properly) built into the OS; so I’ve made sure to donate on behalf of users I’ve turned on to Everything. Great app!


I was overjoyed when I saw that Microsoft had bought out the small Winternals team (Winternals Software LP, founded by Cogswell and Russinovich, who exposed the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy-protection DRM) that gave awesome freeware "power tools" to tweak and monitor MS-Windows. Microsoft renamed it as SysInternals, and Microsoft has since maintained it well and still kept it all free.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

Fun trivia: Mark Russinovich went on to greater heights, and he's CTO of Microsoft Azure.

I wish Microsoft would do the same for another amazing freeware "power tools" suite: Nirsoft Utilities. https://www.nirsoft.net/

I really don't know how Voidtools has survived all these years, by giving away their primary product (Everything Search) for free.

https://www.voidtools.com/

Everything Search is free, powerful and fast, and thankfully, unlike some other famous tools (CCleaner), it is not adware, spyware or malware. The only caveat, is that Everything Search's background indexing of drives requires administrative access, but user can run it without admin access, it's just that it would need to manually reindex (to add latest files/folders to its index database) on every run then.

https://www.voidtools.com/faq/

For years, I have wished that Microsoft would acquire Voidtools (give them a good chunk of money for all the years of service they gave to the world in the form of this awesome freeware Everything Search), and integrated it into Microsoft Windows Search (to make it a rival to MacOS's Spotlight search) to make it blazing fast and finally useful.

(Remember, Microsoft acquired Skype and integrated its capabilities into MS Teams, which is available free for personal use, with some limitations (60mins session limit, 100 participants).)


This is correct, I also discovered while preparing several ThinkPads for a customer based on a Windows 11 image i made, that even if you have bitlocker disabled you may also need to check that hardware disk encryption is disabled as well (was enabled by default in my case). Although this is different from bitlocker in that the encryption key is stored in the TPM, it is something to be aware of as it may be unexpected.


I’m pretty sure this has changed now, but when I first looked at OBS versus vmix, OBS did not have good NDI Support. Since the twice a year video production I put on is kind of like a hobby although I get paid, I just went with VMix and haven’t looked back. (Video is not my main job)


This is absolutely correct, VMix is excellent software. When you pair it with the correct hardware even low cost hardware, it is very stable and reliable (and powerful). it’s also very reasonably priced, for one particular client twice a year I do a large 2 to 3 day livestream. We buy two copies of their $50 a month pro version (by default it is not a reoccurring subscription), each event. Every aspect of vmix can be automated or scripted, and they have a very easy to use XML based API (I can code but I’m definitely not a coder). Over the years we’ve built some incredible automated graphics for displaying on large billboards at the event, as well as using the second copy to produce the livestream where we pull in five professional ptz cams (via rtsp) and 2x sdi video feeds (via a capture card). We also use the NDI app on two iPhones to add their video into the mix (using the built-in vmix scripting, when someone presses the send button in the NDI app, V-Mix notices the audio level going above zero, and switches that live video feed into program). Note to do ndi over iphone wifi we use a dedicated ruckus R610 access point with no other clients on it, the video has ZERO latency, and amazing 4k quality). We also use companion running on a raspi5, connected to 2x stream decks, so that the entire set up can be controlled via the stream deck buttons.


i know alot are joking / sarcastic about its a cyber attack- that said, Wouldn't it make more sense that whenever there is a "cyber attack" its more likely it would only affect one provider? ie, each has to have different systems / security postures ect, such that a non-public vuln useful to attack Verizon would likely not be exploitable/exposed at AT&T (or vise versa)?


why are you saying that this is affecting more than one provider?


i'm not saying that, I was asking more of a general question, others were saying that multiple carriers were having issues (w the only proof being downdetector and their incorrectly scaled Y axis graphs)


Ive been seeing more of those prove your human pages as well, but I generally assume they are there to combat a DDOS or other type of attack (or maybe ai/bot). I remember how annoying it was combating DDOS attacks, or hacked sites before Cloudflare existed. I also remember how annoying capcha s were, everywhere. Cloudflare is not perfect but net, I think it’s been a great improvement.


Ovh provides ddos protection without that nonsense, for free. Aws does it too, for a fee.


Does it matter that AI hardware has such a shorter shelf life/faster upgrade cycle? Meaning we may see the ram chips resold/thrown back into the used market quicker than before?


Another method that most cameras support (if you want the bare basics of record video/audio) is accessing an RTSP stream from the camera. In fact RTSP streams are the primary way you get video into frigate specifically. Some of the more fancy cam manufacturers (axis), are just now starting to support encrypted RTSP , but most of it is unencrypted. you can enable authentication, however in general if you’re doing this over the Internet you do it over a VPN via un encrypted rtsp


This! I manage about 70 CCTV cameras, over the past 15 years. Partially as a hobby. and axis cameras are the best bar none. They are expensive, but if you don’t have a need for the latest gen axis, then eBay is your friend, along with one or two generation prior of axis current gen cams. They are just very well thought out in terms of installation, and ui/operation. Axis is among the most responsive to security issues (which mostly can be negated by controlling your cameras at the network level through vlans and firewall rules). They have a very intuitive web based UI, for example one well thought out ability is through events/rules- you can add a physical SD card into the camera and set up a rule that if the video feed is not being accessed ( set a inverse trigger for “live stream accessed”) then start recording to the on-cam SD card (i.e. your NVR has gone off-line or a network issue is stopping the feed, then you have onboard storage saving that video). That’s just one example.


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