Daily Tech News 21 January 2024

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The same pathetic losers who tried to organise a boycott against the Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy are at it again with Palworld. (GGRecon)

With similar results.

Hogwarts Legacy sold 22 million copies last year.

Palworld has sold 3 million copies in two days.

Tech News

Overclocking your SSD can bring big performance gains. (Tom's Hardware)

If you have a cheap no-name SSD that is underclocked to start with, and if you don't mind losing all your data.
Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop chips could be 5% faster than the current Raptor Lake models. (WCCFTech)

Intel is in the middle of launching four generations of CPUs in the same month, which is impossible for anyone to keep track of, but it doesn't matter since they all perform the same.
For truckers driving EVs there is no turning back. (Yahoo News)

That's because the only truckers driving EVs are the ones on fixed short-to-mid-range routes where charging is readily available and the economics make sense.
Can an AI become its own CEO after creating a startup? No. (INC)

The co-founder of Google's DeepMind division thinks so, but he's an idiot.
Node.js users download 2.1 billion deprecated packages every week. (SC Magazine)

If you're using Node.js, you've already made a really bad decision, so why not double down on that?

Disclaimer: You could also try eating live hornets. I'm told is the big new thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hey Pixy. Thanks for tech stuff!

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:05 AM (njWTi)

2 One of my brothers is a trucker. He is thankful his boss only has Kenworth and Peterbilt diesel rigs.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:08 AM (njWTi)

3 So easy to *first* when Skip is off-shift LOL

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:11 AM (njWTi)

4 Dang. Saturday night and everyone's gone?

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:11 AM (njWTi)

5 Wow. Must be bedtime...

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:11 AM (njWTi)

6 Helloooooo.... echo.... echo...

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:12 AM (njWTi)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 21, 2024 04:13 AM (Kdi1r)

8 Welp, at least the snow and ice are melting. It's actually warming up overnight.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:13 AM (njWTi)

9 Mornin' Puddleglum. How's Da Swamp?

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:14 AM (njWTi)

10 Cold. Not as cold as elsewhere, but cold. What's up?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 21, 2024 04:15 AM (Kdi1r)

11 Wassup? Um... me. Barely.

Wish the roads were clear, but hasn't been warm enough for long enough yet.

youtube.com/watch?v=PQSp6KoVjvo

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:18 AM (njWTi)

12 I forget how good Joe Satriani is. I have a couple of CDs of his. I was playing guess the location with it. Asia, somewhere. I think Japan. Seemed the cars were driving on the left side of the highway. hard to tell.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 21, 2024 04:26 AM (Kdi1r)

13 Yeah, I'm thinking Tokyo. I can't read Kanji.

I like that video for that song. Fits.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:28 AM (njWTi)

14 I'll be back. Doing end of the shift stuff.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 21, 2024 04:31 AM (Kdi1r)

15 There's a pretty good documentary on Amazon/Freevee about Joe, basically it's a tour movie following him during the 30th anniversary of Surfing with the Alien tour.

In that same vein, just learned this week one of Eric Johnson's first big records was playing on Christopher Cross's debut, never would have guessed it.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 21, 2024 04:34 AM (Qqw4f)

16 The Buffalo Bills are having Taylor Swift themed food at tomorrow's playoff game. Based on her history I'm guessing one meal is 273 sausages stuffed in to one bun.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 21, 2024 04:35 AM (Qqw4f)

17 I see pics of "tay-tay" everywhere, but can't name a single one of her songs. Probably nothing I'd want to hear anyway. Meh.

Good for her billionaire self. Hope it doesn't destroy her, but she's likely too immature to cope & we'll read her obit within 10 years. Poor little rich girl...

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:41 AM (njWTi)

18 Never have gotten the pokemon thing. But that game is literally everywhere suddenly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2024 04:42 AM (di6C2)

19 Pokemon is still A Thing? Huh.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:44 AM (njWTi)

20 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 21, 2024 04:48 AM (ju2Fy)

21 Dayshift arrived early. Yay!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 21, 2024 04:50 AM (Kdi1r)

22
Former Secret Service Don Bongino breaks down the video footage of the J5/J6 pipe bombs:

https://t.ly/9YDFi

/ 60 minutes but very interesting

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 21, 2024 04:50 AM (nIvob)

23 Morning all.

Woke up an 90 minutes ago and have tried to get back to sleep. Kept hearing a click...pause...click sound. Like a electrical switch trying to turn on, or off, and failing or is it something rattling when the furnace runs, or...underwear gnomes???

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 04:50 AM (vd8XM)

24 Somebody mentioned a few lyrics from this song the other day.

youtube.com/watch?v=sbqBnbMMxv8

G'night, all. Burn a little brighter now!

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:52 AM (njWTi)

25
Why is there a video link with someone holding a wedge of cheese on top of a model of a human brain right under this thread?

Honestly, many of the links here to fixes for what ails you or to "harmful" foods you oughtn't eat use some truly revolting images as their upfront gateways. How that draws in anyone to kick the tires is beyond me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 21, 2024 04:52 AM (xG4kz)

26 19 Pokemon is still A Thing? Huh.
Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:44 AM (njWTi)

Remember GoBots? Which were kind of a rip off of Transformers back in the day?

Palworld is like that, but for Pokemon. It might have been pixy who mentioned this, but I read somewhere that the Pokemon fanbase have been asking for an open world game for quite some time. Whoever holds the IP has been reticent, thus someone put one together. So, 2 million copies at 26.99 a piece (the game is on special in steam.) Steam takes a cut, but even if it is 50%, that ain't bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2024 04:53 AM (di6C2)

27 Woke up an 90 minutes ago and have tried to get back to sleep. Kept hearing a click...pause...click sound. Like a electrical switch trying to turn on, or off, and failing or is it something rattling when the furnace runs, or...underwear gnomes???
Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 04:50 AM (vd8XM)

Heat pump trying to kick on?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2024 04:53 AM (di6C2)

28 Heat pump trying to kick on?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I don't think so. We have a regular type of gas furnace.

Sitting down stairs now and I don't hear it.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

29 G'Day everyone
I shouldn't be up yet, hope I am not

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2024 04:59 AM (fwDg9)

30 17 I see pics of "tay-tay" everywhere, but can't name a single one of her songs. Probably nothing I'd want to hear anyway. Meh.

Good for her billionaire self. Hope it doesn't destroy her, but she's likely too immature to cope & we'll read her obit within 10 years. Poor little rich girl...

She's been in the music business for 20 years already - started when she was 14.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 04:59 AM (BLOW1)

31 Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 04:50 AM
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Gas furnace. Hmm. Does it have 'electronic' filter(s)?

They tend to get noisy when time to clean them. That "click" is electric arc.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 04:59 AM (njWTi)

32 Gas furnace. Hmm. Does it have 'electronic' filter(s)?

They tend to get noisy when time to clean them. That "click" is electric arc.
Posted by: JQ

No, it did, then it broke about 20 years ago.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:01 AM (vd8XM)

33 She's been in the music business for 20 years already - started when she was 14.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 04:59 AM
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All the more reason to expect she'll burn out, rather than fade away.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 05:01 AM (njWTi)

34 Since the house is about 90 years old, it could just be the duct work rattling in a new and different way.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:03 AM (vd8XM)

35 26 Palworld is like that, but for Pokemon. It might have been pixy who mentioned this, but I read somewhere that the Pokemon fanbase have been asking for an open world game for quite some time. Whoever holds the IP has been reticent, thus someone put one together. So, 2 million copies at 26.99 a piece (the game is on special in steam.) Steam takes a cut, but even if it is 50%, that ain't bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think Steam's cut is 30%.

Sales are now 3 million. So about $55 million to the developers.

That's a pretty decent payday for a game that cost around $10 million to make according to Wikipedia.

And that's two days of sales. Naturally the commies on Twitter are upset. (Though when are they not?)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 05:05 AM (BLOW1)

36 Since the house is about 90 years old, it could just be the duct work rattling in a new and different way.
Posted by: Bruce
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As likely as anything else, for 90yr old house.

Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024 05:07 AM (njWTi)

37 And that's two days of sales. Naturally the commies on Twitter are upset. (Though when are they not?)
Posted by: Pixy Misa

We even get upset when not enough people are upset!!

GRRRRRRR

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:07 AM (vd8XM)

38 Since the house is about 90 years old, it could just be the duct work rattling in a new and different way.
Posted by: Bruce
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As likely as anything else, for 90yr old house.
Posted by: JQ

Just a new sound to get used to I guess.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:08 AM (vd8XM)

39 On the EV trucking article, I wonder if they were doing deliveries in the colder temps that have hit us.

I've seen some of those goofy looking Amazon trucks moving around, not sure how long they can travel on a charge though.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:11 AM (vd8XM)

40 Evening and morning to all! Planned to sleep later, and that was silly. Stirling the big black cat thought so for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:14 AM (omVj0)

41 Reading an article on those vans and it is claiming 150 miles on a charge. Considering the nearest warehouse is about 25 miles away, they get about a 100 miles of delivery before they run out of electricals. And that's without the heater on, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:16 AM (vd8XM)

42 Duckwork ?

That theory's not all its quacked up to be.

Posted by: JT at January 21, 2024 05:19 AM (T4tVD)

43 @AutumnRaport1 implored gamers not to buy Palworld, branding it a blatant rip-off of Pokemon.

Hmmm, She/They, the source for the boycott posts behind a protected account that has 666 followers? Can't see its original tweet.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 21, 2024 05:23 AM (ju2Fy)

44 Reading an article on those vans and it is claiming 150 miles on a charge. Considering the nearest warehouse is about 25 miles away, they get about a 100 miles of delivery before they run out of electricals. And that's without the heater on, I'm guessing.
Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024

***
At least one of the truckers quoted is based in Calif., probably the southern half. Ideal weather for short-range electric use. Delivery routes like the ones in the article, servicing grocery stores, etc., sound like a good use of the technology; you take your 100% charged vehicle out, hit the same stores or customers every day, and back to the terminal with, say, 65% charge left. (Optimistic, of course. No mention of whether the trucks have A/C.)

For everyday people who might want or need to drive four hours each way to visit family in very cold or very hot weather? Uh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:23 AM (omVj0)

45 'Tis a balmy 31 F. Don't think I'm going to work out, at least not this early. Stretches and calisthenics indoors, that's the ticket.

It'll be less cold this week, but with rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:27 AM (omVj0)

46 One of my brothers is a trucker. He is thankful his boss only has Kenworth and Peterbilt diesel rigs.
Posted by: JQ at January 21, 2024

***
"It was the dark of the moon
On the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs . . .
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:28 AM (omVj0)

47 "It was the dark of the moon
On the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs . . .
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs --"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ha! The original rapper.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:30 AM (vd8XM)

48 We wus headed for bear on eye one oh, bout a mile outta shakeytown,
I sez: "Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down"

(Can't help myself)

Posted by: Appycay at January 21, 2024 05:32 AM (EdYR/)

49 e wus headed for bear on eye one oh, bout a mile outta shakeytown,
I sez: "Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down"

(Can't help myself)
Posted by: Appycay at January 21, 2024

***
"Callin' all trucks: This here's The Duck --
We about to go huntin' bear!"

Chip Fries, C.W. McCall, was a grand writer and singer. His "Old Home Filler-Up and Keep on a-Truckin' Cafe," "Wolf Creek Pass," and "There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'n' Roll)" are still great today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:36 AM (omVj0)

50 For truckers driving EVs, there's no going back

For left-tard, shorthaul truckers driving EV's in major metros, there's no going back. Also, most have been using less than a year, so don't know true cost of ownership.

Fixed.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 21, 2024 05:37 AM (ju2Fy)

51 My favorite CW McCall song.

"Classified"

http://tinyurl.com/yznfa5zf

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:38 AM (vd8XM)

52
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 21, 2024 05:38 AM (kQ2Qm)

53 I always liked Black Bear Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozRmtD_gsU

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

54 The furry thugs are restless this morning. Which means I need to dish out some chow for them, and that right soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:43 AM (omVj0)

55
@TheBabylonBee
Gender Surgeon Gives Patient Appointment Reminder For Reversal Surgery In Five Years

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 21, 2024 05:43 AM (nIvob)

56 I think Steam's cut is 30%.

Sales are now 3 million. So about $55 million to the developers.

That's a pretty decent payday for a game that cost around $10 million to make according to Wikipedia.

And that's two days of sales. Naturally the commies on Twitter are upset. (Though when are they not?)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 05:05 AM (BLOW1)

There is another way to look at this. Steams cut for doing nothing but providing infrastructure: 24 million. Every game, 30%. That is insane. I mean, good on them and you can see why actual game development is just a side line vanity thing for Valve these days. I wonder how much server upkeep and infrastructure costs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 21, 2024 05:45 AM (di6C2)

57 No love for CJ5 and a four wheel drive and Smokey on my tail?

Good morning all, and thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: Appycay at January 21, 2024 05:46 AM (EdYR/)

58 51 My favorite CW McCall song.

"Classified"

http://tinyurl.com/yznfa5zf
Posted by: Bruce

Haven't heard that before. That's great!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 05:46 AM (BLOW1)

59 I always liked Black Bear Road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozRmtD_gsU
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I used to have the 8 track of the album for road trips. Or my 40 mile drive to work.

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:48 AM (vd8XM)

60 @TheBabylonBee
Gender Surgeon Gives Patient Appointment Reminder For Reversal Surgery In Five Years

The old "back and fourth !"

Posted by: JT at January 21, 2024 05:50 AM (T4tVD)

61 Songs you find when you're looking for stuff..

"Fat Women in Trailers" Doyle and Debbie

http://tinyurl.com/56kr3tsh

Posted by: Bruce at January 21, 2024 05:54 AM (vd8XM)

62 56 There is another way to look at this. Steams cut for doing nothing but providing infrastructure: 24 million. Every game, 30%. That is insane. I mean, good on them and you can see why actual game development is just a side line vanity thing for Valve these days. I wonder how much server upkeep and infrastructure costs?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

For games, almost everyone takes 30%. Steam, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Amazon, Walmart...

Epic only takes 12%, and it seems that Steam has a sliding scale that decreases as sales increase, so on Palworld the cut would be 20%.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 21, 2024 05:55 AM (BLOW1)

63 EMT is up.

Posted by: French Jeton at January 21, 2024 05:58 AM (NXBpJ)

64 And 11 long haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse micro-bus

Posted by: TeeJ at January 21, 2024 06:05 AM (5k0TE)

65 Halderman was able to HACK A DOMINION VOTING MACHINE and change the tabulation in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg in the courtroom!

So those representing the Georgia secretary, he asked the main counsel to borrow his pen that he was writing with. And then he goes over to the power button, leans down, he holds down the power button for between five to 10 seconds, probably 7 seconds, and it automatically puts the machine in safe mode.

…And this reboot happens. And he then shows the judge the display and it shows a picture of the on off button as he’s pushing it for five to 10 seconds to instigate the reboot. But before you reboot the whole thing there’ll be something that comes up to ask if he wants to go into safe mode, and then he pushes. Yes. So it doesn’t shut it down or reboot. He just goes into safe mode. And that allows him to open up files and change the content of files.

Posted by: SMOD at January 21, 2024 09:25 AM (b2hDZ)

66 I'm not really into Pokemon type gamea; was the wrong age bracket for them when they got big, but if this keeps up, I may have to give Palworld a try...

Posted by: Voyager at January 21, 2024 10:08 AM (S3d13)

67 Palworld has sold 3 million copies in two days.

I wonder why it's not PalWorld instead of Palworld.

Posted by: m at January 21, 2024 10:25 AM (1BWJp)

68 Posted by: m at January 21, 2024 10:25 AM (1BWJp)

My p0ny has been taken away from my hash!

Posted by: m at January 21, 2024 10:26 AM (1BWJp)

69 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 21, 2024 05:36 AM (omVj0)

The actual Wolfcreek Pass would confuse younger people as to the point of that song. It's been widened and improved enough that *I* was able to drive it comfortably. I have vague memories of the way it used to be, so the song makes complete sense to me.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 21, 2024 11:41 AM (nC+QA)

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