We already do, but that still doesn’t mean you’re safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access

Except when it’s your own data, then usually you’re fucked.

Q: Running TPFanControl I encounter strange spontaneous unexpected actions as shutdowns and standbys. Is there any workaround?

A: Newer versions of Thinkpad Power Manager don’t team up with TPFanControl well. You can avoid these spontaneous effects by uninstalling Thinkpad Power Manager Program and Thinkpad Power Manager Driver. For testing purpose saving the installation of Thinkpad Power Manager run autoruns with admin rights, uncheck all checkboxes of Thinkpad Power Manager instances as program, service and driver, and have a reboot. You can use Windows Mobility Center as a workaround for some of these FN functions. To reactivate Thinkpad Power Manager check all checkboxes of Thinkpad Power Manager in autoruns again and reboot.

Yeah, no, for a work laptop this is all way too hacky. Somehow ThinkPads are really locked down when it comes to fan control.

If you set the fan speed manually to 100% it will sustain almost 40, but then it’s screaming and burning hot.

How do you actually set the fan speed? ThinkPads seem quite resistant there, the one software I found for it wanted me to install a driver, which failed as it has security vulnerabilities :-/

I wish Dell would offer AMD CPUs, they are mostly an Intel shop.

Mine actually has a dGPU and at 20W it doesn’t thermal throttle, but it still runs way too slow. Today I tried unlocking the boost again so it goes up to 50W or so… but it barely makes a difference as the CPU hits 100°C in 0.5 seconds (:

I was even toying with the idea of repasting that crap, but it’s a work laptop, so nah. Annoyed the IT department about a replacement PC again. We switched to Dell, so the new XPS 14 looks kinda nice, but when you look at benchmarks and noise it also sucks. So desktop PC it is, I’m sick of it.

i7-1260P, I did try limiting the boost, but the CPU runs like ass anyway.

Yeah, the fan control was a mess too, like you clicked the mouse once and that stupid thing randomly ramped up, then immediately ramped down again. Any time you actually used the CPU it overheated anyway.

I’m actually switching to a desktop PC now at work, that’s how sick I got of this laptop (:

I’ll never buy a ThinkPad again after the T16 Gen 1 that I have at work. That thing was overheating from day one, absolutely terrible for a 3000€ business laptop.

Besides Lenovo’s shitty BIOS issues (which they have tried to fix about five times in the last 3 years), sometimes boot-up still takes a minute to get past the Lenovo logo.

I don’t even have a lemon or anything, several coworkers have also complained about the same issues. One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage) and forced IT to give him a different more powerful model with better cooling.

Yeah, I stumbled over that when I wanted to charge my phone while I’m away in a meeting. Plugged it into the USB-C at my desk, suddenly the content of my phone opened up on my two office monitors, lol.

No domestic mass surveillance. So fuck everyone not from the US.

I honestly care less about the war mongering and more about the “domestic surveillance” part. Like domestic just counts for US citizens, which I’m not. So fuck him too (:

It’s Iran, not Iraq.

Just calm down, I’m not pro AI, but we can still be positive about someone making the right choice for once.

Throwing enough money around there’s plenty of other options for the DoW, be it Microsoft, Google or even hosting their own LLM (open source models are pretty much on-par now).

Dario Amodei is busy calling out the pile of shit that’s the US government. Fighting Altman doesn’t get him anything right now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Okay, so listen:

The DoW offered Anthropic the contract and they declined, as it has clauses that would allow the government to do whatever they wanted.

Then OpenAI signed the same contract.

How can you say they are the same, when the first company refused the contract? I’m not even from the US and definitely not pro Trump. But there’s things besides black and white.

I still don’t get your point. Anthropic didn’t sign the contract, OpenAI did.

The contract is too loose, it pretty much allows them to do whatever they want.

They literally didn’t sign the new contract and now they are getting punished for it. What are you even talking about?

Don’t ruin my Sunday, now I need another shower.

I’d bet a lot of money if there was an election right now they’d still vote Republican.

I got a 3 day ban on Reddit for saying I’m team blood clot (:

He looks like shit, but somehow evil keeps crawling on. Best example for why I continue to be an atheist, if god existed Trump would have been struck down by lightning a million times already.

I missed when sucking up to the Trump administration and echoing Cold War style nationalism was “fair”. If that’s the case, OpenAI’s behavior is fair.

It’s just capitalism. Anthropic pushed against the administration and now they are about to be branded as “supply chain risk”. OpenAI bent over and are going to get billions in funding that they sorely need (and hopefully don’t get, let them fail).

You miss the mark though: Anthropic only praised the administration, but that’s just words to give the Twitter pedo in chief a pat on the head. OpenAI actually signed a contract and they are providing their service. Massive difference.