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The cliche is "Nero fiddled while Rome burned". I guess the term "fiddle" has changed over the years, and depends on context. In the US today, fiddle almost exclusively means a violin used for certain play styles.

The original stories did claim (now debated) that he spent it playing a stringed instrument of whatever variety.

Even with all of the bad press recently, they still outsell AMD CPUs by around 2:1. (source)

It's bizarre to call them irrelevant when they still completely dominate the sector in sales.

Because of impact to the victims. The Grand Jury records could be used to identify, harass, and worse to the victims.

There was a report that gas stoves were linked to health issues. Then the culture war bullshit crowds pretended that meant "the nanny state is taking our gas stoves!!!"

It was a handy distraction from everything else that everyone should've been focused on.

This may be harder than it sounds. Often, the vent hood (such as in the microwave) doesn't vent outside and just recirculates it in the kitchen.

These "climate denying scientists" are so rare as to not even be included directly. They are usually mentioned as a vague "they" by far-right people pushing an agenda.

Even when they are included, and speaking on the subject, most don't say conclusively that climate change isn't happening. Instead, they say that the evidence presented thus far isn't compelling enough to reach that conclusion.

Try to find one by name. It's remarkably hard.

This suggests that someone ran a study, and had to run a bunch of tests to independently and objectively determine whether he is, in fact, an idiot.

I look forward to the headline, "New study shows that Charlie Kirk is an idiot"

Kind of. They will be multiples of 4. Let's say you got a gigantic 8i8e card, albeit unlikely. That would (probably) have 2 internal and 2 external SAS connectors. Your standard breakout cables will split each one into 4 SATA cables (up to 16 SATA ports if you used all 4 SAS ports and breakout cables), each running at full (SAS) speed.

But what if you were running an enterprise file server with a hundred drives, as many of these once were? You can't cram dozens of these cards into a server, there aren't enough PCIe slots/lanes. Well, there are SAS expansion cards, which basically act as a splitter. They will share those 4 lanes, potentially creating a bottleneck. But this is where SAS and SATA speeds differ- these are SAS lanes, which are (probably) double what SATA can do. So with expanders, you could attach 8 SATA drives to every 4 SAS lanes and still run at full speed. And if you need capacity more than speed, expanders allow you to split those 4 lanes to 24 drives. These are typically built into the drive backplane/DAS.

As for the fan, just about anything will do. The chip/heatsink gets hot, but is limited to the ~75 watts provided by the PCIe bus. I just have an old 80 or 90mm fan pointing at it.

Mildly interesting is that it offers significantly higher incentives for high output (275+ kW) stations. Unclear if that is the site total or per port, but either way it's a sign of things to come.

The one I had would frequently drop the drives, wreaking havoc on my (software) RAID5. I later found out that it was splitting 2 ports into 4 in a way that completely broke spec.

First, this approach is going to fail at some point. Depending on how far away it is, that could be a major issue. It also makes some very bold assumptions about connection speed and latency that are probably not true.

Second, IP doesn't reliably show location. My cable ISP is typically geolocated to Chicago, despite it being 2 states away. Same for T Mobile connections.

Third, it's incredibly unlikely that the employer is going to be looking at IP addresses to determine location. Even if they wanted to use tech for this purpose, they would use location services/GPS/etc. Which a VPN won't conceal.

Fourth, changing the physical mailing address on file would be a bigger flag. But presumably he'll list that family's address, which could create other implications.

Always remember- If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.