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So the crash still occurred when you were running off the older windows install? Just checking. But have you tried running in safe mode and seeing if the issue still occurs?

You'll want to comb over the motherboard's settings in the BIOS. Some newer boards especially gaming focused ones have dynamic boost clocking on by default and this can push stuff out of spec.

I've heard of breaking the cycle of abuse, but this is ridiculous!

AI slop makes this a shit post, not a shitpost.

My debt is well-controlled and planned for, so while I could pay it off and save myself some interest, and assuming I can't just put it in savings or invest it, it'd probably be best spent catching up on non essentials.

Full spare set of tires for the car. Wardrobe stock-up. Extra fancy Christmas presents for friends and family, Some new appliances, or furniture, or computer hardware, maybe pick out a vacation spot and book a hotel stay I'd pre-pay for.

I mean, as a branding exercise, every form of sophisticated automation is getting the "AI" label.

The article is specifically talking about generative AI. I think we need to find new terminology to describe the kind of automation that was colloquially referred to as AI before chatgpt et al. came into existence.

The important distinction, I think, is that these things are still purpose-built and (mostly) explainable. When you have a bunch of nails, you design a hammer. An "AI bot" QA tester the way Booty describes in the article isn't going to be an advanced algorithm that carries out specific tests. That exists already and has for years. He's asking for something that will figure out specific tests that are worth doing when given a vague or nonexistent test plan, most likely. You need a human, or an actual AGI, for something on that level, not generative AI.

And explicitly with generative AI, as pertains to Square Enix's initiative in the article, there are the typical huge risks of verifiability and hallucination. However unpleasant you may think a QA worker's job is now, I guarantee you it will be even more unpleasant when the job consists of fact-checking AI bug reports all day instead of actually doing the testing.

There's plenty of room for sophisticated automation without any need to involve AI.

Thanks for the AI slop.

Probably need to tweak the settings on whatever display you're using, or potentially consider investing in a more-modern type of panel depending on what you have now.

you can and should globally disable autoplay in your browser settings

Hi, I am that nerd, it's Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open taskmgr, actually.

...I hope to be able to develop a similar level of nerd when I switch to Linux soon

If a hacker can get into the device remotely it can be an entry point to your home network.