Any smoke alarm I’ve seen always has the year of production on them, or the year of expiry (typically 10 years after production).

For the record, it was definitely on. I ended up buying a new PSU to check, and it didn’t help. I then bought a new motherboard and that fixed it. So case solved!

The luck didn’t help haha, I never got that light again, except for occasional split second flashes. I edited some info into the original post, but long story short, after lots of fluffing around in the end it was the motherboard. I got a new one and now I’m back up and running!

I think we ultimately have different beliefs about how things should work. I think companies should prove their products are safe, you think things should be allowed unless you can prove it’s not safe.

I get it, and I think it’s OK to have different opinions on this.

Yeah they only have the one trackpad option. I tend to use a mouse anyway.

Probably not much point in getting one if you’re going to build your kids a PC anyway.

By the way I managed to get a light on the motherboard, so it might not be dead after all. I’m planning to get some more thermal paste today and keep tinkering, I might save it yet.

I use a laptop most of the time because then I can sit in a recliner with my feet up. I spend the day at a desk I don’t much fancy doing the same in the evening.

I have a Framework laptop from the first ones they made, which are upgradeable and repairable. Unfortunately they don’t ship to NZ, I got mine by freight forwarding and also got parts a bit later the same way. But now they have cracked down hard on freight forwarding as I recently learned, so I can’t get any more upgrades until they start shipping here (no announced plans).

I recall that some years ago Facebook was looking into their algorithm and they found that it was potentially leading to overuse, which might be what you’re thinking of,

No, it was recent, and it was an opinion style piece not news.

but what actually happened is that they changed it so that people wouldn’t be using Facebook as much.

Can you back this up? Were they forced to by a court, or was this before the IPO when facebook was trying to gain ground and didn’t answer to the share market? I can’t imagine they would be allowed to take actions that reduce profits, companies are legally required to maximise value to shareholders.

Anyway, when you say the algorithms are demonstrably unsafe, you know you’re wrong because you didn’t demonstrate anything, and you didn’t cite anyone demonstrating anything. You can say you think they’re unsafe, but that’s a matter of opinion and we all have our own opinions.

I mean it doesn’t take long to find studies like A nationwide study on time spent on social media and self-harm among adolescents or Does mindless scrolling hamper well-being? or How Algorithms Promote Self-Radicalization but I think this misses the point.

You’ve grabbed the part where I made a throwaway comment but missed the point of my post. Facebook is one type of social media, and they use a specific algorithm. Ibuprofen is a specific type of drug. Sometimes ibuprofen can be used in a way that is harmful, but largely it is considered safe. But the producers still had to prove it was safe.

The problem is either my mobo or CPU is dead, so I can’t run the old system haha.

It sounds like my old system could handle transcoding better if I had enabled the right options, so now I have to decide whether to buy a new motherboard and risk it being the CPU, or just upgrade everything.

I don’t do a lot of gaming these days. When I played Baldur’s Gate 3, once I got to Act 3 I switched to streaming from the desktop to the laptop using the Steam function as my laptop couldn’t handle it. I also don’t do upgrades as frequently as you.

If you had an old mobo and CPU, you could downgrade and keep the NAS running until you had a replacement.

Good point, I didn’t think of that.

Ah I got the wrong impression. Good to know it won’t affect me, cheers.

If a person was ordering them, they would do it in numerical order. Despite these being numbers, the computer is still ordering in alphabetical order.

Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

I note that your season and episode start with 0 as well (S01E05), in order to ensure the alphabetical ordering works. Perhaps you should use 5.0 to solve this in the same way.

I believe it’s correct. If you sort say “A”, “AA”, “AAA” then you get

1. A
2. AA
3. AAA

Because the first character is compared, which are all the same, then the second. The first one has no second character, so it comes first. The second has no third character, so it comes before the third item.

In your scenario, you have:

1. 5
2. 5.5

The first characters are the same, so it looks at the second character. Item 1 has no second character so it comes first.

Scenario 2:

1. 5.5 A
2. 5 A

The first character is the same, so it looks at the second character. The second characters are “.” and " ". The “.” comes first in the character ranking so is shown first.

I can’t remember which article I was reading, probably one on Lemmy, but it said that we know social media algorithms are bad for people and their mental and physical health, that they are divisive, drive extremism, and just in general are not safe for society.

Drugs are regulated to ensure they are safe, so why aren’t social media algorithms regulated the same way? Politicians not understanding the technical details of algorithms is not an excuse - politicians also don’t understand the technical details of drugs, so they have a process involving experts that ensures they are safe.

I think I’m on the side of that article. Social media algorithms are demonstrably unsafe in a range of ways, and it’s not just for under 16s. So I think we should be regulating the algorithms, requiring companies wishing to use them to prove they are safe before they do so. You could pre-approve certain basic ones (rank by date, rank by upvotes minus downvotes with time decay like lemmy, etc). You could issue patents to them like we do with drugs. But all in all, I think I am on the side of fixing the problem rather than pretending to care in the name of saving the kids.

I think your advantage is needing two machines. Then you can swap stuff between them to test as well.

I gave away my previous build in whole and built a new one. No spare parts 🙁. And my SO and I are generally using laptops day to day, no need for more desktop machines and can’t swap pieces between laptop and desktop.

I don’t think having an old mobo/CPU would help anyway, I’m pretty sure one of the two is broken and swapping both out won’t help work out which one.

Oh I didn’t realise I could do that! You first link seems to say there is quite limited codec support though?

I bought a multimeter and tested the PSU, and it all seems fine. So pretty sure it’s the motherboard or CPU.

I’m using it as an excuse to do an upgrade, so will probably get a new mobo/CPU/RAM.

Ah that does look like good bang for buck! Thanks!

Yip. Have tested the PSU with a multimeter and it’s fine. Narrowed it down to the CPU or motherboard. I decided I’ll just do a bit of an upgrade and get a new CPU, motherboard, RAM.

Oh wow that’s awesome. Shame that someone told me about all the issues with recent intel CPUs. I’ll probably go AMD again.

Probably not this one. I was a little disappointed with how little airflow this can gives me. In any case, I don’t think I spun any CPU fans around much at all.