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Data Recovery PTSD: Prep for 45 Drives Offsite Backup

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It may have caused him nightmares, but Wendell is a man of action! To defeat the loss of data, or at the very least prevent it for Linus, poor guy almost lost a lot of data; Wendell has teamed up with 45 Drives to create an offsite storage server to act as a back up site for his friends!

Having 30 14tb drives, in a single Q30 chassis Storinator running ZFS is cool. But going underground into a cellar to set it up is even cooler! Literally, it'll be cooler and save on AC cost.

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The Level1 Show August 17 2022: Streaming Prices+

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Intel Unveils Arc Pro GPUs
1:33 - Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060
2:44 - Ether (ETH) price surges after ethereum completes final testnet merge
3:54 - Email Marketing Firm Mailchimp Suspends Several Crypto-Related Accounts
5:06 - ‘Data void’: Google to stop giving answers to silly questions
6:26 - Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments
7:46 - Spotify tickets: streaming firm tests direct pre-sales to fans
9:11 - LG’s 97-inch vibrating OLED TV claims to offer 5.1 audio without speakers
11:59 - Over 100K Cars Cut From North American Production This Week Due to Chip Shortage
13:02 - GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
14:06 - LinkedIn dumps entire global events marketing team: Report
14:40 - Disney raises prices for streaming services
16:08 - Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast
16:48 - Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway
17:38 - Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
19:43 - Groupon cuts over 500 staff, plans to focus ‘only on mission-critical activities’ from now on
20:24 - Microsoft claims Sony pays developers "blocking rights" to keep games off Xbox Game Pass
23:10 - Microsoft reportedly lays off team focused on winning back consumers
25:18 - DreamWorks Animation to Release Renderer as Open-Source Software
26:25 - Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
28:25 - NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs
29:25 - Google tries shaming Apple into adopting RCS with #getthemessage campaign
30:11 - Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology
31:02 - Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Freezes Withdrawals, Citing Market Conditions
32:21 - 99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet
33:25 - Bricked Epson printers make a strong case for user repairability

#level1show

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Focus 2 Unboxing

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Do you like cheap cases? Do you like good cases? What about good cheap cases? Well, Fractal may have what you are looking for!
Not going to lie, this video is not our normal vibe. So last Thursday during the lazy part of the afternoon, Wendell shot the video in record time and I edited it almost as quickly. There isn't much to it. The case is perfectly average. Absolutely nothing special about it. Of course, that's not a bad thing! This case is a good case if you are on a budget! Starting at $69.99 and only ten bucks more for the RGB version, we say... Yep, it's a case.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/focus/focus-2/rgb-black-t…

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Low Power/High Performance Server GRUDGE MATCH! DeskMeet, Ryzen, and Supermicro Micro-Tower Server

Posted by wendell on

Thank you to Fractal for sponsoring this video! Check out the Meshify 2 RGB here: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-rgb/bla…

Well let me tell you something Level1amaniacs, all three machines here are stylin and profilin, but only one can be the CREAM of the CROP!

+ Super Micro Micro-Tower: https://youtu.be/wX5vFN3iIWo
+ DeskMeet: https://youtu.be/kL9k7LHMwYc
+ Home server hardware round-up: https://youtu.be/nWI_1tE88Gk

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The Level1 Show July 22 2022: Putting the "P" in Poison

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Self-Driving Cruise Taxi Crashes With Passengers On Board
2:54 - First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
4:10 - Japan Wants to Bring Artificial Gravity to the Moon
6:07 - Asteroid Bennu nearly ate NASA's sampling spacecraft
7:26 - Starbucks to close 16 US stores over crime, rampant drug use
9:31 - Tech CEO John Woodware Arrested in 1992 Cold Case Murder of Computer Engineer Laurie Houts
11:50 - India: How a fake 'IPL' cricket league ran for Russian punters
13:22 - India on course to overtake China as world's most populous country
14:59 - Judge rules Subway can be sued over claims that its tuna sandwiches contain other fish species or animal products
17:47 - Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range
21:06 - Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans' Urine
22:28 - A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
25:19 - Uvalde Mayor Condemns 'Chicken' Media for Releasing School Shooting Video
27:39 - Queensland cafe worker unfairly dismissed for not using 'smiley emojis' in text message
29:38 - Former Banbury area pastor is sentenced at Northampton court after performing sexual acts on a Henry hoover at church
31:08 - Sri Lankan president resigns by email after fleeing to Singapore
33:07 - Snoop Dogg Mocks Biden With 'Sleepy Joe OG' Weed Strain
35:23 - Woman spent $600K to be Kim Kardashian, now paying $120K to 'detransition'
37:36 - Iowa racehorse tests positive for meth
38:48 - Art Collective's Billionaire Popsicles Let People Literally 'Eat the Rich'
40:39 - Billboard in Inverness, FL reminds dads not to drunkenly touch their daughters
43:02 - Penguins refuse to eat cheaper fish at Japanese aquarium

#level1show

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Level1 News July 6 2022: You Gotta Fight (AirBnB) For Your Right To Party

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Apple lets apps in South Korea use third-party payment systems
1:52 - Apple’s new Community Plus program recognizes its most helpful online support members
2:53 - Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
4:22 - Apple Executive Says Samsung Copied the iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It'
4:55 - AMD Ryzen PC Revenue To Decline By 26% In 2022 Due To The Success of Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, Reports Market Analyst
5:40 - TSMC sees clients scale back orders
6:36 - Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
6:45 - Substack Is Laying Off 14% of Its Staff
6:51 - European Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Cuts Staff by Hundreds
8:17 - TSMC to Customers: It's Time to Stop Using Older Nodes and Move to 28nm
9:31 - TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time
10:21 - Buyout Begone: Ford Says You Can Never Own Leased EVs
11:50 - Airbnb makes its party ban permanent
13:02 - Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000
16:50 - Google makes Earth Engine available to all businesses and governments
17:57 - Scoop: Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam
19:13 - Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs
21:02 - Robinhood almost imploded during the GameStop meme stock chaos
21:28 - FTX exploring a deal to buy Robinhood: Bloomberg report
21:41 - Three Arrows Capital crypto hedge fund defaults on Voyager loan
21:50 - Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Gets Liquidation Order
22:10 - Goldman Sachs Leading Investor Group to Buy Celsius Assets: Sources
22:38 - Bank for International Settlements to allow banks to keep 1% of reserves in Bitcoin
23:18 - IBM settles discrimination case that targeted exec emails
24:08 - ‘It keeps on going’: driving the world’s first production-ready solar car
27:31 - Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit
28:45 - Meta sparks anger by charging for VR apps
30:24 - Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
31:27 - DiCello Levitt Gutzler: Facebook Users May Be Eligible for a Payment From a Class Action Settlement
32:49 - Former Ankara mayor ridiculed for believing tweet on discovery of jelly bean reserves in Turkey
33:56 - TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court
35:03 - Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian internet censorship
36:03 - Meta warns employees of ‘serious times’ in internal memo listing key product bets
37:50 - Did China silence a social media influencer over a tank-shaped ice cream?

#level1news
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Deskmeet B660: More Like Desk Meat! 128gb / 20tb dGPU in a Tiny Package

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Don't let the small form factor fool you, this thing packs a punch! Meet Deskmeet from ASRock. If you want a mini desktop computer as your gaming pc, well you are in luck! This dude holds a B660 motherboard, DDR4 memory, a 20cm long graphics card (RX 6600 in our case), and the power supply all inside a 8-liter case! Cool stuff bro!!

https://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/DeskMeet%20B660%20Series/index.asp?…

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Level1 News June 8 2022: Horton Hears Exactly Who You Are

Posted by wendell on

Bad news everyone, THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER turned Ryan into a ghost. He should be fine by next week, I did a bunch of incantations and the router is back to normal...

...FOR NOW.

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0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Tim Hortons app tracked too much personal information without adequate consent, investigation finds
3:41 - Larger-than-30TB hard drives are coming much sooner than expected
4:37 - Smartphones will kill off the DSLR within three years says Sony
6:16 - Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware
7:18 - Judge rules Cydia's antitrust case against Apple can move forward
9:11 - Consumers embrace milk carton QR codes, may cut food waste
11:00 - Apple to shift iPad capacity to Vietnam amid China supply chain woes
12:01 - Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here
13:03 - 18 European countries’ consumer groups have joined the fight against loot boxes
16:22 - Elon Musk reportedly declares remote work ‘no longer acceptable’ at Tesla
18:15 - No more dealer markups: Ford wants to move to online-only sales for EVs
19:42 - Internal Documents Show Amazon's Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
24:02 - Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint
25:48 - Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go successor leaks via retailer
26:35 - Amazon to pull Kindle out of China, other businesses to remain
27:33 - U.S. charges OpenSea ex-employee in first NFT insider trading case
28:37 - Netflix’s password-sharing test in Peru is confusing subscribers, report suggests
29:32 - Some of Canon’s wireless Pixma printers are stuck in reboot loops
29:58 - Qualcomm wants to buy a stake in Arm alongside its rivals
31:02 - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Talks Next Generation Starlink Satellites
32:31 - IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC Software
33:17 - Chorus shows off 25 gigabit per second retail fibre broadband - Service Providers
34:17 - Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t.
36:24 - This Smart Pacemaker Simply Dissolves Inside the Body When It's No Longer Needed
38:02 - Sheryl Sandberg to step down as COO of Facebook-parent Meta
38:44 - Immersion accuses Meta Platforms of patent infringement in AR/VR
39:38 - Metaverse Murders will be punished as real crimes, says UAE’s AI minister
42:18 - Instagram moderators say Iran offered them bribes to remove accounts
42:59 - Apparent Schematics For Meta's Project Cambria Headset Leak

#level1news

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Level1 News June 1 2022: Get In Loser, We're Going Shipping

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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake At Computex Keynote As Zen 4 Excitement Builds
2:46 - It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal
3:54 - Samsung allegedly assembling a "dream team" to take down Apple's M1 in 2025
5:25 - Foxconn could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
6:56 - Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery
9:27 - Apple in talks to buy EA, Disney and Amazon potential suitors
10:50 - Amazon Style: Retailer opens its first physical clothing store
13:11 - Amazon's Regretted Attrition Rate More Than Doubled in the Past Year
14:08 - Amazon Shedding Warehouse Space as Sales Slow
14:38 - Amazon tests having drivers make deliveries from local malls
15:25 - ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand
16:15 - Microsoft (MSFT) to Slow Hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Chat Groups
17:12 - Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows
18:04 - Microsoft Dev Box will virtualize your Windows development PC in a browser window
18:45 - Microsoft will support third-party Windows 11 widgets later this year
20:11 - Windows 11 CPU usage reporting is apparently buggy, including on Task Manager
21:08 - Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments
21:55 - Epic Games points to Mac’s openness and security in its latest filing in App Store antitrust case
22:46 - Terra Will Split and Abandon Its Stablecoin After Losing Dollar Peg
23:22 - JPMorgan Chase tests blockchain technology for collateral settlement (NYSE:JPM)
24:11 - ‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
25:31 - Solar Panels Will Be Sold at Ikea, Starting in California
26:34 - Walmart, CVS to Stop Filling Controlled-Substance Prescriptions for Cerebral, Done
27:28 - New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits
28:37 - On-demand grocery app Gorillas lays off half its office workforce
30:43 - Airbnb is closing its domestic business in China, sources say
31:39 - Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
33:27 - GameStop now has its own wallet for crypto and NFTs
34:43 - At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews

#Level1News

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Level1 News May 31 2022: Farewell, Mr.Dorsey

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0:00 - Intro
7:20 - In private, vulnerable Senate Dems back off tech bill
8:34 - Why the government is unprepared to stop ransomware attacks
9:42 - Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data
10:22 - Court: Foreign Torrent Site Operator Can Be Sued in the US
11:33 - SEC weighs crackdown on phony environmental and social justice funds
13:18 - U.S. issues charges in first criminal cryptocurrency sanctions case
14:17 - Navy Ships Swarmed By Drones, Not UFOs, Defense Officials Confirm
15:11 - California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
16:41 - Google 'private browsing' mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
17:34 - DC attorney general sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach
18:23 - Appeals court: Florida law on social media unconstitutional
19:59 - Spain to invest $13 billion to build microchip industry
20:35 - Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
21:33 - China Is 3D Printing a Dam
23:11 - Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
23:45 - Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
24:24 - Twitter Shareholders Sue Elon Musk For Sowing Confusion To Tank Deal
26:57 - Mark Zuckerberg: Metaverse to Lose ‘Significant’ Money in Near Term
27:49 - Facebook opens political ad data vaults to researchers
29:37 - Facebook Slammed for Spreading Vladimir Putin’s Propaganda in NATO’s East
30:12 - Female avatar sexually assaulted in Meta VR platform, campaigners say
32:31 - Apple's Headset Said to Feature 14 Cameras Enabling Lifelike Avatars, Jony Ive Has Remained Involved With Design
34:26 - Exclusive: Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google says
35:35 - “Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is… easy to forge
36:47 - DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought
37:54 - Hackers compromised some Zola user accounts to buy gift cards
39:05 - CrateDepression | Rust Supply-Chain Attack Infects Cloud CI Pipelines with Go Malware
40:17 - Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable
42:56 - Hacker Steals Database of Hundreds of Verizon Employees

#Level1News

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