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tekism | 4 years ago | on: Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

I have a dell 9700 and I had this happen just yesterday on a god damn flight. I am still pissed. I never put my laptop to sleep/hibernate. I always shutdown. I have no idea but it somehow turned on in my bag, I felt it on my leg on the flight. I opened the bag and it was freaking hot. I have no idea how this happened. I noticed sometimes when I docked I click shutdown, it doesn't shutdown.

The other thing is there is no freaking light on the laptop other than the keyboard lighting to indicate it's off. I have to flip the laptop and listen to see if it's on, I look like a crazy person in public. I love the laptop but this is downright ridiculous. As I am typing on it, I smell an electronic burn but the laptop seems fine.

tekism | 7 years ago | on: Firefox Lockbox

"Test Pilot", "Experiment" are not words I want to see when it comes to my login credentials.

tekism | 8 years ago | on: A reality check for virtual headsets

Mr Williams, a 32-year-old former marine, was playing “Sprint Vector”, a VR running game: players swing hand-held controllers to simulate motion. Though he has been standing in one place, his brain believes he has just run for several miles.

I wonder if anyone has tried using this tech to somehow trick the body into activating what happens when one actually goes running? Can I get a workout by just watching myself run in this VR world???

tekism | 9 years ago | on: How to shoot on iPhone 7

I believe the answer is just search on Instagram or facebook for the event, a lot of other people posting the same crappy concert.

tekism | 9 years ago | on: Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out

I don't know but this sounds scary to me, we just went from threats to national security to any crime.

However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security."

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