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Now, I know it's from the Mirror, but it's coverage of one of the UK morning shows... Mirror - GMB Doctor explains U-turn on masks

So out of curiosity, how many people actually put a Soundcard in their pc these days or who still relies on that fact that onboard Motherboard sound is pretty decent? I'm having one of those old gaffer moments of "when I was a kid, you had to have a soundcard or you'd only get 4 tones of beep from your pc"...

To go with a comment from the Author Elizabeth Moon

Years ago, I mean, seriously years ago I had an AMD and just kept having odd things with it, and then the Motherboard blew, and just become one of those things where I've always gone with Intel since then.

Still playing around with temptation on Novatech's "Custom PC Build" setup... Keep ending up looking at some variation of this: be quiet! DARK BASE 900 Black XL-ATX Full Tower Chassis Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra Z390 ATX Motherboard 9th Generation Intel Core i7 9700K 3.6GHz Processor Corsair Hydro Series, H100i PRO RGB, 240mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler 32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Windforce OC 8GB Graphics Card Novatech Build Stock 240GB NVME M.2 Solid State Drive Novatech Build Stock 480GB Solid State Drive Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Desktop Hard Drive 3.5" SATA III 6GBs 5400RPM 256MB Cache BeQuiet System Power 9 600W 80 Plus Bronze Non-Modular ATX Power Supply

... And someone hacked Elon Musk's Twitter account, made a post of "feeling grateful, send me $1000 and I'll send you $2000 back" and put a bitcoin link up. .Already recieved $55,000 even as people scream that its hacked and not real. Edit: And it looks like a serious Twitter failure. Jeff Bezoz, Michael Bloomberg, Binance, a bunch of other famous rich people and bitcoin related companies... All doing some version of that on their twitter feeds.

And on Trump's instagram.... Apparently now he's just directly ignoring the legal aspects... "An employee shall not use his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity."

NPR - White House strips CDC of data collection role for Covid 19 For a little extra detail....

Had to give up on AC:Syndicate for the moment. I can't find anyway to stop the shuddering lag constnatly happening. It bugs me, the fact that I could get 20-30 hours of gameplay smooth, and then it just suddenly..starts. Then I can flip to AC:Origins or AC: Oddysey and they play smooth with high quality graphics and absolutely no problem.

For that added slice of odds and ends: BBC - Could the US or UK ban TikTok?

Heh, apparently the Washington Post's factchecking team have plotted the number of Trump's "distortions of truth" since he took office, and it looks a lot like the covid-19 graphs in the US. Supposedly it took him 827 days to reach his first 10,000 lies, but just 440 days to reach his second 10,000 lies. And they've released their study as a book "Donald Trump and his Assault on Truth"...

Hollywood Reporter - Grant Imahara dead, Mythbusters host was 49

"Someone wrote to ask about my plans for the fall, and it too me a moment to realise they meant 'autumn' , and not 'the collapse.' " "You say that like there might be a difference."

For some of those interesting background points: Gizmodo - How The Old Guard dug deep to bring the comics to life