![]() ![]() The keys are scalloped as per Lenovo’s other premium PC keyboards and offer a nice 1.5 mm of key travel with a terrific key feel (that Lenovo says is also grease resistant). The backlit keyboard is nicely done, though it is of course marred by that typo-inducing numeric keypad on the right. The Storm Grey color (dark gray) is quite nice, and I like the contrasting lighter gray color on the exterior of the display lid. It shares the now-familiar Lenovo “bump” at the webcam area at the top of the display, a sort of reverse notch, and the classy Lenovo logo work on the wrist rest and outer display lid. But from a technical perspective, mini-LED offers better brightness while OLED displays can turn individual pixels off, which leads to those incredible, inky blacks.įrom a look and feel perspective, the Slim Pro shares the premium build quality and basic looks of Lenovo’s other premium brands, and there is absolutely no flex at all in the body, even in the middle of the keyboard. So it is, in some ways, to the display panel what the size-reduced Intel chipset is to the bottom half of the PC. But not quite: instead, mini-LED simply indicates that it uses size-reduced LED diodes, which can result in a thinner form factor. It is surrounded by very small bezels on all sides, and the corners are rounded to match the Windows 11 design aesthetic.īut what is mini-LED? Since this is my first experience with it, and based on its glossy, bright, and colorful output, I assumed it was the next generation of OLED. Oh, and it has multitouch support too, which I will likely avoid completely. This bright and colorful display boasts 100 percent compatibility with the Adobe RGB, P3, and sRGB color spaces, Dolby Vision HDR capabilities, TÜV Low Blue Light Certification+, and Eyesafe Certification. The Slim Pro 9i’s massive 16-inch display is what Lenovo calls a PureSight Pro MiniLED panel with a 3.2K resolution (3200 x 2000), an ideal 16:10 aspect ratio, 675 nits of brightness, and a very fast 165 Hz refresh rate (though the toggle in Windows 11 Settings supports only 60 and 165 Hz choices). Curious.Īnd since we have returned to the outside of the PC, let’s address that screen. Oddly, the power button is also on the right, even though this isn’t a 2-in-1. You get the Lenovo charging port, a USB-A Gen 3.2 Gen 1 port, a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port, one Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Type-C port (with DisplayPort and Power Delivery 3.0), and a headphone/mic combo jack on the left.Īnd then a second USB-A Gen 3.2 Gen 1 port and, rare these days, a full-sized SD card reader on the right. And A 5 MP Windows Hello-compatible webcam with a physical shutter switch (on the side of the PC, interestingly) and a quad-array microphone for your hybrid work needs.Ĭonnectivity looks modern, with dual-band Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.1. There’s a 6-speaker solution with Dolby Atmos on-board for immersive sound. Battery life won’t be good: Lenovo claims up to 6 hours using a productivity-based benchmark, so I’m guessing that the real-world results will be closer to 4. Power comes from a 75-watt-hour battery that can be rapid-charged by its proprietary 170-watt power supply with its proprietary charging port. The review unit is powered by a 45-watt 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900H processor with 14 cores (6 Performant, 8 Efficient), 32 GB of fast LPDDR5X RAM, and 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD storage, and the NVIDIA GPU has 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 VRAM. Since we’re starting with the internals, let’s get more specific. So this configuration is, indeed, pretty impressive. ![]() ![]() That didn’t seem all that impressive at first- the HP ZBook Firefly G10 16-Inch I recently reviewed is 0.78-inches thick and weighs much less at 3.88 pounds, for example-but there’s some serious hardware inside of this PC, including an Intel H-series processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 dedicated laptop GPU. ![]() Of course, slim is relative on a 16-inch portable PC: looking at the specs, I can see that the Slim Pro 9i (in 16-inch form, there’s a 14-inch version as well) is 0.71 inches thick and starts at 4.9 pounds. But there’s more: the Slim Pro models are also powered by custom Intel chipsets that are 24 percent smaller than usual, which is what enables these PCs to be so thin, er, slim. ![]()
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Which video was the eye contact feature on? You tell me! ![]() That being said, have I used it in a tutorial before? Perhaps. Still, if you’re recording something, such as a tutorial where your face is front and center, it can be risky to where there can be moments where your eyelids seem like it’s twitching. The eye contact feature can be helpful if you’re doing a video call presentation. The eyelids can appear as if they are dancing, depending on where you are. Using a wide-angle camera, such as the Kinect Azure, seems unnatural. I find if I look up, there are some jittery moments. Since it is still in beta, it could be better. Your eyes look wide, and if you’re looking off to the side, it eases the transition back to the center rather than snapping. It wasn’t until recently NVIDIA added the effects on the Broadcast App. Latest NVIDIA Video Effects Eye Contact (beta)Ī year ago, NVIDIA announced in NVIDA Maxine that there is Augmented Reality SDX that offers AI-powered, real-time 3D eye tracking, which allows simulated eye contact just using your camera input. Also, make sure you have the latest NVIDIA driver. The NVIDIA Broadcast App is free to install. The only requirement for using the NVIDIA features is an NVIDIA RTX GPU. It’s a powerful tool that doesn’t require any fancy sensor or camera (aside from an appropriate GPU), but any webcam can be applied. There are great new effect features you can start integrating so we will cover all the latest and original effects and their particular use. ![]() ![]() We covered the multi uses of NVIDA broadcast in the Interactive & immersive HQ in the past, but now a lot of the AI features from NVIDIA Maxine are now integrated into the broadcast app. ![]() ![]() Of all the many mythological belief systems throughout time, the Grecian pantheon has to be the most infamous. If these are the questions you like to ask yourself, these geometric hourglass tattoos will suit you perfectly. Is time travel possible? Does everything exist at once and are there other dimensions? Flower of Life TattoosĪ flower of life tattoo represents an idea of unity.Īs far as we know, the flower of life symbol originated in Egypt. ![]() ![]() Here are a few popular sacred geometry tattoo designs we think you might like. You may not be superstitious or “buy into” the concepts behind your tattoo design, but isn’t it nice to have a tattoo that feels exactly right? If not, you may find a different geometry-inspired tattoo design in our gallery below. If it’s something that resonates with you and feels appropriate- go ahead. It’s worth looking into the specific symbolism behind your sacred geometry tattoo design. In sacred geometry, certain shapes or collections of shapes will have a specific meaning. While we’re at it- isn’t it wild how, before we could have known what each planet’s orbit looked like, we were drawing structures that resembled those orbits? Sacred Geometry Tattoo Designs Mandalas may be outside of your culture, but Venus’s orbit as seen from earth has a similar structure and is something all of us earthlings have in common. The cool thing about geometric tattoos is they are a way to embrace your appreciation for, say a Mandala tattoo, but do it in your own way. When you look at sacred symbols from different cultures and compare them to geometric tattoos, the similarities start to jump out. If you decide to get a geometric tattoo of a tree on your rib cage because of this, hey- you’re welcome. ![]() So when you start to think of how the universe “knows” the correct shapes for different functions, you may start to feel a little bit of groovy interconnectivity with the world around you. Your bronchioles look really similar to a tree’s branches, and they essentially function the same way. a person can start to understand how the world works.Ī tangentially related example would be trees and your lungs. Through studying geometry and the “rules” of shapes, patterns, angles, volume, etc. So what are geometric designs, where did they originate, what do they mean, and what should you consider before getting a geometric tattoo? Sacred Geometry Tattoos ![]() They usually have a pattern that is repeated throughout in order to create the desired tattoo image.ĭifferent geometric tattoo shapes have different meanings in nature.Īs an example, circle tattoos tend to represent relationships and community. These tattoos were seen as paths to understanding, as each different part of the tattoo holds its own meaning depending on the patterns and shapes used throughout. Geometric tattoos go all the way back to ancient times, as they have ties to spiritual and religious practices from long ago. We see certain tattoo styles dominate time periods, fade into the background, then resurface with new tattoo techniques and a modern spin.īut the truth couldn’t be any further from the case. This is especially true in the tattoo world. This is the cycle we live in when it comes to fashion, music, art, and tattoos. Since the late 2010s, we have been loving our geometric tattoos.Įvery few years, an old idea becomes new again. What Does Each Geometric Tattoo Shape Symbolize?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notable RU Pokemon that outclass Liepard as a sweeper: Zoroark, Weavile, Scyther, Mamoswine, Medicham, Kingdra, Hitmontop, Heracross, Golurk, Flygon, Empoleon, Snorlax, Arcanine, Staraptor, Cobalion, and Altaria. Notable UU Pokemon that outclass Liepard as a sweeper: Its bulk is also comparable to Jellicent. It also has Regenerator, meaning that it restores 137HP every time it comes in. While it may not have Blissey's 700 HP, it can reach 400HP, and still have double Blissey's defense, and a respectable amount of special defense. You need to be careful how you use Audino. Regenerator is also insanely useful for Wishpassing as well. My team also has lots of burns going around, so nether were especially useful. Thunder Wave and Toxic are for more support, but because everyone and their mother likes switching Conkeldurr into Audino, its not that good of an idea to use them. Encore is more support, though it is rather difficult to pull off, due to 50 base speed and no investment. Protect is a scouting move, and is useful for Wishing for Audino. Wish and Heal Bell support the team, for obvious reasons. ![]() It's attacking stats are awful, but thats why its there to support. However, only Audino, Delcatty, Smeargle and Chimecho are the only ones without legal issues knowing the moves, and Audino was the one that screamed "I suck" the least, so I went with it. ![]() I originally went for this set because Audino is one of a few Pokemon (Chimecho, Delcatty, Blissey, Clefable, and Smeargle) that can know both Aromatherapy/Heal Bell and Wish. But I'm surprised with how well it turned out. I didn't actually think that I would have success with this set, especially given the Pokemon using it. It's also a gimmick and a one trick pony, neither of which win games. It's outclassed heavily by a lot of Pokemon and there are just more better options. In summary: This Pokemon shouldn't be considered in OU, UU, or even the newly created RU tier. Even after a Claw Sharpen, you're still not going to be doing much damage. 64/50/50 gets wrecked by almost every move, even a not very effective move will still do a lot. Speaking of Liepard's defenses, they're absolutely horrible. If not, have fun getting OHKO'd with those pathetic defenses. Your only hope is to hit it on the switch. If Tyranitar switched in after a Pokemon fainted, you're screwed. If Tyranitar switched in on that turn you boosted you attack, you're screwed. A +1 Rock Smash only will do 50.5% - 60.4%, which is a 2HKO. The current most popular Tyranitar is Mixed Tyranitar, which runs 252 EVs in HP. Instead, take a Pokemon's most popular sets to base your calculations on. This is a not what you're supposed to do when doing damage calculations. Your calculations are implying that Tyranitar has no EVs invested in defenses. ![]() ![]() We got to defend the Constitution and keep things moving in the right direction. We've got to defend democracy and freedom in America. I mean, would they be standing outside the bars, inside the bar, who knows? But the point is that like that fundamentally now is not going to address the primitive forces of authoritarianism, racism, anti-Semitism that Donald Trump has unleashed in the country and set free. JAMIE RASKIN: Like everything else with Donald Trump, it's a case of first impression. How does that work? Do Secret Service agents protect him inside the prison that he might be sentenced to? ![]() And he could spend the remaining days of his misanthropic life behind bars, presumably, with Secret Service agents, some of whom might belong with him there, you know? I don't know. It's just that I think that's not the only thing here. ![]() And no, I'm very serious about him facing the consequences and paying for the cost of his actions. So there's just deep culpability from the very beginning in everything that Donald Trump did. That's what he meant when he said you've got to fight like hell, or you're not going to have a country.ĭANIEL KLAIDMAN: And he also sounds like he knew that a lot of the voter fraud allegations, dead people voting, felons voting was also false, right, and that it was the committee that was able to prove that in the lawsuit against John Eastman in which those emails emerged. But he knew exactly what he was doing in assembling the mob, and then lighting the flame for them to go and storm the Capitol. Like some great Shakespearean characters, he plays on the fact that some people think he's crazy, so they give him a pass on doing things that they would never accept from someone else. He complained to people, can you believe I lost to this guy? He knew he had lost, you know? He was told by the Attorney General of the United States. It was very clear from multiple witnesses that Donald Trump knew he had lost. They're no threat to me, he essentially said.Īnd you know, what transpired was precisely what he arranged to happen. JAMIE RASKIN: Oh, well, a lot of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony recreated the scene of Donald Trump knowing that he had lost the election, and knowing that the crowd was armed and dangerous, nonetheless, insisting on inciting them further, you know, saying, take down the mags, the magnetometers, the metal detectors. ![]() Give us your- tell us what you think is the most important new evidence that this committee developed in its investigation.ĭANIEL KLAIDMAN: Since the events of January 6, I mean. You unearthed a lot of evidence, a lot of bombshells, and you assembled it in a very powerful narrative. You also developed a huge evidentiary record. Raskin said, “I'm very serious about him facing the consequences” of his actions, adding that Trump could spend “the remaining days of his misanthropic life behind bars.” Video TranscriptĭANIEL KLAIDMAN: Congressman, you did a lot more than just make recommendations to the Justice Department to prosecute Donald Trump on these four offenses. 6 committee and how it implicates former President Donald Trump in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., joined Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast and discussed the evidence revealed by the Jan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, some motherboard manufacturers offer their own solutions in the UEFI BIOS, which can be used to completely and safely erase the SSD within a few seconds. With the PCIe interface and PCIe lane width values, you can immediately see if the PCIe SSD is properly attached – very handy! It also allows enabling the Crucial Momentum Cache option and setting the Over Provisioning range to adjust the SSD durability vs performance. After a short installation, the Crucial Storage Executive Tool clearly shows which SSDs and hard drives are installed, what the SMART values look like and, as mentioned before, directly updates the firmware if desired. The Crucial Storage Executive Tool download can be found on the Crucial support website. Alternatively, you can still use the classic method to update the firmware: Download the Crucial firmware, unzip the included ISO file, transfer the ISO file to a USB stick with unetbootin (alternatively burn it to a CD or CDRW), boot with the USB stick and the firmware update starts. You can update the SSD’s firmware relatively easily with Crucial’s Storage Executive Tool, but you should, as always, back up important data before updating the firmware. Crucial provides these two firmware versions, P9CR30A for the P3 and P9CR409 for the P3 Plus, as the latest SSD firmware. The P3 SSD was shipped with the P9CR30A or P9CR409 firmware. The NVMe SSDs are also immediately listed in the Windows 11 or Windows 10 device manager under drives.Īfter setting up the Crucial P3 or Crucial P3 Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD test system and the quick installation, we now come to the firmware update. The P3 and P3 Plus SSDs were detected on all systems without any problems and are immediately listed in the UEFI, for example under Advanced in the NVMe Configuration. Just like the P3 PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 SSD (without Plus) doesn’t get faster in a PCIe Gen4 x4 slot or even PCIe Gen5 x4 slot than in a PCIe Gen3 x4 slot. The faster M.2 slot doesn’t change the slower SSD interface, however, as the P3 Plus only supports PCIe Gen4 data rates. Here you can see the P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 SSD, which we were even able to test in an ASRock Blazing M.2 PCIe Gen5 x4 slot. We’ve tested the Crucial P3 vs Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD on a wide variety of systems with no problems, most recently here on the latest ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi Intel LGA1700 DDR5 motherboard. (Yes I know cities skylines is a memory hog, but honestly I only ever get like a max of 40 fps at best).Practical testing … Schnell zum richtigen Practical testing … I basically have been trying to tweak my system so I can play cities skylines a little better. Also, do you know if LTT did cover this tech in a video in the past? Again, thanks so much for your suggestions. I figured this would be beneficial as I saw a video a while back that explained the problems with SSD capacity differences and the issue with dramless ssds. Is there any benefit to using this tech? I also enabled the ability to use 10% of my m.2 ssd as over-provisioning. Its just benchmarks disable the windows drive cahing, but this cache overrides the benchmarks request to disable the ram Windows already caches files in ram, so load times are basically the same using the defaults. The big downsite is it can lead to corruption and data loss if there is powerloss as the wrong time. Also, anyone else that reads this, thanks for any input you can provide and always, don't forget to get something from LTTSTORE.COM. You guys are literally the only celebrities I'd want to meet. ![]() Thank you guys for being so great and providing me with interesting videos to keep me entertained, informed, and challenged. If not, then I am curious if LTT could investigate this for me? Here is the link to the M.2 I have I believe . Is this technology beneficial and are there any caveats to using it? If there is a video on a similar technology please let me know. I have not seen an LTT video on this type of technology. Performance seemed to increase and my random read/write speeds increased astronomically. I decided to try out their settings for "Momentum Cache" which I assume uses DRAM to help with read/write speeds. Regardless, yesterday I decided to install Crucial's storage executive software. I noticed random read and write speeds were OK at best better than ssd drive but obviously not as good as Samsung's 970 EVO. I purchased a cheap 500gb Crucial M.2 drive. With that being said I have a Asus Tuf z370 plus gaming motherboard with 2 m.2 slots. A few years ago I used LTT suggestions to build my PC. So I have enjoyed this channel for many years and binge watch LTT videos. ![]() ![]() ![]() This wasn’t the first time Obama had spoken up for empathy. I believe we don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Obama wrote to thank her, and offered some advice of his own: “If you don’t already know what it means, I want you to look up the word ‘empathy’ in the dictionary. She also suggested that he enforce recycling and ban unnecessary wars. In 2008, Karina Encarnacion, an eight year-old girl from Missouri, wrote to President-elect Barack Obama with some advice about what kind of dog he should get for his daughters. ![]() Its Web site,, was reactivated this week.Empathy is deaf to facts and figures it’s engaged by the “identifiable victim effect.” Illustration by Harry Campbell Clinton will be fundraising for Democratic candidates until the November election using her HillPAC political action committee. She is not up for re-election until 2012. Clinton’s Senate re-election committee, is paying for the site. The Hillar圜 page is no longer funded by the presidential campaign, and a new disclaimer notes that “Friends of Hillary,” Mrs. Obama’s comments about “bitter” rural Americans.Īlso on that page is a clip called, “Confronted w/ facts Obama experiences technical difficulties,” that shows a news report critical of Mr. Obama’s delegate math unless the Florida and Michigan votes were fully counted, and a Clinton surrogate in North Carolina responding to Mr. Wolfson’s insistence that he would not accept Mr. Still intact on the Hillary Hub YouTube page are remnants of some of the nastier moments of the campaign, including Mr. Cable networks still can replay the ads, but any blogger who tries to link to the Clinton versions will get an error message: “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.” Yet nothing is ever truly gone in the YouTube age because Internet surfers have spliced, diced and saved every campaign ad of the cycle. Her victory speeches, a showcase of enthusiastic young volunteers and her pledges to keep fighting through the primary season are history. are still posted.īut the Clinton YouTube page is missing hundreds of videos, positive and negative alike. Other failed White House hopefuls have left their free campaign “channels” - created before last summer’s YouTube debates - intact, and ads for Republican Fred Thompson and Democrat Joseph R. Voters trying to view the Chelsea Clinton Mother’s Day tribute are directed to an error page that informs them: “We’ve recently updated our site and we welcome you to explore the new content from the navigation above.”Īlthough cleaning up a campaign site for the sake of party unity isn’t unusual, the YouTube scrubbing is. Several upbeat videos also have vanished from the site and YouTube page. ![]() Clinton and former President Bill Clinton meeting the campaign’s 1 millionth supporter. Clinton as a girl, and the “Dreams” ad in which the senator from New York shows photographs of her parents, talks about the values they instilled in her and promises, “I carry with me not just their dreams but the dreams of people like them all across our country.” The site still has her Pennsylvania spot titled “Scranton,” which features black and white photos of Mrs. In another, she thanks supporters and tells them, “I could not have made this part of the journey without you.” The Hillary TV page that once featured fundraising appeals and dozens of ads - including those with Bill Clinton on a treadmill and the former first couple in a “Sopranos” spoof - now offers just five videos. HillaryHub, a site showcasing positive press coverage, also has been removed. Obama or his surrogates during the long primary battle.īy contrast, the Obama Fact Check page on his campaign site still offers rebuttals to Clinton attacks dating back to its creation in fall 2007. ![]() The separate “Fact Hub” Web site that rebuked the Obama campaign has gone dead, along with “Attack Timeline” that detailed every nasty remark by Mr. Obama earned enough delegates to lock up the nomination. Clinton’s June 9 speech suspending her campaign after Mr. The only releases left at Hillar圜 are a statement about the death of NBC’s Tim Russert and the text of Mrs. Obama was about to declare that he had won a majority of delegates: “Mission Accomplished? Not so fast.” 2 “Hillary is the Democrat to beat McCain,” or the May 19 missive by Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson complaining that Mr. Another blared, in capital letters, “NAFTA-gate: False denials from the Obama campaign.”Īlso gone are campaign memos, such as Mark Penn’s Feb. ![]() ![]() After Jordana agrees to have sex with Oliver, Oliver stages their evening as if he’s read a gentlemen’s guide to romance from 1965. She’s a bit of a bully, swears ferociously, smokes, sets the occasional fire, and is almost entirely devoid of sentimentality. Oliver chooses her to be the object of his affections in part because she’s not too popular to seem attainable. With all respect to Craig Roberts’ great performance as Oliver, Jordana (Yasmin Paige) may be the best thing about Submarine. Submarine follows two subplots: Oliver’s quest to win and keep Jordana (and lose his virginity), and his fear that his parents’ marriage is falling apart. There’s a strong whiff of Holden Caulfield around Oliver, so it comes as no surprise when he suggests that his girlfriend, Jordana, reads Catcher in the Rye and Nietzsche, “So that we can have some things in common.” Jordana replies, witheringly, “What makes you think I’d want to be like you?” Oliver lacks insight into just how annoying his pretentiousness can be. Early in the film, to brace himself for a day of school, he fantasizes how crushed the entire community – in fact, the entire country of Wales – would be if he were to die. Oliver is an unpopular kid and he knows it, but that may be in part because he can’t control his long, digressive speeches – even in class – and he is, very much, the star of his own imagined movie. He’s not exceptionally handsome – has, instead, a certain puckish look to his features matched with eyes that look like he could use a good, long rest. Submarine is a coming-of-age film set in Wales and starring a remarkable young actor named Craig Roberts as a high schooler named Oliver. Maybe Wes Anderson owes some things to Hal Ashby, but whatever the lineage behind Submarine, it’s sad, funny, just weird enough, a little precious, and has Sally Hawkins, to boot. ![]() Then again, I saw a reviewer compare Submarine to Harold and Maude, and that feels just right. I love Wes Anderson films, so even if it feels a bit stylistically derivative, I’m a sucker for Submarine. Above all, the grandiose teenage boy at the center of Submarine is as Wesandersonesque a figure as you can get. The wistful pop songs, the eccentric characters, the title cards, the montages, the depressive-comic tone, even the uniforms (the two central characters are almost always dressed in overcoats – one red, one blue). ![]() It was impossible to watch Richard Ayoade’s Submarine without thinking of Wes Anderson films. ![]() |
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