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Adventurous_Light_85 t1_iwdn6nt wrote

I am the only one in California that gets the feeling that the authorities in California aren’t actually that interested in preventing forest fires. I mean we’re in like the top five biggest economies. Probably the largest tech economy. We have some of the oldest forest and the largest trees on earth yet we can’t seem to allocate enough assets and tech to stop these fires. Many of which are started by the electrical companies that are basically controlled by the government.

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t0s1s t1_iwdbbik wrote

I’m reminded of my year or so of running KnC Miner Neptunes back around 2015. Similarly designed to run too close to the design specification for a 4-pin peripheral plug and socket, they caused several fires, or destroyed the miner or the PSU by melted connectors.

Even running relatively high end Corsair AX1200 supplies didn’t guarantee me a stable run, and at least one set of cables was destroyed that year.

I don’t ever want to run it like that again - the 4090 likely won’t be for me, even if it fits my case.

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