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		<title><![CDATA[The 36th Chamber - Any Old Sh!t]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Great Domain Name Registration Scam]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=200</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:28:22 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>The underlying cost of every .com domain is controlled by a company called Verisign, which holds the registry monopoly. Under their contract with ICANN (the internet governing body), Verisign is legally allowed to increase wholesale prices by 7% every year during the final 4 years of their 6-year contract cycle—which they have been doing consistently.  <br />
  <br />
What you get for the extra money:  <br />
From a consumer standpoint, you do not get any new features or added value. The justification used by the registry is that the extra funds go toward handling massive global traffic volume and scaling up cybersecurity infrastructure to protect the root .com network against DDoS attacks. [n.b. Verisign does not carry any traffic, it is not a network - These are poor, flimsy reasons]</blockquote>
Ever wondered why Domain Name Registrations increase by 7% a year?<br />
<br />
Well AMERICAN GREED is the answer to that one too. Absolute Cunts, the lot of them]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>The underlying cost of every .com domain is controlled by a company called Verisign, which holds the registry monopoly. Under their contract with ICANN (the internet governing body), Verisign is legally allowed to increase wholesale prices by 7% every year during the final 4 years of their 6-year contract cycle—which they have been doing consistently.  <br />
  <br />
What you get for the extra money:  <br />
From a consumer standpoint, you do not get any new features or added value. The justification used by the registry is that the extra funds go toward handling massive global traffic volume and scaling up cybersecurity infrastructure to protect the root .com network against DDoS attacks. [n.b. Verisign does not carry any traffic, it is not a network - These are poor, flimsy reasons]</blockquote>
Ever wondered why Domain Name Registrations increase by 7% a year?<br />
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Well AMERICAN GREED is the answer to that one too. Absolute Cunts, the lot of them]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fuckin AI!!]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=190</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:07:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I use Copilot at work due to FOMO and it's shoddy as shit.<br />
<br />
I've been tracking resources (vague estimates at best, the AI companies have yet to develop an appetite to report resource usage - despite or perhaps because of the incredible drain on resources each AI query) in a bid to understand the cost of doing business as it were. Simple tasks such as filtering and comparing lists of text uses 100s of litres of water on top of the electricity, and I doubt the power to move that water to where it needed to be is taken into account.<br />
<br />
Given the 'benefits' it gives me, yeah it can spit out a simple loop in milliseconds for a mere 205 litres, but so can I. The things I could really use  assistance with are usually super complicated programming problems. Every single one of these it has been presented with has been an utter waste of time. The first round of responses will suggest things already attempted and discarded, if you can break it out of this loop it might hallucinate some more solutiony looking type stuff - often in a different direction than your prompt or codebase indicates. If you can convince it to refresh its context and not suggest things its already suggested you're doing well, but no dice, it'll now tell you computers dont exist or the language you're using doesn't support the thing. <br />
<br />
In my complicated codebase AI simply cannot cut it. I never had to explain any of these things more than once to the graduates and apprentices who have appeared in the team over the yrs and they are able to learn and make meaningful contributions. With Copilot it seems I explain it allot and am yet to profit from a meaningful contribution in return. <br />
<br />
My company appear to be quite happy with me spending 1/3 of my time berating an AI assistant (Basil Fawlty style), and encourage it further. I've made my view clear lol so what the actual fuckery is going on? As far as i'm aware the copilot seat is £10k annually... whereas its actual worth so far is less than £100...  I cannot see how the investors in AI will make any money at all once people realise its best applications - sifting through gargantuan quantities of data and making inferences, and being a human-esque chatbot - have already been met. <br />
<br />
Secondly if the shoe is on the other foot, these genius investors must have done the maths and figured out that once deployed at scale and integrated everywhere (despite the neglible benefits) the data centres will require more water than exists in nature... And i'm not sure where the heat from these data centres will actually go? Oh yeah the environment!! - so locking in a second wave of planet heating, straight after the fossil fuel wave. Just fucking great. I thought these people were supposed to be intelligent.<br />
<br />
p.s. I've found appending "NO AI" to my web searches mostly suppresses the AI summary bullshit you get served.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I use Copilot at work due to FOMO and it's shoddy as shit.<br />
<br />
I've been tracking resources (vague estimates at best, the AI companies have yet to develop an appetite to report resource usage - despite or perhaps because of the incredible drain on resources each AI query) in a bid to understand the cost of doing business as it were. Simple tasks such as filtering and comparing lists of text uses 100s of litres of water on top of the electricity, and I doubt the power to move that water to where it needed to be is taken into account.<br />
<br />
Given the 'benefits' it gives me, yeah it can spit out a simple loop in milliseconds for a mere 205 litres, but so can I. The things I could really use  assistance with are usually super complicated programming problems. Every single one of these it has been presented with has been an utter waste of time. The first round of responses will suggest things already attempted and discarded, if you can break it out of this loop it might hallucinate some more solutiony looking type stuff - often in a different direction than your prompt or codebase indicates. If you can convince it to refresh its context and not suggest things its already suggested you're doing well, but no dice, it'll now tell you computers dont exist or the language you're using doesn't support the thing. <br />
<br />
In my complicated codebase AI simply cannot cut it. I never had to explain any of these things more than once to the graduates and apprentices who have appeared in the team over the yrs and they are able to learn and make meaningful contributions. With Copilot it seems I explain it allot and am yet to profit from a meaningful contribution in return. <br />
<br />
My company appear to be quite happy with me spending 1/3 of my time berating an AI assistant (Basil Fawlty style), and encourage it further. I've made my view clear lol so what the actual fuckery is going on? As far as i'm aware the copilot seat is £10k annually... whereas its actual worth so far is less than £100...  I cannot see how the investors in AI will make any money at all once people realise its best applications - sifting through gargantuan quantities of data and making inferences, and being a human-esque chatbot - have already been met. <br />
<br />
Secondly if the shoe is on the other foot, these genius investors must have done the maths and figured out that once deployed at scale and integrated everywhere (despite the neglible benefits) the data centres will require more water than exists in nature... And i'm not sure where the heat from these data centres will actually go? Oh yeah the environment!! - so locking in a second wave of planet heating, straight after the fossil fuel wave. Just fucking great. I thought these people were supposed to be intelligent.<br />
<br />
p.s. I've found appending "NO AI" to my web searches mostly suppresses the AI summary bullshit you get served.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Quit ChatGPT!! Your subscription is bankrolling fascism]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=149</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">OpenAI</span></span> is currently in a much deserved hole. Sam Altman is the quintessential hero turned villian as the size of the bags of cash in front of him increased exponentially. Now he and the company he fronts are under pressure and on track to post a &#36;14 billion loss this year. Thats 14 thousand million dollars pumped into it with no return. <br />
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Investors must really know something I do not about AI. I only use the agents daily and marvel at how shit they are, factoring inthe eye watering electricity and water usage not to mention the cost my organization pays for my license, it would be nice if they displayed some actual intelligence once in a while. As it is I type CHECK CONTEXT at the start of each prompt because it cannot seem to remember the subject, then summarizes and doesn't catch updates. Entirely frustrating, I've checked with colleagues and am totally justified in telling it to get fucked and delete itself after failing yet another task. <br />
<br />
I tell anyone who will listen its not worth the money, and is infinitely less useful than an intern, graduate or apprentice who could probs be employed for the same money..<br />
<br />
If you have a OpenAI subscription now is the time to wield it for social change, send a message that customers do not want fascist, energy intensive AI by not paying for it. OpenAI is not robust enough financially to lose a signifiacnt portion of users, and investment would be spooked.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Quit Chat GPT Article</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">OpenAI</span></span> is currently in a much deserved hole. Sam Altman is the quintessential hero turned villian as the size of the bags of cash in front of him increased exponentially. Now he and the company he fronts are under pressure and on track to post a &#36;14 billion loss this year. Thats 14 thousand million dollars pumped into it with no return. <br />
<br />
Investors must really know something I do not about AI. I only use the agents daily and marvel at how shit they are, factoring inthe eye watering electricity and water usage not to mention the cost my organization pays for my license, it would be nice if they displayed some actual intelligence once in a while. As it is I type CHECK CONTEXT at the start of each prompt because it cannot seem to remember the subject, then summarizes and doesn't catch updates. Entirely frustrating, I've checked with colleagues and am totally justified in telling it to get fucked and delete itself after failing yet another task. <br />
<br />
I tell anyone who will listen its not worth the money, and is infinitely less useful than an intern, graduate or apprentice who could probs be employed for the same money..<br />
<br />
If you have a OpenAI subscription now is the time to wield it for social change, send a message that customers do not want fascist, energy intensive AI by not paying for it. OpenAI is not robust enough financially to lose a signifiacnt portion of users, and investment would be spooked.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Quit Chat GPT Article</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[RESIST & UNSUBSCRIBE]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=130</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Resist and Unsubscribe</a><br />
<br />
The above link handily complies the unsubscription links (but probably for US accounts) for the tech companies who are actively funding, supporting and facilitating the fascist Trump administration. <br />
<br />
Do not give these fuckers any more money.  They will happily take your life and tell everyone you're a domestic terrorist - simply for disagreeing with them or their policies.<br />
<br />
If you are a human, it is not in your interests to pay these greedy cunts anything. Get informed. Get UnSubscribed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Resist and Unsubscribe</a><br />
<br />
The above link handily complies the unsubscription links (but probably for US accounts) for the tech companies who are actively funding, supporting and facilitating the fascist Trump administration. <br />
<br />
Do not give these fuckers any more money.  They will happily take your life and tell everyone you're a domestic terrorist - simply for disagreeing with them or their policies.<br />
<br />
If you are a human, it is not in your interests to pay these greedy cunts anything. Get informed. Get UnSubscribed.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pornification of YouTube]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=129</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Was watching a little thing on YouTube last night when I was shown ad advert about Viagra or something, multiple times. You've probs seen it, some woman going on about her 55 year old husband staying hard all night, who incidentally is a fucking bellend. <br />
<br />
The main issue I have with this is the shadow of him fucking her against a golf cart that is clearly visible. NSFW. Well not according to google who told me:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn’t go against Google’s policies, which prohibit certain content and practices that we believe to be harmful to users and the overall online ecosystem. </blockquote>
Really? Turns out i'm in control and not Google because i can simply delete the App.<br />
Whilst I was at it, I aslo reported an add for "Fitness" that had the strapline "Sex without the clit is not MAx" or some such bullshit. Also reported. Also absolutly fine according to YouTube...<br />
I predict that by the end of 2026 YouTube will be HIGHLY sexualized - because we know it sells and without an adult deciding what is acceptable and what isn't it's only going to slide.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Was watching a little thing on YouTube last night when I was shown ad advert about Viagra or something, multiple times. You've probs seen it, some woman going on about her 55 year old husband staying hard all night, who incidentally is a fucking bellend. <br />
<br />
The main issue I have with this is the shadow of him fucking her against a golf cart that is clearly visible. NSFW. Well not according to google who told me:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn’t go against Google’s policies, which prohibit certain content and practices that we believe to be harmful to users and the overall online ecosystem. </blockquote>
Really? Turns out i'm in control and not Google because i can simply delete the App.<br />
Whilst I was at it, I aslo reported an add for "Fitness" that had the strapline "Sex without the clit is not MAx" or some such bullshit. Also reported. Also absolutly fine according to YouTube...<br />
I predict that by the end of 2026 YouTube will be HIGHLY sexualized - because we know it sells and without an adult deciding what is acceptable and what isn't it's only going to slide.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Daupe - Heels Have Eyes III]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=125</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://daupe.bandcamp.com/album/heels-have-eyes-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Daupe Bandcamp</a><br />
So this release still had physical copies for dsale like 45 mins after it dropped - usually they sell out immediately.<br />
Why the slowdown, this project isn't better or worse than most of Westside Gunn releases - perhaps the hype hasworn off now the shine has faded...<br />
<br />
Still pisses me off I can't ever get one with a Obi strip, i'm always at the front of the queue...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://daupe.bandcamp.com/album/heels-have-eyes-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Daupe Bandcamp</a><br />
So this release still had physical copies for dsale like 45 mins after it dropped - usually they sell out immediately.<br />
Why the slowdown, this project isn't better or worse than most of Westside Gunn releases - perhaps the hype hasworn off now the shine has faded...<br />
<br />
Still pisses me off I can't ever get one with a Obi strip, i'm always at the front of the queue...]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[AI Slide begins]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=124</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lots of noise this week about how AI is  not going to save the world after all and it's a hallucinating piece of shit.<br />
This is something i've known for a while as I use CoPilot at work at can't really point to any time savings it has provided. I can point to numerous occasions where I spent a long time trying to wrangle it to complete a simple task before giving up and doing it manually.<br />
The basic question anyone that has used AI in a technical work fashion seems to have is why is a license so expensive when output is untrustworthy and often incorrect. And Incorrect in such a way its not easy to spot before runtime... No wonder Vibe Coding Fixers are making fat stacks right about now..<br />
<br />
So, what can you do - clear your portfolio, shares are going to get hit, badly. Theres something like 2 trillion dollars just about to go up in smoke...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lots of noise this week about how AI is  not going to save the world after all and it's a hallucinating piece of shit.<br />
This is something i've known for a while as I use CoPilot at work at can't really point to any time savings it has provided. I can point to numerous occasions where I spent a long time trying to wrangle it to complete a simple task before giving up and doing it manually.<br />
The basic question anyone that has used AI in a technical work fashion seems to have is why is a license so expensive when output is untrustworthy and often incorrect. And Incorrect in such a way its not easy to spot before runtime... No wonder Vibe Coding Fixers are making fat stacks right about now..<br />
<br />
So, what can you do - clear your portfolio, shares are going to get hit, badly. Theres something like 2 trillion dollars just about to go up in smoke...]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[ASUS VivoBook Laptop Serato Issue - ASUS Buyer Guide]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=123</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm the unhappy owner of an <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Asus VivoBook</span> laptop which is solely for DJ purposes, it's got Serato and Rekordbox on it and nothing else... plugs into my Seventy Two and converts rotational motion into audio. £804. Should work for 10 years, right?<br />
<br />
Bought it in 2022 and it worked a OK. Was a massive improvement on the prev. machine too. Double the spec required to run Serato at the time (16Gb Ram, i7).<br />
Then at some point in summer 2024, something updated (I click the 'update now' button when prompted), and Serato began randomly disorting tracks. Like randomly.<br />
<br />
The first time it happend I was in the middle of Recording the radio show for Kennet Radio on 106.7FM with DJ Stasha and the tune I put on went to shit...<br />
I found that unplugging the usb and plugging it back in stopped the distortion but it would always come back within a few minutes. As time went on this happened quicker and quicker to the point where it is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">totally unusable</span> in DVS mode which it had reached by perhaps August 2024.<br />
<br />
I am a problem solver and despite the emotional toil (seriously - i've been DJing weekly for over twenty years, it took ages to realise not having the outlet was causing me to be increasingly introverted, tetchy at work and feeling unmoored) so I set out to find a fix. Having followed the troubleshooting guides, the optimisation guides, the setup a new power plan guides, random blog posts and reddit threads I could find, the issue was <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">more</span> persistent.<br />
<br />
Each time I'd put an mp3 on, i'd get a tiny flicker of hope - this is the setting i've needed all along! It's gonna work before the inevitable red line of fuckery appears above the deck readout on the screen and the audio slows and becomes all mashed up, and my hope foundered up against the shitty Asus / Microsoft SCSI drivers that were flooding the system with latency.<br />
<br />
Latency Mon summarizes:<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff857a;" class="mycode_color">Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.</span><br />
<br />
I spent MONTHS trying to sort it out. I approached Serato support, I approached Rane support, I opened tickets with Microsoft support and finally when I realised the Asus drivers were the secret update that fucked it all up I engaged with Asus support.<br />
<br />
It was not a happy time for any of us.<br />
<br />
Serato took a decent punt at fixing it but didn't get anywhere, Rane also took a decent run at the issue and stuck with me even though it was definitely not their hardware causing the problems. They also provided the closest thing to emotional support I got anywhere in the process. Microsoft Support did not listen to the problem statement, reinstalled some audio drivers and declared the issue fixed. Asus support were entirely knowlegdable and one chap in particular, Gabriel, was clue'd up - pointing firstly to bloatware installed on the new laptop (that i had never wiped) and recent Windows updates as potential factors.<br />
<br />
After wiping the laptop and installing a clean set of drivers it was super disappointing to find the system output 90% distortion and 10% listenable music. I went back to Asus support with the plan to ask them to confirm the configuration of the BIOS matched the setting I was unable to change: SpeedStop, C-States or CPU Throttling all disabled.<br />
<br />
They were not able to confirm these things.<br />
<br />
OKdokes, so it's clear something changed with the configuration of the laptop or drivers to starts this problem. The update that caused it did not have a warning attached about increasing system latency and there was absolutely no avenue for me to find out the outcome of the update without running the update. Yet those fucking Asusholes deflect all responsibility to the user. Simple solution: <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BEING AN ASUS USER.</span><br />
In their own words:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite> However, we must advise that your device was originally purchased on 11 June 2022, and as such, it is now outside of both the manufacturer’s warranty period and the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">reasonable period of expected functionality</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">typically 18–24 months</span>).<br />
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 Operating systems and firmware regularly receive updates, and it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that any third-party software or applications remain compatible with such updates.</blockquote>
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Reasonable period of expected functionality is 2 years on a brand new, high spec (at the time) laptop??? Wow, that is shit! Is it a coincidence that the system became unusable for me shortly after the 24 month end of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">expected</span> functionality. And because it's so short term and mad I think it needs saying again. This is a major consumer hardware manufacturer and retailer, there's no way they make products with a expected 2 year lifespan and still ahve customers, what the fuck is going on? <br />
<br />
The Asus Prime motherboard in my PC is 8 years old and still works, seemingly against Asus expectations. What. The. Fuck are they on about?<br />
<br />
So, just to translate that: Asus sell shitty short term products they do not intend to support for their potential lifetime, and secondly if and when we push an update that fucks everything it's <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">your fault</span> for listening to us and clicking the 'update' button not Asus for pushing shitty code that hasn't been properly tested because Asus prioritise cutting costs over happy and returning customers.<br />
<br />
So Asus can go fuck themselves, I will be exercising my statutory rights to have a device that is fit for purpose or a fucking refund. I have a certain skillset thats makes me a nightmare for Corporations like them an the cost they have made me pay for their non-functional device demands I exact a similar cost from them.<br />
<br />
I got a MacBook air this week instead and was so happy just to play some tunes again!!!<br />
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<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/spongebobdance.gif" alt="Spongebobdance" title="Spongebobdance" class="smilie smilie_27" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm the unhappy owner of an <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Asus VivoBook</span> laptop which is solely for DJ purposes, it's got Serato and Rekordbox on it and nothing else... plugs into my Seventy Two and converts rotational motion into audio. £804. Should work for 10 years, right?<br />
<br />
Bought it in 2022 and it worked a OK. Was a massive improvement on the prev. machine too. Double the spec required to run Serato at the time (16Gb Ram, i7).<br />
Then at some point in summer 2024, something updated (I click the 'update now' button when prompted), and Serato began randomly disorting tracks. Like randomly.<br />
<br />
The first time it happend I was in the middle of Recording the radio show for Kennet Radio on 106.7FM with DJ Stasha and the tune I put on went to shit...<br />
I found that unplugging the usb and plugging it back in stopped the distortion but it would always come back within a few minutes. As time went on this happened quicker and quicker to the point where it is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">totally unusable</span> in DVS mode which it had reached by perhaps August 2024.<br />
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I am a problem solver and despite the emotional toil (seriously - i've been DJing weekly for over twenty years, it took ages to realise not having the outlet was causing me to be increasingly introverted, tetchy at work and feeling unmoored) so I set out to find a fix. Having followed the troubleshooting guides, the optimisation guides, the setup a new power plan guides, random blog posts and reddit threads I could find, the issue was <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">more</span> persistent.<br />
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Each time I'd put an mp3 on, i'd get a tiny flicker of hope - this is the setting i've needed all along! It's gonna work before the inevitable red line of fuckery appears above the deck readout on the screen and the audio slows and becomes all mashed up, and my hope foundered up against the shitty Asus / Microsoft SCSI drivers that were flooding the system with latency.<br />
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Latency Mon summarizes:<br />
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<span style="color: #ff857a;" class="mycode_color">Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.</span><br />
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I spent MONTHS trying to sort it out. I approached Serato support, I approached Rane support, I opened tickets with Microsoft support and finally when I realised the Asus drivers were the secret update that fucked it all up I engaged with Asus support.<br />
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It was not a happy time for any of us.<br />
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Serato took a decent punt at fixing it but didn't get anywhere, Rane also took a decent run at the issue and stuck with me even though it was definitely not their hardware causing the problems. They also provided the closest thing to emotional support I got anywhere in the process. Microsoft Support did not listen to the problem statement, reinstalled some audio drivers and declared the issue fixed. Asus support were entirely knowlegdable and one chap in particular, Gabriel, was clue'd up - pointing firstly to bloatware installed on the new laptop (that i had never wiped) and recent Windows updates as potential factors.<br />
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After wiping the laptop and installing a clean set of drivers it was super disappointing to find the system output 90% distortion and 10% listenable music. I went back to Asus support with the plan to ask them to confirm the configuration of the BIOS matched the setting I was unable to change: SpeedStop, C-States or CPU Throttling all disabled.<br />
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They were not able to confirm these things.<br />
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OKdokes, so it's clear something changed with the configuration of the laptop or drivers to starts this problem. The update that caused it did not have a warning attached about increasing system latency and there was absolutely no avenue for me to find out the outcome of the update without running the update. Yet those fucking Asusholes deflect all responsibility to the user. Simple solution: <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BEING AN ASUS USER.</span><br />
In their own words:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite> However, we must advise that your device was originally purchased on 11 June 2022, and as such, it is now outside of both the manufacturer’s warranty period and the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">reasonable period of expected functionality</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">typically 18–24 months</span>).<br />
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 Operating systems and firmware regularly receive updates, and it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that any third-party software or applications remain compatible with such updates.</blockquote>
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Reasonable period of expected functionality is 2 years on a brand new, high spec (at the time) laptop??? Wow, that is shit! Is it a coincidence that the system became unusable for me shortly after the 24 month end of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">expected</span> functionality. And because it's so short term and mad I think it needs saying again. This is a major consumer hardware manufacturer and retailer, there's no way they make products with a expected 2 year lifespan and still ahve customers, what the fuck is going on? <br />
<br />
The Asus Prime motherboard in my PC is 8 years old and still works, seemingly against Asus expectations. What. The. Fuck are they on about?<br />
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So, just to translate that: Asus sell shitty short term products they do not intend to support for their potential lifetime, and secondly if and when we push an update that fucks everything it's <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">your fault</span> for listening to us and clicking the 'update' button not Asus for pushing shitty code that hasn't been properly tested because Asus prioritise cutting costs over happy and returning customers.<br />
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So Asus can go fuck themselves, I will be exercising my statutory rights to have a device that is fit for purpose or a fucking refund. I have a certain skillset thats makes me a nightmare for Corporations like them an the cost they have made me pay for their non-functional device demands I exact a similar cost from them.<br />
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I got a MacBook air this week instead and was so happy just to play some tunes again!!!<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Goddamn TNT Sports - Trying to watch England Rugby on demand]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=122</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Who needs a subscription to Discovery+ service?<br />
It appears England Rugby fans do now, makes me fucking sick.<br />
Definitely not keen giving Americans money for any reason at the moment - as you should be too!<br />
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The thing that really gets me though is the total lack of on demand option.<br />
It 2025 for fucks sake and I do not want a month long subscription. Discovery+ clearly lacking the imagination or industry to provide On Demand services and RFU clearly don't give a shit about growing the fanbase. Given all that, and the barriers they constantly erect to actually watching a match Why should I give a shit about the England team? Getting to the point that I don't any more...<br />
Seems looking for a pirate'd stream is the only logical action I can take...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Who needs a subscription to Discovery+ service?<br />
It appears England Rugby fans do now, makes me fucking sick.<br />
Definitely not keen giving Americans money for any reason at the moment - as you should be too!<br />
<br />
The thing that really gets me though is the total lack of on demand option.<br />
It 2025 for fucks sake and I do not want a month long subscription. Discovery+ clearly lacking the imagination or industry to provide On Demand services and RFU clearly don't give a shit about growing the fanbase. Given all that, and the barriers they constantly erect to actually watching a match Why should I give a shit about the England team? Getting to the point that I don't any more...<br />
Seems looking for a pirate'd stream is the only logical action I can take...]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trump, Epstein & Musk]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=97</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:30:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Things we knew already: <br />
<ol type="1" class="mycode_list"><li>Trump &amp; Epstein were best friends. Musk was also in the Epstein orbit. Nowhere near as deep as Don the adjudicated Rapist though.<br />
</li>
<li>All of these people are motivated solely by self interest and self enrichment. i.e. Corrupt as fuck.<br />
</li>
<li>Also all dumbfucks:  the stupidest people available at short notice. <br />
</li>
<li>Fake Christians - they talk about religion like believers but act as if totally unfamiliar with any of the parables. Good Samaritan Trump lollol? If there is really a hell every single member of this administration is definately on the fast track there. Bald, Fat Trump leading the way..<br />
</li>
</ol>
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Musk is now poorer as a result, good. I suspect Trump is too now his free money tap has been turned off.<br />
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The only thing i'm confused about is how these 'super' intelligent retards didn't see this all coming a mile off like EVERONE ELSE did.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Things we knew already: <br />
<ol type="1" class="mycode_list"><li>Trump &amp; Epstein were best friends. Musk was also in the Epstein orbit. Nowhere near as deep as Don the adjudicated Rapist though.<br />
</li>
<li>All of these people are motivated solely by self interest and self enrichment. i.e. Corrupt as fuck.<br />
</li>
<li>Also all dumbfucks:  the stupidest people available at short notice. <br />
</li>
<li>Fake Christians - they talk about religion like believers but act as if totally unfamiliar with any of the parables. Good Samaritan Trump lollol? If there is really a hell every single member of this administration is definately on the fast track there. Bald, Fat Trump leading the way..<br />
</li>
</ol>
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Musk is now poorer as a result, good. I suspect Trump is too now his free money tap has been turned off.<br />
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The only thing i'm confused about is how these 'super' intelligent retards didn't see this all coming a mile off like EVERONE ELSE did.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reggae Roast: How We Made Rockin Dubs]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=96</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 09:40:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Really interesting:<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Really interesting:<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Range Rover driving Pricks]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=90</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 09:42:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Round my way there are allot of small people driving big cars. Encountered several on the school rnu again today, driving plumb in the middle of country lanes with their stupid fucking faces poking over the steering wheel. White knuckle grips.<br />
<br />
Yesterday my Son and I watched a portly man struggle to get out of his Range Rover in parking space because he was too close to the neighbouring car. I shouted "Your car is too big mate" at him across the car park and he pretended not to notice.<br />
After a few minutes he simply drove to another space opposite without neighbours (yet).<br />
<br />
You'd definitely have to be some kind of prick to invest in a Sports Utility Vehicle. Or you might be a sheep with zero individuality, following the dumb crowd because you own no original thoughts? Or perhaps SUV drivers are massive cunts who don't think about anything other than themselves?<br />
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Which one do you think it is?  My guess is all three!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Round my way there are allot of small people driving big cars. Encountered several on the school rnu again today, driving plumb in the middle of country lanes with their stupid fucking faces poking over the steering wheel. White knuckle grips.<br />
<br />
Yesterday my Son and I watched a portly man struggle to get out of his Range Rover in parking space because he was too close to the neighbouring car. I shouted "Your car is too big mate" at him across the car park and he pretended not to notice.<br />
After a few minutes he simply drove to another space opposite without neighbours (yet).<br />
<br />
You'd definitely have to be some kind of prick to invest in a Sports Utility Vehicle. Or you might be a sheep with zero individuality, following the dumb crowd because you own no original thoughts? Or perhaps SUV drivers are massive cunts who don't think about anything other than themselves?<br />
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Which one do you think it is?  My guess is all three!!]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Eurovision?!]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=84</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 13:05:49 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[[rant]<br />
Honestly what is the point of this?<br />
The music on offer is always certai to be bad. Yet this whole thing persists, even seems to get more popular??<br />
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Feels fake to me, sold outs selling out for nil points..<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[rant]<br />
Honestly what is the point of this?<br />
The music on offer is always certai to be bad. Yet this whole thing persists, even seems to get more popular??<br />
<br />
Feels fake to me, sold outs selling out for nil points..<br />
[/rant]<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Best Record Sleeve Covers]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=72</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:16:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've been getting into the plastic sleeves for all my records mindset recently. Keep things nice ya know.<br />
I like the <a href="https://www.vinylkeepers.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Vinyl Keepers</a> ones, nice weight.. (450g) but typically they keep running out!<br />
This time around I've gone for the <a href="https://www.mylegendvinyl.co.uk/product/lp-sleeves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Legendary Vinyl</a> ones, lower density and ever so slightly cheaper. Will be interesting to see how they stack up.<br />
<br />
Of course other covers are available. <br />
<a href="https://covers33.co.uk/product-category/for-your-vinyl/12-vinyl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Covers33</a> do a selection, always enjoy a browse on their store. These looks like those super heavyweight ones though.. <br />
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Whats your recommendation?<br />
<img src="https://www.vinylkeepers.co.uk/web/image/product.template/74/image_512/Vinyl%20Keepers" loading="lazy"  width="512" height="341" alt="[Image: Vinyl%20Keepers]" class="mycode_img" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been getting into the plastic sleeves for all my records mindset recently. Keep things nice ya know.<br />
I like the <a href="https://www.vinylkeepers.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Vinyl Keepers</a> ones, nice weight.. (450g) but typically they keep running out!<br />
This time around I've gone for the <a href="https://www.mylegendvinyl.co.uk/product/lp-sleeves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Legendary Vinyl</a> ones, lower density and ever so slightly cheaper. Will be interesting to see how they stack up.<br />
<br />
Of course other covers are available. <br />
<a href="https://covers33.co.uk/product-category/for-your-vinyl/12-vinyl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Covers33</a> do a selection, always enjoy a browse on their store. These looks like those super heavyweight ones though.. <br />
<br />
Whats your recommendation?<br />
<img src="https://www.vinylkeepers.co.uk/web/image/product.template/74/image_512/Vinyl%20Keepers" loading="lazy"  width="512" height="341" alt="[Image: Vinyl%20Keepers]" class="mycode_img" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smilies test v0.1]]></title>
			<link>https://36thchamber.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=3</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/spongebobdance.gif" alt="Spongebobdance" title="Spongebobdance" class="smilie smilie_27" /><img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/pacing.gif" alt="Pacing" title="Pacing" class="smilie smilie_28" /><br />
ok lots of different ones <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/spamguy.gif" alt="Spamguy" title="Spamguy" class="smilie smilie_88" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/cool.png" alt="Cool" title="Cool" class="smilie smilie_94" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif" alt="Icon_arrow" title="Icon_arrow" class="smilie smilie_109" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/drinkingbuddies.gif" alt="Drinkingbuddies" title="Drinkingbuddies" class="smilie smilie_111" /><br />
all the old classics <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/typing.gif" alt="Typing" title="Typing" class="smilie smilie_115" /> <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/fencing.gif" alt="Fencing" title="Fencing" class="smilie smilie_117" /> <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rambo.gif" alt="Rambo" title="Rambo" class="smilie smilie_114" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/oldtimer.gif" alt="Oldtimer" title="Oldtimer" class="smilie smilie_112" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rocket.gif" alt="Rocket" title="Rocket" class="smilie smilie_110" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/birdiedoublegreen.gif" alt="Birdiedoublegreen" title="Birdiedoublegreen" class="smilie smilie_108" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/icon_e_ugeek.gif" alt="Icon_e_ugeek" title="Icon_e_ugeek" class="smilie smilie_106" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/angry.png" alt="Angry" title="Angry" class="smilie smilie_104" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rolleyes.png" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" class="smilie smilie_102" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/yoshi.gif" alt="Yoshi" title="Yoshi" class="smilie smilie_76" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/pistoldouble.gif" alt="Pistoldouble" title="Pistoldouble" class="smilie smilie_63" /><br />
can't see a way to add favourites to the sidebar things... <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/pacing.gif" alt="Pacing" title="Pacing" class="smilie smilie_28" />]]></description>
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ok lots of different ones <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/spamguy.gif" alt="Spamguy" title="Spamguy" class="smilie smilie_88" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/cool.png" alt="Cool" title="Cool" class="smilie smilie_94" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif" alt="Icon_arrow" title="Icon_arrow" class="smilie smilie_109" /> <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/drinkingbuddies.gif" alt="Drinkingbuddies" title="Drinkingbuddies" class="smilie smilie_111" /><br />
all the old classics <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/typing.gif" alt="Typing" title="Typing" class="smilie smilie_115" /> <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/fencing.gif" alt="Fencing" title="Fencing" class="smilie smilie_117" /> <br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rambo.gif" alt="Rambo" title="Rambo" class="smilie smilie_114" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/oldtimer.gif" alt="Oldtimer" title="Oldtimer" class="smilie smilie_112" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rocket.gif" alt="Rocket" title="Rocket" class="smilie smilie_110" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/birdiedoublegreen.gif" alt="Birdiedoublegreen" title="Birdiedoublegreen" class="smilie smilie_108" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/icon_e_ugeek.gif" alt="Icon_e_ugeek" title="Icon_e_ugeek" class="smilie smilie_106" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/angry.png" alt="Angry" title="Angry" class="smilie smilie_104" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/rolleyes.png" alt="Rolleyes" title="Rolleyes" class="smilie smilie_102" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/yoshi.gif" alt="Yoshi" title="Yoshi" class="smilie smilie_76" /><br />
<img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/pistoldouble.gif" alt="Pistoldouble" title="Pistoldouble" class="smilie smilie_63" /><br />
can't see a way to add favourites to the sidebar things... <img src="https://36thchamber.co.uk/images/smilies/pacing.gif" alt="Pacing" title="Pacing" class="smilie smilie_28" />]]></content:encoded>
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