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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Tuesday News

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PowerToys v0.27.0
A few fixes and improvements.
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AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.3 Optional (WHQL)
Support For: Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions, 10 other fixes and a dozen known issues.
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iVerge – Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti review: impressive performance for $399
Except, you’re not gonna get it for that price…
Notebookcheck – Leaked prices suggest that custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be absurdly expensive
For instance Techspot says, “MSI’s RTX 3060 Ti is selling on Amazon for £490.18, which works out at around $655.”
Reporters, it would be nice if all of you (especially the big guys) could do your fracking jobs like Techspot and Notebookcheck has. It looks for all the world like some of you big guys are in the business of selling products instead of informing your readers.

Wednesday News

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Google Chrome 87
33 security fixes and is supposedly faster and has better power saving.
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Chrome for Android updated too.

Firefox 83
Over 20 security fixes and supposedly faster.
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Tails and Tor Browser updated too.

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.2 Optional (WHQL)
Support for Radeon RX 6800 Series and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. A few fixes. I’ve learned to stay away from the “Optional” drivers.
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Veterans Day 2020

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Happy Veterans Day brothers and sisters. Had I the ability, I would buy you all a beer today.

Excellent article by a fellow Virginian (yeah, I choked up when I read it):
What Does It mean to be a Veteran – David Reavis
“Being a veteran is being part of a brother/sister hood, it is something that you carry with you for the rest of your life. The experience’s that you live through which you are very thankful that you did are life-altering events and can change a person within a split second.
Being a veteran means learning that the measure of a person is WHO they are not WHAT they are. Learning that the person who is a little different from you, is really just like you. They love, they fear, they care, they laugh and they cry…”

According to the Census Bureau there are 17,418,351 veterans that make up 6.9% of the adults in this country.
Period of Service
Gulf War (9/2001 or later) – 3,772,708 21.7%
Gulf War (8/1990 to 8/2001)- 3,834,993 22.0%
Vietnam era veterans – 6,192,877 35.6%
Korean War veterans – 1,156,096 6.6%
World War II veterans – 380,327 2.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau – Veterans Day 2020: Nov. 11 and the spreadsheet below I made was from https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=veterans&t=Veterans&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2101&hidePreview=true
My spreadsheet: https://www.tweakhound.com//files/usvetstats2019.xlsx