• Anyone got a recommendation for noise-cancelling headphones?  It occurs to me that if my main reason for replacing my computers is the fan noise, there may be more than one way to skin that turducken.
  
  The Jabra Elite 85h seem well-regarded.  
  
  
  
• The Motorola G9 Plus is A$557 on Amazon.
  
  Or A$319 from the local electronics store.
  
  That might suit me better than the Oppo A52, since Moto phones come with close to stock Android.  It is rather on the large side though.
  
  
  
• Why does Terraria even spin up the GPU fan on my system?  That game should run fine on an Atom.
  
  (Actually tries running Terraria on an Atom.)
  
  Okay, yeah, not so much.
  
  
  
• Sam is coming to X470 and X450 motherboards officially and X370 and A320 unofficially.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Seems to still only support 5000-series Ryzen, but in theory it should be possible to back-port to all Ryzen CPUs.
  
  
  
• The midpoint between 0 and infinity is 1.5.  (Peter Zhu)
  
  According to Ruby.  And it's the correct answer, for a pretty useless definition of correct.
  
  
  
• PHP 8.0 has been released.  (PHP.net)
  
  SMOD has failed us.
  
  
  
• Russia plans to ban Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for correctly labeling Russian state-controlled media as Russian state-controlled media.  (ZDNet)
  
  Sounds like a win/win.
  
  
  
• AWS had a problem of some kind affecting some people.  (The Verge)
  
  This did not actually shut down the New York Subway.
  
  
  What this says is they couldn't update their website due to the AWS outage, so they tweeted out the notification that buses were replacing trains due to planned maintenance, and not, as you might think from a quick glance, that Amazon somehow shut down train services.
  
  The AWS outage that takes out the New York Subway is next week.
  

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