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 No.123456[Reply]

The most fundamental and useful math skill know, we do it every day (Hopefully)! /qa/ does know how to count, right? What about efficiently? Is there any base that /qa/ is particularly fond of counting in?

How about for a celebration of this wonderful tool we use every day we do a fun little counting problem to find all positive integers N that satisfy the following conditions!

(i) N is divisible by 2020.
(ii) N has at most 2020 decimal digits.
(iii) The decimal digits of N are a string of consecutive ones followed by a string of consecutive zeros.
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 No.124036>>124039

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is math a social construct?

 No.124038

Math uses circular logic

 No.124039

>>124036
The tool of logic is not. It is rigid and objective.
But the things we explore with that tool, depend on what we are interested in.
The search for an odd perfect number, (or for ever higher even perfect numbers) is not reasonable. It's basically just a game.

 No.124049>>124052

>>124030
Adding two to a natural number means going to the next number two times. The number after one is two and the number after two is three. We can express this all symbolically with something like

a+0 = a
a+S(b) = S(a+b)
1+1 = 1+S(0) = S(1+0) = S(1) = 2
1+2 = 1+S(1) = S(1+1) = S(2) = 3

but that's what the symbols are saying in plain English.

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>>124049
Neat! I don't know what it means, but neat.




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 No.123713[Reply]

Do you have anything you could show your daughter and say "I made that"?
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 No.123735>>123763>>123852

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i made that

 No.123736>>123737

I'll show her the over a thousand blades I have created.

 No.123737

>>123736
Unknown to dad,
nor known to father

 No.123763

>>123735
a pile of rocks?

 No.123852

>>123735
so cool that we have a star entity that posts here




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 No.123777[Reply]

Are emotes a good form of casual engagement for streams that can quickly convey an emotion like a 'heh' or similar while also being visually witty and somewhat encompassing the history of the stream as well in what content it shows? I think they probably are more a benefit than a drain like people commonly think them to be on a stream's atmosphere but that's assuming a culture where they're used in conjunction with regular posts and not just the entirety of all posts. Do you agree and what kind of emotes could we potentially add to the kissu stream if so? I think that probably a good way to start would be maybe a site like banners, where the emote size has to fit within a certain limit because all the cytube streams I've seen where you have stuff taking up over half the screen is pretty annoying.
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 No.123789>>123793>>123794

I feel like we've had nearly this exact thread before.

 No.123793

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>>123789
Recycling is good for the environment!

 No.123794>>123795

>>123789
Nothing came out of the last one IIRC

 No.123795>>123796

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>>123794
Generally speaking, anything that requires effort from people is going to fail. This emote thing would work best with people submitting images and icons and "sharing the burden" as it were. Unfortunately the reality of it is that it will be kissu staff doing all of it and I don't think I have the motivation for it. And it's less fun if it's not a shared experience.

 No.123796

>>123795
Well yeah that's why I'm proposing to vermin maybe a way of doing a banners-type thing.




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 No.98115[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Right now it seems to be a good time to build a PC:
CPUs and GPUs are coming back in stock.
GPU price dropped to MSRP, thanks to the end of GPU crypto mining.
New generation, low availability technologies are cropping up like PCIe 4, DDR5, RTX 4090, AM5 socket, diverting consumer attention away from previous gen.
M.2 SSDs are cheaper than ever, and will be even cheaper in the near future because of flash memory chip oversupply.

What does /qa/ think about building a PC now?
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 No.123611

WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT
WHY AM I GETTING 2X THE FRAMERATE ON WINDOWS10???

 No.123617

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test with furmark 1 since all my others have been on that

 No.123619

hm, there's AA on the win11 test for some reason

 No.123621

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I'm not sure why windows 11's benchmark is on AA4x but Win10's isn't. That accounts for the framerate weirdness.

I apparently missed that because it's in my older screenshots too >>118626 >>119842

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passmark ratings are nominally better in 2D rendering but roughly equal in 3D. Win11's layout system might be messing with it for being too much bloat
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 No.123498[Reply]>>123512

Are advertisements inherently evil?
They are deceptive and manipulative, and arguably dehumanizing.
Is there an ethical justification for advertising beyond "but everybody else is doing it too"?

Note, I am not talking about notifying people of your product. But perhaps the distinction between these two things will have to be drawn (and redrawn) for the purpose of this discussion. We'll see.
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 No.123509>>123511

>But perhaps the distinction between these two things will have to be drawn
yeah I'd love to see that. Because I'm not convinced that this can be done in a manner that is at all useful.
Anyway, I think advertising is awesome :D

 No.123510

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¥unethically collecting user data with no regards for their privacy to better targets ads to them
Das evil
¥ads by themselves
Not evil unless they're really kuso deceptive ones or malware (like in the case of 4chan, not sure what they're like these days though).

 No.123511

>>123509
To me, if you are unobtrusive and descriptive of your product, that's information.
Aggressively seeking the attention of people and organizing your argument around what your customers are looking for rather than what you're selling, that's advertising.
The first one of these two things can probably be objectively measured. For the latter, in edge cases, it may come down to an accusation of a predatory mindset. "What do you mean, you're selling tasty pizza? Clearly you are trying to manipulate me!"
But then, evil is malicious intent, as far as I understand the term. So you can't not have this level of uncertainty.
>>123502
>I wonder if that's true actually.
Even if a person's actions are completely ineffectual, the fact that they have taken steps toward that goal, makes them guilty of the attempt.

 No.123512>>123513

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>>123498
No, not at all unless they're doing things that are unrelated to advertising itself which are evil, such as lying or manipulation. Ads are how a lot of free stuff I like operate, and since I block ads I think it's a win-win.

 No.123513

>>123512
But don't you know, not watching the ads is the same as piracy.




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 No.123349[Reply]

What do you look for when downloading an anime release? This seems to be a surprisingly divisive topic in some circles, with some wanting only the highest quality encodes regardless of size while others just want mini-encodes that save space while looking somewhat decent, like ASW or EMBER. I think there's a certain appeal to aiming to only get the highest quality, but at the same time I sometimes struggle to see the difference between that & a significantly smaller version. Maybe my eyes are bad, or it's because I'm just watching on a 1080p monitor?

Personally, I usually reserve those massive encodes for series I really enjoy and download "average" ones for anything else. I only have so much space after all, and I enjoy having a sizeable anime collection...
For example with pic related, I store the MATSU release rather than the Kagura release, which is supposed to be better but also around 13GB or so larger.
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 No.123485>>123486>>123520

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>>123469
I know it's ripped directly from CR (that's why it always comes first).
>The only reason to download the SubsPlease release over ASW is that SubsPlease comes out first
I sometimes download the SubsPlease release based on this if I want to watch something as soon as it comes out.

CR however, was made to be streamed, not downloaded. Otherwise you're killing your poor SSD/HDD with those huge ass file size (specially SSD, don't complain if it stops working after a few years of doing that).

 No.123486>>123487

>>123485
The point being that it's pointless to complain about people normalizing it.

 No.123487>>123495

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>>123486
I feel like this will cause everyone to abandon torrents and just watch streams instead (already happened to some extent, nyaa used to be more popular).

Random comments I found there about this.

 No.123495

>>123487
>abandon torrents and just watch streams instead (already happened to some extent
I believe that future to be inevitable to some degree. Anime being one of the few holdouts with a lot of people still downloading properly and using real players, contrasting western television that is almost exclusively watched on stream. I don't think that newcomers to anime will ever see a single reason to acquaint themselves with the tools that we use.

 No.123520

echoing what was already said releases literally do not matter anymore since they're all just streaming site rips and fansubs have been dead for ages

the only thing i watch out is for hidive rips, as already mentioned in this thread they're bit starved garbage and they're immediately noticeable especially if you take screenshots, and what i usually try to get then is amazon rips, i dunno how licensing works but for some reason things tend to be available there when they're not on CR
>>123485
>Otherwise you're killing your poor SSD/HDD
modern ssds have vastly better endurance than when the first drives started hitting the market
i don't really think that was even an issue for those, but for the average 1 TB ssd drive nowadays you'd have to overwrite the entire drive every day for more than a year... on that account it's really a non issue




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 No.114642[Reply]

When you don't go outside it's easy to forget the basic hygiene you practice since much of the motivation for taking care of yourself can be perceived as a social thing. However some things are important to do even if you're not going outside for the sake of your long term health! Like brushing your teeth and flossing to keep them clean of plaque leads to healthier gums and reduced risk of brain disease! If you haven't brushed yet go do it!

What other health tips does /qa/ know to keep their body in peak condition?
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 No.114836

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>>114711
gotta start small anon. you can't hide from your self. it'll start to know the small improvements too.

 No.123435>>123437>>123470

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Terrifying consideration... but is it a good idea to 'go outside' to get regular doctor's appointments so that you counter and avoid whatever nasty disease or debilitating health issues you may have before they become serious?

 No.123436>>123437>>123470

Also how are you even supposed to find a doctor if you haven't been to one in years..

 No.123437

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>>123435
Definitely. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and is if the cure exists. Take action as soon as you can.

>>123436
Unless you changed locations the same office is probably still there and you'll have records. If not... I'm not sure. I've always lived in the same location.

 No.123470

>>123436
Do you not have access to the internet?

>>123435
Depends on your age and symptoms.




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 No.102706[Reply][Last50 Posts]

What are /qa/'s opinions on avatarfags, namefags, and tripfags? Are they helpful or harmful towards an imageboard, and to what degree for each?
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 No.116786

the friki anon

 No.116787

>>116785
If it makes you feel any better jim2ch users thought I was korean dog because of my middling japanese

 No.116790

>>116785
i don't find it to be much of a problem honestly

 No.116793

>>116785
Saying you're from the USA barely counts as saying where you're from. Even giving your timezone means a bigger region than most countries. The equivalent to your country is probably something like saying you're from South Dakota.

Either way, as long as you only mention it when it's relevant it won't stick to you when you're anon. Just don't narrow it down so much that it counts as personally identifiable information.

 No.123398

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I like figuring out who posters are so that I can make better targeted funposts at them when the necessary time comes.




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 No.113785[Reply][Last50 Posts]

General video games thread since the other one hit the bump limit. What are you playing? What are you looking forward to?
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 No.123353>>123354

Palworld updates seem quite good. I think I'm going to aim for a replay of it sometime in the summer which is the planned released of a new island with new Pals on it and other stuff. Since we played together they've added various fixes, but also some new stuff like a raid boss and it looks like there's a PvP arena in the work as well.
Who's up for playing it together again whenever that big patch hits sometime in summer? (Northern hemisphere summer)

 No.123354

>>123353
I completely lost interest when I learned it was just arena style pvp. I wanted actual pvp like storming someone's base and capturing their pals.

 No.123378>>123384>>123386

I've been looking to play Elder Ring
Missed the hype

 No.123384

>>123378
elden ring is still really good the multiplayer is just less active nowadays

 No.123386

>>123378
If you want to get in on all the excitement there's still going to be time soon when the DLC comes out and everyone's playing that. Also I'm pretty sure they confirmed there'll be nothing for ER after this so in effect people won't be holding off playing because they're waiting for DLC after this.




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 No.120408[Reply]

What is your opinion of private trackers and the like? AB recently came back (yay) but people have mixed feelings about such things. It's easy to dismiss criticism as jealous resentment if someone isn't in them, but it's also easy to see that it's not an ideal situation for people that love certain media and want to also share that love with others.
Maybe if AB did die the nyaa admin would get off his butt and actually allow new account creation since they've been temporarily closed for like half a decade now. It's not unusual to see releases and uploads that don't actually belong to the uploader since the person has no account. How much stuff is nyaa missing because it doesn't allow people to actually share them? You can only get post-MoyaiSubs Mewkledreamy Mix subs on twitter right now and I only know that because it was mentioned in one of the 2 uploads on nyaa uploaded by a third party, with the remaining 25 episodes on twitter. Is nyaa considered semi-closed or something?

I think the problem with Japanese media in general is that there's really no middle ground. It's nyaa or nothing. There isn't a "oh, this isn't as great as AB but it has 70% of the content" place, it's either you're in the anime tracker or you're not. I'm not in BBT, but I hear it's closer to the nyaa side of the scale due to certain rules it has among other reasons. I worry that as Japanese media continues to overtake the Western world (even if the mainstream people watch the same 5 shows) the tendrils of corporate rights holders will be as zealous as Disney or Nintendo is, and that will further increase the reliance of private trackers. Not to imply that it doesn't already cause issues on stuff like youtube and the like. Youtube once had lots of full episodes and albums you could watch but they were stricken down by various companies doing the copyright strike thing to wipe out accounts hosting entire libraries. It also has algorithms and AIs to detect and delete stuff that gets uploaded, within minutes. But hey, if you subscribe to one of 15 services you might be able to watch it if it's currently on the service.

Oh yeah, I forgot that I wanted this thread was more about general private tracker stuff. I think they're unfortunately a necessity for most things due to how corporate the internet has become, but I don't think it's necessary for Japanese stuff yet in regards to user safety from lawyers. I think it's kind of sad how people under age 25 or Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.123283>>123291

>>123277
Why do you need a VPN for nyaa?

 No.123291>>123295>>123297

>>123283
I don't want loli hentai associated with my family's static home IP address, also you never know what company is going to suddenly start sending copyright letters

 No.123295>>123323

>>123291
have you considered shelling out $5 a month for a good VPN?

 No.123297

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 No.123323

>>123295
I'd rather torrent through Whonix




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 No.68627[Reply][Last50 Posts]

><Anonymous> like say someone starts a thread about mecha it's gonna take two years to reach 200 posts

Let's prove him wrong.
MECHA THREAD!
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 No.110942

it's quite something that the franchise predicted the idea of AI assisted controls in complex systems to better the abilities of the pilot

 No.112156>>112157

Grendizer is getting a reboot.

 No.112157

>>112156
Interesting teaser trailer that didn't really show anything. Can't tell if it will be loaded with 3D or not

 No.114968

https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-startup-develops-gundam-like-robot-with-3-mln-price-tag-2023-10-02/

Wish I was a billionaire so I could spend one one of these easily. It looks so cool.

 No.123190

Will 3D mecha ever be able to look as good as 2D?




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 No.123132[Reply]>>123153

Time for some spring cleaning!
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 No.123145

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cute as HELL stop motion

 No.123146>>123147

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>>123144
Sehet! Es ist alles verrückt!
Ich sage euch, der Stuhl ist besessen!
Zweifellos das Werk des Wesens X, dem alten Puppenspieler.

 No.123147

>>123146
People keep saying my dolls are haunted but it turns out it was the chair all along.

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>>123132
Thats a good stop-motion animation anon!

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>>123144
I can relate.




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 No.108338[Reply]

https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-classic-is-getting-official-hardcore-mode-servers/

What does /qa/ think about the idea of hardcore MMOs? Having seen a bit about this in my Youtube recommends, it looks kinda fun and engaing. Classic wow is by no means the hardest, or even that challenging an MMO, but I think that just lends itself very nicely to a hardcore mode. It encourages a bit more social interaction during questing to not die trying to solo along with encouraging better communication during dungeons/raids since nobody wants to lose their character. Also I'm a bit of a fan of hardcore modes myself, so I was wondering if kissu might be interested in giving it a shot once the servers come out?
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>>122611
also he NEVER said it was ds2 tier

 No.122767>>122768

Phase 3 of WoW SoD launched with Nightmare Incursions, a new mechanic that just so happened to turn into the most profitable gold and xp source in the game. Blizz noticed and changes are already planned like a gold reward hotfix that came 8 hours after the patch launched, and an exp nerf to the incursion quests that'll come later today. Figuring this out, I decided to use it as an opportunity to easily level 2 of my chars to 50, and I spent all day today just running incursions over and over. Now my warrior is 50 alongside my rogue.

 No.122768>>122771

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>>122767
>Nightmare Incursion
What is that exactly?

 No.122771

>>122768
Sort of like an instance thing that everyone takes part in, they're inside of the portals that the world boss dragons come out of. Inside you do quests and get mission letters from them that you then use to get another quest and an item that lets you share the quest with other party members. There's kill quests, pick up quests, boss quests, and profession-based quests. It's pretty fun to do as a one off event and feels very MMO-y with how many people are doing it at the same time and killing bosses and such. However, the issue is that it's much easier to just do bosses and pick up quests than it is to do any kill quests or profession ones, so people run them in loops of 5-man groups and refresh all the quests after turning them in by sharing with each other then do it again and again and again because it's the most efficient way to get both gold and xp. You do this from 40 to 50 unless you want to be left behind, and right now there's a rush to do them since it's getting nerfed hard in the next patch so it's super easy to get groups.

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No group for Blood Moon? No problem! Just play a rogue.

Heavy metal may/may not improve performance




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 No.122977[Reply]

There's going to be a spontaneous GuPz stream in 1 hour!!!(or maybe two if people want it at 8EST)!!

This the 4th movie in the final GuPz series and lasts for 60minute

@ https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/yukkuri !!!!
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 No.122999

>>122998
oh wait that's probably "alcohol free"

 No.123000

Definitely the most exciting tank action of the series so far on the mountain. What an intense and fast-paced scene, so much going on at once spread across a variety of different shots. I loved it.

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 No.123002

>>122998
Kugel Bier
Bullet Beer
Alkoholfreies Bier
Non-alcoholic Beer

I can't read the pink script.

 No.123003

>>123001
if only that wasn't alcohol free i'd buy the HELL out of this beer with that logo




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 No.122265[Reply]

Does /qa/ have any favorite cartoons? I've never really stopped to think about this since I always despised /co/ as a board and they never discussed any of the cool European comics I was into. So, as usual, I thought of some stuff off the top of my head and made a 3x3 based on it. I think it's pretty obvious that I was an MTV/Cartoon Network kid if you look at my picks. MTV used to be a pretty cool channel and had a lot of cartoons that were aimed at the teen demographic that is so common in anime/manga. I also watched a lot of dubbed anime on CN back then. Avatar would probably be in this since everyone sucks it off so much and lauds it as the best cartoon ever, but I've never finished. I thought it was kinda boring back then and it did not help that Nickelodeon was already declining in quality during the time it aired.

By the way, did you know that there were two new seasons of Beavis and Butthead released in 2022-2023? I had no idea about this until recently. I might check it out sometime.
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 No.122288

>>122287
yeah, that's a nostalgic one

 No.122290

cyberchase

 No.122333

I think I've forgotten most of this stuff. Old Simpsons of course, uhh... children's stuff from the 90s I guess? Stuff like Rupert, David the Gnome, uhh, what else was there?
I really liked the old cartoons that wrote about magic and imagination and good things happening if you just believed in yourself. Good ol' sappy stuff is inspiring and really what kids need to hear if you ask me. Maybe the David the Gnome theme itself is emblematic of this kind of feeling. (video related)
Maybe I need to think more about this, because this is really deep in my memory somewhere...

 No.122822>>122841

>>122287
I loved this show so much I became a bit obsessed with it. I'd daydream all the time about being part of the group and how things would play out if I were there. Being stuck at a boarding school but having the freedom to go wherever you wanted outside and actually doing things that mattered was so enticing to the imagination. Especially the whole conflict and interaction between the virtual world and real world, whatever happened in the virtual world had visible effects on the real world. And a lot of times they had to use guile and deception to keep a secret.

I really liked Kids Next Door too. The whole premise of kids leading double lives as spies/commandos was really fun.

There's just something so alluring about alteregos/personas. The ability to put on a mask and slip through the chains that bind. Deception, lies, trickery. Not knowing who you really are yet knowing all the same. Mutability, vague, indescript, undefined, outside the box.

 No.122841

>>122822
Same, my friends and I had a field day with CL. Rewatching some episodes recently reminded me how dark it could get for a kid's show.
Shame about the reboot.




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