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Your PSU still follows a color-coding standard that’s decades older than your PC, but there's a reason why

The importance of using a quality power supply is obvious to even new PC builders. It's the component that protects your expensive hardware from potentially devastating electrical shenanigans. What's way less obvious is the underlying make-up of the wires running from the PSU to the motherboard. These wires follow a standard established before some of you were even born.

Your PSU still follows a color-coding standard that’s decades older than your PC, but there's a reason why

We haven't written up this one. XDA Developers has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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ChaosCypher v0.4.3: When a Clean Restart Lost More Work Than a Crash

v0.4.3 adds nothing new. No new features, no breaking API changes, no schema migrations: 54 commits since v0.4.2, 23 of them changing shipped code. Most of them are in the queue and the extraction pipeline, and most of those share one trait. The work was lost, counted twice, or quietly downgraded, and nothing reported it.

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