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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    From what I gather (replace "d" with the appropriate drive letter): C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -a -l farm d: |more
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    USPS suspends packages from China

    From what I gather, most common "cryptocurrencies" already implement some form of quantum resistance; it is one of the reasons why it is recommended not to reuse an existing address after transferring from it. Apart from that, we are about as close to decrypting with quantum computers as we are...
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    ChatGPT linked to declining academic performance and memory loss in new study

    I have been evaluating various models to see if I can streamline my workflow, and have come to a few conclusions: 1) it ain't for me. Pity, as I expected to being able to reduce some drudgery, not increase it. 2) This stuff is dangerous in the same way modern edible substances are. Those...
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    Fraud: Heavily used Seagate harddisks sold as new

    Heads up for those who purchase seagate disks, even at "legitimate" places: The drives themselves are rumored to come from massive sell-offs in China, due to chia crypto farming no longer being profitable. Source...
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    PlayStation Studios is removing PSN linking requirement from PC games

    I'll take any silly trivial thing to complain about I can get - plenty of excellent games out there that don't come with such a silly requirement. I am done with performing arcane rituals before the aaa gods publishers grant me permission to play a game I paid for. I am even shifting my...
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review - The New Flagship

    Perish the thought of planning one's launch date properly in the first place. High demand for nvidia cards and Chinese new year are fairly easy to predict.
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    5080 Reviews

    Now waiting for the first post complimenting amd on "their genius strategy baiting nvidia into releasing cards too early, while amd produces the numbers before they release."
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    5080 Reviews

    I like to distinguish between game developers (the people) and game developer studios/publishers (the companies). They always gets mixed up in discourse, which I imagine is precisely what the leadership of the latter group likes to see, so they can piggyback on the sympathies for the first group.
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    Radeon 9000 series on sale...in March

    Good memories. The local pc shop threw in a copy of neverwinter nights (the most expensive game in his assortment) when I pretended to hesitate due to its €400+ price. That 9700pro lasted me over seven years. If amd had called their new card the same, I might have been crazy enough to get it...
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    They didn't say no. As pressed, exports of the newer equipment have been restricted since 2023. If asml still trades something with china, it's either because the us didn't request a restriction for the product in question or because the us wasn't prepared to push for existing contracts to be...
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    Potentially 100% tariffs on Semiconductors imported from Taiwan.

    That is completely irrelevant. Apart from the simple fact that asml must comply with us legislation or lose access to any supply chains and finance that does business there (i.e., stop operating), there is also the tiny detail that ever since the ww2 liberation the netherlands has tied its...
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    5080 Reviews

    After all these years, it's still not worth the computational cost to me. As far as I am aware, there was one major release (Indiana Jones) that required rt hardware, and I am seeing videos on youtube of non-supported video cards running that game quite well with a software layer in between...
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    DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik Moment’ triggers sell-off in big AI stocks, Nvidia and Oracle hit hard

    Last time I checked (just yesterday, in fact), "ai" was pretty bad. There's still plenty of orders of magnitude of improvements necessary before they actually perform to the standards that have been claimed by its evangelists. So: yes. The "ai" industry will absorb the efficiencies and proceed...
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    Radeon 9000 series on sale...in March

    You may be a bit overgenerous with the implicit assumption in this sentence.
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    Indiana Jones videogame teased by Bethesda

    From the "additional notes" in the recommended spec: Not that surprising that the step down in resolution allows one to run on higher graphical settings. If I recall correctly, an rx7700xt is only about 25% faster than a 6700xt.
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    I'll not dispute the first half, but that second part is a fairy tale. The gameplay experience is good despite the ecosysyem, not because of it.
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    Why did nintendo, back in the day, bother with showing skyrim in the switch reveal? To court the hardware enthusiasts, that is why. Because they damn well knew that the one or two exclusives and half an indie they offered in the first few months after release were woefully insufficient to...
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    That would depend on one's definition of "best". Mine happens to not include my device or software telling me: "can't let you do that, dave". Back when the original switch released, it was a unique device, so I was prepared to put up with it. Now, with a healthy market of deckalikes to choose...
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    Antec Flux Pro GN review

    For those of us who are getting sick&tired of youtubing, gamersnexus also edits most of their reviews to written editions: https://gamersnexus.net/cases/best-case-2024-so-far-antec-flux-pro-review-benchmarks
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    It had the nintendo games - demonstrating just how much a console's success depends on third party titles. If other publisher and devs decide to stay away, the switch 2 will tank just like the wiiu did. And that's a huge problem: to instill confidence from above mentioned publishers, the switch...
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    Which would, of course, nearly guarantee that it's lcd.
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    The Nintendo Switch 2 Thread

    At least there won't be any name-induced confusion about what it is. Bigger issue is that I'm seeing zero esthetic improvement in that kart game. It'll be all fancy raytraced and deeply learned superbly sampled, I'm sure, but to me it still looks like the tired old wii u version we got on the...
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    > Plays ... nintendo switch games*. *) A while back there was a video by modern vintage gamer that noted that getting switch game compatibility on a successor console was going to be a non-trivial exercise. Knowing that, how big is nintendo's asterisk going to be here?
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    I'd estimate that the install base is large enough that even a small fraction of enthusiasts will be enough to power excellent sales through the first year at the very least. The question is: are those enthusiasts going to go for a switch again? For myself: now that we have a true handheld pc...
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT tipped to launch alongside FSR4 and Ryzen 9000X3D in late January

    Harsh reality: radeon gpu's are not competing with nvidia, they're competing for production capacity against amd cpu's. You know? The highly praised line of products that, at the moment, amd can charge a pretty prodigious premium price for, thanks to intel's markedly massive mess-ups. Expect...
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    Microsoft Relaunches Copilot

    Evaluating some "ai" tools for an upcoming bit of drudgery that I am not looking forward to. So far, my feeling on how well they work can best be summarized as: "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
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    AMD Implements New CCD Connection in "Strix Halo" Ryzen AI Max Processors

    It's stated in the last sentence of the quoted text: the design was driven by the need for higher bandwith between chiplets. Seems to me that this tech could lead to an improvement for gaming on future multi-ccd cpu's.
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    Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes ENTIRE Dev team around AI

    Microsoft's "ai" strategy is a fuck up on a level that it makes the nokia acquisition look like a minor misstep.
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    Switch 2 Reveal incomming

    The switch was rather marvelous when it released and nintendo's games are nice enough. I imagine I am not the only one who got it on the side as the indie-box. Shame about the restrictive company that comes attached, though. I stopped buying further into their ecosystem when the deck (and...
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    Arm plans to hike prices, has considered developing its own chips

    After the billions thrown at the company, platform degradation was inevitable sooner or later. There are not that many viable alternatives said customers can switch to, after all. Law of Nature, that. The only questions are how much arm thinks it can get away with and whether they are right in...
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT tipped to launch alongside FSR4 and Ryzen 9000X3D in late January

    Booooooooring. I am bored down through the bone-marrow by amd's lineup (only slightly less by nvidia's, by the way). Amd needs something to show that their video chips aren't playing third or fourth fiddle to their cpu lineups. Which would be pretty hard, since they obviously are.
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    9800X3D vs. R5 5600, Old PC vs. New PC: Intel Arc B580 Re-Review!

    I am really curious on whether this is related to the rebar issue - if the extra overhead is being caused by the cpu doing stuff in video memory, there may not be much improvement that can be made with driver updates. Imo it remains a good value proposition at 1440p, with the obvious caveats...
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT tipped to launch alongside FSR4 and Ryzen 9000X3D in late January

    If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid. "Loathing" may be too small a word for me to describe how I feel about this sort of branding. However, at the moment the "ai" label is the easiest way to recognize amd's current top mobile processors.
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    HP Unveils AI-Powered Experiences

    Reminds me of those good-ol' post-modernist paper generators. They had a much lower energy expenditure than the "ai" these companies must be using nowadays, and had the added advantage of making more sense.
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    Half Life 3 in the works?

    ... or steam deck/os exclusive <ducks out of the way>
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    Considering the B580, should I wait for AMD/Nvidia?

    Seems that, indeed, the problem is there with rebar enabled. I suspect it could be related to intel's rebar requirement, though. After all, the feature involves cpu access to video memory. If the drivers require more access to video memory than usual, that suggests to me that the cpu is...
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    Considering the B580, should I wait for AMD/Nvidia?

    Back when the first gen arc released, Intel explicitly stated which platforms are supported for "optimal performance"; at least 10th gen for intel and 3000 (non-g) series for amd. Methinks that them "surprised" youtubers should have confirmed in their original reviews whether this was still the...
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    Radeon Pro w5700 vs w6600

    My guess is that intel was way less confident of its reception than they pretended to be. Even if they were expecting success: I seem to recall that their financials aren't as good as they used to be, so it's hardly surprising that they erred on the side of caution with production numbers...
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    Xbox Series S: 10 GB of shared memory needs years of optimization — Black Myth Wukong dev lead

    From what I understand, on the current gen (non-mobile) consoles two gb are reserved for os and other non-directly-gaming related tasks regardless of the memory architecture, or even whether it's on microsoft or sony's system. Devs don't have to program for two speeds because they don't get to...
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    AMD upgrade question

    Re-evaluate whether you really need/want to upgrade? From your description, an upgrade to am5 seems like too much bother and cost for the benefit to me.
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