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    AM4 Reaganomics: Retire 1700x, Swap in old 3700X, Purchase a new 5700X3D

    I have a feeling that anything used would be cloud based AI, at least in the near future. Power wise I should be good, I believe I have a 1800watt PSU in that machine due to it once upon a time running a power hungry (close to 600 watt I think) 295x2... think I had a third 290x in crossfire at...
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    AM4 Reaganomics: Retire 1700x, Swap in old 3700X, Purchase a new 5700X3D

    Seems like decent gaming performance, and is a cheap and painless way to update an older system. Convenience is king! Whichever is for sale for $260 or so, the 5700X3D or another sale on the 5800X3D (missed the last one), I figure I'll hop on it. Should pair well with the 6700XT I think.
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    AM4 Reaganomics: Retire 1700x, Swap in old 3700X, Purchase a new 5700X3D

    Seems like AM4 will never die! I setup two AMD systems for a family member. I can't recall what motherboards I used, but I know one has a 1700x, the other a 3700x. I was thinking of picking up a 5700X3D that should be releasing very soon for the gaming system to replace the 3700x, and...
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    WiFi 7 isn't supported on Windows 10

    Not yet, because Wifi7 isn't even finalized until 2024, but I often update the wifi/bluetooth cards on older systems that are otherwise perfectly good. Just recently slapped a new wifi 6e card on my kitchen computer for example to match the router. The reason for not upgrading to W11 is that...
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    Weirdest Game you Ever played?

    Just finished one, actually. Not sure if "cutest" or "weirdest" but you play a cat in a post-apocalypse world where leftover helper robots developed their own AI personalities by mimicking the humans that were no longer around, and some freaky thing that evolved into a mega organism feeding...
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    Preloaded emulation drives on Amazon

    There is value in having someone put on the front end for you, has all the right emulators preinstalled, ensures all the games loaded actually work with the right names and what not organized, that the controls work, and so forth. I wasn't talking about the standalone emulator PCs that they...
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    Preloaded emulation drives on Amazon

    I'm too lazy to curate my own bunch of roms and emulators and want to just pickup something turn key to plug into my existing HTPC setup. I'm concerned about malware and see some have horrible interfaces with games that are half buggy or duplicates or jacked controls, and others that seem...
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    DEAD WD Easystore 14TB $189.99

    I think we have to flag them for mods to put [DEAD]. Done.
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    DEAD WD Easystore 14TB $189.99

    I see people getting excited about 10TB drives for $150, which I checked my receipts and is the exact same drive I bought more than a year ago for the same price. Feels bag mang. They do have 18TB drives though at least, which is nice, but the per TB price isn't shrinking fast.
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    DEAD WD Easystore 14TB $189.99

    One? You pleb. The question I have is what am I supposed to do with all my old 8TB drives.
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    Amazon Echo Flex Smart Speaker with free Sengled Wi-Fi LED Bulb - $9.99 @ BestBuy

    Don't be, that was the worst of the echos (crappy mic crappy speaker), and they just released a new generation.
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    Microsoft Internal Documents - Permanent Work From Home

    The negative is outsourcing. If you can work from anywhere you have internet, why employ anyone in a high cost of living state? Or why in an expensive country at all? Why not some guys in India where the per capita GDP is $2K? I worked from home for about a year and a half and I loved it...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Take a deep breath, now attempt to objectively review the net taxes or subsidies and government attitude toward coal and alternative energy. On some level you must recognize how downright idiotic it is to pretend that businesses like Tesla aren't the darlings of the government with billions in...
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    Sweden Bans Hauwei from 5g Networks nationally

    It is in part a cultural issue. While cheating is frowned upon in Western society, and cheaters shamed, in China it is the cheated that are shamed for not being savvy enough. And its not just in industries, its pretty much universally expected that Chinese students will try to cheat on...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Yes, because methanol is typically made from natural gas, and nuclear is a non-competing dead industry in the US so there's no harm in praising it. And you seem to be quite intellectually dishonest, pretending to be completely oblivious to the points made, and then when pointed out how wrong...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Its quite blatantly obvious that you're a shill for the methanol industry, as no one could be that dense to genuinely believe that fleet fuel economy, displacement taxes, and the plethora of emissions regulations have no impact on engine performance and costs. For example, in the 1960s we...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    The report came from the ex-CEO of BP, and you have to realize that the statement is not something that is good for the oilfield industry; quite the opposite. Its essentially explaining why they are abandoning billions in exploration, because relatively new technologies such as fracking have...
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    Sony LISTENS to Voice Chats to Scan for 'TOXICITY' in Latest PS4 Update?!

    Automation of undesirable speech recognition for flagging and review is something that is already being done on many platforms, and considering how advanced telemarketing spammers, siri, and alexa and the like are getting, I wouldn't be surprised to see something implemented that would spy on...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Your divorce from reality is quite astounding... you act like the coal industry, relentlessly regulated into oblivion by the government, is somehow the pet of the government and receiving massive lobby money and a barrage of media misinformation campaigns, when its so patently obviously...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    I wouldn't buy into the climate alarmism at all. 1) The climate alarmists have a horrific track history at predicting the calamities they swore would happen when crying wolf. 2) They claim that any weird climactic event, which have always happened in history, are proof of global warming...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Electric batteries predate the internal combustion engine, as do electric cars. There are some people that will argue about anything, but for the most part people don't really care if you're a boxers or briefs guy. The problem with electric is that its not a personal choice, but one that is...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Your defense is that the substance of a post is less important than the tingles it provided you emotionally to read it? C'mon, certainly the factual accuracy is more important than the finesse of the delivery. You're absolutely right, although devil's advocate is that it shouldn't really need...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    At present, absolutely, however, I think it would have and should have happened organically. Lithium battery technology was going to see massive investment one way or another because of all the non-automotive applications from lawn mowers, laptops, cellphones, etc. and when/if fossil fuels saw...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    You aren't energy independent, you are just paying for electricity in advance, and in fact drastically reducing your overall freedom. If you can't understand why, learn to read better, that shouldn't take more than 10 seconds to skim.
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Cool man, let us know how your lithium and other heavy metal mining and battery and solar panel production operation is doing in your back yard, or are you going to be tying your money up in prepaying for electricity by being dependent on the megacorporations that will produce and lease you all...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    This is the only glimpse of objective reality that you seem to be willing to recognize in your EV evangelism. You liken ICE inferiority/EV superiority to the fall of coal energy, when the only reason that coal is no longer a viable technology is because the government for all intents and...
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    Tesla's New Tabless Electrode Battery Cell Patent Is 'Way More Important Than It Sounds' says crazy-person Elon Musk

    Not even the part where he explained that he's really just a posterchild/salesman and isn't really involved with the operation of the business direction or development on a macro level and doesn't attend most meetings? They give him some play money, but mostly just let him bring in government...
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    CD PROJEKT RED Mandates Six-Day Work Weeks Ahead of Cyberpunk 2077’s Launch

    Are they hourly? In most industries here if you work another 8 or 10 hour day, you get 150% pay as overtime by default for exceeding 40 hours.
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    China preparing an antitrust investigation into Google

    The big tech giants need to be broken up entirely, not just taxed/fined by foreign entities that really just want some free money and protection for their own tech companies. Throw in some free-speech platform laws as well, since many of them are trying to become king-makers and influence...
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    India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

    And what are the 1.4 billion and rapidly growing people going to do with their newly found power parity when they see those developed countries have more than them? One of the first things Japan did when it reached an industrial and military threshold was to surprise attack two Western...
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    India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

    I was going to say, stealing IP and having your people educated by the countries whose tech you are going to steal is how Japan and China leapfrogged technologically, I don't see why India wouldn't do the same. Look at Japan's Iwakura mission for example, flooding Western countries with spies...
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    Pilots Now Spend More Time Learning Automated Systems than Hands-On Flying

    Not if you're willing to move to China. Apparently they have a massive shortage of airline pilots, and are paying big money to try and scalp them from other airlines. $300K a year, end of contract bonus $80K, very low cost of living, tax free.
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    Apparent racial bias found in Twitter photo AI algorithm

    Or its the same simple problem that has existed for years and years, dark things show less contrast in pictures than light things. Shadows that highlight features are often simply lost, or barely show up, human or otherwise. Ever try to photograph a black cat compared to a white cat...
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    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM

    That's not typically the issue. Companies like to dangle the carrot over the heads of younger employees that feel insecure and unsure of their own worth, who will work far harder to try and establish a foothold for themselves, with the promise of security once they do. These new green...
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    Sharp's Colossal 120-Inch 120Hz 8K Display Is The Perfect Gaming Companion For GeForce RTX 3090

    The action would just need to be more centered on the screen, after all, IRL is a massive field of view. This would just require any media to be shot at that 8K higher FOV, and the software recognizing what its displaying at and cropping for lower resolution accordingly. The only real issue...
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    Sharp's Colossal 120-Inch 120Hz 8K Display Is The Perfect Gaming Companion For GeForce RTX 3090

    If 8K became more mainstream, perhaps we'd see more stylized rather than realistic games, where they could be ultra-crisp and high framerate, but look more like anime with simplistic/minimalist artistic choices. That would seem to be a good solution to the VR issue as well, where high...
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    Sharp's Colossal 120-Inch 120Hz 8K Display Is The Perfect Gaming Companion For GeForce RTX 3090

    You just need to move out of NY or whatever closet apartment, as 120" diagonal isn't that big of a wall. When these become cheap enough, I'll finally get rid of my projectors.
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    Intel Is Changing Its Logo and Iconic, Five-Note Bong Sound

    Meh, its just a font. The most important thing is the naming convention, which appears to be unchanged which is fine its intuitive enough to figure out. Where marketing confused me, aside from the obvious bland vagueness of everything on that page, in the first large graphic of the 7 clearly...
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    Oculus to require a Facebook account

    Find a profile pic of random thot, make up random stripper name, use fake email account, voilia you have a bogus FB account to use for online coupons, oculus, nvidia driver updates, etc. Mines ages old and FB never caught on.
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