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  1. Absalom

    Is it true that 7950X3D suffers from stutter on games?

    I've got a gut feeling this inefficiency is the main reason why Intel 15th gen is ditching hyperthreading. Not because it isn't useful anymore, but because Intel have hit a power budget wall. They've probably done some software profiling and found adding more E cores will make up for the loss of...
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    Is it true that 7950X3D suffers from stutter on games?

    Interesting 7950X3D results from Der8auer on HellDivers 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvszQIRIU4&t=499s More controversial is his stance that tools like Process Lasso aren't relevant during (his) testing. Not sure I agree with him, but I guess it's his prerogative to test how he wants.
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    Deus Ex : Mankind Divided

    Game's been out 7 years now and Eidos still hasn't fixed a major bug for me. I'm near the end stealthing with non-lethal takedowns at the convention center mission and the game softlocks if at any point I save and reload. I'd gitgud but I'm on the hardest difficulty and stealthing with the AI in...
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    Cerebras is still at it! Enter the Dinner plate CPU (WSE-3)

    Cool company. They are actively defying the whole notion of wafer attrition.
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    [Steam] Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection 50% off @ $9.88

    If anyone is interested in the C&C Remastered Collection it's on sale for $7 via EA Store (Spring Sale going on right now).
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    Windows Sandbox alternatives

    Sandbox is about isolation. Sandboxes, like Sandboxie, are about specific application isolation. Typically, anything the application writes to or attempts to modify gets intercepted and a copy (or pseudo-copy) is made and tracked by the Sandbox host itself; and that includes changes to the...
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    7900X3D $406.02 @ Amazon

    The 7900X3D has two CCDs like the 7950X3D. Since the core count is lower, less problems maybe? Much like the 7950X3D depends on your workloads. Since only 6 of the 12 cores get the 3D vcache, it could theoretically perform worse in gaming. But benchmarks to date tend to prove that otherwise...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Did you watch the first part of the video I linked?
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Asmongold effect. I think the bump is due to Asmongold putting up a video yesterday interviewing SBI Tracker's creator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFrwMVdLLDM
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    Switch emulator Yuzu is in Nintendo's crosshair

    Yuzu owner's caved 🙁 It was over before it started: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement
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    Every GPU I owned since 2007 (Fun Topic)

    I came in at the ground floor, but my upgrade cycle has slowed over the years S3 Virge Voodoo1 Voodoo2 SLI Matrox G400 Max Geforce2 GTS 64 ATI 9800 Pro 6800GT GTX260 GTX670 GTX1080 RTX3080
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    HTML/CSS Webpage with multiple user names and PW

    Or... if you're going for low hanging fruit, you know, Wix, WordPress, Weebly, etc. Learning to do modern web security yourself is rewarding. There are great standards around today such as OAuth and OpenID Connect. Lots of APIs to choose from.
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    Terminator: Survivors

    Every time I see a new game announced with "Survivors" in the title I think "Yet another Vampire Survivors clone". Seems to not be the case here.
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    Anyone still use an analog capture card?

    Back in the Win98/XP days I used AVI_IO for capture of analog satellite box output using a Matrox Rainbow Runner G400 add-on card. The add-on card could do realtime encoding in lossy MJPEG, but I found that image quality distasteful, so I sought out lossless compression alternatives. Anyway...
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    Chair mat for carpeted floor?

    Just got one with a beveled edge too. Expensive, but nice. I already have a glass top desk, so thematically it works. Personally got tired of tearing through expensive polycarbonate snake oil. Don't know why I waited this long to try a glass mat. If this glass mat lasts 5 years, it will pay for...
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    New NVIDIA control panel now in beta

    Looks like something from Razer Synapse.
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    Walmart buying Vizio - $2.3B

    Yet more reason to walk right on past those products.
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    Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

    Can't wait for Crystal Dynamics' future successor to apologize similarly for CD's "offensive" content. As if any present tense company can do no wrong. 🙄
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    4080 Super reviews

    Price drop or price correction? I want to believe these were not selling because consumers were voting with their wallet. But the reality is some were buying them. So, of course, I want to see this as a price correction because Nvidia thinks consumers are perfectly comfortable with paying for...
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    GeForce RTX 4070Ti Super Reviews

    Nvidia doesn't want the price to budge. They're perfectly fine with the current price strategy. So to compensate they launch a seemingly new product at the same price point but it's "better". The pot is stirred and people are talking about gpus again. Consumers gonna consume anyway.
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    GeForce RTX 4070Ti Super Reviews

    It's literally a gimped 4080, of course it's going to perform slower. What it comes down to is price vs performance. Is it worth that stretch over a 4070 Super or upgrade from the 4070 Ti?
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    Twitch streaming lays off 500 staffers

    My Twitch follow list is nearly all male. The one streamer I have that is female is TotalBiscuit's (aka The Cynical Brit) widow. Female streamers tend to get people in the door at a whim, but I don't think most stick around for the long haul. It's an almost impossible hill to climb to the top...
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    Twitch streaming lays off 500 staffers

    COVID money ran out. Probably.
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    Twitch streaming lays off 500 staffers

    Just to be clear, Twitch is laying off staff not cutting ties with contracted Streamers (i.e. that one billion number). There's a big difference here. If you're in the Elon camp, you might see this as Twitch cutting the fat. Of course, it also may be a path to promotion for those who get to...
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    And you shouldn't trust those prices anyway. Nvidia is notorious for changing prices right before launch. Retailers have to be on their toes.
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    Voyager 1 has finally started glitching after a near-constant operation of 46 years.

    Radiation was more a problem when it was closer to the sun and planets, less of a problem now in interstellar space. Ironically, the probes could now use a little bit of (captured) radiation. Now the problem is the probe's internals are freezing death. The Plutonium-238 fueling its RTG has...
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    Voyager 1 has finally started glitching after a near-constant operation of 46 years.

    Within some 200+ years from now it will somehow be picked up by advanced aliens, enhanced so as to exceed its original mission thereby amassing the knowledge of this universe, after which it will return to us to ask its creator "Is there nothing more?"
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    AIO with best software ?

    NZXT removed the internet connection requirement as well as requiring you to sign up with an account. To that end, I guess they removed telemetry? Hard to prove. It still does notify you of software updates from time to time. Guess you can firewall the app and services if you're paranoid. Even...
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    DOOM Is 30 Years Old!!! John Romero Releases SIGIL II

    Yeah, it's probably the same reason SIGIL II doesn't work on Chocolate, Crisp, etc. Those ports aim to be highly accurate to the original but to a fault in this case. Have you tried LZDoom? It's a fork of ZDoom aimed to work on older OSes and hardware. Might be worth a try. I did get SIGIL II...
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    DOOM Is 30 Years Old!!! John Romero Releases SIGIL II

    You'll need the DOOM.WAD from the original (not sure if shareware works too). You don't need DOOM2.WAD or any other. SIGIL I and SIGIL II definitely work with GZDoom out of the box. SIGIL's docs recommend it and ZDoom ports. I haven't run into any problems yet. I did confirm Chocolate isn't...
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    DOOM Is 30 Years Old!!! John Romero Releases SIGIL II

    I'm using GZDoom currently. I may go "authentic" and try it on Chocolate.
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    DOOM Is 30 Years Old!!! John Romero Releases SIGIL II

    I played SIGIL II a bit last night. Had a blast. That first level is friggin hard. I guess I should have expected that. I can appreciate Romero's approach to minimalist level design.
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    The Game Awards' 2023 GOTY Nominations

    Last year when Al Pacino walked on stage I was like wtf? Geoff must be your neighbor or you're having a really slow work week, Al.
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chernobyl

    Native voices and English subtitles is the way to go. Also, pretty cool that Strider is back in this one. Kinda spoilery on the playable character though.
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    Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core

    Do we know their target markets? 32-bit is good enough for most automotive embedded markets as you don't really need 64-bit addressable memory. It is a strange choice, but maybe they've been sitting on the design for ten years? At work, we were using a 32-bit ARM Cortex based SoC in our...
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    Tribes 3: Rivals

    After watching the Official Gameplay above, I couldn't agree more. This screams Ascend Redux. Full release probably comes with all the annoying microtransactions that never scale to a $50 (or less) game. Gotta modernize it with loot boxes, right? I've played them all. Sunk 100s of hours into...
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    NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” GB202 GPU GDDR7 384-bit memory

    I'm sure someone said the same thing about the RTX 3090, and then 2080 Ti before it, etc. The Blackwell project was probably started well before the 4000 series launched, maybe even before the 3000 series launched. Nvidia tends to have many generational projects being worked on in parallel.
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    More than 5 years since launch, the Epic Game Store has still not turned profitable

    Hah! Get over it, boomer! The reality is I'm a boomer too :(
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    More than 5 years since launch, the Epic Game Store has still not turned profitable

    Welcome to modern internet where parasocial negativity, gas lighting, and trolling are king. Get used to it. There is no safe haven. Some might consider a lack of social platform on EGS a plus. The decision to not go that route, I'm sure, is far more simple. I view Steam Community a swamp you...
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    More than 5 years since launch, the Epic Game Store has still not turned profitable

    EGS might be losing money, but I bet Epic as a company is still profitable. As long as their engine licenses and Fornite profits keep them in the black, then it's all good. EGS might eventually end up being a failed experiment, but at least they will have learned something from it. I don't...
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