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    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    The "ZFS for everything" religious phenomenon has been an interesting one on the timeline of modern computing. Off-topic, but ZFS is pretty much inescapable for anyone that's tried researching improving or expanding their storage. Just about every online guide, forum...
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    Elon Musk Sues Open AI and Sam Altman for Breach of Founding Contract

    Elon is always working an angle - usually in service to some ulterior, master of the universe type powerplay in his head. I used to like the guy - Tesla and SpaceX seemed cool, his "working for the betterment of humanity" shtick seemed genuine. But in more recent years am finding him dangerous...
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    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    From what I understand, the vast majority of freebie hoarders don't ever play the games. The game is the dopamine hit you got adding a free game to the library; after that it's forgotten about in most cases. Not that that's a bad thing, but "bribe people to come to my party" isn't great...
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    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    I do, it's great, but respectfully, I'm not sure how it would change what I mentioned. Two things can be simultaneously true: Epic has talented and competent developers, some of who are linux users and run their development environment atop linux; and their CEO can be short-sighted, flippant...
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    Linux market share passes 4% for first time

    Sweeney will once again just hang back, let Valve and others take all the risk, make all the investment, do all the heavy machinework boring a tunnel through the linux gaming mountain. And then he'll show up and decry "Steam's outrageous and unfair linux gaming monopoly" as he announces EGS for...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    An overflowing toilet is impervious to scorn. And manufactured rumors is a dedicated Industry now with teams of employees and production budgets. I used to think MLID, AdoredTV etc were causes, but no, they're symptoms. Just like the degeneration of cable news (Right and Left) catering to and...
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    Windows 11 Pro - $29.97

    None of these are legit. The "resellers" here are keeping 100%. Zero goes to MS. Might as well just use KMS activation at that point. The rot in this market goes far deeper than merely opportunists capitalizating on pricing disparities between regions, and it"s not what's happening with these...
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    Apple to make the App Store less intuitive with more prompts to level the playing field, accidently rolls it out ahead of ruling.

    This particular case with the app store is a head scratcher and seems like overreach, but to the EU's credit, the list of actions against MS, Google, Apple, etc that actually made these megacorps bend into slightly more consumer friendly positions is pretty long.
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    UEFI Firmware Update available for "blank screen on boot" for RTX 4080/4090

    This thread was relevant to the early days of RTX 4000 when the cards had just launched and some needed a BIOS update for the issue described in OP. If your card has been sitting 14 months, all you can do is try running it and if it doesnt need the update, the update won't proceed. Unclear why...
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    Porn

    Yes, but it involves farm animals. Probably not the answer you were looking for, I wish I had better news. It's a wild, wild west business. It cheapens us all.
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    (DEAD) Seagate 12TB $82

    As long as people understand it's not actually a warranty, it's a gamble that GHD doesn't disappear in the middle of the night, in which case you're SOL. Yes they've been around a long time, but still a gamble. The bigger problems that keep me away from refurbers like GHD and ServerPartDeals is...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    Havent really followed this game but this gameplay footage showed on my feed (Drewski) and gotta say gameplay looks fantastic. Like a more evolved, graphically impressive mashup of Destiny and Remnant From The Ashes, with starwars helmets. 3P coop shooters are just fun. https://youtu.be/N6F_aVqXuwU
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    DCS World 2.9 (Digital Combat Simulator)

    Amazing preview of what's in development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhLQNuxRqJQ&t=146s
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    [Steam] Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 90% off @ $2.99 till 1-24-24

    The game is incredible, the VR version is mind boggling -- really well done.
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    Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel

    Sexually speaking Pat does have considerable ground to make up, yes.
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    Micro Center starts a GPU trade-in program

    They're so nice at MC that abusing the store would just feel like stealing from a friend. They're one of the last B&M's that haven't been ground in the gears of autonomous warehouse machinery and faceless, online-ordered-Amazon-everything.
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    Micro Center starts a GPU trade-in program

    Retailers' typical angle for these types of offers is 1. Engagement (get people into the store to buy something, knowing the statistical percentages and averages for people that do, how many items, types of items, average gross and net per receipt) 2. Margin (profit) on the new purchase you're...
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    how to minimize eBay ship costs?

    You could've disputed this instead of refunding actually.
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    AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code

    Sidenote, there's this growing gap between UE5 games actually coming out (after almost 2yrs there's only Fortnite + 2 flops), and the flood of youtube vids showing UE5 demos and how easy it is for anyone with no prior experience to 1-click create videogames with it. Legitimate game dev cycles...
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    New Lian Uni Fan TL LCD Fans Have Screens On Them

    And yet they'll probably sell out and may even incur scalping like their predecessor. Why, because no other fan can alternate between telling you the time, and material of an adult nature (filth) involving bikinis and a car wash. Talk about a value-add for system builders and anime freaks just...
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    New Lian Uni Fan TL LCD Fans Have Screens On Them

    First shown at Computex, now all the world swoons before Lian Li's beautiful nightmares as they were suddenly, finally released to retail mere hours ago. 400x400 pixels. RGB-lit infinity mirrors around the edges. Available in black and white, 120mm and 140mm, plus a reversed-blade option...
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    New Metal Alpacool Apex Stealth Fan with some Impressive Numbers

    Yeah I was waiting for the AI-translated part to begin and then realized it already had. The next brain melter was a side-by-side with the German + AI English, taking turns muting and unmuting each since I also understand the german version fluently. It's definitely surreal.
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    New Metal Alpacool Apex Stealth Fan with some Impressive Numbers

    The hits keep coming for IgorsTechTips https://youtu.be/cHNXFgSonWI
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    Starfield Dev's getting a little petty on social media

    I hope you wrote down their names.
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    Ubisoft's The Crew is shutting down 31st March 2024 and will be unplayable after that because it is online only.

    Especially such a timeless classic as...✍️ checking notes... The Crew? I couldn't breathe when I heard the news.
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    Best data recovery software for deleted partitions?

    Not sure if you gave up yet, but did you try Disk Drill? www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html I'd forgotten to mention that one, but I've used it a few times recently and it has a few features that gives it an edge over some of the others (all these tools essentially do the same...
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    Western Digital Warns NAND Flash Prices Increasing 55+%

    That was my sense too. Only reason it seemed worth bringing up was for people hoping the recent drops to the $200 mark on higher-end 4TB Gen4 consumer drives would keep dropping if they waited a bit more. That party is probably over - not overnight, but there's a timer on current pricing.
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    Western Digital BLACK SN850X 4TB $230 + extra 10% off & free 128GB flash drive/Wireless charger

    ^ The April 2022 TomsHardware test on SN850 2TB isn't relevant to this thread, because A) 4TB SN850X > 2TB SN850X > 2TB SN850, if the same tests were re-done today it'd look different. B) 4TB models = 2x the pSLC cache of 2TB models C) There have been WD firmware updates since April 2022...
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    Western Digital Warns NAND Flash Prices Increasing 55+%

    Memory prices continue to rise, with the world’s top five memory chip manufacturers, including Western Digital (WDC), notifying their distributors and consumer customers on December 5th that they will shorten the quoting period for their two major products – HDD and NAND Flash memory. Instead...
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    Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer

    Do you know what specifically was adjusted in which games, or is this just something you've heard repeated? My (probably limited) understanding because I ultimately don't give a shit but facts matter, is one trivial line of NPC dialog (among hundreds of thousands) and one NPC spawnpoint were...
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    Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer

    Hence "reportedly" - based on an internal leak earlier in the year about the budget. But then $2 Bil is only 2.5 years of shark card profits just from GTA5 (RDR2 online also rakes it in but not GTA5 levels). People dont seem to realize the amounts of money R* games generate ongoing. Millions...
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    Tesla Unveils Radical Cybertruck.

    Fortunately there will be a package with bulletproof windows, but they'll be fixed and won't roll down. Who is the target demographic? To quote the brochure and press kit, "Anyone that has experienced significant childhood trauma, was ever stuffed in a locker or otherwise made to feel small...
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    Western Digital BLACK SN850X 4TB $230 + extra 10% off & free 128GB flash drive/Wireless charger

    Your issue isn't necessarily lack of perfect sized thermal pads. Get *any* heatsink on it- the motherboard-supplied, or a cheap $10 from Amazon, plus the slightest amount of airflow - they really don't need much. Without the airflow, the heatsink is just a heat capacitor and not benefitting the...
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    Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer

    Perspective, most expensive movie produced: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($552 million, adj. for inflation) GTA4 (2008) $100 million GTA5 (2013) $200-240 million RDR2 (2018) $170-240 million Cyberpunk 2077 (2020): $174 million Note: None of the above include marketing budgets, which were often...
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    Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer

    You can set your watch to the grand declarations of "this isn't to my tastes no thank you I'm not lesbian" whenever there's a new high profile thing. In fairness, I know firsthand that aging out of gaming - or just certain types of games - is a thing, and it's something that won't hit some...
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    Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia's AI Crown

    Like every silicon valley CEO these days, I think Lisa was under some pressure to "just go out there and say something about AI, talk about the AI plan". That might be how it all started. The shareholders and board of directors stuck a gun in her ribs and said "get up onto that stage and do the...
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    Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia's AI Crown

    Lisa Su live presentation today on AMD advancing AI https://youtu.be/tfSZqjxsr0M?t=11m49s
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    Galax announces a single slot 4060TI

    Saw this yesterday but passed on posting because it won't be sold outside of china. Maybe another brand does their own version, the form factor is perfect. Throw seven on a 7-slot x16 motherboard (WRX80, WRX90, W790 etc).
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    [DEAD] HP 4TB HP FX900 Pro nvme $184 @Amazon. Usually $250

    Because it's not a true HP product, but a Biwin product with licensed HP branding. They're also the OEM for Acer SSD and DDR modules. https://www.amazon.com/s?me=A37TNC2POOX0TX Same drive under different badges: Acer Predator GM7000 4TB https://www.amazon.com/B0BNTFVVGD/ XPG Gammix S70 Blade 4...
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    Nvidia is ‘No longer a graphics company’

    “Jensen sent out an email on Friday evening saying everything is going to deep learning, and that we were no longer a graphics company. By Monday morning, we were an AI company." It’s no secret that Nvidia has quickly morphed into an AI company. Although it creates some of the best graphics...
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