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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    That's fair enough, but a lot of companies are coming out with solutions to a problem a large number of (largely Nvidia fanboys) are claiming doesn't exist. Not wanting something to exist doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    It's not up to the consumer to fix the problems of the manufacturer of a product that shouldn't have been mass produced in its current state in the first place. That said, there are obvious solutions and some manufacturers are already implementing them, but everything feels like a band-aid for...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    We do have numbers from engineers who have demonstrated, using ammeters and thermometers, that the power through the connector is often poorly distributed and this is leading to potentially problematic situations (melted connectors, in some cases). The connector is rated for 600W and the 5090...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    There are tech youtubers that have shown the poor current distribution running through the connector using ammeters and published the results. Regardless of how much you want to defend it, this is signaling a clear problem with the design. Several power supply manufactures and brands have...
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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    It's a problem of incentives. AI companies need to convince investors that this is the next industrial revolution in order to raise enough capital. That's easiest to do when you make bold claims like we're on the path to replacing the entire human labour force, rather than saying "hey, check...
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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    This is something that isn't getting discussed enough, in my view. AI replaces a lot of the mundane tasks that are assigned to younger employees, but the negative side of that is those are the tasks that get young people familiar with company processes, build relationships, and become...
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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    A lot of that is due to misuse of the tokens by employees, to be fair. There are companies reporting employees are literally using AI tokens to check the weather. Also, there is a trend in the industry called "tokenmaxxing", where employees are basically competing to use the most amount of...
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    Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

    This 100%. There was a lot of over-hiring during COVID. On top of the funding, there was also a tendency to "warehouse talent". There was so much money available that a lot of the big tech companies were hiring people because they didn't want their competitor to. I heard this discussed a lot...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    Thanks for the correction on that. I haven't used Word in quite a while to be fair, my work is essentially limited to Excel (which is great), and PowerPoint (which everyone has to use because, yay slideshows!). Glad to hear they fixed that stupidity. It was something that drove me insane back...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    MS Word is a garbage word processor in so many ways (try inserting and moving an image, it's like trying to box with your computer as you futilely attempt to position it where you want it to go), and it now comes with a monthly subscription. Terrible. LibreOffice does everything I need for...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    You have to remember how decisions are made with corporations when it comes to things like software. Most of this is blame-management, full stop. Your manager doesn't want you doing it because if something goes wrong, it's an internal problem, and he/she gets held to account for it. If the...
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    LibreOffice is free.
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    SpaceX IPO

    That’s not necessarily true for a variety of reasons.
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    NVIDIA "Vera" CPU Benchmarked: Beating Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

    Indeed. Granted, I believe a lot of this breaks down to the creation of specialist chips VS GPUs. Think ASICs for mining Bitcoin vs GPUs, same idea. That doesn't mean Nvidia can't also create similar chips, but there's a definite trend that their customers are also quickly becoming their...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    The flaw in your post is that I've never accused any of those companies of simply being greedy. They're selling market goods at market prices to customers who have demonstrated they're willing to pay. I've said the same thing about Nvidia and Nintendo. I don't buy Nintendo now specifically...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    That's good, I'm glad Valve is profitable and the guy who brought me $50 games for $5 on sale has done well with his business. None of this makes me automatically entitled to a subsidy for a portable gaming system. Do you work for free? Can you do some work for me that I won't pay you for...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    Valve is probably the most reasonable company in tech from a consumer standpoint. Memory prices have skyrocketed since they launched the product and they have to bid on these components like everyone else. I’m sure you ask your boss for a pay raise every year as well. Do you expect him to say...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    They don’t need to discontinue it because they have sold it out at the new, higher price. The market has spoken, and the market told Valve the new price is fine. It sucks because the Steam Deck was the single best deal in gaming by a long shot, but Valve also has to buy RAM and storage like...
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    Steam Deck Price Hike. top model now $949

    Love my OG Deck, but I loved it at OG Deck prices. I wanted to get one for the kids, but it looks like we’ll have to wait out the pricing situation for now. Still, I don’t begrudge Valve. Their input costs have exploded, and we can’t expect them to work for free.
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    AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

    Of course. Fortunately, I don't lack critical thinking skills like those people do. People need to stop watching the news. They'll be happier and have a better overall satisfaction with life.
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    AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

    No, the term pre-dates the formation of the state of Israel. Yes we do. The companies building them are telling you exactly what they're using it for. China's spending tons of money on AI. Companies like Huawei are making big advancements, just ask Jensen Huang. You don't know the full...
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    AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

    The people wanting to ban datacenters are also the people who want to ban nuclear. You might be able to build windmills provided you do so in an area that doesn’t interfere with their view.
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    AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

    Yes we would, because the foreign powers that are funding useful idiot agitators to slow down the progress of Western civilization would be telling them something else is the problem. The focus would shift to fearmongering about power rates, or forcing an overbuild of infrastructure to fund the...
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    AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026

    To be fair, climate change has fallen out of focus everywhere. Greta doesn't even care anymore, she went from "just stop oil" protests to scolding Trump for blocking oil shipments to Cuba. You can also run datacenters on cleaner energy sources if you're so inclined.
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    5080 power supply question

    Awesome! Thanks!
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    5080 power supply question

    Hey guys, I ended up RMAing my 7900XTX to MSI and they told me they can't send another over since they discontinued it and offered to send a 5080 instead, which I accepted. Just wanted to get some opinions on the power supply side. I'm currently running an MSI MEG 850W unit that has no native...
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    How AI will fail

    The technology is in its infancy right now. It requires a lot of up-front investment, sure, but it's a necessary part of the process. Most of the companies pouring the cash in can support it from cash flows from operations. Recall back in the dot-com era that a whole ton of fiber had to be...
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    How AI will fail

    Most people have a good understanding of how the world is, but can't envision what it can ultimately be. That's the difference between the guys on the high tech side pushing an envelope and everyone else. Humanity went from the Wright brothers to landing men on the moon in 66 years, literally...
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Tested, Fills Gap Between RX 9060 XT and RX 9070

    True. That might make AMD the de facto “gaming only” card for the foreseeable future if AMD actually manages to maintain a big enough pricing campaign and doesn’t revert to the “Nvidia less 10% lol” pricing model they had been using for some time.
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Tested, Fills Gap Between RX 9060 XT and RX 9070

    AMD would be stupid to do that. They need to be a significant price leader at this point if they want to stay relevant. Currently in Canada, the 9070XT is $300-$400 less retail than a 5070Ti from what I’ve been seeing. That delta is likely partly due to market factors to be fair, but it makes...
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    Ubisoft posts record $1.7 billion loss for 2025-26 financial year

    The ironic result of that statement was that gamers, in fact, became very comfortable with not owning Ubisoft games.
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    Playstation single player games will no longer be ported to PC

    Probably more to do with the game developer wanting to expand their market rather than remain exclusive to Sony. Sony can advertise a big player base with the PlayStation, but the total addressable market is much larger than just the PlayStation. Having a deal with Sony that permits a bigger...
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    On top of that, I've heard several reports from companies hiring MORE after adopting AI because it made everyone more efficient and created more things to do. The doomer narrative gets clicks I guess, but there's more to the story than some want to admit, and it's being used as a convenient...
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    Sounds like some nonsense an executive would say to cover their ass for making a poor business decision like laying people off before understanding what AI actually is, how to use it, and how it can be relevant to their business, but was eager to lay employees off to pump earnings for a quarter...
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    They’re not hiding anything, they just don’t want to give it away for free after investing billions of dollars into it. Those who need it know it and use it.
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    If you're not paying out of pocket for AI right now, you're not seeing the current state of the art. There is a big gap between the free stuff and what people are paying directly for, which is probably why a lot of people don't see the potential.
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    I have no doubt some of the groups that are lobbying against AI are being funded by China in an effort to influence the public to mobilize against things like the construction of datacenters and additional power infrastructure to support said datacenters. It's directly in their interest to slow...
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    I wouldn't say that's universally true. There are plenty of environmentalist NGOs like Greenpeace that are incredibly well-funded, and also pushed hard against nuclear. People bought into it because most of them don't even have an elementary understanding of how everything works, but they...
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    DRAM Pricing Jumps 50%, Only 70% of Orders Getting Filled

    S&P500 averages like 8-10% annually.
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    DRAM Pricing Jumps 50%, Only 70% of Orders Getting Filled

    If you're talking about technology in stock market, we literally just had a crash in 2022. People forget Nvidia cratered like 70% in 2022. Even recently, Micron also fell 30% just a few months ago. Oracle got smoked last year. Microsoft can't get off its ass because people are projecting...
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