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    Cerebras is still at it! Enter the Dinner plate CPU (WSE-3)

    How much is it? I have some tough word processing to do.
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    Microsoft exploring options to power its datcenters using nuclear energy

    I agree and I doubt that's true. Anything is better than flushing billions a dollar a day on inefficient wind/solar. We would have so much more money to devote to developing fusion or improving wind/solar efficiency, than putting the cart before the horse.
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    Nvidia stock price befuddling analysts

    Tesla was once valued at more than most car makers - combined. They were also something like 1000x their P/E. It made no sense. Irrational optimism will take a stock a long way. AI is just getting started. I went to two bank websites today and instead of searching, the search was replaced with...
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    Intel CEO admits 'I've bet the whole company on 18A'

    Drastic node leaps seems like it's destined for failure. Didn't they try that a few years ago? Seems like you would learn something important at each level, as electrons get closer together. intel needs to work their employees 24/7 like TSMC.
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    TSMC Nightless Castle is online

    You got the expensive country like Japan, right. That's why people are willing to work themselves to death - they have to. Japan suffering from highest debt / GDP in the world - nearly double what the US has. Spending has consequences...
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    intel 13th and 14th gen xx900 and xx700 may have defective cores causing crashes in gaming

    Sounds like you are closest to being right. Intel pushed these too close to the limit. Instead of +5% headroom, you really have -5% headroom. TH has always been an intel apologist. 100°C is where CPUs are going to crash - that's a chip/cooling problem (from 21 years of overclocking experience...
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    Get Ready for "Gamerlicious" Nvidia Control Panel

    I agree with you... now can I have my Windows/Office pre-Ribbon menus back? You know, when it was just dropdowns in Office 2003 and 2 to 3-button hotkeys for all the main features? It went from a 2-button click, to 2-3 button clicks on shifting menus to access the same option. You could even...
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    Microsoft finally putting Publisher out of its misery.

    OneNote is one of the best ways to take notes. You can organize with sections and click a new button to create a new tab - kind of like an Excel spreadsheet. Best of all, it is supremely searchable. Depending on the setup, it can also be accessed/synced on your phone, online or on your computer...
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    Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance

    $1B was a slap on the wrist for Intel, with the untold billions in revenue they gained from cheating - why would they stop? Unfortunately for them, they squandered their money and performance advantage. No amount of cheating will help them gain back the crown. They need to do it the old...
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    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    I ditched HP after my printers kept have mysterious firmware permafailures exactly 1 month after the warranty expired. Hmm... Also got tired of the games I had to play to use non-OEM ink - scam. Bought a Brother multifunction laser printer years ago and have never looked back... Still going...
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    Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

    Wow, I heard the same when Windows 8 came out... and yet everyone migrated. ...and then migrated to Windows 10. You may not want it, but it will be forced onto the majority of people with the next laptop or PC they buy.
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    Windows 11 24H2 to enforce HW requirement

    It also collects your phone number, IP and email - it knows who you are.
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    Windows 11 24H2 to enforce HW requirement

    I always love the PC elitest that come along and say it's a "good" thing when a company forces you to pay more money for something that you don't need. They assume everyone has the money, time or desire to keep their PCs up to date. No, it's not a good thing when a near-monopoly forces you into...
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    Microsoft finally putting Publisher out of its misery.

    Funny, I just started using Publisher about a year ago for newsletters. Word is definitely not a good alternative. Not sure of any alternatives that can publish out PDFs, easily layer images and retain the links. Any suggestions? Oh well, they are giving us 2 1/2 years to migrate to another...
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    Samsung - 77” Class S89C OLED 4K $1799.99 @ Best Buy

    Don't ask wife? She'll never know!
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    The Mac turns 40

    Mac had glory days?
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    MSI to release a claw machine

    First thing I looked at was the TDP. Steam Deck is half the TDP of this. Feel like this thing must get like 30min of battery life. Also thought this was post #2.
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    Comcast breached

    Too funny! :D
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    Comcast breached

    I switched to T-Mobile 5G Internet - should work wherever T-Mobile offers cell service. No regerts. I had the cheapest Xfinity plan at $20/month. Those mf'ers kept raising my rates ($45) to the point that it was only $5 more expensive to get T-Mobile. I even played the quit and rejoin in my...
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    Verizon Wireless class action lawsuit settlement up to $100

    One customer complains. Hires lawyers. Lawyers get other customers involved. Leeching lawyers make millions. Company raises price for everyone. There has to be a better system.
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    Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz “effective refresh rate” , get your $17!

    VIZIO - not LG. YGWYPF. Don't buy a Walmart Black Friday TV when you may have to live with that purchase for a long time.
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    Copilot or else! (for OEMs...eventually)

    If you work at a desk job, you are only hurting yourself. AI can be a massive time saver, for certain tasks. However, if you value your privacy, take steps to avoid providing it your phone number or account information or use a tool that does not require it.
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    TurboTax 2023 sale in Amazon (12/27 only)

    Good call. Pretty much the same deal there, too.
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    Intel giving ARC a respectable barrier of entry.

    Cool. I never thought of doing this. I guess it makes sense on most similar lines. Seems like buying/reselling would be easier. I have opened the case on a few laptops and swapping everything sounds like a major PITA. Still kind of fun, though.
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    Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th

    It's not. Walmart is doing a pretty good job competing. Order X amount and free delivery. Get deliveries faster than Prime, now.
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    Voyager 1 has finally started glitching after a near-constant operation of 46 years.

    Management 101: set the bar extremely low - destroy that goal many times over. Considering, how many $1,000,000,000.00 of dollars we dump into NASA (...and now SpaceX), I would expect a remote control robot to last more than 3 months. I mean we have been mass producing RC cars for over 60 years...
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    Toshiba...we hardly knew ya

    Exactly. They're still around, just like X/Twitter. Fukushima didn't help them, but they still have over 100,000 employees and are pulling in tens of billions of dollars annually. Cool story, bro. You have a better memory than me... and you actually had a camera! Disposable? I messed around...
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    Netflix opening physical locations

    Netflix = low-budget shovel-media. Netflix spent $5.8B in 2023 on original productions. Sounds like alot - it's not. Even if they spent that same amount over the last 12 years (they didn't) producing 3,642 movies, that would only be $69.6B or $19M / movie. On top of that, 10,000/18,000...
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    Netflix opening physical locations

    Exactly. His opinion is that people are ditching movies on physical media for movies on Netflix. I doubt that's the case. That made me curious to look at the numbers of how bad Netflix's movie selection actually is, so I looked for some metrics, last night: Netflix has 6600 movies as of...
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    Netflix opening physical locations

    /opinions Sure, my wife subscribes to Netflix, too. It's pretty worthless for movies, though.
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    Netflix opening physical locations

    Yes, an entire library of crap! You very well might be right. They're already pretty far along down that road with games. You will own nothing and be happy. What's probably stopping them for movies is a combination of the fractured nature of the movie publishers, fractured streaming services...
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    New Avatar PC Game Has a Hidden 'Unobtainium' Graphics Setting Targeting Future GPUs

    This thread is worthless without... video of Unobtainium mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDUgkhhjLg Yar, the only thing that really looks outstanding is the water and shadows. Watched video before reading your posts. Checks out.
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    LG - 48" Class A2 Series OLED $550 at best buy

    From plasma to OLED? Good for you. No compromises.
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    TSMC Approves 3.5 Billion Dollar Arizona Foundry

    About as well as all these government handout projects go. Here are a few: Gigafactory 2 SolarCity PPP
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    HDD component supplier ‘collapses’

    "Major producer" = 0.1% marketshare? 99% marketshare? Facts matter.
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    New 5x00X3D models incoming?

    Don't use Windows 11?
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    Apple trying to be proactive with its Batteries... Something feels wrong

    The Japanese people can't afford it. The US is headed in the same direction.
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    Nvidia pulls in some $18.1B up from $5.93B this time last year...

    You're going to be on the wrong side of history on this one. Microsoft is baking AI into every product they own. nVidia is going to continue to grow. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, X, etc are all trying to do the same. Immediate potential of LLMs: Search engine replacement Travel planning...
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    Nvidia pulls in some $18.1B up from $5.93B this time last year...

    That sounds like a terrible bet. Wokism is driving those IPs into the ground. You can't replace testosterone with estrogen and expect the same story. No one buys it. How did this nVidia thread turn into Disney? ...and why did I sell nVidia stock? Dumb.
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    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Fired, ChatGPT Hired As Interim CEO

    Seems completely plausible, in the not so distant future. Most interactions with employees can be done digitally now. AI can now synthesize video. How many people have even seen the CEO of a large company, in person? Heck, Viva Insights (AI) is now giving me tasks to do in Outlook so I can...
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