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Hee hee.... sort of reminds you of pre-Proton (Steamdeck) days of not having many (Windows) games in Linux. I'm sure everyone is "right on this", getting their games ready for Snapdragon X. (of course, it does depend on Microsoft's commitment on this... so, gaming could happen... maybe...)

True, but maybe "less true" in today's "small world". I know that if you're not afraid to deal with region issues, you often get certain content when you go "outside" your own country. Many years ago, I did that to get "Bringing Up Baby" (the old Cary Grant classic) on DVD. Of course, soon...

To me, it's hard to predict "what will last". I mean, I don't like disco, it was a short lived fad. I think rap is far worse, yet... here we are. Doesn't make sense to me. Almost random.

I don't think the idea is to "cease brain activity", those that are trying to protect "our ground" realize that you also have to ensure longer term use. However, I know of lots of companies that appreciate what you just said.

Me too. I'm not ready to expose my belly for free for everyone. Not going there. And IMHO, those that "give in" the "those with our best interests at heart", well, it may sound like it's a good thing... but maybe it isn't. Be careful not to blindly trust because it's "cool to do so." (but...

But, by that (somewhat flawed) argument, CDs/DVDs/Blurays must come into "itchy-ness" at some point. Regardless. I've got a frame grabber.... there is a "solution" to streaming madness and it's built-in "lack of reliability". I strictly have "the devices" for the purposes of putting the...

Yeah, the world is changing. If we can skip the weird return to easily damaged vinyl, people today don't have "cd" players, and more and more don't have "blu-ray" players (and DVD, etc.). I still have a lot of "give away" CDs (music), just nobody to really give them away to anymore (sigh)...

People spending 2-3x "old school pricing" to buy vinyl "records" might preview where this all "goes" in the long run. We'll see.

Windows is placing ads in their OS, trying to require a Microsoft cloud account, and, Microsoft is not the troll? I'm getting that right? Dear Microsoft (and rabid fanboi base), If you want "it" to stop, stop providing us with the source material to work with.

Yeah, the ads have to stop

Even more firsts (prior firsts) when you leave the name, Nvidia, out. But, this is [H], so I'm not sure if we're allowed to talk about that.

100 years from now: Remembering the first PC gaming GPU, the RTX 4090.

But they are MSI (something you always have to keep in mind) "Space applied back, resulting in mixed usage thermals, for best game." (MSI didn't write that last bit, but sounds like something they'd have on their packaging)

Blinky lights have been known to cause seizures in other chips.

VIPs: Intel, you may have a problem? Intel: Huh? What? VIPs: There might be problem that causes your 13th and 14th gen CPUs to fail. Could be in the architecture itself. Intel: What do you suggest we do? VIPs: Maybe contact your legal team. You could be liable. Intel: No. We have...

Behold... the anti-solution. Pull the wires out even more, undo any cable management. use lots of colors for cables (take off any sleeves), set a new design trend. "We bought this pre-built, and see the amateurs tried to color coordinate, bind and hide all the cables. Sort of old school."

For those that have upgraded, just turn on your fog effect to help mitigate this. This is only a problem for old-timers using RGB alone.

An RX 580 8GB in good shape is a good deal at $45. Sadly, IMHO, prices in the used market are pretty stagnant on the cheaper side. In fact, IMHO, it's gone up in many cases.

OLED is "ok". At lower resolutions, there are issues. But, most things being 4K, I guess the whole "pixel arrangement" issue isn't a huge deal. Of course, there aren't any "tiny" OLED monitors currently (and that might be related). In short, it depends. I'm happy with my IPS, and can't...

Finally, an NVMe for your ultra wide screen portable or phone. Warning: only rated for 66°N or better or 66.17°S or better if used with a portable device.

Yeah, maybe not quite so impossible, but definitely got the "idea". Edit: I was thinking something "light" (laser?) based, but with persist/change capabilities. Has to be "fast", yet... cool and durable.

I tell you, last year was "amazing" with regards to SSD pricing (talking 2022 thru 2023), but those deals IMHO are now gone. Not saying there aren't deals, but only comparing against what is typical for 2024. Would love to see another era of SSD glut to cause those massive deals in the prior...

The "reason" you use things like FAT/vFAT/ExFAT is for compatibility. You're not going to just plugin a ZFS "whatever" into "something" and have it automatically understood. Even in the case of typical computer OS's, ZFS isn't necessarily understood by a default install. So, "having" access...

ffmpeg You can google for options for extracting just the audio and saving... etc...

So full details are still in progress. But a successful backdoor has been inserted into the code base of xz and it's library as used by many program, including, for example, openssh The impact, while not completely described likely will result in an in memory all access key allowing remote...

It's not my spreadsheet. Just linking to it.

The better devices will have DRAM cache in addition to SLC and so, for some use cases, dramatically out perform them. Just being honest, the only short term failure I've had was with a current gen Samsung EVO SSD (SATA) drive. RMA was easy and I got a replacement. That might be the other...

Education is somewhat of a partnership. Up to you if you think "cheating" (whatever that might mean to you) is what you want to do.

Deal of the day bump.

I just stuck my finger out the windows, and yep, sure enough I've confirmed a week long study of over 10 data points that proves that global climate change has ended. I guess I need to write a magazine article so everyone will know.

I used to game some on a Quadro, but that's getting pretty old now. There are some benefits in that you usually get more memory and unlocked encoders and such, but you have to at least be on the low mid-tier or above. The ultra low end is pretty bad, and of course the high end gets very...

Available != Visible (built into things). Waiting to see what happens and if there are realized improvements. Give it some time.

Consumes tons of power, costs 20+% more, delivers a good frame or two extra (if that much) in performance. I hear that maybe Intel only made 14 of these.... which sounds about right....

Some might argue (and probably would be right) that "gaming consoles" are for games. I think if you're going to go through the expense of having a computer system, ideally it needs to be for "more" than just gaming. IMHO. With that said, if that means "only Linux" (for example) to you, I'm...

Also, not too long ago, same numbers == AMD (<10%). Realize that AMD for all the "rah rah" hasn't broke 25% even on the desktop CPU space and of course much lower than that CPU overall. And even lower on overall GPU marketshare. We choose to "lift high" who we choose to lift high.

Or perhaps better, "It's another year of Linux!!" (which is a good thing)

Yeah, I just ran out of toner on my new "guarded" HP laser, yeah, it costs over $800 to populate toner. That is, it's cheaper to chunk the whole printer into the garbage and get the starter cartridges that come with a new one. HP... needs to go away (forever).

Since I date back to the age of "native ports of games to Linux", not sure we'll see that again. I mean, the Linux community is so good at making foreign (as in, "violent" in nature) things run on it... it's amazing. However, there are are "things" that do run natively, but not any of those...

Proton DB is a good source to "know" with regards to "what can work" on Linux without issue: https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Pillars%20of%20Eternity

Just remember, the "paltry" number mean that millions and millions of people world wide are using Linux. And IMHO, that's pretty good when you're up against a monopoly provider. Think about it this way, the number of Linux users in the world is greater than many "favorite software application"...