pycorax
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- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 2 days ago:
Same here and with the price of GPUs, raytracing is expensive as hell for the wallet and it’s straight up not a good value.
- Comment on Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean by understanding the difference between instruction sets?
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious to see how Valve will respond to this seeing as they have CS. I imagine they’d be interested to build a solution but I’m not sure how plausible that even is.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
That’s assuming there’s sufficient space. Even then if you look at the picture, you can see that the power button is on the bottom of the back side of the device. This makes it even harder to reach than if it were simply on the back since you’d need to contort your finger on top of a long awkward reach.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 2 weeks ago:
There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to say that it’s still a useful button to have in an accessible spot because, exactly as you said, it is still used to turn it on.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Sure but you still need to turn it on though?
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 3 weeks ago:
Eh this is nothing new since the biometrics portion has been part of the process for a few years. The only new part is that now you can skip the passport. The terrifying portion had already arrived many years ago unfortunately.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
I’m mostly still on Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese artists and bands. Now plenty of them are jumping out BlueSky so off I go.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 weeks ago:
I think AMD should also get back into ARM and low-power devices. The snapdragon laptops have made a big splash, and that market could explode once the software is refined, and AMD should be poised to dominate it. They already have ARM products, they just need to make low-power, high performance products for the laptop market.
They don’t need to go with ARM. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the x86 instruction set that prevents them from making low power processors, it’s just that it doesn’t make sense for them to build an architecture for that market since the margins for servers are much higher. Even then, the Z1 Extreme got pretty close to Apple’s M2 processors.
Lunar Lake has also shown that x86 can match or beat Qualcomm’s ARM chips while maintaining full compatibility with all x86 applications.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 weeks ago:
I mean I guess? But the question here was about value and no way is RT worth double the price.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t be the first time they did this though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they jump back into the high end once they’re ready.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 weeks ago:
Were the 6000 series not competitive? I got a 6950 XT for less than half the price of the equivalent 3090. It’s an amazing card.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Is this blocked by ublock origin coz I’ve never gotten that at all on Firefox.
- Comment on Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. 1 month ago:
What in the world is a tiktok recruiter?
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 1 month ago:
Well no surprise here given what’s been going on with their MR departments. What a terrible shame.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Same here. Got in with he Fold 3 and I’m now on the Fold 6. They’re fantastic and I can imagine going back. The convenience of having a mini tablet with you that you can annotate stuff on is too good to give up.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I actually find the Z Folds to be far better for one handed usability than regular phones since they’re narrower. Honestly wished Samsung didn’t make the newer ones wider. I liked the Fold 3’s width. It was perfect for me.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
The Z Fold places it’s fingerprint reader on the side power button which isn’t quite the same as the back but it’s a lot closer than the screen based fingerprint readers.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Also, Huawei is not banned from being purchased and used by consumers in the US lmao.
I mean sure but you’re in a hell of a ride if it breaks and you need support.
- Comment on Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking 1 month ago:
Qtwebengine is essentially chromium lol
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
I can concede Insidious especially with the recent news but Revanced is so easy and quick to set up, calling it arcane is laughable. It’s done in under 5 minutes.
- Comment on Huawei's revamped Android competitor is launching with support for 10,000 apps. 1 month ago:
This is just like when they announced their brand new OS which was pretty much just a renamed Android isn’t it?
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 1 month ago:
The fingerprint sensor on the power button isn’t the main reason why I got my Fold 6 but it’s such a small thing that sweetens the deal a lot. I absolutely detest screen based fingerprint readers.
- Comment on Suggest me a coop game like COD World at War 1 month ago:
Not all of them have a full co-op campaign…
- Comment on Apple and Samsung aren't the world's top two smartphone vendors for once 1 month ago:
Not really a surprise considering the size of their domestic market. An interesting statistic would be each of these vendor’s shares outside of their home country.
- Comment on Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel 2 months ago:
I know it’s counter to what the thread is saying but I really miss plastic phones. They allowed for wireless charging and don’t shatter so easily. Lumias had amazing designs and were built like a brick.
- Comment on I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED" 2 months ago:
AC3 is kinda infamous for not being great but I think it was thematically the strongest. It just had a ton of pacing issues. If you liked AC4, I suggest playing through that to see Edward’s legacy in a different light. Or read the AC3 book which tells the AC3 story from a different perspective from Edward’s son, it also documents everything that happened after the game.
- Comment on Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design 2 months ago:
It is pretty useful and convenient if your use case suits it but I don’t think that fits the majority of people. For me my Fold 6 replaced my Kindle and Surface. It’s nice to able to open it up to read ebooks and manga since opened up, it’s pretty much the dimensions of a typical book. Also makes things a lot easier when I need to remote into a PC or SSH into stuff and is a really convenient sketch pad for ideas.
My Fold 3 lasted 3 years with no issues until I traded it in so I think they’re fairly well built.
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
I agree with you. Even though they’re still not the kind of game so would play regularly, Overwatch 1 was extremely annoying to play with all the stuns, freezes and more. Overwatch 2 toned down and removed most of these which made it actually somewhat enjoyable.