Dudewitbow
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- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 days ago:
i don’t think the demand for old ram is viable)for scalpers), the number of systems that actually want it is far fewer nowadays. DDR4 pricing was more caused by production stopping on DDR4, rather than the current ram shortages.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 days ago:
hence, nothing will happen, unless monitors get more popular than TVs. because tvs are the majority bought display device period. The reason is because more people are willing to both spend more on tvs, and often are more willing to replace them, while people who use monitors hold onto them for extended periods of time. Thats why monitor tech is always a step behind both mobile and TV when it comes to the screen quality (e.g Monitors didn’t get OLED till LG released its gen 2 WOLED, and Samsung decided to drop QDOLED gen 1, while phones of course had oled/amoled for a long time, and OLED tvs have existed for years before it touched hte monitor space)
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 days ago:
there is, HDMI Arc, which is why all the home theater companies do not want to weaken its hold.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 days ago:
the problem is although its a pc, valve wants it to sort of appeal to console users. and the problem is that the HDMI forum members are also TV manufacturers. they are very unlikely to ever support displayport.
as long as TVs are more popular than monitors, that trend of HDMI holding control will never cease.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 5 days ago:
the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 5 days ago:
theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
pretty much how I saw it. 10 was a push towards accepting all hardware configurations. 11 put restrictions in the name of security. so even if a user WANTED to upgrade, there’s technically a barrier that Microsoft would block them (albeit that check can be bypassed).
- Comment on Parking police 1 week ago:
off the top of my head, no. but I know for the seatbelt law at least, if a car before the mandatory seatbelt law had optional seatbelts, having the seatbelt became mandatory. Cars that had no seatbelts nor had optional ones are exempt.
- Comment on Parking police 1 week ago:
us transportation made it a law in 2014 but effective 2018 that all vehicles made after 2018 under 10000 pounds are required to have a backup screen. so any new car made in the reletive past decade will probably have one. laws for cars are not retroactive usually.
- Comment on Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.
the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.
- Comment on Law 4 weeks ago:
I need this before Mariah Carey completely defrosts and destroys my ears
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 month ago:
my opinion isn’t based strictly on the header. because to argue that the default is silent mode, when its very reasonable to assume that the middle tier performance mode is the default usecase, because it has a 80W/h battery when compared to typical other handhelds. Steam deck for example uses a 40W/h battery. 17W, which is seeing the chunk of the performance gain, is a very reasonable target for a 80W/h battery.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 month ago:
but a game may not necessarily need 13W, thats the point. youre using up more power than what is necessary because the CPU governor doesn’t know if its necessary or not to actually use all 13W.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 month ago:
the main thing you get back is a better cpu governor to manage power consumption on 2d games. Reviews like the Phawks points out that microsoft kinda handed it off to the handheld makers to optimize for battery life. So in the instances such as getting 8hours of battery life running dead cells because the system doesnt really need to push that much to run the game, the Windows handheld is stuck on a higher performance clock and has a significantly shorter battery life time.
This would be extremely visible if more lighter games are tested, which typically aren’t for reviews like this because its not really fun to show a bunch of games all hitting 60 if you cap framerate.
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 month ago:
the bigger wall with switch emulation on android is that mobile companies are terrible at writing gpu drivers when compared to conventional desktop/laptop graphics vendors. its why for example the older snapdragon gen 2/3 outperform their newer snapdragon elite counterparts in emulation.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 month ago:
ive been using beeper so its a matter if they kill the API in my case. (im surprised they didn’t nuke the API first)
- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 1 month ago:
are people expeting devs to infinitely support a game? one that isn’t even on the live service model in the first place?
- Comment on Upcoming Win10 EOL Options to buy old Office PCs 2 months ago:
as a person who works in that industry pretty much. the only people buying singles are people who do it internally else its sold on bulk because the money gets split between the ecycler and the company who originally owns the product.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 2 months ago:
I just hate the trend that people want to make villains more generic evil. like how much shit ultraman got for the prescreening when he hits krypto thats actively fighting him. HES A VILLAIN, HES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 months ago:
D is honestly extremely OP
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 2 months ago:
how im aware of it
bi is a catch all terms of gender
omni means youre fine with either but you might have preference to one more than the other. because you have a preference, you would not necessarily be “gender blind”
pan means is like dont even consider gender as a criteria of liking someone. said person can suddenly change genders and it would not affect how they feel about a person. fully gender blind.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 2 months ago:
0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica
100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime
-40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you’re not gonna like it regardless
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
often people who plays plane related flight games with a joystick early in their life
- Comment on Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials 2 months ago:
Reading the article, kinda happy that different countries are working on different cancer fighting mrna options that currently are on different phases.
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 2 months ago:
the only advantage i can think of is to maintain more traditional tablet aspect ratios. single fold phones tend to have a very square screen when opened.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 months ago:
yeah this is the circle of ownership because the only way to get your account back at this point is social engineering, which is a serious topic about getting accounts hacked which different companies will handle seriously, as it requires a level of “trust me bro” on identity, If possible, id try to look for a CS that will take receipts of the game purchases to help further prove your identity.
- Comment on Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔 3 months ago:
dwarfs packing some heat
- Comment on What's the thing video players do after lag where they speed up the footage to catch up to the current frame before playing as normal? 3 months ago:
i dont know if that has a specific term, but it generally revolves around the render queue. different players/renderers handle what happens when the render queue isnt ready to play.
MadVR (a popular upscaling renderer for MPCHC) for example has an option to pause render queue till full.
ome player may have it setup as always play each frame which causes random slowdowns/speedups, other might implement it as drop frames to always be time synced correctly.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 3 months ago:
hence why Mention the titles a bit sensationalist.
its using a gpu company that rarely does it, for the first time in awhile in a very specific way, as that’s not the title of the thread that OP links.
the idea of a laptop dgpu isnt new the idea of a removable laptop dgpu(mxm) the idea of a removable nvidia laptop dgpu isnt new(same as above, also asus rog flow attachable gpus) the idea of a slottable gpu isnt new (frameworks 7700s came before it)
its the combination of the above which is pigeonholing the definition hard enough that it really doesnt have any real merit.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 3 months ago:
thr frameworks AMD 7700s came before it, so it wouldn’t be the first.