Dudewitbow
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- Comment on CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust 1 week ago:
faster ram generally has dimishing returns on sustem use, however it does matter for gpu compute reasons on igpu (e. g gaming, and ML/AI would make use of the increased memory bandwith).
its not easily to simply just push a wider bus because memory bus size more or less affects design complexity, thus cost. its cheaper to push memory clocks than design a die with a wider bus.
- Comment on Fisker reaches end of the road and files for bankruptcy 1 week ago:
its a how many you can produce vs margins situation. not many companies want to take the risk on a high production low margin product, as failure would put you soo deep in the red that you wouldnt come out unless your first product knocks it out of the park.
its why moat. conpanies are doing the top down approach (e.g Tesla, Rivian) where you cater first to the high margin vehicles and then make your way down. given the sales of cars like the chevy bolt and nissan leaf, people are picky about cars they buy, and the problem new car companies have is the one that vinfast has, which is “would an average consumer buy a new cheap car, or a used premium car” and its usually the latter.
- Comment on Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto 5 weeks ago:
the idea of crypto on its not bad on its own, its just there are a lot of bad actors agressively trying to prop up the value of some arbitrary crypto without actually selling a good or service in order to make a quick buck.
at least teams like the one behind Axie Infinity offered a product/service. Most don’t, which is the problem.
- Comment on Activision unveil new studio working on ‘narrative AAA franchise’, days after Microsoft shut Prey and Evil Within devs 1 month ago:
for microsoft, 2 of the dev atudios shut down were mobile, one of them merging into besthesda. the other two, Arkane Austin, released a really terrible game last year, the other which caused the uproar, Tango Gameworks, created a popular game. Though personally I think that closed down because the original director who created the company left, and it would be hard for microsoft to merge the team elsewhere due to being japanese based, so they shut down the studio, despite recent sucess. Microsoft probably has little experience hiring a new game director for japan.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
unique hardware that doesnt follow the conventions of standard hardware, so you have to write code to get around that fact. Take for example one of the reason why Wii/GC development went fast eas because the PowerPC processor is fairly well documented, similar to the Tegra X1 with the switch. Its always obscure hardware that makes hardware emulation harder (e.g PS3, Sega Saturn)
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
a good chunk of the switch top sellers are WiiU games. new isnt always on the table.
- Comment on Head of PR at China's biggest search engine Baidu apologised after her comments glorifying a work-till-you-drop culture sparked public outcry 1 month ago:
its what happens when cultures decide that money is what determines your status in society.
- Comment on Tesla Exodus Continues As Top HR Exec Leaves After Brutal Job Cuts 1 month ago:
the cancellation of the model 2 for the cybertruck may have been the worst possible decision tesla went through maybe.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe 1 month ago:
you missed the point of the article, its about apple basically giving users all their location data, and a hi vis jacket when shopping around such that anyone is allowed to access said information on where youve been. its apples fault for taping the website cookies to a unique identifier and allowing any website to access said list.
this has nothing to do with 3rd party apps, but how apple handles other stores in its own browser.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 month ago:
how i personally see it is that it welcomes devs to set a new minimum pc requirement to target. due to valve not doing contstent iterations (which imo is actually a good thing), it gives people a point of performance comparison reference to when wanting to play a new title.
- Comment on A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over 1 month ago:
part of the reason this happens is because Tekken (and Smash) are popular to casual audiences, many of which often are one trick ponies and disconnect when they lose looking for another player to attempt to beat with their one trick, without attenpting to learn arguably the most important skill in fighting games, adaptation. its a large factor in why the online experience in both games are kinda trashy, because a decent chunk of them dont take losing gracefully.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Exposing Corruption: EK's Prison Threats, Lawsuits, Dangerous Workplace, & Leaked Documents 1 month ago:
EKWB is a consumer level water cooling company. water cooling is used to cool down high performance processors sligtly better than traditional heatsinks and offer an aesthetic alternative to it.
tldr video, conpany mismanagement leads company into perpetual debt and ruin.
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 1 month ago:
iirc FCC fined that company to oblivion recently, hence why it kinda died off.
- Comment on TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 2 months ago:
the hard drive one is more the concept of measuring things in base 10 or base 2, its caused by the rounding of 1000(10^3) vs 1024(2^10), hence where theres a difference between Gibibytes and Gigabytes.
finfetts decision was basically, its physically supposed to be one number, but folding it offers a performance increase (but not exactly equal to doubling transistors) so be picked an arbitrary lower number to represent ts peeformance. the problem is because its arbitrary, TSMC/Samsung gets all the power to fudge the numbers up.
if intels 10nm was more dense than TSMC 7, it shouldnt have been called TSMC 7, it should have been closer to TSMC 10 or 11.
12/16nm is when finfett technology was used, and the start of where the numbers started to get fudged.
- Comment on TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 2 months ago:
it doesnt mean what it traditionally mean since findett due yo the idea that finfett involves a folding process where its not necessarily a transistor in a traditional sense.
its the main reason what intel was conplaining about when it decided to rename its processes to be in lone with tsmc/samsung. Intel’s 10nm process is actually a more dense pack of transitors than both TSMC’s 7nm and Samsung’s 8nm. so you have to make a stance, either TSMC/Samsung is over representing the definition, or Intel is underrepresenting it. because of it, either of the two actions need to happen:
TSMC/Samsung need to increase the number of their process because its illogical that a competitor has a more dense node with a higher number.
or
Intel renames their process with a lower number to better match its density when compared to TSMC/Samsung. Because Intel as a company only has the power to do this, this is what they did, and were underfire for it.
regardless, the nm stated in the nm does not represent what it used to traditionally mean, as whatever stance you have, some company is lying about their numbers.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 months ago:
you dont get the condition of having your battery level halved due to cold weather, nor have the battery on an “always on” state because lion battery’s only operate at a certain temperature range. theres a lot of losses on cold weather caused by the use of lithium ion batteries in general.
just because battery capacities on cars should go down doesnt mean cars wont offer a “long range” option for users if they need it (tesla for example litterally does), its just the everyday one needs to go down. having extended range on all cars is a solution to a problem that affects the 1% situation, and is impractical to apply the fix to the general fleet.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 months ago:
id argue that renting a car might be less expensive. your argument doesnt consider the cost it takes to replace your tires often (the heavier your vehicle, the more often you have to replace the tires), which for some EVs already, is a pretty significant cost.
buying something for something youll use less than 1% of the time is a terrible monetary decision. its like the people who buy big trucks with high torque, when more than 60% of these truck buyers have never towed something.
These are real scenarios I have had to drive in my current car (Volt, so plug in hybrid) and my battery range can be halved (from 35+ miles under 20)
this is a problem specific to lithium ion batteries. salt ion batteries and some other batteries that are being considered do not have that problem.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 2 months ago:
m.2 to gpu isn’t completely foreign nor new, but less practical than more recent standards like Occulink. the problem, specifically with the lower end model in particular, is using 4/8 pci-e lanes for a port that not everyone is going to use is a waste of the already limited amount of pci-e lanes available to the user because of the CPU choice. hence, it makes sense to keep 1 users with the side option to using usb4/thunderbolt gpu docks
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 2 months ago:
hence why i mentioned it was still a lot of money just liekly not on that magnitude given both price cut sales and googles 30% cut of sales.
at bare minimum, the dev has at least made 5 million probably post taxes for sure.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 2 months ago:
its not that simple. high performamce parts are high performamce because the devices that need the fastest speeds have the shortest traces from CPU to said device. its for instance, why the ram slots, and the fastest m.2/slot as well as pci-e lanes are nearest to the cpu, else youd have to resort to adding a south bridge.
the pi compute module works that way because the ram is already on board making it not a problem, and latency to whatever it gets mounted on isnt of highest priority for performance.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 2 months ago:
i see it as giving their industrial engineers something to do.
when you have to design a chasis for reusability and backwards/fowards compatibility, you dont really have the flexibility to make that many changes. instead of just letting them sit there, its better for them to start designing other things in the meantime.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 2 months ago:
while still a lot of money, keep in mind, a decent amount of those downloads was bought on sale. in my own personal context, i only had bought it when it was 1$
- Comment on Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews 2 months ago:
hes the target from certain media and channels because he has the largest reach.
- Comment on Fallout 4 is getting a fresh update and will be Steam Deck Verified 2 months ago:
everytine i play a gun based bethesda game, i always pick some theme to go on which limits my option intentionally.
for example, i played FO4 with pistols/revolvers only with thr luck special stat maxed.
aometimes you can end up having some challenging runs (e.g melee only)
- Comment on Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC 2 months ago:
evga has a following because being a U.S based company, they had the best warranty service. the major brick and mortar taiwanese brand giants (Asus/MSI/Gigabyte) have a storied history about how stingy they are about RMAs for expensive products.
- Comment on Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC 2 months ago:
its on the rise because it was very recently at its lowest point. Nand prices were absurdly low, and if it was at its lowest point, that implies it had to have been lower than previous prices, especially covid.
- Comment on Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC 2 months ago:
depends on how youre defining price. memory/storage is at its lowest point atm. CPUs are extremely competitive and AMD still ridiculously supports the AM4 platform. Monitor specs/price point are constantly dropping.
the only rhing that hasnt depreciated much is high end Nvidia gpus, because of AI reasons.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
i think the problem is the game of peoples reasoning to not get off windows.
I do agree its not the answer to move everyone to linux (just for context, my desktop is a modified windows 11, laptop is garuda(arch based), media nas is debian), its just a subset of the people have really terrible priorities.
for those who have hardware with gen 7 intel or order, yeah the situation kinda sucks. If youre IT at a company, also sucks. for those staying on 10 strictly because privacy reasons, is pretty silly given they already made the tradeoff that they rather trade off some privacy staying on windows to have a reletively hassle free experience installing other stuff (this applies even more to those using windows 7, which I find hilarious how stalwart they are not moving off the OS)
outside of how updates are handled and aome telemetry, windows 11 could be modified to have a very close to windows 10 experience, its just a game of people not wanting to make that jump if they are an individual user. I see it as a game of them not willing to put any effort in any direction to fix their situation.
- Comment on CWWK NAS mini-ITX motherboard features six SATA connectors, three 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports 2 months ago:
if youre doing strictly NAS, yes, would highly recommend the cheaper cpu variants because that’s not required for it.
- Comment on CWWK NAS mini-ITX motherboard features six SATA connectors, three 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports 2 months ago:
yeah you just have to be aware that debian 12 might not by deefault, have the correct kernel needed for hardware acceleration, so youd have to go into debian testing to compile it yourself. If you attempt to cpu encode your way through things, you’d only get a couple of streams before it bogged itself down.