Kazumara
@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 day ago:
Are there any advantages that are worth it for that budget range?
The only one I know of so far was short DDR traces and a reduction to two slots for extreme memory overclocking.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 day ago:
It seems to me that mini ITX is small enough to cost a little bit more. The cheapest seem to be micro ATX boards.
Sorry for the unfamiliar platform, but here’s a comparison I recently made for a friend looking to build a computer around the AM5 socket.
mini ITX: www.toppreise.ch/produktsuche/…/Mainboards-c140?s…
micro ATX: www.toppreise.ch/produktsuche/…/Mainboards-c140?s…
1 CHF = 1.25 USD, but of course prices are different across the continents, so a direct comparison would be difficult. I just hope the fundamental price difference between sizes holds globally.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 day ago:
I think the big negative is that you can’t keep anything, even when just one aspect if the micro PC really needs an upgrade.
If I were you I’d try to build a cheap computer around the AM5 sicket, using the PSU and Case you already have. Then you have a way forward open.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 4 days ago:
His business is expanding, you could at least be a little happy for him, baka.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 days ago:
For me that worked, about 9 hours ago. Maybe there is more load now that the Americas are awake?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 5 days ago:
Can nvenc do dual pass encodings these days?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 5 days ago:
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Yes, movie people complain that more than 24 fps looks like soap operas (because digital TV studio cameras moved to 60 fps first).
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 1 week ago:
These dipshits were beating and kicking on the door
Where did you read that? All I’ve read so far was that they knocked and ran.
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 1 week ago:
So if deliberately not buying Israeli stuff is illegal, does that imply everyone has to buy a minimum of Israeli stuff? Or can they continue to not buy Israeli stuff, as long as it’s without mens rea?
- Comment on My favorite board game! 1 week ago:
Well seems to me you do complete the circuit. With some 1000 Ohm resistance of your body, plus shoes depending on whether you’re wearing them and how you’re posed, plus whatever your floor provides to ground. Tile sounds ideal, but I’m not so sure about wood.
I guess floor heating would not be using metal piping, so at least that’s no shortcut. Maybe rebar could be trouble, but probably the wooden flooring shouldn’t be resting directly on the rebar.
I guess in most normal situations that would be enough resistance. I concede that point.
- Comment on My favorite board game! 1 week ago:
If the live side makes contact first you have an issue though. Because then the path to ground passes through the fork, up the handle and through you. Then your muscles tense and you might not make the neutral side connect the other end fork anymore.
- Comment on Can you share 1 week ago:
Hopefully it’s “negative”
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s all performative bullshit, not good policy.
Some decision maker has to appear innovative to his superiours, so he decides to have some number of locations assigned to a trial group and some bullshit installed. Even if it fails, just as long as he finds the right moment to start appearing critical of the experiment he can still pull off his play. After all moving fast and failing fast are also virtue in modern corporate bullshit lingo.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
By their admins setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\General PreferCloudSaveLocations to 0 using GPO probably
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Subverse is really funny in its writing and the renders are high quality as expected of StudioFOW.
The “connect”-style game loop on dates of HuniePop is actually pretty fun to play.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised that the Frozen sisters are 21 and 24. I thought they were closer in age, and younger.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s an accepted term anymore, but you reminded me that they used to call the triple X chromosome syndrome by the term Super-Female-Syndrome.
Probably not what the author intended though.
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 4 weeks ago:
You’re pretty right. I even got myself one for home because I thought it would be useful. Now I only usually extend it if I’m doing cable management.
Though what’s also really nice is being able to make little micro adjustments to get the right height. For example I change it by 2 cm depending on whether I’m wearing house shoes, so my knee fits better.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
If you look at the desktop, there is AMD and there is Apple silicon
You can get workstations with Ampere Altra CPUs that use an ARM ISA. It’s not significant in the market, more of a server CPU put in a desktop for developers, but it provides a starting point, from which you could cut down the core count and try to boost the clocks.
There is also the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus with some laptops on the market from mainstream brands already (Asus Zenbook A14, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, Dell Inspiron 5441). That conversely could probably scale to a desktop design fairly quickly.
You’re right that we’re not there, but I don’t think we’re that far off either. If Intel keeled over there would be a race to fill the gap and they wouldn’t leave the market to AMD alone.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
Yeah if you build a RISC processor directly you can just save the area needed for instruction decode.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 4 weeks ago:
Not bad. Grabbing them right by their military worship.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 4 weeks ago:
Years after? That would be great news.
I thought the protection period was way shorter, on the order of one year?
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even have one that expensive, even now that I earn enough. Anything above $2000 is just going into silly territory where the marginal improvement per dollar increase is weak.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the centralised approach works either. If you bake that grouping metadata of individual popular pages into Firefox you have an issue with keeping it current if page content changes. And you have a difficult trade-off between covering enough pages vs not blowing up the size too much. And the approach can’t work for deep web pages, e.g. anything people can only see when logged in.
Ignoring all that: The groupings you could pre-process would be static and determined over some assumed average user behaviour, not an actual cluster of a specific users themes. You take some hardcore Warhammer 40k fan, and all his tabs on minis and painting techniques and rulebooks and fan media, and apply the static grouping then it all goes into “Warhammer”. However if you ran it locally it might come up with “Painting” “Figures” “Rules” “Fanart” or whatever. It would produce a more fine grained clustering for someone who is deep into a specific niche interest, and a more coarse grained one otherwise.
So I think fundamentally it’s correct to cluster locally and dynamically for a usable result. They need to make it opt-in, and efficient enough. Or better yet they could just abandon the idea because it’s ultimately not that much use compared to the required inference cost.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 4 weeks ago:
Sounds more like they are maybe using ML classifiers on all the communications they are spying on by conventional means. To me that’s not the same as using AI to spy but whatever.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 5 weeks ago:
Sure there are a few everywhere, but the big gaps are the issue.
For example in your screenshot if you zoom in on Poitiers you’ll see there are none there, only in the two northern neighbor communes Neuville de Poitou and Jaunay-Clan. Similar for Nantes, none there, they are all in Saint-Sébastien-Sur-Loire and Thouaré-sur-Loire, the center and all the other suburbs have nothing.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 5 weeks ago:
You can run more than one OS with secure boot enabled. It’s just a pain in the ass.
Weird, for me it was just flicking the switch in UEFI and now Grub and trough it Windows 10 and Fedora 43 boot in Secure Boot.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 5 weeks ago:
Secure Boot isn’t Tivoization because you can enroll your own keys.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 5 weeks ago:
if that means where ever you go there will be free internet at hand that can be relied upon
Yeah if that were the case it could be useful. Unfortunately the map looks pretty bad: wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/list-accesspoints