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I’ve been quietly reading and listening to the events of this past week, and because of how LTT has affected my life I wanted to leave a quick note. I have been lurking around LTT content for over 10 years now (and a forum member for nearly as long). I found Linus when I was building my very first PC in high school, using funds from my first summer job. I have followed the early exploits like HighLANder, whole-room watercooling, Vessel - it’s implosion and the Phoenix of Floatplane rising from the ashes, LTT’s merchandise efforts and now labs. This incident was unfortunate and I don’t think Linus or the team are suddenly mustache-twirling evil, but this has crossed the rubicon in that I’m now painfully aware that I’m not watching a couple of Canadian tech nerds building a mineral oil PC in a kitchen. This is a large organization, with the problems and caveats that comes with. It behooves us as viewers to reevaluate our parasocial relationship with what is not a person, but a business. I am glad the team seems to be taking the recent criticisms seriously after initial missteps. But this is going to forever change how I view content from the LMG team. It’s corny, but I as I said - I grew up with Linus and the team, their infectious love of tech resulted in my path through college and now my work at $BigTechCompany, and I know I’m not alone. I hope they can reconnect to and recognize the trust and the value people had there. But it may be irreplaceable. I guess we will see what the future holds.

Indeed - if there is one thing I don't see the Chinese delivering on anytime soon, it is Extreme UV lithography. Mainly because the West is only just barely making it work as is.

OK, this may be a problem for North American customers, because these things are pushing system power draw to the maximum available on a 15 Amp circuit. What, are we expected to plug our PCs into EV chargers?

I'm sure the AIB partners, who've almost certainly been building marketing, box art, silkscreens of "4080" etc on all the cards are just SO. ECSTATIC. to get to re-brand them all. EVGA really coming out of this looking smart...

This is fascinating. I am not going to believe for a second that Nvidia did this out of the goodness of their heart (don't make the mistake of Anthropomorphizing a company) so my immediate question is - what pushed this decision? My intuition pushes me to two things: 1. the Intel Arc launch and 2. Board partners finally hitting a point where they simply can't continue giving in to Nvidia's whims - see EVGA. I also wonder how much of the wind was taken out of Nvidia's sails (or, rather, sales -- haha) by the spectacular ongoing contraction of crypto.

It may be the average member here is too young to remember, but the original Netflix subscription cost (when streaming first became available) was 7 USD. So, in a way, this has already happened. (I know, inflation etc)

The article mentioned off-hand that the Pro/Pro Max use a layout closer to the 13:

Summary The VESA industry group seems to have decided that response times and ghosting need a standardized spec, similar to how it standardized HDR specs a few years back. The result is "ClearMR" (site link: https://www.clearmr.org), which aims to provide a simple single bullet list item to give a general expectation of a monitor's speed and clarity. Quotes My thoughts I always appreciated how RTings and BlurBusters stepped in to provide 3rd party oversight, but it would be really fantastic to have certified information regarding display clarity on the box from the get-go. It really shows how far display tech has come as well -- the fact that the industry is willing to do this also shows that they feel the need for another price differentiator, because who cares about refresh rates when your options are between insanity like 360hz vs 400hz? The downside, of course, is that these badges may be used as a way to create artificial "halo" products and increase prices. But I suppose that was going to happen anyway... On a final note, the Ars article is really great, especially the sections showing the test images. Really neat stuff, and even if marketing is driving, its clear that some serious tech chops are getting put into this under the hood: Sources https://www.clearmr.org/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/vesas-latest-standard-grades-displays-on-motion-blur/

Buddy, Safari did basically the same thing ages ago. The remaining players in the space, like AdGuard, use a companion App that you have to install alongside an extension. https://adguard.com/en/blog/safari-adblock-extensions.html I wouldn't be so sure about edge. In fact, of the chromium-based browsers, the only one I really expect to stick with v2 for any non-trivial amount of time would be Brave, and they have their own set of issues.

A pretty hardcore Linux dev (and founder of SourceHut) weighed in on the LTT series today with two posts: 1 is from the point of view of what a new Linux user should do to help them succeed, the other is what the existing Linux community can do to help Linux succeed on the whole: https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/How-new-Linux-users-succeed.html He did something that I appreciate, which is admit where Linux stands compared to Windows in a fair and honest manner. Unfortunately, Drew immediately turned and fell into the pit that many complainers have -- he stood up and tried to argue that the challenges should have been more "linux-centric" and made use of the command line. Its like everyone is ignoring or forgetting Linus' repeated statements (including at the end of this video): These challenges are important in the context of getting an average user to switch. That does lead quite nicely into his second post, however... https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/What-desktop-Linux-needs.html I will say that Drew Devault tends to be a bit... fiery in his convictions, so I actually found this to be a good attempt at an olive branch from him: he is taking Linus' arguments in good faith. He throws down the gauntlet at the end: In theory, that was supposed to be Ubuntu, but that failed because Ubuntu tried to become the "everything" distribution, and ultimately fell to the demands of power users. It may take someone willing to stand up and say, "I understand you want that functionality, but no. I'm going to include less configuration/extensibility/functionality on purpose, so that the "normal" user (not the POWER user) has the first-class experience. Arch is that way, go have fun.

Budget (including currency): $1500 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Blender 2.9+ Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): So I'm looking at doing a "partial" upgrade where I replace everything but my 1070. I made this list based on some feedback in another post: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor ($483.98 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($105.99 @ Amazon)` Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($209.91 @ Amazon) Memory: *Team T-Create Expert 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory ($239.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB MINI ITX OC Video Card (Purchased For $0.00) Case: Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P Mini ITX Desktop Case ($103.90 @ Amazon) Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS SGX 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply ($129.99 @ Amazon) Total: $1407.76 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available *Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-11-29 14:51 EST-0500 I'm pretty comfortable with this list, except for the ram. All the usual brands are ridiculously expensive for 2x32 kits -- I am comfortable spending $300 on a kit because I understand that's the market, but anything that isn't a no-name seems to be $400+ Because I have to use an ITX, I'm stuck with 2 slots. My question is, would going with 2x16 (32GB total) ram significantly affect rendering speed?

Okay, memes aside, I'm going to share the thoughts of Rob Landley (author of BusyBox and ToyBox) regarding Linux. This was written as an answer to "why should we try to continue pushing Google to open up Android and not just extend vanilla Linux to Smartphones?", but it touches on points that answer the deeper implied question, "Why isn't any form of Linux a popular desktop OS?" Here is the full text: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost (Last question on the page) The point that is central here is this part: aesthetic issues do not survive committees. Peer review does not produce blockbuster movies, hit songs, or masterpiece paintings. It finds scientific facts, not beauty. The ideal of an opinionated, coherent OS is at-odds with a completely open, democratic development-by-committee. As much as I loathe many of Apple's decisions, Steve Jobs produced a hardware/software ecosystem that fits the way an expensive slipper fits your foot.

The FSF is disingenuous at best and lying at worst. *All* distros? Look up busybox. --- As for the video as a whole, It's a cold shower but it's absolutely something Linux community members should consider. I have a server running on Manjaro, I run several centos (soon to be rocky Linux) boxes at my work, and I have ported several applications to BSD from Linux. Linux is an amazing tool but, like a Swiss army knife, It's capable of pretty much anything but really good at much less. I'm happy that steam is pushing such great development for gaming on Linux but it is not there yet. This is why while I have a MacBook dual booting Linux and I use it at work, My home PC is on Windows 11.

I imagine the secondary market for Oculus Go headsets is about to get really hot...

Saw the email, immediately bought one. Linus warned it would be expensive, but it honestly isn't terrible at 89.99 USD. Sure, a basic Gildan cotton hoodie is cheaper, but the price is on par with a high quality hoodie from somewhere like Patagonia. Unfortunately the size guide has no units. It looks about right for inches, though. https://www.lttstore.com/products/wan Woo!