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Tech Enthusiast

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  1. Almost all true, apart from "we currently have" because we don't. We want them. But I do want numerous things and still don't have them, right now.
  2. That is gonna be my favorite description for this issue going forward as well. Very well put and easily understandable. Can't count how many people I have talked to that think endless energy automatically mean big earth destroying boom at the same time. Now, once that thing is running we can obviously use that energy to build an actual weapon,... and obviously the USA will do that (for self defence, no doubt...), but the tech behind the energy generation is not unsave in itself. You can't control what people and countries do with the output tho.
  3. 100 million is a flat out extrapolation, not a measurement. That being said: We are talking a few atoms of that heat and heat transfers to surrounding matter. Likely water as a saveguard. That 100 million degree plasma likely won't even be enough to boil a few liters of water after the reaction gets disrupted. Basically it is save as long as the reaction lasts and the reaction almost instantly ends, once you hit the switch or something goes bad. Quite the opposite of nuclear right now.
  4. A neutron bomb you say? Tell more! Yeah, the needed energy to to this test is pretty huge. You don't exactly flip a switch and try if it works. Again: Do tell the whole story. What would happen, if this reaction goes bad? Please go into all the needed detail to verify that claim, because it sure does not match what should happen. Do the laws of nature suddenly change for this? Ah, I will just toss out another "suggestion": A hot Ball of Plasma would burn trough a few layer of insulation, before the whole thing just does nothing anymore.
  5. That is exactly what I wanted to say, thanks. Why does it take a big channel to show that tech experts fail with simply installing Linux,... to actually make a change so REAL newcomers can use the OS, without going trough hours of pain and suffering? All that command line nonsense,... make that OPTIONAL for those that think they need it to feel better. Make the basic functions work without even opening the console. Instant +10% market share, without changing anything but the basic install process.
  6. Quoted because this is the only answer this topic needs. High street prices make people mad at NVidia, even tho they can't do shit about it. High street prices also make zero difference to their bottom line. There is zero reason they would be doing this, and you can put this on the bag of "rumors" that people "just speak out loud" and "have proof hidden somewhere". This is getting annoying tbh. Back in the day, rumors at least had to sound plausible to be talked about. Now we even get topics about stuff that is so blatantly wrong, that no one should even waste a second thinking about it.
  7. You have never walked on street bare food? Never touched a garden table? A chair? There is no magic involved, that is only normal physics. Heat does not just vanish; it cumulates if you don't get rid of it somehow. And the sun certainly is not just stopping to pump out more heat, just because the dish has reached ambient temp.
  8. About everywhere the sun is shining from about June to August / September. Ambient temperatures are not exactly what the issue is here. Surface Temps are. Don't confuse ambient air and surface temperatures. Surfaces get A LOT hotter than the air. Just put your phone on the table, in the sun on a 30degree day. It will shut down due to reaching 90c and more. Just touch it. Enter your car at such a day. Touch the interior. Hell, the steering wheel. This dish is looking at the sun, without obstacles, for the entire day. Its temperatures will easily be double the ambient temperatures on days without any clouds.
  9. Now that seems like a major design flaw. Hell, 50c surface temp is reached frequently in Germany, which is not exactly one of the hottest countries. Kinda expecting A LOT of outages in the coming weeks. There is no way 50c surface temps are enough for something that is looking the sun in the eyes 24/7.
  10. Not for every company, no. And certainly not for every feature. Also, this Vest we are talking about here, can also be bought with a one time payment. People can pick if they want that, or a monthly / yearly plan... still sucks, but you get the options.
  11. Sorry to break it to you, but that is already happening on cars of every major company. If you don't pay for the features, they are still there.... but don't work. Break assistant? Installed, but disabled. Obstacle avoidance? Installed, but disabled. It sucks, but it is already happening and here to stay, unfortunately.
  12. Yeah, very likely only legal in the US. The country that screws over people left, right and center, just to please big companies that clearly need those 10 bucks! Pretty sure Dell would get a few billion on "subscriptions" in the form of legal trouble and fines if they would try that in the EU.
  13. So, this is just 60hz I take it? Damn. I really wanted the C9 as a 32 Inch,... but no 120hz+, no buy for me.
  14. I honestly don't see a big reason for these, no matter the company making them. I mean: What would you use this on anyway? Stuff you can lose somewhere, likely has build in Bluetooth and any form of "find my device" stuff anyway. Watches, Smartphones, Laptops,... hell even Headphones. What else could you search for? Serious question. I really have no idea what kinda stuff in my life could be lost AND be refound due to this tech.
  15. And Cyberpunk needs significantly more performance, than a console can and will offer for the next 4-8 years. Unless, obviously... they turn down the settings some more, to make it in line with the other console games that also just have amazing trailers and look awful while playing.
  16. Well,... who thought it would run, let alone well,.. on old consoles? It will run terrible on NEW consoles and we all know it. We knew it months and maybe years in advance actually. Just like Witcher 3 on the Switch. People ARE dumb enough to buy it anyways for...reasons I guess. The only thing that comes to mind really: "Stop using the wrong tool for the job!". Bleeding Edge graphics is not gonna work on any console, let alone an old one. Hell: Most PCs won't run it well for a while.
  17. Kinda called: "Having a job". Also, look up dept "Collectors US". That is NOTHING like the stuff we have in Germany. Not even remotely close. They are selling "depts" and those people knock on your door, wait for you after work and actually get away with some pretty scare stuff, while the police is watching and even cheering. Nope, we don't have that here. You get a letter with the demand to pay. If you don't, they add some fees and demand again. If you never pay, you can get a court date and that's it. Nothing crazy like US dept collectors.
  18. Yet, we don't have any dept collectors in Germany. I have heard stories about the US and outsourcing dept to some... uhm,... "private" individuals?! But I did not believe such a thing was legal in any democracy. You know, we do have people in dept that can't pay, but they simply get their income reduced up to a minimum, so their dept gets payed automatically. You can also just claim being "broke". If you do that, you get a person to your side for 5 years. This person is handling your money and makes sure you can live well enough,.. while trying to pay off your dept. After 5 years the remaining dept is erased. Mind you, the percentage of people going into this kinda dept is in the 3 to low 4 digits, countrywide. Even at minimum wage, there is barely any way to get into any form of meaningful dept. Most people that need the service used to be rich and did some poor decisions with their money.
  19. "Dept Collectors",... sounds like some mafia kinda thing. Which countries do these work in? US?
  20. What else would a company try to do with their product? Make it taste like ass, so no one buys it? Obviously, Facebook is trying to make people like it as much as possible. Like,... duh! Plenty of reasons to be mad about Facebook, but this is certainly not one of it.
  21. You can find a tin foil theory around every corner. No doubt! This is amazing news and honestly totally unexpected. Sure, he said he wanted to push this, but I took that as bold words for publicity and not something they would really push towards. Let's see how this works out and if Steam joins at some point. Because, if we are honest, no matter how big the Epic growth has been... even if they grow at that pace for years, they would likely still be smaller than Steam. One question keeps bugging me tho. If they let you play games everywhere, no matter where you bought them,... how is GOG or even Epic gonna keep the people? Steam is a FAR, FAAAAR better platform for the end user. It just so happens to be more expensive usually. Who would run a game bought on Epic... on the epic launcher, if he could just as well use the steam launcher, possibly with workshop, forums etc.? Or maybe they want exactly that. Sell games cheap enough so people pay Epic,... and then be happy if the customers use Steams resources and servers any ways? Will be interesting to follow.
  22. Bloody hell,... you really think THAT beast is easier to manage? I had to use that for my masters degree and hated every second of it. Word just works and does exactly what you want it to. Latex on the other hand....
  23. Well, if performance increase is irrelevant, but the NAMES on the products are important for you... then I guess we have different ways of judging GPUs. Just because a GPU is called 3090 and not Titan, means THAT is the top dog? Even tho Jen said it is the Titan replacement? if it was called Titan, you would be all happy because then the top dog would have been the 700 dollar 3080? Basically, you dislike the situation because the thing is not called Titan?
  24. Tiers change. That is something you have to include in your (otherwise valid) argument. You noticed yourself that Titans used to be TIs... now they are 90s. Names don't matter really. The underlying product does. And well,... Ampere has a 700$ price tag for the top dog and 500$ for the 2nd tier. So... what is bad about that? This also comes with a 60-100% performance increase, greater than Pascal, which in itself was highly acclaimed to be amazing.
  25. I get that being skeptical is a good thing. Don't get me wrong there. It's just that I see a limit there. There is a line between healthy skepticism and outright paranoia. I see very little reason to destroy a 1mil YouTube channel, just to fake or hide something for 2 weeks, when people can't even buy the product. And Nvidia does not have a past of lying and overhyping, or having major issues in select titles. Again: Some skepticism is very warranted. But don't go all overboard with that. There is enough evidence shown to expect a pretty damn amazing generation of GPUs.
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