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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from Gessler555 in Looking for a 32" 1440p Curved IPS monitor   
    Based on my recent research, I think the best gaming 32" 1440p gaming monitor might currently be the Samsung Odyssey G7 (which already has a very-premium price), or the G8 if someone is able to spend an obscene amount on a monitor. I think I saw the G7 refurbished for a more reasonable price at that time, of around $500 CAD. I was looking into it and weighing it against an Asus PG329Q, and went with the Asus because I wanted a flat-screen monitor.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to OhioYJ in Should I risk F-ing it up?   
    No need for adhesive. It was likely held on with a double sided tape to begin with. They make thing clear double sided tape. I would use that. Just cut to size.
     
    Here is an example.
     
    The 3M VHB tape you usually see mentioned would be thicker, and not likely what would be used in this application.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to Poinkachu in Should I risk F-ing it up?   
    A simple double tape should do IMHO.
    I believe it's the most non-possibly damaging option.

    The weight of the monitor will do the rest of the job.
     
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    Delicieuxz reacted to TetraSky in Should I risk F-ing it up?   
    You can just glue the pad on it with cyanoacrylate glue. Pretty sure you could literally put any old piece of rubber about the same height on there and it would work just the same without the need for a whole new base.
    There's next to nothing to "f up" here if you get the base Asus sends you and remove a pad underneath it to glue on yours.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to BrandonLatzig in BC, Canada phone plan offer - too good to be true?   
    Well hopefully you dont feel bad about it, because well
    you shouldnt. you did what you wanted to do
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    Delicieuxz reacted to CrowTheRobot in BC, Canada phone plan offer - too good to be true?   
    I would call Telus back on their number and ask if the offer was legitimate.  I never agree to anything that is offered to me in an unsolicited, unexpected call as it is too easy for it to be a scam by a bad actor.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to Kisai in BC, Canada phone plan offer - too good to be true?   
    Telus offered something like that once, and they changed the price after 12 months. So no don't expect the price to stay the same.
     
    Rogers never changed the price on me for years off contract, where as Telus does on a whim. So don't trust it.
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from Mark Kaine in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Definitely nitpicky and unreasonable, given that the forum rules require a news poster include their opinion of why they think a news topic they post matters. Besides, my opinion is a good one.
     
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from Forbidden Wafer in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
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    Huawei's Kirin 9000S chip is said to be good in performance and efficiency, have excellent 5G, and the Mate 60 Pro has a camera that seems to be comparable to those on top-end phones. Satellite calling is a bonus.
     
    As is covered in this thread, Huawei is said to be working on a 5nm-and-lower process based on China-made EUV, as opposed to China's DUV process that made the Kirin 9000S. The rumour is that it could see commercial use next year.
     
     
     
     
     
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from LAwLz in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    TechInsights confirms Huawei's SoC made by SMIC N+2 7nm node
     
     
    I don't know about this first Twitter post  - it sounds like Longying 1 has been around since 2021. But maybe it's just entered mass production [2] [3]. The reply to it with comments about China-made EUV is interesting, though unverified.
     
    Google's translation:
     

     

     
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    Delicieuxz reacted to jagdtigger in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    TBH i dont mind it in this case, the USA has way too much power over way too many things......
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    Delicieuxz reacted to igormp in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Thei node seems to be actually reasonable. Doesn't really outperform the competition, but has nice power consumption and it seems that most of the issues stem from the actual CPU/GPU architectures rather than the node:
    Now let's see if we'll have some western benchmarks to make it more clear.
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from TylerD321 in Suddenly, I can't get into the BIOS - holding or quickly pressing the Del key isn't working   
    I'm finding that I can consistently enter the BIOS with the new monitor if I Shift-key + Restart from the start menu, to boot into the Advanced Options screen (which doesn't display on the monitor but is just a black screen), and then, while at that black screen, press the Space key, which resets the PC again while making an Asus screen appear that says press Delete to enter the BIOS. If I'm not holding down the Delete key as the system starts booting after memory training, that screen won't display. But if I am holding the Delete key down, that screen will display and it'll go into the BIOS after that.
     
    I'm going to push Asus for a fix, because it's a premium Asus monitor and a premium Asus motherboard, both part of their current lineup, and they should work together without an issue like this.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to ThousandBlade in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    First gen products will probably be dog shit.
    What's really interesting would be the next generation and the generation after.
    This is a great thing overall.
    It'll open up so much options for people aren't on the friendliest terms with the US.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to ThousandBlade in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    What device doesn't spy on you these days? 
    Don't be fooled into thinking Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, or the NSA is any better than CCP.
     
    Build your own ROMs or firmware for what ever device you're using if you're that paranoid.
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from soldier_ph in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Congrats to China, whose Huawei has just released a new phone built using SMIC's own 7nm chip. China is said to also be able to make 5nm chips, but with less efficient yields at this time. The new phone was launched while US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, was visiting China.
     
    In addition to reducing tech hegemony, gatekeeping, and abuse of power (ASML's CEO basically accused the US of using sanctions on China to steal market share from European firms), China's growth in chip-making should bring innovation and healthy competition, and could push-down chip prices around the world.
     
    Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US Sanctions - "The company’s Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC’s 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News"
     
    Huawei's New Mystery 7nm Chip from Chinese Fab Defies US Sanctions
     
    New phone sparks worry [note: mostly just in the US govt] China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
     
    Also: Huawei is building a collection of secret semiconductor-fabrication facilities across China

     
     
    Last summer, it was reported that China had achieved a breakthrough in its chip-making and was producing its own 7nm chips, and moving onto 5nm, after 7nm chips made by SMIC were discovered in Bitcoin miners.
     
     
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from thechinchinsong in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Though needing verification, a line in the WaPo article (5th link in the OP) says:
     
    "One person told The Washington Post that the Mate 60 Pro has a 5G chip. Speed tests posted by early buyers of the phone online suggest its performance is similar to top-of-the-line 5G phones."
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from thechinchinsong in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Congrats to China, whose Huawei has just released a new phone built using SMIC's own 7nm chip. China is said to also be able to make 5nm chips, but with less efficient yields at this time. The new phone was launched while US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, was visiting China.
     
    In addition to reducing tech hegemony, gatekeeping, and abuse of power (ASML's CEO basically accused the US of using sanctions on China to steal market share from European firms), China's growth in chip-making should bring innovation and healthy competition, and could push-down chip prices around the world.
     
    Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US Sanctions - "The company’s Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC’s 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News"
     
    Huawei's New Mystery 7nm Chip from Chinese Fab Defies US Sanctions
     
    New phone sparks worry [note: mostly just in the US govt] China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
     
    Also: Huawei is building a collection of secret semiconductor-fabrication facilities across China

     
     
    Last summer, it was reported that China had achieved a breakthrough in its chip-making and was producing its own 7nm chips, and moving onto 5nm, after 7nm chips made by SMIC were discovered in Bitcoin miners.
     
     
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    Delicieuxz reacted to igormp in China's chip-making on display as Huawei produces new phone with homebuilt 7nm chip   
    Nice to see a non-US option, more competition is always good and helps to break down US' hegemony.
     
    Let's see if their node is actually as good as other 7nm options, and if their pricing will be competitive and open to clients world-wide.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to saintlouisbagels in What's the chance of getting a monitor with dead pixels? (great deal in US available on Asus ROG 32" monitor - thinking about shipping to Canada)   
    B&H doesn't offer free returns in Canada?
    I went through 4 bad units of the AORUS FV43U (43-inch monitor) before getting a good one without egregious dead pixels cracked displays - all from B&H. I felt so bad because it has to be so expensive each time to ship such a big item! (I'm from United States)
     
    Anyways, you're going to to have a chance of bad pixels regardless of any brand at any price. But keep in mind it usually takes like a cluster of ~3 pixels before warranties can be considered.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to Concodroid in Recommend me a good 32" 1440p 144hz+ monitor with HDR?   
    So that monitor isn't really HDR. It accepts an HDR signal, but it's not even HDR 400 certified - and hdr 400 is a waste of money, too.* If you're looking for hdr, this isn't it.

    If you really want a 32 inch 1440p 144hz+ monitor with actual HDR... why not get the same one I got? I bought a Samsung Odessey G7, 32 inches, curved, 1440p, 240hz refresh rate, great GTG, and DisplayHDR600 certification. I bought it in december 2022 for around 550 bucks. On sale, I believe it's gone down to 450. It's an excellent monitor, apart from the viewing angles, which are horrendous. But it's brilliant if you look at it head on (like you're supposed to do :P)

    But the thing is, even with DisplayHDR600 certification it really isn't all that great in HDR handling. It doesn't handle HDR well, no matter what I do to try and fix it.

    And even if I did fix it, there's not much I can do on it. This is the problem with hdr on windows. Most streaming apps don't support HDR - not prime video, not disney plus, and only netflix on their ultimate ultra epic giga turbocharged plan supports hdr. There's youtube, but there's only so much HDR content on youtube. Then there's plex, but I really don't know how to set all that up etc etc etc.

    Finally there's HDR gaming, which is extremely dependent on the game. Forza Horizon 5 looks amazing with HDR. Microsoft Flight Simulator looks amazing with HDR on a monitor that's much brighter than mine, as it's got HDR tonemapping issues with the lower-nit monitors.

    If you want to experience HDR on this budget, best to do it on a TV. HDR gaming is somewhat problematic, as many games aren't really hdr, even when they claim they are. Right now, it's all kind of a mess. 


    *But why is it a waste of money, you may ask? Well, as you know, HDR means high dynamic range, and for that to work, you need a lot of contrast between the light and dark parts of the image. If there's no local dimming - DisplayHDR 400 monitors do not have this - then the black parts become grey and the image gets washed out. Then there's DisplayHDR400 True Black, which is for self-emitting panels, but that's a whole different story.

    Even DisplayHDR600 isn't all that great, because in windows 11, you can simply drag SDR brightness up to 100, meaning the SDR picture is at 600 nits. When you turn HDR on, the average nits goes down to 300 or so. Technically a more correct image, but when you can get that pop with SDR (and when everything supports it), I find myself using SDR over HDR 9/10 times even when SDR is there. 

    Like I said, if you want to experience HDR on this budget, best do it on a TV. Because you can stream shows, watch movies, and just generally have a better experience than getting a do-it-all monitor for cheap like I did. 
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    Delicieuxz reacted to SolarNova in Which Windows would you install on a 2600k / Sandy Bridge system?   
    Im running W10 ..or rather a 'version' of W10 called Ghost Spectre.
    Im still rocking a 3930k which is a sandybridge CPU, and it runs perfectly fine.
     
    Most of the 'issues' with 'unsupport platforms' with W10 and W11 are in regards to installation as it fails to detect a valid TPM chip, this is easily avoidable with a modded installation file with original install files or a fully custom installation like Ghost Spectre.
     
    The other 'issues' revolve around security vulnerabilities like Specter and Meltdown, the patches for which tend to be included in 'official' versions of W10 and 11 and which have a detrimental effects on older CPU performance.
    Unless running on a business PC these 'patches' for the vulnerabilities are not required as they fix a flaw that requires physical access to the PC for any party to take advantage of the vulnerability. For the average home PC user the only people who will have physical access are the owners/users themselves thus making the security flaw rather irrelevant.
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from OhioYJ in An Alarming 87 Percent Of Retro Games Are Being Lost To Time   
    Related:
     
    Saving video gaming’s source code treasures before it’s too late
     
    "Over 90 percent of pre-2000 gaming source code may already be gone."
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    Delicieuxz got a reaction from Mark Kaine in Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard    
    If Microsoft completes the purchase, I think there's a significant danger that Microsoft will pull its games from Steam and other platforms again. Microsoft will then own Blizzard's app, which is already the home of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and Call of Duty. And Blizzard has had the most success in standing strong and being profitable using its own client out of all the non-Steam clients. Now add Microsoft's massive publisher library to the list, including Bethesda's titles. If Microsoft went exclusive to the store app they'll own, with all those IPs, they likely would have no problem being a successful competitor to Steam while not having their games on Steam.
     
    So, while I like the idea of Microsoft owning certain low-effort, low-quality studios, like Bethesda, as their games can likely only get better as a result (as Starfield's delay suggests), I'm concerned Microsoft's commitment to publishing on multiple platforms, including Steam, might disappear once this deal goes through. And, personally, I don't want to put the trust for my games and my perpetual, long-term access to them in Microsoft's hands.
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    Delicieuxz reacted to LAwLz in EU Lists First 7 Potential "Gatekeepers" Under The Digital Markets Act (DMA)   
    On the 4th of July, the EU published a list of the first 7 companies they are potentially considering "gatekeepers" according to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
    The companies are:
    Alphabet (aka Google) Amazon Apple ByteDance (aka TikTok) Meta (aka Facebook) Microsoft Samsung  
    A gatekeeper is according to the DMA a company that fulfills these three criteria:
    Has a market size big enough to impact the internal markets, which is further classified as being at least one of the following: Had an annual turnover in the EU of at least 7,5 billion euros the last 3 years in a row. Has a fair market value of at least 75 billion Euro and provides the same core platform service in at least 3 member states. Has more than 45 million monthly active end users in the EU and at least 10,000 yearly active business users in the EU in the last financial year. Have had 45 million monthly active end users in the EU and at least 10,000 yearly active business users in the EU for three years in a row.  
    The announcement also mentions it applies to "core platform services" and lists things such as social network services, operating systems, and search engines as being potential gatekeepers. My guess is that it would be hard to classify let's say a game or a language learning app as a "core platform service" even if it fulfills all the criteria. It seems like the law is designed to target "more important" areas where there is a risk of abuse because the service connects to other services and businesses, like an app store controlling what other businesses can and can't do in their apps, or a social media network controlling who can talk to who, and how. But that remains to be seen.
     
     
    If you are labeled a gatekeeper under the DMA, you will no longer be allowed to:
    Lock in users to their ecosystems. No longer decide which apps you need to have pre-installed on your devices and which app stores you have to use. No longer be allowed to "self-preference" by treating your own products and services more favorably. Messaging apps will have to interoperate with each other. And more things.  
     
    How these things will be enforced and what the end result will look like will most likely vary from service to service.
    The full legal text includes more detailed explanations, but there will probably be some arguing about what it means anyway. You can find that info in for example article 7 (Obligations for gatekeepers on interoperability of number-independent interpersonal communication services) of the full legal text if interested. That also outlines the timeline for when various services have to comply. For example, interoperability for group audio calls between gatekeepers needs to work within 4 years from the designation.
     
    The goal is, in the EU commissions own words that:
     
     
    My thoughts
    This sounds good to me. I am a bit skeptical and worried about what the end result will be, but the intentions seem good and it sounds like the companies on the list all qualifies. Some companies will certainly be affected more than others though. Judging by the criteria it seems like for example, Samsung will basically just have to let users uninstall preinstalled apps (which they already do to a big degree), while Apple will have to rework a large portion of their services.
     
     
    Sources
    https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_3674
     
    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.265.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A265%3ATOC
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