Athan Immortal

I'm so impressed, but I have so many questions.

I mean they went back to the Langley house, they were specifically kicked out of there by the Langley council for filming in a residential home or running a business from there.

I didn't even know Linus still owned it.

How did they get everyone there without panicking the street, that many people is not subtle.

And it's not like it's a bit of set dressing to look right, they had actual networking going, people scrubbing through footage on premier. The editors, the writers, the clothing/fashion dept.

They filmed a gamelinked or techlinked from there. They did a short circuit, a WAN show.

They weren't just there for like 3 hours, this was a massive effort, and they clearly went BACK to do WAN show.

WHO IS STAYING THERE? WHO AGREED TO THIS? WHAT DID THEY TELL THE NEIGHBOURS??

I don't have a whole lot to add, well done for pursuing such a complicated project

But I did just want to say that I think some anti-cheat systems have a problem with virtual machines. Easy Anti-Cheat and whatever Valorant uses, I believe might ban you if you play a multiplayer game with them, so double check on that before you go for any games with an account you care about.

Mine was 99/2000, a cooler like this (not my picture but I highlighted the retention mechanism, this is a socket A cooler). This was in the barbaric days when you'd have to jam a flat head screw driver in there, press down and angle it out to hook over the socket.

Oh and there was no heat spreader, it was direct die contact like the original AMD Athlon, so you were also hoping that you wouldn't crack the silicon while you PRESSED DOWN.... ON THAT SUCKER... GET... ON THERE DAMN IT!

Amusingly this is actually one of the better examples of this, there were many cheap coolers that didn't have the side guards, so your screw driver could slip out the side and hit the motherboard too.

I am so grateful for how coolers are these days usually with multi-corner screw downs, or at the very least a leaver that lets you hook the cooler on then increase pressure.

Modern Vintage Gamer warns against it (well sort of, I mean he does make videos about modded consoles and security). If Nintendo comes up with a detection it's very likely to get a console banned.

Gary Bowser's name is also popping up here as well.

It's a shame because these events were landmarks. New generations of consoles, next games in franchise reveals, collaborations, friendships and business partnerships made because they could meet at an event like this.

While I understand in this era it just makes more sense to make a well rehearsed, filmed and almost sterile stream for youtube or twitch or whatever, it's not the same as an audience reaction to something.

Some of my favourite E3 moments were.

Valve showing off Half Life 2's new face tech, having G-man a coy little look

Halo 2, when Master Chief picks up and dual wields guns for the first time

The cheer when Phil Spencer announced backward compatibility for the Xbox One

When GlaDOS interrupted the Sony E3 2010 conference to deploy a surprise

I wonder if Intel got an inside line that this was coming and did a pre-emptive strike. Because honestly it looked so slap dashed together and not considering how many of the actions they're accusing AMD of they themselves have done.

With that said, these points are great.

• All cores use the same INSTRUCTION SET
• All cores have the same IPC
• All cores can multithread SMT
• Doesn't require hardware OS SCHEDULER
• All cores are EFFICIENT
• All cores can improve GAMING

Every one of those points really highlights how complex Intel's chips have gotten. I kind of liked the idea of efficiency cores, but they really have added such a layer of complexity, where AMD seem to have followed the Keep it Simple philosophy.

I've had Ryzen since day 1 in 2017, a 1700X, followed by 3700X, a laptop with a 4500U and now a 5800X3D. Despite appearances I'm not team anything, I just buy what's best in my budget at the time.

The AMD naming scheme for their 7000 laptops is BS. It's very misleading because people have been trained to look for the series by the thousand. It was bad enough when you'd have the likes of the 3400G being Zen+ instead of Zen 2, but we're now talking about several generations of hardware difference in expectation.

With that said, Intel are on shaky ground considering their intended naming scheme for their next gen of processors, and changing their fab processes names to match TSMC. 10nm to Intel 7 for example.

It's all designed to be confusing. We're in some of the best time for consumer processors in years, and deceptive naming like this just creates confusion.

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

From what I can tell, there were no threads on this forum about it which I think was strange.

And yes, at this point it's a bit "old", but I still think there are interesting discussions to be had, and some people may not have watched those videos. I guess some mod can move it to general discussions if they feel like it's not "news" anymore.

 

Although it seems to be an evolving story since there are quite a few documents to go through. 

Nah I'm in support of it being a news topic here for discussion, I just can't understand how it was missed here, weird

Wait, this didn't get a post here? This "news" is almost 2 weeks old, am I imagining it? I thought they even covered it on WAN show?

Yeah it was the one they had to splice so it wasn't in the Live section,

Gamelinked covered it 10 days ago

93,221 on an old Samsung Spinpoint 1tb, definitely on it's way out according to the Smart status.

My first SSD from ~2013 is still running in my server, 80,674 hours.

And on the high usage SSD side, 102TB lifetime writes to my Crucial MX100 500gb. It's my sacrificial lamb, so Photoshop scratch disk, video editing and rendering, Nvidia Shadow play. Any time I play a game this drive is getting 300mb a minute written to it.

At this point all three of these drives are experiments to see how long they'll last.

On 9/5/2023 at 5:05 PM, Quackers101 said:

It now also seems like they dont do RMA depending on what cable used, in more 12VHPWR drama.

"MSI rejects graphics card RMA claim due to use of a CableMod 12VHPWR adapter"
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-rejects-graphics-card-rma-claim-due-to-use-of-a-cablemod-12vhpwr-adapter

Pro-tip when dealing with companies for warranty. You used it ENTIRELY IN SPEC WITH NO DEVIATION OR OTHER EQUIPMENT!

Can't help but agree with Steve's points. I already had a concern watching the "working for lmg" videos where the overwhelming feedback was "I wish we didn't have to go so fast". And I remember watching some of those videos that were highlighted, granted I didn't catch the cooler temp deltas, but I did see the techquickie video that kept having to Asterisk so many of it's points for bad maths, and at one point I had said to a friend "Why didn't they just cut to b-roll and re-record the voice for this?"

I like LMG, I like the fun janky project videos, and frankly with their budget it means they're able to do what some can't, but I can't ignore what's being brought up in this video, and I already had problems with the amount of corrections and asterisks being put in.

If they want to be taken seriously for accuracy in testing, they also need to be willing to forgo their metics and remove wrong videos.

Also the Billet Labs thing is unforgivable. Auctioning off something that wasn't yours, that's been specifically requested back, not cool, they definitely need to publicly address that. And I'd go further and say they need to reach out to who bought it, even if it's a general call out on social media and buy it back for Billet.

What I'll be interested to see is... do they invite Steve onto the WAN show? Would they dare? And would Steve show up? Because it's honestly in Linus' best interest to squash this immediately. These are legitimate concerns.

15 hours ago, HomeLabAddict said:

Figured out another solution just don't know how to delete a forum post

Post the solution. The internet is full of posts of "Fixed it" that don't say how they did it.

Shortcircuit Ebay sponsorship.

Specifically to do with refurbished phones video from 1st August 2023, the recent ShortCircuit video was sponsored by Ebay.

Louis Rossman did a video on it with a refurbisher (Credit @Caillou on Floatplane for the link). In summary, Ebay told the refurbishers they could no longer sell phones in the refurbished category and had to put them in Used. The seller then applied to join the refurbisher program on ebay, but was first asked to sign an NDA before they could even see the terms.

I find it very hard to trust the whole ebay refurbished program now when they feel the need to hide the terms of their refurb category behind NDAs.

This isn't something that would stop me watching, but it kind of leaves a bad taste.

37 minutes ago, igormp said:

The MI300 lineup does look interesting, but aren't looking that impressive to me when compared against Nvidia's GH chip, with way more total memory and better software compatibility.

This as I understand it is the main problem. So many deployments already on Cuda of some sort, or just ready for Nvidia. The savings that AMD offer put it in a weird spot where someone who has the money to buy these could probably stretch to the Nvidia option anyway and save retraining or reprogramming their workflows.

I think they may find a home in some new super computers built specifically with these in mind at huge scale where the saving would scale, but I don't know.

41 minutes ago, wanderingfool2 said:

No, no business person would say that Apollo must be worth $10m if it's costing Reddit in $20m without looking at the numbers.

Very bad take, and it's pretty obvious you haven't looked at the numbers, no other site charges this much for API access. It doesn't cost reddit $20 million a year.

Nevermind, it's up, my bad!

In Floatplane chat last night (Friday night UK time) I had just missed the live stream with Sarah designing the new shirt, and someone said it was encoding, but when it went up it was a duplicate of Linus' live stream from earlier talking to people.

Is there any chance the video will be found and uploaded or is it gone?

I did try searching for this topic, so sorry if it's already addressed somewhere, I couldn't think of a better sub forum to put it in.

1 minute ago, sof006 said:

Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be a 180, since a 360 would mean they're facing the same direction?

No, OPs point is that they posted these unpopular guidelines, did a 180 and claimed it was a mistake, then they've now done another 180, back to "Yes we're doing it", so 360.

1 hour ago, Dutch_Master said:

It's online on YT now:

 

Dammit, I checked this morning and seriously, it might have been like 1 hour 10 minutes ago, and genuinely looking through these last posts thought "are they going to keep it FP exclusive".

Thank you for the link

I honestly look forward to the WAN show, it's about the only tech related podcast I watch, and even tend to view it over a few days. I'm in the UK so I look forward to it on a Saturday morning.

Oh well at least Dan's on the case.

8 minutes ago, porina said:

That was the implication I took away too.

 

I'm not too familiar with final production timings. If they're lucky, the AIBs wont have too much material existing referencing the 4080 12GB name. If the name is in the GPU bios, then they might need to do a round of re-flashing existing cards for the new official name. Driver side at least is nvidia's responsibility.

OMG I never even thought of this. Imagine you've got inventory of tens of thousands of cards, and then Nvidia just says "Woopsie, sorry guys", wonder if Nvidia will make it up to partners or just "too bad so sad" them.

Summary

Nvidia are pulling the 4080 12gb card.

Quotes

Quote

The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right. Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing.

 

So, we’re pressing the “unlaunch” button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is amazing and on track to delight gamers everywhere on November 16th.

 

If the lines around the block and enthusiasm for the 4090 is any indication, the reception for the 4080 will be awesome.

My thoughts

For a company as head strong as Nvidia, this is welcome news. Everyone and their granny could see through the Fauxty80.

This does mean however they're left with the only XX80 card being unapologetically $1200, which is ridiculous.

Sources

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/

This happened a few years ago (2017/18 I think) and exposed that some of the NHS IT systems infrastructure was horrendously behind. They'd also been warned about possible cyber attacks, and had failed tests to detect them.

I hope it's not someone that has fallen for a phishing e-mail or something.

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

IGN gives scores that low?

If it's that IGN Reviewer that gave Prey a 4.0

3 hours ago, Jamie Stewart said:

 

 

 

Since the announcement the steam page has been review bombed by 12k users due to the removal of mods that improved the overall games functionality, accessibility, and adaptability. 
 

 

 

It's not review bombing when it's a legitimate complaint about the software that's being reviewed. The term review bombing has become too overused and minimises legitimate complaints.

To my mind, review bombing is when a developer makes some unpopular statement or an announcement about an upcoming game for example, and people make false reviews on that developers other products to protest against them, that's review bombing.

Leaving negative reviews about the actual product affected by a bad change is just user agency at work, and one of the few things customers have left.