Tamesh16

A overclockable laptop 14 core beats a 5yr old 16core AMD cpu.......ok?

Never did, never will. Smartphone replaced it. 

We all get what you're saying, but you seem to have (intentionally or not) omitted comments by the OP ;
 
He paid taxes already He's not disputing paying duties The taxes collected are 20% (with a screenshot), so it's not Canadian sales taxes The link to the LTT store you posted talks about DUTIES, not taxes.  
As the OP stated, you're confusing duties and taxes, they're not the same. You're not helping the situation, you're adding confusion to the discussion, and you're being dismissive.
 
Any new replies after this that will focus on duties and don't take the information the OP provided into account will be removed without notifications. If you can't help, or you're uninterested in helping, that's perfectly fine, simply don't reply and move on.

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Sources
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17134/intel-sells-ssd-business-to-sk-hynix-as-new-subsidiary-solidigm
 
Summary
Intel gets out of the flash SSD business, selling it to SK Hynix who will run it as a new subsidiary Solidigm. Optane is not included in this deal, and is retained by Intel.
 
My thoughts
While they had some success with the 600p, which at the time provided great capacity/cost ratio, it does feel to me this is an area where to be most effective you need to go large or go home. Selling this off allows them to focus on other areas of business. Don't think it'll make much if any impact to the consumer/enthusiast space which remain served by other established brands.
 
Optane remains a question as to what Intel does with it. The last time I looked they didn't have a way to manufacture it any more, as they parted ways from Micron who later sold off the fab that was making it.

Back in my day we didn't have fancy pantsy film! We used wet plates. That was real photography.

 Perhaps people should start their photographic education by scratching stick figures on cave walls by torchlight?

 I'm being facetious, of course.

Yeah, it became much harder to learn on DSLR compared to mirrorless and as such why the industry shifted to mirrorless... 
Even with me My first camera was mirrorless and it was tough to use a DSLR as such I stuck to mirrorless.
Also being able to see, your exposure in real time is so convenient and having a somewhat smaller package (body) is also nice. The ability to have better Hybirds as well have been a positive with Social media

NEWS SOURCES:
 
THE BLUE BLUR
Intel shows off Samsung PCIe 5.0 SSD hitting nearly 14 GB/s
https://www.techspot.com/news/92814-intel-shows-off-alder-lake-system-pcie-50.html
https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/1476609814402945029
https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/1476665601082990593
 
DON’T HURT, CONVERT
ASUS helps save the chip shortage with DDR5 to DDR4 Converter card
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1399975-asus-rog-preparing-to-launch-ddr4-to-ddr5-adapters-to-help-deal-with-scalpers-and-ram-shortage/
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17136/asus-demonstrates-ddr5-to-ddr4-converter-card
https://youtu.be/o9gMpvbXkWc?t=444
 
DOOMSDAY CLOCK CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT
TikTok surpasses Google as most popular website… according to Cloudflare anyways
https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-got-more-traffic-than-freakin-google-in-2021-1848252058
https://blog.cloudflare.com/popular-domains-year-in-review-2021/
https://radar.cloudflare.com/
 
QUICK BITS
 
GOT A BUMP IN THE FRUNK
Tesla recalling more than 475,000 Model 3 and Model S cars over camera, trunk defects
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-recalls-517-478-vehicles-in-canada-and-u-s-on-safety-risks-1.1701625
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2021/RCLRPT-21V00D-5923.PDF
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/30/tesla-recalls-cars-rearview-camera-trunk-defects
 
I AM FAKE SPARTACUS
Two Bored Ape Copycat NFT collections banned from OpenSea
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/30/22860010/bored-ape-yacht-club-payc-phayc-copycat-nft
https://twitter.com/phunkyApeYC/status/1467946301748748292
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/12/30/nft-project-bored-ape-yacht-club-spawns-left-facing-copycats/
 
A LIGHT TASTE
lickable screen
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-lickable-screen-that-can-imitate-flavours-is-in-development/
https://youtu.be/I5Gu1WgqTTw
 
PUT YOUR FINGIES IN THE BOX
Japanese company Bauhutte makes shiatsu gom jabbar box to help gamers get gud
https://www.engadget.com/bauhutte-hand-massager-gamers-160006506.html
https://www.bauhutte.jp/product/msg01h/
movie scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVSKtpmq1Y
 
GREAT TWEET, JAKE
fricken Jake
https://twitter.com/TheRikeys/status/1476832123059425280
 

One post and talking about a platform in the first person.... smells like an advert to me.

Everyone should learn how to drive a Manual. 

I was starting out on a mirrorless initially, it was the Olympus Pen E-PM1; I later switched to a Nikon DSLR and it was a much better experience from the very start. I'm back on mirrorless again with a Canon R6, and it's better yet than the old Nikon DSLR.
I'd say it heavily depends on which DSLR you are switching to or from, and which mirrorless as well.
 
P.S.: Canon full frame mirrorless cameras aren't that different from DSLRs anyway. They're still equipped with a full range of features and physical controls, and they're still heavy and huge (especially compared to Sonys), the only thing missing is the mirror. Given that, it's a logical move for Canon to ditch DSLRs entirely since their own mirrorless cams fill the exact same niche.

I would say same, I shoot a lot of birds, so generally I am in aperture priority just to ensure I am getting as much light but I do sometimes go to manual/shutter priority in odd lighting to fix my shutter speed to prevent blurred pictures
I usually use manual for pictures at night for astro/moon pictures

I played Titanfall 2 for the first time and I got to say, it was just okay... 
I know Luke thinks the story is really good, and I would have said that a while ago but after playing 'Detroit Become Human' that has been the top for me. 
I really expected the titans to be a bit more intuitive to handle, but I think that is just a preference for me. 
The story started off very cliche but got better, but I still never connected to anything that was going on really. 
I played the whole game between 2 days for reference, also I was an avid Apex Legends player and loved the controls in that game.
 
Has any one else played, how did you find it ?

It shouldn't have been included in the first place, I can't think of any good reason why anyone would need such an entertainment system in their car.
 
Of all the shitty takes i've seen on this forum, this one is pretty up there
Glad it's getting disabled while moving regardless of their reason. People are stupid and easily distracted enough in regular cars as is. When you're driving you should be focused on DRIVING.

NEWS SOURCES:
 
CRYING TEARS OF HOPE
Yet another Intel GPU leak shows great performance
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1397838-intel-dg2-shows-up-in-ashes-of-the-singularity-benchmark-gives-hope-to-someone-idk-who/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-dg2-benchmark-result
https://twitter.com/TUM_APISAK/status/1473210666274017286
 
GOOGLE = GOOSE?
DuckDuckGo making desktop browser
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1397728-duckduckgo-is-working-on-a-privacy-focused-desktop-browser/
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-2021-review/#:~:text=Desktop%20App%3A%20The%20Privacy%2C%20Speed%2C%20and%20Simplicity%20of%20our%20Mobile%20App%20Comes%20to%20Desktop
and Vivaldi’s making an Android Automotive browser
https://9to5google.com/2021/12/22/vivaldi-launches-the-first-android-automotive-web-browser-available-now-on-polestar-2/
 
SHARING IS NOT ALWAYS CARING
Google scanning and restricting files uploaded to Drive that violate ToS
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1397651-sorry-your-drive-failed-the-inspection-google-tightening-hosting-of-files-that-violate-tos/
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-drive-could-soon-start-locking-your-personal-files
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2021/12/google-drive-stop-sharing-files/
 
QUICK BITS
 
UNSTABLE CLOUD FORMATIONS
AWS experiences 3rd outage this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/third-aws-outage-in-two-weeks-takes-down-multiple-games-and-services/
https://www.xda-developers.com/aws-outage-amazon-slack-imgur-epic-games-december-2021/
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/aws-just-cant-catch-break-183510977.html
 
SOMEBODY TEST ME
Hugo Barra, former Meta and Google exec, launches at-home rapid rona tests
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/facebook-google-veteran-hugo-barra-to-lead-covid-testing-startup-1.1696206
https://detect.com/our-test
hopefully can’t get hacked like that other one
https://www.engadget.com/ellume-covid-19-test-bluetooth-hack-153933652.html
 
JUST CAN’T SQUARE IT
LG DualUp 16:18 monitor
https://www.pcworld.com/article/561578/lgs-new-1618-monitor-thinks-productivity-is-for-squares.html
https://b2c-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LG-DualUp_Product-02.jpg?resize=1072%2C1200&quality=50&strip=all
https://www.windowscentral.com/lg-announces-first-1618-square-double-display-lets-you-see-more-move-less
 
TURN ON THE MAGIC V-PHONE
Honor teases the MAGIC V
https://www.gsmarena.com/honor_magic_v_foldable_smartphone_launch_teaser-news-52390.php
https://twitter.com/Honorglobal/status/1473563964340678658
 
A SCAMMER’S PARADISE
Game NFT platform reimbursing $150K stolen from its followers by scammers
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848840/scammers-steal-crypto-nft-project-fractal-discord-hack-solana
https://blog.cotten.io/the-150k-discord-crypto-hack-b3dde6698072
https://twitter.com/fractalwagmi/status/1473331954238070789
 

Summary
Today, Microsoft and iFixit are announcing a partnership whereby iFixit's Pro independent repairers, Microsoft Authorized Service Providers, Microsoft Experience Centers, and Microsoft Commercial customers can now purchase official Microsoft service tools for Surface devices directly from iFixit.com.
 
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My thoughts
 This is really neat I think. I wasn't expecting a collab like this.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-teams-ifixit-bring-official-repairability-tools-pros

Only file explorer and FF pinned. I hide all the shit Microsoft puts on my taskbar(Weather, Search, Task View[I use win tab for that]).

 
 
Also hid the tiles and stuff in the start menu
 
 
That's a bit some clutter on the right side.. Do you actually use that? I personally don't, and thought most don't too.

He also has to have the latest and greatest everything. 
I do think he's a good example of "Average gamer goes Linux" though. As much of a shit show as that series is, I still think it makes a good point. I ran Linux for a little while. I didn't have compatibility issues. I really like it. Games were the hard part for me. A lot of the games I play wouldn't run on Linux or on Wine/Proton. That was the only thing that put me back on Windows. As soon as there's more game compatibility, I'm back to Linux.

the humidity in my room is about 80% (habit of growing up in the tropics) and I have been fine, once its not condensing you should be fine or any mists from the humidifier that could leave droplets on the pc, then you should be okay.
I did have a Tv fail once from high humidity but after years of use in a studio apartment that when the stove was working the humidity raised quite quickly (>90%) and condensed

Guess I'll be going Intel for my next build...

So the icons For new members and rank are now covering members avatar almost completely on mobile. Imo that's not how things should be. I'll leave my distaste of showing rank with meaningless badge out of this and focus on how things are taking space instead. So this is how it looks now:

Considering there's so much empty space (my distaste about that covered here), why not make icons smaller and place them under the avatar? Username takes a row, user group takes another and posts/reputation takes third. Avatar only takes the top two of those rows, leaving space under it which would be equivalent to posts/rep counter.
 
Besides rank and new member badges, we could have Moderator, Admin, LMG etc. badges placed there too. With simple design (green M for moderators, orange L for LMG for example). That would make this enormous badge not taking space on mobile:

 
Actually, the temp icon there is about where I would like it to be.

the real challenge will be finding a ps5 to try it on lol

How convenient... 
I guess someone at Microsoft noticed all the comments from people pointing out that windows 11 wouldn't be compatible with some of Microsoft's own devices.

Today, November 8th 2021, amd announced in a live-stream what their next generation data center products will look like.
Starting out with their newest server cpu code named Milan-X, which essentially is Milan with a truck load of cache added on top of it, 512MB worth (8*64MB), as they showed a few months ago it looks exactly like the old milan processors, keeping the same 64 core maximum, same socket etc, and current servers can support it with just a bios update.
 
Then on the graphics side they announced the MI250x and MI250, a dual die, octa channel HBM 2e, with 3.2TB/s of memory bandwidth, 128GB of vram, and 220 Compute units based on tsmc's 6nm node with a monster tdp to match of 560W.


 
then by the end they also gave us a sneak peak into what's next, confirming MLID's leak to a teeth, with zen 4 having 2 versions, one code named GENOA with up to 96 cores, and another code named BERGAMO with up to 128 Cores, the latter optimized for density and less so general compute both will be made on tsmc's 5nm and launch around late 2022, and interestingly its already sampling to customers, (Bergamo to come later in 2023).
along the expected specs like DDR5, PCIe 5.0, is a very important one CXL

 
My thoughts
I love too see packaging tech continue to be pushed by amd, a small detail of the cdna 2 announcement is that its actually using embedded silicon interposers to connect the gpus to the hbm stacks, and to connect the two gpu dies, this means that hbm will now become much more flexible as one no longer needs to have a silicon interposer the size of the entire substrate, added to the fact that hbm 3 is near its prime time things are looking good for the standard, can't wait for all this tech to trickle down to us mortals.
Just noticed they also announced CXL support with zen 4 epyc, so we might be close to getting a more efficient use of the pcie lanes our cpus have as well as finally a interconnect where optane can thrive.
 
Sources
 
 

THING WILL HAPPEN IN TIME
 
wow so impressive to know

I mean. Ok? Not sure how this is really news.