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Fasterthannothing

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  1. Wow that's really sad! Literally going to be the end once they go under. I mean between this and FrozenCPU closing as well as computer components coming maxed out from the factory watercooling is basically dead. Really sad I mean I remember how thrilling watercooling used to be and if you had a full on liquid cooling system you were the ultimate PC building enthusiast.

  2. 1 hour ago, 05032-Mendicant-Bias said:

    For those that sells ML as the new nuclear weapons, it makes sense that the new fissile material becomes an heavily restricted strategic resource with controlled and regulated exports. limiting access to top tier chips will result in a slow down of chinese developments and in the USA buying time.

     

    Indeed, Jensen and Sam Altman have only themselves to blame. Sam Altman pleaded to be given control over worldwide chip production and regulation! Talk about self important! They hyped the tech so much to boost sales that the government is afraid to letting them do their thing. May CEOs learn a lesson or two on overhyping tech!

    Did you even read what I wrote? Limiting the speed of the output without trying to block the actual chips is like saying there are no longer speed limits on the roads but we have but a wooden block under your acceleration peddle to keep you from going too fast. Just be sure not to remove that easily removable wooden block.

  3. 47 minutes ago, porina said:

    I'm struggling a bit on the use case for these. How about something in your PC just died. You ordered a replacement but it arrives tomorrow. You have to game NOW but all you have is a potato backup. Streaming to that could keep you going temporarily? It would be nicer if they offered this as time used offering. So you bought 24h, you get 24h of logged in use, not from when you activate it.

     

    BTW add on unlimited data plans on mobile phones are not so different. On my current provider, it is:

    1 day: £3 (3.0/day)

    3 day: £5 (1.7/day)

    7 day: £10 (1.4/day)

    30 day: £17 (0.6/day)

     

    If you don't need it for the duration, you're not getting the full value of it. I recently bought the 30 day extension because I needed to fill a gap of 12 days when I didn't have wired internet due to moving house. Two 7 days packs cost more than one 30 day, although the effective cost of when I actually needed to use it was £1.4/day. It is still active now and I thought I might try outdoor streaming to Twitch as something I might get into later.

    Yeah actually a 24hr balance type system would be pretty cool. Then you could buy a few days worth for say vacation or business trips where you want to game without dragging around a PC.

  4. Wyze has had insane numbers of security breaches however even Unifi which is a pretty self hosted system had the same thing happen. I don't understand how this even happens seems pretty basic to make sure that the camera is only connected to the person who set it up using unique keys.

  5. Someone brought up an interesting point on another news story about AI that I was reading. AI has all the tell tail signs of the dot com bubble. We are approaching the same point where the value is being ballooned if a company just mentions AI. Will the bubble be as  catastrophic who knows my guess is it won't be good but AI is also being used to cut jobs so maybe it will balance out.

  6. 51 minutes ago, HumdrumPenguin said:

    I wish Samsung would create the Pixel phones, and let Google handle the software experience. We had bost of both worlds 🙂

    I think Google would do that if they hadn't sunk so much into making their phones. They literally created their own processors. They should have merged before the pixel 6

  7. Decided to trade in my s22 ultra for the s24+ because of the 7 years of updates and also the free storage upgrades and pricing of the s24+ after trade in. I was able to get a 512gb s24+ and the galaxy buds pro 2 for $318 including taxes. Plus I used cashback sites to get even more off that. I'm very impressed with the price to performance of the s24+ this year. The 24+ has the same ram and screen resolution/refresh of the ultra it's basically the ultra without the pen and crazy camera configuration which I didn't find myself using enough to justify the price difference.

  8. Nvidia is killing the GPU market right now. Especially with the new price drops I think this really goes back to the hardware unboxed video where some users chimed in basically pointing out that if you want all the user features for both gaming and work related task Nvidia is the only way to go and it appears that way.

     

     

    As much as I like Nvidia I was hoping AMD would be able to use their greed to get ahead but it appears that's not the case as their new cards didn't perform well enough to make a dent.

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