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And what makes you think that this super GPU with double the silicon on it will cost significantly less than two cards with half as much each? It would certainly be cheaper (using chiplets. A massive monolithic die would almost certainly end up more expensive), but not massively so.

There's another difference that you're overlooking though. AMD's CPU division also launched a Halo line of products that drives marketing. RTG hasn't had an equivalent flagship at launch in many.... many years. Sure, the 200 series eventually caught up and surpassed Kepler, but it took a long time for that to happen, by which point most people moved on from caring about Kepler benchmarks.

That's also a great way to lose the ability to sue. Knowingly allowing a third party to violate your intellectual property rights with the intention of driving up the amount they owe is generally frowned upon.

Have you gone to the FreeNAS forums yet?

I guess you want Navi to be DOA then. HBM tends to be a really poor choice in the consumer GPU space when the aim is profitability.

Given the amount of power that social media networks have (this applies to news networks as well imo), they should be held to a higher standard. Although I also thinks it's a dangerous line to cross -- giving the government any censoring rights.

The efficiency rating (80+ gold) doesn't inherently make it a good PSU. But it is, however, an excellent PSU.

Who the hell is telling you that a V1000 needs to be replaced?

When evidence comes up that there are actually impactful side effects, then we can have that discussion. But got now, it's just not supporting health reporting on batteries that weren't under Apple's control. Disabling health monitoring is an easy way to determine at a glance that someone other than Apple touched the internals of the device. It can also be to prevent some kind of access to the device by means of the battery. Or to prevent malicious third parties from using low capacity batteries that lie about their health (similar to the $1 1tb flash drives). At the end of the day, I can't find much of a reason to care so long as the side effects are effectively non existent.

I'm not saying they had a better choice; they didn't. It absolutely is a shitty situation that shouldn't have ever been allowed to happen. But they did technically have a choice, it's just that the alternative option had far greater long lasting negative ramifications.

That is incorrect. There is no such thing as personal responsibility these days.

They're not limiting what batteries you can use though. You can use any battery you want, you just won't be able to take advantage of the battery health reporting in iOS.

Well, most iPhone sales occur in countries where some authorized apple service exists. Those that don't, have a service message in settings, where they probably aren't looking anyway. It has yet to be determined if there is an impact. However, given the amount of flak that Apple gets for anything they do, and the amount of noise created by the battery-related throttling, AND the fact that there hasn't been any mention of degraded performance, it seems like that isn't happening. Certainly there is no evidence of it occurring -- if evidence appears, then that's another story entirely.

Just FYI, a bettery replacement from Apple is $69 for the X/s/r/max and $49 for everything else (all free under warranty), not $200. Also, given that the service message is "buried" in settings that most people likely never look at, I'm having a hard time finding a reason to give a shit about this.

Burn in is permanent as its degradation of the pixels. OLED naturally degrade with use -- some more so than others.

Quantum computing has been "just about to make all current encryption worthless" for many years now.

Small businesses being hurt more by taxes is less the problem compared to the main problem, which is economies of scale -- which hiring a larger company more doesn't really solve. It's also the same individuals who are against a flat tax that also want to raise tax rates, making the problem worse. The larger companies still won't be "affected" while the smaller ones profits shrink even more. Besides, high corporate tax rates really don't work particularity well against large multinational organizations that can shift their tax burden to countries or regions with lower rates.

How exactly does that demonstrate a flat tax not being workable?

I hate to break it to you, but there's a reason why small businesses love cash.

Tipping is less charity and more a societal norm in the US (at least when it comes to waiters in restaurants -- delivery drivers tend to get stiffed). And yes, tipping really shouldn't be what it is and businesses should pay their staff more, but let's not pretend for even a second that employees aren't being subsidized by paying customers in non tipping countries -- they are, the prices of goods are just higher. So instead of a customer directly subsidizing through tips, they do it indirectly through higher costs. It's still better for employees since they have a more reliable income, but at the end of the day, the businesses are equally "greedy".

Ish. Waiters have a lower minimum wage that is compensated for with tips. I agree that tips shouldn't be subsidizing pay, but if tips didn't exist and employers were forced to pay more, then prices would go up and consumers would still end up subsidizing (paying) employees.

Again, whether they should be able tax income is another debate entirely. But as @poochyena said, any money coming in, unless a gift, is taxable as income. And even with gifts there are limits to how much is non-taxable -- and tips are absolutely not gifts. They're given because it is what has become the social convention for certain professions. Not to mention that delivery tips is just one instance of tipping -- waiters make significant amounts of money in tips. Really, tipping can amount to a significant amount of money in any industry where tipping is the norm and where people don't feel like they're separated enough to feel comfortable not tipping (aka delivery drivers).

They are absolutely income, the source is irrelevant. Profit generated from investments also aren't from my employer and yet they are also taxable income -- as they should be. Which is why you're taxed based on what you actually take home at the end of the day.... That's another debate altogether.

It depends on how much power your computer is drawing, not the capacity of the PSU, and how long you want it to be able to provide power for. What are your specs?

Why shouldn't tips be taxable? It's still a part of your income, regardless of how big or small it might be (and it can certainly amount to large numbers in certain areas).