Techstorm970

@FakeKGB I have a contribution to make.

Quotes out of context:

...and then, 8 minutes later, from the same person...

1.  I have yet to review the Gigabyte fiasco so I apologize for the wait.

2.  My university's health service belongs on r/AssholeDesign.  Their policy forbids urgent care patients on weekends, forcing students with those kinds of problems to go off-campus for treatment.

I hobbled from my dorm to the on-campus medical center with a bruised, swollen, maybe even fractured ankle and they TURNED ME AWAY.  I couldn't even enter the building.  "Fuck the walk back, I'm going to the hospital!"

Time for a new Dipshit of the Month?

I know I'm the third person to suggest this but no one else made a profile picture.

Granted I copy+pasted.

As described by the replies, this advancement means nothing in the present day.  However, the implications on the future of steel production are invaluable!  As we phase out fossil fuels in favor of renewables and nuclear energy, this method of steel production will become far cleaner and more sustainable than today's methods.

When a rumor about a rumor comes out

Do you think it's time for an updated pfp, given the whole Gigabyte fiasco?

Word: "Do you really wanna keep all that text on your clipboard?  That's a lot of text..."

Me: "Oh my God you are on a machine that can beat your ass six ways from Sunday.  JUST DO IT!!!"

Next dipshit award :3?

On one hand, ouch.  On the other, I dare not use anything other than Firefox unless I absolutely NEED to.  (Or unless I'm on an Apple device; I still like and use Safari.)

Hell, as soon as I figured out how to install and uninstall things on my new Raspberry Pi 400, I put Firefox on it and told Chromium to go fuck itself!

Mozilla has made some questionable decisions recently, but barring any truly horrifying changes, they will not die nor should they.

EVs are still too damn expensive for me to justify the cost for the common man right now, but this data is promising.

The thing about combustion engines is that they are horribly inefficient compared to a power plant's generator or a battery.  This increase in efficiency accounts for much of the emissions decrease when going from gas-guzzling cars to electric cars.

Although electric car charging stations will be needed, the ability for the owner to "fill it up" at home without keeping an unreasonably huge stash of gasoline in storage will have a huge impact on the industry.  I think Chevron, Exxon, Sinclair, etc. will need to get in on the electricity production industry if they want to still be relevant in 2070.

If getting transportation off gas and oil is going to have this much of an impact, then we could become carbon-neutral as a species far sooner than we previously expected.

At first, I was appalled to hear that they're regulating this now.  Then I did some research and crunched some numbers.

These regulations are about idle power consumption; they're trying to crack down on wasteful energy usage when the computer is just sitting there twiddling its thumbs (metaphorically, of course).  Having said that, the Dell/Alienware systems they banned are total piles of crap when it comes to energy efficiency when idling.  These are systems with at least three of the following:

• cheap-ass motherboards with bad VRMs and therefore bad efficiency
• no integrated graphics; the lack of an iGPU destroys a computer's idle power efficiency more than anything else
• power-hungry discrete graphics cards from the current or previous generation
• cheap-ass power supplies with low efficiency

The example from the cited article (Alienware Aurora R10 Ryzen) is a horribly-designed unit to begin with.  CPU thermal throttling out the bazooka on top of the issues listed above.  They are expecting the graphics card to team-carry the unit's performance to a reckless degree; no custom PC building company (e.g. XoticPC, iBuyPower) or informed individual would cut the corners that Alienware did.

Here are two high-performance computer manufacturers who didn't have to worry about these regulations: Apple (Intel machines included) and PowerSpec.  The latter company's products being totally unaffected means that Alienware has no excuse.

And don't even start with the "AMD/Intel bad" crap.  This isn't their fault.  "Why?"  Because an iGPU doesn't have to be built into the CPU; most AMD motherboards have iGPUs on them, for instance.  This is all on Dell/Alienware.  This is karma for horrible design/engineering.

Belgium: "Why must we keep getting rain?"

Utah: "Why can't we get any rain?"

Me: "Why hasn't Jackscepticeye voiced the Lucky Charms man yet?"