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Most adults over age 30 would probably be 4F regardless. Too many sedentary, pot-smoking people who have ruined their eyes from bad phone habits. I sort of think Trump talking about these imperialist ambitions is going to be his narrative for why some future administrative positions don't get...

My partner decided to put off her big move for a while. She's still leaving, but the current plan is to wait and look for apartments with the people she'll be rooming with. I think the reality of being on the hook for those extra months of rent right away really killed her enthusiasm for going...

At this point I will give dd some bad ideas and suggest a nice hole and a geothermal heat pump as a very reasonable alternative his monster radiator setup. 😁

I have some A310s to play with today. These are short, single-slot cards with no need for external power, but they DO need a fan. They also support all the media encoding the more expensive Arc cards do. Even one of them seems to be able to keep up with three simultaneous 4k to 1080p transcodes...

I can't see any news at all about updated media compression support from either AMD or Nvidia. Edit: Never mind. It's not on the 1 page data sheets but it IS on the developer web site. Blackwell supports AV1 and HEVC422 like actual grown-up hardware.

Just as a little background, most of us, other than sedrosken, have been members of the same community for a very, very long time. Since the late 90s, in fact. We mostly know each other very well. In our ancient history, this site was set up as a replacement for forums run by storagereview.com...

Up to the 3070, the standard was for the *70 card to have about 50% of whatever the biggest card has. Now it's all the way up to the 5080, and the 5070 is still a loser 12GB card that won't even have enough RAM for AAA 1440p gaming. I'm glad the cards are physically smaller but we're still...

Hello new guy. What brought you to our community aside from holiday tidings?

I don't see this as a huge problem because we have CPU horsepower coming out of our ears right now, and it's probably something that can be fixed in software. AMD did not show off any discrete RDNA 4 hardware at CES. AMD did confirm that RDNA 4 will be available Q1 2025, at least for the...

Apparently the architecture in Battlemage drivers is suboptimal for low-spec CPUs, resulting in lower than expected performance on older hardware. I'm not sure how many people are using B580s with 10th gen i3s or Ryzen 2700Xs but it's not the best choice for those people.

Although Eda Rojiet Ezi has passed, I wish you all a somber and dignified period of fasting and contemplation.

^on par for ray tracing performance, apparently. Leakers are also saying that the third-fastest SKU should have 17% less power consumption than the 7800XT, which sounds to me like a pretty modest dual slot/dual fan card rather than some 2.5 slot, three fan monster.

IMO LGA 1700 might as well not even exist. Intel can say they fixed it all day long, but the only way I'd bother with it is with a 12th gen CPU and even then only if the CPU were free, given the 250W+ TDPs. That's not home server territory either, unfortunately.

Apparently, RDNA 4 GPUs are directly taking the literal name scheme from nVidia, with the new top end being called 9070XT being on par with the nVidia 4070TI. I suppose it will make comparison easier. The top end card is supposed to cost $650, which seems pretty reasonable since we're not...

It's not so much that I'm dead set as that the role and position I have is meaningful and stable. I'm not getting rich by any standard, but I like the life I have. There's a lot of trash IT service companies out there I could work FOR, or I could try to swim upstream by starting my own, full...

The last time I was able to RMA a CPU to Intel was a C2Q 6800 and if I remember right it took about two weeks. AMD got me a replacement 3700X in about 10 days. Just as a point of order, you can probably find something like a 9700X at retail for basically nothing as a stopgap that can...

I don't think I could build a new customer base there and I'd probably have a hard time finding work as an older tech with no interest in management or corporate work experience in the last ~20 years.

She has a job opportunity and family there, and it turns out that she's grown very close to my dear friends, who also live in the area. Basically she'd have a better life overall and I can't even remotely argue otherwise.

I actually just spent the week in Tampa. My partner is planning to move down there. I don't know how the hell anyone affords anything any more. I'm pretty sad about it all, but truthfully she needs to move on. Indiana isn't a good place for anyone, really.

Resolve Studio is $350 as a lifetime payment and Corel Draw shows up in Humble Bundle for like $20 every three months or so.

As far as I can tell, those cards are sold out EVERYWHERE. Apparently the next big news is the next generation Ryzen Pro AI Max nonsense-whatever APUs, which supposedly exceed a discrete mobile RTX 4060 in overall performance. I guess if there's one good thing about planet-killing AI energy...

Adobe is apparently increasing the price of its baseline Photography plan from $10/month to $15/month for users paying monthly. It's still $20/month to get the 1TB plan monthly and $120 for the plan if it's billed annually. I think Lightroom Classic + Photoshop is the cheapest package deal it...

Turns out Battlemage actually adds more advanced chroma support compared to Arc. 12-bit HEVC 444 is something you normally only find on cine cameras, not consumer mirrorless models, but it's there on the spec sheet. Sweet.

It looks to me like the GPU is momentarily spiking to very high utilization if I'm doing subject sharpen/face detection/noise removal. It happens if I feed even one image to Topaz AI and stays at nearly full load until it runs out of images to process. This might be an AMD driver thing; I don't...

I have decided that my RX 6900XT is too loud and I kind of hate when it spins up for just a minute while I send 50 pictures through Topaz Photo AI and it's briefly the loudest thing in the room. I'm kind of thinking that I could wire tie some 120mm fans to the existing heat sink, but I'm not...

There's still an entire world of portable players that don't say Apple on them. I carried a Sandisk Clip+ in my pocket for YEARS because they handled oddball formats like .ogg. They also stored progress in media files, which was great since mine had the entirety of "This American Life" on it.

Mild update which is that the Fiio does straight-up have the Play Store on it so you can install Firefox or whatever else you can get that runs on Android 10.

This is a DAS rather than a NAS but you can get an Orico 5 bay USB C (10Gb) 3.5" drive enclosure on Ebay sold direct by the OEM for $135 right now. That's a pretty good setup for your ITX PC or local, HDD-only backup system.

I tested the Massgrave.dev scripts by activating a trial version of Visio 2021 on an unactivated Windows 11 Pro for Workstations system on the worst Windows 11-capable laptop I have on hand. Just do this in an elevated powershell: irm https://get.activated.win | iex or irm...

Blackplayer works well on Android devices but for non-video podcasts, my recommendation is Pocket Casts, which works REALLY well with both Amazon and Google Home devices and can pick up and leave off on whichever assistant puck you happen to have. There are scads of tools that will download an...

Give him a bath anyway. It's like picking a fight with a blender but better to know now if he found any fleas or has any wounds.

I hear just enough sobbing from people who have Synology devices that it's too complicated to do X on one of those that I think there could be a real market for somebody willing to put together a turnkey package with something like HexOS at its core and maybe a JonsBro NAS chassis as a...

Piece of shrimp on a string? There's a mother cat who has her kittens every summer under a disabled man's car at my apartment complex. The car moves about four times a year so it's normally pretty safe for the cat. We (me and a couple downstairs neighbors) usually spend a few weeks convincing...

Not sure if this is more a Home NAS or Selfhosting Fun type comment, but HexOS is a derivative of TrueNAS with a simplified UI that would be incredibly appropriate for someone like Lunar. It launched as a commercial product over this weekend and seems to want to exist as an alternative to...

They work for my needs either way, and I do think that getting ~3060 levels of performance for around $200 has real appeal to a lot of people. "Budget gaming" is a thing that needs to make a comeback in a real way and that's not possible while nVidia and AMD want more for a GPU than a console...

Well that might be the most correct statement ever made here in the pub.

I do believe this will sound pants on head crazy but I believe this to be the case: The way that conservative politics worldwide works seems to be that tere's a group of billionaires with some form of niche interest in changing the way the world works. Some want widespread theocratic rule. Some...

Battlemage has had a couple cards leak now and looks like it will release in mid-December. The B580 actually has fewer execution units than the A580, but it's also a 12GB card that reportedly matches the performance for the A770 at lower peak power, and a couple sellers had them listed on Amazon...

My partner desperately wants to move but she can't remotely afford a place on her own. I don't want to buy a house and my lease is crazy affordable compared to getting a new one, so I feel stuck as well. Our closest friends live in Tampa and I'd move there but that's actually the market with...

I like the chassis layout but I don't think I'd be able to resist sticking a 3D printed mount for at least a couple SATA drives in there. I just made a little 1U board for my rack at home. It's literally just a piece of thick cardboard and a 3D shell with a couple holes for screws to keep the...

All your storage is m.2?

Every so often, I look at the parts drawers in my back bedroom and think if what I have just sitting around might be some kind of motherlode for you, sed.

I had to set up a PC for a fully blind person this morning. When I was a student, I had some experience with adaptive technologies, but almost entirely for people with limited mobility or functional but impaired vision. Fully blind is new. Their "monitor" is a $3000 bar that reads out 80...

I had a multi-paragraph response to Chewy here but somehow it isn't autosaved. I'll see if I can gather those thoughts again later. Instead I will just continue the news about Alex Jones by noting that there were only two bidders on Infowars. One of them was Jones, working through a shell...

Fortunately, most people probably aren't looking for an authentic Slot A with GeForce MX experience since stuff was pretty uniform on Win32 by then.

Trump administration officials are definitely people who think that it's really, REALLY important people know the distinction between pedophiles and ephebophiles because Matt Gaetz is only one of those things.

I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight that typically has 2 - 3 2 or 3 hour episodes per week devoted to what Alex Jones is ranting about, in part so I know what the evil parts of the country are thinking and in part because the hosts legitimately have a lot of insight into what the sphere...

The Onion bought Infowars, the media company owned by foaming conspiracy nutter and human lump of hamburger Alex Jones. This is probably the best news I've heard in approximately nine days.

Remember a couple months back when I linked to an absolutely insane ~800GB collection of DOS games? 86Box the tool to use with them. It's a specialized hypervisor that includes ROM dumps so that deeply specific hardware can be fully emulated. So your VM isn't just a Pentium 2 with a generic...

XP 64 was just mildly annoying for having crummy driver availability. I was big on advocating for Windows Server 2003 or SBS for getting a better overall high end desktop experience at the time. It was objectively faster and more or less everything you'd actually want to use with it was...