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No idea what you are talking about - "me too" is a completely different topic. PR enables a society to address the problem Meaker mentioned earlier: people look at the 2 main parties and both suck big time. At the moment, if someone in the US did want to start a new party they would stand very little chance of gaining any significant power even despite massive popular support. This weakens democracy by reducing competition.

The problem is that they complicated the architecture even further. First P-Cores/E-Cores, now chiplets and E-Cores grouped into separate cache NuMA-like clusters. Looks like a mess but interestingly even Ubuntu was outperforming Wingross 11 back in October. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Lunar-Lake-sees-up-to-20-performance-boost-in-Linux-vs-Windows-with-iGPU-caveats.899475.0.html Any word on an Extreme/KS variant of Ultra 200? My 13900K failed to even boot after mobo upgrade to microcode 0x12b (facepalm). Running on 12900KS now but it's noticeably slower, so kind of weighing my options (also no time for a mobo upgrade job RN): 13900KS and pray (£450) 14900KS and pray (£680) AMD (would need to lose space to a TB card) - not sure £1100-1200 all in + TB card Ultra 285 - not sure £1100-1200 all in Wait for Ultra 295

Nice, I would give this a go - Kryonauts are not durable enough for my purposes. Running TFX for now, let's see how long it holds out. Using LM on the IHS could void warranty according to Intel.... just fed up with this.

Ta-da! Introducing Proportional Representation.... While the UK system is also ridiculously broken, with the outdated and unfair FPTP alone, I would argue the US with the electoral collage system and strictly 2 parties is one or two levels of borked above that. The argument for the two party systems use to be that they are more robust to populism and extremism. Well, here we are: democracy, if you can keep it. Anyway, good luck to us all. If the US democracy outright fails, or even just withdraws to extreme protectionism (arguably a huge driving factor behind WWII) - the West will break down and fall apart. I guess 80 years of relative peace and prosperity has been a good run.

Sure, that's why he tried to stop the TikTok ban. Look at his "efficiency advisor" and what his stance and dealings around that are. Believe it or not but it's actually all about money for the billionaires.

Fair enough. Don't get me wrong, I'm hoping we will beat the odds and somehow make it, warts and all, but given the direction of travel it looks it will take a battle the humanity hasn't seen before. In theory we could grow a super-intelligent hive mind and shut this shit down right now (we haven't so far, but perhaps an impending catastrophe would help focus the minds), it's just extremely hard given who controls both the traditional and social media, never mind numerous other (even more serious) human challenges. Maybe not the best place to discuss this, but all definitely related to NVidia's CES keynote unfortunately. "Damn it, it's him again"

Worth watching Jensen's latest keynote to see what the game plan is: virtual HR departments for AIs, onboarding AI employees, humanoid robots following closely behind to join the ranks etc... Meanwhile, apparently Meta pulled their "official" fake AI profiles off the site, but is also ending fact-checking on the site: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/meta-axes-third-party-fact-checkers-in-time-for-second-trump-term/

Yeah, if you hate humanity and are fed up, then AI will definitely provide a final solution to that. It'll only be rational. Unfortunately, prior to that billionaires will become trillionaires, and almost everyone else will end up on UBI if they are lucky (can't really imagine UBI in the US).

The performance claims are likely exaggerated based on ideal case scenarios when using the new DLSS vs previous gen. They say up to 2x 5090 vs 4090 thanks to the latest DLSS (which itself is supposed to be, I lost track 2-8x? faster). BTW This will be a hot take, but I love the 2 slot form factor, and no doubt they realised there is a market for multi-GPU rigs, which are hard to put together when most cards on offer are 4.5 slot chunguses. Anyway, worth watching the whole keynote, maybe 5% of which is dedicated to gaming, to see what Jensen&co are really up to (people in the AI community sometimes say "thanks for all the GPUs gamers"): virtual HR department for AIs, humanoid robots doing any kind of work, "virtual humans" etc... Enjoy! Edit: more super-duper exciting news, I'm sure bros @Papusan and @Mr. Fox can't wait https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/1527237/nvidia-to-deploy-ai-teammates-in-video-games-this-year

Alienware might have been told by the HQ that customers can purchase Precision workstations if they need 4 DIMMS in a Dell laptop ;) Bad news is that performance kind of sucks in comparison, but hey - can't please everyone if you are in Dell family.

Good read, meanwhile Sam is hyping his shit up: AGI is coming soon, AI agents will enter workforce in 2025. Well if the socipaths actually succeed then they will need an army of terminators to defend them from the angry US workforce or a good escape to a "safe country" plan. OpenAI Now Knows How To Build AGI, Says Altman

Did I miss something? What's being metered on desktop HW side? (apart from Windoze etc) You could build a massive Xeon or Epyc "gold-plated" $50K workstation, and it would be more functional if you had a use case for such a machine. Perhaps what's needed is some offering in between (that doesn't melt down under load = larger socket).

People are just not that technical and need something that's foolproof. Chromebooks seem quite popular, and that's Linux under the hood, but obviously someone would need to commit the resources to making something more open along those lines without having to rely on monetising people's data.

Good news. May try it out between coldplate and IHS. Happy New Year again bro. All is well - just have been extremely busy, but hoping to be able to spend a bit more time on hobbies now. Glad to see the gang is alright.

An unintended consequence of the restrictions is that the Chinese have apparently figured out how to train models 10x more efficiently using the substandard hardware that was still allowed in. That is a game-changer which will lead to further AI advancements and proliferation. We all know the spiel, but it will be very interesting to see what Elon (sorry: Donald, the mastermind, of course), actually do about all this. Here is a hint: https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-asks-supreme-court-pause-law-that-could-ban-tiktok-2024-12-27/ Yeah, myself and others have fallen victim of the mantra (and all the experience confirming this) that "CPUs don't die". Well, normally they don't unless the manufacturer is desperate enough to overtune everything to be able to show competitive benchmark results, severely compromising reliability. TBF I have put extended loads in the 200-275W range on the CPU, which likely contributed to the degradation. That said I've recently seen a CPU failure rate chart and there is a massive spike for 13/14th gen compared with 12th and obviously a whole range of users are affected. I'm quite constrained on time at the moment and don't anticipate an immediate need for a new rig or a massive overhaul, so would probably just cough up on a 14900KS to get the extra 25W of safe TDP.... the new 15th gen stuff doesn't actually look that bad from my perspective, but indeed doesn't really add a massive amount of value and is certainly underwhelming given the fab process improvements (and I guess one would be wise to wait at least a year before Linux support stabilises and issues are ironed out). Too bad mobos are quite expensive too, so socket/platform changes need more of a justification. In terms of overclocking fun, I would think it will get tougher and tougher since CPUs are more fragile now that they used to be given the improvement in the process, and everything will be more and more fine tuned out of the gate. Thank you it has been an annoyance and a time sink, but I am chalking it up to hobby expenses :) Certainly the first delid was memorable! Yeah, if I had to build a new machine now it would probably be AM5. I would need to check how it performs on Clear Linux though.