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I saw that, thought it left something to be desired. Generally commercial mainstream media, especially on the right side or connected to big tech like CNBC, tends to downplay AI risks. "We need to consider things like universal income to support people in the 'transition'". Transition to what lol? Prompt engineering? Any idiot can do that. Where is the money for this universal income going to come from? Here is a somewhat funny story though - a lawyer submitted a court filing copied and pasted from ChatGPT, with made up case references. Of course, all those quirks will be ironed out within a year or two max. Lawyer 'Greatly Regrets' Relying on ChatGPT After Filing Motion Citing Six Non-Existent Cases

Basically what you are saying is "I'm already naked and exploited by M$, although I feel it's worse if further parties are involved. At least I get a 'free' RAR treat at the end.". Stockholm syndrome is real. Cool. It's a good sanity check. Wouldn't have occurred to me before.

Here we go: On the lighter topics of destruction of visual art and the generation of post-truth world:

Actually, you are right: they are reporting about 2.5% voltage drop vs the Nvidia adapter. Not ideal. At 450W it would be about 11W lost and dissipating somewhere in the cable. Hopefully not in a particular faulty spot, as 11W could probably do a bit of damage over a small area?

Minute voltage differences would have nothing to do with melting. I took a quick look at the link and I'm worried it's a case of much ado about nothing. They are not saying 'performance or stability suffers as a result of using this or that cable'.

Yeah, this is kind of my opinion of G.Skill carried over from the notebook space: leading frequency and timings, but compatibility and stability tends to be hit and miss. In contrast, I never had any issues with the "slower but stable" Kingston/HyperX RAM. Where your opinion also differs with @tps3443is regarding the Corsair RAM. You said it's basically slow but stable, @tps3443 seems to think it's outright garbage :) Only Corsair modules are available here at the moment, G.Skill are starting to show up, it's a US import on Amazon with no warranty. I guess I will have to pull the trigger on the Corsair and see how it does if I can't hold off any longer. Ideally Kingston would finally get into the 48/96GB game. I thought your question was around configurability generally, but forgot you are in the Windows 7 business - here is the first hit on YT: For me, the Windows UIs are fine, but I can't get over what's going on under the hood and at Microsoft in general. Not sure about Ubuntu (I thought it was basically Gnome), but I do like and use Gnome. It's minimalistic and very fast. It's palpable how much faster and responsive the Linux/Gnome UI is vs basically all versions of Windows. Of course, I have a couple of tweaks and extensions on as well. That said, if I had a choice I would probably switch to Mate.

The guy seems to be a Russia-funded troll who won't even show his face lol, but I digress. Well, you may not agree with the message and methods, but people should have the right to protest. What's really bad is that the failed quasi-fascist government here (on their way out within 18 months, fortunately), has used situations like this to push through legislation to limit the right to peaceful protest. There were some anti-monarchy demonstrations here recently during the new king's coronation (most Americans should get that!), and almost everyone just got arrested.

Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization What's interesting about the story is that the bot is supposedly not GPT-based, so even simpler technology can well wreak havoc on the labour market. So which human jobs can't technology take? Well, let's cross providing advice and talking empathically to people in need off the list. This example is about greed pure and simple, and here AI is a technobabble excuse to ... people and siphon resources to those at the top of the heap (running the "non-profit" in this case). The problem is how to effectively communicate this to a very broad audience, including people who are non-technical, poorly educated etc. 40% of the US population fails to grasp these issues according to a recent survey. You'd basically need an anti-AI Trump, who probably wouldn't speak against AI himself, given that it/ML played a large part in the online side of the effort to get him elected. Interestingly though, there is a lot of understanding on that side of the electorate already. People who are already feeling the heat of AI are more aware. If you are a trucker, you don't need convincing, since you are understandably alerted by the efforts to completely replace you with autonomous driving. If you are a border force officer, you may be having a bit of laugh at this one: Passport e-gates at UK airports down Basically it's a failure of an AI system deciding whom to let into the country....

Wahey, $10k+ tax. I would be furious if I paid that lol

A slight diversion into the Musk debacle: Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems A bit of an extra insight into how his companies operate.

Are there any burgers in Burger King? ;) Linux is all about customisation. Personally I quite like Mate desktop:

(sorry unable to delete the above on my phone) A new kid on the 48/96GB block: TeamGroup Launches 48GB DDR5-8000, 96GB DDR5-6800 Kits So, TeamGroup or G. SKILL?Which brand do you rate higher?

I had this on my Alienware m15 out of warranty. Contacted Dell and got a new battery delivered within a day or two for like £50, don't remember exactly.

Based on my experience with the 3090Ti FE, 3090 FE is slimmer (<3 slot, 2.7 or so) than most gaming cards and has workstation-like blower-type design, so might work better in a space-constrained case. Temps are good. If you can grab a 3090 Ti at a good price then go ahead as well. IMHO no worries about the 12VHPWR connector if you stick to the original adapter (not great for a small case though due to the clutter) or use a native 12VHPWR cable for your PSU.

You know it's really bad when you get 2 stars from PCWorld lol Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) review: Disappointing for $400

Basically all the data involved in AI's operation will be sent to Microsoft, "responsibly" of course *wink wink* (*) The US has close to zero legal protection for personal data

Another sig-worthy classic :)

The perception of limitation comes from the relentless push for minute improvements in graphics quality which, in case of games with good story/mechanics, have little to no impact on the overall experience. With consoles the paradigm is more sensible: here is the hardware - keep producing content that works well on this for the next five years+, instead of essentially just lining NVidia's pockets. No $2000 upgrades required basically just to escape reality for a while.

I wonder if devs like this get any incentives from GPU manufacturers. I played the game just fine on the PS3 which has 256MB of VRAM :)

The killing of SLI/NVLink also ensures that those who actually need the latter must pay double/triple the price for essentially the same hardware, but in the workstation variant. I suppose we should be grateful NVidia hardware doesn't require paid subscription to receive driver updates, or permanently deactivates/driver support is dropped after 3 years. Meanwhile Nvidia stock is up 30% on AI. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-24/nvidia-s-rosy-forecast-shows-chipmaker-benefiting-from-ai-boom

Turns out they have enough customers who are not as knowledgeable as you, or who don't mind just dropping $2k for a graphics card. Remember, that the desktop PC market itself is in a downfall. If you are one of the very few gamers buying or building a PC today, are that worried about weak offering in the <$500 segment, when you have already spent $2k on on other components. Probably not, or you would have just gone with an Xbox or PS5 instead. They've got the pricing in hand bro, don't worry about it. The only thing that would help is some massive boycott which is not going to happen (yet). Every customer who just says "* it, nothing under $500 or $1k" and drops $2k for a 4090 is a massive win for NVidia, as surely that's the highest margin card. In practice, they might have been OK with a lesser model, but the prices are constructed in such a way that the 4090 trap is just too easy to fall into, and there are games to boot, or just DLCs etc to help people rationalize the spend. If NVidia came up with a gaming GPU 4x faster than 4090 tomorrow, there would be a CP2077 DLC within a month or two with boosted effects, textures whatever to just gobble it all up, or people would simply start talking about 8K gaming. It's brilliant and endless.

Perhaps, but then they would make less profit per unit. Rest assured they use sophisticated AI pricing models fed by quite accurate information about the market. They will squeeze the last cent out optimally. People are completely powerless in the face of this.

Why would they do that? They don't care. Microsoft and others need more GPUs for the AI death race than NVidia/TSMC can manufacture. Forget about crypto, that's peanuts in comparison - the only difference is that no retail scalpers are directly involved on that side, because the AI war is not for the little man to partake in on the supply side. Yes, the gaming revenue is collapsing, and that's despite their auto-scalping revenue-boosting efforts - if they cut pricing, it would collapse further. If you are a typical blinkered gamer, you want DLSS3 and therefore you must have an Nvidia GPU. Their way or the AMD/Arc poor man's GPU highway, simple as that. The market (if not the world itself) is broken.

Look, Nvidia cornered the market. They are a monopolist, their pricing reflects that position, and AI runs on GPUs. The range starts with 4060 which is not very generous and there isn't really anything remotely compelling until the $500 4060 Ti 16GB, then again there is nothing really gripping until the 4090, except perhaps the 24GB 3090 Ti for professional purposes (not really available anymore). Just a linear range with intermediate compromise options. 3060 12GB DDR6, 12 TFLOPS $350 4060 8GB DDR6, 15 TFLOPS $350 4060 Ti 8GB DDR6, 22 TFLOPS $400 4060 Ti 16GB DDR6, 22 TFLOPS $500 4070 Ti 12GB DDR6X, 40 TFLOPS, $800 3090 Ti 24GB DDR6X, 40 TFLOPS, $1100 4080 16GB DDR6X, 48 TFLOPS, $1200 4090 24GB DDR6X, 82 TFLOPS, $1600 There is some consistency in that, e.g. comparing 4060 and 4090 - for 4.6x the price, you get 3x the VRAM capacity, DDR6X and almost 4x the VRAM bandwidth, and 5.5x the compute performance. They just want people to pay proportionally for more oomph. They are ruthlessly precise, as expected given their leadership in AI. Sign of the times folks. Hooray, what a time to be alive etc lol The question is whether the price of the 4090 is justified. At this point the regulators would need to take a look (given we are talking about a de facto monopolist), but given the pricing of GPUs in the DC market, my guess is that it actually is, unfortunately. Will get worse once demand for GPU power increases with Microsoft sticking AI in the next version of Windows 11, Office 365 etc. Not talking about trial and error guides obviously, as that's nonsensical, there is no immediate feedback. The only trial and error you can do is fit, wait a few months and check if you destroyed the super-delicate socket, or possibly damaged the CPU solder, due to lateral force/stress being applied over extended time. If you change CPUs/mobos regularly like some people here, then the risk is obviously lower. Neither the derRoman's or the cheapo Thermaltake LGA1700 contact frame comes with exact Nm value recommendation, so your torque screwdriver would be of limited use. My guess is that the reason is that this is mobo- or ILM variant dependent, therefore they cannot provide this - only the manufacturer knows the exact spec, and they are not going to publish them as they don't want people removing the ILMs. I guess you could try to reverse engineer the rough torque while undoing the screws on the ILM, but it would be an approximate effort. Seeing how marvelously the ILM performs on my replacement mobo, I firmly believe that a contact frame is an utter gimmick and a waste of time (*U to GN for peddling this, although to be fair their fitting videos were full of subtle warnings I enthusiastically chose to ignore). The only thing I did with the new mobo was take a moment to make sure that the ILM lever (which does have a little play) is centered before locking. Again, if someone does use a contact frame, an error is unavoidable as they don't know the exact torque spec.

I would stress the distinction between an avoidable human error and an inevitable one. If I give you a precision torque screwdriver, and advise you to screw in the contact frame uniformly at 4x0.1 Nm, and you end up with 0.3,0.2,0.05,0.15 - that's a probably avoidable human error, depending on the precision of the tool. If I ask you to just use your hand armed with a wrench and apply 4x X torque, you are dead in the water. You have virtually no chance of getting it right, because you don't really know the actual value of X in the first place. You might think you know, or have a good idea, but you can't be sure. Engaging in that task at all inevitably leads to an error, but of course one can actually prevent it by taking a step back and not playing the silly game in the first place. Requires some insight into the possible consequences though, and these include a complete waste of time and money.