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Idiotic comment by Tom (typically of late unfortunately). Clearly, if Nvidia had much less demand for their server GPUs, they would allocate manufacturing capacity to gaming GPUs. Prices would then fall due to the increase in supply, as per basic economics.

At the moment, high GPU prices are caused by ChatGPT (which runs on Nvidia GPUs), essentially owned my Microsoft. By supporting Microsoft (using Microsoft products) people support this, and other consequences of that development.

Yeah, big tech decided to train the dystopian models on either stolen or open source (which doesn't mean completely free and unrestricted) data. They should be sued to death. Another funny example I heard about today is that one of the image generators started spewing out watermarked Getty images. They say lawyers always win, let's hope it's the good ones this time.

I hate to report this, but with Nvidia cards at least, GPU performance on Linux is similar to Windows, unlike on the CPU and I/O-side.

Quite interested in this topic. I primarily use Linux these days, but have to dip to wretched Windoze on regular basis.

Ah, thanks :) Looks good, the offer some custom tools like this: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Control-Center.tuxedo And ship to lots of locations globally. Their Trustpilot page doesn't look discouraging: https://de.trustpilot.com/review/tuxedocomputers.com

Looks like it's Germany-focused company, don't even have an English version of their website, but basically they install Ubuntu. However, if the underlying hardware is the same, then obviously one can just shrink the default Windows volume on any Mech and dual boot to Linux.

You nailed it there bud - all depends on your circumstances and priorities. Can't have it all in a single device unfortunately.

Some people worry about advanced AI killing off humanity. I'm more relaxed about this, we are so stupid we will wipe ourselves out first.

Who claims that and in terms of what metrics? MiniLED is a misnomer and a bit of a marketing gimmick - unlike MicroLED, it's still based on LCD. Unlikely to come very close to OLED in terms of image quality. Good improvement over IPS though.

BTW noob Q: this is just needed post-setup, and then presumably once in several months, right?

Quick question: how bad an idea would be to mount one AIO using another AIOs mount/standoffs? Obviously the geometry is the same, and the pump-side fittings look very similar...

For clarity's sake, what was your query to NVidia? I guess what they are saying is that NVIDIA doesn't offer BIOS updates for FE cards, but not sure how that's relevant to you.

The internal codename for the CPUs was clear and transparent: "V+Cash". The marketing people firmly objected though. Azor wanted to call these "Bad Boys", but was once again reminded he doesn't work at Alienware anymore.

Bankman-Fried's lawyers say October trial may need to be delayed I'm disappointed the lawyers didn't say "Right, let's get Sam into the trial, sentenced, and in proper custody ASAP" lol

Was sick and in a mood for a bit of retro so played Amiga "Space Hulk" and "Deuteros". Surprisingly atmospheric, even after 30 years, and fiendishly difficult compared to modern games, which is always good.

Humans do a better job killing other (especially herbivore) animals, which is the only major positive effect of bears on the environment (we can ignore the effect of their crap enriching the soil - humans do that better too anyway). I wouldn't want to be shredded by bears on a hiking trip or have to be on constant lookout for bears around a country house is basically all I'm saying. I'm not even sure you can legally kill those things in self defence (especially outside your property) in some states.

A summary trial by the court of public opinion can sometimes make a difference, even if the odds are not grear: Elon Musk backpedals after mocking disabled Twitter worker in tweet ‘storm’ More form the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64884287 Mr Musk replied: "Based on your comment, I just did a video call with Halli to figure out what's real vs what I was told. It's a long story. Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet." Hilarious stuff.

I put it too you they were good for the environment when humans weren't around. I bet human hunters can and do a better job.

Well, bro @Papusan tirelessly stepped in to help, as always, and good to know there is a potential hack to send the pump RPM signal back to the mobo, albeit the instructions are indeed far from ideal, and it would be a bit of a Hail Mary exercise on a throwaway unit kind of thing (also taking into account the fact that there are several revisions of the AIO). In the end, my hypothesis is that what's holding the LFII back for me is the small backplate and weak pump. With 6 iPPCs blasting through the radiator, the coolant temp is low enough, you just need to get it moving as fast as possible, and obviously maximise the heat exchange between the coldplate and the liquid (a function of the coldplate area for sure). That's the setup. I was quite taken by the fact that DeepCool has a section in the manual dedicated to this pump-only connection arrangement. I guess (an educated guess based on some Amazon comments) the supplied fans are such that the company is all too happy for people to use their own rather than potentially trigger a fan RMA down the line lol. Well, hopefully I will report back on this sometime over the weekend, should delivery go to plan.

Yes, what I wasn't sure of is what the signal pin is for - this is actually RPM info sent back to the mobo, so all good, given that the pump has a separate header. Will do, just really wanted to make sure I can see pump RPMs - it's idiotic LFII doesn't have this, especially given that they advertise PWM pump control as a feature.

Ha, neat hack. Definitely worth considering it if it turns out that the AIO is OK and I am not going to RMA it. For now, I am about to pull the trigger on the reasonably priced DeepCool LS720. Given free choice EKWB Nucleus would be better (a bit more premium and PWM pump control) but availability is poor, and would work out at 2x the price with delivery who knows when. The LS720 pump is 2x more powerful than the one in LFII (in terms of power consumed) - it actually requires a SATA power connector. The backplate is also larger (supports Threadripper as well). Unfortunately the radiator is standard 27mm, although with high fin density. The pump doesn't support PWM - only connects to the mobo via a 3-pin header. Now, if I understand correctly, even though the pump would only be controlled via DC, I would still be able to see RPMs in the BIOS (that's what the 3rd pin is for)?

I'm worried the amount of care billionaires have for the court of public opinion roughly halves with every $20B or so of net worth. In another beautiful story, the sociopath mocked a disabled employee whom apparently Twitter kept in a limbo to avoid a contractual severance paynent: https://fortune.com/2023/03/07/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-office-space-clip-haraldur-thorleifsson-layoff/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64871183 How about just letting people you no longer need go in a civil and respectful manner, and in accordance with prior legal arrangements you bought into?

While I don't have an easy way to test this exhaustively right now, in Gnome settings (on X11) scaling is very clearly a property of the display, not the system. Also apparently one can enable fractional scaling in Gnome too.

I don't use this day to day but just tested in Gnome. Just two issues: 1) Only coarse scaling, e.g. 200, 300, 400% - I understand KDE supports fractional scaling down to 6.5% or something like that 2) Some apps needed to be restarted to redraw with new scaling. Other than that, ran through several, including Libre Office - with no material issues. No surprise since this is based on X Windows which is scaling / DPI aware, and was running on serious workstations at a time when DOS ruled PCs, and Bill Gates was busy copying Mac OS :)