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  1. Sandy Bridge
    I went ahead and blocked Twitter from my home network when updating some router settings the other day. Time to see how much if at all I miss it. So far I haven't noticed it, but I haven't been home a lot since I blocked it. As Etern4l said, it's about the ethics of it. We're also in this weird situation where because Musk runs so many companies, his actions running one of them can affect the others, and I would argue he is creating potential conflicts of interests. It would be in the interests of the People's Republic of China to seek favorable treatment on Twitter (indirectly, e.g. more promotion of content aligning with its beliefs, and suppression of content that doesn't align with its beliefs, such as content on Tiananmen, Tibet, and Taiwan), perhaps offering favorable market access and lighter regulation to Tesla in return. The more Tesla runs into headwinds outside of the PRC, the more tempting it would be for Musk to accept a proposal along these lines. So while the thread is primarily about Twitter... I don't think it's possible to ignore how Tesla, SpaceX, and the geopolitics of the situation play into that. That the man who now owns one of the most popular news platforms in the U.S. has been praising the leaders of authoritarian mainland China is relevant for someone concerned about whether Twitter will continue to protect fair speech. Even if he's doing it for the business interests of his other company, it's the sort of conflict that regimes willing to use corruption for their own ends will attempt to leverage. Though admittedly I am also partial to China, I'm just partial to the Republic of China.
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    Alameda Research was at least primarily investing in crypto, though, right? I entirely agree that the big mistake was FTX moving customer funds into an outside brokerage, and a high-risk one at that. It would be a classic way for an unregulated bank to fail in the 1800s too, take deposits, use that money to invest in some outside venture, outside venture fails, customers lose their money. Making poor business decisions or having a business strategy that doesn't pan out is not illegal. Part of what regulation brings is the requirement for publicly traded companies to release reports to the public periodically, so the public can make more informed decisions about whether an investment is a wise one or not. It doesn't prevent someone from putting their life savings in securities that go to zero, but there is some more accountability than the typical crypto "trust us, we won't do anything bad with your money." And with publicly-traded companies, if they do commit fraud, the SEC will know who is running the business, they won't be pulling exit scams. My historical take is that people have always been susceptible to hype and putting their money in investments before really doing their research; it dates back to at least the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1600s, and on a smaller scale surely well before that. Some unethical individuals will capitalize on that human susceptibility, but even without malicious intentions, hype can fuel more hype. We regulate our financial markets in no small part to tame the worst excesses of it, and introduced many new reforms in response to the Great Depression, as well as the Great Recession. Yes, it hits the news when Enron or WorldCom implodes, but all said those sorts of total failures caused by greed and not caught in time by required audits are rare these days, especially in the more-regulated category of publicly traded companies. Cryptocurrencies, and crypto in general, seem to proclaim their main benefit of being a "market without government intervention," and have spectacular meltdowns all the time. I don't think that premise of government regulation being bad is true, and ironically it is crypto that has solidified that viewpoint for me. The old adge of "don't invest what you can't afford to lose" applies regardless of where you're investing, but at least if you put money in a mutual fund and forget about it for 20 years, it's still going to be there and will likely have increased in value.
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    I heard about this from a friend who works at BlockFi. Hadn't heard of FTX before since I don't have anything in crypto (due primarily to the number of Ponzi schemes and secondarily to its environmental impact, with a side of not being able to see any societal benefit from it), but reading a couple articles about them in the New York Times, including one from way back in April, wow, this seems like it was destined to implode. My reading of it is that FTX was basically acting like a brokerage, while also operating to some extent like a bank where people could keep their money, and behind the scenes was lending literally billions to a partner company to invest speculatively in the known-to-be-highly-volatile crypto space. The generous way of interpreting it is that the partner company made poor "investment" speculations, and for some reason FTX was betting the farm on those investments being successful. Meanwhile, all sorts of people were buying in to Bankman-Fried being legitimate. He was testifying to Congress. Spoke at an event with Bill Clinton. Sequoia Capital and Black Rock had invested in FTX. Shouldn't it have been a red flag that FTX went from new in 2019 to a $32 billion valuation in three years? That makes the dot-com boom look tame by comparison. Having worked at a U.S. company that had both investment and banking arms, FTX's scheme would never have passed regulatory muster in the traditional financial sector. There are firewalls between the banking and investment departments at traditional firms, and regulations, so the investment arm can't just invest the customers' deposits however it wants with no regard to risk. Why do those regulations exist? To increase trust in the market and reduce the risk of the sorts of collapses that can cause wider panics (to use the term popular in the late 1800s), or longer-term recessions/depressions. Crypto is the Wild West, and even if it continues to be a thing (I'm still hoping it fades to obscurity someday), it's going to have these busts if it remains largely unregulated. It seems appropriate that the new guy put in charge of FTX is the same guy who was in charge of Enron after they went bust. It's also telling that he stated that in his 40 year career, much focused on doling out the remains of companies that imploded, often due to fraud or gross mismanagement, FTX is the worst he has seen.
  4. Sandy Bridge
    Disk Benchmarks I'll edit this thread with disk benchmarks. The SSD is a Kingston OM8PDP3512B-AI1, which has a NotebookCheck page here. CrystalDiskMark: It might not be considered fast by NVME standards, but it's still quite a bit faster than a SATA drive.
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    Me too! I think another factor, for me, was his wealth and breadth of knowledge about laptops. It just seemed like he must have had several decades more experience with technology than I did, back when I was new to the NBR crowd circa 2007. As it turns out, I'd guess from the picture that he's actually pretty close to my age, and if I'd never heard of him before he started writing for Tom's, I'd guess younger than I am.
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    This is the thread for owners of MSI Alpha 15 machines. The latest one, featuring the Ryzen 5800H and Radeon 6600M, has its web page at https://us.msi.com/Laptop/Alpha-15-B5EX/Specification I recently purchased one of these and am so far quite happy with it. It's fast with an octo-core Zen 3 CPU and that mid-tier current-generation Radeon, has really good battery life between the 90 WHr battery and AMD's battery life optimizations, and is ergonomically comfortable to use, with its good keyboard, nearly-full-size arrow keys, and rounded plastic edges on the chassis. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Its 512 GB SSD is a Kingston OM8PDP3512B-AI1, which isn't going to win any land speed records, but it's still NVME, and the startup time is noticeably faster than on my previous MSI laptop with a SATA M.2 drive. I haven't used its display for gaming purposes yet - I have it connected up to a 24" monitor on my desk when gaming - but I did once game without remembering to plug in the charger, and a couple hours later got a warning, not having noticed the difference the whole time. Granted, it was a Paradox strategy game, but that's still noticeably better gaming battery life than any of my other laptops, and no noticeable performance throttling. Unfortunately for anyone who's interested, it was removed from the MSI U.S. store recently, the 20% discount I snagged in November was likely part of inventory clean-out. I'm hoping there's a Zen 4 successor some time next year, granted I won't need to upgrade any time soon, but the price-performance ratio (total cost = $840 shipped, plus tax) was great and there still aren't a lot of all-AMD laptops with a dGPU. I'll post some more benchmarks as I collect them.
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    I was perusing Tom's Hardware today, and pulled up a notebook review, and noticed that it was written by one of our old friends, Charles Jefferies. Naturally I was curious, and it turns out it's not the first one he's written for them, but the fourth, the first one written in September. You can view all of his articles for Tom's at https://www.tomshardware.com/author/charles-jefferies . I'm happy to see it, he has always written good reviews, and Tom's is doing a fairly good job lately (RIP AnandTech). Good for him that he's writing reviews again, and for a site with a large audience.
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    To be fair, Tesla has been massively over-valued for years. As high as its price was, you'd have thought it was expected to replace GM, Ford, Toyota, and Honda combined in market share. And actually, that still appears to be the case. Current market caps: Tesla - $561B Toyota - $234B VW - $94B GM - $54B Ford - $52B Honda - $41B That's $475B combined for five of the world's largest auto manufacturers, still less than Tesla which ships a small fraction of the volume, and the gulf was wider before the start of the year. The others have P/E ratios between 5 and 11; Tesla at 55 is still way higher. So how much of it is Musk's Twitter actions giving people pause, versus people realizing it was priced stratospherically and maybe they should cash in on their earnings or avoid the potential for losses when it leaves the stratosphere, is hard to say. Probably some of both. --- In more direct Twitter-related news, Vivaldi has spun up a Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social, making it easy for Vivaldi users to sign up for the Twitter alternative. I suspect the timing is not coincidental. I perused it a bit but was mostly reminded of why I wasn't a Twitter user even before the new ownership, it seems like a good way to get pulled into debates and waste time on the Internet, but I'm not sure how it would make my life better. One could make an argument that forums serve similar purposes, but at least on NotebookTalk the debates I'm likely to be pulled into are on topics I have some interest in, and I can view NBT today if I feel like discussing notebooks, and some other site tomorrow if I feel like discussing some other topic, and not have it all lumped together.
  9. Sandy Bridge
    Musk would probably just buy some struggling Android phone maker for an overpriced amount to have them start making his phone. Even he probably couldn't afford the really successful ones though (Samsung, LG, Xiaomi). But I doubt he'd have much more luck with phones than Microsoft or Apple did. Microsoft poured billions into Windows Phone over the better part of a decade, and had Windows CE before that; Elon could launch his own Android-based phone by purchasing someone, but without the App Store he'd be at just as much of a competitive disadvantage as Huawei (aside from not being sanctioned altogether in the U.S.). Meanwhile he's increasing Starlink prices in Ukraine, for both the terminals and service, because it might be losing $100M/month. I can't help but think that if he hadn't just dropped $44B on Twitter, he could be having a major PR win with Starlink right now... and even after dropping all that money on Twitter he could still afford it. It's still sort of impressive from a technical standpoint what Starlink is doing in Ukraine, it just doesn't look so good to be price-gouging the Ukrainians while buying social networks for tens of billions.
  10. Sandy Bridge
    My philosophy has long been that it's great if someone is passionate enough about something that they are motivated to work hard on it, but the problems start when the ownership/leadership of a company expects everyone to be as passionate about the product as the founders are. It's just not realistic beyond a small/startup-stage company. Sometimes it continues on a bit when that was already the case beforehand (Microsoft/Apple in the '80s), but it doesn't continue indefinitely (Microsoft today/how nearly the whole original Mac team had left Apple within a couple years of its release). I know of a few people who just really enjoy what they do even at larger companies, which is also great, so long as they don't talk about it all the time (I had that colleague once, he'd come in every Monday and talk about what he worked on over the weekend and make everyone else feel like an underachiever even though they weren't). But the proportion is usually much smaller than at startups. So Twitter's going to be left with whoever fits in that category and isn't scared off by Musk's management practices, those who are stuck due to visas, and anyone who is hanging around because they don't think they can find another job easily, aka the underperformers. Musk is hoping there is a large enough category of passionate people to keep things going, but that's an awfully big gamble. ---------- I agree that having a couple thousand people send weekly reports to Musk is not a good use of time. A small team can meet every morning to coordinate and make sure no one is stuck, a somewhat larger team can meet weekly to make sure everyone's on the same page. But at this scale, even assuming Musk has a few people to help him out in reviewing these, I can't see it working well. My guess is he's going to dismiss people whose reports don't meet his standards, and in the process is going to dismiss a lot of people he shouldn't because he doesn't have the context to understand why their work is valuable. Kind of like how he's already fired people and then realized they are essential, and has had to beg them to come back (sometimes only to re-fire them a couple weeks later).
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    Twitter is now not paying some of its vendors for services already rendered, such as travel expenses for employees that Elon fired: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twitter-cost-cutting.html Seems like a bad way to pinch pennies. Those companies are not going to work with Twitter again, and now that it's public knowledge, any company that is approached by Twitter to do business is going to want payment in advance. The Soviet Union pulled the same trick with refusing to pay Tsarist debts, and for decades they had to pay for everything they bought overseas in hard currency. It's also been interesting reading about how Musk used the same "the company might go bankrupt" tack with Tesla and SpaceX. But a key difference being that in some cases that was a legitimate risk for them, and that they had the sorts of missions that could inspire people to want to work long hard hours. Twitter? It's not going to change the planet the way that adopting electric cars could, or change the galaxy the way colonizing other planets could. Why work long hours there when you could work regular hours somewhere else and then post on NotebookTalk in the evening? Or any of thousands of other activities. Well, I guess George Hotz is in, and he's going to try to fix Twitter's search. Although more importantly, he's going to get rid of that stupid login overlay. I rarely use Twitter, but even then I've found it annoying enough to go into the dev tools and abolish it so I could scroll down farther. For that matter, Twitter is also a huge distraction for Musk from things he could do that would have more impact, such as designing rockets at SpaceX or adding more content to etymology.com.
  12. Sandy Bridge
    John Sculley delivered the Newton, one of the world's first PDAs. He may have delivered the iPad. But Jobs returning was likely necessary for Apple's self-belief in the mid-late '90s. Tesla is big enough now, its vision well-known enough, and its financials sound enough that Elon is probably not necessary at Tesla anymore. His mechanical engineering chops were surely valuable early on, but now they have thousands of engineers. His marketing has been a big asset, but depending on how Twitter goes could become a liability. And if they aren't already yes-men, the Tesla leadership has to be concerned by his dismissal of non-yes-men at Twitter.
  13. Sandy Bridge
    According to the NYT article on Twitter today: Isn't that something you're supposed to do before you lay off the people in charge of that tech stack? I know that when I join a new company, I take time to learn what they're already doing before I start making suggestions on how to improve things. I also liked the following quote in their article: Maybe the Tesla investors want him back because of the collateral damage Musk's Twitter ownership is causing to the Tesla brand? They must already have some internal damage control professionals to keep him in check somewhat. And I suppose if he did have to sell Tesla stock to repay those loans, that would drive down Tesla's share price - although at this point I have to wonder if having a more diverse ownership group would be good for Tesla in the long run.
  14. Sandy Bridge
    He probably should be paranoid about sabotage at this point. With so many employees gone, the last employee leaving on a critical infrastructure team could probably bring down the entire site if they wanted to, and the fact that Twitter has been leakier than a cloud in a rainstorm shows that there's no loyalty to the new management. Most have some loyalty to the product they worked on and wouldn't do that, but at this point it might only take one person to decide they want to stick it to Elon to bring the whole thing down, and with the staff so thin, it could take a long time to get it back up. TVs in the lobby of the New York office have already been commandeered to display Tweets of Elon firing employees via Tweets, so there's some appetite for at least small-scale intentional disloyalty. I agree with Aaron, the employees on work visas are the ones who are really in a bad situation here. The U.S. system of work visas being tied to a specific employer has always been open to that employer imposing bad working conditions on the employee, but this has the potential to be an extreme example of that. Everyone else is open to look for better employers, but those employees are either stuck, have to find one of the rare companies that will sponsor transferring that visa, which is not usually a quick process at least by Elon Twitter timelines, or have to leave the country. In lighter news, Elon has tweeted, "How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one." So even he may be realizing that he done messed up and doesn't have a good way to fix it at this point.
  15. Sandy Bridge
    I'm a bit surprised not to have seen any threads about this on a tech-oriented forum, as someone working in the tech industry the Musk takeover of Twitter has come up in water cooler talk at the office a few times recently. It's a combination of morbid curiosity and amazement at the ineptness of the decisions being made for most of us (thankfully I do not work at Twitter). For those who haven't been following (editor's note: wow, the list is even longer than I expected): - Musk took over in late October - Executives began being dismissed immediately, a trend that continued - Half the employees were fired in early November - Over the next few days, Twitter realized they'd fired people who were essential to running the business, and tried to persuade them to come back. Not all were persuaded. - Twitter's chief security and privacy officers resigned the day before an FTC deadline to fail a report on protecting user privacy, feeling they could not in good faith say they were meeting FTC requirements after Musk's changes. The FTC has said it is "deeply concerned" with those changes and is investigating. - A new feature was rolled out where for $8, anyone could get a blue "verified" badge. Musk said the $8 cost would deter trolls, it did not deter them at all. In the most infamous example, a fake but verified Eli Lilly account posted that insulin was now free, but impersonations were widespread, such as impersonations of George W. Bush, LeBron James, and Tesla. Eli Lilly ceased all their Twitter activity, including significant advertising spending, the next day after being unable to reach Twitter's laid-off staffers in a timely manner. - Musk posted this week that employees had to commit to a new "extremely hard core" Twitter with long hours of high intensity work including early mornings, nights, and weekends, or take severance, by 5 PM ET Thursday. - At 5 PM ET Thursday, Musk was having a meeting trying to persuade key employees to stay. Some hung up as the clock struck 5:00, showing they were not staying. - Twitter's public safety and trust team is considering a mass resignation - Twitter's communications department no longer exists - Anyone who criticizes Musk is being fired - Musk declared that only 20% of microservices that Twitter has were needed and ordered the rest to be turned off. While I doubt all the rest were in fact turned off, enough were to break SMS two-factor authentication. Any software developer can tell you it's obvious this will break things; it's like saying you could remove 80% of an individual car's components and it would work just fine. - Advertisers have been leaving the platform due to concerns about impact to brand image (see also the Eli Lilly example), worsening Twitter's profitability problem And I'm sure there will be more next week. I'm just waiting for a mass Twitter outage to occur. To me it seems like a textbook example of bad management. Almost a "here's how to run a company into the ground as quickly as possible" case. Sure, turnaround artists often reduce staffing levels to cut costs, but the sheer impulsiveness of the decisions is boggling, the lack of planning around how things are being done, the lack of thought about changes to the product, or to the technology. I've also realized that while Elon may be a good mechanical engineer, he has no idea how to run a software company, and that beyond any remaining doubt, he's a workaholic who expects everyone else to also be a workaholic. That was already pretty likely based on his management of Tesla, sleeping on the factory floor and so forth, but now that he's running a company where workers aren't operating heavy equipment on the job, it's obvious. My two personal takeaways are (1) never go work for a company owned by Elon Musk, and (2) if Elon's breaking Twitter this badly in the span of a few weeks, how reliable are the over-the-air updates to Teslas? I want my next car to be an EV, but I don't want it to be from a company that guy is running. So, is anyone else reading up on the latest Twitter drama in the evenings?
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    That one has sold out locally, and no surprise. I considered heading over to pick one up even though I don't really have a lot of need for a 512 GB SATA SSD right now. I'm sure I could have found something to use it for.
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    Haha, well considering I don't play the lottery, that's not very likely. Will let y'all know if I somehow win one in a giveaway though! ---- And sure, if I were in charge of upgrades and the regular upgrade cycle were for Q1 2023, I'd be waiting for Sapphire Rapids. But this feels about as much like a "shut up and take my money" case as any generational upgrade I've seen. If the upgrade cycle said Q4 2022 was the time for an upgrade, I probably wouldn't be asking for a delay.
  18. Sandy Bridge
    I'm in the market for a better music player for iOS. Currently, the solution I have - Apple Music - ranks third of the three platforms I've used in recent years for playing mp3s, behind Windows (where I used MusicBee and occasionally Zune) and Symbian (where I use QuasarMX, which is available for almost any platform except iOS). What problems am I trying to solve? Mainly: - I have a mix of classical and non-classical tracks. Apple Music doesn't do a good job of classical, where the composer is the primary differentiator, not the artist. E.g. I want to drill down on Mozart first, not whether it's played by a particular symphony. - Being able to filter by genre (or groups of genres), then by artist, for non-classical. Apple Music only allows genre, then album, which is useful in some cases but not ideal in all. - Much less important than on desktop, but still nice to have, is the ability to display lyrics. - Also much less important than on desktop, but nice to have, is FLAC support. It also must be ad free, although it does not have to be free. All mp3s will be stored locally, no cloud/streaming services desired.
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    From the Tom's Hardware review performance page: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-4th-gen-epyc-genoa-9654-9554-and-9374f-review-96-cores-zen-4-and-5nm-disrupt-the-data-center/5 Looks awfully hard to compete with, we'll see how Sapphire Rapids does come January, but Intel's current king scores just below Genoa's 32-core chip, which has 1/3 the cores of the top-end model, and Team Blue only plans to bump their max core count to 60. AMD also has a humungous advantage in cache size, even relative to the number of cores. The first page is also worth a look, if only for the picture of Genoa next to various other processors - this is a chonky processor. Unfortunately it's a bit pricey for a home system, $11,805 at the high end for 96 cores, plus it requires DDR5 memory. Still impressive though. I want one. Just not enough to drop 11 grand on it!
  20. Sandy Bridge
    Just clicked the purchase button on a new laptop. All-AMD, 5800H plus 6600M, 16 GB 3200 MHz, 512 GB NVME (with a second M2 slot for expansion), gigabit Ethernet and a wireless card that NotebookCheck reviews as being blazing fast in this laptop. And just as importantly as the hard specs, a plastic palm rest, Windows 10 instead of 11, and a good keyboard layout with full-height arrow keys. That elusive combination is MSI's Alpha 15 (https://us-store.msi.com/Alpha-15-B5EEK-018). It ought to have about twice as good of battery life as any laptop I've ever owned, four times the GPU horsepower of my current 1050 Mobile laptop (and twice my desktop's RX 480), and more CPU power than any system I own today. I'd been waffling on this for a month, but when I checked today and it was $210 less than it had been, and I couldn't find anything better at Micro Center, that sealed the deal. It'll be the first time I'm running an AMD CPU since 1998. To be determined: Whether this also means I go laptop-as-primary-computer, or even only-computer. The desktop's only remaining advantages will be storage space, memory capacity, and perhaps acoustics. I still want to do a rebuild someday, but maybe I'll wait till the end of 2023 before jumping on the AM5 ship, with a nice Zen 3 laptop for anything that needs a little extra power in the meantime.
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    MicroCenter has their Black Friday deals starting, and so far this is probably the best one I've found. $200 for the 5800X: https://www.microcenter.com/product/630284/amd-ryzen-7-5800x-vermeer-38ghz-8-core-am4-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included The 5800X3D only has a $50 discount, and goes for $400. My take is AMD is trying to clear out inventory of most of the AM4 processors, but still views the 5800X3D as one they can make a lot of money on with upgrades. Which makes sense, for anyone who's already got AM4 it's an obvious upgrade path. But man... if I had an older Zen I'd probably go for the 5800X upgrade at half the price. They've got some other good options too. If you just need an AM4 system, $130 nets you a Ryzen 5 3600 with a free motherboard. 5700G (free heatsink octo-core, no GPU required) for $180. 12 core 5900X for $330. Unfortunately the AM5 deals aren't very impressive, $50 off a mobo with a 7700X or higher, but that's not nearly as good as the free DDR5 deal they had briefly in early October, and the processor discount is only one cent. There's some good ones in other categories too (anyone need a $99 11.6" laptop with Windows 10 Pro?), but I'll keep this thread focused on AM4/AM5 processors.
  22. Sandy Bridge
    Well, I've had the chance, but not the motivation. Brave's crypto integrations are a big turn-off for me, the ad system is not preferable to just running uBlock Origin in any old browser, and its other main pitch seems to be on the privacy front, where I have no problems with Vivaldi or Firefox. Vivaldi's appeal to me is in its power user features and customizability (being the spiritual successor to Opera). Firefox is just generally all around pretty good and for some sites the Gecko engine is preferable to the Blink engine, especially ones with heavy CSS animations.
  23. Sandy Bridge
    Seeing some colleagues' tab collections at my new job has made me realize that my too many tabs problem is not nearly as bad as it could be. One colleague racks up enough tabs to get lost in in Safari, and Chrome, and Firefox, all at the same time, and is always switching between browsers trying to find which sea of tabs contains the one he wants to show someone... half the time that results in giving up and just opening a new tab to find it, making the problem worse. I've become halfway decent at cleaning up my tabs about once a day. One thing I want to train myself to remember to use is Vivaldi's recent stacked tab feature. You can stack tabs, and when you do you get a second tab row below the first one. You can do this for multiple tabs, too. So if I have a bunch of tabs on foxes, and a bunch of tabs on gophers, I can group them, and consolidate them into two top-level tabs, while still having plain-old regular tabs for my usual browsing of EFGXT and whatever all else I might have open. It allows you to have 100 tabs while still being able to find what you're looking for. I've also used Vivaldi's sessions feature, with mixed success. I find it to be most useful when I'm researching a vacation plan or a purchase and it gets to be too late to wrap it up in one evening. Save a session, look at it again the next day or next week, don't have it in my tabs forever. I wish it synced across devices though, it's one of the few things that doesn't, but it's arguably the one I'd like to sync most as it would be really nice to be able to create a session at home and finish it at the coffee shop the next day. I have manually synced collections by copying files via a flash drive, but it's a very '90s solution, and I always have to look up where to copy them from/to on the file system. Still using Vivaldi as my main browser, both at home and work, with Firefox as secondary at both. Firefox does win a point for being much faster to start up, especially after a boot. Not usually a big deal but if I just need to look up one thing before I leave, I'll tend to favor Firefox.
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    AMD has announced the high end of the Radeon 7000 series. $900 or $1000 (XT vs XTX), no power supply upgrades, different connectors, or larger cases required: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amds-next-gen-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-and-7900-xt-launch-december-13-start-at-999/ Raw teraflop performance is between the 4080 and 4090, and is supposed to be about 1.5x a Radeon 6950 XT on average, at 4K resolution. Thoughts? Takers? It's definitely higher-end than I'm looking for, and more than I'm looking to spend, but if the actual metrics match the AMD slides, it looks a lot more reasonable than GeForce 4000 to me.
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    Yeah, I was thinking in particular about your new supercomputer and hoping it wouldn't have issues right before you got to game on it for the next few months. Good to hear you have a native 16 pin cable!
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