I think if valve had gone the route of swappable SoCs, it could have done better since you could choose to upgrade it in the future for relatively cheap and not get locked in to the platform. They didn't because they wanted to release a ubiquitous product that devs could target as a hardware spec like the steam deck.

1k for essentially gaming laptop performance is gonna be a tough ask in this tire fire market. The biggest savior by far has been users boosting their old platforms to the max because everything current gen is hella expensive.

Plus it will be undercut by PS5 which is the biggest contender. Valve's major edge is the software, but a $400-$500 premium is not worthwhile for many.

I also think they underestimated 4k users. There's not that many 4k users in the PC space because its expensive, but a lot of people have 4k TVs because the display tech at that scale is pretty cheap. People will want 4k output if they're gonna use this as intended with a larger screen.

I think its really funny that the RTX brand name still reflects Nvidia's previous endeavor to pump money.

Remember they made a big deal about real time ray tracing because they already knew that GTX series had hit a powerful standard that would cause GPUs to become cheaper in the long run. The only "improvements" left for gaming was raw performance and 4k content, which Moore's law would solve in only a handful of years.

So they artificially created a new graphics standard requiring new hardware that no one actually needed to ensure that future generations of GPUs would remain highly profitable.

Which is why the 30 series had such a massive leap over the 20 series for ray trace performance. They wanted everyone to buy the next product, so they simply added more ray tracing cores that really should have been in the 20 series.

But then the big AI moneymaker hit and they focused all their attention to the tensor cores instead, and now the RTX name and ray tracing cores are an artifact of the past.

Ad Block already exists on TV:

Lol didn't it get delisted? I think the dev mentioned only like 6 people ever bought it.

Surprised steam hasn't done the same.

tbf you can build a more powerful version with new parts for about $100 less.

My point is that if you're gonna drop 1k anyway, you might as well get something much punchier.

Plastic scraper or very carefully with a razor/safety blade.

isopropyl usually doesn't wipe lettering unless it was a cheap ink which I've seen for stuff like expiration date stamps. If you're unsure, just lightly dampen with water instead.

So, I tried asking this question on Reddit, and all I got back were trolls and unserious replies.

After you scrape it off, replace it with a knockoff R4 sticker lol

Market is so screwed right now anyway, but at that price you could just build a significantly beefier PC with used parts.

His demand to return to the US and give himself in was if he got a public (non military) trial.

The government's offer under Obama was that the only guarantee they would provide was that he wouldn't be subject to torture.

Even if he had negligible effect on state level surveillance, the documents he shared provided some insanely valuable perspective into the capability and power of nation states in the cybersecurity space.

Anything the NSA is or was doing can also be applied to other major countries like China or Russia, and the capability + compute power has only grown in size since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures

EDIT: Also in true American foreign interest memery, the top two most heavily surveilled states are Iran and Pakistan.

Didn't know this was a hot take but America hasn't provided tip worthy service for decades.

I would even wager that Gen Z and A would be blown away to see the level of service quality something like the boomer generation experienced.

The Office (All versions) because the movie "Office Space" exeedingly outshines the humor and plot of any of the TV shows.

As with most "comedy" shows it's actually a drama disguised with a specific setting and a couple of meme characters to make it look like a comedy.

I'm convinced people only watched that stuff because they were all in on office drama at work/school but didn't want to admit to that fact.

He is literally the grand exception, are you dumb?

Half the DNC refused to support him during the election despite being the obvious populist because he was too socialist.

The only other candidate I can name is Bernie because I don't even think AOC falls into this category because she has to play compromise in congress.

None of them really, they were all novel technology ideas snd advancements that every company and their mom adopted because it became the next silicon valley investment money printer.

Blockchain started out as a decentralized network concept that's still useful today.

AI started out as a tensor statistical concept that's still useful today.

People say QC is a grift because every silicon valley giant has invested heavily into it because they want to be the first if it becomes viable. It's just what they do. They throw money into everything and if they get something successful, they pump it as much as they can before it dumps.

Even FOSS software isn't invulnerable. Half of AWS's SaaS platforms are just automated FOSS software running on their cloud infrastructure without so much as a hint of donation or development into the project itself. They just want money, they don't care how they get it.

TIL CDE and FVWM are still actively maintained

The high tech in vehicles that I wanted:

The "high tech" we got:

Amtrak rail delay issues will always be funny to me because I know for a fact those CSX and BNSF freight trains would willingly blow through a building if it was built on the track lol.

Ayyy nice. I'm still on my ye olde R4 clone lmao

NSA is that you?

Also jokes aside, how does the use case compare to some existing tools like BBOT?

This seems morr geared towards public facing targets than targeted information OSINT (user profiling, etc.)

I understand the need for SLAs but I'm always annoyed to see businesses never consider just using that vendor money to pay for a quality IT team and using something open source like Proxmox or Apache Cloud.

Especially when its something really basic like VMs and not actual cloud infrastructure.

Mint is if Ubuntu was still good like in 2015.

Also why not make conky transparent?