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I think there are two parts to this. There are factors beyond clock rate; clock rate alone doesn’t give a full picture. Going from say 166 MHz to 1 GHz brings radical performance improvements without too many drawbacks, once you go above 3-4 GHz, the marginal increase in clock rates becomes increasingly expensive in terms of heat management.

EDIT: Didn’t realize there was difference between mHz and MHz.

Does this have any meaningful impact on performance? From what I remember PCIe bandwidth restriction have a minor impact on performance (under 5%) and that to only in specific cases.

To hell with American technology platforms!

That’s not to say there aren’t (or can’t be) issues with platforms from other countries, but with platforms from US domiciled business entities you are unfortunately guaranteed to end up in a oligarchic quagmire with a giant serving of commitment to dishonesty, crime and corruption.

Even Mozilla became corrupted by US business types.

It only took Qualcomm 10+ years to get serious about wearable SoCs.

I remember them having some comically bad SoC SKUs for the wearables market that failed on key areas such as efficiency (battery life).

On one hand, I sort of understand the reasoning for this approach, on the other hand it’s crazy that the components market is in this state.

It sounds like he has way too much money and time on his hands.

This seems like such a short-sighted move on the part of AMD. The ~$50 discount you get with AMD GPUs is not worth the hassle of subpar software support when you are spending $500+ (if not a lot more, the cheapest 9060 XT in my country is around ~$500) a component that you expect to use ~5-7 years minimum.

As much as I don’t like Nvidia, I can be confident that my 3080 will continue to receive support for at least another ~5 years. It’s a perfectly capable GPU even at 1440 (let alone 1080).

But even if i wanted AI. Those 50TOPS arent useful for anything i believe?

That’s the question I’ve been asking myself. Reviews and marketing copytext constantly talk about the NPU and TOPS, but what applications is this relevant for?

Does this help with ML video upscaling solutions like Topaz Video AI? Does this help with running local LLMs (I didn’t have very good results on my 10 GB VRAM 3080)?

I have yet to hear from anyone what the NPUs are used for.

I am aware of the difference between recovery options and sideloading applications. :) I’ve installed/used LOS (and other ROMs) multiple times and I am a heavy user of F-Droid and its applications.

Just pointing out that this is just one more reason to avoid Android (saying this a Samsung user).

After Google decided to ban sideloading (their alleged “change of heart” is increasingly looking like a PR exercise), I decided to not buy any more devices devices based on American platforms.

My A73 works fine, but I planning to get a Jolla phone later his year. Going to use both in parallel to aid in switching.

I do wish European banks and eGov services started porting their apps to SailfishOS.

This is definitely senior goons at Block engaging in some opportunistic PR.

has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”

This is how we know this is all PR bullshit (perhaps crafted ad-hoc, but still essentially a propaganda operation).

I am one of those people who likes huge phones, even back when they were called Phablets (I also had company provided Note 3 and aNexus 6P).

I’ve been buying mid-range devices since mid 2010s (Nexus 5, Xiaomi Mi A1); mid-range devices were fine then and even more so now. The one drawback was camera quality, but IMO this has been resolved. These days I stick to the Samsung A series. I bought my A73 in mid 2022 and I see no reason to upgrade (although battery charge is starting to become an issue, although it’s manageable). It’s too bad Samsung sunset the A7X series.

I can’t imagine spending more than $500 - $600 on a smartphone (and even that is pushing it past the optimal spot on the price to performance curve).

Using Google Sheets allowed the group to evade detection and blend into normal network traffic and was not a compromise of any Google product, the company added.

How is that support to work? I understand using Google Cloud, but what’s so special about Sheets (or any cloud spreadsheet) that helps you with hacking agencies and organizations?

The company is also reportedly working on a “smart lamp” — but whether OpenAI is actually looking to bring it to market, let alone if such a product could conjure any enthusiasm among consumers, remains unclear.

A smart lamp? They are really out of ideas on how to build a separate “AI enabled” hardware device.

I have a feeling Altman wants to launch a modern equivalent of the iPhone (even though powerful smartphones existed way before the iPhone, I was using J2ME Gmail, Google Maps in 2004. Some websites even had a mobile version).

This was probably a requirement of some sort. I doubt the government would bother with something like this on their own initiative.

That being said, there are some really good sources for “unofficial” content in Ukraine. All the major international and local streaming content and major blu-ray (Rips/Remuxes) release in one spot and with speeds that allow streaming torrents (at least in Ukraine).

Some of the more niche content can be difficult to find (smaller country, local sites have requirement that Ukrainian dub/VO/subs must be included in addition to the original audio track), but you’re not going to find that content on mainstream US media sources.

I don’t think it’s possible to get even just the Bill of Materials for the PS5 down to $250 (even without elevated prices for RAM and SSDs).

There are too many costs that do not scale with less powerful components.

Even with the boom in enterprise GPU sales, one would think it’s shortsighted (in terms of risk management) to not try and strengthen their position in the consumer market.

The worst thing is that it doesn’t seem to be a hack and the solution pretty much work already.