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  • AMD vs Nvidia

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  • My two cents.

    I have quite a few Nvidia GPUs I still use (2080,3080ti,3090) but recently purchased two AMD cards. I have a 5700xt and 7800xt.

    I recently started using Universal Blue Linux as my daily driver on most of my systems. Bluefin for my desktop with Nvidia, Bazzite for my gaming PC with AMD.

    They do both work however I have still had more issues with NVIDIA than AMD. For example, running games tends to be buggier but that is specifically an Nvidia driver issue. I'm guessing most hot fixes come out for the windows driver first. For instance, FF7 Rebirth does not render world geometry on Nvidia on Linux. I do not have this problem under AMD

    I started purchasing the AMD cards because I was growing tired of waiting for Nvidia stability on Linux.

    Is it much better than it was before , yes Do you use Nvidia CUDA apps or AI? Check, that works! Is it still as smooth and seamless as AMD, nope, you're still going to end up with regressions.

    I think it's only a matter time before Nvidia finally figured this out as they heavily rely on Linux as a platform in their own work. But right now your best user experience overall is going to be on AMD hardware.

  • Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS!

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  • Y'all, I fell for it.

    I bought a Bambu X1C and fully regret it. Just sent them a return request and called their product Defective by design in my RMA. I don't expect them to acknowledge it but I figured I would send them a hefty fu first. I'm spending the rest of my afternoon downgrading firmware on this thing until I can install X1plus on it. Where am I buying my next 3D printer? Prusa? Do they have a bigger one that can print ppa-cf?

    • "They played us like a damn fiddle!" Kazuhira Miller

  • YouTube devs be like

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  • These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who's in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it's easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.

    On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.

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  • Almost had a gd heart attack!

  • Nintendo and The Pokémon Company seek injunction against Palworld plus fine and damages, developer says

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  • Nintendo sues everyone they can because as an IP holder of some seriously valuable properties, everything else in the gaming industry just looks like free real estate for them to colonize. I can make a game called "Dog Fighters" and I'm sure they'll find a way to tell me they own that idea.

  • The democrats did this to themselves

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  • They both have their corporate masters. It's just RedPubs run a pro corporate ticket and Democrats have a platform that is perceived as anti corporate. RedPubs get into the office and do exactly what they promised, Democrats get into the office and have to pretend to not bite the hand that feeds too hard (more of a gentle lick).

    This is why the Democrats strategy is to lose. They are essentially paid to lose. Corporatism is what is getting in the way of democracy.

  • Interlock Ransomware Puts FreeBSD Servers in Critical Danger Worldwide

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  • Intel says integrating RAM into Lunar Lake SoC was a mistake, might abandon desktop GPUs again

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  • I would like to see further development but I always had a sneaking suspicion that its life was limited due to the fact that ARC does not come from Intel's fabs either. Like lunar lake, Arc is also made at TSMC.

  • Intel says integrating RAM into Lunar Lake SoC was a mistake, might abandon desktop GPUs again

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  • I don't think Lunar lake wasn't a "mistake" so much as it was a reaction. Intel couldn't make a competitive laptop chip to go up against Apple and Qualcomm. (There is a very weird love triangle between the three of them /s.) Intel had to go to TSMC to get a chip to market that satisfied this AI Copilot+ PC market boom(or bust). Intel doesn't have the ability to make a competitive chip in that space (yet) so they had to produce lunar lake as a one off.

    Intel is very used to just giving people chips and forcing them to conform their software to the available hardware. We're finally in the era where the software defines what the cpu needs to be able to do. This is probably why Intel struggles. Their old market dominant strategy doesn't work in the CPU market anymore and they've found themselves on the back foot. Meanwhile new devices where the hardware and software are deeply integrated in design keep coming out while Intel is still swinging for the "here's our chip, figure it out for us" crowd.

    In contrast to their desktop offerings, looking at Intel's server offerings shows that Intel gets it. They want to give you the right chips for the right job with the right accelerators.

    He's not wrong that GPUs in the desktop space are going away because SoCs are inevitably going to be the future. This isn't because the market has demanded it or some sort of conspiracy, but literally we can't get faster without chips getting smaller and closer together.

    Even though I'm burnt on Nvidia and the last two CPUs and GPUs I've bought have been all AMD, I'm excited to see what Nvidia and mediatek do next as this SOC future has some really interesting upsides to it. Projects like ashai Linux proton project and apple GPTK2 have shown me the SoC future is actually right around the corner.

    Turns out, the end of the x86 era is a good thing?

  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind | Release Date Trailer

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  • I can't believe they went full mystical ninja Goemon for the megazord sequence. I may just buy this.

  • Bazzite delivers the SteamOS experience Windows handhelds need - and it's terrific

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  • That's a good question. I will have to test it out. I usually play wired. I think the minisforum BD790i I'm using has an Intel Bluetooth chip set. From my experience those have issues with the Xbox controllers and often the dongle is required. I do have the dongle so I will try it out.

  • Bazzite delivers the SteamOS experience Windows handhelds need - and it's terrific

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  • Just rebuilt my living room gaming PC this weekend and installed Bazzite. The most exciting feature for me so far has been that SLEEP WORKS. I can just put the system to sleep and resume whenever I want. 10/10

  • Former PlayStation exec says console arms race has plateaued

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  • What's stopping you from building your own Bazzite Box right now? (ChimeraOS is great too. ) Honestly, the things that make me most excited are

    1. the combined rumors of Valve developing for Arm and
    2. the Asahi Linux presentation from Alyssa Rosenzweig that shows you can run modern games from steam on Linux on arm mac NOW. https://rosenzweig.io/blog/aaa-gaming-on-m1.html

    Valve's first party custom hardware is coming.

  • Sysadmins slam Apple’s SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

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  • Sounds like free money for all those certificate authorities out there. Imma start my own CA with blackjack and hookers.

  • ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton

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  • Nice. The adoption of Glorious Egroll's UMU project is a good thing for all.

  • Even More Cartoon Network Shows Have Suddenly Left Max

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  • If they have old shows you like they can't sell you new shows.

    It's all artificial scarcity, just ask the millions of people pirating content.

  • Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000

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  • Rant:

    I built a PC for a friend of mine recently and got a bundle CPU motherboard and GPU (5600x3D microcenter exclusive at the time). I had so many problems with the Phantom Gaming 6600xt at the time. The machine would boot inconsistently. I went back to microcenter and returned the card after reading that the sapphire 6750xt didn't have the same problems and swapped up to a sapphire.

    This week I just bought a Radeon 7800 XT steel legend for 480$ USD. It was smaller and cheaper than comparable products. The card has the worst coil whine I ever heard and performed poorly. I assume I paid the price for not going for something like the sapphire nitro+. I went and swapped it out (at microcenter). 7800xt nitro+ is a much better card, does not whine and works as expected.

    This may be related to the AMD/Radeon products...

    I have a 3080ti from MSI that is a huge RGB glowing monstrosity in one rig and a dell 3090 24G in another. I got them used for 350$ and $600 respectively. I'm running the 3080 with a 12600k and the 3090 with a 7900x with higher end motherboards (Asus Maximus and ASRock Tai chi) and have no issues. I paid extra for these motherboards to ensure that I didn't run into any weird compatibility issues.

    I just keep getting burned on ASrock, MSI, gigabyte models of things in the lower tier price category. It makes me feel like "the medium soda 40 cents cheaper than the large because it exists only to make the large seem like a better deal."

  • Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000

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  • Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000

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  • It feels like the bottom felt out of the market and now if you want a computer that works as expected you need to get these ultra high end luxury RGB brainrot products.

    Anytime I try to buy something in the mid range now it basically comes broken or falls apart in the first month of ownership.

    You may as well buy Chinese ewaste from Ali express at that point.