Supply will catch up with demand. High PC component prices are a temporary thing.
Supply will catch up with demand. High PC component prices are a temporary thing.
we said that about housing since 2008.
Lol, I feel bad for anyone new to the pc building community. At least those of us with 10+ year old computers at this point can play most of the indie games coming out. I AM still surprised by how intensive some games can be when they look like minecraft downgrades.
Kind of funny story, I launched Stardew valley yesterday and my displays absolutely shit themselves even though my graphics card is pretty new. Turned out that nvidias stupid app had changed the display settings to something weird. I had to manually flip it back to borderless and that fixed it but at first I was like “how out of everything I’ve played is this the one having problems?”
My wife started Stardew valley the other day and we also had display issues trying to output 4K. Still had to max out the zoom and even then the dialog boxes are cut off until you zoom out. Unlucky
Unity and Electron. Make a simple game consume 10x the resources it should realistically need
I guess we won’t do something about that, especially when we have the power in our hands.
Most people do nothing.
then, we accept what is not right, and people should stop complain.
You see, the big mistake in 2029 was the person installing Windows. Now they can see the horrible data center right outside of their house. As they say, out of sight, out of mind.
Jesus, I had to do a double take because I thought the stick person had somehow trapped a little human inside a pod for their entertainment and I was so confused.
I thought it was a verification can.
I thought it was an homunculus.
I’m still confused. What is the little pod and detritus around it supposed to represent?
I get the broken piggy-bank (and hammer?), not sure what else is going on…
I got the holo-waifu, but not the broken piggy bank, I thought it was a bong
Thanks for the context. I figured the comic was just ai slop itself…
No thank you, I like my women flesh and blood. Or if technology gets way better than I expect it to in my lifetime: thinking feeling beings capable of choosing to leave with soft bits.
Fuck this shit is sad
Flesh and blood women taste better.
Thank God, I thought it was analogue to the pony in a jar meme.
Do you really own it though? Is it fully local? Or is it based on some online slop-as-a-service provider who might kill your girlfriend at any given moment?
CES
You don’t need to read further to find out. Ed Zitron attended and called it the “Anti-Consumer Electronics Show”.
That formulation is by the journalist, I just copied the headline.
and my dumb ass thought it was a phone
It would be pretty sick if I could shove a Cortana into it tho…
I remember seeing a recent Kickstarter that has a sort of holographic AI friend in a “container” like that, and it reached funding far past its goal.
There’s also this thing by Razer
Fucking gamers…
I think it represents a phone.
Maybe I’m not awake enough yet but I’m still not seeing anything other than tiny human in a pod
It looks so ridiculously realistic that I can’t laugh.
You can pry my “double” slot GPU out of my cold dead hands (good luck trying to run away with it, it’s heavy as fuck and needs a supporting post)
Tbh, the whole card format feels very legacy, even for my Vega 56 “dual slot” card, and that thing “only” consumes ~230W.
If ppl back then could’ve foreseen what obscenely power hungry parts would be shoehorned into the expansion card format, they probably would’ve chosen a different approach for GPUs specifically.
I was joking about it being 2.5 slots, tbf most modern cards should be triple slots. Mine is 300W and it’s pretty chunky to stay below 60C, best option for big cards is a horizontal mobo imo
edit: unpopular opinion but I’d rather have a chunky card that stays cool as fuck than a slim one, that’s why I picked up the Nitro when I had a 6650XT
I’ve been expecting socketed GPUs ever since the AMD/ATI merger.
iGPUs should have been a better option, but they were hamstrung by PCI conventions and graphics APIs favoring discrete VRAM.
(Just look at how x86 SoC consoles run circles around similar-spec PCs.)
I’m hoping that ARM is a chance to reset.
I do like the modularity of discrete GPUs though.
But a cooling setup similar to CPUs would’ve been better for airflow.
Kinda hard to do when so many GPU vendors slap their memory and power circuits all over the place. Even if the die is in the same place cooler manufacturers would need to test fit a bajillion models, and on top of that they’d need insane R&D budgets to keep up with new additions, sometimes coming years after the original gpu comes out
Modularity is nice — both for personal preference reasons and incentivizing-market-competition reasons — but it does come at a cost.
The thing is: even in our modular world right now, you don’t really have many choices. Two CPU companies, three GPU companies (two of them being the same as the CPU companies)…
We could someday have a world where PC hardware is technically less modular than it is today but consumers have more choices in the marketplace than they do today.
There were many a meme of gas powered GPU’s back in the day. We knew.
something something ai bad -
eh whatever
i might have to make a controversial post again-
