tech-industry-news

[chilly moat]

That paste will become a problem

Hope they change that soon

[chilly moat]

Size of human hand

Imagine if amd was shipping mobile rdna 4 gpus

man

Oh I said 4L

It is actually less than that

[naive robin]

that's seriously tiny

[warm cloud]

That’s gonna be one hot pc

[chilly moat]

3.85 liters in volume

[chilly moat]

When you get this small, airflow starts to become as important as the heatsink

In some cases like the axp90 it would be better to get a thicker fan rather than heatsink, because the fan is so small that a thicker heatsink would actually impede airflow

That rear plastic section is the static pressure fan

It might not be so bad really, since mobile dies are thinner than desktop dies

[native narwhal]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-290k-270k-and-250k-plus-spec-leak-arrow-lake-refresh-with-higher-clocks-more-cores-and-faster-memory-support

Yaaay

[sharp wing]

https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?si=mZS9_7J9xRohzXFf

Oh fun

[marble meteor]

Yeah Flock is disgusting

[signal kelp]

https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/austin.aspx

Microcenter Austin 2026!

[mellow cobalt]

microcenter Canada when

canada BC

[ionic notch]

Oh damn this is actually good!

[ionic notch]

Highlights for the Core 290K:

• +100mhz to P and E cores

• Same power draw as 285K

• Official support for 7200mhz memory

@marble meteor @jade pagoda @chilly moat @tepid wasp

[chilly moat]

Eh

100 is nothing

So basically

Soc boost arrow lake but resold

[ionic notch]

Yeah.

[chilly moat]

Damn

[ionic notch]

The 100 boost is not much though the fact that it's at same power is good. What I like is that the SOC is much better.

[chilly moat]

Zen 6 gonna go crazy then

Hope intel releases their next gen around zen 6 time

[ionic notch]

Depends on the memory controller I'd say.

Oh wait does Intel have the concept of 1:1 sync for RAM like AM5?

Because 7200 1:1 is great.

[chilly moat]

I am pretty bullish because they are changing up infinity fabric too along with their imc

Total overhaul for everything

Not just a node shrink, they are also supposedly adding a second imc and improving infinity fabric, completely changing their interconnect, and adding more cores while skipping almost two node families on the ccd

Iod is supposed to be using n3p

[ionic notch]

Hmm true. I think the Fabric will remain decoupled but the memory controller will be better because information won't be going back and forth as much.

[chilly moat]

Pretty sure the memory training times will be very short

With mcr it might almost be like ddr4 again

[mellow cobalt]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/apple-and-broadcom-job-listings-suggest-potential-intel-foundry-collaborations-requirements-highlight-expertise-in-intels-emib-and-2-5d-memory-packaging-tech

[pallid spruce]

ah just in time for me buying non refresh lol. at least it appears to be the exact same silicon, so i'm not missing on any improvements to the fabric that they screwed up

[native narwhal]

I'm probably gonna upgrade to 285K 9070XT/7900XT/7900XTX at some point

[pallid spruce]

are you interested in water cooling at all?

[native narwhal]

any of the 7-9 gpus lol

[native narwhal]

like gpu waterblocking?

[pallid spruce]

yes

[native narwhal]

potentially

I know it voids your warranty

[pallid spruce]

suppose i had a modded 7900xt with a waterblock that i was potentially willing to part with at some point in the future i have the stock cooler too ofc

[native narwhal]

how much would you be selling for?

[pallid spruce]

tbh i would only recommend RDNA3 over RDNA4 if prices are considerably lower or you're doing XOC stuff. RDN4 is just uniformly superior otherwise (hence the liquid cooling question)

[pallid spruce]

no clue what the market will look like in a few months time, but i always undercut market value

[native narwhal]

ye mostly medium-heavy gaming and I need it to not fail at loading anything with blender

[pallid spruce]

doesn't nvidia wildly overperform in blender or is that outdated info?

[native narwhal]

yeah it does

[pallid spruce]

but yeah i mean 7900 xt is more than capable of the gaming stuff. the one that i have is running close-ish to 4090 raster performance which is wild

[native narwhal]

ofc i say it needs to work but my 9060xt is working fine? wtf?

[pallid spruce]

hm?

[native narwhal]

so a while back i was tryna get it to work with blender, even after trying vulkan it just exceeded max texture size

[pallid spruce]

oh, weird

[native narwhal]

but now it works perfectly fine...

...oh

I tried it with the 9060XT and he same error i was talking abt came up

[sharp wing]

Apparently one of the researchers that helped with this video ended up getting fired from his job after this was published

That sucks

[chilly moat]

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1991179913303363902

Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman)

Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

X · Nov 19, 2025, 4:21 PM

low iq

[mellow cobalt]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-300-panther-lake-officially-launches-at-ces-2026-on-january-5th

Yay

Panther lake

[vivid kelp]

Blender can be used for many, many, different tasks. Nvidia only is a major influence to one of those tasks, cycles rendering

[chilly moat]

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20251120-12790.html

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20251126-12802.html

[mellow cobalt]

https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en/exhibitor/73F53659553F839AC8BCFEC09834DC71/info.html?lt=data&vt=show-area&cr=35&cate=Gaming
New radeon card before or during compeutex being announced

maybe launched

[native narwhal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/great-new-leak-reveals-nvidia-might-stop-bundling-vram-with-its-gpus-because-who-cares-about-cheap-graphics-cards/

Gosh dang I hate ai

[wet socket]

AI is taking our hardware and taking over our games.

[rare vault]

And taking our RAM

[young osprey]

GPU prices drop then the RAM prices rise.

[ivory pike]

Good news! Gpu prices are going down!
Bad news! Ram is going up to compensate!

[tepid wasp]

Extra bad news! The ram prices will impact vram!

[ivory pike]

Even more bad news! Buy your gpu and it’s vram separate now!

[sharp wing]

great news! you can now choose how much vram you want in any model of the new gpus

[ivory pike]

Terrible news! It’s going to be expensive!

[young osprey]

1-1=0

[native narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-computer-notebook-explaning-gif-21152267

[naive robin]

https://wccftech.com/two-of-the-biggest-dram-suppliers-are-skeptical-about-increasing-production/

[pallid spruce]

yeah, OpenAI just bought unsliced dram wafers. dram pricing is going to utterly collapse once OpenAI crashes back down to earth and all their kit ends up being bought back for pennies on the dollar or recycled into used markets

long term they'd be insane to increase production because demand was decreasing prior to this, and OpenAI has no way to actually use the vast majority of what they're buying. it's just going into warehouses and will eventually hit the market

[chilly moat]

And the crazy part is that openai isn’t even good either

They cost 10 times as much for the same query with grok

Deepseek costs even less

For the past few weeks I have been starting to think that openai is just a money laundering front for all these companies

[signal kelp]

https://youtu.be/3hptKYix4X8?si=SNlmcB7uHB2Yg0Rv

Didn’t really touch as much as I wanted on AI specifics or Nvidia specific goals but still a interesting listen.

[native narwhal]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-is-killing-crucial-ssds-and-memory-in-ai-pivot-company-refocuses-on-hbm-and-enterprise-customers yet another reason to hate ai. If you didn't have enough already.

[young osprey]

I used Chatgpt to learn. It is a good tool.

[native narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[young osprey]

Also it is a good tool for programmers.

[native narwhal]

Chatgpt(or any chatbot for that matter) can't be considered a real resource because of how much it hallucinates

[marble meteor]

Models with internet access tend to be pretty accurate and hallucinate way less

[native narwhal]

If it was windows wouldn't be constantly showing new security vulnerabilities and constant system-breaking bugs

[marble meteor]

Not to the point of being a citable source of course

[native narwhal]

Yep

[marble meteor]

But "using it to learn" doesn't mean he's citing it lol

[native narwhal]

'Way less' is a hell of a lot more than 'none' and until then I don't want anything to do with it

[marble meteor]

You do you

Imma keep saving time with perplexity instead of sifting through slop internet results

[native narwhal]

Much rather do that than waste all that cooling water

[marble meteor]

Genai llm prompts use a similar amount of power as a search

[native narwhal]

Nah don't they use like half a gallon of water per prompt

[marble meteor]

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-footprint-august-2025

[native narwhal]

And then like 3 gallons for images

[marble meteor]

Show me a source lmfao

[native narwhal]

That's not as bad as I thought

[marble meteor]

Images and video def take more

[marble meteor]

Yeah maybe don't talk out of your ass about ai energy usage. There's a ton of misinformation out there regarding it

[native narwhal]

Nah I'm campaigning for the destruction of Ai

Whatever means necessary

[marble meteor]

What I will say is datacenters using portable generators is nasty

I think X ai/ Elon musk was the main culprit for that one

[native narwhal]

Yeah

[marble meteor]

I mean fair enough but misinformation is not where it's at

[native narwhal]

Maybe

[shadow heart]

Wow this is bad
https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai

[chilly moat]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/nvidia-reinstates-32-bit-physx-support-for-rtx-50-series-as-part-of-its-latest-game-ready-driver-rollout-9-titles-included-in-initial-release

[shadow heart]

Nvidia doing something good?

[young osprey]

🤔

[young osprey]

Nope

[shadow heart]

Bro who are you 💀

[sharp wing]

an imposter

[young osprey]

[rare vault]

Bro just spawned in

[native narwhal]

Nice joke

[native narwhal]

https://videocardz.com/newz/first-intel-arc-pro-b60-battlematrix-review-demos-8-gpus-with-192-gb-of-vram-in-one-system here's something good in the tech space

[shadow heart]

Intel: probably the best option for AI, just given the amount of VRAM in their GPUs for the price you pay

PyTorch developers: lmao let's just avoid developing for anything but Nvidia

Just give me a reason to by Intel ffs

[marble meteor]

yeah I don't get why people give their babies YouTube when there's so much good kids content out there

[ivory pike]

Bluey exists

[native narwhal]

Only good kids show this decade

[native narwhal]

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/05/with-three-weeks-left-dji-issues-last-plea-for-us-to-start-its-mandated-audit/ the fcc sucks and the government is awful

I mean i hate China as much as the next guy but like COME ON

This is dumb

[desert hazel]

i wanted to get a dji product months ago, but i did not b/c of this ban

[native narwhal]

It's just the us government with their usual xenophobic dumbassery

[chilly moat]

No

It is them wanting to farm our data instead of china

[native narwhal]

https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-ai-model-creates-a-physical-intuition-of-its-environment/ wrong, ai can't "intuit" anything

[tepid wasp]

What you mean we can't trust American companies who have stolen your SSN, your credit card information, your address, your name and DoB and the name of your 4th Neopet and are in the process of selling it to anybody and everybody including some shady guy name Vlad on the dark web?

Absolutely crazy

[marble meteor]

Title is a little misleading but if you read through, the section is called "Intuition Mimic"

[native narwhal]

Who, dji?

I couldn't care less

They're the only ones that make really good drones

[sharp wing]

And there also aren’t really any viable alternatives to dji in the gimbal space either

[native narwhal]

Precisely

The us government is populated entirely by idiots who don't understand tech in the slightest

[tepid wasp]

I wouldn't say entirely. Just the ones who do are the ones getting fired without cause and illegally

[native narwhal]

We gotta make a law that if ur over the age of 60 you are ineligible for any state/national/federal elections

[native narwhal]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/grab-a-32gb-ddr5-memory-kit-at-the-cheapest-available-price-before-it-disappears-crucial-ddr5-6000-pro-overclocking-ram-available-for-usd273-99

F micron fr tho

[naive robin]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-reportedly-working-on-300w-graphics-card-shipping-manifests-show

cool

[chilly moat]

300w 4070

At least it’ll be relatively cheap

[warm cloud]

We don’t even know if it’s gonna come out

[chilly moat]

Well yeah assuming that it does come out

[naive robin]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-signs-14-billion-deal-with-India-s-Tata-Electronics.1180876.0.html

[shadow heart]

Is that a 14nm++++++++++++++++++ reference?

[chilly moat]

It’s all india

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-35-billion-india-investment

I’m never getting a job

[shadow heart]

Heavenforbid I want to move out of my parents' house

I'm about to work a high-paying service job at this point. This is ridiculous

Service advisor role here I come I guess

[tepid wasp]

Well I think we all know why they did it in India. Those jobs were never coming anywhere in the US based on wage laws and enforcement of them alone

Then again, it is part of a digitization of small businesses, so I dunno if we'd even want that anyways. Doing that here would be just another name for erasing brick and mortar small businesses

[chilly moat]

Ready for slower than sata speeds when the cache folds
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/western-digital-plc-nand-might-get-viable-in-four-to-five-years

[native narwhal]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/logitech-ceo-says-ai-solution-in-search-of-problem/ finally a ceo with a whit of sense

Remove gadgets and it's still spot on

[wet socket]

Wasn't the logitech CEO the one talking about peripheral subscription service?

I think the specific example was a mouse.

[chilly moat]

The forever mouse

Incredible engineering
https://videocardz.com/newz/segotep-titanload-gpu-cable-tested-up-to-1080w-is-set-for-launch-soon

[native narwhal]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-gaming-reply-name-drops-arc-b770-in-message-to-a-fan

[naive robin]

oh hell nah

anyhow

https://wccftech.com/elon-musk-will-actually-have-his-own-office-at-samsung-us-chip-facility/

samsung is getting a big contract at this rate

[native narwhal]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hdd-prices-spike-as-ai-infrastructure-and-chinas-pc-push-collide-hard-drives-record-biggest-price-increase-in-eight-quarters-suppliers-warn-pressure-will-continue

NO NOT YOU TOO

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-steve-carell-no-please-no-god-no-gif-5938426

[tepid wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-agent-smith-hugo-weaving-the-matrix-interesting-gif-9808495185908476156

Soon you will only be able to buy PSUs and coolers

I was saying there were price spikes for HDDs back in September and October

[native narwhal]

gonna start a petition to ban ai altogether

[tepid wasp]

It is just official now

[native narwhal]

literally nothing good has come of it so far

it automates things we didn't need automated and ruins whatevedr it touches

[chilly moat]

No nas for me ig

[weak ferry]

Don't forget cases and fans.

[warm cloud]

LLMs sure, actual AI no

[native narwhal]

They're are like 2 uses i can think of where Ai is actually useful

[warm cloud]

Early detection of basically anything, optimizing systems

yknow, important things

[native narwhal]

Protein folding

Chess ig

Image recognition

Ok fine

Generative Ai needs to be destroyed

But I'll cut the other types some slack

[warm cloud]

cancer detection?

[native narwhal]

Maybe

But based on how well it detects weapons im not holding my breath

[tepid wasp]

Ah yes. Chess. How is that useful?

We've had chess bots for years, I don't see how they need to be improved with AI

[native narwhal]

It's not, that's the point I'm trying to make

For all but a few extremely niche cases, ai is utterly useless

Gen ai is the worst of all

[tepid wasp]

We need AI for the police state don't y'know?

How could humanity survive if our governments couldn't track every single thing we do at all times without a warrant and without any justifiable reason for it?

[warm cloud]

not maybe, yes. it detects cancer far before humans can

[native narwhal]

It does?

[chilly moat]

Yeah the wef wants an ai that goes around on social media and censors disinformation

but disinformation to them, what they think is disinformation

[native narwhal]

Tf is the wef

[chilly moat]

the billionaire censor bot

[chilly moat]

the ruling class

[native narwhal]

Lovely

We need freedom of speech, censorship of any kind is bad

[warm cloud]

yes

[native narwhal]

Even if it's strictly against racism or sexism, it opens the door to true censorship

[native narwhal]

Interesting

[chilly moat]

ai needs to be banished to small niche uses already

[marble meteor]

Go contact your state reps
https://www.badinternetbills.com

[native narwhal]

I'll be taking my chances with real intelligence though

[warm cloud]

you do realize itll be both right:?

[native narwhal]

I should hope so

[warm cloud]

it is.

[tepid wasp]

I'm not talking about something as trivial as moderation bots on steroids, I'm talking about cameras that can tell exactly who you are, everything about you and track exactly what you are doing and then that information is stored in a privately or publically owned database where it can then be stolen by anybody who can hack into it or access it

The kind of stuff they do in China currently

Bringing the surveillance aparatus home so you can be constantly spied on by the state and private interests. The PATRIOT Act looks trivial in comparison

[marble meteor]

Flock 🙃

[chilly moat]

Yeah I know, i support the open source map on flock cameras

[chilly moat]

Crazy name

We are a flock of sheep

[native narwhal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/give-us-the-chip-give-us-the-ram-let-us-have-our-fun-let-us-go-nuts-sapphires-pc-gaming-evangelist-wants-amd-to-get-out-of-the-way-when-it-comes-to-designing-graphics-cards/

[chilly moat]

Mozilla trying to off themselves again https://videocardz.com/newz/firefox-will-evolve-into-a-modern-ai-browser-says-mozillas-new-ceo-with-ai-features-kept-optional

[chilly moat]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/apple-becomes-a-debt-collector-with-its-new-developer-agreement/

Big evil building

[native narwhal]

Octan corporation aah building

President business aah crap

[chilly moat]

We love brutalism

[native narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-business-diabolical-gif-1139517287677320698

[young osprey]

🤣

[native narwhal]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/action/metal-gear-solid-and-death-stranding-creator-hideo-kojima-thinks-we-cant-go-back-to-a-world-without-ai-smartphones-were-the-same/ we can, and with a little bit of public help, we will

Humans survived millennia without smartphones, or heck even electricity

Ai is the least useful invention this decade and we do not need it

[marble meteor]

It actually has done a lot in the healthcare field

You can't really just generalize all AI

LLMs and image generation are more questionable

[sharp wing]

amazing how when you transform this technology into a chatbot suddenly it becomes a revolutionary technology

[native narwhal]

At the core is all the same slop no matter what you're looking at, but I don't deny the usefulness ouch ai - WITH HUMAN SUPERVISION - in Healthcare

[marble meteor]

Though I personally still find LLMs (with internet access) to be pretty helpful

[native narwhal]

They're just automating the automation of searching

[marble meteor]

Yeah it saves me a good deal of time. Granted AI has also contributed to making searching less efficient (filling search results with SEO slop) so I guess this is an ouroboros kinda thing lol

[native narwhal]

Yup

Ai make slop, person posts slop on Twitter, other ai scrapes slop

Never ending cycle

[warm cloud]

AI can also hyperoptimize systems if it’s designed for those systems

You just can’t generalize it, there’s LLMs and GenAI which are useless, but actual AI has so many useful features

[native narwhal]

https://videocardz.com/newz/corsair-sends-35-dummy-ddr5-rgb-light-modules-instead-of-a-999-96gb-memory-kit-to-user

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-adds-dji-other-foreign-drones-national-security-list-2025-12-22/ BRUH

[desert hazel]

DJI is like the best commercial drone company in the world. But the drone usage in Ukraine is terrifying from Russia.

[desert hazel]

i want to buy more DJI products, but support for those products is probably ending slowly :/

[native narwhal]

I have my own opinions about Ukraine

One of em being we should give a crap

But the fact the fcc is banning companies because they're Chinese is insanity

[desert hazel]

https://www.reuters.com/business/how-ai-boom-is-pressuring-videogame-console-industry-race-memory-chips-2025-12-22/

Our consoles are in trouble

D::::::::::::

Xbox raises their prices 3 more times in 2026

[tepid wasp]

Well nobody was buying Xbox consoles anyways so that isn't a concern

[chilly moat]

Yeah itll just cancel out from people not buying them

[native narwhal]

https://unionrayo.com/en/california-earth-satellite-night-sunlight/ who was off their rocker enough to think of this

And being honest who actually wants this

[tepid wasp]

Nobody, because it is a niche solution to a problem that has other less stupid solutions. It isn't exactly much of a money making venture either, so I expect the business will shutter once nobody uses it after they waste a ton of money launching junk into orbit that'll eventually come down and kill someone

[weak ferry]

I doubt they get far enough to actually launch anything. That's expensive.

[tepid wasp]

They'll launch a handful and then go bankrupt, launches are actually good at rallying a stock price and good for raising capital for a short period in this type of company

Until the launch hype crashes and people realize there isn't any profit here

[marble meteor]

RIP to a legend
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/

[young osprey]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-is-reportedly-looking-to-cut-gaming-gpu-production-by-up-to-40-percent-in-2026-due-to-vram-supply-issues-but-its-not-as-bad-news-as-you-might-think-not-yet-at-least/

Is it government policy?

[native narwhal]

Not only that it's a solution to a problem we don't have

[marble meteor]

AI datacenters

[young osprey]

Nvidia GeForce Now subscription

They force players to subscribe the GeForce services.

[native narwhal]

Ykw

Let's all just stop paying for subscriptions

They're dumb as hell and you can get free alternatives to literally any service

Spotify? Use a media recorder to download music using the free version, then play them using like media player or sm

Adobe suite? GIMP, Krita, Blender, and DaVinci Resolve

YouTube premium? None(idc abt the ads)

GeForce Now? Use a normal computer or play old games(most of them are better anyhow)

Subscriptions must be subverted

Back to the days of the one time payment

[tardy parcel]

little tip if u use ad blocker you wont get ads from youtube or even netflix

[marble meteor]

yeah if you're promoting pirating music I think you can promote an adblocker lol

I didn't care about YouTube ads back in the day when there was one per video and they weren't for trashy products and gooner games

[naive robin]

That's just a small part of it, the bigger image is the demand from AI datacenters

The very same datacenters are expanding rapidly to desperately boost stocks value, using up so much gpus, vram and dram that supply runs low

[chilly moat]

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2003216476153733239?s=19

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

GeForce NOW’s 100-hour monthly cap starts January 1 for everyone

NVIDIA announced that paid members will be affected by the change starting from January 2026.

X · Dec 22, 2025, 9:30 PM

[naive robin]

Yep

Even GFN has a cap

So it's simply Nvidia prioritizing AI datacenters over anything

Which is a bad thing overall for gaming

[marble meteor]

That's like 3:20 a day every day. Doesn't seem like a huge deal to me?

[native narwhal]

Not pirating if you never sell or let anyone else use it

[naive robin]

For working class ppl GFN's 100-hour cap is not a problem

But it's a sign that Nvidia doesn't want to focus on non-AI markets

[marble meteor]

Ok if you're promoting pirating illegally downloading music I think you can promote an adblocker

[native narwhal]

It's illegal?

[marble meteor]

...yes?

[native narwhal]

Since when is recording stuff off of spotify illegal 😭

[marble meteor]

Uh like since the beginning of copywrite law 💀

[naive robin]

That is illegal, like recording movies

Subscription is not the same thing as purchasing music

[native narwhal]

Damn my parents in deep crap then

[naive robin]

You can do whatever you want if you have bought the song itself

Same for the movie if it was bought

[marble meteor]

Granted nobody's gonna come for you if you do it. But yes it's illegal

[naive robin]

^

[native narwhal]

Exactly

Thus I do what I wish

[naive robin]

I can't promote piracy here since newegg is a public server related to well, newegg

[native narwhal]

I wish, I wish, I wish I were a fish

[marble meteor]

Sorry but I actually can't believe bro thought you could legally rip Spotify songs 😭

[naive robin]

Let's not promote piracy here if possible, please

At least do it in the DMs

[native narwhal]

I thought it only counted as piracy if you downloaded it from someone else who ripped it

[naive robin]

We can talk about adblockers though, that's a different animal

[native narwhal]

Adbloxkers gud

Is there one that actually works on yt

[naive robin]

So many ads are either malicious or gooner games nowadays

Yeah, I use ublock lite

[marble meteor]

Granted it's arguable that adblockers are piracy too, since you're blocking the revenue stream for the "free" content you're ingesting

[naive robin]

It's debatable, though not illegal

[native narwhal]

Eh less so bc the videos are still free either way

[marble meteor]

Uhh

[native narwhal]

It just might take 30 seconds to a minute longer to watch

[marble meteor]

Well the ad revenue is what makes the video "free"

[naive robin]

If the ads are good then I'll gladly disable my adblocker tbh

[marble meteor]

Amyways I agree that ads have gotten so bad they're a hazard and literally everyone should have an adblocker

[naive robin]

Revenue stream is important, and I understand that

[native narwhal]

Are there actually any good ones

[naive robin]

It's just the dangers of ads have gotten so prevalent

[native narwhal]

Adblockers I mean

People seem to like pie

[marble meteor]

Lowkey I've gotten some decent ads on Instagram

YouTube ads are horrid

[naive robin]

Google ads are horrid in general to be real

[marble meteor]

Brave built in is great

[native narwhal]

The amount of times I have seen LITERAL NUDITY is too many

I'm deadass

[native narwhal]

Been thinking abt getting brave for a bit

Atp abt anything beats chrome and edge

[marble meteor]

Ublock is decent but is a bit more effected by Google's crackdown I think

[native narwhal]

Opera sounds good too but also gimmicky af

[naive robin]

Ublock lite is good

[marble meteor]

Opera is ick

[naive robin]

Ublock origin however is handicapped on chrome

But the lite version does the job and supports manifest V3 (or whatever google is on)

[marble meteor]

Get Brave, go to settings and just turn off the crypto stuff if you don't want it. Set search engine to Brave search or DDG. There's some other settings to tweak as well, and there's good descriptions for the options

People ick on the crypto but if it's what allows Brave to offer the services they do I'm chill with it personally.

Rather their funding sources be publicly visible ads/sponsors vs opaque stuff

By default I believe ads are served on the home/search page, on top of search results, and as windows notification popups. I've got the search results ones turned off but leave the others on

You can also adjust the frequency of the notification ads

Should rename myself to brave shill at this point

Brave, signal, mullvad

[tepid wasp]

The government has no policy currently with regards to gpu production except to pose as a mob boss and demand a cut when sold to China and if they can have the silicon made in the US you get free taxpayer money that may or may not turn into a buyout of shares to repeat mob boss vibes. AI datacenters are eating everything so Nvidia is chopping off their less profitable goods for more free money. Gov't policy towards datacenters is yes and give us all because free money good for economy numbers

This has been my DreadTalk

[chilly moat]

Lol so they were basically lying/coping earlier this year https://www.techpowerup.com/344347/gigabyte-removes-controversial-leaking-thermal-gel-from-newer-gpus

[native narwhal]

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/bastrop-county-data-center-21221103.php need to start a petition to stop this

[native narwhal]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/aphorisms-artificial-intelligence/685406/ remove "aphoristic" and insert "actual" and it's still true

[chilly moat]

ai in bros head rent free

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/18/news-socamm2-war-heats-up-samsung-reportedly-delivers-samples-to-nvidia-ramping-early-2026/

[native narwhal]

😭 😭 😭 ngl yeah

[chilly moat]

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/18/news-china-reportedly-builds-euv-prototype-using-older-asml-components-eyes-2028-chipmaking/

[native narwhal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intels-serpent-lake-is-rumoured-to-be-its-first-chip-developed-in-collaboration-with-nvidia/

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-is-suffering-from-success-in-a-monopolized-chip-market/

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/apple-reportedly-experiencing-2nm-production-shortages-for-a20-pro/

Suffering from success

[native narwhal]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds

[chilly moat]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pubs-first-zen-6-document-for-developers-a-brand-new-8-wide-cpu-core-with-strong-vector-capabilities

[native narwhal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/ unusual Dell W

https://tenor.com/view/me-and-bro-celebrating-best-friends-squid-game-2-my-guy-gif-8389215730122450876

[chilly moat]

Brother

You are too fixated on it

[marble meteor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXwXGYhi8_I

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g-sync-pulsar-gaming-monitors-available-january-7-2026/

I wonder if monitors with pulsar will be competitively priced vs just getting an oled

oh wait it's clearer than oled

[naive robin]

holy

nvidia innovation in gaming

imagine pulsar with oled

oh wait that's already pulsar on oled isn't it

[marble meteor]

no

oled can't use pulsar

because it doesn't use a backlight

oled can use black frame insertion but that cuts refresh rate in half, lowers brightness, and can introduce flickering

[naive robin]

ah

[mellow cobalt]

Cooked

[chilly moat]

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-asks-tech-firms-halt-orders-nvidias-h200-chips-information-reports-2026-01-07/

[chilly moat]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-chief-teases-return-of-older-zen-3-chips-to-fight-soaring-ram-prices-thats-something-were-actively-working-on-right-now

[native narwhal]

Intel mounting on am4 board💀

[tepid wasp]

AM4 for life?

The eternal socket?

[naive robin]

eh?

that looks like an amd cpu on an am4 socket

oh you mean the standoffs

oof

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/intel-next-level-advanced-packaging-capabilities-12x-reticle-16-compute-tiles-18a-14a-nodes-up-to-24-hbm-foveros-3d-emib/

https://wccftech.com/we-tested-intel-panther-lake-arc-b390-igpu-in-several-games-it-truly-is-a-game-changer/

idk if i already sent this
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-had-tested-out-intel-18a-process-but-stopped-moving-forward/

i have a bunch of old tabs

[chilly moat]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-shifts-rtx-50-supply-toward-rtx-5060-and-5060-ti-8gb-in-2026

Not so long ago I think nvidia actually told them to stop stocking or stock less 8 gig ti models

[chilly moat]

https://youtu.be/21e5GZF3yx0

[chilly moat]

Actually this video is kinda shit

Basically just wasted my time

It is a bubble, just one so big that it is like a black hole.. massive ponzi

Should have read the comments first

[tepid wasp]

Also sponsored by a scam

Gold and silver holding corp. you give them your funni speculative asset metals and they'll pay you a percentage of the value of what they 'hold'. Which means they sell your gold or silver and then when you request it back they disappear and you lose your funni assets

[marble meteor]

They also only advertise "up to" 4% returns lol

Decent savings account gets you like 3.5%

[chilly moat]

I have sponsorblock so I didn't even see this

[tepid wasp]

It is also in the comments

[native narwhal]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/music-marketplace-bandcamp-bypasses-ai-disclosures-and-obtuse-policies-to-announce-a-wholesale-ban-on-ai-slop/ aw hell yeah

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/apple-m5-only-5-percent-slower-than-m1-ultra-in-multi-core-performance/

[chilly moat]

https://videocardz.com/newz/south-korean-design-office-hit-by-thief-who-only-stole-ddr5-memory

[naive robin]

bruh

that's insane

[chilly moat]

do i blame him tho

no

this is worse than 2018

[native narwhal]

this is just the "someone left Bo7 in my car" meme

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/ex-qualcomm-amd-gpu-architect-eric-demers-joins-intel-accelerate-graphics-ai/

https://wccftech.com/the-current-state-of-nvidia-rtx-50-gpus-our-exclusive-report-on-geforce-production-aic-supply-memory-shortages-prices-eol-rumors/

i highly doubt that

https://wccftech.com/apple-reportedly-experiencing-2nm-production-shortages-for-a20-pro/

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-2nm-process-recording-1-5-times-more-tape-outs-than-3nm/
https://wccftech.com/apple-and-nvidia-to-turn-into-rivals-over-tsmc-advanced-packaging-with-the-m5-ultra-or-m6-ultra-chip/

N2 is gonna be big

I guess the price will be too

https://wccftech.com/amd-epyc-venice-zen-6c-cpu-die-size-analyzed-32-core-zen-6c-ccds-twice-as-big-as-zen-5c-ccds-dual-io-dies/

[chilly moat]

the marketing slides are actually right this time
https://wccftech.com/intel-says-emib-is-better-than-2-5d-chips-cost-savings-simple-to-design-more-flexible/

[desert hazel]

is this true?

[native narwhal]

if it is its kinda sad, i was a small-time fan of their phones

[naive robin]

it can be true

asus hasn't been making much money in the smartphone market lately

[chilly moat]

Probably because of their bullshit premium branding

Makes iphone look like a deal

[pale tree]

thought this was a cool idea from them. use the nice camera thats on the back as the front facing camera as well instead of a tiny camera in the front

[signal kelp]

I never even knew Asus had phones

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/the-claude-code-has-managed-to-port-nvidia-cuda-backend-to-rocm-in-just-30-minutes/

[naive robin]

damn

but is it a good code? idk tho

[chilly moat]

Yeah it isn't enough on its own

But this is like

nvidia self ownage

Bro what is this jacket

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-says-you-shouldnt-talk-bad-about-ai/

It looks so weird on him

[sharp wing]

wdym

that's his new leather jacket

[naive robin]

alligator leather

also it's funny how the companies are crying about the negative sentiment towards ai

guilt tripping doesn't work like that jensen

[weak ferry]

Who's supposed to be the sympathetic figures we feel bad for bullying? The machines, the trillion dollar corporations or the governments?

[naive robin]

none

[chilly moat]

I’ve seen it before but it looks strange

[chilly moat]

Wtfff

Blud got the gator drip

I guess he got it to feed into the jokes

[native narwhal]

GenSlop Huang it is

[chilly moat]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-use-rdna5-for-premium-igpu-solutions-but-rdna3-5-to-remain-the-core-of-amd-portfolio-until-2029

This isn’t completely unexpected but still silly

[chilly moat]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749805242928857189/1465619648027562066/Screenshot_20260127_150644.jpg?ex=6979c429&is=697872a9&hm=3c1790963e1b15248279748956308cf2698b876fc1182a0b1b6d5ec96b78303a&

https://fxtwitter.com/jukan05/status/2016024794312147358

Jukan (@jukan05)

Even 'Whale' Apple Surrenders... Samsung and SK Hynix Hike LPDDR Prices for iPhone
︀︀
︀︀It has been reported that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have recently increased the price of Low Power Double Data Rate (LPDDR) DRAM supplied to Apple by nearly double compared to the previous quarter. Apple, a major smartphone manufacturer, has traditionally utilized its dominant market position to procure LPDDR at relatively low prices.
︀︀
︀︀However, as the memory supply shortage has intensified since mid-last year, Apple appears to have been unable to resist the overall trend of rising prices. Conversely, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are now positioned to maximize the profitability of their DRAM businesses starting in the first quarter of this year.
︀︀
︀︀According to industry sources on the 27th, Samsung and SK Hynix have agreed to significantly raise LPDDR prices for the iPhone through negotiations with Apple.
︀︀
︀︀LPDDR is a type of DRAM that fo…

FxTwitter · Jan 27, 2026, 5:45 AM

[native narwhal]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/newegg-stock-price-falls-17-7-percent-after-chinese-owner-is-detained-by-anti-corruption-authorities-company-insists-its-operating-normally-and-in-accordance-with-the-laws

[marble meteor]

Uhoh

[weak ferry]

Well that's already rebounded.

[chilly moat]

[chilly moat]

https://videocardz.com/newz/costco-reportedly-pulls-ram-and-gpus-from-in-store-prebuilt-demo-pcs-to-curb-theft

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-releases-xess-3-with-multi-frame-generation-now-rolling-out-to-arc-gpus
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-more-arc-gpus-will-get-xess-3-multi-frame-generation-next-month-including-arc-b580

[native narwhal]

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/angry-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-stop-calling-all-my-investments-and-acquisitions-/articleshow/127601112.cms lol

[tepid wasp]

Man part of circular financing scheme decries claims of circular financing after doing circular financing. More at 11

[chilly moat]

Is u gonna launch or nah https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intels-upcoming-arc-b770-discrete-gpu-leaks-out-on-github-launch-appears-imminent-reportedly-featuring-the-bmg-g31-gpu-16gb-vram-32-xe2-cores-and-300w-tdp

[chilly moat]

So peak… 🙏

https://videocardz.com/newz/streamer-shares-video-of-msi-geforce-rtx-4090-gaming-trio-smoking-near-power-connector

https://videocardz.com/newz/ffmpeg-devs-tell-amd-to-clean-up-ai-slop-submissions

https://videocardz.com/newz/zen-6-ccd-leak-claims-size-similar-to-zen-5-but-with-12-cores-and-48mb-l3

[naive robin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-3FirlySs

what is it with investors going crazy over a "new" ai thing

this stuff will never replace real games

it works just like that weird minecraft ai game thing

guessing the next scene and interaction

[marble meteor]

Seems to have massively improved "memory"

[chilly moat]

stocks will be back up shortly

[pale tree]

time to buy buy buy

[naive robin]

yep

stocks already recovered

[chilly moat]

[naive robin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLFBun1qR0

TSMC is playing the long game and migitating risks

A recent report also reported that Apple won silicon allocation over Nvidia

Oh, disregard the Apple win lol

Fact-checked one more time and nah, Nvidia took the crown

This can be Intel or Samsung's time to shine

[sharp wing]

Im pretty sure some of these manufacturers stated publicly at some point that they weren’t planning to expand production because they believe demand will fall by the time any new facility is up and running

[naive robin]

Yeah, some of them did do so

[chilly moat]

https://www.techspot.com/news/111205-valve-delays-steam-machine-steam-frame-memory-prices.html

[chilly moat]

Yeah apple was actually looking at alternatives recently, even considering intel fabs

That would be funny

Ok intel we want you again, but for a different reason this time

[chilly moat]

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-printer-drivers

[naive robin]

damn

as if printers weren't problematic enough

[chilly moat]

Free linux advertisement

One of the least problematic things on there

[shadow heart]

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/09/discord-will-soon-require-face-scans-or-id-for-all-users-or-restrict-access/

[marble meteor]

Wtf

[native narwhal]

wtf

[marble meteor]

Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age.

Guess I'll go start posting nsfw (in a different server) I'm in so discord AI can tell I'm of age

[marble meteor]

Curious if they'll use this to actually enforce their 13+ policy (they won't)

[chilly moat]

I say a lot of crazy shit in my server so maybe the inference model already guesses something higher than early teens

But at least it is not mandatory

Not sure what updated commication settings is, but I am not in goon servers anyway so the goon servers I do not care about

"content filtering"

[chilly moat]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/811385368112267267/1470503740590133325/image.png?ex=698b88d4&is=698a3754&hm=591abde088ace338ad37f8bbf13c96c3ff422479be1b51f7edddfbc382eec5cf&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1089&height=788

[west saffron]

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1950662036087783541

wonder if it’s gonna be as easy to get through like this

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

People in the UK appear to be using Garry's Mod to get past newly imposed age restrictions

Earlier this week, users also had success using Norman Reedus's face from Death Stranding
https://t.co/vU7C8osMMI

X · Jul 30, 2025, 8:57 PM

[serene marsh]

It’s gonna be a mixed bag of people trying to bypass it but since they’d be using ai if the ai deems you to be unfit for the age group you would need to reverify every so often

[ionic notch]

Very interesting. If the short is right, Intel is basically working on making Diagonally stacked memory for applications that require enormous amounts of memory (cough, cough, AI)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WFs2lQ1ZZvE

[chilly moat]

Never change https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-400k-nova-lake-s-leak-claims-over-700w-peak-power-for-52-core-variant

Do you know why this is somewhat believable? It’s massive core count

Tjmax is apparently 100c

[young osprey]

cooked

[chrome laurel]

Wait until it kills itself 😭

[marble meteor]

https://youtu.be/iBiSKfjTNDY
DLSS getting added as a denoiser for Blender

[marble meteor]

Feel obligated to post this since I sent a (legitimate) verifier link yesterday. Hope everyone here is smart enough to know the difference between running clearly outlined code in their discord console vs pasting worlds' sketchiest command into the run dialog but yeah stay safe

Hello <@&778720465593696316> ,

I cannot believe I have to run an announcement for this (oh wait, I do. This is Discord), but since the news about Discord bringing the awesome wholesome 100 wumpus age verification, guess what people started doing? Verification scams. Oh joy.

If you receive any message like this that tries to lead you out to an external site to "verify your age", do not follow. Discord only does age verification within the app. (Actually, you shouldn't also verify with your face or ID on a platform that leaked 70000 government issued ID cards months ago, but I cannot avert everyone from that decision.)
If you (in general) see a site that tells you to press Win+R, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V (or any similar set of shortcuts), do not do that no matter how convincing the site is. You're just installing a stealer.

A couple examples in the pictures.

Stay safe out there.

[naive robin]

god damn

[marble meteor]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

[tepid wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/dillom-rage-dog-angry-dog-gif-17954176246139200797

[chilly moat]

Makes sense once you know what the ceo of discord is...

[marble meteor]

Pattern recognition

[chilly moat]

everystein. singleberg. timewitz.

[tepid wasp]

The CEO of Discord is an Arab Israeli, specifically a Christian one, so if that is an attempt at an antisemitic sneer it isn't very effective

[marble meteor]

I think the jab was at Israel not the jews

[marble meteor]

...Ok well this one might be the jews

[tepid wasp]

Peter Thiel is a German and American Christian though

[marble meteor]

And he's a cofounder of palantir which is heavily tied with Israel

[tepid wasp]

Palantir is heavily tied to a lot of countries and companies. Almost as if a lot of people want to be tracking everything you do and say

In fact, about 66% of their sales was within the US as of 2024

[marble meteor]

Yeah I mean screw them for that as well. But in Israel they are developing and using AI targeting systems with rather uncomfortably high error rates

[unique igloo]

What Discord alternatives do y'all have

[shadow heart]

Self-hosted Matrix and Element

[sharp wing]

I want to try out self hosted teamspeak for voice and video

[chilly moat]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749805242928857189/1472185616040198144/1000161634.jpg

2/3 of the cpu is e core spam

https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

[serene marsh]

Bro I’m still on alder lake, what’s all these new LP-E cores? Low power efficiency?

[chilly moat]

Yes

[serene marsh]

Yuck

Tbh they should’ve stopped at 12th gen that’s when it peaked tbh

[chilly moat]

Because e cores are technically more power efficient, but are really more like die space efficient instead

So lpe fills in that gap

Those poor little underclocked lp cores gonna get hammered by a windows update

Since that’s what the main purpose is iirc

Os tasks

Or other menial things

[tepid wasp]

LP-LP-LP-E cores wen?

[chilly moat]

Yeah lol in terms of going backwards they are e cores+

[chilly moat]

Zen cores are already really efficient though.. interesting

That explains the 22 core thing we saw a while ago

However

That might still be better than e cores because zen c still has the same instructions as zen

Zen c is just zen but more compact from the team designing the core as a whole thing together, rather than a team dedicated to each thing on a core, which takes up more space

I think they also use more high density cells instead of lower density cells

[chilly moat]

Which would explain the lower clock speeds

They also have less l3 cache for each core, saving on even more space

[chilly moat]

https://itsfoss.com/news/gnu-hurd-progress-report/

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

[chilly moat]

https://overclock3d.net/news/memory/vendors-will-go-bankrupt-phison-ceo-warns/

Is he spitting

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwans-mediatek-flags-supply-chain-crunch-ai-says-will-adjust-prices-2026-02-04/

[desert hazel]

daaaang

[chilly moat]

https://wccftech.com/cxmt-ymtc-removed-from-pentagon-list-opening-door-for-chinese-dram-adoption/

Then when things get calmed down they get sanctioned again

[naive robin]

lmao

[shadow heart]

"Oh no! The economy is actually doing so bad that we need to allow other manufacturers!"

[shadow heart]

About time we get a "normal" MacBook
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2026/02/15/apple-low-cost-macbook-a18-pro-specs-price/

"bUt APple ExPENsiVE" just try a MacBook and have your mind changed, please 💀

[sharp wing]

A new low power MacBook?

[shadow heart]

tbf though a single port (USB C) is kinda crazy

Hopefully it's at least Thunderbolt

[sharp wing]

Yeah but then again the type of people this would be marketed to are those that have a phone as their main computer

[shadow heart]

They've been needing to develop this tbh. It's like the equivalent to the iPads' lineup (the iPad Pro, Air, and base model iPad that usually costs like less than a third of the Air)

A lot of people use their MacBook just for YouTube anyways. This is honestly perfect for those people

Yeah it's very limited, and probably a little botched of a device (the parts they used), but it only makes sense for them to finally make something like this imo

[sharp wing]

I remember when they came out with a low power MacBook but it was pre apple silicon and imo it was just too slow

This’ll be interesting

[warm cloud]

I hate MacBooks

[shadow heart]

ya motha

[warm cloud]

They’re genuinely terrible esp for anything I need/want in a laptop

[shadow heart]

I don't like bean soup either

[warm cloud]

Also isn’t that a phone chip

In a laptop

Also

Also

[shadow heart]

1. Yeah bean soup sucks I agree. Crazy
2. Judging it on rumored specs is crazy

This mf gonna point out the single USB C next

[warm cloud]

It only has one peripheral port and that’s charging

[shadow heart]

LMAO KNEW IT

[warm cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/l-lawliet-death-note-anime-talking-gif-17559976

Bro is L

[warm cloud]

I mean that’s a very… interesting thing to have

[shadow heart]

I still think it'll outperform most Windows laptops at that price

Especially in the long run

[warm cloud]

Idk

[shadow heart]

Most of Apple's A-series chips can last at least 3 years before noticing significant slowdowns, also while not having to maintain the OS. Windows laptops for $600 can't really do the same imo (you have to clear the OS if you want to keep it healthy without reinstalling)

Also, don't mention "it's only 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage." This is a different OS that's optimized to use less resources lmao (speaking from experience btw)

[sharp wing]

At that price probably, its hard to find a somewhat capable actual laptop under 600usd

[warm cloud]

“Less resources” my grandpa ran out of both ram and storage on his m4 Mac from just browsing (256gb/16gb)

10gb idle

[shadow heart]

Your grandpa has too much stuff running in the background

I never hit that on my 8GB M3 💀

[warm cloud]

“Idle”

Nothing was open

[shadow heart]

"background"

[warm cloud]

There was little running in the background lmao

It was all preloading apps and system usage

[shadow heart]

idk man lol. This is with multiple YouTube tabs (among other tabs), Bambu Studio (with model loaded), apps running in the background, and iMessage. My MacOS installation is about the same age as the M4 MBAs

(M3, 16GB, 512GB)

Could probably also run LM Studio with this setup tbh

[warm cloud]

Still

It’s ok for a super budget laptop that does nothing but browse

But it’s using a phone chip and has a LOT of drawbacks

[shadow heart]

Literally running an LLM on the hardware lmao

[shadow heart]

Yeah I mean it's not for an advanced user. Most MacBook users just use it for YouTube and basic tasks anyways. Maybe writing and other productivity here and there

[warm cloud]

8gb of ram is really really bad tho even for just a search engine

[shadow heart]

"But what about video production, like every other Mac product?" MBA users mostly don't do that tbh lol

Doubt it tbh

At least on MacOS (in my experience)

[warm cloud]

I don’t

On macOS and on windows 8gb is basically just useless

[shadow heart]

I actually see the storage just being 256GB being less useful than just 8GB

Windows on 8GB: The whole OS is limited
MacOS on 8GB: (tbh idk because I barely notice a difference in performance, other than tabs just being unloaded)

[warm cloud]

With how macOS has the system cache

Def

I mean… if you KNOW how to get around those heavy limitations I think it’s fine

However, most people who need this budget of a laptop don’t

[shadow heart]

Yeah tbh I was constantly filling my M3 256GB. Was super annoying, especially when I was using it to reset multiple iPads (I used it for work and heavily sped up the iPad reset process with my MacBook, which there was no other Mac device in the building to reset iPads. I basically saved us a lot of time lol)

I still think it's perfect enough for the normal user. Just not for engineering students (everybody knows why though tbh. In that case, just go Windows obviously lol)

[warm cloud]

I’m gonna be an engineering student

My dad is basically gonna force me to get a MacBook

[shadow heart]

lmaooo wtf

[warm cloud]

[shadow heart]

MacBook for engineering?

[warm cloud]

I’m too lazy to type it out

[marble meteor]

Nah 8gb still alright on macos. Definitely not optimal but in a budget product it'll work ok

[warm cloud]

Also keep in mind

[marble meteor]

MacBook for engineering bruh 💀

[warm cloud]

It meets one of my requirements for a laptop

Out of like

7

[marble meteor]

Look to see if your school's IT has laptop specs for engineering students

[shadow heart]

This MacBook is basically for people who want to watch YouTube and maybe have a document open for work/school with Canvas in one of the other tabs

[warm cloud]

I’m still choosing schools

[tepid wasp]

If $600 is supposed to compete with Chromebooks then it is absolute trash. Chromebooks are extremely basic, low tier, 100-200 dollar laptops

[shadow heart]

Like 192GB of storage (yeah I know it's weird) and 8GB probably (loaner laptops that we just give out to anybody, primarily new students)

[warm cloud]

That’s a dream compared to my Chromebook

[shadow heart]

It's a lot more capable than a Chromebook 💀

[tepid wasp]

Doesn't matter

[warm cloud]

32gb storage 4gb ram and a celeron n100 or smth, and I’ve tortured this thing

[tepid wasp]

Chromebooks are cheap throwaway computers

$600 is not cheap throwaway computer territory

[marble meteor]

Here's my schools recs:

AMD Ryzen 7 Pro Processor, 16GB Ram, Integrated GPU, 512GB SSD, 1 Ethernet Port, 2 Thunderbolt 4 Ports, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Ports, 1 HDMI Port

Apple M3 chip with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports
NOTE: Most engineering software used at Mines is only available on Windows. If preferred, a Mac may still be used with a virtual machine running Windows.

[warm cloud]

Dang

[marble meteor]

(they just copied a laptop for the windows one which is why it's so specific)

[shadow heart]

This MacBook isn't meant to compete with a Windows laptop like that 💀

wrong market

Y'all aren't getting it lol

[marble meteor]

No this is unrelated sorry

[warm cloud]

Apple silicon can’t run boot camp right

[tepid wasp]

It isn't even competing with the correct market itself

Chromebooks aren't moderately priced laptops

[marble meteor]

I was meaning to show that some engineering schools will give high spec reccomendations and aim you away from macos, might be helpful for quok

[warm cloud]

My dad isn’t listening to that lmao

He doesn’t know ANYTHING about modern specs or engineering software

[marble meteor]

You already have a windows desktop why wouldn't you be able to use a windows lappy lol

[shadow heart]

Honestly, Chromebooks aren't even in the correct market if you asked me (actually, there more of in their own market). I feel like the market of this MacBook is going against the $600 Windows laptop competitors
I've yet to have a $600 Windows laptop last me two years tbh. I'm sure this MacBook will last longer than that

[warm cloud]

He thinks Apple has the best priced and most powerful computers out there

[warm cloud]

Exactly

I’ve used windows for 2 years

And now that he’s not letting me get a laptop now, I have to wait to sell my computers for a year so they’ll depreciate

[shadow heart]

I'm talking about the average user. I never said Apple is the best 💀

[warm cloud]

Not you

My dad

[marble meteor]

What are you doing to your poor laptops? My $500 windows lappy is boutta hit 4 years and still going strong

[warm cloud]

He’s probably one of the biggest Apple shills alive

[shadow heart]

lol I'm in defensive mode because I know people will argue with me

[warm cloud]

He has 3 MacBooks, 2 iPhones, Apple Watch and every single person in the family has at least 3 Apple devices

[desert hazel]

what's the debate about? I wana partake

Something about apple vs pc?

https://tenor.com/view/ace-attorney-phoenix-wright-objection-capcom-gif-20965907

[warm cloud]

There’s 2 separate ones

[shadow heart]

Idk but even a Dell Latitude ($1K I think?) still hasn't lasted as long as I would've liked for it to

[sharp wing]

this started with the announcement of a lower powered macbook releasing at 600usd

[warm cloud]

One is about my dad, one is about apples new incredibly weak laptop

[marble meteor]

Upcoming $600-700 apple laptop for students, 8gb ram, a18 pro chip (phone chip)

[shadow heart]

@desert hazel We're debating several things about the rumored "generic" MacBook

[desert hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-jackson-comendo-picoca-gif-9669437860846841235

[tepid wasp]

I got years out of $1k Windows laptops wdym

[sharp wing]

personally in a laptop I'd either want a mac or a laptop with decent hardware for linux. im done dealing with windows bs

[warm cloud]

Ok the worst thing is the SINGLE USB C PORT THATS ALSO THE CHARGING PORT

[desert hazel]

I think the A18 pro chip is really strong for basic tasks and above.

[shadow heart]

By reinstalling Windows and maintaining the OS's health? I mean more for the average laptop user (so, basically on the same installation, which not many people know how to do)

[tepid wasp]

No

[sharp wing]

yeah, this is basically proven with some of their ipad lines

[tepid wasp]

I never reinstalled windows

[shadow heart]

How

[tepid wasp]

Because it didn't need it

[shadow heart]

I think my Legion 5i might be the only laptop I have that'll never need a reinstall to keep it feeling snappy tbh

[tepid wasp]

This whole Windows must be reinstalled every X years thing feels like a myth to me

[desert hazel]

$600 mac sounds good to me honestly. Sad to have 8GB ram though, but I think it'll be ok for most people expecting BASIC tasks

[shadow heart]

Even on my desktop I feel like I have to keep reinstalling every two years (tbf though I usually experiment with software VERY frequently and I only started using Revo like late last year)

[warm cloud]

It doesn’t look good if the specs in the article are true

[marble meteor]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-vivobook-14-14-fhd-laptop-copilot-pc-snapdragon-x-with-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-quiet-blue/JJGHGPPJ77/sku/6638907?

or, oled for $600
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/hp-omnibook-5-copilot-pc-14-2k-oled-touch-screen-laptop-snapdragon-x-plus-2025-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-glacier-silver/JJGH2Y8G5F/sku/6633220

[desert hazel]

8GB RAM is probably the most worrying thing

[shadow heart]

Apple: (makes laptop that they've been needing to make for years)
The Internet: (continues as it was)

[marble meteor]

The reality is, it's aimed at people who don't care about specs

[tepid wasp]

I don't reinstall Windows on desktop unless my drive borks and needs to be replaced or I screw something up and wipe it accidentally

[shadow heart]

Not on macOS (trust me, an experienced user lol)

[warm cloud]

8gb ram, 256gb storage, the a18, one single usb c port

[warm cloud]

Even then, it’ll struggle doing most of anything unless they use some new OS that actually optimizes ram usage

[shadow heart]

256GB is going to be the most limiting factor with this MacBook

[marble meteor]

Dude. It's a browsing and note taking machine. 8gb is fine for that on macos

[desert hazel]

i think it should be fine. just feels bad to have 8gb ram.

[sharp wing]

it kind of is a myth. imo the application management in windows is pretty horrible. it often leaves residual files all over the place and directories in multiple places with cache and config files. macos at least keeps almost all relative files contained in a .app package and linux package managers are pretty good at cleaning up their mess when uninstalling applications. if you only ever use the same few apps it should be fine but if you do a lot of tinkering windows can feel bloated very quickly and its a nuisance to clean up

[warm cloud]

Just not true

My grandpas Mac m4 used almost 10gb with nothing open

[marble meteor]

"used" bro tell me you don't know how memory management works

[warm cloud]

?

Fully idle, nothing open, 10gb was being used

He would constantly run out of ram just browsing

With 16gb of ram

[sharp wing]

the amount of times im thinking "hmm is it in the appdata? appdata roaming? hmm no I think it may be in program files, or no actually program files x86"

[marble meteor]

Ram "usage" at idle doesn't mean much. Running out of 16gb while browsing sounds like a memory leak

[warm cloud]

It’s not a memory leak

It quite literally just used that much

[marble meteor]

This is highly anecdotal and should not be used to tell people how much ram their mac needs

[warm cloud]

My personal Mac also used an incredibly large amount of ram doing basically nothing

[sharp wing]

high memory usage in unix like systems is expected behavior. they often prioritize keeping things cached if not otherwise needed

[tepid wasp]

I mean, I'm in those folders often enough to manually delete any remnants not found by Revo

[warm cloud]

However that’s 64gb so I don’t think that means much

[marble meteor]

Even my 16gb windows laptop doesn't run out while browsing and running a couple other applications

[sharp wing]

you cannot compare the ram usage of a unix system to a windows system

[marble meteor]

Unused ram is wasted ram

[sharp wing]

my issue is moreso the lack of any real standards. I've used so many apps that seem to not follow any norms so im always wasting time trying to figure out where the specific app leaves it's files

[warm cloud]

But again, it ran out of ram while just browsing

[tepid wasp]

Yeah that's fair

They do scatter shot files

[warm cloud]

Also

https://www.amazon.com/NIMO-i5-12450H-i7-11800H-Keyboard-Fingerprint/dp/B0G4WT3RWB

😭

16gb ram 512gb storage 8 core laptop cpu

[sharp wing]

this is what doesn't sound normal. probably something I would investigate further. I often have 200+ tabs in my web browsers with no problems and all my systems are 16gb. then again I haven't used chromium based browsers in years

[warm cloud]

400$ rn and 450$ regularly

And it has 5 usb ports, micro sd port and an hdmi port

And a headphone jack

[sharp wing]

i mean heck even rn lol. ofc they aren't all loaded at once but software handles that

[warm cloud]

200$ less than the Apple one and it’s 10x more useful

[marble meteor]

Heavier, bulkier, probably 1/3 the battery life, worse display. Will the ports and processor be much more useful to some people? Yes.

[tepid wasp]

Google Chrome needs all your ram to constantly run AI training and spying frfrfrfr

[warm cloud]

It’s probably an extra pound

😭

You also sent some ones that are far better of a deal then the Apple one

[marble meteor]

For browsing/light work machines these are super tempting as long as someone has basic windows knowledge

[warm cloud]

My friend has that second one

It’s pretty nice

[marble meteor]

Wish they'd cram a numpad on there

Probably harder to fit vs a 15"

[warm cloud]

The number keys exist 😭

[marble meteor]

🐌

[shadow heart]

Nah because that's for boomers

[marble meteor]

Nooo I'm not a boomer 😭

[tepid wasp]

[warm cloud]

Nah numpad is slower

[marble meteor]

Can't tell if ragebait or

[warm cloud]

Both your hands are already on the keyboard

Lifting your hand off to go type some numbers makes no sense

Just stretch your fingers a tiny bit more up

[marble meteor]

It's for when you're doing a lot of numbers

[warm cloud]

Still

That’s for old people

[tepid wasp]

I don't keep both my hands on the keyboard at all times. I didn't take up the system they taught at school

And I'm glad I don't, that'd give me joint pain after a while

[desert hazel]

for apple, i'd probably get it for thin/light to do basic tasks required in the apple ecosystem. it's a decent entry to it.

it would prevent me from attempting to game a bit more on it and keep it for productivity

i'm recognizing how simplicity over functionality too after using my ROG Ally vs hearing about the SteamDeck

the ROG Ally can be annoying to use at times, but it can do a lot more

[sharp wing]

what I love about the steam deck is that it's very simple to use but capable of pretty much anything for the tinkerers out there

[native narwhal]

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/ there is no human that could have POSSIBLY predicted this

[shadow heart]

We should've been using laptops and tablets about a decade ago. Covid just sped up that process

[native narwhal]

I'm homeschooling my kids

They will not see a single screen until they're 5 at least

[spice cedar]

Yo what the hell https://www.techpowerup.com/346624/amd-seemingly-stops-driver-updates-for-ryzen-z1-extreme-processor

[tepid wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/jover-gif-16964140724042266462

Wait that isn't the one I wanted

https://tenor.com/view/joe-hawley-joe-hawley-its-joever-joever-gif-18282355701517291166

There we go

[desert hazel]

rip, i just bought something w/ a z1 extreme chip.

my rog ally

😭

[spice cedar]

Time to install steamos on it

[desert hazel]

i'm going to use it for browsing the web in a dock too so not for a while

it's really strong for browsing i think

[spice cedar]

Being fr tho

What is amd doing

[desert hazel]

rolling in dough

[spice cedar]

The ai dough

[tepid wasp]

Product consolidation to maximize margins

[spice cedar]

They’re happy to ride around in coattails i suppose

[desert hazel]

amd is winning in gaming cpu's and value for gpu's

[naive robin]

My god, kids are gonna be ruined forever

[chilly moat]

It's unfortunate because I think originally they did it with good intentions, thinking that the knowledge that could be spread by the internet would help them learn much more or something

But the rot continues

[naive robin]

Fair enough

[tepid wasp]

Hold up, the math ain't mathing. The basis for the claim of the article is that standardized test scores being lower means that Gen Z is less cognitively capable and that since tech use in school go up and test scores go down, tech = lower congitive capability. The problem is that Gen Z is the first generation to have widespread standardized testing and laptops and such in school hasn't been uniform in adoption.

Is that to say that unlimited tech usage is good? No. But the argument presented is faulty

Education has numerous factors impacting outcomes, pointing at tech and saying there is the problem is reductive and misses the bigger picture

[chilly moat]

Well gen z is the generation of doomscrolling and gen alpha is truly done for, with them getting exposed to the rot even earlier in life

[tepid wasp]

Ah, I just read a substack post the guy being quoted put out in response to the headlines being pushed out

The change, I would argue, lies largely in the tools we now use to mediate learning.

Screens tend to support cognitive outsourcing rather than deep thinking. The more students rely on easy, supportive digital tools, the less friction they encounter and the less mental effort they must exert. But friction is not a flaw of learning: it is learning.

When school becomes too smooth, too guided, too effortless, thinking itself begins to erode. Accordingly, we should not be surprised when an entire generation educated under these conditions begins to show cognitive declines unlike any we have previously documented.

So the crux of his statement is actually that learning being difficult not just through the content but also the medium in which it is learnt will make it easier for the students to think.

Which doesn't make sense to me but whatever

Obviously he hasn't tried learning coding from a uni completely online with a mediocre teacher

[weak ferry]

Gen z was the first generation with widespread standardized testing? My mom is 70 and she took the itbs in school. I was born in 88 and I also took the itbs in elementary school. Though Washington phased it out for their own version, wasl, when I was in junior high as part of no child left behind which mandated all schools use standardized testing.

[tepid wasp]

My man, every year in NY after the state agreed to comply with Common Core we had some sort of standardized test that was mandatory at the end of the year with most years having multiple tests over the course of two or three weeks. My mother and father didn't do anything like what we did until high school and even then, they didn't do anywhere near as many as we did

[weak ferry]

I had standardized tests every year all of 3-8th grade and then one in 10th because wasl only had one in high school. I think wasl alternated subjects for the elementary tests but I never took those. Itbs had all of them at once and I think it was multiple days, can't remember for sure.

[tepid wasp]

We had a couple in elementary that were introduced in 2005, I don't really remember the middle school ones but we did at least one-two every year in HS. And none of them even became mandatory for a degree until they got rid of the local diploma iirc

That was 2015 I think

Oh, wait no, they stopped trying to phase out the local diploma

Though apparently Regents and Regents diplomas are being phased out soon

Anyways, this should probably have stopped being in tech news a while ago

[chilly moat]

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/dells-new-prebuilt-featuring-an-rtx-5070-ti-comes-with-bolted-on-12v-2x6-connector-even-large-oems-fear-the-16-pin-power-connector-meltdowns

[chilly moat]

What the hell are you doing
https://www.techpowerup.com/346624/amd-seemingly-stops-driver-updates-for-ryzen-z1-extreme-processor

Idiots

[sharp wing]

Steam deck ftw

[naive robin]

as much as dell sucks in many things, this is the few instances i gotta applaud the dell engineers

[marble meteor]

They make surprisingly good gpus

Some good laptops too

[chilly moat]

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104591/another-melted-gpu-power-cable-spotted-but-this-time-on-a-geforce-rtx-5070/index.html

the odds of this one happening are really low but the timing does not help at all

oh that was a year ago

[naive robin]

5070 i would say is a low risk case

yeah, i thought so

[chilly moat]

idk if i sent the undervolted 5090 link here

well shit they better use n2x then https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110232/amds-next-gen-zen-6-powered-ryzen-desktop-cpus-delayed-to-2027/index.html

[chilly moat]

next rdna is on some n2 variant

there are leaks on zen 7 also being a large overhaul

they want to use a14

the cores themselves will be able to do ai workloads which might entirely eliminate the need for the npu

[naive robin]

intel a14?

[chilly moat]

nah tsmc

[naive robin]

aw

[chilly moat]

also about them

[naive robin]

tsmc is likely to crank up prices as usual then lol

[chilly moat]

amd will not use tsmc for silicon bridges it seems

there are cheaper guys that do this kind of packaging

[naive robin]

probably intel and samsung

those are the likely ones to be doing that

[chilly moat]

no its actually some companies that i forgot the name of

hold on

[naive robin]

hmmm

[chilly moat]

also people have been hinting that this could potentially happen multiple times over the past months

[naive robin]

i also did hear that intel is assigned to produce apple's m5 chip

[chilly moat]

also because they are jumping over i think two nodes again there should be another core count increase

[chilly moat]

like zen 5 there is another cache overhaul they are doing

zen 6 and 7 are gonna be like zen 2 and zen 3 again

big leaps and both are on the same platform as prior gens

[chilly moat]

umc

oh they have actually worked with amd before

[tepid wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-probpem-frustasi-brokenhearted-coffee-gif-15105227

[chilly moat]

eh its not completely unexpected

people have been saying this is possible for a while

plus they originally wanted to use n2x which had some slippage

not necessarily a delay but they were optimistic with their guess

it was on the later end of that estimated launch window

[chilly moat]

reason is that cowos packaging is more advanced

that stuff is gonna stay on servers

all they need is something to bridge the dies and nothing more

these are super thin and completely passive

not much higher tech than other solutions

honestly it might be even more simple than foveros because it is just a small die underneath the edges of the two dies

[tepid wasp]

I just want to look at tech stuff and not be agonized by current tech news

[naive robin]

The delays at this point are not really caused by AI, but rather the node not being ready

[tepid wasp]

Is that supposed to make me feel better?

[naive robin]

Maybe

[chilly moat]

yeah i dont know what caused the n2x slippage

[naive robin]

It's equally sad

[chilly moat]

thats company secrets

[tepid wasp]

Diverting time to AI focused silicon

[naive robin]

And it pains me to realize that microsoft will just absorb openai when it goes kaput

[chilly moat]

nah it looks like a14 might be the ai silicon because tsmc big dog said it will cut ai data center power consumption

i wonder what happened to a16

well they are just saying the same shit for a16 too so i guess it is just marketing

[naive robin]

At the end of the day, a process node is a process node

There's no sugarcoating it once we dismantle the marketing lenses

[chilly moat]

but he is right tho because compared to whatever a20 is

a16 has 20% less power draw

i guess a20 is another name for n2

[naive robin]

In all of this, I want Intel to really get some customers for its nodes

[chilly moat]

damn kepler said something similar in november 2024

[naive robin]

They've already shown their prowess with panther lake

[chilly moat]

nova lake is looking good and razor lake is also looking good too

[naive robin]

Yeah the Intel 18A node seems to be pretty good

[chilly moat]

so i think they will be fine

asrock recently started using more recent agesa versions
https://videocardz.com/pixel/asrock-posts-stable-am5-bios-4-10-addressing-amd-ryzen-am5-cpu-boot-issues

actually that is the most recent

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-b390-beats-amds-mainstream-igpus-and-nears-rtx-4050-level-performance-in-some-tests
https://videocardz.com/newz/intels-tom-petersen-says-intel-has-no-strix-halo-rival-planned-questions-amd-igpu-efficiencyhttps://videocardz.com/newz/intels-tom-petersen-says-intel-has-no-strix-halo-rival-planned-questions-amd-igpu-efficiency

i think he is right to question it because rdna 3.5 will be around for years

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-5-338h-benchmarks-show-arc-b370-igpu-close-to-rtx-4050-laptop-gpu-scores

[naive robin]

B390 also wins in low wattage scenarios over 8060S

They're also apparently releasing a panther lake for handhelds

Core Ultra G3 is the name iirc

But man it makes me jealous that my laptop is already becoming obsolete lmao

[chilly moat]

that is not surprising because rdna 3 was just not so good

in this regard at least

[naive robin]

In the CPU side of things, strix halo also takes a dive in single core and multi core

Panther lake managed to retain most of the performance while delivering staggering battery life

[chilly moat]

oh yea the battery thing you were talking about

i forgot some

[naive robin]

You are almost guaranteed with 10 hours+ of battery life on any panther lake configs

[chilly moat]

if i had to guess it has to to with being conservative with battery life but i do not remember

[naive robin]

Asus messed up somehow tho in a corporate focused laptop, only managed 8 hours

Maybe a bios patch will fix this

[naive robin]

They have implemented a smarter scheduler

As well as the new voltage regulator that was released with lunar lake

DLVR

[chilly moat]

nah i was meaning for amd performance dip

[naive robin]

Ah

The funny thing is, the battery life point is still irrelevant since Panther lake is still as good in that regard

[chilly moat]

oh so that explains why that is a recent thing because laptops in my experience have always been noticeably worse on abttery

[naive robin]

All while being able to do more stuff like mentioned

[chilly moat]

im always on older stuff though

[naive robin]

Lunar lake introduced great battery life, but it lacked in performance

Panther lake fixed that flaw

Idk how Intel pulled it off, but they're indeed back on the map

[naive robin]

Fair enough, them new stuff is way too expensive at release lmao

[chilly moat]

good ol shit battery performance

[naive robin]

I manage like 6-8 hours of battery runtime

On like 25% brightness out of my 250 nits panel

That is on zen 3 and a 99wh battery with about 86% battery life

[chilly moat]

for whatever reason my battery life degraded 10% rapidly and lasts like one hour

i have no clue what caused that

shit went from 55% to 45% and now linux tells me i should replace it

linux in fact is correct

[naive robin]

Yeah, that sounds like a busted batt to me

I have never had such issues on my laptop so far, since I've kept it healthy

Zen 3+ is alright I guess, but I do notice that perf takes a dive when on battery lmao

Not even in games, but just watching videos on a browser

[chilly moat]

my 1240p drops frames on youtube on battery

so peak....

[naive robin]

Mine doesn't drop frames per say

The only time I see it drop frames is when I'm on dgpu only mode, and I have a game running in the background while I watch youtube fullscreen