Dudewitbow
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- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 week ago:
The problem that (local) ai has at the current moment is that its not just a single type of compute, and because of that, breaks usefulness in the pool of what you can do with it.
on the Surface level, “AI” is a mixture of what is essentially FP16, FP8, and INT8 accelerators, and different implementations have been using different ones. NPUs are basically INT8 only, while GPU intensive ones are FP based, making them not inherently cross compatible.
It forces devs to either think of the NPUs themselves with small things (e.g background blur with camera) as there isn’t any consumer level chip with a massive INT8 co processor except for the PS5 Pro (300 TOPS INT8, which compared to laptop cpus, have a 50 TOPs, so on a completely different league, PS5 Pro uses it to upscale)
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 week ago:
So, yes, it would be unrealistic to suggest AMD could rip out the NPU and easily put that space to good use in this current chip.
a few amd chips did have the NPU removed in them, except they were mostly allocated to handheld gaming devices. the Ryzen Z1E for example.
when redreshed, there were a handful of hawkpoint cpus that were NPU less (Ryzen 7 8745HS)
Strix point does not have that dumped die cycle yet
- Comment on Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak 5 weeks ago:
being a gacha style game doesnt inherently have to be multiplayer.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a prime example of a game that has major gacha mechanics but is strictly single player. You collect core crystals and thr crystals rng into a blade, with a percent chance of unlocking a named rare blade that has a unique model/sub quests.
the difference in models of games like wuthering waves/genshin impact vs Xenoblade is that one is free to play, and tries to release more playable characters in order to entice players to pay (not required to, can be earned in game if you choose to) and the other is a 60$ game + DLC costs.
- Comment on SteamOS outperforms Windows on almost all Legion Go S benchmarks, but Lenovo seems to want to pretend that the SteamOS version doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
id imagine part of the deal on getting first dibs on xbox full screen mode is that they werent allowed to officially support Steam OS. Lenovo is on the opposite end of the relationship where they had a legion go s run with steam os, but was not invited to use xbox full screen.
- Comment on SteamOS outperforms Windows on almost all Legion Go S benchmarks, but Lenovo seems to want to pretend that the SteamOS version doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
welcome to the tech world, where trying to cozy with competition can lead to blacklists.
take for example, there are oems who used to make Nvidia gpus, tried to do a side AMD hustle and got blacklisted by Nvidia (e.g XFX), and Nvidia has not so many good relationships with some of its old partners (EVGA, Apple)
- Comment on SteamOS outperforms Windows on almost all Legion Go S benchmarks, but Lenovo seems to want to pretend that the SteamOS version doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
Lenovo likely doesnt want to blatently get on Microsofts bad side. Basically skirting business to business relationships.
for example if down the line the xbox full screen mode is decent, you probably dont want to be glazing your opposition.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 1 month ago:
I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.
- Comment on Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles 1 month ago:
Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.
most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)
the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.
- Comment on Discussion: Do you think the next steamdeck will be x86 or ARM? 2 months ago:
arms not ready yet for gaming. id expect at least 1 more generation of x86 hardware. especially if AMDs 1W optimized efficiency cores end up becoming an option.
- Comment on Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard 3 months ago:
a handful of sandy/ivy bridge motherboards already had community made bios updates that enable said feature. I personally had it on a asus z77 matx pro board as well as a gigabyte h77 board (albeit ivy bridge, same platform)
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 3 months ago:
you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vons work in china
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 3 months ago:
could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?
- Comment on Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate 3 months ago:
they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.
they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.
theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 months ago:
according to my friend who uses it, some went to 8chan (4chan but can create new communities in the same vein of reddit), and the more extremely ones would go to soyjack or kiwifarms
- Comment on This is the world's first sodium-ion mobile battery, a game changer in environmental sustainability, but it's not cheap 5 months ago:
weight starts to matter more when it comes to tech that you want to carry with you, especially if said tech is in everything, so it compounds. the battery tech is much better suited like you said, for still installations, like home power walls for solar storage, as its weather resistant, last longer, and most importantly, doesnt spontaneously burst into flames.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
hence why i went to clarify it on the second comment
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
hence its PUNISHING those who bought tvs that have it BUILT IN
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), or has a tv that has roku built into it.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
Basically punishment for people who either don’t get their own streaming box/avoid tvs with roku built in.
- Comment on PC game development surges in Steam Deck handheld era — But don't count Xbox and PlayStation out 6 months ago:
the steam deck sits in a pretty decent position long term because the switch 2 has roughly similar performance levels as it. so developers would have double the reason to get a game working at said performance level.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 8 months ago:
personally i dont even know if my mom even knows how to remotely wire money digitally, or even understand what a gift card is. if shes ever given me money, it was always in person. it makes me a terrible candidate, at least if youre trying to scam my parents.
- Comment on Well that was fast, refurbished OLED Decks are now available on Steam 8 months ago:
which is the same logic as a screen if it gets THAT bad. that’s not any real reason to complain about Oleds when the battery in it will die out sooner.
- Comment on Well that was fast, refurbished OLED Decks are now available on Steam 8 months ago:
OLED screen replacements already exist on iFixit who is the repair partner for valve.
- Comment on Well that was fast, refurbished OLED Decks are now available on Steam 8 months ago:
you can argue the “consumable nature” of li-ion batteries is likely to hit earlier than the consumable nature of oled realistically speaking.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 8 months ago:
its the mannerism that matters on the phone.
the other part is for a scammer to create a model using broken english/asian language, which on its own, is a huge hurdle.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 8 months ago:
my family knows i hate using the phone in the first place so me calling without good reason is a red flag
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 9 months ago:
its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.
- Comment on AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th 9 months ago:
theyre hard to find because AMD sunset production of them. (despite the fact the 5700x3d and 5800x3d is functionality the same chip)
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 10 months ago:
yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.
- Comment on Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices 10 months ago:
Im not singling them out, im saying arm in GENERAL isn’t great at gaming, and it’s silly to assume just because something is ARM that it’s instantly more efficient at everything it does. IDK how you’re reading my statements