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Samsung's Exynos 2600 Outperforms a Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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Samsung's Exynos 2600 Outperforms a Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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My s25 already lasts so little with my fairly mid use, I can't believe an s26 would be worse...

NVIDIA teases “new era of PC” ahead of N1 and N1X laptop chip announcement

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Translation: "The new era of PC is here, because we decided it for you".

Daniel Owen - Is 8GB of VRAM actually that bad in 2026?

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Thanks for the TLDW! I want to add that this is a sad state of things, where people with less money for more than an 8GB card will often intersect with not knowing how to tweak optimised settings for their gpu. This is why it's good that we have entities like Digital Foundry (namely Alex and his great PC-focused videos) with their own generic optimised setting recommendations.

Gonorrhoea and syphilis hit record levels in Europe, data shows

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In some parts of Europe... hell, some parts of my country, I can see this happening. I'm from Portugal.

Gonorrhoea and syphilis hit record levels in Europe, data shows

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True. But for some it's also psychological, and brand won't help.

[Hardware Canucks] The New Razer Blade 16 has a Hidden Problem. (Performance regressions & lousy thermals versus 2025 model)

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This is true, but also an unfortunate coincidence that slim gaming laptops are a doomed concept. Throwing an oversized (and overpriced) GPU die inside an even smaller than usual thermal envelope, to try and compensate, will still eventually soak the casing (and faster than a larger laptop). Yes, a metal casing helps but that heat is going often to your hands, which is not enjoyable at a point.

Overworked AI ‘turns towards Marxism’

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Only because we still live in a society where, for some reason, people struggle for fame, power and recognition. When people have other, better sources of personal joy and inequality is based on the merits of DOING GOOD FOR ALL HUMANITY AND NATURE, maybe we no longer need patents and royalties and attribution and we can universally accept that our merits are not only ours, but of everything around us that got us where we are. Maybe then we will also understand our true purpose in the world is not just fucking nietzing it around.

Forza Horizon 6 GPU Benchmark: 8GB vs. 16GB VRAM

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...by selling a kidney

Nvidia CEO Now Compares Aging GPUs To Fine Wine

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If you factor in electricity it hits a bit different.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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OH SHIT I may have messed up the models.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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Depends on price. Can you find a 3070Ti at the same price? And even if you could, we must take account inflation since the 3070Ti came a good 5y ago.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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To be fair to both of you and myself, these days, node tech info is kind of opaque due to market influence. The stock price is heavily affected by these perceptions. Intel started this trend IIRC with their ways to spin their 13, 12 and 10nm tech as comparable to what TSMC was doing at the time (8 and 6, right?), but then everyone started noticing how that impacted stock price and went along. A really shitty practice IMHO, and makes these arguments on nodes and their impact really confusing.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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Slightly, yes. But it's like 3-12% depending on jump. The best guideline we have was when Intel was doing Tic-toc on CPUs (one year arch change, another node change) - we could compare the same architecture/design on different nodes. Of course it may be slightly different for GPUs, but my take is it affects even less because these days, GPU architecture actually deprioritizes focus on raster perf (in favor of tensor/ml/media performance and mahbe memory bandwidth).

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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Yeah. I went and checked and b570 is 5nm while 50 series is 4nm.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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Intel is gaining a lot of terrain on software and drivers, last I heard. It also plays kinda well with Intel CPUs, but then again that may be seen as a disadvantage.

Arc Pro B70 Review: The best graphics card Intel has to offer

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It has less than half the count of transistors than the GB203 (5080), and about the same amount of transistors the 5060 Ti. The math ads up. It's all about having the latest tech. But supposedly the larger die size allows it better cooling than a 5060 Ti for the same amount of electricity going in (I think).

Poland is now among the world’s 20 largest economies. How it happened

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Those didn't help Hungary though. Go look at their roundabout to nowhere for 2M.

Microsoft quietly deletes Windows 11 doc pushing 32GB RAM for gaming after outrage

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And the memory monopoly cannot be stopped.

Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

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Well yeah. But they're Apple. They are probably snob enough to make mistakes like this and not feel overly dramatic about it. Which is good for them, not so much for us.

Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

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It would've cost them subservience to Meta. They had already acquired Oculus, which owned Beat Saber already.

Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

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Apple had the right strategy, in theory, to get into a market that was somewhat stable years before by Oculus and HTC, even Google and partners. Problem is they expected the same use cases with novel hardware that had everything to NOT have the same use cases, and they came in without a single (or even remotely close to) killer app. ...and developers had 0 incentive to produce one with the absurdities of getting the hardware for them, let alone get them to potential buyers of their app.

Did AMD Just Blacklist Reviewers?

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To be fair, seeing bad business practices does this to a mf... we start to lose hope and will usually be pessimist.

Gamers Are Wrong About 1440p vs 1080p CPU Benchmarking

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When you have a good content channel, you're bound to have elitists who think only good content will get you ahead in the attention economy. They couldn't be more wrong and joke's on those elitists.

Spanish PM's wife charged with corruption after two-year probe

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If this is the only allegation/charge, it will be VERY hard to prove actual corruption. It's like one of the most basic, commonplace forms of influence around, and despite being important to shut down, like... it's not that bad and may not even be corruption if she's as qualified as the competition. Seems like a witch hunt.

Hungarian Elections: [PM] Orbán congratulated [opposition PM candidate] Péter Magyar [on his election victory]

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That's what all that time with other European leaders will do to you.

NATO chief says some European allies were tested and failed in Iran war

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His mental gymnastics are likely about how defending the straight of Hormuz as essential for NATO sovereignty. ...and other lies he tells himself.

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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Replying late but I see your point. The holy grail has always been installing Linux on a mac device, but as you probably know, Apple has been making it harder with proprietary, closed, unavailable drivers and now even a super locked in bootloader and boot chain overall. There has been progress with (the previously known as) Asahi Linux and some models are now pretty much fully compatible. But of course it's still a finicky process. But getting Linux on any computer working with all hw 100% perfect is usually finicky.

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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You don't buy them. Don't fucking call me Captain Hindsight, Mr. Consumerism. Nobody needs a computer yesterday. Everybody should have something they can make do with until a good opportunity pops up.

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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New. They're usually on sale new for 799 with 16gb...

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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Yeah I mostly got your point but that has not been my experience. I have regularly neglected 2 or even 3 major version updates on my m1 (in use since 2020) and have never had an issue. People before me (context: I'm a late mac adopter circa 2018 with a touchbar model) given I mostly use them work-issued) and ih my field (IT) have also even neglected 4 versions and did fine. Granted, we nostly do web and cross-platform or Android development (read: not Apple-centric dev which would likely require specific Xcode). For those tasks, VScode, Jetbrains stuff (think Intellij, Android Studio) etc are not a problem. And most other tooling also keeps working and keeps releasing with compatibility for 2-4 versions before current one.

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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I remember that macOs will go for a good 4-6y longer on security updates after they freeze upgrades for particular units. Also, last I recall there hasn't still been an Apple Silicon device that stopped getting new iterations of macOs, which leads me to believe they will have much larger support for M-series chips there. Which also tracks due to ARM being so much more fucking efficient.

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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And for 100 more you remove the chains of the 8gb of ram and slow ssd. Just grab an m3 or m4 air with 16gb people. Much better devices, in all departments.

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN

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You know, I can say the Uighurs are suffering under China. But I can also say Cubans ate suffering under the US. Pretty much all of latin america is stuck under their thumb. This is how this country has thrived for centuries while others with as much if not more resources have crumbled. But of course, they will blame it on their skin color...

A superpower goes offline

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I think we don't really know which reason it is. I would also argue a war was kind of important to solidify his power.

CPU fraud, next round: Chuwi CoreBook Plus with supposed AMD Ryzen 5 7430U also affected

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They have been a reliable company for a few years now, selling half decent computers with genuine CPUs. It seems a bit rough to hate on them for what is likely a supplier scam.

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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This is very true. The VIDAA OS update a few months ago made changing input a nightmare which forces you to see the home screen - an 80% screen ad. Not only that, but you now require at least 2 more button presses for changing to any input, and particularly to change to one of the cast options (music, screen share etc) requires a good 10 clicks.

[Gamers Nexus] The DRAM Cartel | Price Fixing, Anti-Consumer Collusion, & Corporate Conspiracy

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I'm sorry but it's incredible to understand how RAM companies can lose money already in the AI craze.

How can a MacBook Neo cost the same as an iPhone 17e?

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The most expensive thing of all is the screen these days. Not that what you said is wrong, just wanted to mention the biggest concern. Phone screens these days have higher resolution (sometimes 4x) what an entry-level laptop screen has.

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says

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That sounds a lot like black shirt speak.

Brits would overwhelmingly back Rejoin in new referendum

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That sounds very prideful and all, but this is not how modern diplomacy works.

Argentina's Senate backs President Milei's contentious labor overhaul after protests

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Wait... who is talking about the US?

Argentina's Senate backs President Milei's contentious labor overhaul after protests

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Personally, and from the outside indeed (Portugal to be clear), I think Argentina's problem is backpedaling. Like many countries which have cyclic governments, they simply do not have long-term application of their policies and instead double down expenditure with no wait for long-term results. They effectively spend money to block money that was spent trying to achieve something. A great example are subsidies and social policy expenditure: education, health, housing, nutrition, social rehabilitation - these things take decades to have a positive effect and they only work if you keep the most important commodity (people and infrastructure) in the place that invested on them. But when one government that rules for a handful of years is then replaced by another which makes it all go to waste, and does so by lining the pockets of those that abuse the commodity (the private sector and external companies).

Argentina's Senate backs President Milei's contentious labor overhaul after protests

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I'm sorry if I am talking about 12h workdays in a topic about how 12h workdays are supposed to "help" the economy. I'm sorry for asking the billion pesos question of "how could people working more hours for the same salary, or work more hours over a week or month or year, have any effect on GDP/HDI/poverty, when many countries are thriving with 8h workdays or less, sometimes even working 4-day weeks?" I am so sorry. Did I say sorry?