You didn’t have the courage to write “came to.” 🌉 🥵

Hopefully they’ll add one later.

Maybe there’s room for compromise, but there is absolutely zero reason to concede such things in advance. The baseline expectation is that every device should be running Free Software and fully respect its owner’s property rights, full stop.

If you instead approach the issue with the casual attitude that “oh, proprietary isn’t so bad if it doesn’t connect to the internet” the compromise after negotiations ends up favoring proprietary tyrants way more than you would’ve been okay with.

No device should have the third, ever.

Not sure if typo’d homophone

Historical accuracy in a kids’ movie

I’ve been wanting household batteries just to act as a “whole-house UPS,” let alone to complement solar panels or help balance the grid.

Public transport is excellent in towns and cities,

A.K.A. where everybody but a negligible minority lives. Good for you for being a member of the rural exception, but it is way past time for us to stop paying inordinate attention and catering to you.

Depends if he drives a car or not.

Needs something manly, like an assault rifle.

I like the implication that the comically-oversized anime sword doesn’t count.

I still haven’t figured put what the deal is with that place, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

Luckily(?) charging times are long enough that you’d probably walk away from the charger and wait somewhere else.

“Marketing” is just a euphemism for “propaganda.”

…point taken. 😳

I remember I visited Italy on a Latin class trip back in high school, and got a real culture shock when I saw carabinieri(?) patrolling the airport armed with some kind of assault rifles or SMGs. I don’t remember seeing any “normal” police once I was out walking around in the cities so I have no idea if they would’ve been armed or not, but that was definitely heavier weaponry than I’d seen any American cop carrying, in the airport or otherwise.

I don’t think non-Americans appreciate how few guns one encounters in America if one isn’t a gun nut or gun-nut-adjacent. It is not that everybody owns a gun. It’s that the relative few people who own dozens or hundreds of guns skew the average.

I’m less mad about that than I am about coal-fired power plants, since the carbon is also a reactant in the steelmaking process rather than just being used for heat.

So, there’s a pretty big leap going from Strix Point (mid tier) to Strix Halo (high-end)

Holy shit, no kidding! I guess maybe that’s the reason Valve didn’t go that way: they wanted to put their product right in the middle of that graphics gap. Also, even that first one apparently has 12 CPU cores, so the whole balance between CPU and GPU performance is just off.

Still though, if we’re talking custom, it would’ve been cool if Valve could’ve had them build something equivalent to a “Ryzen AI 7” or “Ryzen AI 5”, but still with Radeon 8050S or 8060S graphics.

larger chip, lower yields

Oh right, I forgot about that part.

Not sure what kind of area one could expect for the CPU alone (without the integrated GPU) for this kind of process

I guess you could look up specs for a desktop Ryzen CPU that doesn’t have integrated graphics. Not sure which is the right one to pick, but I checked a few Zen 4 AM5 chips and they were all 71 mm² @ TSMC 5 nm.

BTW, what actually is “Strix Halo” anyway? I’m confused about whether it’s what they’re calling all the latest-generation APUs, or just the high-end ones, or Asus co-branding, or what.

Are there not any lesser APUs (with smaller die size and higher yields) that aren’t “Strix Halo” but still have a similar architecture and decent gaming performance?

Unified still requires a significant amount of chip area per die

Even compared to having two entirely separate memory controllers, one for the CPU and one for the GPU?