I think that’s possible for some industries, particularly office bound areas like software and finance. Manufacturing, mining, maintenance, logistics, etc. all require human hands and minds 24/7, regardless of what marketing wanks say.

Once the “AI” industry leaves the subsidized-use stage this all falls over. Once users have to pay the actual energy and overhead costs per token “AI” use is gonna plummet.

There had better be.

Alyx was the most immersive, detailed, and stressful game I have ever played. It wow’d me harder than HL2 did 2 decades ago.

Adding security, compatability, and vendor lock-in issues in exchange for convenience is not a good thing. Remember ActiveX and Silverlight? They forced users into uning IE. I am still finding industrial applications whos only config page is some ancient, IE only, nightmare.

All of these wed based uber-projects are built on Chrome. This is bad. This gives more control to google and strengthens their strangle hold over web technologies.

Any device in your house that has a network connection and requires an online account is spying on you, full stop. The question is how much.

Gross. I wonder how hard it would be to scrape all the tech suport subs to one motherfucker of a backup.

Could be regional. I’m near Toronto, every device and IP I have checked from gets caught going to old. but not www.

old.reddit now lands on a login page for all browers/platforms.

Most of my store page is games I have never heard of. TF is wrong with your store feed?

Making consumer hardware again will mean retooling and I’d be willing to bet that data centers will be able to swapl their software to cloud based desktops/gaming a lot faster than hardware manufactures.

Lenovo has been absolute trash for a while now. They took the ThinkPad brand and destroyed any reputation it may have had, I’m not surprised by this at all.

PC gaming peaked with Portal 2. Console gaming peaked with Wii Sports.

Fuck Reagan. He would be cheering on Trump if he was alive today.

Aluminum is hard on the ass and Carbon makes those cracking noises that cost 5K each time you hear one. Steel is the metal to beat for service life.

My latest build is a 9800x3d, and like fuckwit said, it’s pretty easy to keep cool, even at full load.

I definitely have more than the required cooling capacity on my PCs but I build with the goal of getting a minimum of 10 years of daily use. My 2010 build was used for gaming until 2017 at which point it was turned into a server and ran 24/7 until last year. My 2017 built was used daily until earlier this year and I expect to get at least another decade out of it as a workhorse.

I get that the parts are rated for a maximum of 95c and that cycling puts physical stress on parts, but both the magnitude and number of cycles are important there. A year of 25-65 is less physical stress than a year of 25-95. There is also the the fact that semiconductors just don’t work as well at higher temperatures, they have a negative temperature coefficient and will conduct in the reverse direction the hotter they get, putting them under electrical stress.

I just find it surprising that running right up to the throttling limit is an “ok” practice.

Oversized coolers. I built a PC in 2017 and put a 120x360 AIO cooler in it, at full load and the fans going full speed the CPU sits at 65-70c.

Holy hell, 95c? I never let my gear get above 70 for fear of reduced service life.

You think developers WANT to work with Windows?