AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’re almost certainly part of the vas, unseen sea of failed indies.

Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted talented devs into “sweet spot” dev team sizes; not too big or too small.

And now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev. And that phenomenon has gotten worse and worse.

I got no advice on coffeetime, sorry. But I’d keep a lookout for Skylake Xeons, or maybe whole motherboards with embedded CPUs.

Also, on your heating troubles, you can definitely undervolt Ampere. The cards are designed to clock up to high temperatures and stay there, but your 3060 will work better undervolted and capped at a reasonable clockspeed. I’d recommend the MSI Afterburner’s curve optimizer on Windows, and a pyNVML script on Linux.

May I recommend a duct too? I have my 3090 “sealed” against the edge of the case with weather sealing strip foam, and it pulls in ambient air from a different spot where everything is exhausted. This is especially nice because it cuts down on noise, and your GPU fans become “case fans.”

It’s too late, though. She’d dead to hardcore MAGA, no Rumble influencer would dare amplify her, and algorithms would never show this to people more on the fence.

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.

That’s amazing. It’s almost hard to believe, yet it sounds about right.

And the PS3 Cell. Also PowerPC IIRC.

Wasnt’ the 360 PPC too?

That makes sense.

Heh. Spotify used to stream 384K Vorbis, which should be sufficient. But now the web app is apparently AAC. And the app-apps are conspicuously listed with “equivalent to” bitrates, whatever that means:

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s

Behold:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electrical-conductivity-of-banana-at-different-ripening-stages-with-the-help-of_fig5_317486785

5.4 Electrical Conductivity Measurement This method includes electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and dielectric analysis (DEA). The physical state of a material is measured as a function of frequency in EIS and the frequency ranges from 100 Hz - 10 MHz. It is simple and easier technique used to estimate the physiological status of various biological tissues49-52. Experimental frequency response of impedance is characterised by electrical equivalent circuits of materials. The physical properties of materials can be quantified by monitoring the changes in parameters at the equivalent circuit, among various equivalent models proposed53-54. DEA measurement is used in high frequency areas, generally 100 MHz - 10 GHz. DEA is used in moisture estimation and bulk density determination

So a overripe banana is an interesting high-pass filter, kinda like a capacitor, though the big takeaway is the conductance vs ripeness.

So if you want to test if a banana is ready to eat, hook it up… preferably with several other bananas in series. If the music is too loud, they are ready. Too quiet, and it’s not time yet.

I did a blind test, and found it depends on the genre.

Slow, chill music is completely transparent when compressed, no matter how hard I “audio peep.” It’s not even a question.

But something “dense” like System of a Down has audible distortion. It loosely (not always) coincided with the bitrate of the flac files, which kind of makes sense, though even the extreme end is hard to notice unless you know the particular song very well.

Also… a lot of recordings kind of suck. It’s crazy to worry about tiny bits of distortion when a bit perfect master is already noisy and distorted.

It’s been like this for decades, according to my dad. Well before the internet.

My conspiracy theory is they have so much dirt on the finance world that it gives them leverage.

What if there were to be a “data breach” of what they’ve been subscribe too…

OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.

With Instragram as the “creator front page.” Patreon too, on the digital art side.

It’s so weird how OF gets to pretend it isn’t a porn site, and somehow get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site.

You can still buy the Framework Strix Halo board (with 128GB RAM) for $2k. For now.

I have a 3090, yet I’m still seriously considering it. The CPU itself is an engineering marvel, not to speak of the ridiculously fast RAM and IGP.

Only caveat is you better be a Python/Linux person. As you will be building forks and beating your head against the screen to get the setup working right.

Friend, this is 2026.

Clickbait is mandatory. Get your reason out of here.

It’s not! Use SonoBus; it’s dead simple, and superior to Discord. It’s far lower latency, with customizable filters, peer-to-peer; and totally free.

Now if you want emojis and video and rambling channels and stuff, you will have to go elsewhere.

I’m sure many did, sadly.

Your processor is fully configurable. Set it to whatever TDP you want; the lower you go, the more efficient it gets.

This is why AMD’s X3D chips are perceived as efficient. They aren’t actually that much more power efficient, but they’re configured to stay out of absolutely crazy voltage/clock zones most processors boost to. Cap a regular AM5 chip to the same power level, and it’s pure task efficiency wouldn’t be too far off.

Shame they didn’t go Intel. Arc is good, and they could have gotten around TSMC supply constraints.

Yep.

Internet is “good enough” for P2P these days. I get not everyone is in a great living situation, but less than 500K down/up is an outlier at this point.

SonoBus for voice chat.

It’s peer to peer, just works on everything, sounds better than Discord, and most importantly, is 100X less annoying because latency is so low.

I think it was designed for remote music collaboration, hence it feels like you’re talking to your friend in the room. No compression if you don’t want it, no awkward interruption of pauses from the audio delay.

Oh, and it’s free, and has no chat or emojis or anything.