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If Axel Springer didn’t own a significant share of the company, I would give them a shot

…Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu

The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these “cutbacks” will be the adequate reforms however.

The thing is, it’s not like we haven’t seen that a thousand times before. I actually liked S1. It was unusually gritty, with an unusually sympathetic and relatable MC who struggled a lot in a cruel world.

S2 on the other hand is the boring fantasy of some lonely dude. A totally overpowered MC faces a non-obstacle, waits till someone dies to create a false sense of danger, easily overcomes the obstacle while impressing some girl we hardly know and hardly will ever know, gets a new summon to make him look even arguably cooler, repeat x3.

If I’m not mistaken, most memory chips use 32-bit-wide interfaces, meaning you are stuck with multiples of that. They come in multiple capacities, I think around 1 or 2 GB ones (including 1920 MB / 2 GiB / whatever) are most common these days. The 2 GB ones are higher density, but more expensive, so you need to decide what you care about first. You also don’t want to let to bandwidth go too low, so your performance doesn’t tank.

You then decide much capacity you want on your card. That decision is primarily driven by cost and demand, but you also don’t want the gaps between SKUs to be too small. It just doesn’t make sense to have tons of SKUs very close together, neither for you, nor your competitors. So the industry came up with a difference of 2 chips ≈ 2 or 4 GB as the minimum difference.

We see 4, 8 12, 16 and so on GB cards, but rarely something like 5 or 10, because for 8+ GB, you would typically use the 2 GB chips, so you have 4 GB jumps there, and for the sub-8-GB ones you have 1 GB chips, hence 2 GB jumps. This leads to 64 bit jumps in bus width, so 128, 192, 256, 320… bit bus-widths.

128 is already very low in terms of bandwidth, I don’t know if you can actually find this on any modern cards, but that’s about the reasoning here.

And I guess we don’t start at 3 or 5 GB because it’s just weird, I don’t know :D

I can understand people not wanting to learn a ton of CLIs, I cannot understand people refusing to use any at all. They have the distinct advantage that you can copy + paste stuff, whereas in Windows you sometimes have to follow like a dozen steps to do whatever you want to do in a 2000s GUI.

Can’t wait for another supporting character to never have any relevance

1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 9 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

Not true, on the manufacturing front TSMC is murdering them.

Also, they have their low-power laptop stuff, proving that Intel can develop at least one competitive chip :P

What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

If you are talking about online services, Proton is a Swiss option and for what it’s worth, Bitwarden offers an EU instance. Both are freemium OSS. You could also self-host Bitwarden. If you are looking for offline options, there are plenty. KeePass2 comes to mind.

I hate it when people want to hate on something, yet get the platform or alternatively the proposition wrong. Because you will release stuff as a Flatpak and possibly on Flathub.

You could also buy insanely expensive IBM enterprise hardware. I think they still do PowerPC stuff

Go to settings, search for Application Style, there, in the top right you can click Gtk Theme and select one. You can also click Get new.. and download a new one. Note that they might now show all by default.

You can find more via the website. To do so, select any, click Visit project website and search the site for more. To find them in the Get new... window, just put the name in the search bar. They are guaranteed to show then.

Edit: Any of the items I named might be slightly off. Need to get to my computer to correct that 😄

For the uninitiated, UserBenchmark (UB) is infamous in the tech landscape for its radical perspectives versus AMD

I don’t think this captures the extent or absurdity of the BS they are pulling.

They will always conclude AMD is worse if not straight up bad. They did this to a point where people started questioning whether they are paid by Intel. They intentionally manipulate results to portray AMD in the worst way possible. If there is no (semi-)subtle way to do so, they just make random stuff up.

Do not even visit this site. Their testing is bad, their conclusions are wrong, seemingly all they want to do is mislead you. The way to avoid this is to avoid them.

Wdym “this is it”? There are already several companies developing and selling RISC-V chips. I wish them all the best, but I wouldn’t expect them to be successful just because they do RISC-V designs

Let’s hope they put pressure on price for the 9800X3D :D

Because compared to the 4070, its direct predecessor, it is?

You know, I don’t know what article you’ve read, but even the verdict at the very top already picks up your points. The article goes on to question whether the 5070 can compete with the 9070 or 9070 XT, even at its MSRP, which it also doubts it will sell for.