Recent content by Peter_Bollwerk

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    News Nvidia's RTX 50-series drivers feel half-baked, focus too much on MFG

    Almost everything about this generation/launch feels half baked. the performance/spec gap between the 5090 and 5080 is larger than past generations low launch supply too much focus on fake frames and not on raw power I can't help but feel this is what happens when Nvidia has no competition...
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    News Nvidia finally admits looming RTX 50-series GPU shortage — RTX 5090, RTX 5080 stockouts may happen

    Not sure why there would be much demand, since the benchmarks aren't showing that big of a performance increase over the 40 series.
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    News Asus confirms ROG Ally X with upgraded hardware — faster RAM and a larger battery

    After Gamer's Nexus' warranty experience with their Asus Rog Ally, I'll never buy anything from Asus again.
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    News Google's AI Bots Tout 'Benefits' of Genocide, Slavery, Fascism, Other Evils

    I don't understand why this is news. All these things do is predict what word comes after another word. They don't "know" or "understand" anything. They are simply stochastic parrots. We simply need to educate the public on what they do and stop labeling these things as "AI".
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    News Tesla Starts Hiring for 'First of Its Kind' Datacenters

    Good luck with that. I've owned a Tesla for 2 years now and I'm honestly not sure if I would buy one again. There are a fair amount of other good options now. Once all the other car companies can use Tesla's charging infrastructure (which is easily the best), it's a pretty even playing field...
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    Review Sony DualSense Edge Review: A $200 PS5 Controller

    $200 and they still don't use hall effect sticks or triggers...... sigh I get that Gulikit will be making hall effect replacement sticks, but I shouldn't have to "upgrade" a $200 controller.
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    News Nvidia 'Unlaunches' Poorly Named RTX 4080 12GB

    Good. Literally everyone knew it was a bad idea to call a "4070" a 4080 12 GB, given the obvious gap in performance. I'm honestly amazed that this ever got approved in the first place.
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    News All Steam Deck Customers Will Receive Their Devices by Year's End

    I think you meant "begins", not "beings" =)
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    News FCC Chair Aims to Boost Minimum Broadband Speeds to 100/20 Mbps

    I'm still frustrated that we haven't started treating broadband like a utility. It's as necessary as electricity and arguably more needed than land lines. I don't necessarily think we need 100/20 as the minimum, but we need guaranteed broadband service to 99+% of homes in the US. It should be...
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    News Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Powers Lyra+ Gaming Handheld

    Any handheld with a pi4 or cm4 now seems outdated, given the alternatives that exist now at similar prices.
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    News Intel's Blockscale Cryptominer Ships Ahead of Schedule, Late to the Party

    Depends entirely on how much it costs though.
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    News Ethereum Miners Likely Lost Money During the Past Two Years

    Very glad I tested the waters with an old card I had (1080 ti) and got out 6 months ago. I still made a little money, but it wasn't really worth it.
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    News Thermaltake's $1300 Gaming Chair: Not Just for Gamers

    If you're going to spend that much money, you're FAR better off buying something like a Herman Miller chair.
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    Croteam Shows 'The Talos Principle' In Virtual Reality, Hands On

    Picked this game up on Steam a while ago. Glad to see it's getting the VR treatment. As far as puzzle games go, this is one of the best. Really interesting storyline that you can either ignore or explore as much as you want to.