Recent content by toffty

Framework's won me over. If any company wants to compete, they'll need to first focus on the ability of the end-user to upgrade the laptop and have it fully reparable

You could say the same thing about Google, yet they have great AI chips specifically designed for their use cases. When at the scale of Azure, it makes sense for MS to develop their own, specialized, chips as opposed to more general x64 / nvidia chips/cards

Thanks for pointing this out. When "news" isn't actually news :rolleyes: On the topic, I do wish AMD put a ceiling on price markup for 'OC' versions. No reason to spend even $50 more for a "special" card.

Never seen this in the US (California and Colorado). If anything, just some scotch tape holding the receipt to the box. Usually just have the receipt on top of the box as it is handed to me.

This XKCD is great but in this case I think it's acutally decreasing the different standards. Instead of having one port for power, one for data, one for display, each port will do everything. If this is more for the MS badge of approval, that standard already exists so nothing new, it's just...

This is a good idea until you need to quickly stuff the cable into a small bag. (snap)

Haha I'm in the same situation and same mobo. I'm keeping the firmware I have now since it's been great. If a fix comes out, I'll give it a few months and then update.

What's missing here is the transistor size of the hardware. From some quick googling, it looks like they're in the teens. So they are far behind leading edge but certainly fine for things like automotive outside of self-driving hardware and toys/low priced gadgets

This is the nefarious cloud-based solution bambu is rolling out and locking the printers behind

Bambu is also not working closely with developers and are flatly refusing to help them by giving them access https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/8063#issuecomment-2599741800 Looks like the VCs are wanting their money and subscriptions are soon to come. So glad I did not buy one of...

The video does it better but in short, this update prevents users from using 3rd part applications on or to use their printers and requires a connection to the bambu servers for every print. We (should) all know how bad that is.

Another manufacturer stealing the freedom of users View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyaDD8onIE

EA continuing to be incompetent... Just recompile their app as 64 bit EA exec: "Nah, we need a whole new app"

Why in the world would I buy something that is USB 3.0? Not even 3.2 Gen 2! Heck, at this point, if it's not USB4 I'm not paying money for it. I would even question if it were free!

Not quite in this case. The difference here is, if a bad actor steals a laptop, they could not copy the data off a drive due to the encryption. If this hack is real, a stolen laptop makes the data gettable.