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    What.....🤭 🤣
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    Just some observations...
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    Seeing that you're eyeing the 5060 Ti, it could survive on the dual-fan cooler. The performance isn't great enough that it requires a 3-fan cooler. And seeing that xx60-series cards normally get the low profile/SFF-treatment, you could go either route. It really just depends on the manufacturer. I'd look at how much airflow your case gets and make the judgement call. More airflow, more cooling you could direct at the GPU so you could step up the a 3-fan GPU design.
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    Key phrasing there is "...found TWO YEARS of Jedha working group printouts in your files", not that she was given access 2 years prior to Krennic questioning her. She was probably added to the distribution list (mind you, the WRONG distribution list) when she was assigned to the Ghorman mining-project 4 years prior. But like Krennic said, she's a hoarder. She probably has collected documents outside of her jurisdiction on all sorts of projects and intel. i.e. She knows something about everything, but not everything about some thing in particular.
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    But it's still Windows, even if stripped down. The Xbox app is running on top of this stripped down Windows and allows you to import games from other storefronts (Steam, Battle.net, Epic, etc as well as serve as a Xbox Cloud device). Microsoft is trying to make this a one-stop-shop-handheld. And that admirable but we'll have to see how well it does it in practice.
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    I use Powerline. It works. But it's not a replacement for structured ethernet. (Yes, there's also MOCA. Not available.)
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    I wouldn't call this connected tech. Infrastructure more like it. Home mesh systems are increasingly entering the realm of necessity for most homes (not apartments & condos). Home networks running 6Ghz wi-fi definitely need a mesh system to get the best coverage. Extra 2 repeaters or APs are kinda needed if you want proper 5 or 6Ghz coverage. Also unfortunate as well is that there are still many homes without structured data wiring.
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    Still gonna wait for Black Friday/holiday bundles. Maybe more brands will release a SDEX cards by the end of the year besides Lexar. Also 1st adopters can work out the kinks. 😘
  9. azrael
    All this talk of smart appliances reminds me of this meme:
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    Ummmm...I'm not blaming Nintendo for that. That's all on Gamestop. Why the hell are you STAPLING a receipt to the box? What happened to just taping it? Or neither.
  11. azrael
    Switch 2 unboxings and (sponsored) gameplay are showing up. There will be no reviews until after the launch tomorrow (June 5, 2025).
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    Unfortunately, "AI" has become a buzzword. Just like "blockchain", "the cloud", and so many more words before it. There's a commercial out there about a data analytics software where they threw out "We use AI to blah blah your data blah blah...". No, you're just using ChatGPT to perform data analysis instead of paying 75-90k for a flesh body running Tableau. Sure, we may see AGI, in some stupidly basic form, in our lifetime. But it will need every node in a 800,000+ sq ft data center, powered by a small nuclear reactor to accomplish that. 'Would makes for a good headline, but completely impractical.
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    More like taking advantage of people's lack of understanding. There isn't a terrible amount of "learning" or "intelligence" in self-driving cars. You drive? Driving is based of the assumption that you follow the rules of the road, speed limits, right of way, etc. Those are all rules and you are an agent acting in that system of rules assuming everyone else also follows those rules. When you change lanes, you follow a set of actions based on those rules. Is the lane you are changing into directly clear? If yes, you adjust the wheels so that you start moving into the next lane until you reach the desired lane. If the lane next to you is not clear, you either speed up or slow down until the space next to you is clear and then you move into the next lane. This is essentially a decision tree. All of the sensors (cameras, LiDAR, radar, etc) in self-driving cars are constantly measuring speed of itself and everyone around you, tracking distance to and from cars around you, tracking foreign objects on the road (like people in the crosswalk, etc. all feeding into the car's onboard computer. Guess what your eyes, ears and brain are doing? Same thing. Your eyes see depth and can track objects. You are constantly scanning the road in front of and ahead of you. You use mirrors to track objects around you. All of this information is relayed to your brain, i.e. the computer, and calculates the relative distance to objects around you. You look at the speedometer to get your speed. If the cars around you stay at the same distance from you according to your speed, that means they are going at the same speed. Using all this information, you make decisions on how you drive according to what's happening around you. Self-driving cars are doing the exact same thing. Some do it relatively well. Some do it very poorly.
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    Haven't finished the season but just some background info to this season's ending...
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    2.5" drives aren't really dead. At least not the form factor, in the data center. It's just that we've hit the 6-Gbit/s bandwidth limit on SATA and with M.2 far outpacing that bandwidth (cuz it uses PCIE), there's no headroom left in the SATA protocol. Even SAS (SATA's datacenter cousin) can't keep up topping out at 22.5-Gbit/s. The 2.5" format are still used in NASs/SANs cuz as that format is easy to work with in large scale (the drive is a 2.5" drive but runs on the M.2 protocol/PCI-E bus, see Kioxia's CD-series datacenter drives). Once nice thing about old SATA 2.5" SSDs is that they don't suffer from heat issues like NVMe drives cuz the bandwidth limit is lower, generating less SSD controller heat vs NVMe.
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