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  1. azrael
    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:
  10. azrael
    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).
  12. azrael
    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.
  13. azrael
    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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    We're not saying they aren't. But the scale of which to achieve AGI into the package of a credit card-size SOC will not be achieved in our lifetime. The AI in our world today is nowhere near Hollywood AI. Very far from it. The computer currently in robotaxis are scaled down server hardware; just enough to run the necessary applications and process the sensor data in realtime without consuming a ridiculous amount of power. The rest gets offloaded to the cloud. Actually, it took a couple of decades. It moves fast, but not THAT fast. Economy of scale also plays into this. And unfortunately, we're going right back to room-sized computers (computer clusters that is) because personal computers do not have the computing horsepower to process models at a level to make it economical nor do most homes have the electrical power to keep it running. AI model processing is a power consuming task and that been a major hurdle keeping it in datacenters. LLMs that run on our PCs usually run on smaller data sets and require more time to process that data versus a cluster in a data center processing large datasets at record pace.
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    Like I said, the SSD controller chip on the drive is the likely culprit. The actual NAND memory chips, where you data is actually stored, were likely fine. M.2s are no more reliable than SATAs. If you strip the casing off a SATA, you are literally left with something similar to a M.2 drive. If you don't want to risk Samsung, get a Crucial/Micron. I rarely see reports of firmware issues with Crucial drives vs Samsungs (the 990 Pro units had a big stink about firmware issues last year or 2 ago). The bigger issue is M.2 drives get hotter as you move to newer generation drives. If your motherboard doesn't have a heatsink plate for M.2 drives, you should consider either buying a drive with a heatsink already installed or buying a 3rd party heatsink. I wouldn't bother with Gen 5 drives since they're expensive and nothing can really take advantage of the speed those models offer. A Gen 3 or Gen 4 M.2 drive are more than enough for most people's needs. If you need more M.2 slots, try an expansion card. AM5 CPUs only support DDR5 RAM. AM4 is the last socket to support DDR4.
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    DD_rescue may not move any faster if there’s something wrong with the SSD controller. You lost the draw of the silicon lottery 🤷🏻‍♂️. Not much you can do. I’ve seen SSDs go for almost a decade and others die after 2 years of only minor usage. It’s why I got a NAS.
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    I think the SSD controller is calling it quits or the partition table saved in the controller is corrupt. dd_rescue could probably work but you'll need to create a bootable Linux media with dd_rescue included. I'm not sure how comfortable you are doing that. Clonezilla might be able to make a bit-for-bit copy. Same with EaseUS or Acronis.
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    Not necessarily. Unless the SSD controller chip decided it had enough of you and shot itself. I've seen it happen. Windows kept crashing on a computer until it stopped booting and eventually disappeared from the BIOS. SSDs have that tendency that when they die, THEY DIE. Not the slow death of spinning rust. And it's usually the SSD controller that dies first before the NAND chips. The only other time I've seen something like this was when I was trying to flash a 980 Pro's firmware. It would show in the BIOS but wouldn't detect/mount in Windows nor would take the firmware flash from Samsung Magician nor bootable media until I found another computer that I could install only the SSD into. Got it to take a Windows install then finally flashed with new firmware. Behaved afterwards.That's why I said, try it on another system.
  21. azrael
    Do you have a laptop or another computer you can use to backup your storage drive? Just to rule out any potential issues with the originating computer, I'd use a secondary computer to back up the old storage drive to the new external drive.
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    Is the storage drive a NVMe/SATA drive or a USB? Sounds like the former. If the drive was assigned a letter but a different drive is now using the same letter, the drive will mount but not be assigned a letter. You can force a drive to be assigned a specific letter at boot in Drive Management, otherwise it gets assigned the next available letter. Force shutdown during the Windows Update may have messed up the partition table and/or USB driver. Maybe reinstall the chipset driver? Try removing all drives except your boot. Plug each one back in one at a time to be sure they still detect and are accessible. You can try doing a repair with only the boot drive plugged in then start plugging your drives back in one at a time.
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    Not sure.
  24. azrael
    🤨 Have you seen GPU prices????? MSRP for a 9070XT is a freakin' steal.
  25. azrael
    1st handheld, officially, announced with the Z2 Extreme CPU. MSI Claw A8 announced ~ Rumors were true — MSI indeed has a Ryzen-powered handheld.
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