I don’t know about these high end 4000 series cards. They’re getting unbelievably huge and power hungry.
Imagine giving up four + slots and four EIGHT pin power connectors for your video card.
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I was listening to the announcement video GN put together and hearing Steve go over the power connector requirements for the cards and thinking wistfully of the days when we got mad that suddenly our PCI and AGP cards started requiring a molex run for power
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yeah it turns out it’s gonna be a pain in the ass waiting for someone to make a 2 slot one of these
that’s ok I’ll keep drinking that garbage
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our 3-slot evga and founder’s 2080 tis run awfully similar idgi
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yeah that was always the case in the past, that the founders designs were the more compact ones and the aftermarket 3-slot designs were always overkill, it sounds like they might do a 2-slot 12gb 4080 but that’s it, which is a bit disappointing, we’ll see
I still have my half-height-but-2-slot 9800GT kicking around from back in the day when that was the most compact you can go
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Still surprised my VEGA64 in all its CAPS glory actually doesn’t take up that much space, nor that 250W looking like energy star+++ rated when compared to these e-guzzling monster trucks that you cannot buy anyway, so… the XBox 4 really has its advantages, for the rest the 64 can take over.
The N64? 
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despite claiming they weren’t going to send Canadian emails today I got my Steam Deck email and finally put the money down, who knows how long it’ll be though at this point
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also surprising that they aren’t brave enough to disperse 325w in 2 slots with their new OEM liquid system because my old Titan Xp goes up to 275w without complaint and without throttling even in my horrible old sweatbox
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what the fuck ever happened to the thing where tech was supposed to get smaller and cheaper and less garbage as it developed. i guess it all went to phones, where none of it is needed unless you want to take out a loan to play gacha games
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in general, shrinking and genericizing and cheapening tech peaked in about 2014, and since then we’ve had ambitious platform capitalism in one form or another pushing off in various different directions. obviously an intuitively negative trend overall that wouldn’t have been predicted a few years previously, even if there have been some individually impressive outcomes, but in general I feel like that peak has gone unobserved when it was relatively clear in hindsight
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Wireless earbuds went from expensive garbage to affordable and great in between 2014 and today. The miniaturization level in those is a whole other tier.
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the arm macs are really good it’s just a shame there aren’t good alternative operating systems for them yet (though hector martin is doing his best!)
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I feel this way about office printers/scanners. Like the only time they ever got smaller is when they left factory floors and never after, they’re still just the hugest machines.
printers at least are held back by being mechanical first electronic second — there’s only so much you can do to deposit ink on paper with silicon vs making ever cheaper plastic mechanisms for feeding paper, cartridges, etc. with shrinking margins you make up with ink DRM and other bullshit
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Moore’s law is about transistor density, which sometimes makes things smaller but can also mean concentrating many more transistors into the same size space, which can do a lot of work and while also getting hot as fuck
Spreading transistors out over a larger space is undesirable because it uses more raw materials and the speed of light becomes an issue - make the chip too big and there’s too much delay between different areas and they become unsynchronized
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also also, honing most users to accept throwaway operating systems with justification of lacking security (while at the same time intentionally bricking performance and compatibility to generate a constant revenue stream of users wanting to Upgrade the Second the New Version Drops) after 1.5-2 years didn’t really help in homing in onto a dependable, widely established base HW configuration where you could bank on (and reap rewards of modular SW architecture), instead we got:
everything dependent on cloud-infra (often for no apparent reason) and thus naturally web-based
performance where the simple task of writing some words/thoughts needs the processing power/HW requirements of a powerful early 2000 Desktop PC
SW licensing on yearly/monthly plans, e.g. for Image Processing (Adobe, looking at you, yeah 
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a constant need for updating SW to keep data from being exposed to bad guys (whiiiiich in the first place are only coming into play if you move everything in the webs), or, what’s more lucrative, to keep devices from being bricked (that actually hurts users more than producers, so guess the amount of incentive on their part to eradicate this potential)
an incentive to re-sell everything to users over and over, in the process killing the foundations of a model of how SW was working fine for decades, and teaching a generation of devs that you can only survive in a walled garden (where 30% are mine thanks!) and by making a profit
… and i kinda want to stop using everything tech because it gets so depressing.
And no, I’m not Richard Stallmann, nor do I use my self-rolled arch distro. Hell, I even like VS Code, an abomination of an IDE/editor, and still cry lonely tears for the windows phone OS. I’m just a grumpy dev that never got to partake in an era where SW was supposed to improve for the greater good, not the greater Revenue Before Taxes…
guess I’m stallmanning over time after all, huh. 
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got a minuscule hair underneath my screen protector, this is bollocks
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All my network traffic going through my gigabit switch is now only 100mbit. I haven’t changed a thing. Directly connecting my computer to my cable modem gives me > 100mbit speeds. Do gigabit switches ever just like fall into 100mbit with age? It’s one of those cheap unmanaged switches from Netgear or whatever.
Also fuck my ISP. I’m getting 300mbit down/30mbit up for $105/month from Cox. I can get 1gbit down/1gbit up from AT&T with no quotas for the same price. For $20 more a month I can get 2gbit/2gbit.
I’m really considering making the move, but I have a lot of accounts tied to my Cox email.
Check your contract, because my parents’ SBC/AT&T email addresses weren’t actually connected to the broadband service.
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sounds like a failed pair in the patch cable, they’ll degrade back to 100Mb speeds when the jacks/conductors don’t have a good connection. try a different patch cable?
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