My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…

… is Hideo Kojima.

Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.

I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.

How is a legacoin different from … just being a fancy NFT?

An all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.

Yeah wow great.

What a goddamn headline.

Oh no its fine you see, flying through an actively radioactive cloud/plume is uh… uh, maybe, technically allowable, therefore perfectly safe =D

Holy dear lord this species is actively Great Filtering itself in realtime, what an era to be alive in.

Yep, tons of beautiful scenery along the Pacific Coast Highway, and environs!

Otherwise known as highway 101, from WA down to CA… though I think it becomes Highway 1 at some point in Cali.

I’d seen much of these and similar places in camping/roadtrips/fishing trips as a kid prior to playing Life is Strange though, so I guess it wasn’t as impressive to me, having seen it irl before the games… though the psuedo impressionistic landscape art style is a neat way to depict it.

Either way, great pictures OP!

Yeah, ‘aerial battle’ would have been the term I used, but hey since when are journalists supposed to know what words mean?

I suppose it is technically possible there could have been some actual close range dog fighting in this giant battle, lots of jets involved still have actual guns, as well as less long ranged and less accurate missiles…

On the other hand:

Holy fuck.

125 aircraft engaged in essentially one gigantic battle?

That is totally unprecedented in the modern era.

So, uh, anyway… Pakistan and India both have nukes, and as best I can tell, both have threatened to use them is things escalate… so… uh… yeah…

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-targeted-by-indian-missiles-2025-05-10/

Apparently there is a cease fire, apparently Trump is taking credit for it, apparently it has already been violated?

I am watching India Today’s livestream and they are currently saying Pakistan has and is currently still violating the ceasefire, and I have little doubt the Indians are as well.

EDIT: Former Indian Secretary MEA is basically saying Trump’s ‘ceasefire’ is complete bullshit, that India and Pakistan reached their own ceasefire, and though it seems like its falling apart, the other point here is that neither Pakistan nor India are paying any attention to Trump, they have no idea what he is talking about, they have not agreed to anything mediated by the US.

I occasionally watch both vaush and hasan segments on youtube, along with many other lefitst youtubers.

vaush doesn’t do debates anymore, hasn’t done one in… over a year at this point, almost two years?

I’ve heard him explain a few times now that debating anybody with hardcore right wing views is less than unproductive at this point, as none of those people are any kind of capable of arguing in good faith, thus all you’re doing is platforming them.

also vaush is routinely quite critical of authoritarian regimes.

hasan, on the other hand, yeah, i agree, he has (at least initially? not sure if his stance has changed since) defended the russian occupation of crimea, he has platformed people that go waaay beyond being just anti-zionist and go all the way into general antisemitism, basically played defense for the Chinese government’s actions against uyghurs…

he’s much closer to a tankie, and tankies are what hexbear has a whole lot of, those are the rabid posters and mods you stereotypically get there.

So… I am confused as to how you would say hexbear loves both vaush and hasan, when … rabid hexbears basically are tankies… and would generally agree with hasan (or think he doesn’t go far enough), and despise vaush.

hexbearians generally hate vaush, in my experience

Lol, as long as you properly plan in advance and coordinate such a thing, not the way that uh… Dead Matter tried to do it.

Dear god what a fustercluck.

So, I initially wanted to just kneejerk respond yes, it is absurd to suggest this ruling against Apple… would have any kind of generally noticable effect on inflation.

But I wanted to check the actual numbers.

Ok, so, total US consumer spending in 2024 is about $64 Trillion.

… The Apple App Store generated $105 Billion in revenue in 2024.

Ok, napkin math: 30% off of lets just say literally all App Store payments… , ok, we’ve cut costs by about $32 Billion… shave that off the $64 Trillion…

And voila!

A rough general price reduction of… 0.05%

Call a median US yearly income $60K, and they’ve saved $30 bucks. Maybe the cost of either one or two DoorDash meals, depending on where you live… probably much closer to just one.

We’re saved from inflation rofl!

This is where the magic of near meaningless corpo-babble comes in.

The layoffs are part of a plan to aspirationally acheive the goal of $10b revenue by EoY 2025.

What they are actually doing is a significant restructuring of the company, refocusing by outside hiring some amount of new people to lead or be a part of departments or positions that haven’t existed before, or are being refocused to other priorities…

… But this process also involves laying off 500 of the ‘least productive’ or ‘least mission critical’ employees.

So, technically, they can, and are, arguing that their new organizational paradigm will be so succesful that it actually will result in increased revenue, not just lower expenses.

Generally corpos call this something like ‘right-sizing’ or ‘refocusing’ or something like that.

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But of course… anyone with any actual experience with working at a place that does this… will tell you roughly this is what happens:

Turns out all those ‘grunts’ you let go of, well they actually do a lot more work in a bunch of weird, esoteric, bandaid solutions to keep everything going, than upper management was aware of… because middle management doesn’t acknowledge or often even understand that that work was being done, because they are generally self-aggrandizing narcissist petty tyrants who spend more time in meetings fluffing themselves up than actually doing any useful management.

Then, also, you are now bringing on new, outside people who look great on paper, to lead new or modified departments… but they of course also do not have any institutional knowledge, as they are new.

So now, you have a whole bunch of undocumented work that was being done, processes which were being followed… which is no longer being done, which is not documented… and the new guys, even if they have the best intentions, now have to spend a quarter or two or three figuring out just exactly how much pre-existing middle management has been bullshitting about, figuring out just how much things do not actually function as they ssid it did…

So now your efficiency improving restructuring is actually a chaotic mess.

… Now, this ‘right sizing’ is not always apocalyptically extremely bad, but it is also essentially never totally free from hiccups… and it increases stress, workload, and tensions between basically everyone at the company, to some extent…and decreased morale, increased stress basically always reduces efficiency, to some extent.

Here’s Forbes explanation of this phenomenon, if you prefer an explanation of right sizing in corpospeak:

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/rightsizing/

TFLOPs generally correlate to actual, general game performance quite well.

A very demanding game will do poorly on a gpu with a given TFLOPs score, but a less demanding one may do fairly well.

So, if you can roughly dial things into a TFLOPs value, you can get a result that is then generally applicable to all games.

The most graphically demanding games require the most TFLOPs out of a GPU to render well and fast, but less demanding games can be fine with a lower TFLOPs GPU.

Like… a GPU with a medium high TFLOPs score may only be able to push about 50 fps on CP77 ultra w/o RT, but it could likely easily hit something like 200ish FPS in say, CounterStike2, both games at 4k.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-games-with-ps5-pro-enhancements.1026072/

A PS5Pro can render CP77 at ‘quality mode’ …which is roughly the ‘high’ graphical quality preset of CP77 on PCs, with… I believe all raytracing other than raytraced shadows off…

… at 2k30fps, or it can render at a dynamicly scaling resolution between 2k and 1080p at a locked 60fps.

https://www.gpu-monkey.com/en/benchmark-amd_radeon_rx_6700-cyberpunk_2077

An RX 6700 can render CP77 at 2k, 43 fps avg.

This site isn’t 100% clear as to whether these GPU scores are done at the ‘high’ preset, or the ‘ultra’, all settings maxed out preset… but with all raytracing off.

https://www.gpu-monkey.com/en/benchmark-amd_radeon_rx_6600-cyberpunk_2077

A 6600 can do the same, high or ultra preset, with no raytracing, at 2k, with 31 fps.

1080p at 51 fps.

So uh yeah, even with the top of the line PS5 variant, the PS5Pro’s graphical capabilities are a bit worse than a 6700, and a bit better than a 6600.

I have used many AMD cards, and yeah basically, if you only use raytraced local shadows?

At 1080p, or 2k?

Very roughly, you’ll get about the same fps with a ‘high’ preset, and only raytraced local shadows, as you would with no rt local shadows, but the game’s graphical preset bumped up to ‘ultra’.

There are now like 6 different raytracing options in the PC version of CP77.

They only work well with Nvidia cards… and the latest iteration of AMD cards, that now have basically their equivalent of RT cores, though they’re not as powerful, nor as expensive, as Nvidia cards.

Needless to say, PS5… normals, or whatever, are going to be even weaker than the ‘somewhere between an rx 6600 and rx 6700’ rough equivalence.

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Playstation users only even see about 10% of all the graphical settings options that PC players see, really just the 4 post processing effects and motiin blur. PC players get many, many more settings they can tweak around.

Also, PS5 users generally seem to think CP77 is being rendered at 4k, in quality mode.

Uh, no, it isn’t, its rendered at 2k max, and that is likely using FSR 2.1,with a bit of dynamic frame upscaling within CP77, meaning the actual real render resolution is roughly 5% to 15 % lower than 2k, then FSR upscales to 2k,… then the PS5 does its own upscaling outside of the game, likely via an emulator style simple integer upscale algo, to display at 4k on a 4k TV.

… I am saying all of this with confidence because I have spent a considerable amount of time fucking with customizing dynamjc resolution scaling, and other graphical settings, in CP77, on different AMD cards, on PCs.

The PS5Pro is using the same dynamic resolution scaling that exists in CP77 on PCs. PCs generally do best with an ‘Auto’ mode for various frame upscalers, but the dynamic setting on PC basically lets you throw out the auto settings and fuck about with your own custom tolerances for max and min resolutions and frame rates.

Sorry, I … well, I was recently diagnosed with PTSD.

And a significant part of that… is I am so, so, very used to people just misinterpreting what I actually said, then in their heads, they heard /something else/, and then they respond to /something else/, they continue to believe I said /something else/, even after I explain to them that isn’,t what I said, and then they tell everyone else that I said /something else/.

(there are many other things that go into the PTSD, but they are waaaay outside of the scope of this discussion)

I, again, realize and aporeciate that you responded to both interpretations…

But I am just a bit triggered.

I am so, so, very used to being gaslit by… most of my family, and many, many other people in my life, who just seemingly willfully misinterpret me consistently, or are literally incapable of hearing/reading without just inventing and inserting their own interpretation.

… Whole lot of my family has very serious mental health disorders, and I’ve also happened to have a very bad run of many bosses and former friends and ex partners who just do the same thing, all the time.

Took me a long time to just… get away from all these toxic situations, and finally be able to pursue mental health evaluation/treatment on my own accord.

I’m not saying you ‘intentionally triggered me’ or anything like that, that would be a ridiculous judgement from me, and you have been very polite, and informative… I’m just trying to explain myself, lol.

As to the actual technical info: yes, everything you are saying lines up with my understanding, its nice to know I know what these words and terms mean in this context, and my understanding is … in line with reality.

addie said:

Integrated memory on a desktop computer is more “partitioned” than shared

Then I wrote my own reply to them, as you did.

And then I also wrote this, under your reply to them:

Can you explain to me what the person you are replying to meant by ‘integrated memory on a desktop pc’?

And now you are saying:

So, for starters I never mentioned “integrated memory”, I wrote “integrated graphics”, i.e. the CPU chip comes together with a GPU, either as two dies in the same chip package or even both on the same die.

I mean, I do genuinely appreciate your detailed, technical explanations of these systems and hardware and their inner functions…

But also, I didn’t say you said integrated memory.

I said the person you are replying to, addie, said integrated memory.

I was asking you to perhaps be able to explain what they meant… because they don’t seem to know what they’re trying to say.

But now you have misunderstood what I said, what I asked, lol.

You replied to addie … I think, as if they had written ‘integrated graphics’. But they didn’t say that. They said ‘integrated memory’.

And… unless I am … really, really missing something… standard desktop PCs… do not have any kind of integrated memory, beyond like… very, very small areas where the mobo bios is stored, but that is almost 100% irrelevant to discussion about video game rendering capabilities.

As you say, you have to go back 20+ years to find desktop PCs with Mobos that have their own SRAM… everything else is part of the GPU or CPU die, and thus … isn’t integrated. As GPUs and CPUs are removable, swappable, on standard desktop PCs.

Eitherway, again, I do appreciate your indepth technical info!

Can you explain to me what the person you are replying to meant by ‘integrated memory on a desktop pc’?

I tried to explain why this phrase makes no sense, but apparently they didn’t like it.

…Standard GPUs and CPUs do not share a common kind of RAM that gets balanced between space reserved for CPU-ish tasks and GPU-ish tasks… that only happens with an APU that uses LPDDR RAM… which isn’t at all a standard desktop PC.

It is as you say, a hierarchy of assets being called into the DDR RAM by the CPU, then streamed or shared into the GPU and its GDDR RAM…

But the GPU and CPU are not literally, directly using the actual same physical RAM hardware as a common shared pool.

Yes, certain data is… shared… in the sense that it is or can be, to some extent, mirrored, parellelized, between two distinct kinds of RAM… but… not in the way they seem to think it works, with one RAM pool just being directly accessed by both the CPU and GPU at the same time.

… Did they mean ‘integrated graphics’ when they … said ‘integrated memory?’

L1 or L2 or L3 caches?

???

I still do not understand how any standard desktop PC has ‘integrated memory’.

What kind of ‘memory’ on a PC… is integrated into the MoBo, unremovable?

???

Because without full access to your PC, anti-cheat is essentially useless and easily bypassed by cheaters.

This is false.

Many functional AntiCheats work well without Kernel Level access… and many Kernel Level AntiCheats… are routinely bypassed by common, easily purchaseable hacks… which, again, only work on Windows.

I used to play GTA V Online (and RDR2, and FiveM, and RedM…) on linux all the time, literally for years… untill they just decided to ban all linux players.

Because of cheaters.

That’s not an idea that anyone is saying though, other than you right now.

Uh… you are also basically saying this, with that combination of statements.

So… please refrain from obviously contradictory, gas lighting arguements, thanks!

Anyway: GTAV uses BattleEye.

BattleEye works on Linux.

Rockstar just … chose not to use that Linux support.

It’s also one of the only ways to try to stop cheaters.

There are many other ways to stop cheaters that are quite effective, namely, actually designing your game more competently and more cleverly, with less client side authority and more server side authority, less intrusive system client side AC that is more reliant on randomized realtime logging and verifications of game files, server side hereustics that pick up ‘impossible’ player input patterns, etc.

You know, all the other methods that have been used for decades, and still work.

No AntiCheat method will ever be 100% effective.

As I already mentioned, Kernel Level AntiCheats are defeated all the time, and you can easily find and purchase such cheats/hacks… which only work on Windows… after maybe 30 minutes of web searching or jumping around discord communities.

Beyond that, its not that hard or expensive to setup your own, or just purchase a tiny microcomputer that plugs into your PC, then you plug your mouse/keyboard into that, and then the microPC middleman performs aim hacks and otherwise impossible movement macros like stuttersteps and such.

Kernel ACs are routinely defeated by competent executions of this concept.

You can never stop all hackers.

It is always a trade off of exactly how much you inconvenience and degrade the system integrity/stability/security of the user, versus how many hackers you believe you are likely to stop.

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Kernel Level AntiCheat is basically going to 99.99% effective from previous methods being 99.9% effective… and the cost is literally you are now installing a rootkit on your own system that could very well be reading all your web history and saved logins and passwords.

The code is black box, and tech companies lie all the time about how much data they gather from you… and then sell to every data broker they can.

The only actual numbers and statistics anyone has to work with, when justifying or arguing against effectiveness levels of different kinds of AC… are the claims put out by AC companies.

And even then, most people, such as yourself, aren’t even aware of or refuse to acknowledge that AntiCheats have worked on linux for years.

It is a “something is wrong with linux” issue if Linux doesn’t allow/provide for something that game developers - and game players - want, which is anti-cheat that does the absolute best it can to stop cheaters.

I see how you just completely did not address how I stated that EAC and BattleEye both support linux, other ACs have and still do as well… certain game publishers just don’t use these features that have existed for years.

Valve Anti Cheat, for example?

You can find more info if you look, but I’m guessing you won’t.

You just have an idea, of ‘the idea’.

Have you ever written a hack?

Written game netcode, and other client/server game code?

… I have! … back when I still used Windows, ironically.

Best way to test your own design is to try to defeat it.

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Installing a rootkit onto your personal computer… to protect you from hackers in a game… is like trying to fight a stomach flu you got from Taco Bell by intentionally infecting yourself with Covid.

Oh and uh, after the whole… CrowdStrike fiasco, where Windows just allowed CrowdStike to write and update kernel level code without actually doing their own testing or validation… and then they pushed a bad update… and that took out basically 1/4 of the world’s enterprise Windows machines for a week or two?

Yeah… Windows is now removing direct kernel level access from third party software.

They’re making everything move up a level or two, kind of inventing a new interface layer/paradigm…

Becauase it is in fact, empirically, objectively, way, way, waaaay too dangerous to just let every ‘verified’ third party partner fuck with the kernel.

So… your idea of ‘the idea’ of Kernel Level AC is no longer valid, as it is no longer able to run at such a low layer, and will thus be more vulnerable to… the kinds of hacks Kernel Level AC is supposed to be necessarry for dealing with.

Most Call of Duty games work on linux, you’re gonna have to be more specific as to which particular one of like 25 you mean by ‘COD’.

The ones that don’t, they don’t work because the devs are too lazy or incompetent (or specifically told not to by their bosses) to make an AntiCheat that isn’t a rootkit with full access to your entire PC.

I used to play GTA V Online (and RDR2, and FiveM, and RedM…) on linux all the time, literally for years… untill they just decided to ban all linux players.

IMO they owe me money for that, but oh well I guess.

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Again, there are many AntiCheats that work on linux, and have worked on linux for years and years now.

Easy Anti Cheat and Battleeye even offer linux support to game devs. There are some games with these ACs that actually do support linux.

But many game devs/studios/publishers just don’t use this support… because then there wouldn’t be any reason to actually use Windows, and MSFT pays these studios a lot of money… or they just literally own them (Activision/Blizzard = MSFT).

Kernel Anti Cheat that only works on Windows?

Yep, that’s just a complicated way to enforce Windows exclusivity in PC games.

Go look up how many hacks and trainers you can find for one of these games you mention.

You may notice that they are all designed for, and only work on… Windows.

The idea that all linux gamers are malicious hackers is a laughable, obviously false idea… but game company execs understand the power of rabid irrational fandoms.

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You are right that you can’t run games with rootkit anticheats on linux though, so if those heavily monetized and manipulative games with toxic playerbases are your addiction of choice, yep, sorry, linux ain’t your hookup for those.

Again, this is another game platform freedom advocacy issue, and also a personal information security advocacy issue, not a ‘something is wrong with linux’ issue.

Game companies have gotten many working anticheat systems to work with linux. The most popular third party anticheat systems also support linux.

But the industry is clever at keeping people locked into their for profit, insecure OSs that spy on their entire system.

I… uh… what?

Integrated memory, on a desktop PC?

Genuinely: What are you talking about?

Typical PCs (and still many laptops)… have a CPU that uses the DDR RAM that is… plugged into the Mobo, and can be removed. Even many laptops allow the DDR RAM to be removed and replaced, though working on a laptop can often be much, much more finnicky.

GPUs have their own GDDR RAM, either built into the whole AIB in a desktop, or inside of or otherwise a part of a laptop GPU chip itself.

These are totally different kinds of RAM, they are accessed via distinct busses, they are not shared, they are not partitioned, not on desktop PCs and most laptops.

They are physically and design distinct, set aside, and specialized to perform with their respective processor.

The kind of RAM you are talking about, that is shared, partitioned, is LPDDR RAM… and is incompatible with 99% of desktop PCs

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Also… anything, on a desktop PC, that gets loaded and processed by the GPU… does at some point, have to go through the CPU and its DDR RAM first.

The CPU governs the actual instructions to, and output from, the GPU.

A GPU on its own cannot like, ask an SSD or HDD for a texture or 3d model or shader.

Normally, compressed game assets are loaded from the SSD to RAM via the Win32 API. Once in RAM, the CPU then decompresses those assets. The decompressed game assets are then moved from RAM to the graphics card’s VRAM (ie, GDDR RAM), priming the assets for use in games proper.

(addition to the quote is mine)

Like… there is GPU Direct Storage… but basically nothing actually uses this.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2609584/what-happened-to-directstorage-why-dont-more-pc-games-use-it.html

Maybe it’ll take off someday, maybe not.

Nobody does dual GPU SLI anymore, but I also remember back when people thought multithreading and multicore CPUs would never take off, because coding for multiple threads is too haaaaarrrrd, lol.

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Anyway, the reason that emulators have problems doing the things you describe consoles a good at… is because consoles have finetuned drivers that work with only a specific set of hardware, and emulators have to reverse engineer ways of doing the same, which will work on all possible pc hardware configurations.

People who make emulators generally do not have direct access to the actual proprietary driver code used by console hardware.

If they did, they would much, much more easily be able to… emulate… similar calls and instruction sets on other PC hardware.

But they usually just have to make this shit up on the fly, with no actual knowledge of how the actual console drivers do it.

Reverse engineering is astonishingly more difficult when you don’t have the source code, the proverbial instruction manual.

Its not that desktop PC architecture … just literally cannot do it.

If that were the case, all the same issues you bring up that are specific to emulators… would also be present with console games that have proper ports to PC.

While occasionally yes, this is sometimes the case, for some specific games with poor quality ports… generally no, not this is not true.

Try running say, an emulated Xbox version of Deus Ex: Invisible war, a game notoriously handicapped by its console centric design… try comparing the PC version of that, on a PC… to that same game, but emulating the Xbox version, on the same exact PC.

You will almost certainly, for almost every console game with a PC port… find that the proper PC version runs better, often much, much better.

The problem isn’t the PC’s hardware capabilities.

The problem is that emulation is inefficient guesswork.

Like, no shade at emulator developers whatsoever, its a miracle any of that shit works at all, reverse engineering is astonishingly difficult, but yeah, reverse engineering driver or lower level code, without any documentation or source code, is gonna be a bunch of bullshit hacks that happen to not make your PC instantly explode, lol.

Hrm uh… Framework laptops… seem to be configurable as having a mobile grade CPU with integrated graphics… and also an optional, additional mobile grade, dedicated GPU.

So, not really an APU… unless you really want to haggle over definitions and say ‘technically, a CPU with pathetic integrated graphics still counts as a GPU and is thus an APU’.

Framework laptop boards don’t have the PCI-E 16x slot for a traditional desktop GPU. As far as I am aware, Minisforum are the only people that do that, along with a high powered mobile CPU.

Note that the Minisforum Mobo model I am talking about, the AMD chip is not really an APU, its also a CPU with integrated graphics. Its a Radeon 610M, basically the bare minimum to be able to render and output very basic 2d graphics.

True APUs are … things like what more modern consoles use, what a steam deck uses. They are still usually custom specs, proprietary to their vendor.

The Switch 2 will have a custom Nvidia APU, which is the first Nvidia APU of note to my knowledge, and it will be very interesting to learn more about it from teardowns and benchmarks.

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Currently, the most powerful, non custom, generally publically available, compatible with standard PC mobos… arguably an APU, arguably not… is the AMD 8700G.

Its about $315 bucks, is a pretty decent CPU, but as a GPU… its less powerful than a standard desktop RX 6500 from AMD… which is the absolute lowest tier AMD GPU from now two generations back from current.

You… might be able to run … basically games older than 5ish years, at 1080p, medium graphics, at 60fps. I guess it would maybe be a decent option if you… wanted to build a console emulator machine, roughly for consoles … N64/PS1/Dreamcast, and older, as well as being able to play older PC games, or PC games at lower settings/no more than 1080p.

I am totally just spitballing with that though, trying to figure out all that exactly would be quite complicated.

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But now, back to Framework.

Framework is soon to be releasing the Framework Desktop.

This is a small form factor PC… which uses an actual proper APU, either the AMD AI Max 385 or 395.

Its listed as MSRP of $1100, they say it can run Cyberpunk at 1440p on high settings at about 75 fps… thats with no ray tracing, no framegen… and I think also no frame upscaling being used.

So, presumably, if you turned on upscaling and framegen, you’d be able to get similar fps at ultra and psycho settings, and/or some amount of raytracing.

There are also other companies that offer this kind of true APU, MiniPC style architecture, such as EvoTek, though it seems like most of them are considerably more expensive.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-mini-pc-tested-powerful-apu-up-to-140w-power-128-gb-variable-memory-igpu/

… And finally, looks like Minisforum is sticking with the laptop CPU + desktop GPU design, and is soon going to be offering even more powerful CPU+Mobo models.

https://wccftech.com/minisforum-ryzen-9-9955hx-x870m-motd-motherboard-9955hx-ms-a2-mini-pc-strix-nas/

So yeah, this is actually quite an interesting time of diversification away from … what have basically been standard desktop mobo architectures… for … 2, 3? decades…

…shame it all also coincides with Trump throwing a literally historically unprecedented senilic temper tantrum, and fucking up prices and logistics for… basically the whole world, though of course much, much more seriously for the US.

Yep.

And after enough people can no longer actually critically think, well, now this shitty AI tech does actually win the Turing Test more broadly.

Why try to clear the bar when you can just lower it instead?

… Is it fair, at this point, to legitimately refer to humans that are massively dependant on AI for basic things… can we just call them NPCs?

I am still amazed that no one knows how to get anywhere around… you know, the town or city they grew up in? Nobody can navigate without some kind of map app anymore.