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  • That's what happens on mine if I undervolt the APU too much. If you haven't touched those settings, it's possible you lost the silicon lottery, and the only fix is an RMA.

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    PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely
  • So not as cheap as the (inflation adjusted) PS2 ($550) or PS4 ($540), but cheaper than the $780 of the PS3. PS1 was close at $620.
    Also games back in 1995 were around $50, which is $103 today.

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    FSR 4 has been in development for 9-12 months already, and one of the biggest focuses is improving battery life for handhelds
  • One technical reason for why FSR 1 isn't very good but works in everything is that FSR1 is the only one that just takes your current frame and upscales it, all the newer ones are all temporal - like TAA - and use data from multiple previous frames.
    Very simplified, they "jiggle" the camera each frame to a different position so that they can gather extra data to use, but that requires being implemented in the game engine directly.

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    Brazil judge withdraws $3.3 million from Musk's Starlink and X to pay for social media fines
  • That's the fine.
    The original issue was not taking down illegal content in X even though there was a court order and a fine to do so, and withdrawing their legal representation from the country when they were expected to legally represent the company (i.e take responsibility for X breaking the law). Brazil requires companies to have that in order to operate, so X got blocked, and now the fine has been taken for their assets.

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    Steam Families is here
  • Yup.
    The previous family share was gathering your library of games with the "console" in a single box and giving that entire to your friend. If you want to play anything, you need the box back.
    Steam Families is now a common bookshelf, grab a game if it's there and play.

    Now we just need a way to use that shelf with the same account so I don't get booted from my steam deck games just because I left something running on my PC and vice versa.

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    AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
  • And at rather ridiculously fast paces, as demonstrated by comparing the different versions of Midjourney
    The difference in being able to generate realistic humans is even more striking.

    The question is where do the current LLMs fit in that kind of a timeline.

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    Using printed master spools in a filament dryer
  • So does PLA, both materials are amorphous polymers so they are never "truly" solid unless they are frozen - nor are they really ever molten either. That is why screws and bolts etc always seem to "work" loose on 3d printer parts - they don't, the material just flows away from them.
    It's just that at the glass transition temperature is when they go from slowly getting softer the hotter they get to suddenly completely rubbery and floppy.

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    Using printed master spools in a filament dryer
  • PETG will not, the glass transition temperature is 80-85C. For PLA it's 55-60C, so those will go floppy if you go at full tilt, though you should dry PLA at 40-50c-ish.

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    Finland to build world’s largest air-to-water heat pump plant
  • Hanasaari shut down last year and Salmisaari is going to be closed by april next year, after that Helsinki will have no coal or pellet power plants left.

    Electricity generation isn't the main problem, but that those plants were responsible for a huge majority of central heating in Helsinki (iirc they were designed on purpose to be so inefficient they generated 2/3rds of their output as heat for that use). That's why they are building wacky solutions like huge underground lakes and stuff

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    Volkswagen considers German plant closures to save billions in costs | The Guardian
  • Just use the bus, it comes twice in the morning so you are either an hour early or hour late from work, and leaves half an hour before your day ends and then once more at midnight.
    Convenient!

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    Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension
  • I mean, yes, when you are the legal representative for a company, that is what might happen when the company breaks the local laws and refuses to comply with court orders. That's kinda the whole point.

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    Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension
  • It is when the law says that for a company to operate in Brazil it has to have an appointed legal representative, and you close down your offices and refuse to re-appoint one when the judge demands you to.
    Musk entered a "No pants no service" restaurant, took his pants off, was told to put them back on and refused, and is now surprised he gets no service.

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    E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing
  • E-paper is the category for any display that looks kinda like paper. E-ink is a specific technology (by a specific company, yes,) that uses blobs suspended in oil in small capsules that are controlled by magnetic fields.

    Pebble uses a Sharp memory LCD, which as the name suggests, is a liquid crystal display. If you categorize pebbles as a "eink watches", then a gameboy is one low-power memory chip away from being an eink handheld gaming console, the display tech is otherwise identical - a transflective lcd.

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    E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing
  • Which one do you prefer?
    And don't say Pebble, that's an e-paper (sharp memoryLCD), not an eink. I personally haven't really encountered any actual eink watches that would seem any good.

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    LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
  • I would assume the small amount of training data written that way doesn't contain that many professional research papers, corporate emails or calm poetry, but would consist mostly of social media posts and comments which have a rather heavy bias towards aggressive and negative.

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    Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared
  • They are. GTX 590 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.

    If you want low TDP, the RX 6400 is twice as powerful as the 590 while having a TDP of 53W.

    It's the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power, and that's kinda like complaining a Bugatti Veyron gets terrible highway MPG figures.

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    Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared
  • Agreed. My PC case came with a blue power light, after one night of watching the blinking illuminate my entire room I ripped it out and swapped in a dim red one myself.

    For a quick fix, you can make blue power LEDs slightly more tolerable by sticking a piece of yellow post-it note on top of them, it turns them white.

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    Australian man sentenced for sexual abuse of more than 280 victims
  • Different systems, the length doesn't tell the whole story.

    André Klip, a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and the transnational aspects of criminal law at Maastricht University, said he wasn't surprised by Thursday's outcome and that Coban would likely spend more time in prison in the Netherlands than if he served his time in Canada.

    "Dutch law is very predictable in terms of when a person can be released after being sentenced," he said. "It's very likely that ... he would have been out far more early [in Canada]." -CBC

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    Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks
  • Specs are the same, the APU is just now 6nm instead of 7nm which is more efficient and lets it run a few degrees cooler and therefore boost a bit higher without overheating, and the RAM bandwidth went from 88Gb/s to 102Gb/s.

    Consensus seems to be somewhere between 5-10% better fps, which means a game that ran at 50 fps might go up to 55, or one that ran at 28 might finally hit 30.

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    Post-Article Bot
  • Lemmy at least has an account option to hide posts made by bot accounts if you don't want to see them.

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  • I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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