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- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 2 days ago:
What an absolutely moronic false equivalence.
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 4 days ago:
She is either suicidal or very weird. I’d ask her if suicide is actually something she sometimes think about.
Problem is she will most likely brush it off if she is, so it’s a tough one.
It might be worth a lot to tell her you appreciate her. - Comment on Who is your favourite Superman? 1 week ago:
70’s comics where he loses all his powers one by one in the span of an entire year.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
You don’t write what market you are describing but:
The PC market has been dwindling for decades, the PC gaming market has also been dwindling with consoles taking bigger share, and the past 5-10 years due to high GPU prices that have been wildly unstable.
Lately prices have returned to more normal levels when accounting for inflation, which could explain a bump this year.
USA is an outlier because of tariffs. - Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Maybe you are right, but I think they did that because they thought that would help them remain competitive, keeping the profit share that would normally go to board vendors, allowing them to sell cheaper while still making money, and compete better against Nvidia.
Maybe I remember it wrong, but I think Voodoo was already dying with Voodoo 2.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
IDK, I think it was because they couldn’t keep up with Nvidia, I bough the Voodoo 2 already at about half price.
After that it was basically lights out for Voodoo.Intel has somewhat the same problem I think, because their GPU reasonably is good and for the customer it’s a competitive product.
But for intel, the GPU chip probably cost 3 times as much to make as for a comparable Nvidia or AMD, because Intel requires a twice as big GPU to be competitive!
That means that Intel is probably not making any profit from their GPU division.
Same with Voodoo, they simply couldn’t keep up to make a profit, they had to compete with Nvidia that quickly surpassed 3DFX, and since Nvidia were better Voodoo had to be cheaper, but they couldn’t make them cheap enough to make a profit from them.It’s not that Voodoo got worse, because obviously they didn’t. But Nvidia had a development cycle that was unheard of at the time. It wasn’t just 3DFX that couldn’t keep up. It was also S3, Matrox and ATI. And ATI were by far the biggest GPU maker at the time. ATI however made a strong comeback as the only competitor to Nvidia mainstream performance desktop graphics and gaming, and then ATI was later bought by AMD.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
As I remember it, it was Nvidia that killed 3DFX, Nvidia had an absolutely cutthroat development pace, and 3DFX simply couldn’t keep up, and they ended up being bough by Nvivia.
But oh boy Voodoo graphics were cool when they came out! An absolute revolution to PC gaming. - Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
I think 90+% marketshare is technically considered a monopoly in many places.
But the existence of AMD still makes a huge difference IMO, you do have an alternative option, and Nvidia doesn’t control the market completely.
Also personally I use AMD because I’m on Linux, and I don’t want the proprietary Nvidia driver to fuck up my system.
So AFAIK on Linux, the majority actually run AMD. - Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
In part because low end chips are not needed, as they can be had more efficiently as part of the CPU for both AMD and Intel. And since these are the only 2 options for X86, Now that VIA has discontinued their X86 line acquired from Cyrix, there is no low end entry point for a new maker of GPU.
The natural evolution is to start from a lower end, and if successful work up. This is not possible in the PC market, and makes entry to the market near impossible, except with enormous investments that may never pay off, especially since PC is a dwindling market.As you mention Intel is dipping their toes, but despite doing a pretty good and big effort, and investing a lot to develop a better GPU, and actually delivering a good product at a reasonable price, that should be absolutely competitive on paper, their marketshare is absolutely minuscule, because Nvidia and AMD together dominate and already fill the needs for the mid to higher end market, and have brand recognition for graphics.
It’s not that there aren’t technologies that possibly could compete if scaled for PC, because those are actually pretty numerous on phones and tablets. But you can’t port these cheaply to PC, because there is no market segment for them to slide in to easily.
It would require major investments to make them actually hardware performance competitive at higher scales, and investments in making good drivers. Intel had a big head start in these aspects, already making on-chip graphics that had drivers already. And still they are struggling, despite delivering a good product, and people have been screaming for a third option,because of high GPU prices.This may not be the entire explanation, but I think it’s a very significant part of it.
The better question IMO is why Intel never became more popular, considering how much people have raved that more competition in the GPU market is required.And the explanation for that is:
but let’s be real, AMD and nVidia are the only options
Except Intel actually presented a good alternative, but was never seriously considered by most people for whatever reason.
Personally I didn’t consider Intel, because I remember earlier attempts by Intel, where Intel quickly left the market again. And I didn’t want a GPU where I’m left without driver support a year after I purchased it.
So in my case it was lack of trust in Intel to stay the course. But every other maker would have that exact same issue.
There have been a few attempts in the past from other makers, but they all had performance or driver issues or both. Intel delivered a stellar product by comparison. And if Intel drops out of GPU again, I think there’s a pretty big risk it may be our last chance for a third significant mid-high end GPU maker on PC. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The same way I handled being 36 and 38, and every other age.
It’s only a crisis if you make it a crisis. If you have a nice life be happy about it. - Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 2 weeks ago:
And Dr. Mengele was the best personal doctor EVER!
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 4 weeks ago:
It’s obviously not a delusion if you know it’s fantasy, it’s only a delusion if it’s fictional, but you strongly believe it to be true. Like believing there is life after death.
Fantasy is a part of our imagination, that enable us to speculate on things that may happen in the future, and prepare for them.
We can do that for fun, and speculate on things we very well know will not likely happen. That is entertainment.Delusion is to believe things that are very unlikely to have either already happened or will happen, but believe them despite being contrary to logic and the evidence. Like for instance religions or believing Santa Clause is real.
If a delusion is fixed, and no degree of evidence it is a delusion will persuade the person. It can become much like a psychosis:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PsychosisTherefore Religion can reasonably be considered a mental illness. Which most today will not be willing to acknowledge, but I think maybe in 50 years will become more accepted.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 4 weeks ago:
That’s a question for your local police intelligence service, I’m sure they can point you in the right direction.
- Comment on Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t autocorrect, but with a spelling error you can right click and use a suggestion. But if all suggestions are wrong, you have to correct manually.
- Comment on Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal? 5 weeks ago:
feel I must must be doing something wrong.
I don’t think so, I have the exact same experience. Pretty ordinary words are unknown, and simple spelling mistakes/typos often have very bad suggestions, so you have to correct manually.
This is the greatest weakness of Firefox IMO, if someone has a suggestion, it would be extremely nice.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 month ago:
Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed
Fox News is not acknowledged as a news channel outside USA. In fact it would be illegal to call it a news channel in mostly any other “western” country. You might as well post stories from the Onion and call it news.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 month ago:
Mormons
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 month ago:
Once I would probably have said when everybody has enough.
But I have found out that is naive, because looking at billionaires, it’s obvious that people just increase their consumption to the extreme if they can. Apparently we will never have “enough”.With near limitless resources, we will probably want to own our own planets.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 month ago:
Hey I love my double packaging, because I love sorting my garbage. /s
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 month ago:
If it’s infinitely long it has zero energy, making it kind of irrelevant.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 2 months ago:
Apple was built on innovation, and you completely left the original product out.
Apple II, Macintosh, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, iPad. In software OSX was also significant, and obviously IOS that worked extremely well for both iPhone and iPad.
The M series of SOC are also way ahead of anything else. Retina display for iPhone was also a first. And finally the technologies Apple has used to completely switch the hardware architecture of major series of products.
First from Motorola to IBM Power, then from Power to x86, and finally from x86 to Arm. No other company has dared doing that, and when Microsoft tried to emulate it, AFTER Apple they did it way worse!There is no way you can realistically say Apple is not generally an innovative company, and that they aren’t leaders. When 5 times they’ve been leading major changes within an industry. What other company did that? There are very few companies that have brought groundbreaking disruptive new products like Apple has.
I’m saying this as one who has sworn never to buy another Apple product, because I despise the Apple closed garden mentality. So I’m definitely not a fanboy.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 2 months ago:
Apple rarely leads the charge.
Absolutely that is how it is now, but they did coin the format every modern smartphone uses today. And originally they were way ahead of the competition in almost every aspect. They were so dominant, that for years there was a shortage for every other manufacturer of components to build smartphones that could compete!
But a lot has happened since the still pretty recent emergence of the first iPhone, that absolutely revolutionized the concept of smartphones.
And the competition is absolutely cutthroat, so even major renowned labels couldn’t keep up.
Like Nokia, HTC, Ericsson that were all major brands, are now almost completely gone. Obviously the Blackberry RIM is almost gone too, and I think Microsoft is out completely now, despite they were a significant factor before iPhone, and investing billions in an attempt at a come back!So it is quite amazing that a statement like Apple rarely takes a lead is so easily taken as a true statement, considering how different it was just a few years ago. A testament to the absolutely crazy development cycle smartphones still have.
Apple does however still lead on the SOC by a good margin. - Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 2 months ago:
Apple is pioneering better SOC than anybody else.
But apart from that you are perfectly right, none of the big 3 companies are actually pioneering anything anymore.
Google never was, but leaned on 3rd parties that made some very good Nexus phones, ending with the Huawei made P6.
Now the pioneers are mostly Chinese, while Samsung seems to be falling behind.
Google Pixel was never a front runner, iPhone was traditionally in some areas mostly software, while Samsung was in both software and hardware.
If you want the coolest newest stuff, it seems China is ahead with Xiaomi, Honor, Vivo etc.
The Samsung S25 Ultra is still absolutely a great phone, and I think recognized as the leader to beat, as a well rounded high end package.Regarding camera I think it’s getting damned hard to say which is best, comparison tests with many photo’s seems to swing between one phone maker to another, and movie stabilization also vary, even with good camera.
I think Samsung is still clearly ahead of Google and Apple, and the Chinese phones too have strengths and weaknesses. I like Xiaomi a lot in their flagship killer range, but on the top tier, they still have problems with camera stabilization Samsung handles better IMO.
The thing that impresses me most, is how much phones still improve in a single generation.
Maybe not enough to ditch the old one, but definitely enough to make the new model worth considering even when you can get last years model at a pretty hefty discount. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 2 months ago:
I absolutely answer the questions, what’s your problem?
What part of the question is not answered in my reply?Am I not free to ad my opinion too?
- Comment on What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm? 2 months ago:
Keep it under running water for ½ an hour, at the level that is the most comfortable.
Don’t make it too cold, but cold enough to ease the burning sensation. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 2 months ago:
OP wanted cheaper phones, but phones ARE getting cheaper with better features too.
- Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 2 months ago:
Well it’s not ALL progress, personally I’d like the notification LED and the mini jack back.
But overall, I think modern smartphones are amazing. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 2 months ago:
That would be things like not being able to replace the battery.
Fortunately EU is regulating that shit now. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 2 months ago:
Because the development of new Smartphone SOC has been very strong, and the new ones really are better in multiple ways. The gains are far from minimal.
Also you can get usable smartphones dirt cheap now, that are both way better and way cheaper than just a few years ago.
The reason they all make better phones is due to this thing we call competition. If all brands except one stopped making better phones, the one that continues will take marketshare from everybody else, and have by far the best profits, because the highest profits are with the high end phones. - Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 2 months ago:
Why is it rong to forgive the one you love ?
Whoever you were unfaithful with hadn’t promised your boyfriend anything, so definitely it’s irrational to blame him.
If you had agreed to be in a monogamous relationship, you broke that agreement, and for most people that’s a very serious thing.
I do not however buy into your claim that this issue is something men care about more than woman. On the contrary women are generally the ones complaining about unfaithful men, to a degree one would think that is much more common. When statistics clearly indicate that since there are more men than women, chances are that on average, women are more frequently unfaithful than men.