BlackLaZoR

What if I’m Commie?

Trivial answer is there - They raised voltage to whooping 1kV (compared to 480V in tesla chargers) - but that creates a whole bunch of new issues

Tesla chargers are already using liquid cooling to keep the charging cord from overheating. I don’t even want to know how overengineered this thing must be

In principle yes it does - in case of TCP based protocols, without forwarded ports incoming connections aren’t possible. In the context of the main Torrent protocol this means you can only connect to peers that have ports forwarded. This is largely solved by uTP protocol that uses UDP hole punching method to circumvent this.

So the sort answer is no this doesn’t matter unless you’re using very feature poor torrent client.

I don’t see that where I live - some ISPs offer port forwarding, some don’t. Some just give you IPv6 with ports unlocked manually in router config

As US citizen you’re on the hook for US income tax. No matter where you live

This seems unlikely considering it’s designed as 5070 competitor

On the bright side, it’s a great 600W room heater! And a portable fireplace (ignition cable included)!

Why should I even care?

Basically as tall as tallest mountains - 8km before gravity starts overcoming the materials. Using stronger materials would allow building higher, but not too much

The rumour is nonsense and Valve isn’t making a console with a 9070

Valve isn’t making a console, but independent OEMs definetly are. There were branding guidlines released by Valve some time ago. It looks like Valves plan is to maintain the operating system, while everyone else is making hardware running it.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valves-new-branding-guidelines-hint-at-steam-decks-steamos-for-more-devices/

you only need one pool of memory

RAM is dirt cheap lately, so I don’t think it would make sense to design entire custom circuitry to save on that

Surely this just adds cost and design complexity.

I’d say it’s the opposite - it’s just a small form factor PC with off the shelf components

I don’t think the stock drop was about R1 hype. I think it was about parent company circumventing NVIDIA CUDA and building AI software in GPU machine code directly. Licensing GPU drivers for cloud services is a major income source that has been threatened

Did executives misread the market?

The problem isn’t detailed graphics, the problem is shit performance. The new generation of UE games look average, and require ridiculous hardware + upscaling to run smoothly

We’re getting fucking old, aren’t we? :)

you can just use 01/01/2000

Fundamental flaw of the democracy: It assumes that people know what’s the best for them

There’s quite well defined legal framework of what Unions can and can’t do - this shouldn’t be a drama topic

has begun outsourcing quality assurance work without the union’s agreement

Were they obligated to ask union for permission?