Intel is trying to do the hardest thing and do everything, because historically vertical integration was their biggest technical advantage. AMD couldn't swing it (although that was admittedly helped along by Intel's anticompetitive acts) and wound up being better for letting it go. That's part of how they have the fastest processors around today. They also historically had to be better at design than Intel because they lacked the advantage of their then-cutting-edge processes. That design excellence combined with being on the superior process is currently unbeatable.

I genuinely wish Intel luck, because I really want them to advance technology like they used to. That relentless improvement pushed the industry forwards.

Roughly 30,000 pounds? Totally worth it to get rid of her permanently.

Minimum resource consumption has gone up a lot in the latest version of UE.

5070 seems pretty good if you can find one for a reasonable sale price, which seems to be happening occasionally as 5 series sales have slowed. But overall, the 5 series is a bust. They don't offer enough performance improvement over 4 series to make it worth switching from one to the other, so they are having a hard time selling it even to compulsive upgraders. Obviously they don't really care as the vast majority of their income comes from data centers.

I think the PC sweet spot for most people today is going to be a very modern AMD MiniPC, with a lot of memory. Their "AI" chips are almost as fast at running LLMs as a typical GPU, and it's a lot cheaper to get a lot of RAM. The integrated GPUs are about to the point where they're good enough for 2k gaming, which will satisfy most people. (I prefer to do 4k with some settings turned down, as it's crisper, but I don't think most average people care.)

I would like to see AMD do a more serious APU with a more powerful GPU with some decent VRAM on the package. They seem to have put out a patent which implies they are thinking about integrated liquid cooling (factory waterblock) which would help that along. You could still have a fairly small package overall, especially with some of these AMD processors allowing temps up to 100 C. Around 16GB of VRAM on package and the ability to load data gracefully from system memory (128GB sounds about right, I have 64GB in my desktop with a 16GB discrete GPU now) and you'd cover most needs for most people.

...their screens are broken and they didn't see what you wrote anyway.

I have a personal Android phone and a work iPhone. The work iPhone has failed at doing its OS update two or three times in a row, then today when I needed to actually use my phone to call people for work it as saying I haaaaad to update iOS and RIGHT AWAY. While it was not a big hardship to click emergency and then cancel (with only a slight pucker factor for "I sure hope this prick doesn't dial 911 when I press emergency") and then dial the number, it was irritating and it would be confusing to most people confused by multi-button mice.

Now granted, the Android phone isn't getting OS updates any more, so you could call that a strike against it. Except, I paid about $250 for it including two years of insurance, it still gets 5 days of battery life despite being four years old, and it still has a better interface than the stupid iPhone with its garbage keyboard. It's still cheaper to own an Android phone even if you replace it every time they stop updating the OS.

Google says they're going to destroy sideloading, which has always been a big point of smugness over the iPhone. I am not happy about that. In fact, I will start considering alternatives. But Apple is not one of those. I know it's crap because I use both regularly.

OK, so the answer is "nobody".

I agree with openness promoting uptake and being good in general. However, the comment was also potentially misleading. Besides Tesla's "open" patents (which were a scam) there's also that IBM did not intend the PC to be as open as it was. It was the fashion of the day to publish schematics and documentation for personal computers. IBM did not mean for the BIOS to be cloned, they fought tooth and nail against it. If Compaq didn't fought their way through, the PC would have remained IBM's territory, and probably lost out to some other system.

So yes, openness is desirable, but most of the time we have had to fight for it. And even where it exists, entrenched interests fight against it, like Microsoft had done with OSS in general, and like Redhat is doing with the GPL.

Nothing like clicking on the wrong thing and losing the post.

What I want them to do is to use the data the IRS is already collecting quarterly if not monthly. Every legal employer is reporting, either W2 or 1099. You know down to the smallest part time job who is working legally.

You will miss illegal workers this way, but the numbers HAVE to be more accurate than surveying 60,000 households to guess at what 400,000,000 people are doing.

That's also the culture over here, except fewer and fewer people can afford those things, and a bunch of upper lower class people have been conned into believing that they are middle class because they're more than one or two paychecks away from being destitute — but still just one serious medical event away from bankruptcy.

I agree with you but it's whack-a-mole because the AIs are not just generating the videos, they are generating the channels. If the channel doesn't become popular or loses popularity, they just generate another one.

Who used Tesla's "open" (in exchange for agreeing not to sue them ever, which is really just a licensing scheme) patents?

It should never have been allowed to get this bad. Now either something is done or a lot of people die, what percentage of them do you think will decide not to go without a fight? Even if it's a percent of a percent, it's still a lot of people.

Granted, but it's common colloquial usage. Also, there is a whiff of truth to it, because they've dominated the market with their standard. This is really AMD's fault though, because they have fooled around with providing support for various chips and Nvidia has supported CUDA on everything since they started using it at all.

I would like to agree with you about the AI hype, but a lot of people don't know jack about jack, so they can't tell the AI results are bad.

You think it makes more sense for nations to allow corporations to become too big to fail than to sponsor competition so as to avoid single points of failure?

That's the purpose of suing them. You can put whatever you want in a contract, but that doesn't mean every part of it will be deemed valid.

On one hand, I agree with you. That's a reason why I don't think it makes sense to be dependent on closed-source software unless you own and maintain it. On the other, vmware used to be the only credible game in town.

There is still a middle class. It is very small, but it does exist. Companies are charging enough for these high-end doodads that they don't have to sell very many. Their name is very good. They have a well-developed reputation for quality, admittedly with some flubs, but who's perfect? $1200 is not that much these days if you have a decent salary. The number of people who think that they do but actually don't is simply very large.