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    • Gators1G
      Gators1
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      And I thought Star Citizen was bad…

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      • ?
        A Former User
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        I’m guessing that a lot of that 100 billion has gone on subsidizing VR headsets to try and boost numbers? I just can’t believe it is all development costs even with the hardware side.

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          Blanks
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          They would have been better off just buying Second Life and adding VR support

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          • Gators1G
            Gators1
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            Or pornhub. It would have been a bigger hit than AI!

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            • GustafG
              Gustaf
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              Porn always leads the way in technological advancement.

              "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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              • ?
                A Former User
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                Y’all might stay in better hotels than I usually do and have wirelessly charged phones but:

                I bought a good headset for work last year that came with a quality feeling, 6’ long USB cable and, as happy as I’ve been with the headphones, I’ve packed the cable now on two trips involving stays at many hotels and I’ve been so happy to have it. I don’t know what they cost if you buy just the cable but it’s a highly recommended purchase. No more dangling phones from wall points that are too high off the floor and most of the time I can still lie on a bed or sit in a chair and use my phone while it’s charging.

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                • Gators1G
                  Gators1
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                  Chords? OK boomer.

                  The hotels I have been to recently have a charging block thing in the rooms with USB 2/3 connections, a power outlet and wireless charging. It’s on the night stand next to the bed. My ear buds can go anywhere in the room, even the bathroom so I can keep talking while I go have a shit.

                  #USA #firstworld

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                  • Gators1G
                    Gators1
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                    BTW you can probably get whatever length USB chord you want on Ali. They sell them on Amazon here

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                    • PakoonP
                      Pakoon @Gators1
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                      @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                      BTW you can probably get whatever length USB chord you want on Ali. They sell them on Amazon here

                      But keep in mind that the longer the cable, the lower the data transfer speeds.

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                      • Gators1G
                        Gators1
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                        That sounds like something you used maths to figure out. GTFO!

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                        • PakoonP
                          Pakoon @Gators1
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                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          That sounds like something you used maths to figure out. GTFO!

                          Take that back!

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                            A Former User @Pakoon
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                            @Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            BTW you can probably get whatever length USB chord you want on Ali. They sell them on Amazon here

                            But keep in mind that the longer the cable, the lower the data transfer speeds.

                            Android USB data transfer is such a pain in the arse I always use bluetooth or transfer via the internet.

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                            • PakoonP
                              Pakoon
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                              I feel my cable expertise is going to waste here.

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                              • GustafG
                                Gustaf
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                                Maybe stop letting the Russians drag their anchors through them

                                "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                  oyaji @Gustaf
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                                  @Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  Maybe stop letting the Russians drag their anchors through them

                                  So now the Finnish Navy is going to police the high seas?

                                  © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                                    Smith Noah  /  Mar 2

                                    Microsoft now offers a free tool for Windows 10 and 11 users to refresh their PCs

                                    Microsoft now offers a free tool for Windows 10 and 11 users to refresh their PCs

                                    Anyone who’s used a Windows PC for a while knows that keeping it running smoothly can be a bit of a challenge. Over time, your computer ... Continue Reading →

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                                      A Former User
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                                      I barely use Facebook and don’t think I follow anyone of note but it seems Facebook verification is useless:

                                      Sohan Dsouza (@sohandsouza.info)  /  Mar 8

                                      Sohan Dsouza (@sohandsouza.info)

                                      Sohan Dsouza (@sohandsouza.info)

                                      Facebook Page (cid=100095328189213) with verification mark and over 3M followers impersonating Barron Trump since being renamed and scrubbed almost 2 months ago, farmed from Vietnam since almost 2 years ago.

                                      Was just thinking that with the ability to generate fake pictures, audio and video getting better and cheaper all the time, Twitter’s verification system (pre-Musk) would have been invaluable in the current era and going forward.

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                                        Sarfraz Khan  /  Mar 11

                                        Bolt Graphics Makes Bold Claims; Introduces Zeus With Up To 10 Times The Rendering Performance Of RTX 5090 GPU

                                        Bolt Graphics Makes Bold Claims; Introduces Zeus With Up To 10 Times The Rendering Performance Of RTX 5090 GPU

                                        Bolt Graphics has reportedly produced another high performance graphics processor called Zeus, claiming up to 10x the performance of RTX 5090

                                        Huge if true, and competition would be great, but I won’t believe it until I see it, and looks like the stock market won’t either.

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                                          A Former User @Pakoon
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                                          @Pakoon

                                          The single-chip design will feature 77 Gigarays while the dual and quad offerings will boast 154 and 307 Gigarays

                                          Wow!

                                          Brb. Gotta look up what a Gigaray is.

                                          An article from Tom’s Hardware says this:

                                          . There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques. This means it has little of no chance to become one of the best graphics cards.

                                          I don’t know enough about it myself to understand it all.

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                                          • PakoonP
                                            Pakoon @A Former User
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                                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            @Pakoon

                                            The single-chip design will feature 77 Gigarays while the dual and quad offerings will boast 154 and 307 Gigarays

                                            Wow!

                                            Brb. Gotta look up what a Gigaray is.

                                            An article from Tom’s Hardware says this:

                                            . There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques. This means it has little of no chance to become one of the best graphics cards.

                                            I don’t know enough about it myself to understand it all.

                                            Well, that’s actually good news since path tracing is superior to ray tracing and I prefer that when making product renderings. I’m not sure if any games support path tracing at the moment, but I’m sure it will become more common in the future.

                                            Photon tracing and PMC are even better, though, but takes a lot of time and computing power.

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