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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
        last edited by

        @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
                last edited by

                @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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                • Gators1G
                  Gators1
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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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                    • PakoonP
                      Pakoon
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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
                          last edited by Pakoon

                          @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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                          • Gators1G
                            Gators1
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                            Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!

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                            • PakoonP
                              Pakoon @Gators1
                              last edited by

                              @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!

                              I didn’t say anything about FPSs. That’s why I posted it on a tech thread, not gaming forum.

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                              • GustafG
                                Gustaf
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                                You told us to build our rigs with this card and it sucks!!! Typical Russian disinfo!

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

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                                • eWildcatE
                                  eWildcat
                                  last edited by eWildcat

                                  You wouldn’t regret it if you had paid with Lithucoins, as we all do.

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                                  • JamJ
                                    Jam @Gators1
                                    last edited by

                                    @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                    Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!

                                    There may be a misspelling above?

                                    Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FFS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!

                                    "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                    • Gators1G
                                      Gators1
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                                      Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!

                                      Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

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                                      • KilemallK
                                        Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Gators1
                                        last edited by

                                        @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                        Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!

                                        Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

                                        Oh lordie the SRL guys- they make the mythbusters look tame.

                                        Survival Research Laboratories - Wikipedia

                                        Survival Research Laboratories - Wikipedia

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                                        Twain

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                                        • PakoonP
                                          Pakoon @Gators1
                                          last edited by

                                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!

                                          Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

                                          I’d like to have a few small ones with a bug tracking system for camping trips.

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                                          • ?
                                            A Former User
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                                            Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

                                            Don’t know how much more of an issue the change is over just having an Alexa powered device in your home at all but Amazon’s history around this stuff isn’t good.


                                            Further, Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever. Adults also didn’t feel properly informed of Amazon’s inclination toward keeping Alexa recordings unless prompted not to until 2019—five years after the first Echo came out.

                                            If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.

                                            Other reasons why people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed “thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces” taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.

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