Great, now.i have to get a VPN to appear in Germany so that I can use the Firefox VPN

Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

I’ve been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.

Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I’ll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I’m already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.

It’s really insane how well designed AM4 is.

Ah, AM4.

At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.

I believe he meant “people use their browser like they use an appliance” as in they don’t know any details about it, just open it and use it as is.

I bought 16gb of ddr4 for 110eu back in 2018. Welcome back to the DDR wars, with NAND soon to follow.

BTW

Let me guess, are we holding it wrong again?

Which is why the proverbial canary is coughing a little, but is still alive.

TSMC announced their new gigafab in Arizona is being sped up with a 100 billion dollar investment to produce and later package the latest 2nm and A16 nodes. Taiwan is always a step ahead because it makes economic sense for it to be. If that stops being the case, then the US will take the lead and China will “Hong Kong” their way into Taiwan.

Unless China starts implementing the “We don’t care” stance due to the ongoing trade war, which, judging by this Nvidia move, they’re clearly moving towards.

China cares because they have an economic incentive to care. Once that’s gone they’ll switch their tune quite drastically I would assume and due to the nature of their government structure, quite rapidly, too.

The canary in the Taiwan coal mine is starting to cough a little.

Once China has AI parity or dominance with homegrown chips and the US can produce everything locally or in allied countries, there’s little need for the current protections to remain in place.

Honestly nowadays data plans are cheap on most mobile carriers and they’re obligated to have them work accross EU, so you no longer really need Wi-Fi when traveling.

Also, I can see this being easily and constantly exploited via Wi-Fi attacks where hackers set up fake Hotspots with the same name as the closest legit one.

1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%

Not if everyone buys it, because then we’d all look the same

Plastic waste has been a real headache for scientists lately, this solution would cure that headache in more ways than one

On the bright side you might be able to buy groceries with robux and vbucks soon