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idk to me that just seems intuitively like something you'd need to have to be credible? Cold is a different story...but how can hot not be covered?
The more countries are in this game the better for us all.
Much like other stuff when there isn't enough competition the consumer gets wrecked
Thats on a 22 bucks plan.
idk wtf Google is doing with their plans but really need to make an effort to put some distance between myself and that circus
And it’s not like GM and friends are catching up. If anything the gap is widening rapidly.
Unfortunately their plan structure is on par with their model naming.
The plans that allow for own domain and the plans that allow for sane AI use are mutually exclusive
Tech scene can’t even muster enough collective consensus to slow a „this is potentially dangerous“ scenario let alone a vague eroding of humanity.
Still I’m all for people’s right to strike for whatever reason they like
That seems improbable
Also just discovered there is an entire subreddit full of this genre
It’s not like companies never shipped broken shit before AI
Other countries are better positioned. e.g. UK has really spiky wind energy. Right this second more than half the grid is wind. Which is both cool and problematic for managing the grid.
Grid scale cheap storage would dramatic help manage that chaos
I can tell an American wrote this lol
Still problematic but this doesn't really read like a backdoor to me.
Voluntary packages tend to be accepted by the strongest employees
It’s a shitty deal for companies but shareholders love cost cutting
Solar is cool but solar that can make it through the night and a couple cloudy days is way cooler
Is it though? You’re likely paying more on prem per unit of electricity and the racks of NVIDIA cards also aren’t exactly cheap.
I don’t see how that leads to 10%. I can see it being a good pitch if you’re in the biz of selling on prem servers though
That's just modern corporate capitalism.
Manufacturing economics favour making everything the same for scale, while sale economics favour market segmentation.
I don't think you've understood the problem I'm describing. A TV with a 60hz panel literally can't smoothly display a 24fps incoming signal. Even though 60 is more than 24 modern TVs can't [0] drop the panel rate to match the incoming 24 fps signal. Instead they keep the panel at 60hz and fuck with the timing of every 2nd frame to compensate for 60 not being divisible by 24 - judder.
To get a smooth picture everything has to be either same or a clean multiple of the source material. (roughly - fractions like 23.976 aren't noticable but 60/24=2.5 is right in the middle....worst case scenario).
Best way around this mess is 120hz end to end - which means no N100. Or just accept the judder.
>not smart TV apps.
I'm not advocating for them, just saying I understand why less tech inclined use them.
They are and that's part of the reason why it matters.
144/24 = 6
120/24 = 5
60/24 = 2.5
TVs compensate by showing you every 2nd image longer causing a slight but noticeable judder effect. Panning shots don't look smooth etc. Much like font kerning once you see it you can't unsee it.
Plus ofc other uses like gaming. And frankly I also didn't want to set up a home theater with half the tech modern, the other half not. A bit like you want your PC screen and GPU to be paired well and not a 1080p screen with a 5090...
Having just gone through this...it's a lot harder than you think.
Current gen TVs have specs that garden variety connect a computer can't supply over HDMI. You need HDMI 2.1 with FRL to hit it. So you climb onto google, discover yes there are minipc that can do that...except only the new ones...the "AI" ones that cost you an arm and a leg. Also they need fast DDR5 memory which is great fun right now. And the more affordable ones are AMD so no quicksync.
So you think lets maybe do a USBC dongle to an existing device, only to discover that they require different firmware (!) on the dongle depending on whether you're using a mac or a windows PC [0]. And then you realize you actually need a cable capable of 48gbps and none of the ones lying around are labelled so you have to buy a new one just in case. And after you've done all that you still don't know why its connecting at 120hz not 144hz per TV specs. And then the whole media encoding circus starts...
I can 100% understand why people just type in wifi password and call it a day. The average consumer is not up for flashing firmware onto dongles to watch their big brother series.
[0] https://kb.cablematters.com/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=147