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I've never tried it, but in Windows you can have CUDA apps fall back to system ram when GPU vram is exhausted. You could slap 128gb in your rig with a 4070. I'm sure performance falls off a cliff, but if it's the difference between possible and impossible that might be acceptable.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5490/~/s...

I’ve been using Krita for a year or so now. At first I found the UI very confusing, but after learning the top bar is just as important as the side bar it really works.

YouTube videos of pros using it will blow your mind. It’s really powerful.

https://krita.org/en/

I tracked down another source which has a much better image: the frog on a coin, giving a sense of scale. Very neat, absolutely tiny.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240220-worlds-tiniest-f...

Not who you asked, but Asus was in the news last year for overvolting the CPUs on their AM5 boards killing both the CPU and motherboard itself.

I have a sample size of one, so I really couldn't say. Problems with long boot times, Expo causing BSOD, context restore not working etc appear very widespread on the AM5 platform by what I'm seeing online.

Are you on AM5? My kids' AM4 board is a Gigabyte, and my friend has two AM4 MSI boards and they're all working fine.

This fall I bought a 7700X with an MSI motherboard through a Microcenter bundle. The board came out in late 2022 and the firmware is still atrocious. I found a single release from August last year that is actually stable, anything newer causes significant problems. Failure to POST level problems.

If Intel can return to competitiveness without just dumping 300 watts* into a CPU I'll be switching back next time.

[*] https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/intels-300w-core-i9-14900k-cpu-...

There's definitely a trend of FOSS products and older trivially priced products being bought up by companies that re-release in subscription models. So frustrating.

I always get recommendations on the Play Store for World of Goo, an amazing game from 2008 that you can now only play if you're a Netflix subscriber. The 1.7 star rating has convinced no suits that that might not be what people what.

On iPhone I used to use Frame Grabber all the time. It was free and the full source on GitHub. They sold the rights to a company who now charges $20/year for the same thing. No ill will to the original developer, but jeeze. $20 to get a slightly better quality frame from a video vs just screenshotting your phone? No thanks.

Siri must not like me, she never does what I want.

"Hey Siri, turn off my alarm" (ignores me)

"Hey Siri, turn off my alarm" (ignores me)

"Hey Siri, I'm going to buy an Android" (turns off alarm, refuses to elaborate)

This is how it works in my town. My elementary school kids start at 7:20, but I checked their future high school and they start at 8:15.

Logistically it makes sense-- high school kids can get themselves to school even if their parents have already left for work. Sucks for little kids though. My five year old has to be in bed by 7:00pm and even then waking him up is a chore. He sleeps until 8:00 or 8:30 if left undisturbed on weekends.

I drop my two elementary school kids off before the 7:20 bell every morning. We're too close for school bus service, but I checked the schedule and the first stops begin before 6:45.

I had to pay $800 for an ambulance my son never actually rode, that someone else called. They administered a band-aide to his forehead.

Oh dear, yes I did.

This is great news. My kids are both dual citizens of the US and Japan, born here. I know when they turn 20 they'd pick the US if forced to and that has long stressed me out. They'd be giving up so much and would probably regret it later.

I always assumed fiber either worked or didn't, but that's not the case. My connection would drop several times a day and be down for around two minutes before the fiber gateway rebooted itself to correct the problem. I had countless service techs out, had the gateway replaced twice, and it still continued. It wasn't until I filed an FCC complaint that AT&T took me seriously and sent out a properly educated network engineer out with special equipment who was able to fix it.

I actually wrote something up about it, though I haven't updated the page since it was fixed. https://duffyjp.github.io/2023/08/02/Log-ATT-Router-Status.h...

I do have a pretty deep table at around 33 inches, but my secret is that I use a lapdesk for my keyboard & mouse. I set the whole thing on an ottoman I have under the table for my feet when I'm done.

It's super comfortable and as long as I'm careful about the enormous screen I can still use the table for projects when not on the computer.

This will unavoidably sound like one-upmanship, but I've been using a 43" 4K screen in my home office for probably five or six years now. I'm on my second panel. The first one was a Hisense TV and the new one is an Aorus monitor.

It is absolutely fantastic. My eyes are around four feet from the screen and I don't get that blurred vision you get from extended near-work anymore. I could never go back.

I'd recommend looking into the 5G home internet services all the major cell carriers offer. They're all cheaper than I was paying Spectrum for their minimum tier. None are offered at my address unfortunately but being in Seattle I'd bet you could get one.

I had fiber installed this summer and until they finally sent a staff engineer out it was going down 2-5 times a day. I work from home so I had to tether to my phone for Teams meetings to make sure I'd stay connected. It was actually completely fine and I only get 2 bars of LTE at home.

AT&T finally started offering fiber in my neighborhood this summer while Spectrum raised their minimum tier another $5. Needless to said I've seen a lot of AT&T vans around.

Unlike most folks my experience with fiber has been dreadful but at least I'm not paying out the nose for a connection with less upload speed than phone.

This summer I bought two Intel 2TB nvme drives for $65 each. Not the newest tech but I've also never had a problem with an Intel SSD. I still have my original 40GB from 2012 in an old laptop and it works just like new.

The company that bought their SSD division (Solidigm) supports the Intel branded drives, and their utility had firmware updates ready to go for the ones I bought.

I'd probably buy a Solidigm if I needed a new drive and these firesale Intel drives are gone.

I have an Optiplex with an i7-2600 and 1050 Ti in the basement. We use it to Parsec games onto my wife's laptop when she (rarely) gets the itch to join in with our boys playing games.

Was the 9700K -> 7700X upgrade a nice jump? I've been running MSI afterburner and keeping an eye on GPU usage and am often only using ~80% while well under my monitor's FPS limit. It doesn't show any CPU cores pegged but I assume that's my bottleneck.

I tried measuring the wattage of my Pi Zero W when I got it but my Kill-A-Watt just registered 0 even when running stress -c 1. ;)

I'm with you on this. I have the Pi Zero W and Pi Zero 2 W. These are IMO the ideal devices in their lineup. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for when computers had limitations but I love them. I have the old one running PiHole, (so DNS stays up if I reboot my server) and the other doing monitoring. I've had zero problems doing everything over wifi, and actually being wifi is a benefit for my internet monitoring since wifi going down on my mandatory AT&T router wouldn't be captured by an ethernet connected device.

Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way buying a 9th gen Intel chip and having literally zero upgrade path on the same board.

My plan is to get the 7700X bundle, which for $400 with board and 32GB DDR5 is a steal, then when AM5 is replaced get a new CPU from the final generation.

I'm looking to snag the Microcenter Ryzen 7700X bundle the next time I'm in Chicago. Intel dominates stuff like Cinebench but that's not what I use my computer for. The Ryzens are very competitive in gaming at a fraction of the power draw and any of them are leagues ahead of my current i9-9900K in both single and multithreaded performance so I'd get a great uplift without heating up my office.

I find it amusing that my absolute best intel desktop chip you could buy in 2019 would now be considered a low power chip with it's 95W TDP.

I suspect iPhones do both. I have a 12 Pro, and when taking video the file is much more stable than the viewfinder while recording.

I tried removing a sign post in front of a photo of my car in Photoshop with their Firefly AI, and it refused to produce a result if I mentioned the model of my car.

I can't imagine a situation where Adobe could get in trouble for generating an image of a Prius, and it doesn't give you a reason for refusing-- but the possibility the AI was trying to avoid a word that sounds ever so slightly similar crossed my mind.

I was excited seeing iOS 9.3+ on their requirements listing, but after digging my useless but 100% functional iPad 2 out of storage it won't install the app. :(

I do use the built-in iPad as a second screen thing in MacOS with a still supported iPad on occasion and that works quite well.

The only reason I buy nicer phones is for the camera. My kids are getting older and I'm not taking 100 photos a day anymore so when my iPhone 12 Pro is retired I'll likely get whatever iPhone SE is current and call it a day. Hopefully by then they'll have FaceID and a full coverage screen like every other iPhone. But hopefully no dynamic island. I can't stand that gimmick.

My folks both have an SE (a 2 and a 3), and the photos are much better than you'd expect for a $400 phone. I've used them and they're plenty fast, it's really only the tiny screen that would give me pause.

If ~$400 can get you 5-6 years out of a phone that's a steal.

My wife's 5a was bit by a common "screen" completely dies for no reason bug. It's more like the phone is stone dead, but that's how Google describes it. Even though she was well past the 1 year warranty they replaced it free under a special warranty program due to how common it is.

And by replaced it, I mean they sent a different phone that had lots of wear and she lost all her non-cloud data.

There has only been one film I've been unable to find in our library system. It's an out of print foreign film and impossible to buy new or stream so I periodically would check eBay. Finally I found a copy at a good price and bought it.

The seller sent me a DVD-R in a case with an inkjet printed cover. I went out of my way not to pirate it and ended up doing so anyway. :(

In general though, our library has completely replaced Netflix for our house for ages. It's great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always:_Sunset_on_Third_Street