• 1 Post
  • 1.69K Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 24th, 2023

help-circle
  • I know people meme about “Zen 5%” (sidenote: genuinely a clever quip), but most of that is down to AMD massively reducing the power draw of the chips.

    If you set it to the same power limits as Zen4, you can get large performance improvements.

    Gamers have been saying for years that stuff is getting too power-hungry, but when steps were made to reverse this, they collectively lost their minds.

    Seriously, what are they expecting, a 25% improvement in performance at half the power draw, while staying on a 5nm-family node?

    AMD were dumb for thinking gamers give even the slightest fuck about power usage. Gamers would much more readily accept a CPU going from 120W to 500W if it meant an imaginary +20% perf uplift over a CPU going from 120W to 70W with a +5% perf uplift. I say imaginary because nobody with a high end CPU and a 4090 actually plays their games at 1080p low.













  • I’ve had my jaw fractured by a cyclist who knocked into me due to not paying attention. I now have an ugly scar because of it.

    There’s all kinds of obstacles in cities. Including hundreds of thousands to millions of people. I can tell you from experience that a bike going into you at 30-40 km/h will hurt.

    It’s not at all unreasonable to be against people pissing about on their phones while cycling.

    The issue is compounded by cyclists who ride through pedestrian areas, cyclists who seem to think red lights don’t apply to them, and people getting electric bikes and whizzing around effortlessly at a high speed.






  • If it went to court at all, it’s not clearly legal

    That’s not how the legal system works. You can sue anybody for anything. I can even use you for replying to me. It would just be thrown out of court, like the Epic Vs Apple case was.

    The reality is, Apple got taken to court, comprehensively won the case, Epic acknowledged they never really had a chance anyway and said they’d go no further.

    It’s completely legal.

    Why are you against creating laws that will hold Apple accountable?