Isaac Schrödinger

Premium Fab

The pinnacle of technology is not cheap:

[...] Micron's latest investment will become the first all-new memory manufacturing fab constructed within the U.S. in the past two decades. According to Micron, only 2 percent of memory available on the global market is produced domestically.

Micron's current timetable states that actual construction on the Boise fab will commence in early 2023. Cleanroom space will become available in phases, starting in 2025. Later that year, Micron will be ramping production of DRAM products. However, the fab won't operate full-tilt until the latter part of this decade, once the entire 600,000 square feet of cleanroom space becomes available.

Micron will spend a mind-boggling $15 billion for just this one location.

Infinite Storage!

30TB SSD for $39:

[...] Windows detects the unit as two 15TB drives. In reality, the microSD cards were smaller. He noted that the USB-C to USB-C 3.1 cable is a sham and the drive sticks to the USB 2.0 standard, allowing transfer speeds up to 60 MBps. The hacked firmware writes new data on top of the old data and keeps the directory. It appears to be working, but when you try to access your files, there's nothing there.

30TB in that form factor doesn't even exist. Even if it did, it'll be easily over $3,000.

I do wonder how many people ordered this "amazing" deal.

Taiwanese engineering

My laptop in the late 90s had data transfer speeds at around 10-15 MB/s. With the latest NVMe SSD drives, one can hit 10-15 GB/s. That level of data throughput would have sounded absolutely ludicrous back when my total hard disk size was 2 GB!

This upcoming ASUS motherboard will have space for four NVMe SSDs without the use of add-in cards. That's going to be nirvana for serious gamers, photographers, and video editors.

New CPUs, motherboards, and GPUs are coming in Q4. It should be an excellent time to upgrade for those who were discouraged by the GPU prices of the past two years.

Nothing just about it

I couldn't help but laugh when "Max GPU Length" and "Slot Width" showed up as metrics for comparison at the very top! The most important piece of information, memory size, is the fifth item to be mentioned.

It's so confusing when retailers pull these stunts. There are dozens of popular reviewers with years of experience who have mountains of data which easily and thoroughly contradicts what Newegg is displaying. Fake benchmarks are only going to deteriorate its reputation.

Thanks, Steve!

A buggy mess

After a delay of over six months, I was hoping for some competition for the value-level GPUs from nVidia and AMD. Instead, it just makes those two look good.

Thanks, Steve!

Nvidia is so nice

Last year, new graphics cards were sold out almost immediately upon delivery in stores. People would wait in line overnight to get theirs. Of course, some of them were scalpers who would sell the card online for over double the retail price. I saw $1,000 3080s going for over $2,500.

Now, the shortage is over. The glut is here! Stores have to move inventory as the new series of cards will be launched in the upcoming months. Nvidia just couldn't see their prospective customers suffer with crazy high prices. So, now they're offering some serious price cuts!

Lol! https://t.co/Qot3fnEOzl

— BowTiedBull - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI (@BowTiedBull) July 14, 2022

Such overwhelming kindness. Oh, their stock is down 55% from the top. Sad!

DSLR cameras are dead

When Nikon released the Z7, the Z7II, and finally the epic Z9, it was clear that DSLRs had been retired. They're simply too complicated and costly to produce. Mirrorless are smaller, lighter, and provide higher margins.

Japanese camera maker Nikon will withdraw from the single-lens reflex camera business and shift toward digital offerings amid intensifying competition from smartphone cameras, Nikkei has learned.

Nikon's SLR cameras have been widely used by professional photographers for more than 60 years and have come to be seen as synonymous with the Japanese company.

The D300 and the D800 were spectacular during their time.

Are you not entertained?

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022

Canada got rogered

A dumb, fragile system crashes and millions are impacted:

Rogers services appear to be coming back online, after a daylong outage at the telecom giant that left millions of Canadians without internet and cellular service, while also disrupting government services and payment systems.

It's logical that Rogers customers couldn't use their telephone or internet services. However, Canadians who have nothing to do with Rogers couldn't use their bank debit cards in grocery stores, restaurants, taxis, etc.

It gets worse:

Rogers-owned flanker brands like Fido and Chatr also went offline, as did services not directly controlled by Rogers, such as emergency services, travel and financial networks. [...]

Government services including already bottlenecked passport offices, Service Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency are also affected.

It would be easier to list services that weren't affected. The Internet traffic in Canada declined by 25% because of this outage. Rogers has been making sweet profits for decades thanks to their market power in Canada. Yet, they couldn't build a robust system. It's time for the fat cats to lose weight.

Running out of juice

Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/pO49VwF1jZ

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) July 8, 2022

Theater

It's so weird how none of you cared that a Saudi owned so much of twitter and that Saudi Arabia literally used the platform to hunt gay ppl so they could be arrested/executed, but you draw the line at the guy who builds electric cars and wants to fly to the moon...

— Yasmine Mohammed 🦋 ياسمين محمد (@YasMohammedxx) April 16, 2022

Yup. There's no social cost to thrashing a rich White guy. However, when the target is a colored Muslim, then there can be accusations of racism and Islamophobia. They aren't moral or logical; they're dumb, virtue-signaling cowards.

Blessings in disguise

So grateful to @TaylorLorenz and WaPo for helping me achieve this huge milestone! Is there an address I can send a thank you card @washingtonpost? pic.twitter.com/hLGPwn219q

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2022

The memes have begun

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— ₿roken UTXO (@brokenutxo) April 25, 2022

So much drama

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— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 25, 2022

Of all the unhinged takes on the matter:

Amazing pic.twitter.com/XTMUlIfdMV

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 25, 2022

Engineering hell from Dell

Dell could have partnered with Lian Li and got a real case like the 011 Dynamic but then they couldn't use their stupid motherboard to fit. It's their obnoxious non-standard design decisions that limit them to in-house crappy options.

Only the approved billionaires

The Bee brings the news:

Democrats have explained that they absolutely do not want billionaires controlling our media, unless those billionaires are named Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, or George Soros—along with about a thousand other names, according to sources.

Never trust a bankster

Goldman Sachs had a sell rating on Twitter for $30.

Now they are saying Elon’s $54 offer is too low.

This is a microcosm of how the housing market crashed.

All of these ratings and banks are utter frauds.

It’s criminal.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 15, 2022

Namaste!

So very true

Another Very Bad Person

Satire is problematic

We're told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won't begin until we delete the tweet that violates the Twitter Rules. pic.twitter.com/85tdmrqJpU

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) March 20, 2022

The microwave thinks?

"The more smart devices becomes, the more stupid they are in reality."

The manufacturer saved a few cents by not having a reset feature. Now, they have to send technicians to homes to fix dumb microwaves.

Buy it for life

I had a Black and Decker cheapo blender before. One day, it just stopped working. Did my research and got the best.

We had a BlendTec for 10 years. Loved it as we had small counter top space when we got it. If you do a lot of stuff other than smoothies, such as hummus and pesto and dressings, the Vitamix edges it out cuz of the tamper. pic.twitter.com/JEu7dsjfMC

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 8, 2022

That tamper definitely helps. Vitamix is built like a tank. A lot of shops around here have the professional model with the cover. It's powerful and loud! 

Malignant Meta

When a White guy uses the word nigger, it can often be the end of his online life, job, and career. The context is irrelevant. However, forget Very Bad Words, it's acceptable to openly call for the murder of certain White people and leaders of select White nations.

Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.

The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators.

Very Important Paper

Where's the thermal pate?

It's mildly funny that someone at Newegg left the RMA sticker on the motherboard which goes to prove that they were selling a defective product.

AI is problematic

Reality is harsh:

Pattern recognition is an issue. pic.twitter.com/KBCbws3a9p

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) February 6, 2022

Meta Murdered

Over $200 billion evaporated in a few minutes:

Facebook parent company Meta (FB) took a shellacking Thursday morning following its Wednesday Q4 earnings results, amid a miss on earnings per share and a dreadful outlook for Q1.

Investors fled the company’s stock, sending it plummeting more than 20%, it’s largest post-earnings drop ever.

[...] Deep in Meta’s earnings slides, the company revealed that its user growth has slowed to a little more than a trickle. And in the case of daily active Facebook users in particular, the company actually lost 1 million users.

It's down 26%. Option holders must have made an absolute killing today.

After markets closed, Meta became number one with an unwanted record:

Facebook parent company Meta shed more than $220 billion in market capitalization on Thursday, the largest such single-day decline for a U.S. company in history.

Meta’s stock closed down more than 26% on Thursday, an 85-point decline. The drop was largely driven by a quarterly earnings report that found the company was hemorrhaging daily users for the first time in its history. CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally lost about $24 billion.

Newegg busted

Sometimes companies mess with the wrong guy:

Word goes Woke

The color of political correctness is purple:

Red lines are for spelling errors.

Green lines for grammar mistakes.

And now, purple lines are politically correct language police alerts.

Who asked for this garbage?

The checker can be turned on and off in a menu called “Grammar & Refinements”, which lists everything it checks: Age bias, Cultural bias, Ethnic slurs, Gender bias, Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Gender-Specific Language, Racial Bias, Sexual Orientation Bias and Socioeconomic Bias.

I wonder how long it takes before that on/off option is taken away.

Fake errors

Another aggravating thing that these companies do is to not support old hardware on newer operating systems. Over a decade ago, I built a new computer and after installing the new Windows noticed that my HP printer wasn't supported. So, I simply opened the older OS in a virtual window and got the printer to do its job. And yeah, the manufacturer ink toner costs over a $100. I got it for around $20 from a different supplier.

For your safety

This is an unworkable policy. Obviously.

Of course, it is beautifully constructed to allow Twitter to protect its friends and punish/hobble others with *selective enforcement* all while pretending to be impartial and interested only in the "safety" of the community. https://t.co/lWNoc5Mpu5

— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) November 30, 2021

Independent reporting or footage that doesn't fit the Narrative will be deleted. For example, a video of a future Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself will be blocked because the attackers didn't give consent.

Can you hear the angels?

That GPU inventory is impressive. It'll disappear in a few minutes.

There was a small computer parts store nearby. Over the years, I bought parts and built a few PCs. Unfortunately, it closed down. A Micro Center would be cool in Canada.

The Empire Strikes Back!

8-core CPUs went mainstream in 2017. Now, 16 cores are king. Before the end of 2024, we'll have CPUs with 32 cores for the average consumer. The last time we got such performance increases was with the Conroe debut in 2006. Photo and video editors should benefit the most when the software takes advantage of the cores.

X570 Dark

My jaw dropped when the system started stress testing the manual overclock while still in the BIOS. That's definitely cool.

Electric Fire

An incredible flight. It's begging for a big Hollywood movie:

So much tech

A factory in great detail

The dig at a certain power supply company was gold.

5 weeks for 11

It finally goes to 11:

Microsoft is announcing that Windows 11 will be released on October 5th. The new operating system will be available as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs, or on new hardware that ships with Windows 11 pre-loaded.

Why didn't Microsoft wait till October 11!? Come to think of it, November 11 would have been even better: Get Windows 11 on 11/11.

Microsoft clarified its minimum system requirements for Windows 11 last week, but also revealed a workaround for those who don’t meet them. You can install Windows 11 on any hardware using an ISO method, as long as the PC has a 64-bit 1GHz processor with two or more cores, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a TPM 1.2 chip. But if you use the workaround, your PC will be in an unsupported state.

It's strange that processors like the Ryzen 1000 series from 2017 will be in an unsupported state. Millions of people can and will install the new Windows but their system won't be secure. Lots of old people with old systems will be the target for viruses and scams.

Total destruction

Tech Wars

A shocking oops

The PC build commentary at the 24 minute mark made me laugh. I'm glad that none of my computer components are from Gigabyte. I wonder how many people waited months to get a  $1,000+ graphics card as part of a combo in a shuffle to then see it get fried by a defective power supply?

The SJW Cycle

Never give an inch.

>Geeky men create game.
>Game becomes massively popular
>Women who otherwise have no interest in genre demand entry.
>Women focus on SJW issues and identity politics instead of the game.
>Geeky men simp and white knight
>Women decry 'toxic masculinity.'
>Game destroyed https://t.co/LCMU7u0kXL

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) July 27, 2021

Hot Alien

Absolutely Absurd

$16,000 to fix a car that sells for $45,000. Ditch the Tesla and buy an excellent used car with that money.

Poor bots

Brothers of bots are highly susceptible to the Delta variant. Be careful if you’re a brother of a bot. pic.twitter.com/5RBRRcZcYq

— Luke Storey (@MrLukeStorey) July 13, 2021

Magnificent

The B stands for Broken

The Tech Giant of old can't handle the modern stuff:

IBM's planned company-wide email migration has gone off the rails, leaving many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events. And this has been going on for several days.

Current and former IBMers have confirmed to The Register that the migration, 18 months in the making, has been a disaster.

Reminds me of my workplace. The old email system was ugly, clunky, and slow. After the company moved over to a shiny, new email system, my boss came up to me and asked a question about something he emailed to us the day before. I had a confused look. "I didn't get the email."

"...What!?"

Apparently, some people did get it while others didn't. It was a fun few weeks.

Among those employees unable to access their email, there's concern that disappeared messages may not be restored. We've even heard that IBM employees have been approached by recruiters posing questions like, "Why are you still at IBM? They can't even get email straight."

At least, they're super woke!

No fix for you!

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