OpticalMoose

joined 2 years ago

Just a weird post to close out the old week. I recently learned that my uncle doesn't use a bank account. I think he has one now, but doesn't really use it. He's gotten paid in cash and paid for all his stuff in cash.

This is no small time operation either. He's a logger, so he's bought and paid for several logging trucks over his lifetime, and a house too. He just handles all his money in cash.

I'm almost the exact opposite, I don't touch cash unless I have to. The first truck I bought, a 1995 Ford Ranger for $13,995 was all paid through direct withdrawal from my paycheck. I really don't know if that money ever physically existed.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

Benchmark numbers are nice, but none of that matters until we see the price it actually sells for.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I think it's rude to ask someone why they're not married and/or don't have kids, especially if you just met.

Just for kicks, I told a few people I was divorced and they were totally ok with it. But saying you're not married invites a ton of follow up questions.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the Shin and Buldak brands. I could probably eat ramen every day, but I keep seeing articles about how refined, bleached flour is linked to heart disease. We just can't have anything nice.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Damn. I've been looking for some decent whole-wheat ramen for ages. I can't believe it's not more popular.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.

(an old XKCD joke)

If they cancel my $5/month plan, I'm out. I'm not spending any more than that.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finally, a chance to cash in on my bored lemmings.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Just Peertube. I've been orphaned from my Mastodon instance and I don't think I'm going to sign up for another one.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

It's been pretty lackluster so far. Embedded(includes FPGA) is one of AMD's lowest performing divisions, along with gaming. They've used Xilinx circuitry in Ryzen AI CPUs (XDNA), but those have been slow to catch on.

There's a lot of copium in the AMD_Stock sub about how Lisa is playing the long game and Xilinx will pay off over time, but for now, it's a drag on revenue, operating margins and return on equity.

We paid $40B+ for a company that brought in less than 1.5B last year. - AMD bagholder, avg price $140😐

 
 
 
 
 
 

I don't know if anyone here uses [Tamper|Grease]monkey, but I asked my LLM to come up with a redirect from Xitter and it gave me this gem:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Redirect x.com to xcancel.com
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://x.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    var url = window.location.href;
    url = url.replace("https://x.com/", "https://xcancel.com/");
    window.location.replace(url);
})();

Works like a charm.

 

I had to take my GPU out to do some troubleshooting, so I figured why not try some games on the old Ryzen 5700G. Ray-traced Quake wasn't exactly playable at 3 fps, but I'm impressed that it could load and display correctly.

Other games I tried; Portal RTX wouldn't start at all. Spider-Man remastered did start, but I can't get past the load menu, not related to the Ryzen APU. Most of my library is 10+ years old, so pretty much everything else runs fine on the APU.

 

Looks like Valve is making progress towards releasing SteamOS on other platforms.

 

Edit: Best viewed with an ad blocker. Sorry, I didn't notice till someone pointed it out to me.

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