Recent content by Skripka

I was honestly expecting the wallet damage to be worse. It still definitely sucks, but I was expecting it to start at $1500

Guessing the price is going to be painful

LOL. Laptop 5080 for how much????

Yea, no new products for at least another year. Sorry. No new products...unless you need AI shovels.

McMaster is a great place to buy just about all things. The problem is that the PC watercooling industry settled on a standard for threading of fittings and blocks called G1/4"...which is out there in the wild in plumbing and pneumatics... but very easy to buy the wrong thing unless you pay a...

That stuff is out there. But it is buried, because niche highly specialized use cases--which are the bread and butter of LLM and machine learning, are NOT sexy things that get Wall Street speculators to gamble massive amounts of money. Ars actually two articles about it today...

Apple changed CPU architectures 3 times in 25 years. And they did it because of being dictatorial to developers and herding (forcing) them to migrate both with carrot (bespoke built emulation initially) and then stick (you'll deal with it or lose support). MS has tried and failed to do Windows...

The good news... The AI bubble is close to popping. Even the one IRL Infinite Money Glitch of "Defense" spending subsidized by taxpayers isn't enough to keep this bubble going...Jensen literally is admitting he needs "AI Agents" to be his "customers"...which if that sounds a lot like AI bots...

The hilarious part about talking about local AI models...is the massive amount of pretending that local AI won't get instantly SaaS enshittified as soon as it is normie-possible. Because that is what is going to happen. No one is going to keep publishing models for free once it becomes possible...

I'm kind of meh about it. These are going to be priced only for people whose names are listed on the S&P500. Also, the cores on the CPU are from MediaTek who is renowned for shitty drivers.

I was almost wondering if this was NOS parts acquired at bargain-bin wholesale. I did a shop for a family member for a gaming rig, last year, and all they really wanted to spend was $600 on a prebuilt... Now they are exactly the sort of person who needs a prebuilt, and a service contract from...

It is part Asus tax, part ram and SSD apocalypse. Problem with making the cooling beefier--you need a much bigger non-NUC sized chassis. Which the NUC form factor is the only reason to get a NUC and not any of the other mini-PCs. Small, powerful, quiet; pick one or maybe two. At 3.2 liters or...

LGA1700?? Are we back in COVID?I like a sub-4L chassis, but this system is obsolete before it is even listed...funny part is labeling it "AI" anything--because of course they do.

I got into Crimson Desert...and oh my. Beautiful (and gigantic) open world that feels alive and interesting and populated, great combat mechanics. ...and a protagonist character that has all the personality of a 2x4. Seriously the publisher's last video game had an amazing character...

AXP90 is a great little cooler...depending on what you're wanting to cool. That being said the stock fan is only okay, and finding a similar low-profile fan is a problem. I had one way back for a bit in my NCase days. Just give Bazzite a go. It is easy to psyche yourself out. With a 5080...