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they suddenly announced plans for currency redenomination here in 2027. For some reason, I always have a bad feeling about that year. Maybe next year would be the right time to upgrade, but I don't see my RX 6600 aging at all and it's still capable at 1080p

@jaxa Your comment about the rumor of next-gen Xbox becoming a hybrid pc-console seems reasonable. maybe this is the future we might be heading to By the way, we're getting Steam Machines, Steam Frames, and Steam Controllers 2 by Valve before GTA 6 and PS6 It uses a GPU that is slightly below RX7600 The RX 7650 and 7600 are like siblings. I was obsessed with the RX 7650 GRE as well, as I mentioned in my comment yesterday

Perhaps the thought that ‘GPU pricing will never recover from the COVID era’ continues to haunt me and also contributed to my earlier view, Not to mention the local pc market anomalies here (where many sellers like to jack up prices as high as $20-$30 for older GPUs like the RX 6600 and 3060 — you get the idea for RTX 40/50 or RX 7xxx series, or even when the price of some GPU series has dropped in several countries, the price remains unchanged here which is insane. i like to have price diffs feature and compare it to other countries pricing) coupled with a quite weak currency and a bit high taxes There's no equivalent of MicroCenter here that occasionally offers big discounts. But I've seen many people get an $80 discount for online store, lucky for them. the so called "twin date sale" concept is more prevalent here. Every time I visit the local PC builder forum, many people are still fixated in the mindset that for $450-$700, you can get a PC to play AAA games on high settings. I always share the hardpill that to build a truly capable new PC (without any second-hand parts), you must spend at least $1000-$1500. It’s a bit sad that some people still have to resort to older GPUs like the GTX 760, GTX 950, or RX 570/580 because the fact is that MSRP prices aren’t as affordable as they were 8-9 years ago, and inflation also plays a role. But it can't be denied that the MSRP pricing for the GTX 1070 Ti is cheaper compared to the 5070 ti, and the 1050 / 1050 Ti launch price compared to the 5050, is significantly different—that's just the reality. I will donate my RX 6600 to my little cousin when I get an RX 9060 XT 16GB or 5060 (at this age, he already knows that GPUs are expensive, probably because he compares his PC with his friends' PCs). Well, I also didn't realise that China has granted a 240-hour visa-free transit policy for this country. I'm curious about the RX 7650 GRE, which is exclusive to China. It's tempting to visit some electronic stores there I know AMD really likes to make products exclusively for China like 5500X3d . they can even get the Ryzen 9500F earlier

I actually want GPU manufacturers to pay attention to gamers again, not just AI. Over time, I get the impression that gaming is no longer a priority or has become the lowest priority("at the bottom of the GPU food chain") Regarding affordability, there also seem to be other factors such as the cost of PCB fabrication, wafer and die size, VRM, DRAM costs, etc. (I also expect more competition in the field of EUV in the future. but what's next, could it be e-beam litography? ). Perhaps this one is unrelated and more about the dram memory crisis: look at the delay in the release of the RTX 50 Super because the focus of GDDR7 is directed towards AI, servers and data centres. Regarding TPU, Well, I am by no means experts in this area, so my view of TPUs or other AI accelerator cards may be a bit warped. I've always thought that AI usage doesn't have to be limited to GPUs, and that it might be better if there were ASIC options for users who want to use them. I still associate this with the case that bitcoin can be mined with ASICs(and more profitable). There are some scenarios where TPUs can be faster than GPUs and vice versa. This is what still confuses me. I'm not entirely sure about enterprise use cases, but perhaps TPUs still make more sense for enterprise environments compared to individual users? i don't bother looking at the TPU price's tag for individual use. I am convinced that this TPU will gradually have an impact on GPU manufacturers, starting with enterprises first. I have no comment regarding latest Google Ironwood. TPU seems to have many limitations in terms of its software stack support, which is not yet mature, or its toolchain. Compatibility for some AI models is also limited, not to mention that it is proprietary. TPU seems to be used more for Google's in-house needs and the hardware is not sold separately. GPGPU is indeed more mature and ready for this purpose in terms of support and readiness. even gpu has tensor cores but I rarely hear it being used compared to CUDA. I clearly remember the hype around TensorFlow by Google in 2017-2019 and their TPU units. I'm still puzzled why Google isn't promoting this further instead gatekeeping it..? Apart from TPU that can be installed on PCI-E, there are AI accelerators in M.2 form factor, but they can only handle a few million parameters (30 or 40 if I'm not mistaken) for 8-bit models and of course with lower TOPS than high-end GPUs. Not to mention other accelerators created by TenTorrent, Sambanova, Groq, Cerebras, etc. It seems there are many alternative options available, I hope that with so much competition, it will also impact the GPU pricing

hope the "lindy effect" for magnetic recording (especially hdd) never wears off for the next 20-30 years

here is an article for the lulz, regarding crash : Windows may crash after 49.7 days - CNET Regarding Vista, ngl when I say that the first time I saw the Aero effect, it was truly eye candy and felt futuristic.

So DDR5 and SSD prices have really gone up, and many sellers have jacked up their prices (even for older production batches of DDR4 RAM (NOS - new old stock), for example, have also been affected after the announcement that DDR4 production would be discontinued). This is all due to demand from AI. This also reminds me to stockpile WD Blue HDDs (for cold storage) and Seagate Ironwolf HDDs (for future NAS projects, and it's CMR, baby). The mass flooding incident at the Western Digital factory in Thailand back then made HDDs unaffordable and left a lasting impression. even seagate has factory in there. thailand is the key player here. For some reason, I have a hunch that something like this might happen again in another form. Maybe it's just my confirmation bias. I can't imagine if GPU prices rise again someday and the price difference reaches $100-200. That could be the end of the "PCmasterrace", or maybe I'll switch to GeForce Now. Maybe a price hike as severe as during the COVID era will be hard to happen again, but we'll never know. For now, it's still at MSRP, thankfully. So right now in this very second I'm just hoping that TPU devices like the Coral PCI-E TPU will be able to surpass GPUs in the future when it comes to AI. Even though GPUs are still superior in many aspects today. There might be a huge shift when they become affordable to consumers, especially if their prices suddenly drop to near the MSRP of the RTX 5080 (just hypothetically speaking). I don't have any expectations here; maybe in 6-8 years there will be a seesaw effect. And lately, with the rise in PC component prices, for some reason I've become interested in the PS5/PS5 Pro, even though the downside is the increase in console game prices—though not significant—and there are some PC-exclusive games unavailable on consoles and vice versa. Every platform has its pros and cons, but at least the price hikes for consoles aren't as intense as those for PCs...

The dominance of GNU/Linux in the enterprise sector is quite surprising. In the mid-2000s, it was able to dominate and pure Unix operating systems such as SCO Unix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Solaris, etc dropped out of popularity real quick Was TCP/IP stack already included in Windows NT without having to purchase it separately? As far as I know, TCP/IP add-on was not included in Windows 3.1 My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I recall there was a discussion about graphics and printer drivers running in userspace on NT 3.x and being moved to ring 0 on NT 4.0. I'm still unsure about the facts. It seems to be related to performance and stability this old stuff reminds me of old Charles Petzold's book. For the modern book around windows, there's Mark Russinovich's book and this video :

As far as I know, NT is more popular among IT or sysadmins (the fancy term now is devops because it's a hybrid sysadmin, not sure about system engineer jobs)? Its advantages are probably its active directory and its ability to run a mail server (forgot what it was called before pre ms.exchange). The one that's harder to maintain is openldap (I've tried it and it is difficult), but there is an alternative called freeIPA. The main competitors to Windows Domain Services in the old Windows NT days should be Novell NetWare, Sun Directory Services (which also uses LDAP; I'm not sure about Sun Microsystems' NIS Yellow Pages. Does anyone still remember the Yellow Pages book containing business or corporate phone numbers and certain ads?), and Banyan Vines Operating System.... The origin of the word “workgroup” on windows can be traced back to here and dont forget with netbeui

Secondhand LTO autoloaders versions 4 and 5 are dirt cheap. Maybe in 1-2 years I will buy an LTO4/5 drive. For M-Discs, Ritek m-disc is hard to come by, and for archival grade discs, I'm still looking for a way to obtain Sony archival grade discs with a capacity of 128GB, this disc is one in a million . This is affordable option for now. need at least 10 pieces. Now the tedious part of the job is sorting all the data from the many 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives , 2 SSDs and flash drives and create a distributed backup of them. i have these all around the place. I also want to check whether flash-based storage that has not been turned on for a long time can still retain data and be readable ( mind you I still have piles of 256 and 512 MB flash drives ).

This is why i only want to capture room interior & house exterior only , not a person It might be valuable someday when we can seemingly step back into a place that has changed or disappeared. It can bring back that nostalgia feeling. Or perhaps in the future there will be a system that can record sensory data and produce realistic effects that we can truly feel from the past, such as touch, odor, audio, and video. There is something even crazier, which is bringing a deceased person back to life using AI and we watch it on VR. It seems like it will be difficult in terms of ethics and make someone overgrief. The data trained in AI only emulates a person's past behavior and speech. It would be even more sickening if it became AI fantasy-driven grief. OTOH, I think clinging too much to nostalgia/over nostalgic will bring bad things. Nostalgia can bring temporary happiness, but that happiness is only the result of temporary memories of the past.It would be bad to keep reliving it. It can also bring bittersweet feelings. And that happiness is not really a happy memory but a feeling of loss disguised as nostalgia. Staying trapped in those memories for too long can bring stagnation and take away our time to see what exciting adventures lie ahead, and of course reduce our ability to let go of things.

nevermind about my previous post about advanced and professional 3D laser scanners; this one is more affordable(with camera like insta360) Create stunning virtual tours with Matterport! The memory of a place (such as childhood home) can live on in this form or if you have room with r/battlestation setup in there

so it's better to have a dedicated Linux PC to manage this LTO Tape ? There is also something called LTFS. I was wondering whether LTFS is locked down to a specific vendor or not... Does Windows even still support LTFS? Many people recommend starting with LTO 4/5 because it is cheaper(nout counting SAS card here) and backward compatibility must be considered. But it seems that it is also a bit outdated

From several articles I have read, the read/write head of this tape should not be cleaned excessively. The tape can also become jammed, The r/w head can also become a sticky goo. For software issues,As far as I remember, there was a discussion that you can use tar and mbuffer for LTO Tape . Although there is software such as Bacula or Veeam with more features I need to find out more about parity files (par/par2)

Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops – and people in Japan still want them | TechSpot I've heard somewhere that Blu-ray discs are quite durable for cold storage. On the other hand, having this disc with content that is not affected by DRM is perfect. we totally own that thing. i don't want to contantly rely on internet or subscription for the sake of watching movie. As for durability : So far, I've always been targeting M-DISC, which is claimed to last hundreds of years or more. Some Blu-ray writers/readers even support M-Disc (but I don't know the reader/writer on this laptop). I really want to buy a BDXL M-Disc. Then came across a thread discussing “fake” M-Discs: This is what made me reconsider m-discs, high grade BD-Rs, or archival grade DVDs. All game save data is usually backed up to the cloud on Steam or GoG. but I always worry about accidental loss of save games in cloud services. I imagine what it would be like if these game save data were also stored on this storage medium. However, I prioritize scanned documents, photos, and videos that I feel have value so that they are safe and can be viewed again in 20-30 years. For videos with sentimental value, I think It's not enough to just have a regular video recording. It seems like we need a 3D laser scanning service (or maybe something like photogrammetry?) with a non-disclosure agreement for interior/exterior scans of the residence that will become a memory (if we move out for example) and a way to convert it so it can be viewed with VR. Professional 3D scanning cameras are really unaffordable (don't even look at the prices of the BLK360 or Matterport scanners). These 3D scan files will be stored on the aforementioned disc media. For now, the most affordable option is a smartphone with LIDAR. I'm not sure if VR devices like the Meta Quest 3 with its scanner are effective or not. Regular video or 360-degree shots are still reasonable options. The LTO 7/8/9 tape reader/writer is extremely expensive; I couldn't afford it. I could only afford to buy the data cartridge (I know this is aimed for enterprises). The learning curve doesn't seem too steep.