Thursday, October 29
Daily News Stuff 28 October 2020
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- It's Radeon day. No new leaks that I can see, and I'm not staying up for another pre-recorded launch.
The interesting thing is that according to the leaks, these cards have less memory bandwidth than even the Xbox Series X, but are much faster. No-one seems to know exactly how they manage that.
- AMD recorded record revenue and profit for Q3. (AnandTech)
Against either Q2 or Q3 last year, revenues are up around 50% and margins are steady. It looks like this quarter includes chips for the new Xbox and Playstation, but that should be continuing revenue and not just a one-time bump.
- Nvidia's RTX 3070 is here and it's pretty good. (Tom's Hardware)
Great at 1080p, solid at 1440p, decent at 4k.
Can you actually buy one anywhere? No.
- Starlink is now in open beta. (Ars Technica)
US and Canada only to begin with, but the plan has always been a global rollout. The satellites don't stay put, after all.
- GitHub's CEO is working directly with developers to get the YouTube-dl repo reinstated. (TorrentFreak)
Probably without some circumvention code, but that can be a downloadable patch from some other source. While not perfect, this is better than we see from most companies, and evidence that GtiHub knows which side of its bread is buttered.
- Don't buy an Oculus Rift. (Polygon)
If you ever delete your Facebook account - or, of course, they do that for you - all your purchased content disappears.
Fuck Facebook generally.
- Any sufficiently oversimplified security warning is indistinguishable from your operating system just plain being broken. (Mr Macintosh)
There's a certificate issue with some HP printer drivers for MacOS. This can manifest itself in any of thirteen different error messages, all saying that the driver "will damage your computer".
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Other Linus's review bashed nVidia because apparently the release was only for sold-by-nVidia Founder's Edition boards. The partners (Asus, EVGA, etc) haven't been released yet.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, October 29 2020 12:14 AM (eqaFC)
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Well, the psychological barrier is imagining deleting your facebook account. The adoption (or not) will tell us how the sad, greasy bulk of humanity actually thinks.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, October 29 2020 12:54 AM (LADmw)
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In one regard, the Oculus thing makes sense, altho it's merely equally infuriating. If you get permabanned from, say, PS4 online or Steam, you lose access to all your games, too. I wish there were a better solution. For me, quitting FB isn't really an option as there's no way I'm going to try to get my nontechnical family members, including multiple 70+ year old aunts, to get on, say, Gab.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, October 29 2020 02:02 AM (eqaFC)
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