CitricBase

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[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You're absolutely right! Dreamcast and Saturn make a very good point: The major players are dragging their feet way longer than is warranted.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hi, are you able to share more about the power efficiencies of each type of sensor? Some cursory browsing of TI datasheets gives me the impression that both types use a similar amount of power. I may be missing some context, though.

I did also find this cool report there. Could be pertinent, although from what I understand of the technology I don't see why you couldn't use the same techniques to save power with a digipot.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It would be, if that were the case.

This article is not alledging a systematic pattern of stick drift in the Switch 2, like there was with the Switch. It isn't even saying that so much as a single case of stick drift has been found.

What it's saying is that the Switch 2 still uses potentiometers, a technology which can be susceptible to stick drift. You know, like every single other major console ever launched. So, as of now, we have no particular reason to believe that the Switch 2 will drift worse than the PS5 or any other system.

That said, all the major players are dragging their feet a bit longer on Hall effect sticks a little bit longer than is warranted, Nintendo included.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Argentina also being run by a sexist egotistical populist TV star who's destroying their government from the inside out? Out of the frying pan and into the fire...

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are asking for 1TB of RAM. Keying it to M.2 wouldn't make it any cheaper or better than keying it to regular DDR5. I don't think that even just a tenth of that would physically fit onto an NVMe drive, even if someone wanted it to.

Put in that context, do you begin to see now why that isn't a thing that exists?

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Also: leave tariffs on raw materials in place, making local production even less competitive than before.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Me too! I upgraded to Fedora Linux. It's amazing how everything just works, even all the games I play.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Your experience is not invalid, but It's fucked up that you're giving Windows credit for "just working" when Windows doesn't even try to support dual booting. In fact the reason Linux is having so much trouble is because it has to tiptoe so that Windows doesn't break.

If you don't like Gnome or Mint Cinnamon, why not try KDE? Something like Kubuntu, perhaps? I use Fedora KDE myself.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 159 points 4 months ago

Yep. Innocent until proven guilty, and not a single one of them was so much as indicted, much less charged or convicted. Blatant disregard for the constitution as well as human rights, everyone all the way up the chain of command needs to be prosecuted for this.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

That is a big issue, but excessive power consumption isn't intrinsic to AI. You can run a reasonably good AI on your home computer.

The AI companies don't seem concerned about the diminishing returns, though, and will happily spend 1000% more power to gain that last 10% better intelligence. In a competitive market why wouldn't they, when power is so cheap.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (8 children)

It can't be just that, right? There are loads of successful products that any given person only ever buys once.

[–] CitricBase@lemmy.world 138 points 4 months ago (25 children)

How on Earth did they manage to fuck this up?

They were the leading firm in a field where having the most data makes yours the most accurate tests. Their product sold for hundreds of dollars a pop, with practically zero marginal costs to run the tests. And they were really popular, selling like hotcakes.

It's insane just how astoundingly incompetent upper management can be sometimes.

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