Sure, let me just estimate your remaining lifespan and get back to you on that.

Obviously, I wasn’t about to spend $3000 and hours of my time to find out whether this particular report was an exception

I’d wager my kidneys to a pack of gum that you didn’t even know there was a full, paywalled report behind this before you commented (the PC Gamer article you quoted never cites $3000). If you did, this line of reasoning would be an interesting way to save face had, again, a bulleted description and table of contents not been freely available, making laughably obvious what minimal critical thought went into your mischaracterization of the report.

And frankly, if you did know, that’s even wilder, because you fully assumed you knew better; you didn’t even try to qualify it. You just outright said they failed to account for it without knowing what was in the report. Which is somehow even worse.

I can’t say I’m impressed with their research, which neglects to account for graphics card prices tripling around the start of this decade and never returning to normal I read a magazine article about a small press release for and made a completely unfounded assumption about

These quarterly press releases from Jon Peddie Research mainly just go over more recent developments in high-level detail. The actual report, which yes is $3000 because it’s meant for enterprise customers, covers all of this, which you can verify by reading its description and ToC.

Such unfounded confidence that a professional report studying the cost of GPUs fails to account for some basic shit someone would tell you on Reddit is just arrogance; there’s no other word for it.

Danke. This should easily be fine for anyone who’s slightly-to-moderately interested; some of the nitty-gritty details like hyperlinks to the edit diffs are excluded from this copy–paste for those who really know their stuff and want to learn more.

Oh, fuck, this is going to be interesting to read about. Just to clarify: it seems like this wasn’t just Wikipedia but Wikimedia generally. So that’s also e.g. Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.

Edit: Decided to check Reddit, and someone posted an ostensibly good summary on /r/wikipedia.

Nor batteries externally removable like used to be.

This would be a major sacrifice to form factor and would be strictly detrimental to 99.999% of users. Regarding benefits outside repairability, basically nobody in 2026 is going to think to carry around a second, fully-charged laptop battery. Regarding repairability, you might have to replace the battery once during the laptop’s lifespan, and the procedure is extremely straightforward.

With an external battery, you end up with a laptop that’s not only substantially thicker, but which – because it’s stuck with a large battery either on the back or on the bottom – likely has worse airflow.

Notably for this repair, there are seven captive Phillips-head screws (seen plenty of hexalobular etc.), you can just use your fingers to remove the base cover (seen plenty where you need/want a pry tool), removing the base cover already removes the battery’s screw(s), and most importantly, you just pinch to disconnect instead of lifting a fragile connector off the board. Swapping the replacement external battery once you have it is probably about 30 seconds; this is about five minutes – practically no difference accounting for how infrequently it’ll need to be done. There’s an exception for people with a physical disability like Parkinson’s, but if you can phone a friend, the process is straightforward enough for basically anyone else to do it on your behalf.

Edit: On a whim, I decided to look to Framework for a comparison. It’s worse there for battery replacement.

• You have to first undo five captive hexalobular screws on the bottom.
• Then you have to lift the magnetic top panel, being sure not to damage the ribbon cable while you disconnect it.
• You have to pull out the connector for the battery using a small, black flap.
• Then you unscrew three more captive hexalobular screws.

As far as I can tell, the T14 is the easiest battery replacement you’re going to find being sold today. If you’re able-bodied enough to use a screwdriver and it not being external is somehow still a serious concern for repairability, I don’t know what to tell you.

Some people argue this line was one of Bateman’s hallucinations and that he really said “I’m Paul outta options here.”

“The Strongest Jedi” definitely isn’t right. At best, he’s evenly matched with Obi-Wan. If you apply stupid “power scaling” rules, then sure, Obi-Wan got ganked by Dooku during their fight while Anakin handily beat him. But at the same time that Dooku pushes Obi-Wan, he easily kicks and downs Anakin who’s behind him; Obi-Wan was just the one he subdued by crushing him, ostensibly seeing him as the greater threat.

We’ve seen Anakin lose to Obi-Wan at the (inherent) height of his combat prowess, and it was his own fault. Windu and Yoda probably also take Anakin one-on-one. (Windu, of course, was totally defenseless when Anakin severed his arm.)

If we’re talking about things like the Force, Yoda is clearly much more powerful. There’s an argument Anakin was the most powerful pilot, but that combined with being very Force-sensitive and a very good duelist doesn’t make him “the most powerful” overall. Most potential? If he could keep his emotions under control, probably.

Also Saddam watching someone make a meme with that line break:

In research published in Geophysical Research Letters

Makes some sense that Newsround, a children’s news program, wouldn’t link to it, but I still wish they would.

Wow, what elegant timing for AskYourUncle’s video about AC4.

It’s got some politics

• The impact text in the thumbnail is “Oracle took over Medicare”.
• The first sentence of the description is “Yesterday Oracle got authorization to run generative AI on federal government data”.
• The title is about a combination of the ongoing war with Iran and (implicitly, discussed in the video) how it’s causing a merger to slip under Congress’ radar.
• The Drey Dossier is, by its own words, about “Investigating the intersection of Power x Tech x Politics”.
• Skipping around in the video has constant discussion of US politics (because no shit; a lake is wet).
• The thumbnail features Trump, Netanyahu, and prominent Trump ally Larry Ellison against a backdrop of a bomb dropped on Iran.

We’re all adults here; we don’t have to bullshit each other like this. You can just say “I don’t care”.

!politicalvideos@lemmy.world per Rule 5.

You’ve got it reversed. Switching to Teams greatly hastened development, as the team’s newfound vitriol and frustration could be channeled toward the end user in a neverending feedback loop.

Yeah, I was pretty confused about what to do with my ferns when my house plant phase ended too. :/

What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you’re perfect.)

a diffusion model thing, not a transformer?

Not only are these not mutually exclusive, but Sora (as the most prominent example) is a diffusion transformer.

All I can hear when I read this headline is “premise for a 3.9/10 action thriller.”

Bleak but interesting interpretation of Antarctica circa 2065.

I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.

At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.

The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.

A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.