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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • My Gigabyte “9070 XT GAMING OC 16G” has three 8-pin power connectors.

    I slightly regret it because it’s a 3-slot card and only has two DisplayPort outputs. I had to buy a new case for it, and my third monitor (on HDMI) doesn’t behave quite as well as the other two. Almost a year and a half later and I’m still mildly annoyed that I didn’t have the ability to return it in favor of a PowerColor Reaper once I realized my mistake.

    I’m sure the Gigabyte card is fine if you have a normal size (not mini-ITX) case and only one or two monitors, though.



  • Were it not for the fact that it’s the fucking privacy-invading big tech companies doing it, I would admit that there are good use-cases for the camera:

    • Reminding you of the name and possibly previous interactions with the person you’re talking to, for instance (if it only did local lookup based on consensual photos you had previously added to your address book). I’m not face-blind or anything, but my memory is bad enough that that would be helpful to me.
    • Scanning, OCR-ing and making searchable any papers you’re looking at (hooking to your selfhosted Paperless-NGX).
    • Displaying augmented-reality translations of street signs (which is one of the few reasonable things Google Glass actually did).