It was life changing when I realised uBlock Origin can block whatever I want from web pages and not just ads.
All the links at the right of an article, headers and menus that want to continue occupying screen space after I’ve scrolled down, the entire comments section on some pages. Bam, gone.
Pages with cookie banners that don’t have a one-click reject all button? Just block the banner.
Fake resolution has it’s place, the problem is when Nvidia pressures reviewers to put its cards running a fake resolution against other cards running native resolution on benchmark charts.
“How did the world end, Grandpa?”
“Well, it all started with this fucking gorilla.”
against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.
IIRC they also insisted multi-frame generation be used, which the 3060 and 2060 Super don’t support. That’s why the 4060 isn’t allowed, it does support MFG and it’d sink the plan to inflate 5060 benchmark results with fake frames.
The specific games using specific settings at 1080p bit is because in 2025 they have to carefully choose scenarios that won’t overflow the tiny VRAM of the cards and tank performance to below the level of the 3060 12GB.
Shout out to Hardware Unboxed for getting a 5060 review done at Computex with some amazing B-roll
Mine got upgraded to a full meg.
If you have an 8GB GPU that’s a few years old, it’s probably doing okay-ish. It probably doesn’t have the performance to really suffer from VRAM limits and you don’t game with things like raytracing or ultra detail settings turned on because the GPU isn’t fast enough for those things anyway.
My Vega 64 had 8GB VRAM and that was fine.
If you buy one of the new GPUs with 8GB though, the VRAM is a huge problem. You have the GPU power to have all the features turned on, but you’re going to see real performance crippled because it overflows VRAM.
Longevity is the other issue - when games released in 2025 run like ass on your 8GB GPU from 2017, you won’t be surprised. Bad performance from an 8GB GPU that released in 2025 for $500, that’s a problem.
I’m seeing games today regularly hitting 11 GB, and that’s without raytracing or frame generation which require more VRAM.
The new 8GB GPU Nvidia just launched is a trap. It exists to trick people into buying a GPU that they’ll need to upgrade next year.
That’s a weapons-grade comeback.
Gotta hide that ass or conservatives might realise something about themselves.
I’ve heard that’s a thing - people spend the morning in church being told that they’re better than everyone else and then they carry that attitude with them when they go out to eat after church. It takes them a few hours to sober up and remember how to human.
Bonus points if they complained about all the foreigners (French people) in Paris.
We’ll soon know if trans people in sport are a real problem or a made up problem - if there’s anything to it, the next Chinese Olympics team will be 90% trans people.
Edit: to be clear, I didn’t put in my email address, I only put in the username. The system looked up the username and found the email address by itself.
is it always running, looking for barcodes in all the photos you take?
Has Google’s camera app added that yet? If not it’s only a matter of time.
When my phone’s barcode reader app sees a web link, it fetches the page’s title to display next to the actual link. So it is going to that web server and fetching resources by itself. Even though it isn’t actually rendering the page and running javascript, it might be exploitable.
Corporations lobby to defend their products, so I can imagine people swapping out flesh for artificial parts because you can control your own artificial uterus without permission from the government.
‘Teases prototypes’? Do they think it’s 2010? Nobody cares about your EV prototypes, launch something people can buy or just resign yourself to being killed off by the wave of Chinese EVs.
As a great philosopher once said, “Shit or get off the pot.”
Kids these days don’t know the pain of trying to get enough free conventional memory to run something.
Maybe making progress during year three of your three day special military operation isn’t really something to celebrate.
It’s funny how that goes: elements that react violently often form strong bonds, so make stable and safe compounds.