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@Dr_Singularity good news, I hope it works as intended, without serious issues

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My desktop PCs so far:

▷ 2005|Athlon 64 3600+|HIS Radeon X800XL IceQ II Turbo 256MB|1GB DDR1-433|120GB HDD
▷ 2009|Athlon II X4 630|Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB|4GB DDR3-1333|500GB HDD
▷ 2017|Core i7-8700|MSI GeForce Gaming X 1070 Ti 8GB|16GB DDR4-3200|500GB SSD|4TB HDD
▷ 2025|Ryzen 7 9700X|Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 16GB|32GB DDR5-6400|2TB SSD|8TB HDD

Radeon 5870 for 2009 was almost unreal in performance, something like 8x faster than my previous card which was pretty good for 2005. Eight years later, GeForce 1070 Ti brought 5x greater performance than HD 5870 (which was welcome then) and now modern RX 9070 is 4.5x faster than retired 1070 Ti. My current Ryzen 7 9700X is about 100x faster than Athlon 64 3600+.

All of them were quite decent for their time, but nothing is eternal. I guess my next PC will happen in 2033? I've expected better hardware in reasonable prices by 2026, but what can we do?

#PCHardware #PCJourney #TechSetup #MyPCCollection #Rig #DesktopPC

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@LeoDaVinciWave Upgraded in cleanliness, downgraded in character. The old house was dated, but it had rhythm, texture and personality. The new one feels cleaner, yet much flatter and more generic. We keep designing things into rectangles, and the result often feels less human, not more elegant.

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@ijrsoftware @intel 12x cores, 13x cache, 9x memory bandwidth after 10 years since Xeon E7-8890 v4

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@ijrsoftware @AMD Could be $299, but at least it's performant.

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@ijrsoftware NVIDIA RTX Spark SoC is on 3nm, not on 4nm, from what Jensen Huang said (GB20 maybe also on 3nm?). Could you please add Nvidia Switch 2 GPU to GPU-L? There is only Switch 1 GPU and it's lonely there!

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I’ll be blunt: the modern internet increasingly feels like a gigantic landfill of content.

Human-made slop, AI-generated slop, clickbait, ragebait, recycled ideas, oversexualized garbage, algorithmic noise, fake engagement, endless short videos, useless comments, algorithm-chasing content and images that look wrong in that specific AI way.

Information technology was supposed to give us access to knowledge. Instead, more and more often, it gives us an ocean of stimuli that steals time, attention, energy and peace of mind.

Useful things still exist online, but they are buried under absurd amounts of meaningless, low-effort content. The density of noise is becoming almost unreal.

I honestly think that using the internet "normally” - the way people did around 2012, may become nearly impossible by 2030. We will need exponentially better filters, whitelists, AI as a protective layer, and far less random scrolling.

#Internet #AI #AISlop #InformationOverload #DigitalMinimalism #Technology

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@Dr_Singularity It all depends on where you live and how much luck you had.

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Solar went from almost invisible in global electricity generation to about 9% of the world’s electricity production. 10x total output in 10 years.

The most interesting part is not just the current share, but the shape of the curve: not much happening for decades, then getting exponentially more important, with deployment and manufacturing scale reinforcing each other.

#SolarEnergy #EnergyTransition #Renewables #Electricity

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I have some nostalgia for this

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A trailer for 'Spyro: Year Of The Dragon' on the PlayStation.

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I believe AI could bring an extraordinary era of abundance, but the transition still worries me. More capability does not automatically mean more freedom, stability, fairness, or well-being.

The potential is real. The question is whether it becomes broad human prosperity, or whether it gets absorbed by the same flawed systems we already live under.

Why does computer memory price in 2026 equal that prices back in 2012? We need a lot more memory because of AI, and at the same time we can't get it!

Seems like abundance is gonna take longer than Dr_Singularity thinks. Although it still can happen of course.

[bbb @gobbbgo]

モーニンファビオラ🌞

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@Dr_Singularity Yes. Very true. Full AGI by 2029 is very plausible. During 2030s, AI will be not only general-purpose, but also very super-human in capabilities. New paradigm will begin (in a few years).

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Core Ultra so far does not feel like a Core 2 Duo-style leap in ordinary desktop performance. Panther Lake is more interesting for mobile efficiency, iGPU and AI features, but Nova Lake is the one I’m really watching.

With Coyote Cove + Arctic Wolf, much higher core counts, huge cache, DDR5-8000 support and a faster DMI 5.0 bus, Nova Lake could be Intel’s first truly major desktop step forward since Alder Lake.

At a similar time, AMD Zen 6 is going to be launched (I expect Q4 2026 for Nova Lake and Q1 2027 for Zen 6) and it will be also significant (certainly more so than Zen 5).

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@Jack1000k @YueKuratsu One guy bought Q6600 back in 2007 and changed it to i7-8700K 10 years later. Same guy also still has GTX 1080 Ti, probably will change it once RTX 6080 or 6070 Ti comes out.

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@Jack1000k @YueKuratsu Core2 Q6600 was like GTX 1080 Ti
you could buy and use it 10 years!

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@valvesoftware @Steam Why can't you finally reveal the price of Steam Machine? It's really getting overdue!!

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This is a really nice and intricate VR space, full of interesting and detailed architecture: layered buildings, stone pathways, ornate wooden carvings, and glowing lanterns, that blend seamlessly with the trees and scenery.

The warm lighting creates a cozy, immersive atmosphere, while the dramatic purple mountains in the background add a striking, almost otherworldly feel. It’s a welcoming little world that invites you to linger, wander around, and just soak in the peaceful vibe rather than rush through it.

You captured this vr space very well! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

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During the 2030s, this kind of automation is going to kick in to a high gear. Hundreds of millions will be built. Will be the repeat of 1910s and 1920s in car manufacturing in the USA (and some other few countries). But because robots will be general-purpose, the transformation will happen much quicker and on a much broader scale.