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Well, since you asked, and since you like to make assumptions about people and their lived experiences, we had to move West because my grandfather was on the KGB’s hit list. I turns out your government trying to kill you is a great incentive to leave a country. He spoke 5 languages, Russian...

Ok thanks Tucker Carlson, much appreciated. I now have a much better understanding of my own familial history and culture. Enjoy your weekend.

My family is actually from the region in question, but please, feel free to explain to me the idiosyncrasies of the situation and the history of the cultures involved.

They're two years into a two week campaign, how impressive. Also, if you think this is all about NATO, then you don't know the history of Russia or the history of Ukraine particularly well. Russia's been trying to Russify Ukraine since before the United States was even a country.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/12/13/uk-russia-putin-ussr And https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hailing-peter-great-putin-draws-parallel-with-mission-return-russian-lands-2022-06-09/ But whatever you want to tell yourself. Before you say "western propaganda blah blah blah", his Peter the...

Western Europe is getting burned by bad planning that Eastern Europeans warned them about decades ago. Some lessons are learned hard. To suggest Russia is getting away with this unscathed, however, is simply ignorant. This thread is literally demonstrating that they're not getting by unscathed.

That's just the thing. A wartime economy is "productive", but it's not what brings long term wealth to a nation. Russia has definitely lost productive talent over this, no doubt about it. That's going to make it difficult to achieve their self-sufficiency projects like the one in this thread...

Russia has a wartime economy. That’s why it looks good. This does not mean they’re positioned for long term growth. This does not mean everything is going swimmingly in the country. The needs of a wartime economy and a peace time economy differ. It‘s also why they have to take measures like...

No doubt, but they don’t have a lot of other options at this point.

Can you imagine Jensen telling shareholders at his next earnings report that “sorry, we lowered the price of our cards that were already selling out and cementing our 80%+ market share position because I saw some gamers on Reddit were kind of mad about it”? I certainly can’t. Gamers lined up...

They’re doing it because they have to. They don’t want to walk away from Putin’s “restoration of the Soviet Union” ambitions, and the price for that is Western sanctions. They know they can be cut-off and need to begin to figure out how to do this themselves, just like they did during the...

Lol, they really don’t care. They have over 80% market share, they know you’re buying it anyway. They don’t care about the “bad press”, which consists of gamers essentially saying “awwww man, these prices are outrageous and unacceptable…but if that’s what it costs Mr. Huang, here is my money”.

MSRP is listed as 3 bags of money. Sounds about right.

I’m sure the goal was to move things back to the US, but there is also a broader goal of “friend shoring” the production of vital products away from nations that are hostile to US interests, so Nvidia moving production to Mexico will still be viewed as a win.

Lol, “enhancing”.

I was considering a Galaxy Tab for the included stylus and OLED screen for media consumption. This upgrade for the new Air really isn’t exciting me a whole lot considering what I can get with the Galaxy, but I do agree with you on I just prefer the feel of iOS to Android, and I have used both...

I'm due to upgrade my old iPad Air 2, but given my use case, I'm honestly leaning toward a Galaxy Tab at this point, despite my satisfaction with my iPhone. Just wondering if I want to do the whole two-ecosystems thing, but I just think the Galaxy Tab as more value out of the box for what I...

I thought it was a creative ad and people are overreacting, but that's just me. People are saying "how can they destroy those beautiful creative tools", but like guys, they're mass produced in a factory, you can get more. They didn't crush a one of a kind Stradivarius violin.

I never said the Deck was selling better than a Switch. I never even made that suggestion. I do think it's sold well under the circumstances it was launched, in an emerging market. Valve seems to agree, because they've already said they will be making a Deck 2, which they would not be doing...

Nintendo also has decades of experience creating and marketing console systems and video games with a devoted following built up over many years. Valve created a device for a market which, outside of a few niche players, basically didn’t exist, and when it did consisted of devices from small...

The Steam Deck has not been a poor seller, I’m not sure who told you that. They’ve sold millions of Decks and proved the viability of handheld PC gaming in the process. I have one and I love it. It’s a product designed by gamers who understood their target customer. The Ally has some nice...

AMD (and Nvidia) is what happens when you let an engineer run a technology company. Intel is what happens when you let a finance person run a technology company.

It doesn’t mean we need to give up Steam at all. I buy games on Steam that STILL require another launcher to open up when I click to play it, which is wholly unnecessary, as would be the creation of an additional account to play a game I’ve already bought on Steam.

Can we just go back to not having a account and launcher for every single piece of software? I'm sick and tired of having accounts and launchers all over the place. Can't I just install something and use it like a normal person?

Intel needs to develop competitive GPUs as a matter of survival at this point, so I would say the chance that Battlemage and Celestial are cancelled is basically zero. A delay is believable, but not a cancellation.

Unfortunately there isn't much in terms of choice for most people. Linux doesn't run everything most people need to run and requires more computer literacy. I'm running Windows 11 myself. If it were up to me, I'd still be on 7, but the support is gone. In any case, shout out to Lakados for...

Gamers want AMD to lower their prices so Nvidia lowers theirs, and then they buy Nvidia. AMD knows this and will likely just continue with their "10% less than Nvidia" pricing strategy.

People are switching because they have to, no necessarily because they want to. I’d wager you’d still have a solid number of people who will tell you they’d still be on 7 if it still received security and vulnerability updates.

I'm actually still using the one I bought back in 2002 believe it or not. Got my money's worth out of that purchase.

Remember back in the day when we used antivirus programs to hunt down and eliminate spyware that were tracking our every move and sending data back to the mothership, completely invading our privacy? And then Microsoft saw that spyware and decided to turn it into an operating system?

But are they actually selling the Claw, or is it sitting on store shelves collecting dust? In GN’s review, Steve says he was the only one at the store in Taiwan that asked for one, and the clerk questioned why he wanted to buy it. The kind of customer for the Claw will tend to be computer...

It’s interesting that, just a short time ago, you have EVGA, arguably Nvidia’s best partner in terms of the product they made and no doubt selling well, walk away from a relationship with Nvidia that essentially defined their identity as a company, citing that Nvidia was increasingly difficult...

Underperforming sales of AMD GPUs, not underperforming AMD GPUs. MSI doesn’t care how the GPU performs, they care how it sells. Which brings me to your second point, because the Claw is an absolute piece of crap that isn’t selling well, and the only reason why I can think MSI went with Intel...

Bonus points if they subcontracted it to Volkswagen.

100% it’s the CPU. It looks like Intel has a significant advantage over AMD Ryzen in this software. My 7900XTX paired with my 5800x3D only managed 71409, which is far lower compared to people in this thread running Intel CPUs but slower GPUs.

+1 on this. If they're abandoning it, why not just put it out as freeware at that point and let the fans enjoy it? My buddy and I still bust out StarCraft from time to time like we did back at high school LAN parties for a few laughs, and if you don't already own it, you can get the base game...

AMD is adopting a “Nvidia price -10%” pricing model these days. Not exactly a smashing deal in most cases compared to what you could get in previous generations, especially because they have to discount because they’re behind in frame generation, frame smoothing, and RT processing. The 3080...

I’ll say there is little chance it launches at the 4090 price. I would expect at least $1800, because Nvidia knows they can get that for it. The consumer told them they could.

Yes, crypto led to the initial run up, but Nvidia is still testing the waters to see what gamers are willing to pay, and gamers lined up to buy the $1600 4090, so they have their answer. 4080 Super, which is functionally almost identical to the 4080 anyway when benchmarked, is $1000, still a...

I have no doubt this is also a contributing factor, but the bottom line is that they will charge what the market will bear. As long as market participants signal they will pay more, companies will charge more, which is why the rest of consumers are annoyed with “how other people spend their...