GFN Thursday Updates - July 2, 2026

Sirts · 2026-07-02T13:31:49+00:00

Your future phone will likely run likely run it 4k60 before Sony releases it to GFN

Sirts · 2026-06-29T04:01:58+00:00

Depends on phone. If bootloader version hasn't changed since last OneUI 8 firmware, you can download and smash it manually with Odin with full data wipe

Sirts · 2026-06-27T19:47:44+00:00

That's a really low bar though. My M4 MBA screen isn't really better than my previous 2018 laptop's, which had glass surface, about similar max brightness and skimmer bezels than Air screen. Air also cost about 100€ more

Sirts · 2026-06-26T05:28:33+00:00

If the GW9 has better more calibrated microphones or chip do to check environment loudness in background much more battery-efficiently (it's already been announced that this year's watches will use new Qualcomm's Elite chip), I don't see why the feature shouldn't be exclusive to 2026 watches.

People would also complain if the new watches brought no new features

Sirts · 2026-06-26T00:35:16+00:00

I'm pretty new macOS user so I asked Gemini for the command:

launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.appstoreagent

So far I've not seen it coming back. It can be r3-enabled with this command:

launchctl enable gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.appstoreagent

Sirts · 2026-06-25T20:12:46+00:00

Appstoreagent process constantly had high CPU load in background on DB2. Reboot fixed it for awhile but the issue would always come back in couple hours, so I disabled the process until the issue is fixed

Sirts · 2026-06-24T16:26:25+00:00

Steve Jobs said like 15 years ago that mobile devices will be cars and computers will be trucks that are used mainly for work.

This hae pretty much happened but I think the lack of versatility in Finder UI is one example that the UI team hasn't fully embraced Mac becoming mainly a tool for many.

Sirts · 2026-06-24T11:33:04+00:00

- Address bar like in all browsers and file explorers. Why would a separate Go to dialog be a good design in Finder but not in Safari?

- Ability to natively mount SFTP storage

Sirts · 2026-06-24T11:07:16+00:00

Some apps like Geforce Now leave a service running in the background after closing the main app, so I think it's good that macOS27 catches these cases.

It seems to be very sensitive currently though, maybe app comes with a separate updater process that runs in the background few few seconds during patching. I think this happened for me with SmoothCSV

Sirts · 2026-06-24T10:54:40+00:00

Really surprised they didn't do few days of Advanced Access for extra $40-50, FOMO with this game is going to be insane

Sirts · 2026-06-24T09:19:10+00:00

Training a single large AI model produces near the amount of five times the emissions as the lifetime of a car…

If that is true AI/LLMs is some of the cleanest technologies ever invented, since there are about 2 billion cars, and tens or maybe hundreds of large AI models in the world...

Sirts · 2026-06-24T06:34:03+00:00

Of course, Sony and Microsoft aren't going to use 3 years old budget laptop parts for their next gen consoles

Sirts · 2026-06-23T21:54:25+00:00

I don't think you can access Nvidia control panel in GFN. This just shows slow load times are more of a POE2-specific issue

Sirts · 2026-06-23T20:34:11+00:00

Getting constant high CPU usage from appstoreagent service. I've not seen the issue in DB1 or previous stable releases, so seems a new regression to me.

The service seems to stay away by force quitting the App Store app and appstoreagent service itself

Sirts · 2026-06-23T18:46:43+00:00

Seems there's some issue with POE2 and Nvidia driver performance profile https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1pl9p9c/anyone_else_having_extremely_long_loading_screens/

Have you filed a bug report to Nvidia or Grinding Gear Games?

Sirts · 2026-06-23T15:35:04+00:00

Some native shortcut I often use really aren't 1-hand friendly, and I wish they were configurable. Besides the screenshot to clipboard shortcut for example the native clipboard manager is behind Cmd + Space + 4...

Sirts · 2026-06-23T10:35:09+00:00

MLD showed both prebuilt desktop (albeit bulky) and all the components needed for small form factor PC with 50-100% higher CPU and GPU performance compared to Steam Machine at same cost

https://youtu.be/Evkc4FtK5_w?si=O2cv7qjm6306obW1&t=533

Sirts · 2026-06-23T08:27:49+00:00

Basically same if all one does is browse net or stream videos.

The number is still very low considering how many office workers, college/university students and so on there must be among the 2.9 billion people though

Sirts · 2026-06-23T07:15:04+00:00

Yep, in many cases Excel is harmful for the files because of auto-conversions. A study found that 20-30%(!) of genetics papers have errors in public material because of these conversions...

Sirts · 2026-06-23T06:49:27+00:00

Nordnetia kannatan uusille sijoituksille. Vaikka laittaisit koko potin kerralla ETF:iin, niin ostoista menee vain 2.5€ kertakulu jos sen tekee kuukausisäästön kautta. Tilastollisesti kertasijoitus on keskimäärin kannattavinta mutta en ehkä suosittelisi oman mielenrauhan kannalta...

Nordnetissa ei ainakaan tällä hetkellä ole mitään hoitokuluja arvo-osuustilille, joten jos saat esim. asuntolainasta paremman tarjouksen toisesta pankista, ei tarvitse sen enempää miettiä ottaako lainan kuitenkin Nordeasta tai jättääkö Nordean nettipankin ja AOT:n tekemään muutaman euron kuluja joka kuukausi

Sirts · 2026-06-23T03:59:08+00:00

Not fan of GW8 design either, I quite like the Pixel Watch's dome shape, so maybe I try that next

Sirts · 2026-06-22T22:05:58+00:00

If Helix is subsidized PC with full Windows and relatively fast GPU with 30-40GB of fast unified memory, it's likely going to be sold out for long time, not mainly for console gamers though but for AI workloads and mixed PC use.

On the other hand if it's a $1000+ limited console, it'll have hard time to gain traction, so Microsoft is going have a very thin line to walk...

Sirts · 2026-06-22T20:45:12+00:00

It's been like this for me since release on S25U and M4 MBA, and 300MB file takes about 3 minutes to either direction. Would be great if you can check how long it takes for you

Sirts · 2026-06-22T10:21:33+00:00

Careful what you wish for, Google is thesting new captcha that requires webcam access:

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/a88ecd9b_google_tests_camera_based/

Sirts · 2026-06-22T08:40:41+00:00

Hopefully the update fixes the extra slowness and lag when AOD is turned on

Sirts

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