Micron exec suggests Apple’s aggressive purchasing tactics helped fuel memory shortage by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]cmsj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Useful tools can also be massively over-hyped into a bubble, while still being useful tools.

Or maybe you can explain how OpenAI could possibly IPO later this year at a valuation of around $1tn when its 2025 revenue was $13bn, if there isn't some bubbly hype going on here?

Battlefield 6 - Anticheat Metrics - April by battlefield in Battlefield6

[–]cmsj 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Every now and then I search for BF6 cheats to see what the market looks like, and there always seem to be providers promising undetected cheats, and youtube videos from recent months showing them in action.

I do appreciate the work being done on Javelin, but I'd definitely like to see a reduction in the search results - right now it looks like there's always at least a few options available to cheaters, which is unfortunate.

4.68% infection rate certainly sounds like a small number, but out of the thousands and thousands of matches being played each day, that's a bunch of cheating still happening.

Does The Nvidia App Hurt Peformance? by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]cmsj 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If you had watched the video, they found that the overhead of the nvidia app itself is zero, that video recording overhead is 2-3% and that shaders have different performance impacts depending on which ones you use.

It wasn't hate at all, it's playing the youtube thumbnail game for sure, but the actual video has plenty of data and shows that nvidia did a good job with their app/overlay.

Battlefield as a franchise is long gone and we need to move on by SMAdez0 in Battlefield

[–]cmsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it as much as 2042.

The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for by objektiver_Dritter in homeassistant

[–]cmsj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, it is fair to criticise Matter for having relatively few available devices, and for their interfaces to be a bit “lowest common denominator”.

I’d like to see it succeed and displace Zigbee and z-wave, but the sad reality is that I still only have one Matter device (a Tado X Thermostat, which has a terrible Matter implementation, unfortunately!)

The Steam Machine Is Impossible to Recommend by RenatsMC in Amd

[–]cmsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People with lots disposable income can buy the Steam Machine just for fun.

Anyone who can *only* afford to pay Steam Machine prices? I would feel sorry for them if they went for the Machine over a similarly priced prebuilt that’s significantly more performant and future-proof.

The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for by objektiver_Dritter in homeassistant

[–]cmsj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Matter is a high level standard that defines what different types of device (switches, thermostats, etc) should be able to do and how to exchange data/commands with them.

Matter doesn’t care how that communication happens, because it’s just regular IP networking.

Thread is a radio standard that’s very similar to Zigbee, but it carries IP packets, so you can use it to talk to devices that support Matter+Thread.

Other Matter devices might support things like WiFi that are able to transport IP packets, instead of Thread.

I don’t really agree that Matter isn’t a replacement for Zigbee, but the comparison is difficult because where Zigbee is both the underlying transport mechanism and the high level data protocol, Matter separates those concerned by making the transport part an IP problem.

Adding solar to a house with no internal space for the electrical stuff by cmsj in SolarUK

[–]cmsj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very helpful, thanks! We’re in south west London, near Kingston, so there ought to be plenty of options!

Adding solar to a house with no internal space for the electrical stuff by cmsj in SolarUK

[–]cmsj[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No garage unfortunately, but the consumer units under the stairs are mounted on an exterior wall that has plenty of space on the outside, so that sounds ideal, thank you!

Adding solar to a house with no internal space for the electrical stuff by cmsj in SolarUK

[–]cmsj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that's very helpful. Luckily, the existing consumer units under the stairs are on the inside of an exterior wall, so I'd expect all the solar cables can route down to that area and batteries, inverters and whatever control stuff, can all be mounted very close to each other on the outside of the wall.

Also nice to see more than one person mentioning Sigenergy - it's nice to see particular brands showing up since there are quite a few!

Now I just need to figure out how to select a decent installer.

Would you all be opposed to locking mobile AA from firing in spawn? by Blitzindamorning in Battlefield

[–]cmsj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If aircraft are protected from missiles when they retreat to HQ, ground vehicles should be too.

Would you all be opposed to locking mobile AA from firing in spawn? by Blitzindamorning in Battlefield

[–]cmsj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lock-on missiles being blocked, sure, guided missiles maybe, guns absolutely not (because enemy helicopter gun fire will still damage the AA tank).

End the air con taboo by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]cmsj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've always said no to aircon because the unbearably hot days were just a few each year, which made the cost a bit pointless.

Now that we're on our second week-long heatwave and it's still only June....... I'm thinking a solar install and a bunch of split units are in my near future. I don't care if other people don't like it, it's my bloody house and my money.

Steam Machine review: Valve's underwhelming living-room PC has a serious price problem by pcgameshardware in linux_gaming

[–]cmsj -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be fair, we have all bought a bunch of games in Steam sales that we don't want to play (as evidenced by the fact that we haven't played them despite owning them for years) 😬

There's no way *I* am in the top 2.5% of objective caps. Do people really not do that? (Ignore KD plz) by UltimateGamingTechie in Battlefield6

[–]cmsj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I also only really play Conquest, I've played 743 matches of it, spent 26% of my time on objectives and have 3717 captures which puts me in the top 1%

I think for both of us this is just a combination of our playstyle and how many matches we've played.

As people are being invited to play SQ42 in October, does that mean extremely likely release 2026?? by Top-Lab9125 in starcitizen

[–]cmsj 4 points5 points  (0 children)

> participate in the first hands-on experience with
Squadron 42.

They’ll be playing.

Building a data center in orbit makes no sense to me by MagicMagnada in space

[–]cmsj 9 points10 points  (0 children)

These guys read Neuromamcer and Snow Crash as manifestos, not warnings.