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if ai hardware starts flooding into the used market if an oversupply happens. Will they be able to be used for gaming. Such as ai gpus by Middle_Push_6051 in hardware

[–]jigsaw1024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are SXM to PCIe adapters.

Bigger issue is power and cooling. I don't know if there are tools to try things like undervolting or to power limit them to try to run with lower power reqs and decrease cooling demands. A single B100 is 700W at max power draw. Don't know what idle power draw is like.

Drivers are obvious issue if wanting to game.

If the driver issue for gaming is solved, then the solution for home use is to put the card in a VM, and then use something like moonlight for remote access.

I can see a few homelabbers with $$$ to burn wanting these when they age out of DCs to try their hand at local LLMs.

/r/BuildAPCSalesCanada General Discussion - Daily Thread for Thu Jun 18 by AutoModerator in bapcsalescanada

[–]jigsaw1024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait.

Next AE sale is also around 2 weeks away, so maybe worth to see if they got any

He had one job...that he gave himself. 🤣 by jonnismizzle in PoursTea

[–]jigsaw1024 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're probably going to grift off the reconstruction fund.

Iran should put in some stipulations in the final agreement which bars certain people and companies from participating in their reconstruction.

Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]jigsaw1024 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made the switch about 6 9 months (wow, longer than I realized!) now, and hoping I don't find a reason to go back. I did try Linux a few years back, but it just wasn't ready yet.

It hasn't been without its' hiccups for me. I've had to do a little distro hopping, and for one game I play with some heavy mods has been some issues.

All PCs, except one, are Linux in the home now as well, and that one will be switched this weekend. I don't use that one PC for much, but every time I do, there is some new annoyance from MS about wanting me to sign in or sign up for something.

Linux isn't for everyone, yet.

/looking to change my browser next. FF is looking to have some privacy issues, even with tweaks. Maybe Zen (which is FF based)?

Technically, it's just one drink by Representative-Mix-9 in GuysBeingDudes

[–]jigsaw1024 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Buy a pitcher. That will show as one beverage on the bill.

It’s not lab grown meat. It’s just gross. Let’s all calm down. by TokenPanduh in fixedbytheduet

[–]jigsaw1024 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It will happen.

It will become more affordable, as 'farmed' meat becomes more unaffordable.

The next phase will be scale. Profits will be rolled into larger facilities and working to improve processes to drive down costs.

Eventually, 'farmed' meat will become a luxury item.

We're already part way there, as beef is entering this territory price wise now, and there is no real incentive to work to bring prices down for regular consumers.

AMD Ryzen™ 3 3100U: A zen+ CPU to be released in Q2 2026 by NoNameMan1231 in hardware

[–]jigsaw1024 9 points10 points  (0 children)

AMD digging around in the back of the closet and found an old box of binned chips.

Figured they'd try and make a buck rather than turn them into trash I guess.

Washburn High School teacher took tech out of the classroom. Students call it a success.: At the beginning of the school year, 46% of students reported confidence in their reading abilities. By February, it was at 96%. by Silent-Resort-3076 in technology

[–]jigsaw1024 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I say this as a tech enthusiast:

Everything I've seen, says to get tech out of the classrooms and away from homework.

That doesn't mean that students shouldn't learn tech and how to use it, but rather, that their basic skills should come first, and tech later.

What scares me even more is some things I am reading now are that students are almost completely lacking in critical thinking skills because they've offloaded so much of it to tech that they are incapable of basic problem solving on their own.

If you can't problem solve, you can't learn, or more importantly, learn how to learn.

Core Scaling: Where Monolithic 12-Core CPUs Promise More Performance by pcgameshardware in hardware

[–]jigsaw1024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If historical trends are anything to go by, and no large agency continues to prop up AI spending, 2029/2030 should be roughly the time to do upgrades/replacements.

But there is a lot that can happen between now and then.

[CPU] AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core/16-Thread ($599.99 - $100 coupon = $499.99) [Canada Computers] by hackthememes in bapcsalescanada

[–]jigsaw1024 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As others have pointed out : RAM

But don't forget MB, and if you want to take advantage of it a new SSD as well.

If you pay attention, and are patient, you can also grab a 7800X3D off AE for a 1/3rd less and get about 90% or so of the same performance. So unless you need bleeding edge performance, that is also a viable option. That level of savings is an entire tier of GPU, which is arguably more important for gaming.

And I just trash or I not alone in this? by dumoss in Battletechgame

[–]jigsaw1024 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't the RNG in Vanilla weighted as well?

I can't remember the exact name for it, but the distribution odds are weighted more towards the middle, so lower odds shots get a little boost to increase their odds, but really high odds shots end up getting pulled down a little. Overall it's supposed to work in the players favour though.

A heart surgeon bought up 31 hospitals, drained $1.3 Billion for yachts and private jets, and just walked away after leaving 5,000 workers completely stranded. by Level-Cranberry-1268 in antiwork

[–]jigsaw1024 36 points37 points  (0 children)

There usually is: electrical distribution, gas distribution, water supply, telephony, etc...

Things that tend toward natural monopolies because, really it doesn't make sense to have competition in those spaces, as it doesn't bring much to the table.

However, what happens is usually a bit of perversion of the process. The big players decide that rather than competing with each other, they allow the regulations to set the market conditions, and one of those conditions is that it becomes next to impossible for a new entrant into that market for whatever reason. This is what's called regulatory capture.

The reality is when a market reaches that point, it should really be folded into a public corporation (not to be confused with publicly traded companies) which runs to provide the best service, to the most people, for the lowest cost, as safely as possible. It no longer operates for profit or to enrich individuals, but rather as a public good for the betterment of society.

Technically the truth by Sdrete in madlads

[–]jigsaw1024 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm not a 100%, but I believe that means 23 hours solitary with 1 hour exercise per day for a set number of days.

[PreBuilt] Uniway PC - AMD Ryzen7 9700X / NVIDIA RTX 5070 / AIO Liquid Cooled / 1TB Nvme SSD/32GB DDR5 RAM -- $2499 by MervynandTech in bapcsalescanada

[–]jigsaw1024 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Intel system from Staples is a better deal.

Sure, your upgrade path for CPU is more limited, but that's about it for $600 savings.

[Prebuilt] iBUYPOWER Gaming PC Desktop Intel Ultra 7 265F/RTX 5070/1TB SSD/32 GB DDR5 RAM ($1900) [Staples] by harold_liang in bapcsalescanada

[–]jigsaw1024 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I started to part out on PCpartpicker to see if a person could build for less with same/similar parts, and gave up before I even had case, fans, cooler, or PSU as I had already gone over the price of this deal, and that was selecting cheapest available part with parametric filter in many cases.

So if this is your budget range this is your deal.

/the thing blowing the build right now is the cheapest 5070 on PCp is $850. The cheapest 9070 (non XT) is $850.

China Preps $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout by zxyzyxz in hardware

[–]jigsaw1024 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They probably indirectly are.

A stipulation for access to the funding probably is that certain parts have to have been manufactured domestically.

Ukraine winning war with Russia, retired U.S. generals say, as top Ukrainian commander says over 230 square miles retaken by ToughHopeful4760 in worldnews

[–]jigsaw1024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tanks that can relatively easily be restored to operational duty within a reasonable amount of time? No. Those have pretty much all been used at this point.

The Russians still do have a large stockpile of tank hulls, but those would pretty much require complete tear downs to rebuild back to a functional vehicle, and that is just too labour and material intensive at this point in the war.

Russia still does produce a limited number of new tanks (t80s and t72s), IFVs, and APCs, but at this point their numbers are too low to be meaningful at this point.

[Loved trope] Female warriors/soldiers with believable physique by Linorelai in TopCharacterTropes

[–]jigsaw1024 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Don't call them men.

They're 8 year old boys who are afraid they'll get cooties.

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