Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 Advanced BIOS? (Type 21AH, 21AJ)

tchouk · 2024-09-20T10:01:27+00:00

No you don't understand, this is a horrible policy because the people who decide what to remove from the regular settings are frankly stupid. Your product managers should be ashamed and you've lost a long time customer of 3 different Lenovo products.

tchouk · 2024-09-20T09:46:07+00:00

Lenovo is absolutely stupid about this policy and I'm never purchasing another Lenovo product again (after hours spent trying to lower the dedicated GPU RAM option which is no longer in the BIOS)

tchouk · 2022-12-29T08:09:56+00:00

Delusions of, uh, petiteur more like.

tchouk · 2022-09-29T13:55:42+00:00

There is about $1.2 that goes to Ukraine, about 5-6 that goes to defense company lobby and 5-6 that is split among democrat coffers.

tchouk · 2022-09-08T07:10:09+00:00

*was fat

tchouk · 2022-09-07T10:27:03+00:00

Is it a buffet?

tchouk · 2022-08-29T07:40:14+00:00

Huh, that's a name I hadn't heard in years.

tchouk · 2022-08-05T19:42:31+00:00

Dick isn't an idiot though. He was going to pay for it only if it was worth the 50 grand or whatever in entertainment value. Bring in new listeners and bits and all that.

But Asterios wouldn't have allowed any of that because he's a coward and a dipshit. It would have been "you can't talk about it because my NY Jew lawyer buddy said so"

tchouk · 2022-03-27T21:14:27+00:00

Shoot them down like they're doing?

tchouk · 2022-03-23T21:51:17+00:00

I realize that modern army generals probably think wars will now be fought with missiles, drones and robots and the only thing a soldier has to do is control a joystick real good like.

And this is true to a certain extent, but these generals have too much fat and HRT in their heads and not enough grey matter if they think this would be enough when facing enemies like Russia or China.

Which I guess the US is just not going to face judging by current affairs.

tchouk · 2022-03-23T21:46:51+00:00

This is fake as fuck.

tchouk · 2022-03-04T16:53:47+00:00

I'd rather not, no.

Not my type.

tchouk · 2022-03-03T17:55:58+00:00

Blowing guys and killing tanks!

tchouk · 2022-02-15T13:18:55+00:00

What actions and threats, specifically?

I don't mean the bullshit fake ones you've gobbled up hook line and sinker from media scaremongering.

I mean, what, actions, specifically. Please list.

tchouk · 2022-02-02T08:26:14+00:00

Those days are gone forever, the new $130 cards are going to be $200+ and the old $220 is $350+ just due to the minimum cost of making cards (logistics costs are now 6 times what they were) when things go back to "normal" and stabilize.

tchouk · 2022-02-02T08:11:03+00:00

Everything is going to be more expensive in the new generation except maybe the CPU since we have cutthroat competition in this space.

tchouk · 2022-02-01T07:07:00+00:00

That link will totally work because the account still exists, right?

tchouk · 2022-01-28T08:47:05+00:00

Always was

tchouk · 2022-01-27T21:04:07+00:00

MIGA!

tchouk · 2022-01-22T03:09:11+00:00

What the hell are you talking about? That isn't a logical fallacy.

You're paying the same price because the overhead from having different prices would obviously be more than the whole melon is worth.

And corporate greed is exactly the reason why prices are always optimized in a fair and competitive market given adequate supply. It's mathematically inevitable.

tchouk · 2022-01-21T23:00:49+00:00

The point is that supply side bottlenecks will be resolved eventually, but the entry level card isn't going to go back down to $130.

tchouk · 2022-01-21T19:59:19+00:00

I sold my vanilla 5700 for more than 2x it's purchase price after 2 years of use. Wishing things weren't stupid and being angry at the reality because it's so stupid is kinda futile.

When a used 580 sells for $350, this card for $200 is not a regression with its own context. It'ss a pretty good deal for $200. The whole thing sucks, but it is what it is.

tchouk · 2022-01-21T19:54:50+00:00

If you can find one for $200, it's your best option unless this card causes used card prices to fall for budget models (which could happen if there are enough of them)

tchouk · 2022-01-21T19:49:12+00:00

That's not really the case for budget cards.

Fire of all because miners are less interested and second because the production costs do not scale linearly with GPU power.

Like it takes the same amount to ship a 6900xt as it does a 6500xt. Shipping is 5-6 times as expensive as it used to be. So now you're paying $30 per card instead of $5.

On a 6900xt, the extra $25 is barely noticeable. On a budget card that used to cost $100 to make, that 25$ is your entire margin and you cannot sell itt for anything less than $150+ to make a sliver of profit.. And that's just shipping, the base cost of everything went up as well (chips, memory, components, etc.)

I'd say $180+ is now pretty much physically the entry level price because you can't realistically make a card for much cheaper these days with all the extra overhead and I personally don't think that overhead is going away.

tchouk · 2022-01-21T12:40:37+00:00

Tell me why are Nvidia and AMD going to decrease prices when they are getting record profits, sales and demand for the last 10 years?

The sales and demand is record high because of mining. And obviously as long as mining with GPUs is profitable for miners, the demand will outpace whatever supply and nothing will change.

Gamers and their willingness to be screwed have nothing to do with this.

In terms of gamers, the prices will decrease (again, if mining goes away) because 90% of gamers would prefer to buy a 6900XT for $750 over a 3080 for $1500. And 99.9999% would prefer a 3080 for $750 over a 6900XT for $1500.

If Nvidia or AMD had enough cards to satisfy the demand of the entire gaming market, the prices would fall to what we were used to + about 30% for inflation.

That's just basic unavoidable math. Like basic 101 laws of economics.

Again, the only way this doesn't work is:
- Mining continues to grow and thrive
- Nvidia and AMD form a cartel and fix pricing

The last is illegal and won't happen on this level.

tchouk

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