They don’t make RAM, there’s only a very few companies that actually make the chips that go into RAM. Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung basically make up the entire market and they’re not afraid to use that to their advantage.
They’ve been literally convicted of price fixing in the past as a cartel.
Microsoft wants to kill on-prem for enterprise. Windows 11 Enterprise is a monthly subscription to your Office 365, sorry Microsoft 365, wait no Copilot 365 account. Exchange Server 2019 is the end with their subscription only version replacing it. They’re retiring Dynamics on prem to move you to the cloud.
The cloud services are parted out just right that you get almost everything you’re trying to do with one package, only to need the next level up at double the price for one little thing, or an add-on service that just so happens to need the E3 version instead of E1. Oh but you can pay twice as much again for the all-in-one bundle, it comes with everything! Expect that thing you need for regulatory compliance, that’s still extra. It’s like they studied the predatory pricing of freemium games and went “we can do better than that”
Selling you an OS once is of no interest to them. Monthly charges? Better but still not enough. All of your data flowing through their systems, ripe for harvesting and vendor lock-in? That’s the good stuff.
Be glad it’s not in your area or you were grandfathered into unlimited then. 1.2 TB cap with $10 / 50GB over that. Or you can get unlimited data for an additional $30 / month. Their modem rental includes unlimited data for $25 / month.
You might also want to run a speed test. Comcast has a very small list of modems that they approve for mid split / high split for faster upload speeds https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/customerowned That meant my own modem (which supported it but wasn’t “approved”) could only get ~100 Mb/s upload, but their rental hits the 300 they advertise (closer to 350 with the over-provisioning)
Except with their bandwidth fees I would be paying more money to use my own equipment than to rent theirs (which includes unlimited bandwidth). Not to mention there are very few modems they allow to use DOCSIS High Split for increased upload speeds even if they’re capable of it.
Put it in bridge mode, open it up and disconnect the wifi antennas and use your own gear.
It would be a relief to have a baked potato as a president over what we have today.
Use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ttv-lol-pro/
Run your own proxy that supports tons of VPNs: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Set the VPN location to a country that doesn’t or can’t get ads (Costa Rica is a good one since they’re in the test region for 2k streaming).
Set the extension to use the proxy.
No more Twitch ads.
Well yea, they’d care.
They’d be jealous.
Don’t worry, you’ll just need to subscribe to My Windows Copilot Cloud+ to get access to a virtual PC with plenty of RAM from anywhere! It’ll be powerful enough you’ll barely notice us logging all your actions and blocking anything we don’t like.
apt-mark hold snapd
You can also pin it with a negative priority like Mint does.
I mean, this is the same guy that wants to criminalize homosexuality so that’s on brand.
They’ll ban encrypted Internet traffic that they don’t have a backdoor to steal inspect the contents.
Looks like you fell victim to Poe’s law.
Apparently no longer optional for their customers either, based on how hard they are pushing it in Office 365, sorry Microsoft 365, no sorry Microsoft 365 Copilot.
The latest change of dumping you into a Copilot chat immediately on login and hiding all the actually useful stuff is just desperation incarnate.
Yes but then they’ll just put another Democrat in his place. This way he has one he can force into doing his bidding holding charges above his head.
Wonder if they have betting odds on another March outbreak and lockdown.
AI. Consumers get the leftovers that can’t be binned high enough to be H100s that they can sell for 30k a piece to companies doing AI work. The 50 series uses the same node as the 40 series, so they stopped production on the 40s to allocate time to the new chips. Of course this has the nice effect of stopping cannibalization of sales when it turns out the 5080 is basically a 4080 super and would be binned as a x070 or x060 Ti part in prior gens.
Either way it looks like they only started working on them early January based on some investigation so far (https://youtu.be/wMd2WHKnceI) so there’s likely only a couple thousand 5090s even in existence.
My area was forced to do well by our governor, which naturally meant they wanted to thank her by plotting to kidnap and murder her.
Those lucky bastards are the only ones that get to use this handy feature in Dream Berd
Well, yeah. If you drain all the clean water out of the swamp you’re just left with the decaying muck of a dying ecosystem. Almost like that metaphor never actually made sense.
Vega and Radeon VII were a thing, but I doubt we’ll see the like again considering they were basically panicked attempts by AMD to find something that worked. At least their efforts with Zen 1/2 took off.