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Cake day: August 24th, 2024
  • qupada@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•NVIDIA is full of shit
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    1 day ago

    Fortunately, even that tide is shifting.

    I’ve been talking to Dell about it recently, they’ve just announced new servers (releasing later this year) which can have either Nvidia’s B300 or AMD’s MI355x GPUs. Available in a hilarious 19" 10RU air-cooled form factor (XE9685), or ORv3 3OU water-cooled (XE9685L).

    It’s the first time they’ve offered a system using both CPU and GPU from AMD - previously they had some Intel CPU / AMD GPU options, and AMD CPU / Nvidia GPU, but never before AMD / AMD.

    With AMD promising release day support for PyTorch and other popular programming libraries, we’re also part-way there on software. I’m not going to pretend like needing CUDA isn’t still a massive hump in the road, but “everyone uses CUDA” <-> “everyone needs CUDA” is one hell of a chicken-and-egg problem which isn’t getting solved overnight.

    Realistically facing that kind of uphill battle, AMD is just going to have to compete on price - they’re quoting 40% performance/dollar improvement over Nvidia for these upcoming GPUs, so perhaps they are - and trying to win hearts and minds with rock-solid driver/software support so people who do have the option (ie in-house code, not 3rd-party software) look to write it with not-CUDA.

    To note, this is the 3rd generation of the MI3xx series (MI300, MI325, now MI350/355). I think it might be the first one to make the market splash that AMD has been hoping for.

  • qupada@fedia.iotoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•smart bed
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    18 days ago

    I clicked on this, and it’s immediately asking for my email. No big surprises there.

    This however is the copy:

    EXCLUSIVE
    Unlock your surprise
    Sign up to receive your surprise and start sleeping better today

    With the big glowing confirm button labelled “Get my surprise” and the dark pattern barely visible skip link “I don’t want a surprise”.

    I was aware of the existence of these things but had never paid them the slightest mind, this is just… ick.

  • qupada@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say?
    5·
    23 days ago

    In my extended circle of acquaintences and colleagues I know around eight people with folding phones. I have seen ONE of them ever use it open - even in situations where you’d think it’d be great, like sitting at the tables in the office kitchen at lunchtime browsing, almost never used unfolded.

    It seems like it should be a great idea, but for the majority of people the majority of the time, it appears to be an otherwise normal phone that’s just twice as thick as it needed to be. One of the owners of these devices - who had it bought for them rather than choosing it themself - made that exact complaint to me, in fact.

    That said, don’t let this put you off. If it’s a thing you think you would like, the technology has definitely progressed to the point where the more glaring issues (of reliability, mostly) have been worked out. But definitely spend some time playing with one in a store before committing if you can.

  • qupada@fedia.iotoAndroid@lemmy.world•It appears Google has stopped publishing device-specific source code for Pixel phones
    12·
    24 days ago

    Sony mostly pass the camera quality test†, the “fit and finish” test, and ship a relatively clean Android OS.

    You also get options to have otherwise-long-forgotten features like 3.5mm headphone jacks and MicroSD slots, and Sony’s waterproofing is second to none for phones that you wouldn’t naturally describe as “ruggedised”.

    There are unavoidable issues around pricing (high) and availability (low), but by most of the metrics people would choose to measure phones’ quality, features, performance, etc, they are actually doing a great job with their products (at least now that they also offer a respectable duration of OS updates and support).

    If you are looking for it too, they tend to be at the upper end of manufacturers for open-source code and documentation availability: https://developerworld.wpp.developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices, though with that said due to the relatively small audience for their products, availability of other people’s custom ROMs will not necessarily be extensive.

    I’m on my fourth of their phones (Z2 2014, XZ Premium 2017, 1ii 2020, 1vii 2025), every upgrade time I’ve looked around, and every time I’ve failed to find something I want to own more than another one.

    † The caveat here is they’re highly skewed toward operator control; you’re very much expected to participate in the photo-taking process and I’m painfully aware that’s not what most people want these days. Low assistance provided, basically zero “AI” processing, just lots of rope with which to hang yourself. It’ll take beautiful pictures once you get accustomed to it though, whaddaya gonna do?

  • qupada@fedia.iotoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Please, UI designers
    58·
    1 month ago

    As it’s most often seen on news sites - where scrolling too far gives you another article - a handful of reasons.

    One: there are frequently still links (think “about us” / “contact us” kind of pages) in the footer that you might need to access, which you can invariably now never reach, because as soon as they’re in view they’re replaced by more content.

    Two: as the parent poster so accurately put it, “fucking with the browser history”. It becomes entirely indeterminate whether the back button now returns to the previous site, or just goes back by one piece of content.

    Three: the new content is almost certainly unrelated to the page I started on, and not of any interest to me.