My co worker that hates it is in a downtown area and that’s kinda why he hates it. 95% of the time it’s great and he gets >300Mbps with low latency. But when there’s a lot going on the network bogs down badly. Like if there’s ever a major sportsball game it chugs. Latency throughout the day is pretty hit or miss, but it’s normally fine as long as you’re not trying to play an online game.

Coincidentally my co worker that’s in a rural area has almost no issues because for whatever reason T-Mobile ran insanely good internet to his local tower and nobody is ever really on it so he pretty consistently gets great speeds. Suburbs might be good too since people are more spread out.

“The internet” is a > layer 2 technology, radio and TV transmission would all be layer 2 if you applied the OSI model. And layer 2 tech has rapidly changed since the initial creation of the internet.

ARPANET started off on dedicated phone lines essentially (and maybe microwaves). When normal people started using it it was mostly done on their actual phone line with a modem. Then we started getting tech like ISDN, T1, DSL, cable and, Fiber. Nevermind internal networking which went through a wild ride in the 90s before setting on the twisted pair that we have now.

https://youtu.be/Hvqv9QcTcfA?t=93 I mean just look at how comically large an original “thicknet” cable was. It was like an inch thick.

TV is largely now just IP anyways so in a way we’re kinda back.

5G internet is only really a thing because it’s so much easier to run fiber to one tower. Than to broadcast it out for miles than it is to run fiber to everyone’s doorstep. We switched from OTA to cable mostly because OTA sucked. But now that we’ve figured out long range, high bandwith, and most importantly high reliability RF we’re happy to use it. But for most people their internet will stay wired because it’s still the most reliable and fastest. The only people I know that use 5G home internet are in rural areas where the wired options suck, and my one co worker that’s just a cheap ass and he hates it.

Even better there’s whole head units designed to fin nicely into the dash and look relatively OEM. My co worker was looking at one that was like $300 but came with a massive nice screen vs the stock 6” display.

1080p at 24” looks kinda like butt. My last monitor was 1440p at 25” and that I thought was perfection. 2x anti aliasing was all you needed to make everything look nice, but it wasn’t hard to run. 4k isn’t worth it unless you have a REALLY big screen. It takes so much more power to draw 4k vs 1440p and at regular monitor sizes it doesn’t really look that much better.

Also my 1080 absolutely struggled to play games, even at 1080p (what I’d have to revert to when it couldn’t run them at 4k). I tried battlefield 2042 but I struggled to even get 60 fps in that. This Reddit post from 3 years ago mirrors that so I know it’s not just me. And looking at black ops 6 the 1080 would struggle to run that at over 100 gps on anything other than the bare minimum settings.

In terms of bandwith to stream things you won’t have a problem. Some high quality stuff can get to around 55Mbps (bits per second). But most streaming services send you the lowest quality shit imaginable so you’re probably using less than 20 at any given moment.

That data cap is much more concerning to me, how much streaming do you do? At 10Mbps (typical streaming quality) that’s about 3 straight days of watching video which sounds like a lot. But many AAA games are >100GB in size and that’s 1/3 of your data right there.

Hondas infotainment is just android. And at least on my friends 2017 Civic you could get to the regular ass android interface. Most of them are some flavor of Linux.

Also you can install whatever head unit you want on most cars. You can even buy a head unit from china that will match your cars trim for like $300 from china.

Modern Tom’s hardware

actually trying

Not possible.

or rely on Windows update to give you reasonably recent drivers.

Windows update: I see you just installed this driver from 3 weeks ago, let me just revert to a driver from 2021 for ya.

The iPhone has one ram option. If you buy an iPhone 16 your only option is 8 gigs.

Nvidia doesn’t care. Their margins will be high enough, and there will be enough buyers that they’ll be able to print money at whatever absurd price point they choose.

Just like gsync died

(true) gsync isn’t dead, it’s only in the highest end of monitors which is basically where it’s always been. It only “died” because it requires an expensive module vs adaptive sync being built into basically every modern display controller so it’s basically free.

If the value proposition continues, and based on the leak it seems like it will, the 5090 would be a better value FPS per dollar than the 5080 and anything below it. The 4090 cost like 40% more than the 4080, but gave 60% better performance. The 5090 looks like it will be well over twice the performance of the 5080, so I’d expect twice the price.

More likely a 256 bit bus? Not with the monster of a card the 5090 would be. 256 bit on that massive of a card would be ridiculous. The card is set to draw 600 watts.

Apple wasn’t directly creating these summaries, it was their on device AI summaries of the articles bastardizing it.

LLMs

Emphasis on the first L in LLM. Apple’s model is specifically designed to be small to work on phones with 8 gigs of ram (the requirement to run this)

The price gouging for RAM was only ever on computers. With phones you got what got, and you couldn’t pay for more.

I’d like to make a law that anyone who says “just google it” and doesn’t also provide the very first link they found on google that solves the problem should be castrated.

I thought they still made games for the non series X/S/One but apparently they stopped in 2023.

Well either way I felt the same way about the original one. I got mine in 2018 and I’ve played less than 100 hours of games on it, and never actually bought any games for it (I got it second hand with about 6 games).

In general I think AAA games just aren’t worthwhile, let alone AAA exclusives. There’s a lot of great indie games, but that requires going through the sludge of indie games.

The only way I see to solve it is to force vendors to release hardware specs and unlock bootloaders so you can install your own software on it.

Would that actually solve it? Just because a phone has an unlocked bootloader doesn’t mean random ass people are going to want to support it. And even if some random dude on XDA makes updates for it that doesn’t mean most people are even going to want to use it. Like yeah it’s cool than a Galaxy S4 can run the latest version of Android, but that shit is buggy as hell and IDK anyone who would unironically want to use that.

Honestly I think my iPhone 15 was a downgrade in terms of battery life compared to my previous 13 with a slightly degraded battery. If it wasn’t for USB C I’d still happily have that phone. And shit if it wasn’t for getting a screaming deal on that 13 I’d still have my 8.