UltraMega

I only spend about $200-$300 on a phone and I don't think I'm missing anything. I can't imagine spending more would change my user experience in any meaningful way. Most phones in that price range now days have a pretty good cpu, can record in 4k and even have full body screens which the iphone 12 doesn't have. By all means my ~$200 phone looks newer than an iphone 12 just because of the full body screen. I won't deny apple makes nice hardware but for me it's hard to see any reason to spend over a few hundred bucks for a phone, be it apple or google. The diminishing returns fall off very sharply.

You think it has more to do with that than the pandemic?

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/apple-sees-24111-billion-in-market-value-erased-on-disappointing-4th-quarter-iphone-sales-and-lack-of-forward-guidance/ar-BB1axQHn Just some dry tech news. Apple makes quality hardware but they are also considered by most to be a luxury brand and it makes sense that a luxury brand would suffer during these times.

Came across this video, has some good info:

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I'm in the same boat.

I don't think spaceX would have gotten approval to do this if their plan was trial and error. You don't do trial and error in space, it's far too expensive.

To compare to analog, electrical interference is a non-issue with hdmi. Technically it can happen but it doesn't come up in practice because the signal is digital.

Pretty sure the orbits of star link will be different from that of most major satellites. That said, nasa tracks all space debris in orbit down to things about the size of a marble and adjusts the path of any satellites when a collision is possible. Years ago China tested a missile by shooting a defunct satellite with it despite being warned about space debris. Nasa now ironically tracks the space debris left by that explosion and warns china when one of their satellites is in danger of a collision.

Ah, that is definitely more than I thought. Still, if birds or planes are not an issue, really no reason something much further out would be.

Source: https://www.space.com/smallest-rogue-planet-discovery It's widely believed that a planet sized object collided with the earth at some point billions of years ago and created a debris field that eventually coalesced into the moon. Finding an exo-planet in our solar system supports the moon collision theory. Pretty interesting stuff. Note: micro-lensing is the same as gravitational lensing which is the visible curvature of light caused by an object with its own gravity.

If anything that should make them easier to avoid. Pretty much all ground based (non amature) telescopes have lasers that shoots out into the atmosphere to get a reading on atmospheric distortion and thus are able to use that info to compensate for the loss in clarity. There is just no way these systems will be affected by some additional 1000 satellites or so.

It seems far fetched to me that star link satellites would really matter for astronomy. There are already close to 3000 satellites in orbit IIRC, and they're not an issue. The only way I can see it being an issue is when taking a really broad, not really zoomed in much image of the night sky but that would seem kinda pointless.

Intel doesn't make dedicated GPUs (yet), and Nvidia doesn't make CPUs. If there is a feasible design advantage to adding a cache memory pool to the GPU that is supposed to have easy access for the CPU beyond what is currently offered by the PCIe bus, only amd is really in a position to explore this possibility. It doesn't seem far fetched to me at all that the infinity cache on the GPU could make a meaningful difference, but if it's something that does pick up I suspect Intel and Nvidia will respond with something similar soon enough.

It would be pretty hard to prove the dac in your sound card beats the actual sound quality of a decent receiver, and you still run into electrical interference issues so you would have to be able to show that the better dac outweighs the benefits of having full digital output, and I suspect the latter would be by far more beneficial. The specs for hdmi 2.0 audio surpass anything you could ever practically need. Even if your sound card is capable of better sound on paper, I highly doubt that would be enough to overcome the downsides of using a internal sound card/dac vs digital. Also, yes I am doing 5.1 surround. I have tried tos link and it doesn't work well for my needs.

You and diffident are two peas in a pod. You're both repeatedly ignoring key facts to make your argument which is just going in circles. If you don't like the article in the OP, try any of the dozens or hundreds of other articles about it. Unless you go looking for one that's pushing a narrative, they all pretty much say the same thing as the OP. So again, microsoft sells windows, oems but it for money. Microsoft does not pay them not to use a different OS. Google does pay other businesses to use google over the competition, and that's what makes it a crime. It's just that simple. It's ridiculous that you're trying to argue that it's not a red flag when google decides to "throttle competition". I'm sure other businesses wish they could throttle google, but they can't and that's the problem. A lot of people like to hate on big companies due to some kind bias, usually a belief that the larger a business gets the more inherently evil it is. Microsoft is like a magnet for such people.

I'd rather have 16gbs of vram vs faster ram. I think the extra ram will matter more over time. Having slower ram isn't nearly as bad as running out of ram. 10gbs does not seem like enough to last through next gen.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt/ Another review: https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-review,1.html Video review: Guru3d:

So far this doesn't seem to have had any noticable impact on their stock price.

Def possible. I once did a repair on an imac where the heatsink had failed and the gas inside it had leaked out through a tiny hole. Replacing the heatsink fixed it.

This game will make the pandemic so much more bearable.

I saw three starlink satellites in a row go overhead a few months back. Very cool tech.

So... I actually just found a really good deal on a surface pro 4 (i5) for $215 so only $35 more than I paid for the surface pro 1. I'm going to resell the surface pro 1 for hopefully about what I paid. $215 for a surface pro 4 is a total steal. Lots of great deals on eBay for them but you do have to sort through a lot of listings for defective units. Here is the one I'm selling if anyone is curious. Make me an offer if you want. https://www.ebay.com/itm/274549890224 I'd be willing to sell it for less to someone from here than what I listed it on eBay for.

I bought a used surface pro 1 i5 4gb for my gd to use for school for $180. Seemed like a pretty good deal.

Sounds like Ant is like paypal or venmo. Makes sense that something like that with some a successful person behind it like Jack Ma would become huge. Lots of customers over there.