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New comment by Tsiklon in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Tsiklon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:18:58 +0000

The extension cable they used to include in box with the computers, it has the third pin for the charger brick connector which is wired to ground

New comment by Tsiklon in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

Tsiklon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:18:40 +0000

The panda were wonderful, and based off a headphone I loved to bits in the Oppo PM-3.

If Corsair still own the design, they could simply reimplement the original earcups/hinge mechanism from the Oppo as it was super solid.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

Tsiklon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:55:00 +0000

That won’t work for the home hobbyist 2.4KW of GPU alone plus a 350W threadripper pro with enough PCIe lanes to feed them. You’re looking at close to twice the average US household electricity circuit’s capacity just to run the machine under load.

A cluster of 4 Apple’s M3 ultra Mac studios by comparisons will consume near 1100W under load.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

Tsiklon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:45:26 +0000

It has a HDMI port and its USB-C ports also support display out. But I believe most who buy it intend to use it headless. The machine runs Ubuntu 24.04 and has a slightly customised Gnome (green accents and an nvidia logo in GDM) as its desktop.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Tsiklon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:55:43 +0000

Fortnite is 9 years old this year. Epic brought in biblical amounts of money from just this one property over this time. Where and how did they spend this money?

New comment by Tsiklon in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

Tsiklon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:17:16 +0000

Surprisingly the original developers Milestone are doing a reboot/reimagining of the series which is out this week.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

Tsiklon — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:36:43 +0000

Tangentially related, that screenshot of Screamer 2 caught me off guard completely, I loved that game to death, and I feel I was the only one of my friends to have played it. Tremendous handling model and superb music.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

Tsiklon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:48:37 +0000

I’ve had no issues running GPT-OSS 120b with decent performance on the machine (HP Zbook Ultra G1a). Running on Bluefin/Universal Blue and Windows.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

Tsiklon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:59:44 +0000

Strix Halo’s unified setup is pretty cool. In systems with 128GB of memory, in BIOS set the dedicated GPU memory to the smallest permitted and the Drivers will use the whole main memory pool appropriately in Linux and Windows

New comment by Tsiklon in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

Tsiklon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:57:24 +0000

The difference between DDR4 and 5 is quite substantial. I have a fully loaded Cascade Lake Mac Pro - 6 channels of DDR4-2933 gets me to about 120GB/s or 960Gb/s. PCIe 3.0 is a major Achilles heel of what would be a capable workstation system with modern nvidia GPUs precisely for the reason you document.

New comment by Tsiklon in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

Tsiklon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:59:08 +0000

When did nvidia drop PNY as ODM for their reference cards? I recall my A5000 (now 2 Gen old) was made by PNY.

New comment by Tsiklon in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

Tsiklon — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:13:25 +0000

To my recollection on the machines that shipped with Lion (circa 2011) you’ll want to set up a protective MBR with the appropriate drive dimensions on the GPT, to get it to install windows like with boot camp.

To my recollection on machines with discrete GPUs this is what triggers the appropriate hardware configuration (BIOS boot, disabling the internal GPU and switching the MUX to only route via the AMD card)

But I do recall getting the internal GPU working with this trick https://github.com/0xbb/apple_set_os.efi

New comment by Tsiklon in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

Tsiklon — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:45:45 +0000

Beautiful, it's typeset in classic cló Gaelach.

New comment by Tsiklon in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

Tsiklon — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:30:49 +0000

Intel also sees the value in decent onboard GPUs now, their newly announced laptop processors have solid onboard GPUs too

New comment by Tsiklon in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

Tsiklon — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:05:44 +0000

From looking at the WiFi ssid’s broadcast at the New York subway stations, I believe Boldyn also does the phone coverage here too

New comment by Tsiklon in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

Tsiklon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:19:50 +0000

Pepsi probably already have done this and likely Coke have done the same to Pepsi. However, Pepsi did also see what happened with New Coke and likely don’t wish to repeat that footgun of changing the formula. Plus people buy Pepsi because they want Pepsi not Coca-Cola

New comment by Tsiklon in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

Tsiklon — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:07:00 +0000

Ahh I hear you that’s a fair observation.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

Tsiklon — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:53:04 +0000

Alas NPUs are in essentially all modern CPUs by Intel and AMD. It’s not a separate bit of silicon, it’s on the same package as the CPU

New comment by Tsiklon in "Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A"

Tsiklon — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:12:04 +0000

On the Mac it's all dynamically handled.

With Strix Halo there's two ways of going about it; either set how much memory you want allocated to GPU in BIOS (Less desirable), or set the memory allocation to the GPU to 512MB in the BIOS, and the driver will do it all dynamically much like on a Mac.

New comment by Tsiklon in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

Tsiklon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:53:39 +0000

From reading the other comments this happened a while ago, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.

This is rather annoying and short sighted of Microsoft. If anything this change is emblematic of the rot that exists in Microsoft currently.

Microsoft Office is one of the strongest recognised brands in technology, if you’ve used a windows PC at any point in the last 30 years you will know of Microsoft Office.

Not only that but the brand name is trusted; office and the applications therein are the standard for general purpose business work (as much as I’d prefer Libreoffice etc to gain market share)

Throwing that brand away in favour of an untrusted, unwanted, undesirable name seems headstrong and foolishly iconoclastic. Not only that but their implementation of the new name is just inelegant. Which further lends credence to the idea that Microsoft cannot name products

Skype for Business

Microsoft Windows App

Xbox One (and Xbox Series…)