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    The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence

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    51 minutes ago, Zoraptor said:

    Always kind of amused by this sort of thing. It's truly shocking that China is an enemy to the west if, and only if, the west isn't an enemy to China. Which by any objective measure it quite clearly is. This sort of thing is entirely reciprocal but you're supposed to think that anything They do is wanton aggression, while us doing the same thing is purely defensive. Ever so very slightly Orwellian.

    Anyone paying attention knows that the west and the US specifically has been sending black boxed systems to China (and everyone else) for literal decades. That's tremendous- everyone says it's tremendous, people stop me on the street to say it- for our security, not so much for theirs. Well, it's tremendous for us so long as our interests coincide with US ones, and the US is a rational player, and has a rational President, and doesn't put its economic precedence first and only and, uh, yeah.

    By any objective measure China has been by far the best behaved of the major powers internationally. That just isn't saying much, considering how badly the other four permanent members of the UNSC have behaved.

    Yes, because their threats to Taiwan and other nations sovereign territory is good behaviour? Running hidden police stations across the world? Kidnapping other nations citizens?

    The fact that you and me both can discuss this, mention Tiananmen Square and call Winnie the Poo by his real name without being censured by the government and not be made homeless, speaks volumes.

    Mango Mussolini and his fruitsalad cohort have some ways to go yet.

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    The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence

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    On 5/7/2025 at 9:52 PM, Gromnir said:

    ps @Azdeus kudos to sweden where tesla sales for the year has dropped by 81%.

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    Felon's latest antics did help, but combining it with him refusing to sign a collective agreement and our unions now blocking them for years, including sympathy actions from electricians, dockworkers in both Denmark and Sweden, postal services, and his employment of strikebreakers, and that only 75% of Tesla vehicles passing their first safety inspection (After 4 years, new cars require full inspections to be legal to drive on the road), I think they were heading there anyway to be honest.

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    The All Things Political Topic - In politics stupidity is not a handicap

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    3 hours ago, Lexx said:

    https://imgur.com/gallery/digital-content-refresh-what-is-really-is-history-erased-CcEncKS

    Crazy how compliant everyone is with this stuff. There seems to be pretty much no push back at all.

    What do you mean? Didn't you see that the democrats wore matching pink blazers and waving paddles? Ignore that some rogue texan senator stood up and shouted at trump, he's been censured.

    The Democrats are complicit. Plenty of people are angry about it, but they're probably busy sending angry messages on twatter or meta. They either need to start a general strike or use the 2A, neither of which will happen.

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    Radeon Thread

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    On 3/8/2025 at 1:36 AM, Zoraptor said:

    The supply issues are largely not fixable, at least by AMD. That's a fab space issue, and fundamentally a problem with TSMC not really having any competitors. You cannot step up production on the fly because there's no excess capacity and you have to plan the allocations out many months- up to a year- ahead of time and hope you get things right. The real illustration of that is how many 9800x3d sales AMD are leaving on the table with their constant lack of availability, and that is far higher margin than mid range consumer GPUs and thus far higher priority.

    nVidia has the same problem consumer side. Perhaps even worse, since AMD has a wider range of products to be flexible with and a better relationship with TSMC.

    Only a limited amount AMD can do about the prices too. When they were selling their own branded reference cards from their website they were MSRP even when retail was higher, but they certainly cannot force 3rd party vendors or card partners to adhere to even MSRP long term (practically, outside of the launch window). They're the #2 maker by a wide margin, they simply don't have the leverage.

    They can easily tell their partners to meet MSRP, because they can cut off supply to them if they don't do that. Simple as that. They chose ********ery though.

    https://www.inet.se/nyhet/11657/radeon-rx-9000-serien-msrp

    Så funkar MSRP-priserna

    Vi har nu fått veta hur de rekommenderade priserna, så kallade MSRP-priserna, fungerar för lanseringen av AMD Radeon RX 9070 och RX 9070 XT. Vi får inte säga exakta priser inför släppet, men enkelt förklarat kommer de gälla ett begränsat antal kort.

    "We have been told how the recommended prices, so called MSRP-prices, works for the launch of 9070 and 9070 xt. We can't tell you the exact prices before the release date, but simply said it's going to be for a limited number of cards"

    So they set the MSRP prices low to get good reviews.

    Radeon Thread

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    Yeah, as for the MSRP the place I typically buy from announced that only the first batch of 9070s would be MSRP, and all their inventory except the 9070 XT Hellhound all went in about 30 minutes. Same with the MSRP 9070s.

    Radeon Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Azdeus

    On 2/28/2025 at 3:53 PM, majestic said:

    Uhm, so, extrapolating the 9070 XT performance based on AMD's own claims it will land roughly at the level of an RX 9700 XT non-second-X, with better RT performance. Makes sense, since the name's almost the same. MSRP - if it holds, that is - would put it at the same street price as the 9700 XT too, at least in Central Europe.

    And as always, a useless upsell card in the 9070 that no one will buy until AMD drops its price to 500$ or lower. Well, at least they're not trying to sell it for 650 and 700 respectively. Don't think it'll make much of a difference though - 4070 Ti Supers aren't much more expensive, at least if you're happy with buying a cheapo Palit card, which regularily go for ~850€ and will probably have the same performance (and better RT, presumably).

    Eh. Hey, Intel, where's the B770/B780? Come on.

    Their XT cards needed to be 500$. They're probably going to sit at that price, people aren't going to see any value in them at 600, which I doubt will be the actual store price ofcourse.

    Edit; being a bit conspiratorial here, but I reckon that nvidia has been artificially limiting supply aswell, so they might be able to turn the tap on to increase supply now that the competition has showed up.

    Nvidia RTX Series

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    1 hour ago, Zoraptor said:

    Bad time for AMD to have gone back to their 5000 style product line. You'd think they'd have some x2/ chiplet designs despite the teething troubles 7000 series had with them that they could trot out if they had to. 

    Very unfortunate for all the nVidia fans who were hoping for AMD to be competitive so they could buy a cheaper nVidia card.

    I mean, it doesn't really matter what AMD pulls out, or prices it. People don't consider AMD, and even if the 50 series is cack, people will buy it like it's crack. 

    I think that AMD is likely going to undercut nvidia by 50-100 bucks, like last time. AMD fans will buy their stuff, the rest will continue to buy nvidia

    Nvidia RTX Series

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    4 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

    And that's why I never like to be the one to stand in line to get first-day new gen cards. There are apparently always enough willing to be "beta testers" that I don't need to be one. 😄  Wait a year works for me. If only that worked for the prices these days, too. Ha.

    From what people say though, the 50-series isn't getting that problem fixed soon, since they've designed the power connection badly

     

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