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MHI had a stellar reputation back in the early 2000s. They were regarded as much better than Mitsubishi Electric. So the public perception…

Makes sense. Based on what I've seen of four-year-olds, I'd take the iPad.

This is the current base-model iPad. I can’t imagine it being unsuitable for a 4 year old - I’m a 50 year old software engineer and…

Waiting around for cheaper hardware has been a sure-fire path to disappointment over the past couple of years. Are prices turning around…

It’s actually wider than the Kona, although a tiny bit shorter. 1850mm wide is just ridiculous for a small car. It makes it no easier to…

A Yaris is the perfect size. I’d like a bit more ground clearance, since there are quite a few steep driveways around here that mine…

By definition as a “relaxing simulator”, it won’t help you relax. It will just simulate it. If it actually induced relaxation, the…

I wish they made something similar, but a bit smaller. 4000mm x 1700mm is really the sweet spot for a small car. The inflation (in width in…

The sole reason it was misinterpreted is the “lol” at the end.

The "lol" at the end seemed mocking. My point is that AM4 is still a very valid choice for a budget upgrade. If you have a 6th-10th gen…

It's still one of the best sockets to use all the DDR4 RAM you have lying around. I'd take a machine with the 64GB of DDR4-3200 I have…

If you want to try, make sure you use llamacpp-rocm. Ollama runs everything through Vulkan on 9060/9070 cards, which I found to be…

ROCm support is becoming surprisingly decent for local LLMs. Recent "llamacpp-rocm" releases have really improved things quite a bit. I'm…

It seems to just be this kit. The next-cheapest 2x16GB kit at MWave is $387. So we have a single kit for only twice what similar RAM sold…

I bought one from the Apple Refurbished store for $509 four weeks ago. At the time, a large batch came in with various colours and storage…

I've regularly seen the base (A16) iPad for around $500. In fact, the Apple Refurbished store often has the base A16 iPad for $509…

Actually, that's incredibly relevant in this case, because the Intel HD Graphics 2000 is spot-on the minimum requirements. With graphics at…

I wonder how many people tried ordering this simply because it was "good value", rather than actually having a use for this old junk.…

A mesh system is configured such that all APs advertise the same SSID (just the same as a conventional multi-AP system). Then it's up to…

Good quality access points with a wired backbone do really make a huge difference. However, "mesh" WiFi with a wired backbone is kind of…

I went through too many cheap WiFi setups (mesh and otherwise), none which really worked reliably. In the end, I caved in and ran Ethernet…

It's an entirely different thing. The "zoom" on the iPhones takes a moderate telephoto lens with a tiny aperture, crops out the middle…

That number seems suspect. allbinos.com reports 2.8m: https://www.allbinos.com/151-binoculars_review-Olympus_10x42_EXPS_I.html The official…

It's really hard to judge that. It depends on what you need. They're not top-of-the-line binoculars. Reports from allbinos.com show:…

I doubt that's happening any time soon. GPUs will increase in price once the existing supply contracts for manufacturers are re-negotiated.…

For LLMs? Vulkan on llama.cpp is actually decent with some models. For example, this card canload and handle GPT-OSS:20b at decent token…

I have this card in my SFF PC, which I try to keep near-silent, and I think the fan is a tad more aggressive at stock settings than it…

Nintendo only has a minor (33%) stake in the Pokemon Company, and it is run at an arms-length in Japan. Globally, there's a much stronger…

This is a pretty standard third-party game release. They generally either require extensive patches or come as a key-card. In either case,…

Many deep learning models are CUDA-only. But for LLMs, Vulkan support in llama.cpp has come a long way. You definitely still pay a penalty…