What's the market for a good integrated GPU ?

AMD is clearly capable of making a fairly high end integrated GPU. The PS5 is roughly a GTX 2070 level GPU integrated with a Ryzen CPU.

But to make that perform well, you need a custom memory architecture with faster memory bus for the GPU. And you need an enormous cooler. The PS5 is basically a tiny motherboard with a massive heatsink attached to it. Xbox Series X isn't much different - they went heavier on fans and airflow, less on the heatsink.

If you go a little better on integrated GPU performance, who really cares? If you go significantly better, the cooling situation becomes complicated, and you're almost always going to be better off just using standard discrete parts where the cooling is a solved problem.

The whole "dropping kids off in the dark" thing is a dumb argument because that's going to happen to some people no matter which time zone you use.

The fuss wasn't that it happened - it was that it happened to a different group of people than it used to. People don't like change, and complained loudly that they were now the ones inconvenienced.

Everyone already has the choice to set their own hours for their business.

But most people need some sort of alignment between school hours and work hours. If you need to commute via mass transit, you need to align with transport. If you work in the financial industry, your hours are generally based off the stock market's hours. There's lots and lots of factors that essentially force large chunks of people to align their schedules.

We ended up in the time zone situation we have because it's the easiest way to get things reasonably aligned.

The market doesn't even react when he says tariffs. Did the first time, then started ignoring him once he walked it back.

NES controllers had amazing dpads. Those worked perfectly. A lot of NES games are really rough to play on modern controllers because they were designed around the really high quality dpad.

Ergonomics weren't great because the controller was a box, but it worked really well. You just had a bad one.

I dunno dude, you had to manually load the rumble motor into your controller. Ever other controller with rumble didn't need to load.

Only half true: A bunch of originally ad-free "included with Prime" content got moved to (or new seasons appeared on) FreeVee, with ads. Someone here has already mentioned Bosch - Legacy, Alex Rider was another one - pretty sure there was more.

...the Prime Video App requires an Amazon account - but not an Amazon Prime subscription (yes, you're probably meant to be confused).

It might be a factor. However, the population is growing, and while the demographics are shifting a bit, they are still a lot of kids, reaching drinking age.

However there are milestones that us older folks had while growing up, that no longer seem as important to the younger generation.

Watching a PG13, R Movie, Getting a drivers license, drinking, smoking, Having Sex, Getting Married, Going to College, Getting an Apartment, getting a house... All these are in decline with the younger generation. Some because of increased difficulty with finance, due to increased cost of living rising higher than salaries, and also prevalence of online culture and access to direct media, so people are finding Cliques that are not necessarily tied to doing particular things, and accessing stuff they are more interested in.

They are plusses and minuses to this trend, but I wouldn't spend too much time complaining about it, younger folks will be doing their own thing that is different than the way older people did for generations.

No, but normally as production increases a lot of the carbon offset is mostly better managed at scale.

For example, a Diesel train may burn 4 gallons of fuel per mile. however being that it carrying so much payload that they rate it 500 miles per gallon per ton.
While an Electric Car that says has 100 eMPG will not be as carbon low in energy expenditure if needed to pull so much weight.

That number seems like the cost to make the material, from start, not in sets of hundreds of thousands of drives.

Well Tech companies had been less than strategic around their hiring and firing practices for the past decade or two.

They try to hire as many people as possible, give them some work to keep them busy. Just so these employees will not be working for their competitors who are trying to hire them for the same reason and give them busy work. Then when money gets tight, they dump them, not realizing that that busy work they were one actually became something profitable for the organization.

They leave, some start new businesses or others get hired by a smaller unknown firm with the skills they learned at that company is useful, and allowed to make the next big thing, that undoubtedly hurts the original company.

The i3 “2018” Mac Mini was discontinued in 2020 when the first Apple Silicon Mini came out - so that’s definitely “vintage”. The i7 “2018” Mac Mini remained on sale until early 2023 so that shouldn’t b3 vintage yet. Yes, I’ve checked the actual Apple vintage products list and it does just say “2018 Mac Mini” but it also clearly stares the 5-7 year rule so one or the other is just plain wrong. The vintage/obsolete rules seem to be based on actual consumer rights laws in various non-US jurisdictions (e.g. EU and UK which give limited warranty against proven manufacturing defects for 5-6 years after sale) so it’s not really a movable feast - I suspect that the published list of models just got dumbed down.

AI is a useful tool. However it is being over used, often in cases were standard logic based software can do the job just as well, for a fraction of the computing resources.

Not necessarily. As stated in the summary, people on UBI were more willing to change jobs, or continue further education.

While this might lead to higher education prices, but not necessarily additional inflation overall. I expect those who changed jobs, may had chosen careers that may pay less where they have a more fulfilling career without the worry about meeting basic needs. Other options would they may have chosen higher risk and possibly higher reword type of work as well.

Speaking from my own personal experience as an American. There were many opportunities that I have personally rejected, because my family conditions means I need a steady reliable employment, which is often rather dull, and not pay as much as other opportunities. The more exciting jobs available, would often have a smaller salary, as my experience wouldn't transfer over as well. Or work for a company that may have massive layoffs.

What would most likely happen with UBI as a side effect would be lower salaries in general, with perhaps less expectations as a balance. Causing spending demand to mostly stabilize and remain constant.

Lucky for us (at least for this topic) we live in the 21st century. Where Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, are cheap, have good energy density, and are very safe.