The irony of saying that when you think the be-all and end-all of how good a business is doing is looking at its stock price this year.

If only it were that simple.

It was the card, and nah, it long predates 13th/14th gen.

If I need a shit in the morning, I try to wait until I start work. May as well be paid for it.

Damn, I’ve had the exact opposite experience. I had to move away from a 1080 Ti that I was having constant instability with, even after I went back to the retailer and got a new card.

Unfortunately at the time, AMD didn’t have anything performance competitive. But it was worth the downgrade for the better drivers.

• AMD’s Data Center revenue surged 115% YoY in Q2 2024, driven by Instinct MI300 AI accelerators and EPYC processors, leading to raised revenue guidance and a BUY rating.

• Client segment revenue grew 49% YoY, fueled by strong Ryzen processor demand and Zen 5 sales, prompting an increased revenue forecast for 2024 and 2025.

• Gaming segment revenue fell 59% YoY due to weak console demand, resulting in a lowered revenue forecast for this segment through 2025.

• AMD’s acquisitions of Silo AI and ZT Systems aim to strengthen its AI and data center market position, enhancing long-term growth prospects.

Did you even read it?

Down 6% YTD and a market cap of 1/12 of their only competitor isn’t “doing great.”

Firstly, Nvidia isn’t AMD’s only competitor.

Secondly, only looking at the stock price and treating that as gospel shouldn’t be how you’re assessing whether a company is doing well or not.

GameStop stock exploded, it wasn’t because they were doing well. Nvidia became the most valuable company on earth by market cap - do you really think they’re that valuable? Tesla stock went crazy because Elon kept chatting nonsense about how all their cars would be driverless by 2018. Etc.

The stock market is not rational. Don’t judge the health of a company purely based on their stock price.

Pop is the only one that really ever makes any reference to windows in its marketing

Gnome is great. I don’t really see how it’s tablet-like. It’s an extremely keyboard-focused desktop.

It’s a great addition. It’s a surprisingly powerful aspect of gnome that nobody, not even Gnome, ever seem to talk about.

They really should place a text file in that folder to explain how it works (and of course exempt it as being used as a template)

Ubuntu, Mint, and to some extent PopOS are pegged as easy Windows/MacOS alternatives, just like ElementaryOS. They’re still popular.

What a star. Probably should have some kind of poetry focused on them or something.

Both are pretty great on Fedora, although Fedora gives Gnome just a tiny bit more attention, and even specifically align Fedora’s release schedule with Gnome’s.

Gnome will likely be a bit more stable, consistent in UX, and have a workflow that’s very different but pretty amazing when it “clicks”. Gnome has a pretty great Adwaita app ecosystem that matches the system theme very well. Features can take a little while to come to Gnome, because the devs are pretty anal about getting things implemented perfectly before they’re added.

Plasma is more powerful and customisable, most parts of the system, and apps in the KDE app ecosystem, have a load of options you could spend hours going through and customising to your heart’s content. Plasma out of the box pretty much operates like you’d expect a Windows PC to work (sans the enshittification of course lol) . Plasma adds features rapidly, and just works out the kinks while in production, so-to-speak.

Both of them are great, albeit very different, which keeps the Linux desktop interesting and varied IMO. I’d try both for a day or two and then make your choice, because it’s highly subjective.

You can, but it always just feels a little janky and missing a couple of Gnome touches

That’s their point.

Fucks around with GPU drivers for some reason

Experiences GPU driver issues

“How can Linux do this to me??”

I tried to get everyone on Signal, and I personally donate £5 monthly to Signal, but everybody left. I’m forced to be 100% WhatsApp, because that’s what society uses.

I’m somewhat annoyed that the EU offered Signal the chance of becoming relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open itself up and offer interoperability with other chat apps, while still maintaining proper E2EE using the Signal protocol, and Signal said nah.

E: oh, and I don’t manage to play much on my PC these days (my gaming time these days is more “oh, I have 20 minutes free, I’ll play on my steam deck while chilling on the couch for a bit!”), but on the once in a blue moon occasion I do, I’ll open up Discord, because good look trying to get people to use anything else.

I can download a decent size LLM such as Llama 3.1 in under 20 seconds then immediately start using it. No terminal, no complicated git commands, just pressing download in a slick-looking, user-friendly GUI.

They’re trivial to run yourself. And most are open source.

I don’t think this would be enforceable at all.

In what way? As in their future node having issues? Yeah.

As in them staying on their existing mode for ages? No. Their existing node is ridiculously expensive to produce, which is a big part of why Intel uses TSMC a lot now, and why nobody seems interested in Intel’s fabs.

This doesn’t appear to be comparing them, though? Just explaining what two acronyms are?

Yep.

Something tells me that Google won’t be turning down fast food companies that want to advertise with them, or reducing recommendations of channels that show off/review fast food a lot.

Maybe I’m being cynical, but this seems more like a “let’s get some good headlines” ploy than something that will seriously help anybody.

I don’t know what the best course is, but screwing over channels that promote exercise and healthy living doesn’t sound like a good option to me. Even if they can exacerbate some people’s perceived body issues.

No it isn’t.