Something needs to happen to clue in the average person about why this is such a problem. I don't know what that something is though. Continued breaches of privacy? The government and police continuing to make obvious use of the data they can easily buy from any of these companies? What is it going to take for people to care and for laws to be made to prevent more of this going forward?
I was talking to my insurance company the other day and they warned me that if I make any changes to my policy they'll drastically jack up my rate because of the changes in the economy. But I can bring it down a bit if I install their tracking software on my phone that can interface with my vehicle and send all of my driving data to them. It would tell them everywhere I ever go whenever I drive, my exact speed at any moment, braking habits, etc. Does anyone ever say yes to this? Do people realize that they could sift through everything you've ever done effortlessly with AI to find that one time in your life you came to a rolling stop at a deserted stop sign and claim you're a dangerous driver who doesn't follow the rules of the road in order to deny your claim?
Is there a chance in hell that one day this won't be a requirement just to have vehicle insurance? Why isn't everyone up in arms about their data being harvested and sold to the highest bidder? Why are there not laws being made against this kind of undemocratic, authoritarian control over people? I am so disappointed in my fellow man, both the ones guilty of the harvesting and everyone who couldn't be bothered to complain and put a stop to this.
I was talking to my insurance company the other day and they warned me that if I make any changes to my policy they’ll drastically jack up my rate because of the changes in the economy.
This is when you sternly warn the agent/sales rep that this behavior will result in you seeking a new insurance company AND agent for all of your needs
I did. He assured me in more professional terms that they don't give a shit. I do a lot of business with them and have been a client in good standing since I became an adult. They apparently have nothing set up to retain customers who leave over this, which would indicate that hasn't been an issue for them. Or they might be banking on me not following through, but that just means they don't know me very well. When it comes time for me to make those changes to my policy, I'm gone.
Yeah they’re probably banking on people not leaving. Depending on if that agent is good to you and if he/she is local; you should consider just asking them to help you shop around because you need “Change XYZ in your ABC policy” and you need a provider who isn’t going to shaft you for making that change.
If they are not a local agent with access to multiple insurance providers…I guess find one locally.
Oh crap I was about to try changes to my auto policy on the lizard’s online portal to see if I could get it any cheaper while still having enough liability, uninsured, property damage, collision and comprehensive for my litigious state. Glad I saw your warning not to consider modifications in this screwy market. Thank you!
I still may shop it to a different company before my end-August 45% rate hike. Not considering the phone spyware discount though, for the reasons you mentioned.
Imagine getting caught and having your claim denied or being sued for insurance fraud. I'm happy to use ublock origin, but what you're describing is playing with fire. We need to make sure it never gets to this point in the first place by making it illegal for insurance companies to do this.
It’s what the ePrivacy directive says, yes. But some get around this by claiming that it’s necessary for the operation of the device/service (doubtful) or that it has limited effect on privacy (depends on exceptions created by member states)
I finally upgraded to 4080 from 1080ti. It was about time, now I get to fully enjoy 144fps @ 1440p. It’s still an amazing card but at 1440p, it’s starting to show its age a bit without DLSS.
Same boat here (except not a ti). I want to upgrade but Nvidia is fucking crazy with their pricing. I’m considering AMD as my next purchase. (Typed ATi and had to correct it.)
100% agree. Google has the same problem. They are like hyper 5 year olds chasing the next shiny ball that gets their attention and they forget about all the other cool toys they already have. Products take generations to get refined enough for non-early adopters to buy. But way too few products from these companies get a long enough life to get multiple generations
They already have tons of products to stick AI in: Microsoft 365. You don’t put AI in hardware products, you integrate it in existing software. Microsoft was never an hardware company, despite having some hardware products. Most of them (Zune, the Nokia partnership, mice and keyboards) have failed
Edit: also XBox (the console) is failing - they sell them at a loss
Edit: also XBox (the console) is failing - they sell them at a loss
I was with you until here, which comes across as wrong or ignorant. That's the model with console games, the money is in selling everything ELSE. You have to have hardware to do that.
I actually had no idea EVGA made motherboards at all until I saw this. Last thing I bought from them was a power supply many years ago. Whatever the case, it sounds like this has been debunked.
Back when they were somewhat reasonably priced I bought a x58 SLI LE for my i7 920 and a Z97 FTW for my 4690k. For me they were both excellent boards and were rock solid. I wanted to go with them again when I upgraded to my 10700k but they just became to damn expensive. Instead I went with MSI and it's just... okay.
Update 07:45 UTC: We've heard from workers at EVGA Spain "it's just another day at the office". So maybe it was only Kingpin/the OC team in TW that has resigned, or the whole story is completely untrue.
Update 16:41 UTC: We just received the following statement from EVGA:
We saw those message and they are rumors.
Our Taiwan office is still operating and Kingpin is still with EVGA.
EVGA is still doing business and supporting its customers.
Thanks for reaching out
If they released some cards with a boat load of VRAM that worked great on ROCm/vulcan for inference, they might be able to take back some market share.
Agree with @haytch it’s definitely one of the better pc ports I’ve played. I have about 12 hours in and noticed no real issues. Story is an interesting continuation of the first and there’s some good improvements. Lots of new weapons, totally revamped skill tree/leveling and some new mechanics like gliding ( though I’m still finding gliding a little clunky, but that may be because I’m not used to it yet).
I’m only a few hours in, 5600x and 6900XT. Very pleased with performance at 3440x1440p, on high(with FSR2). Game looks amazing and I cap at 73 to be in my freesync range and get 0 drops.
Animations are really smooth and voice acting is too notch, so many NPCs doing unique animations, the gameplay is just as fun as the first with a few extra skills and abilities. If you enjoyed the first you’ll enjoy the second. My only criticism is they did something to her face, head on she looks wide? compared to the first game, it’s jarring and takes me out of cutscenes for a moment, but her side profile looks the same.
My previous reply was erroneus. There are reports of those processors working properly, so they probably are fully supported on linux. I suggest you keep at it.
Good job Remedy on making a game that really uses high end hardware to craft something that looks incredible while actually scaling performance with settings. Double FPS going from Max to Low is pretty good all things considered and should be enough to make it playable on anything not too dated, at least with DLSS / FSR.
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