OpticalMoose

At a Microcenter in California.

Edit:
Also, AMD Radeon 9070 GPUs Have Arrived, But Retailers Are Selling Out Fast - Gamespot
and, AMD is making gains in GPU market share, and that’s even before the RX 9070 series launch - PCguide

Apparently the xcancel link is broken, so there are the pics

https://videocardz.com/198465/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-rdna4-graphics-cards-review-roundup

https://videocardz.com/198359/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-blackwell-graphics-cards-review-roundup

I don't know if anyone here uses [Tamper|Grease]monkey, but I asked my LLM to come up with a redirect from Xitter and it gave me this gem:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Redirect x.com to xcancel.com
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://x.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    var url = window.location.href;
    url = url.replace("https://x.com/", "https://xcancel.com/");
    window.location.replace(url);
})();

Works like a charm.

Anybody else grow up watching The Secret Life of Machines?

It was an amazing show. Tim Hunkin is still around and making Youtube videos. Sadly Rex is no longer with us.

The Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and Ryzen AI MAX 390 are supposed to be Apple M4 and Apple M4 Pro competitors that combine high efficiency with some pretty crazy performance numbers in gaming, AI and creator workloads. That's because this Strix Halo design combines an insanely powerful CPU with a huge GPU onto one chip. The end result is something special and unique in the ROG Flow Z13 2025.

Yesterday I got bored and decided to try out my old GPUs with Vulkan. I had an HD 5830, GTX 460 and GTX 770 4Gb laying around so I figured "Why not".

Long story short - Vulkan didn't recognize them, hell, Linux didn't even recognize them. They didn't show up in nvtop, nvidia-smi or anything. I didn't think to check dmesg.

Honestly, I thought the 770 would work; it hasn't been in legacy status that long. It might work with an older Nvidia driver version (I'm on 550 now) but I'm not messing with that stuff just because I'm bored.

So for now the oldest GPUs I can get running are a Ryzen 5700G APU and 1080ti. Both Vega and Pascal came out in early 2017 according to Wikipedia. Those people disappointed that their RX 500 and RX 5000 don't work in Ollama should give Llama.cpp Vulkan a shot. Kobold has a Vulkan option too.

The 5700G works fine alongside Nvidia GPUs in Vulkan. The performance is what you'd expect from an APU, but at least it works. Now I'm tempted to buy a 7600 XT just to see how it does.

Has anyone else out there tried Vulkan?

Well, it was nice ... having hope, I mean. That was a good feeling.

Last line of the article:
"Whether Trump goes public with any companies in the future remains to be seen, but if he does, only the short-sellers will be happy."(2016)