There is no AMD reference design for the 9070 or 9070 XT.

Which brand/model card do you have? There’s no “reference design,” so it matters.

🤡

David Rudin, I guess? It says which company each person is from under their name. (The page defaults to the “Leadership” tab, so you gotta click on the “Board of directors” tab to see the correct list of people.)

Nobody knows. Literally nobody, including him, because he doesn’t understand the code!

Huh interesting. Are these displays all the exact same model?

Yep. I like me some symmetry.

I’m not sure if this is expanded further with RDNA 4 but I can try to find out.

Thanks very much; I would love to have all three displays freesyncing!

Display setup is 3x 1440p 100Hz.

I can’t give you any new readings because I just took the computer apart to do upgrades. This one is getting a 9070 XT, and the Vega is getting handed down to my home server for (hopefully, if it’s capable of it) Jellyfin transcoding and local LLM duty.

That means I’ll still be very interested in making sure it idles properly since it’ll be doing so almost 24/7, but it’ll have to wait a minute because getting it installed isn’t my priority.

(The desktop upgrade is complicated because the new card is too wide to fit in my old case, which sent me down a rabbit hole of picking out a new SFF case and replacing supporting components like the PSU and CPU cooler…)

I killed Firefox and waited a while, and now I’m seeing 17-19W.

So I’m still on kernel 6.8, and my Vega 56 is running at 20-30W while posting this and watching Youtube. Not sure if that’s normal for that older card, or if I’ve been wasting energy for a really long time.

I don’t like to be told what I have to do and don’t agree to “FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software”. My pc, my LAN, my rules.

…he said, without a hint of irony.

Meanwhile, “my PC, my LAN, my rules” is precisely the reason I do agree with always preferring FOSS to corporate software.

Nope, the opposite: in the absence of an explicit license, the default is “all rights reserved.”

I don’t think he is or was a nazi. I think he made lots of dark fucked up jokes like many other major youtubers. For example: iDubbzz, Filthy Frank, and h3h3. I think he regrets it like many of his fans who laughed at those dark jokes. I laughed at lots of fucked up shit I find very distastful now. People grow up, people change.

Funny thing about that: it doesn’t actually matter what he intended or if he self-identifies as a Nazi or not; the shit he did radicalized people into Nazis all the same.

I mean, they fucking named the phenomenon after him, so it’s hardly as if he’s a marginal example of it!

sl | lolcat

Either that, or it’s not selling out to corporate exploitation/AI like Github is and the ancaps hate that.

In the last decade, I’ve had that sort of issue affect me twice:

1. I bought an AMD Vega 56 on launch day, and I had to run it with the proprietary driver for a while.
2. I recently upgraded my three monitors, and was having trouble getting them all to do the 1440p/100Hz they were rated for. After a bunch of fiddling with xrandr etc. and trying to add modelines and whatnot, it turned out the real problem was that I needed to upgrade from HDMI cables to DisplayPort ones.

Anyway, I guess the gist is that I wouldn’t have expected Windows to do any better in either case.

What about the sound though?

I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.

I could be wrong, but I think that (at least to some extent) the Linux Foundation exists to be the more corporate-friendly face of Free Software Open Source, as a reaction against/in opposition to the hard-line “end-user freedom” stance taken by GNU/the FSF. If that’s accurate, it doesn’t surprise me that it would take a soft position regarding Google’s monopolistic practices. Especially since Google is a gold member of it.

Admittedly, I don’t know a whole lot about what instruction set features the ESP32 actually has, but isn’t an embedded processor that small by nature lacking in things like, say, a memory management unit? Don’t take this the wrong way, but the notion of making a general-purpose OS that relies on cooperative multitasking seems a bit sketchy at a time when you could just spend an extra buck to move up to something like a Raspberry Pi Zero that can run a proper memory-safe and preemptive OS.

Do I think it’s intentional that smartphones are ‘dumbed down’ compared to PCs, so as to turn them into devices for mindless consumption of corporate-controlled media instead of devices for empowering user freedom? Yes, yes I do.

inadvertently

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.