Daily Tech News 1 June 2026

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AMD has announced two new old CPUs that are on the one hand somewhat overpriced and underwhelming and on the other hand eagerly awaited by hobbyists. (Tom's Hardware)

The first is the Ryzen 5800X3D priced at $349. This first appeared in 2022 priced at $449, but was taken off the market in 2024 because it competed a little too well with the newer 7800X3D.

The second is the Ryzen 7700X3D, priced at $329. This is a 7800X3D, just 10% slower.

If you happen to have an unused AM4 motherboard and 64GB of DDR4 RAM sitting idle, the 5800X3D may be just what you need. Otherwise you're probably be better off with the newer, faster 7700X3D.
AMD has also updated its roadmap to confirm that the AM5 platform (the current generation) will remain current through at least 2029. (Tom's Hardware)

The previous AM4 platform - home to the once and future 5800X3D - was introduced in 2016, and is still viable today.

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AMD also announced global availability of its 9070 GRE, previously a China-only edition. (Tom's Hardware)

This is essentially 75% of the company's flagship graphics card, the 9070 XT, trimmed from 64 cores and 16GB of RAM to 48 cores and 12GB of RAM.

The only problem is the MSRP was reduced from $599 to $549, which makes it rather the opposite of a good deal.
Nvidia is announcing - oh, wait, it just went official - its RTX Spark laptop chip. (Tom's Hardware)

This offers up to 20 Arm CPU cores, coupled with up to 128GB of RAM and an up to RTX 5070-class integrated GPU.

This is the same chip used in Nvidia's DGX Spark AI desktop, which retails for $4699, so don't expect the laptop version to be cheap.
Speaking of cheap laptops, Dell's new XPS 13 starts at $699 ($599 for students). (Liliputing)

It uses Intel's low-end Wildcat Lake CPU, but one of the better ones with actually quite acceptable performance. And unlike many competing models it has a screen on par with Apple's MacBook Neo, a 2560x1600 IPS panel covering 100% of DCI-P3 colour and a variable refresh rate from 30 to 120Hz, at a healthy 500 nits brightness.

Basic model has 8GB of RAM (soldered) and 512GB of SSD. I/O consists of two USB-C ports and... That's it, really. Doesn't have the Four Essential Keys either.
What does have the Four Essential Keys is Lenovo's new Thinkpad T14 Gen 7. (Notebook Check)

It comes with a 6 or 8 core Ryzen processor with Radeon 840M or 860M graphics respectively - good if not great - the aforementioned keys which while not in my preferred layout are all present and unshared, and expandable memory and storage.

And a 2880x1800 OLED display... With 500 nits brightness and a variable refresh rate from 30 to 128Hz.

(A word of caution with these OLED panels: They look amazing but burn-in is real.)
Download all the computers. (Virtual OS Museum)

Ever wanted to see what the old days of computing were like - as early as 1948?

Want to play with that Apple II or BBC Micro your parents couldn't afford?

Or just want to play with a Lisp or Smalltalk workstation?

It's all here. 179GB of it.
Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they'll stop airbrushing history. (The Register)

Oh no.

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Disclaimer: Not to worry, I have central heating.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:42 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:42 AM (6wpGE)

2 BOING!

BAck from brisk walking, resistance pushups and aerobics, luke cold shower and hydration.

Now to fire up the mainframe and do some maintenance and customization.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:43 AM (i2Ycu)

3 I DEMAND REPARATIONS!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:43 AM (i2Ycu)

4 morningall

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:44 AM (AGz65)

5 Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they'll stop airbrushing history. (The Register)

I haven't read it yet. But maybe this would be a good time for Elon to buy it.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

6 3 I DEMAND REPARATIONS!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:43 AM (i2Ycu)

*sticks tongue out at BD*

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

7 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)

8 I haven't read it yet. But maybe this would be a good time for Elon to buy it.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

I am told that there is grokipedia ... and there was a previous earlier effort. The content is free to copy but it is very large and growing.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:46 AM (AGz65)

9 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 04:48 AM (c1D+3)

10 8 I haven't read it yet. But maybe this would be a good time for Elon to buy it.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

I am told that there is grokipedia ... and there was a previous earlier effort. The content is free to copy but it is very large and growing.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:46 AM (AGz65)

The user rates between wikipedia and grokipedia, last I heard, vastly favored wikipedia.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)

11 The Memorial Day murder in Missouri of a Mom:

https://tinyurl.com/y7vwxshp

The media seems to have ignored it. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:50 AM (i2Ycu)

12 vastly favored wikipedia.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)

One needs a strategy more sophisticated than blind piracy.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:50 AM (AGz65)

13 I DEMAND REPARATIONS!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:43 AM (i2Ycu)

*sticks tongue out at BD*

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)
-

/fetches carving knife from kitchen

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:51 AM (i2Ycu)

14 There's also Halupedia: https://halupedia.com/the-gleppening-of-1346

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 01, 2026 04:51 AM (BLOW1)

15 14 There's also Halupedia

New to me. I haven't had time to look at grokipedia yet. I don't remember the name of the other one (conservapedia is probably not it).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:54 AM (AGz65)

16 Last week, I was pointing out the the America 250 Committee was a job to sabotage the celebrations, from within and without. Besides the fact that the committee head is a disloyal Mexican import, there's this:

https://tinyurl.com/56at6anh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:54 AM (i2Ycu)

17 Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they'll stop airbrushing history.

Whatever shall we do without constant Leftist updates?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 04:54 AM (l3cgK)

18 Weird. I entered grokipedia and a search term as a Safari search and these two "people also ask" idiocies popped up on my screen (note the spellings):

How to access Grokepedia?
Is Grokopedia free?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:55 AM (6wpGE)

19 13 I DEMAND REPARATIONS!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:43 AM (i2Ycu)

*sticks tongue out at BD*

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)
-

/fetches carving knife from kitchen
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:51 AM (i2Ycu)

MOM!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:56 AM (6wpGE)

20 Nothing up my sleeve.

Presto!

https://tinyurl.com/ym8ns5mv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 04:57 AM (i2Ycu)

21 Rejoinder: Me, too.
p.s. It sucks to still have my heater running on the first day of June in Motana.

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 04:57 AM (c1D+3)

22 14 There's also Halupedia: https://halupedia.com/the-gleppening-of-1346
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 01, 2026 04:51 AM (BLOW1)

There is.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:59 AM (6wpGE)

23 Is Grokopedia free?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 04:55 AM (6wpGE)

AFAIK ...

https://grokipedia.com/

Articles 6,092,140

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 04:59 AM (AGz65)

24 Its not expected the Marxists letting out criminals they won't strike again. That part has nothing to do with that decision.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2026 04:59 AM (Ia/+0)

25 21 ... It sucks to still have my heater running on the first day of June in Motana.
Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 04:57 AM (c1D+3)

Would you like to buy an "n"?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)

26 Time to get to work ... until I crash out again ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at June 01, 2026 05:01 AM (AGz65)

27 I'd say I use wikipedia about a dozen times a day. It just works.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:02 AM (6wpGE)

28 The Memorial Day murder in Missouri of a Mom
****

Of the two individuals pictured, the guy in the suit is scarier.

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 05:03 AM (c1D+3)

29 Psalm 139 read by David Suchet:

https://tinyurl.com/bdmbkk33

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Nx5jP)

30 This is one of those days when I wake up thinking, "There is not enough coffee in the world."

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:04 AM (6wpGE)

31 Our heating system is only needed for air heat. My wife has no temperature tolerance thought for many reasons not having the prospect of heat was not going to work.
She got a oil delivery last week, I kneww right away from.tire tracks. It was like $850

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

32
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Horton at June 01, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)

33 Little cool out now but going to upprr 70s today
Havexa great day horde

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

34 AI Overview
Wikipedia dwarfs Grokipedia in web traffic, receiving roughly 1,615 times more organic traffic than Elon Musk's AI-generated wiki.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:16 AM (6wpGE)

35 Google is doing evil again:

https://tinyurl.com/4wjrv2yj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2026 05:17 AM (i2Ycu)

36 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2026 05:20 AM (RIvkX)

37 35 Google is doing evil ~~again~~ still.
****

fify

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 05:21 AM (c1D+3)

38 29 Psalm 139 read by David Suchet:

https://tinyurl.com/bdmbkk33

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Nx5jP)

William Shatner Reads Exodus...
https://youtu.be/xqJKSrH1B1g

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 05:21 AM (l3cgK)

39 37 35 Google is doing evil again still.
****

fify

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 05:21 AM (c1D+3)

Is it less evil or more evil?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

40 34 AI Overview
Wikipedia dwarfs Grokipedia in web traffic, receiving roughly 1,615 times more organic traffic than Elon Musk's AI-generated wiki.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:16 AM (6wpGE)

And what of the inorganic traffic?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

41 Oh no.

Anyway...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2026 05:24 AM (O7YUW)

42 San Franpsycho!

Daniel
@growing_daniel
May 30
Everyone who has told me that San Francisco is full of psychos has turned out to be a psycho and now I'm starting to tell people San Francisco is full of psychos

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:27 AM (6wpGE)

43 40 34 AI Overview
Wikipedia dwarfs Grokipedia in web traffic, receiving roughly 1,615 times more organic traffic than Elon Musk's AI-generated wiki.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:16 AM (6wpGE)

And what of the inorganic traffic?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

Looks like AI Overview drivel to me!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:28 AM (6wpGE)

44 Yesterday, we ( spouse and I) took a walk by the lake and canal . We two two blue herons , two logs full of turtles including a tiny paintief turtle which was the size of someone making at o.k. sign. They were all lovely.

Then we stopped in at a church. The services were held in a school building . I could hear people getting choked up including the pastor. It was apparently their last service. Too many people in leadership had moved away, or died or disagreed with what he preached. He was a very good preacher. His church is paying for him for a sabbatical for a year which I think is very kind of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:29 AM (ix8EF)

45 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:31 AM (6wpGE)

46 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 05:21 AM (l3cgK)

Ok. Thanks It sounds like a musical thing from an opera. I guess if I listen long enough we will get Shatner reading Exodus. I will have to come back to it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:32 AM (ix8EF)

47 Daniel
@growing_daniel
May 30
Everyone who has told me that San Francisco is full of psychos has turned out to be a psycho and now I'm starting to tell people San Francisco is full of psychos
Posted by: m at June 01, 2026 05:27 AM (6wpGE)
====

Imma have to send that dude a cease and desist letter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2026 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

48 It was quite a first day with the MacBook Air.

Within minutes of doing the initial set up creating an Apple account failed spectacularly and made it impossible to proceed. An hour later, me and AI Girl Boss support tech are besties and are going out and getting hammered next Friday. That AI system is amazing.

The hardware is topnotch. The software fit and finish is on another level. The speakers compared to my Surface Pro are pathetic. The Mac keyboard is a mind blow.

Coming directly out of Windows with zero prep I discovered MacOs is f'ing annoying with some regularity. Not having a touch screen is f'ing annoying. I also discovered that significant parts of my Windows setup on MacOs is DOA and there is no easy way to fix that - this may be a deal breaker - having both platforms in my life for the foreseeable future likely means maintaining two versions of that setup. Complete Chaos.

As for the rest of my computing stack - it is all there and it works great - I am sort of shocked I made it that far. Along long the way I got pretty deep into the settings and configuration, far more than I should been able to on day 1.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 05:35 AM (glnUu)

49 A day without sun
Kittens rule the living room
Summer will arrive

fin

Posted by: clarence at June 01, 2026 05:43 AM (c1D+3)

50 Kind man on an airplane helps distressed woman. Sunny Skyz site

https://tinyurl.com/4u3scr8d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:46 AM (6jy2V)

51 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! Stipulated: It's Monday. But remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

52 AP, I'm glad your first day with the MacBook went well! Once I get settled in IN, I may well buy a newer but refurbished one from the macsales site. There is *zero* wrong with my 2014 except low memory, and for my purposes -- web crawling, email, watching YooToob -- 4 GB seems to be fine. I take it to coffee shops and it finds the network without difficulty.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

53 Essentially, the Macbook Air is setup and ready to use and it is a pretty fine box. Remarkably I have adapted to the MacOs way of interfacing with box; with a bit of practice I can see that part of going between the platforms would be a no brainer rather quick.

The delta between my Windows universe and the MacOS universe on the other hand is a problem. I am going to do some deep research tomorrow on how I might get them stop sticking there tongues out at each other. If I can get that to stop the box stays. If not it is going back. Bummer.

And if it does go back, the Qualcomm X2s will be hear in a few months and should make for some snappy Windows on Arm boxes. The big issue is there is how much they are going to cost. The Macbook Air right now is one heck of computing bargain; they are killer machines.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 05:51 AM (glnUu)

54 Grieving woman finds a diamond at a state park:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6w5awb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 05:52 AM (6jy2V)

55 “ But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.”

1 Corinthians 14:40

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2026 05:52 AM (i6xMV)

56 Greetings and good morning, everyone! I had an Adult Moment™ yesterday. The chimney for our furnace had to get replaced a few weeks ago and the bill came due.

So the majority of my check went into paying that. They say money talks. Mine mostly says good bye.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 01, 2026 05:53 AM (OPGS/)

57 A day without sun
Kittens rule the living room
Summer will arrive

***
Good work, Clarence!

Unfortunately summer *has* arrived in Da Swamp. Yesterday was the first 90 F. day -- relatively late this year; usually it's early in May, or even late in April. 80 outside now, I don't wanna know the heat index, and I have to go work out in it. Gah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

58 Ever since discovering the walking trail about a half mile from my place, I've been heading that way to work out. During cooler weather I could stop at the post office across the street from the park and drop my bill payments inside. But now, bringing water with me, I'll skip that. I don't want to get the bill wet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

59 Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they'll stop airbrushing history.

Go ahead. Find out how valuable you really are. It will be fun.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 01, 2026 05:57 AM (OPGS/)

60 I looked at the Virtual OS Museum and the screenshots. It makes me nostalgic for the days of DOS, when you actually had to know some commands to operate a computer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

61 If anyone you folks know is shopping for a PC and is not married into a platform this MacBook Air 13" should be way, way, way on the shopping list. Amazon has a Macbook Air 13" with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for $950.00 USD plus sales tax if applicable. Not exactly in the budget range but close for a first rate box. That pricing sort of makes it not worth going the used/reconditioned route.

The monitor is just wicked nice as is the keyboard. Plus it is impossibly thin and light. Apple crushed it with this box.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:03 AM (glnUu)

62 (A word of caution with these OLED panels: They look amazing but burn-in is real.)

Truth.
I use my second monitor OLED for watching video mostly.

Using productivity apps, with a lot of static elements, on that monitor scares me too much, so I avoid it.

This one is a 2025 Asus model with "OLED Care" like Pixel Cleaning (automatic & manual), Logo Dimming, and Screen Move which helps out a lot, and I haven't seen any burn-in after using it for six+ months.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2026 06:05 AM (6ydKt)

63 Time to get ready for the morning Bataan Death March. Later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

64 Posted by: NR Pax at June 01, 2026 05:53 AM (OPGS/)

I'm sorry. it is hard when you own a house. I can empathize.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 06:09 AM (PFs9e)

65 Having an OLED for photography work would be sweet but I can see the all the static desktop elements burning in plus my photo editor is open for hours and hours - there are lots of static elements there...it is a concern. My monitor is long in the tooth, likely sticking with LEDs when I get a new one.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:09 AM (glnUu)

66 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 01, 2026 06:11 AM (BnqUz)

67 Ah crud. Root privilege escalation on a bunch of Linux distributions:

Linux Mint 21.3 / 22.3
CentOS Stream 9
Rocky Linux 9
AlmaLinux 9
Kali Linux 2021.4–2026.1
SLES 15 SP7

Bleepingcomputer:
"New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions"
https://tinyurl.com/5xaps4kc

Here's the mitigation for sysadmins that want to get ahead of this before a patched kernel is released:

Tuxcare.com:
https://tinyurl.com/ym2w3cs2

Scroll down to the "Mitigate Now" section, though I'd read the information above to understand what the exploit is, and how it functions. Pick the mitigation step appropriate to your environment so you don't accidentally break something.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 01, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

68 65 Having an OLED for photography work would be sweet but I can see the all the static desktop elements burning in plus my photo editor is open for hours and hours - there are lots of static elements there...it is a concern. My monitor is long in the tooth, likely sticking with LEDs when I get a new one.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:09 AM (glnUu)

You could also try a MiniLED monitor. They are IPS but they have much better contrast and deeper blacks. They are as close to OLED as you can get without worrying about burn-in and they are generally cheaper price-wise. They are also thinker and heavier than OLED screens, but around the same size as a normal IPS LED.

I tried a decent one last year but it had a dead pixel in the center of the display so I took it back and got the OLED instead. If it hadn't been for that problem I'd have probably kept it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2026 06:24 AM (6ydKt)

69 There are some MiniLED with VA panels in them.
These have better contrast ratios than the IPS versions but they also have the same "smearing" problem that VA has with fast motion, especially in gaming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2026 06:27 AM (6ydKt)

70 MiniLEDs, VA panels. If the price was somewhat reasonable I could see going with something like that. There are exactly zero smearing concerns with what I do. Good suggestions/reminders. Thanks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:31 AM (glnUu)

71 "You'll have a national Wikipedia editors strike on your hands!"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 01, 2026 06:38 AM (J6eFF)

72 71 "You'll have a national Wikipedia editors strike on your hands!"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 01, 2026 06:38 AM (J6eFF)

If you cut off all money from the Dems, would Wikipedia cease to exist?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

73 I keep getting these announcements about
on my cell phone: "A problem repeatedly occurred while at this site."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2026 06:43 AM (Nx5jP)

74 One of the subtle pluses of the Microsoft Surface machines is the screens have an 3:2 aspect ratio. It is sort of perfect. Apple is close with their 16:10 aspect ratio but you get something less I think because of the top bar stuff required by MacOs. 16:9s are not tall enough.

It took Microsoft a bunch of years to get things right but their Surface PCs compete well with the MacBook Airs especially since the Qualcomm ARM CPU based boxes have come so far. The X2 CPUs are going to be milestone and should put some serious pressure on the X86 universe; best guess is the ARM boxes are going to have serious market share in about 5 years.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:44 AM (glnUu)

75 AP, this monitor is very similar to the one I bought (I believe it's just the newer model).

TCL R94 -
27", 2160p, 2300 dimming zones (which is really good for a monitor MiniLED), 165Hz, 3000:1 Contrast Ratio, HDR with 1400 nits.

$799
https://shorturl.at/bdCb2
(Best Buy)

The company AOC makes some cheaper models that are on Amazon. Also MSI makes a few MiniLEDs that are pretty good, which Amazon sells, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2026 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

76 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 01, 2026 06:51 AM (VyBeY)

77 Mornin', Horde. Always loved 'Forever Autumn'. Have the album in vinyl; once responded to something at work with 'Ulla!' and a cow-orker recognised it.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 01, 2026 06:56 AM (NcvvS)

78 TCL R94...looked up a few details. Not for me. I need something with 10 bit depth, large color space coverage, a 16:10 aspect ratio and is 30-32 inches. Still, the TCL R94 for general computing / Gaming - that is pretty sweet.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 01, 2026 06:57 AM (glnUu)

79 3:2 screens are very rare for some reason.
16:9 is ubiquitous, and 16:10 is very popular with laptops just for the extra height.

I miss 4:3.

(no, not really)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 01, 2026 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

80 JJ nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 01, 2026 07:02 AM (NcvvS)

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