Daily Tech News 28 January 2023

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You can't play Forspoken on a Radeon 580. (WCCFTech)

The 580 is a few years old now but it was a pretty good graphics card - it was my primary GPU until it got packed in a box in May, and it's still a very popular card in Steam hardware surveys. But it doesn't support DirectX 12_1 and Forspoken requires that as a minimum feature set. Nvidia's GTX 1060 from the same era does support DirectX 12_1.

On the other hand, neither card is fast enough to handle the game; it's very demanding and the recommended hardware - AMD's Radeon 6700 XT and Nvidia's RTX 3070 - is not only much newer but significantly more powerful (and more expensive, of course).

On the third hand, current generation consoles - the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X - are also much newer and more powerful than the Radeon 580.

On the fourth hand, Forspoken is hot garbage and nobody wants to play it anyway.

This kind of thing rarely happens with CPUs - you have to be using a truly ancient CPU for code to no longer run on it. (Unless you have a Mac in which case you're fucked the moment they decide you're not worth their time anymore.) GPUs are fixed-function devices designed to run, well, pretty much DirectX these days, and if they don't keep up with that specification their days are numbered.

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Pioneering English-language Vtuber agency Tsunderia has closed its doors. (DotESports)

They've done the right thing by their talents, at least, releasing them from their contracts, leaving all the existing content up, and handing over rights to continue independently using the same designs.

The smaller agencies seem to be in a tight spot. Vshojo and Phase Connect might be doing okay, but Prism was bought by Sony (which has two in-house vtuber agencies as well as investments elsewhere), and Aetheria (formerly Cyberlive) went the same route as Tsunderia last year.

Vtubing exploded in 2020 when everyone was welded into their homes and Hololive launched its own English-language division (a few months after Tsunderia), but now that people are permitted once more to stumble blinking into the sunlight - and that the global economy has been wrecked by the same people who locked everyone up in the first place - it's much tougher going.
Speaking of much tougher going toy company Hasbro has laid off 15% of its staff after announcing declining sales and profitability in the last quarter. (The Hollywood Reporter)

The only division of Hasbro that improved sales last quarter was Wizards of the Coast - creator of Magic the Gathering and owner of Dungeons and Dragons - which under the steady hand of Hasbro just burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp, handing the market to direct competitor Paizo.

The most recent D&D game I played wasn't D&D at all, but Paizo's Pathfinder.
The Lenovo Thinkstation P620 is a beast but. (PC Perspective)

This system is based on the 64 core Threadripper 5995WX, but is otherwise nothing special in terms of features. It's fast for heavily multi-threaded tasks, but it's a Zen 3 chip and the Zen 4 7950X is not that far behind while being much, much cheaper. It's only really aimed at industries where time is money, where saving an hour on a 3D or video production task means you can bill another client for that hour.

Also, Lenovo has the nasty habit of locking CPUs to Lenovo motherboards and nobody should buy their workstations.
A tiny but highly radioactive thingy has been lost somewhere along a thousand mile stretch of highway in Western Australia. (ABC News - no, the other one)

Oops. The device is a quarter of an inch wide and Western Australia only covers a million square miles, so I'm sure it will turn up soon.

You're Never Lost When You Have AZKi (TM) Video of the Day

GeoGuessr is a game that drops you into a random place in the world using Google Street View and similar image databases and leaves you to figure out where you are. This is the one where fellow Hololive talent IRyS (AZKi's EN counterpart) took two minutes to find Australia on a map.

AZKi does a little better. It takes her less time than that to pinpoint her location within two metres.

Disclaimer: Now shipping new AZKi Gold guidance systems, with three-part voice harmonies and Starlink support.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hi!

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:00 AM (o0Fxd)

2 Hope you're well, Pixy

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:01 AM (o0Fxd)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 28, 2023 04:03 AM (T4tVD)

4 Hiya JQ !
How you ?

Posted by: JT at January 28, 2023 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

5 Thanks JQ. Yes, after a relapse last weekend I have been relatively free of tiny pointy rocks where tiny pointy rocks have no business being.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 28, 2023 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

6 Willowed:

Average Frenchman: 100% Neanderthal
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 28, 2023 12:09 AM (Qzn2/)

**********

Sasquatch Factchecking Service Rating: True.

Evidence: Sebastien Chabal, aka The Caveman, French rugby player with 62 caps for the French National team.

https://tinyurl.com/367mu3d5

https://tinyurl.com/2p8barnf

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 28, 2023 04:11 AM (xxG/v)

7 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 04:13 AM (xhxe8)

8 A number of Vtubers no independent? The Fishman cometh.

Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at January 28, 2023 04:18 AM (6Xd4f)

9 now*, dammit

Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at January 28, 2023 04:21 AM (6Xd4f)

10 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 28, 2023 04:21 AM (zLQsb)

11 Winter arrived here.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 28, 2023 04:24 AM (zLQsb)

12 8 A number of Vtubers now independent? The Fishman cometh.

It would be nice to see that happen.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 28, 2023 04:26 AM (BLOW1)

13 Hiya JT

Mornin' MLii

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:29 AM (o0Fxd)

14 Howdy to everyone else!

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:29 AM (o0Fxd)

15 Anybody got any ideas on how to stop the Left and their relentless predatory Sherman's march across our lives and cultural lanscape? I sure don't see anybody in politics with a plan.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 28, 2023 04:33 AM (F24yq)

16 15 Anybody got any ideas on how to stop the Left and their relentless predatory Sherman's march across our lives and cultural lanscape? I sure don't see anybody in politics with a plan.

Ron DeSantis seems to be having some positive impact.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 28, 2023 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

17 Hey JQ! Hope all is well there.

I'm heading into work. Saturday. Sad.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 28, 2023 04:34 AM (zLQsb)

18 Ordinary American:

Apply pressure at the local level. Know your local sheriff. Attend school board & city council meetings, to find out 'what's really going on' and to be heard.

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:38 AM (o0Fxd)

19 Sorry you're w*rking on Saturday, MLii!

All's well enough here.

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:39 AM (o0Fxd)

20 Good morning morons

I wish to withdraw my prior comments about Paul Pelosi being hammer-sex freak. He was clearly a hostage and a victim. Even though he is a corrupt, venal drunk married to an evil joo-hater.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 04:42 AM (EZebt)

21 Ordinary American--

What we're doing, is a letter campaign to our state reps to Improve Castle Doctrine. Currently, the perp must get into the house before... you know.

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:42 AM (o0Fxd)

22 Forspoken. I don't any games where your only option for the lead character is female.

I just got the DLC for Pathfinder: WoTR. Looking forward to it, now that I am laid off for a few weeks.

Also, Discovery of more classified documents at another Brandon residence. Popped up on microsoft news page 23 minute ago.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 28, 2023 04:43 AM (DB16e)

23 The Memphis rioters focused attention on "the mayor's police department", which must signal the mayor of Memphis is white. The lack of a white cop narrative in this instance is proof this is just a communist scheme to further destabilize the country. We are headed for a period of unprecedented lawlessness before they move to impose a totalitarian state. Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 28, 2023 04:43 AM (AaLDK)

24 Watching current events, I can imagine them remaking Liberty Valance with Lee Marvin as the hero and ultimate winner. Bad times coming folks.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 28, 2023 04:45 AM (AaLDK)

25 Lee Marvin was so damn great.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 04:47 AM (9UlRk)

26 Re: Memphis thing

Did anyone else wonder about that "pole camera"?

Wonder if your friendly neighborhood streetlight pole also has a handy dandy cam too?

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:49 AM (o0Fxd)

27 I see the Palis celebrated Holocaust day in typical fashion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 04:50 AM (EZebt)

28 I live on a farm, I carry every day because of environmental threats like copperheads and feral pigs. It is ridiculous that now when I go to the nearest town (only 12k) or Houston (too big) for medical visits or to see the kids, I now carry every day, period. We have moved ourselves back to Comanche times.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 28, 2023 04:52 AM (AaLDK)

29 JQ, I presume I am on camera whenever I am outdoors, even in the park. Especially in the park.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 04:54 AM (EZebt)

30 We have moved ourselves back to Comanche times.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 28, 2023 04:52 AM (AaLDK)

That's not a fair comparison.

One might have a non-zero chance of reasoning with a copperhead or a feral pig.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 04:57 AM (9UlRk)

31 Pancakes and sausages if I can ever talk myself to get up

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 04:57 AM (xhxe8)

32 On the radiation thing, are they shitting us?

Something about the size of a dime?

Lost on an island the size of Australia.

Check your tires! AYFKM?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 28, 2023 04:58 AM (CsVWE)

33 My neighbors all have video systems so I know we're on camera anywhere outside. Streetlights or no.

Tech is cheap (especially when it's tax dollars!) so yeah, safe assumption, SFpsycho.

A bit unnerving.

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:58 AM (o0Fxd)

34 Wonder if your friendly neighborhood streetlight pole also has a handy dandy cam too?
Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 04:49 AM (o0Fxd)

Mine has them all over. At least in the nice areas. Helped the cops find some dickhead kids who broke into my car once.

They stole my cd case and a dirty sock.

They left the radio, the laptop, and the other dirty sock...

I decided not to press charges.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 04:59 AM (9UlRk)

35 I took Boy F. to Mel's Diner for breakfast yesterday.

Waffle, egg over, sausage. I savored every bite.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:02 AM (EZebt)

36 Nothing else like a good, classic breakfast!

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 05:03 AM (o0Fxd)

37 G'night all. Suddenly very tired. Been a long day

Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 05:05 AM (o0Fxd)

38 Evening to Pixy, and morning to the rest (?) of you. Cats woke me up early, so I'm deliberately not feeding them until their regular time, about an hour from now. So there!

The lost radioactive capsule sounds like a job for U.N.C.L.E.'s Sydney office, or for the local agent on the ground in Perth. Shouldn't take long to find it, hey?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 05:09 AM (omVj0)

39 G'night all. Suddenly very tired. Been a long day
Posted by: JQ at January 28, 2023 05:05 AM (o0Fxd)

....i just woke up two hours ago!

'Night

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:09 AM (9UlRk)

40 Shouldn't take long to find it, hey?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 05:09 AM (omVj0)

Tell everybody it belongs to Shia LaBeouf.

That thing will get found in fifteen seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:11 AM (9UlRk)

41 At a certain point, you just have to say "well, crap, i guess I'll just buy another one".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:13 AM (9UlRk)

42 'Tis a warm 53 F. here. I should go work out while I have the chance. Later today, haircut, library, a couple of other errands, and a nice nap. Tonight we may try a new pizza & sandwich place I've heard radio ads for. Their website looks good and their menu shows prices no worse than the close-by pizza & sandwich diner we often visit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2023 05:14 AM (omVj0)

43 What's not covered?

Mass popular protests, the largest since 1989 succeed in overturning China's Zero Covid policy. "The CCP caved" is not being reported. "The Chinese people have spoken" is not being reported. '"Lockdowns were a massive failure" is not being reported.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:16 AM (EZebt)

44 Lockdowns were a massive failure" is not being reported.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:16 AM (EZebt)

Second look at Tom Friedman?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:17 AM (9UlRk)

45 All Leftist failures are looked past like they never happened.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:19 AM (xhxe8)

46 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Cat woke me up. Said it's after 4a and you need to come downstairs and watch me eat.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 28, 2023 05:20 AM (ju2Fy)

47 In SC, the Castle Doctrine applies to my car.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 28, 2023 05:24 AM (TXFi7)

48 I ordered a grow light and some seed starting stuff from Amazon. They follow up with "You may also be interested in..."

- A big dumb wooden carving of a peace sign
- A family pack of junk food
- A didgeridoo

I am not making this up. A didgeridoo.

Hey, screw you, Amazon. I'm just growing tomatoes here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:24 AM (9UlRk)

49 I'm seeing reporting from laowhy86 that the CCP has indeed been rounding up many individuals involved in the protests. He is calling it a "silent Tienanmen Sq."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:25 AM (EZebt)

50 Is Memphis still standing?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 28, 2023 05:27 AM (ju2Fy)

51 Regarding low IQ, here is a statistic that most folks are unaware of.

20% of us have pituitary tumors. This can cause all kinds of craziness.

I asked "How do you know that 20% of us have pituitary tumors?"

Autopsies.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 28, 2023 05:28 AM (TXFi7)

52 I asked "How do you know that 20% of us have pituitary tumors?"

Autopsies.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 28, 2023 05:28 AM (TXFi7)

All that proves is that 20% of dead people have pituitary tumors.

...

Everything is fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:29 AM (9UlRk)

53 48 I ordered a grow light and some seed starting stuff from Amazon. They follow up with "You may also be interested in..."

- A big dumb wooden carving of a peace sign
- A family pack of junk food
- A didgeridoo

I am not making this up. A didgeridoo.

Hey, screw you, Amazon. I'm just growing tomatoes here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:24 AM (9UlRk)

; )

Posted by: m at January 28, 2023 05:30 AM (v0TzN)

54 I've always thought that word was "didgediroo," with the final syllable as kangaroo!

Posted by: m at January 28, 2023 05:33 AM (v0TzN)

55 I've always thought that word was "didgediroo," with the final syllable as kangaroo!
Posted by: m at January 28, 2023 05:33 AM (v0TzN)

Not gonna lie, i just let auto cucumber deal with that one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2023 05:36 AM (9UlRk)

56 My grandfather brought back a didgeridoo from trip to Australia, no idea what happened to it.

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 05:40 AM (xhxe8)

57 I'm sure you Aussies will be able to find that radioactive thingy. When 500 ft tall wombats start destroying cities on the coast, you can narrow it down. Probably. Or not. I'll miss your posts Pixy. I guess the site is screwed too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 28, 2023 05:42 AM (4vi12)

58 Microsoft is telling me I can upgrade to Windows 11 now. My computer is only 2 years old and can run it, but is it stable enough? And does it have any annoying quirks compared to W10?

Posted by: Peter Schiavo at January 28, 2023 05:48 AM (ltVWV)

59 Doggeh just busted in and flopped over to demand rubbehs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:51 AM (EZebt)

60 My focus-

A reflection on a passage from Paul's letter to the Philippians and looking at things:

https://tinyurl.com/ywj2kjkd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2023 05:55 AM (D+F6R)

61 And then the snoring began...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2023 05:56 AM (EZebt)

62 58 Microsoft is telling me I can upgrade to Windows 11 now. My computer is only 2 years old and can run it, but is it stable enough? And does it have any annoying quirks compared to W10?

I have one computer running W11. It's not awful but they have moved things around and re-enabled all the functions that phone home to Redmond so you have to go and turn them all off again.

The only pressing reason to run it is if you have one of the new Intel chips with "Performance" and "Efficiency" cores - those are handled better under 11 than 10. Otherwise 10 will be supported for another couple of years so there's no rush.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 28, 2023 05:56 AM (BLOW1)

63 Been running Win 11 (free upgrade). Don't see much different from Win 10. Changes in some folders and other things like that. But its stable as 10 was. My other computer and laptops can't be upgraded, but no big deal.

Posted by: Colin at January 28, 2023 05:58 AM (nN6sq)

64 58 Microsoft is telling me I can upgrade to Windows 11 now. My computer is only 2 years old and can run it, but is it stable enough? And does it have any annoying quirks compared to W10?

Posted by: Peter Schiavo at January 28, 2023 05:48 AM (ltVWV)
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No, Win 11 is fine. My old HP laptop upgraded in August of the year W11 debuted and my new HP came with 11. We have two gaming desktops (daughters) also running 11.

Posted by: Ciampinom - I don't do doors at January 28, 2023 05:59 AM (qfLjt)

65 KRAK OF DAWN IS UP

Grab a coffee and head upstairs

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2023 06:02 AM (xhxe8)

66 51 Regarding low IQ, here is a statistic that most folks are unaware of.

20% of us have pituitary tumors. This can cause all kinds of craziness.

I asked "How do you know that 20% of us have pituitary tumors?"

Autopsies.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 28, 2023 05:28 AM (TXFi7)
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Alien autopsies?

Posted by: Ciampinom - I don't do floors either at January 28, 2023 06:02 AM (qfLjt)

67 My one-month-out-of-warranty Dell Infinity started having issues this week. Brief message stated low battery and then it would shut down. Battery wasn't low.

Went to their website and there were 6 recommended driver updates and 2 urgent updates, one of which was for the BIOS. Hopefully one of those resolves the power shutting off.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 28, 2023 06:04 AM (ju2Fy)

68 The tough new VTuber environment seems like the wrong one in which to start slacking off.

*Giving side-eye to most of HoloEN. And also Ayami.*

Oh well. Kiara and Bae have been putting in the hours. They both deserve more subs.

Of course, they're not monsters like Kaela. That girl is gonna flame out hard someday.

Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2023 06:10 AM (wGeit)

69 Thanks Pixy. I'll stick with W10 for now.

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Yeah, those twenty copies they had in the warehouse went fast, I'll bet.

In the TTRPG market, there's D&D, and *every other RPG and RPG company ever combined* is a rounding error.

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