Daily Tech News 15 May 2026

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AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardware)

A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the source code for a version that worked on RX 6000 and 7000 cards was accidentally leaked.

This is good news for owners of older AMD graphics cards - and also for Xbox and PlayStation owners, which use custom versions of those older graphics designs. In fact Sony has announced its own release of FSR 4 technology for the PlayStation 4.

It may be the console contracts that held AMD back from announcing FSR 4 for older cards for so long. They could have released a beta driver for PCs, but for consoles it has to just work.

The update will be out for the RX 7000 range in July; RX 6000 owners will need to wait until early next year.

Tech News

Cerebras, the company that makes the world's largest CPUs - the chips are literally the size of a dinner plate - has launched its IPO and is now valued at $66 billion. (The Register)

Cerebras has been around for a decade and has been shipping working silicon for years, so this valuation isn't vapour. It's just a lot of money.
The open source and right-to-repair community has declared ~~was~~ war on leading 3D printer maker Bambu Labs. (Tom's Hardware)

At the core of this is Bambu's move to restrict access to its open-source software.
Subnautica 2 is out and has already sold a million copies. (WCCFTech)

In two hours.

I think it may be a success.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Do not the tempo.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 04:31 AM (cSctv)

2 G'Day everyone TGIF

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

3 I like peanut butter, can't stand tomatoes, europeans are live stock and I don't trust elephants

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 15, 2026 04:33 AM (jrgJz)

4 3 I like peanut butter, can't stand tomatoes, europeans are live stock and I don't trust elephants
Posted by: Ray's Cyst
****

Ummm, ok. (slowly backs out of room, locks door)

Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 04:35 AM (cSctv)

5 I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)

6 My favorite post of the day!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (Q/FnY)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 04:39 AM (f87vz)

8 I thought it was an amusing video, but if I had to listen to that kind of music everyday I'd probably go more out of my mind than I probably already am.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:40 AM (rZCVI)

9 Praying man helps woman. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/mtkxa5c8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:42 AM (rZCVI)

10 5 I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant

I work midshift, so I'm up all night, even on days off.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 04:44 AM (f87vz)

11 BOING!

I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
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Almost noon here. But Pixy has it worse!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (i2Ycu)

12 I had not heard of this Australian group, but they do a nice musical selection based on Psalm 56:

https://tinyurl.com/4a7z9n9f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (rZCVI)

13 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (Hbeqj)

14 Revolver News says Mooch lost 40 pounds, still looks 165 pounds

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)

15 Mornin’ Ray, coffee?

Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 04:59 AM (T8bqm)

16 Lenne Brothers Band
Rocky Road Blues
https://youtu.be/J5s94RXnAOI

"I don't always listen to the Lenne Brothers Band but when I do so do my neighbors."

The Lenne Brothers rhythm section is absolutely relentless. That's how it's done when it's done right.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 15, 2026 05:01 AM (glnUu)

17 BOING!

I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
-

Almost noon here. But Pixy has it worse!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
+++
I'm never online at this hour. But I'm in France for a few days. And it's 11 AM here. Riding a high speed train from Paris to Saarbrucken Germany.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM (hxQxn)

18 I am heading off to work very soon

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 05:07 AM (KQNgH)

20 Riding a high speed train from Paris to Saarbrucken Germany.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM (hxQxn)
-

Peasants ain't what they used to be!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 05:09 AM (i2Ycu)

21 I wanted to share what I would call a "God incident" or what others call "God winking at you". My son works with a very nice older man named Peter .who is a person of faith They often have long days and repetitive tasks-but it's a job and he's getting out and making money and providing a service . Yesterday Peter mentioned "Eating and drinking in the name of the Lord" which is from 1st Corinthians. I guess he and Peter were having lunch together . Today's passage from the "Upper Room" about finding meaning in one's work in repetitive tasksand doing everything in the name of the name of the Lord. It is written by someone named Peter from Singapore. I sent it to him and asked him to show it to his co-worker:

https://tinyurl.com/hd77jnj8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (rZCVI)

22 On the console side, the FSR support is a much bigger win for the Xbox Series X over the PS5. There is a huge difference in throughput for the specific type of ML processing the FSR code utilizes. Sony wasn't especially concerned with ease of code reuse between console and PC and had originally intended an earlier launch date for the PS5. These delays meant they froze the spec before RDNA 2 was complete, resulting in the PS5 implementation sometimes being referenced as RDNA 1.5.

This was the right choice at the time as Sony had a dominant position and shipping dev kits out several months before Microsoft meant most games, including ones developed at Microsoft owned studios, didn't utilize the full feature set of the new Xbox generation. This continued to this day. these features weren't things to be implemented during a port. If it wasn't in the engine from the start, it didn't exist thereafter. So if it wasn't in the PS5 baseline, it wasn't going to be used on Xbox or PC. At the same time, Microsoft didn't make the capital investment in their own and third party tools to make it easy for devs to incorporate those features. The indifference was baffling.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (/0z9K)

23 Will you go a waltzing Matilda with me?

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 15, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)

25 And the scripture passage is Proverbs 16:1-7.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:12 AM (rZCVI)

26 Mornin'.
Bacon.
Eggs.
Coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:16 AM (O7YUW)

27 It's a bit after 2 AM here but going to work just means going downstairs where I have a much more capable document scanner attached to a PC. A longtime client has cubic yards of old client records from her accounting business taking up space in her home office, which is the former servant quarters of the large Pasadena house she and her husband own. She's technically retired but has a handful of client who still send her their tax data until they or she dies, whichever comes first.

So I'm converting it all to PDF. I'm expecting it will all fit on a single BD-R. Two, at most. Then she'll buy some archival quality discs, make several copies to stash, and get back a big portion of her space. It makes for a good under the table gig for me.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:18 AM (/0z9K)

28 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 15, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)

29 Musk at the Beijing Ball:

https://tinyurl.com/ycxbp8z6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 05:25 AM (i2Ycu)

30 >>> I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?

Early to bed, early to rise.

Still moving too fast for wisdom to catch me.

Posted by: fluffy at May 15, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)

31 Declaring "was" on a company is a pretty serious thing.

If I were that company, I wouldn't suddenly want to be past-tense and no longer in the present. That's kinda final.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)

32 "I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?"

Yes. Sometimes not too much , but I'm up by 4:45 most weekdays to be with my husband who drives a school bus and needs to be out by just after 6:00

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:34 AM (PFs9e)

33 31 Declaring "was" on a company is a pretty serious thing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Kindest error correction I've ever seen.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 15, 2026 05:35 AM (BLOW1)

34 This was the right choice at the time as Sony had a dominant position and shipping dev kits out several months before Microsoft meant most games, including ones developed at Microsoft owned studios, didn't utilize the full feature set of the new Xbox generation.

I work in games. Xbox software sales are in legit danger of being lower than Steam on Linux the way things have trended. And there aren’t high expectations now that the whole Xbox division is being replaced with H1Bs like the rest of Microsoft was a while back. So it remains to be seen if third parties even bother with the new FSR.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2026 05:35 AM (QZThv)

35 I'm never online at this hour. But I'm in France for a few days. And it's 11 AM here. Riding a high speed train from Paris to Saarbrucken Germany.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM

Ditto. Been in Greece the last two weeks. Just boarded the flight home. See y'all back in the eastern time zone for my regularly scheduled commenting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 05:38 AM (KQNgH)

36 Not nitpicking. BUT...

...right-to-repair community has declared was on

should probably be

...right-to-repair community declared WAR on

use of caps is obviously up to you.

same as it ever was

Posted by: Whiskey Mike at May 15, 2026 05:42 AM (l5vxg)

37 Musk must have been exhausted since he's a introvert.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:46 AM (IYIYn)

38 #34

It's basic math. The range of supported end user systems multiplies by several times. The ROI for implementation is greatly improved.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:48 AM (/0z9K)

39 5 I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)

Yes. I'm a natural night owl; I have never been able to just sleep the whole night through, so I basically take several long naps spread throughout night and day that add up to enough. Still up, already up, what's the difference?

Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 05:51 AM (Sy6m/)

40 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 05:56 AM (iMotb)

41 "I thought it was an amusing video, but if I had to listen to that kind of music everyday I'd probably go more out of my mind than I probably already am."

Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8

This one's more famous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 15, 2026 05:57 AM (ITs37)

42 @5/Florida Peasant: "I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?"

I wonder that too sometimes, depending on the night and how badly I'm sleeping.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:58 AM (O7YUW)

43 Mornin'.
Bacon.
Eggs.
Coffee.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026

***
If only it were that simple --!

Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers on this Friday! 75 nasty F. here, and I have a workout on my morning schedule. Well, maybe I can cheat and make it a short session.

Linda is having her hair cut, and we need to visit Whole Foods and Walmart while out there. She has been seeing on the 'Net that the 5W-30 grade of auto engine oil may get hard to find in upcoming months -- could that be true? And if so it would be smart of me to stockpile at least one change worth, six quarts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

44 Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 15, 2026 05:57 AM (ITs37)

What do you call that music? Rap?

Uggh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:00 AM (ix8EF)

45 Cold bare ground steaming
The world awaits renewal
Kiss the sleeping girl

fin

Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 06:01 AM (cSctv)

46 Tis is actually a little bit On Topic for the tech thread.

Back in early March our older Kwikset front door lock with the touch buttons died. So I upgraded to the WiFi enabled Kwikset Halo line to enjoy the remote monitoring and operating capabilities that they offered.

Don't bother.

in 70 days we went through two complete replacements due to battery life of 2-3 weeks.
The house meets every requirement for the WiFi environment, but the locks burn through batteries like nobodies business.

And just to clear up Kwikset's idea that the lock is misaligned, and causing excess drain on the power train....we have an identical lock on the kitchen door, but we ONLY use the manual lever to lock and unlock it from the inside at night. The power train never operates which would place a drain on the batteries.

And guess what....same three week battery life.

Later today the third lock gets shipped back to Kwikset with their warranty shipping label, and I'm done with them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:04 AM (iMotb)

47 Tech question. I think I saw it here that you can remove a hard drive and get that information transfered onto a USB stick?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:05 AM (z2aPa)

48 * waves to VIA *

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:06 AM (z2aPa)

49 Ben Had!

Good morning young lady.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)

50 Not much commenting lately.

Life has been getting full, and time seems to be flying by this year.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (iMotb)

51 @47/Ben Had: "I think I saw it here that you can remove a hard drive and get that information transfered onto a USB stick?"

If:
- The USB stick has enough capacity to hold the contents of that hard drive
- The Drive isn't encrypted (It needs to be decrypted so you can access the contents.) If it IS encrypted (like with Microsoft's Bitlocker) then you'll need the access key in order to put it into another windows machine and access it before you copy the contents to a USB stick.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

52 VIA, good morning. I hope that you are both well.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (z2aPa)

53 Say!

What if Chris Nolan remade The Terminator?

https://tinyurl.com/z3v8t2xd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (i2Ycu)

54 So the South Carolina primary season is really ramping up, with ads from Democrats all over the place on TV.

Including the female three star that was let go by Trump earlier in the term.

And she has a chip on her shoulder, and a desire to be elected to office and get even with him

Then we have this Rom Reddy guy who wants to appear to be the everyman candidate.
Successful business man, well polished campaign. But his latest tv ads sound like a Mike Rowe voice over, but closer listening makes me think he is using AI to have it sound like Mike Rowe. Seems shady.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (iMotb)

55 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, I don't think there is very much on the hard drive. There are just some pictures that I would like to retrieve if possible.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (z2aPa)

56 Can I also vote for Spencer Pratt?

Pretty please!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2f2v92h9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (i2Ycu)

57 " hope that you are both well."

We both got caught up in life, and not walking in the morning as much. So we each put some of the weight back on. But we are working on getting it back off.

Our son closes on his first house in 10 days, so that has been exciting for us.

Overall....doing well, just getting older.

And you?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:15 AM (iMotb)

58 "Pretty please!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2f2v92h9"

Nice!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM (iMotb)

59 VIA, as always, life on the farm couldn't be any better and it's only 5 months till TXMOME 11.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM (z2aPa)

60 X still had no sound and when I try to put the Spencer Pratt video in Xcancel it's not working. I like Spencer Pratt , but I am not updating whatever I need to update to get the sound.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (PFs9e)

61 “ I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.”

Psalm 9:1

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (WTWWW)

62 My workout motivation has been taking lessons from little cat Dagny in how to hide. It's amazing; I have only two rooms, yet there are innumerable cubbyholes into which both can vanish.

Dagny occasionally emerges when I call her. The motivation, not so much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

63 @46/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

WiFi circuitry drains batteries because it's got to transmit and receive signals through the internal radio and that tends to use a fair amount of power.

I see this all the time with my Kindle. If I want it to last a decent amount of time, I put it into Airplane mode.

It's just a bad design for a lock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

64 Good morning, one and all. It was a relatively busy night last night. Thursdays are one of the usual date nights for me and my wife but things had to be done.

First stop was the Xfinity store to pick up a new modem as our current one said "I'm tired, boss" after three years. Dinner was an Indian/Italian fusion restaurant and we had a chicken tikka pizza. Dessert was Coldstone Ice Cream. So life ain't bad.

Got home and set up the router. Took close to half an hour but all things are working normally at Chateau Pax.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (jjoN6)

65 I had my two video tours of the first two Terre Haute houses yesterday. The first house was amazing, but out of my realistic price range when I factored in home insurance. The second looked better on Realtor than on video.

I'm due to look at another, much more reasonably priced, this afternoon, and I have another, a 1955 ranch, I want to line up. The first would need carpet replaced by laminate in a couple of rooms; the second would need refinishing of the wood floors . . . and a shower arm and head added to the bathtub. I'd have thought even in 1955 people wanted a shower feature in their bathrooms.

On the good side, at 9:30am yesterday Terre Haute had a temp of 53 -- in mid-May! -- and only 70 at 3:30 in the afternoon. Sounds amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

66 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

67 @55/Ben Had:

Okay, size shouldn't be the issue. I guess the machine the hard drive is in isn't working otherwise you'd just be sticking in a USB stick and copying the files you want?

If it's in a Windows 10 or 11 machine, then the big question is:

"Is it encrypted with Bitlocker?"

If it is, then retrieve the Bitlocker Recovery Key so you can access it in another Windows machine:

This guy talks about how to do that:
https://youtu.be/ktPiFWBoIU0

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

68 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

Don't know, but we're considering indicting Raul Castro for shooting down a couple of planes in '96.

Sounds like a good idea to me, but should have waited until we're about to take over. Then, hang him. Old or not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 06:27 AM (1Ff7Z)

69 "It's just a bad design for a lock."

I guess the real pisser of it is the claims of 6 months of battery life.

As they were suggesting that I might need an extender. placed a mesh node within 6 foot of each of the locks to see if closer proximity might help.

Both locks report strong wifi signal.

The tp-link Deco ap reports strong signal.

The locks are both on my IoT wifi band.

And.....two to three weeks at best.

I just installed a Schlage unit yesterday.
Let's see how that works out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:28 AM (iMotb)

70 mornin yall. Quickset should build a little generator into the doorknob to keep it charged. Every time you turn the knob it spins the flywheel. Maybe it can power a door knocker too.

Ben Had, yes, if, Allah willing, the dang drive is not Bitlocked.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

71 and it's only 5 months till TXMOME 11.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM

Ah, but only one month to NoVaMoMe 2026!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 06:29 AM (xLei+)

72 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, thank you for the help

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:32 AM (z2aPa)

73 g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eeztl at May 15, 2026 06:35 AM (VyBeY)

74 Somebody made a bomb and went to the trouble of putting it underwater at the base of a dam in Alabama, but it didn't go off. Very strange.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

75 fd, my apologies for not getting back to you. My sporadic use of the computer seems to be coordinating with it's sporadic functioning .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:39 AM (z2aPa)

76 I'm still not getting bored with the wild AI Pratt ads.

The Lego Movie, with slightly modified theme song lyrics:

https://tinyurl.com/38z2ss8p

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:40 AM (i2Ycu)

77 BH, let's get you fixed up with something more reliable.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

78 Divers conducting routine inspection of Mobile, AL area reservoir dam discover IED found at its base.

It's being reported that the IED was a “grenade-type” explosive device which was detonated without incident.

Agencies responding to the discovery by the dive team included Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordinance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad, and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 15, 2026 06:44 AM (J4Dwc)

79 Anybody want to go cave diving 160 feet underwater? Me neither.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

80 Last week I received a fresh 6 month supply for my CPAP.

Boy F. saw the box and decided it was recycling and dumped it.

Yesterday, I looked for my CPAP supplies. They were not there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

81 Bambu labs has seriously misread their customer base. DIY'ers are not known for their tolerance of closed systems.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 15, 2026 06:46 AM (9yZMF)

82 Mamdami and Hocul are contemplating a new 15% tax on taxes.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

83 The update will be out for the RX 7000 range in July; RX 6000 owners will need to wait until early next year.

Good for AMD (finally).

They were catching a lot of flack over FSR 4 only being available for the 9000 series.

Everybody knew that their claim that it wouldn't work on older GPUs because they didn't have FP8 processing cores was a lie because AMD released the source code accidentally last year and it had a INT8 version that works on older hardware.

So people compiled the code it for 6000 & 7000 series Radeons and voila! it worked. The GPUs took a little performance hit but if that trade-off was good enough for better upscaling, gamers went with it.

AMD was being called out on this for months, especially by Hardware Unboxed, so at least they've done the right thing now. Say what you will (and I've said a lot) about Nvidia's antics & pricing, but at least they support most new features going back three generations when they update.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:47 AM (6ydKt)

84 At the core of this is Bambu's move to restrict access to its open-source software.

Everybody loved Bambu's product & software stack for years.
Right up until Bambu decided to lock down their machines like they think they're Apple.

Tech companies never learn.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:50 AM (6ydKt)

85 47 Tech question. I think I saw it here that you can remove a hard drive and get that information transfered onto a USB stick?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:05 AM (z2aPa)

If this is regarding an earlier conversation that I vaguely recall, then you can remove the hard drive from a laptop and put it in an enclosure that turns it into an external USB drive. This does not work if what died was the hard drive, but it does if other parts are dying first. The key is to look up your specific model of laptop and make sure that you are getting the right kind of enclosure for that specific type and size of hard drive.

For example, my last laptop had the video die, first for the built-in screen and then also for the HDMI port. It was a very cheap model, so I basically had to destroy it to get the SATA HDD out, but now it sits in a Sabrent enclosure with a USB cable and an on/off switch. It's amazing how cheap it was, and it would also have worked for a SSD instead.

I think this is my model, but they also have them with aluminum enclosures and AC power adapters. This worked fine for retrieving my data:

amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S/

Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:50 AM (Sy6m/)

86 fd, what is the possibility of just replacing the hard drive in the existing machine?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:52 AM (z2aPa)

87 "fd, what is the possibility of just replacing the hard drive in the existing machine?
Posted by: Ben Had"

It's certainly possible if that's all that's wrong with it. Are you pretty sure the drive is bad?

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

88 fd, I honestly have no idea because all of this is way above me but I love DIY and if the hard drive isn't overly expensive it might be fun to try.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (z2aPa)

89 Then we have this Rom Reddy guy who wants to appear to be the everyman candidate.
Successful business man, well polished campaign. But his latest tv ads sound like a Mike Rowe voice over, but closer listening makes me think he is using AI to have it sound like Mike Rowe. Seems shady.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (iMotb)

I was over at my brother's the other night and they watch Live 5 News.

There must've been 5 or 6 different candidate ads on within the space of 30 minutes, it was all personal injury lawyers and governor candidates during the ad breaks. I couldn't keep up with them. I think most were Republican but not all of them had their party.

Funnily enough I didn't see one Nancy Grace ad.
Is she even running for governor anymore?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

90 BH, I know you don't want to take your PC apart. If I had it here I could possibly recover your data and get it going again. Otherwise, we could find you a new or refurbished one.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

91 Subnautica 2 is out and has already sold a million copies. (WCCFTech)

In two hours.

I think it may be a success.

*****

I liked the first one a lot. I've read too many early reports that this one may be a Wokefest. I'll wait before purchase.

Posted by: Biergood at May 15, 2026 06:59 AM (PwgSL)

92 "I honestly have no idea because all of this is way above me but I love DIY and if the hard drive isn't overly expensive it might be fun to try.
Posted by: Ben Had"

Your biggest challenge would be to get that all-in-one PC opened up. A new drive would be $100-$150. If you would like to try I can assist.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

93 88 fd, I honestly have no idea because all of this is way above me but I love DIY and if the hard drive isn't overly expensive it might be fun to try.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (z2aPa)

If you use software like Clonezilla you can copy the entire hard drive onto a new drive and install it. You'll need an enclosure like SciVo mentioned, or some other kind of USB to Hard Drive connector to be able to copy the files.

With Windows, you'll need something like that to make sure it copies the files correctly. If you do it this way, you shouldn't need to re-install Windows and everything should open up just like off the original hard drive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

94
!יום ירושלים שמח

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:04 AM (RIvkX)

95
The quest to recreate Dutch's show record is, sadly, grinding to a halt. I can account for 568 of his 579 Grand Champion points but can't find any more shows where he finished in the ribbons. Unless he was shown outside the scope of states I searched (TX, LA, AR, MS). There were the odd occasions (National Specialties, AKC National, Borzoi Club of Greater Omaha) but I can't recall any others. I'd have to ask Her Majesty, who likely doesn't remember either and right now has no time to talk to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:04 AM (HdYcL)

96 60 X still had no sound and when I try to put the Spencer Pratt video in Xcancel it's not working. I like Spencer Pratt , but I am not updating whatever I need to update to get the sound.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (PFs9e)

If you have an older machine, you might just need to close other programs/browser tabs to free up enough working memory. Videos on X can be finicky that way, and the people encoding them for upload tend to have machine with higher specs themselves and wouldn't notice the problem. For an example of finicky, with my last laptop before this one, I couldn't play WeirdDave's X videos embedded, but it was close enough that opening them in their own tabs would do the trick.

Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 07:05 AM (Sy6m/)

97 Opps... Nancy Mace, not Grace...

totally different people, other than the accents.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

98 fd, I will more than likely just go with a replacement .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 07:09 AM (z2aPa)

99 X acts weird.
It keeps locking me out of my lurker account because I don't login in enough and it becomes 'suspicious activity' as soon as I do.

Now I can't even click on an embedded image in a post to enlarge it and see it all when it's cropped.
Apparently you've got login to do that now.

Elon is determined to make some money off that place one day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

100 Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 07:05 AM (Sy6m/)

Thanks for your insights.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (Nx5jP)

101 "What do you call that music? Rap?"

Which video? The only rap that I've ever cared about was the song "Maximizor" on the techno (rave) group T99's album "Children Of Chaos".

The entire album is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdPyIvMyEI

but the only song that you might want to listen to the lyrics is "Maximizor" which starts at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdPyIvMyEI&t=504s

"Politicians, they're makin' me sick. They're all the same; gimme money quick!" later "Maybe someday the sun will shine in your face all the time" (Well, ESL for rhyme)

"After beyond" isn't bad.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (ITs37)

102 I got to say, I’m on the side of Bambu Labs here, the issue at hand is access to their cloud services by an unlicensed 3rd party application.

Their printers can be run in lan mode, bypassing their cloud services.

Also Guzman is a bit of a dick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (XV/Pl)

103 N00d!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 15, 2026 07:12 AM (Kcw7x)

104 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 50 overcast degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's not supposed to get much warmer or clearer, so the view out of my window is basically the view I'll have all day.

I had a pretty lousy couple of days, so am hoping to feel better and get more editing done today. Decided to try and change my mood by book shopping; got a few interesting ones, but that's a topic for the Book Thread.

And, not that it would come as any surprise to anyone with even the least knowledge of her, Althouse also thinks Karen Bass getting hit in the face with a tomato is encouraging violence.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)

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