I can’t speak to your modem situation exactly, but I believe you only need the newer modem if you are actually getting that bandwidth from your provider. If you are pretty well below the 3.0 ceiling, I think you’re probably just fine.

Re: the router: a newer one can be helpful if you are having issues with wireless devices farther from the router losing connection. If you have a big house, you would be better off with mesh. If you have a small house or apartment, a new Wifi 6 router would solve that problem for you. And most importantly: if you aren’t experiencing any obvious issues with your wifi, it probably isn’t worth the price of an upgrade.

Oh no, this one isn’t. Just saying that it’s common in that niche space. I personally spent about $200 for my case, and the price was not my fave but the case is super portable and I love that about it.

You must not build SFF PCs. $150-$200 is pretty standard in that space, though there are definitely some great budget ITX cases.

I think this is a net positive for sure. Two manufacturers competing to be the most affordable can only mean lower prices overall!

Here’s a link to the Tom’s Hardware post about AMD’s new GPU strategy, cited in the GN video.

Some thoughts after watching this part of the video:

• Sounds like AMD is hitting the point where AMD cards are a complete afterthought for devs, because NVIDIA has both dominant market share and the best performance by all metrics except price. But devs don’t care about what consumers are paying for cards, they only care about developing for the card that most users have. And so, AMD is giving up on the top-end to focus on clawing back market share in the mid and entry level where NVIDIA doesn’t compete as hard.
• AMD is essentially swapping rivals, from NVIDIA to Intel, as Intel is targeting the same market that AMD is pivoting to. It’ll be interesting to see how that shakes out.
• NVIDIA will essentially have a monopoly on the top-end GPU market. I am not looking forward to that.

EDIT: I’m noticing on my Sync app for android that the bulleted list doesn’t seem to be working right, although the bullets are working correctly on desktop. Just wanted to point that out for mobile only users - this is supposed to be a bulleted list!

I’m slightly suspicious of this article coming from Times of Israel, tho i’m not sure how sharing this serves Israeli interests

can someone ELI5 what this is, exactly? A program to run on your computer that helps out the Internet Archive? How exactly is it helpful for the Internet Archive?

ah shit me and my friends used to do this, pre-social media. I remember one time in middle school recess, going out to the farthest corner of the playground with my friends, and we all did a thing where we took turns holding our breath while someone else squeezed our chest. I remember blacking out, hearing the pokemon theme in pitch darkness, and then waking up on the ground.

I don’t think we did it more than once (at least I didn’t). But of course, the crucial difference was that I was with my dumbass friends, so at least there was someone to run for help if someone didn’t wake up.

tbh if it’s on 404, it counts

go to reddit/r/worldnews, you can see the op alive and well over there.

Remember Motherboard, Vice’s popular sub-site for tech news? Well Vice shut it down and fired them, so they went and started 404 as a reader-funded publication.

that’s actually incredible. cybenetics is based!

i mean if they don’t paywall existing subs, and just make it an option for future subs…I could see a world where people use that for like their Patreon or something, like with invite-only Discords. But then, in my mind, that’s people paying Patreon to get access to an exclusive Reddit, and that wouldn’t bring Reddit new money, so maybe this isn’t working the way i’m thinking…

The beef between Microsoft and Reddit came to light after I published a story revealing that Reddit is currently blocking every crawler from every search engine except Google, which earlier this year agreed to pay Reddit $60 million a year to scrap the site for its generative AI products.

I know the author meant “scrape”, but sometimes it really does feel like AI is just scrapping the old internet for parts.

I am not, I just been subbed to them for a couple years now and I like when more people like the things that I like.

This is true, and it was a black mark against his record in my mind. But antitrust is not the same thing as pro-worker.

side note: I really love that we are accepting Gamers Nexus as Beehaw’s “newspaper of record” for news about computer hardware, and particularly the gaming computer hardware that is GN’s beat. They are such a great, independent outlet that rarely pulls its punches. All praise our Savior Tech Jesus!

thank you for sharing your experience! Good to hear an anecdote to the contrary.

That was my first thought too. Yet another reason to vote for Dems this November - only one party actually gives a shit about enforcing antitrust regulations!