1. They don’t have to, I have Gan chargers that do a lot.

2. Less pressure on laptop manufactures to shrink as much.

3. Duty load: the big one.

You’re not just charging an hour at 20w and unplugging it, or tapering the charge, you could be using it at max rated output for days, that means much more stress, it needs to radiate more heat, and generally needs to be bigger.

As for fluctuating load, shouldn’t be as much of an issue, laptops often do their own power conditioning because the battery is fairly rough, and you’re going from 12-20v down to 5 and 3.3 then 1.6 and 1.3 to vcc for the chip, there’s plenty of filtering at each stage and they’re isolated by the smps controllers and input caps.

But pulling constant rated duty cycle basically doubles the size of power supplies normally, GaN technology helps a lot (which is why those little power bricks can do 100w+ now even though they got a lot more dense).

Surprise party for a friend.

Hypersensory disorder?

A world war would involve multiple countries on both sides, dragged in by mutual ties and a recognition of which camp would have it in for them in victory.

This is hilarious. That anyone would stand up for Russia, one of the most hated states on the planet.

China especially, they would watch and wait till Russia was about to fail, and take their eastern territories, giving them both the land and resources they are so desperate for.

Russia is a country without meaningful allies (oh, I’m sorry, I forgot north Korea), in a world that hates them and wants to see them suffer for their past actions.

Poland alone would do anything for the chance to revisit Russia with a fraction of the pain they’ve caused over the centuries, and nobody would dare stop them.

This is inevitable, the Russian decline guarantees their predation and destruction at the hands of their growing neighbors.

Like I said, popcorn futures.

I’m excited for Russia seeing justice.

And a world War?

With Russia and whose army? Because theirs can’t handle Ukraine on their own. Their missiles explode on the launchpad, their submarines sink themselves, their only aircraft carrier has more Russian kills than enemy.

Oh, you honestly think China will save them? That’s absolutely adorable.

That shock therapy? That was their own oligarchs looting Russia wildly, which is why corruption has destroyed the Russian military so completely.

Russia has historically felt their only safety came from the perception by others that they were strong. That perception was utterly shattered by Ukraine, forever.

There is no way this turns out that is not disastrous for Russia, but then again I guess they just call that ‘history’. Personally I’m looking forward to it with anticipation.

Not thirsty for blood, thirsty for justice, as are much of Europe that were victims of Russian imperialism under the name of ‘buffer states’. Now those states are stronger than them and everyone is desperately eager to watch them suffer.

I could make a fortune selling popcorn in eastern Europe.

Russian hatred? We call that ‘being European’.

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Fear, as a fellow Finn, might be a bit strong word, but it’s a definetly a concern.

I mean, if my country suffered through the Winter War, I’d consider that a very rational fear.

I’m sure Jews are pretty nervous around German hyper-nationalists too.

Edgy tweens being edgy.

I just smoked weed and … smoked weed.

I mean, I hate most Russians, but only since they invaded Ukraine.

Russia whines endlessly about ancient wrongs against them, the Finns have a lot to remember about Russia too.

Russophobia is the fear or hatred of Russia or people from Russia.

Ok, seems logical so far.

Linus is Finnish, maybe this is also a lesson: “Don’t brutalize random neighboring countries because in the future they might be in a position to fuck you in the ass.”?

I mean, the Winter War is kind of not a fond memory for them, though everybody loves some Sima Häyhä, one of the most righteous men of the 20th century.

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So VCN has caught up some, but QS is still faster, generally has better support and better codecs before VCN. Also has combinations, vainfo gives me something like 20 encoders on intel, 8 on amd, mostly stuff like 444 for each variant of hevc, etc. Also my 7600xt was more picky with which settings it would take, the intel block seems fairly comfortable with more.

My Xe has AV1 encode (at ludicrous speeds, I get 30x sometimes, it changed my flow entirely, I stream av1 only now), it’s had hevc well earlier than amd, and overall it’s usually a good bit faster (an intel igpu will usually encode faster than an amd dgpu).

Also quality has been reviewed to be better, feel free to google that, it’s apparently pretty marginal to human observers.

But like I said, the difference is nowhere like it was, AMD is catching up, software is coming together so vaapi covers most cases without complaint.

There’s no reason to consider the difference between them unless encoding is your primary focus, and you’re trying to use very modern codecs.

Basically.

I like the E and p cores, mostly because I used to do a lot of core architecture for supercomputer chips and this was one of my ideas I wanted to implement, fully heterogenous cores with Linux support for scheduling.

But no, there’s no reason to pick Intel, I only got it because it was cheap, and I don’t use it for gaming.

There is basically 1 reason to go Intel cpu: quicksync video encoding. Amd’s is fine but intel’s is the gold standard.

Otherwise definitely go amd, it rocks Nvidia perfectly.

Think I have the Intel version and absolutely adore it. Everything works, it’s a monster and plays as a solid workstation with a low-end thunderbolt 3 dock.

Iirc replicators require exotic matter arrays, so no, they need to be constructed, at least anything more complex than a household replicator.

You mean blizzard activision… :(

Lebanon, along with other states like Jordan, was flooded by Palestinian refugees after 1948 and then the 6 day war and other Arab states sent weapons because syria and Israel considers it a proxy war (after syria got spanked in the YKW).

The lebanese maronite Christians lived on the rich north/sest side (Beirut was once called the Paris of the middle east) while the south/east side (over the mountains) were incredibly poor shia Arab Muslims. The Syrians armed them and told them to attack the west, which they did, and won, which lead to half a decade of civil war that…vaguely settled when Israel invaded and occupied them from 85 to 2000.

Every now and then hezbollah in the south attacks Israel with rockets and such, Israel responds by bombing or even invading, which doesn’t really work well for anybody.

It’s a disaster that nobody will fix, but it’s the same problem as everywhere else, poor rural folk are angry and jealous of rich urban folk who don’t care about them and hold them in comtempt for being backwards, we have the same thing in America.

I look forward to being lectured by people who read second-hand propaganda about how this is all bullshit and actually the US specifically did… something that caused decades of war.

Because paper and ink are impossible to Forge…