That's true of course. And it's true for a lot of people in other areas as well. In vacuum I'm all for open source software, in fact I would like it a lot if everything was open. But reality is that as a developer in a smaller software company we'd be out of our jobs immediately as other, larger companies would take everything that's worth taking and use their larger budgets to out advertise their copy.

What if every phone could copy-paste an Airdrop implementation?

That's apple's decision, one of many to force their users to only get their devices, similarly not being able to host your own game servers benefits the publishers/ devs. (Edit for clarity: by this I mean that this state of things isn't caused by unavailability of open source solutions but rather by corporate greed.)

"Owning" algorithms and hiding implementations is such an absurd concept.

Not any different from protecting one's art creations. You spend a bunch of time learning how to code and are doing it for a living so you don't want others/ competition to take it and sell as their own. Not sure what's hard to understand.

Have you tried qwen 3.8 flash next? So far I've tested it only briefly but it's definitely a lot better compared to other local llms that I can run (~30B class models). For reference I am on 16 vram and 32 ram, older ddr4 platform.

These "benchmarks" are great for marketing, so not pointless. Just pointless for users.

I was shopping around for cards relatively recently so I have looked up some data on power consumption of these cards. 9070xts that rival 5070 tis are typically OC models in 350W territory. However these numbers aren't all that useful as they are only maximums. Real consumption will vary heavily from game to game and even setting to setting. For example in cyberpunk at 1440p with almost max settings with RT (but no path tracing) my 5070 ti is showing its consumption to be around 180W, if I turn on DLSS5 it goes to around 250W, still a bit from the 300W limit. I only saw it hitting the limit in furmark, but that is designed to do that. I'd expect similar behaviour from other cards, including AMD.

Considering that computer graphics have always been full of tricks any new tech should be judged based on what it achieves and at what cost first and foremost instead of being dismissed solely on how it works. So far I've only tried the leaked version in stalker 2 and I also think that it has potential but currently there are graphical artifacts, also there are instances of characters looking noticeably different and the fps hit is not particularly small either. For the record I am using 5070 ti and running the game at 1440p native/ DLAA.

I'd expect it to not run at all, no? Otherwise why are we not seeing ddr5 only mobo/CPU compatible ddr4 sticks?

Even local only (which you know won't be the case here) is an issue. It still allows one to record stuff that one shouldn't.

From what I've seen they are leading in power consumption as well. Yes, 5090 is more power hungry than any AMD consumer GPU right now but it also comes with adequately higher performance.

By now there are several generations of 502's, from what I've seen online the earlier ones used more durable switches. I've used Proteus spectrum myself for close to 8 years and all buttons still work fine. And if say it was used quite heavily, both for gaming and WHF. I've only replaced it now because it was ugly and the rubber on the sides is gone completely in some spots.

Without the system you'd have zero chance to buy one, all would be gone the millisecond it's up. All bought by bots watching the page constantly.

Nah, it's some kind of a mobile GPU.