MudMan

Did I say that? At what point did I say that? Is the snarky straw man thing a coping mechanism? Because it certainly isn't an argument.

I don't know that cloud gaming moves shovelware in either direction, but it really sucks to see the percentage of people that don't factor ownership into the process at all, at least on paper.

That's the problem with surveys, isn't it? What's "latency being eliminated"? On principle it'd be your streamed game responds as quickly as a local game, which is entirely achievable if your target is running a 30fps client on a handheld device versus streaming 60 fps gameplay from a much more powerful server. We can do that now.

But is that "latency free" if you're comparing it to running something at 240Hz in your gaming PC? With our without frame generation and upscaling? 120 Hz raw? 60Hz on console?

The question isn't can you get latency free, the question is at what point in that chain does the average survey-anwering gamer start believing the hype about "latency free streaming"?

Which is irrelevant to me, because the real problem with cloud gaming has zero to do with latency.

What happened where?

Since when are elections revolutions? If everything is a revolution nothing is. If you define a revolution as a change of regime then all changes of regime are revolutions, it's a useless, entirely tautological definition.

The OP is asking if fascist regimes have been reverted "without a war or a revolution", presumably meaning without violent conflict.

This is a thing. It has happened multiple times, no matter how low of a bar for violence you set in place.

I mean, as written the headline statement is always true.

I am horrified by some of the other takeaways, though:

Nearly 3 in 4 gamers (73%) would choose NVIDIA if all GPU brands performed equally.

57% of gamers have been blocked from buying a GPU due to price hikes or scalping, and 43% have delayed or canceled purchases due to other life expenses like rent and bills.

Over 1 in 4 gamers (25%) say $500 is their maximum budget for a GPU today.

Nearly 2 in 3 gamers (62%) would switch to cloud gaming full-time if latency were eliminated, and 42% would skip future GPU upgrades entirely if AI upscaling or cloud services met their performance needs.

Is the bad news you aren't very good at Wikipedia searches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_transition_to_democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy

Americans just can't conceive of it for some reason. Always itching for a fight and not even contemplating the notion that the fight isn't immediately adjacent to doing nothing.

Nah, it's the dedicated Nvidia GPU. Gaming PCs with those come with 250-300W power supplies these days. I was using that one specifically for transcoding and to try to self host AI models for a voice assistant, so it did go all in under load. If anything I'm mildly disappointed. The power brick is 100W, I would have expected higher power limits. I guess they saved the rest for the display and the USB ports.

This may be a regional concern. Google has very outdated information where I am, too. You definitely don't want to default to Google Maps to know if something is open here unless you want to show up to a closed business, and for learning where a place is so you can go look it up on their site they are all mostly interchangeable.

I mean... Organic sorta works, although apparently there's a new fork and some drama around it? If you're less hardcore DuckDuckGo uses Apple Maps instead.

I'm not sure I understand the question.

Not my experience. I've used a bunch of stuff, and I can tell you a RasPi is what, 10W under load and 4 idling? A repurposed laptop (with a dedicated GPU but screen off) was 11W idling and 45W under load, and a repurposed desktop was about 40W idling and 120W under load.

You maaaay be able to find some laptop with an efficient CPU and iGPU that gets into the realm of a RasPi, and I guess the "identical storage" qualifier helps if you're adding a bunch of heavy storage to the Pi to bring total consumption up and lower the percentage gap, but my real world, real time measurements don't quite match that.

That said, if you already have one of those things and not the other the power consumption difference is fairly small in absolute numbers. You may save more money by buying a slighlty better lightbulb for your living room lamp. Definitely recycle whatever you have lying around that will still do the job.

Man, the AI Bros shilling this stuff are really active in 4Chan, apparently.