Yes I like to try new things. Current car is a Volvo xc60 recharge though. Bought it a little over a month ago and hit a deer 3 days in. So it’s been sitting in the shop since I got it :|

It’s hilarious that in a thread about disinformation, there are folks spreading disinformation lol

Oil demand is up year over year.

The amount of EVs on the road barely registers on the demand for oil.

Oil is used in the production of damn near every product on earth including EVs.

Those big oil companies, have been investing in clean energy for 30 years now. They don’t care either way because they get money from clean energy and oil demand won’t disappear even if EVs are the dominate tech.

Will EV tech eventually impact oil companies? Yes, of course it will, but we are not even remotely close to that reality yet.

BMW service is phenomenal. They always give you a loaner and will even pick the car up for you. They always find the issue no matter how obscure it might be. They also fix nit picks that most other brands would just tell you to go pound sand.

I’ve owned about 10 BMWs in the last 20 years. I also get a new car roughly every 6 months so I cycle through a lot of brands. BMW service has ruined all other brands for me in terms of service at least.

So I bought 3 drives from that sale too. Mine have 4 year warranties and are missing a year. Newegg told me to talk to seagate and provide proof of purchase to get the date extended. I was going to do that today.

Another person reached out to me on here and is in the same situation…

I guess I’ll update after I speak to seagate.

Technically ice engines run better in the cold. They make more power the colder it is. The cold air is more oxygen dense. This is especially true for turbo engines.

Serverpartdeals has 20tb exos for $220.

That doesn’t really mean much. Hence why I explained about the bmw wagon, because that’s a brand that is up there with Volvo for safety and the car passed European safety standards but not american.

And to be clear, it isn’t a knock on Chinese quality, more that cars need to be designed for the American market typically because of those kinds of things.

Would byd cars even pass American crash testing? Serious question. That is a huge hurtle for many cars. Even bmw has issues with it. A really eye opening example is, they can’t bring the new m3 wagon to the US because it wouldn’t pass crash tests.

Holy crap, this will be huge for sff and 1u/2u chassis servers!

Holy crap, this will be huge for sff and 1u/2u chassis servers!

So there was a somewhat similar post a year ago where an intel engineer commented on why they are using tsmc. Essentially, and I’m really paraphrasing, tsmc was better at gpus because they were more efficient at wide architectures vs intel which is better at narrow/super high clock architectures. This was all before 18a though obviously.

Well I would 3, was waiting on a serverpartsdeal sale but they kept jacking prices up. Plus this has a 5 year warranty versus 2. And I paid the payments through zip via discover which doubles my warranty.

I’m guessing the gains from tsmc 3nm were not as good as everyone hoped. We see this in the new Apple socs. Intel probably couldn’t get power draw low enough with n3b to make it work in a portable environment. The rumors so far are that this chip is 25-35w. It’s already pushing the upper limits of what is ok, at least for hand helds.

Serverpartsdeals is the new hotness now. Outside of that regular exos, red pros and ironwolf pros go on steep sales now. Externals aren’t worth shucking anymore.