You can boost the 395 up to 120W, which might be where Framework is pushing it too, but those benchmarks are labelled 55W and that’s what AMD says is the default clock without adjustment. I’d love to see how the benchmarks compare at that higher boost but I’d imagine it’s diminishing returns similar to most GPUs. I think the benefit to using it in a lounge gaming PC would be the super low power draw, but you would need to figure out a display MUX switch and I don’t think that’s simple with desktop cards. Maybe something with a 5090 mobile would be the go at that point, but I have no idea how that compares to the 395 and whether it’s worth it.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but is the 395 not leagues ahead of something like a 4090 when it comes to performance per watt? Here’s a comparison graph of a 4090 against the Radeon 8060S, which is the 395’s iGPU:

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Now that’s apparently running at the 395’s default TDP of 55W so that includes the CPU power. It’s also clear that a 4090 can trounce it on sheer performance when needed. But if we take a look at this next graph:

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This shows that a 4090 has a third of the performance while still running at 130W, more than twice the TDP of the entire 395 APU.

Edit: This was buried in the comments under that second graph but here’s the points scored per Watt on that benchmark: 130W = 66 / 180W = 85 / 220W = 92 / 270W = 84 / 330W = 74 / 420W = 59 / 460W = 55 and this clearly shows the sweet spot for a 4090 is 220W.

That’s all valid for your usecase, but you were saying that you didn’t think many people would use it that way at all and that’s what I was saying I didn’t agree with. As well, a HTPC is kind of a different use case altogether to a lounge room gaming computer. There’s some overlap for sure, but if you want zero compromise gaming then you’re going to want all that CPU.

I don’t know that that is necessarily true. Having a gaming machine that can play any game and dynamically switches between a high-power draw dGPU and a genuinely capable low-power draw iGPU actually sounds amazing. That’s always been possible with every laptop that has a dGPU but their associated iGPU has often been bottom of the barrel bc “why would you use it” for intensive tasks. But a “desktop” build as a lounge room gaming PC, where you can throw whatever at it and it’ll run as quietly as it can, while being able to play AAAs at 4K60, sounds amazing.

I second navidrome for music. It’s awesome that copyparty has a media player, and it’d pawbably be great for organising your library remotely. Once it’s organised though, you really want something that has proper mobile clients with offline track abilities and there’s heaps of choices that work with the subsonic API.

Yeah, I guess in the US the Speaker usually wields their power in a very partisan manner, whereas in parliamentary systems they are usually supposed to act as bipartisan as possible.

The Speaker of the House is not the same as the House Majority Leader. The current Speaker is Mike Johnson and the current Majority Leader is Steve Scalise.

I think the mainboard from the Framework Desktop meets your requirements: https://frame.work/au/en/products/framework-desktop-mainboard-amd-ryzen-ai-max-300-series?v=FRAFMK0002

You’re failing to account for the fact that this would seemingly cause more crashes per distance driven…

Pawbably all the splashing about I’d say.

That would still be just as dangerous for other drivers…

I feel like it’s crazy to not research that in advance…

Alright guys, I found Sam Altman’s lemmy account!

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It’s always confused me how USians refer to different congressional periods as happening “under” certain presidents as if they have any actual part to play in the legislative process itself. I live in a country where the head of government is the Prime Minister, whose equivalent would be the House Majority Leader, and actually has a lot to say about the legislative agenda.

Depends on their tastes I guess. Stardew Valley is cheap, you can put hundreds of hours in and it does “couch co-op” off a single PC. It also doesn’t require very good hardware either.

As other people have mentioned, I’m going to recommend 8bitdo! They have quality controllers for super reasonable prices, include niceties like rear paddles for much cheaper than Microsoft or Sony include those, and you can get Xbox clone controllers with or without official branding. Those are both US$70, have bluetooth as well as a 2.4GHz adapter and include a nice looking charging dock for setting up on your TV unit or similar.

Their Pro 2 controller is also great, I’ve had one for three or four years now and can highly recommend it. Though it’s just been replaced with the Pro 3 that like above includes a dock and 2.4GHz adapter. One thing I liked more about the Pro 2 is it has a removable battery pack that you can replace with a couple AA batteries.

This fails to take into account unemployment rates or any other factors that apply pressure to such decision-making. We need legislation that enshrines payment for commute time universally, as it would encourage WFH mandates rather than RTO ones. As well as compensate other workers for their commute. Or perhaps a flat rate of one hour each way’s pay no matter the distance, to stop certain workers finding it harder to get a job.

I wonder if that’s part of why GPT5 feels “less personal” to some users now? Perhaps they’re reinjecting the system prompt during the conversation and that takes away that personalisation somewhat…

First one is just someone with continence issues or IBS that’s in denial.