desktop GPU sales are the lowest they've been in decades kids these days they
don't know how good they have it yet ironically they seem to have a great
understanding of inflation I'm Riley Murdoch this is techlinked and this is
where the fun begins for nerds who love numerical facts
get excited according to a report from John Petty research GPU
sales are about 13 percent lower than last quarter and down 38 percent from
this time last year but according to science GPU manufacturers should want
number go up not number go down it's
taken us years to find out and that's really where this tension is coming from
shipments of NVIDIA cards have fallen by 15.2 percent while amds have decreased
by 7.5 percent you dropped those shipments pick them back up
these percentages would sound delicious if we were discussing dairy products and
not corporate profits so
here we are there seems to be a shake up in desktop
GPU market share as well milkshake Almighty NVIDIA has fallen from 86 to
merely 84 since the end of last year
while AMD's market share hasn't changed but Intel's has they've suckled the milk
from NVIDIA's two percent teat and doubled their market share rising to the
peak of four percent of the market and while that's not quite in cream
territory it would make for a rich bowl
of Cocoa Puffs
several popular third-party Reddit apps have announced they will be shutting
down due to the site's upcoming API changes Christian selig the creator of
Apollo the iOS Reddit app beloved by anyone who prefers their apps to not
suck but said he would have to pay over 20 million dollars in API fees under the
new rules with very little notice so Apollo was shut down on June 30th the
developers of reddit is fun and sync echoed similar sentiments when they
announced they would shut down as well couldn't hold water at sing let that
sink in on top of being exorbitantly expensive
reddit's new API rules prevent third-party apps from running ads or
even showing not safe for work content which is let's be honest a huge part of
Reddit r slash wolves with watermelons not included I browse that page with my
family every night it's fun for the whole family selig made a long post
describing the situation and his reasoning for shutting down Apollo in
which he also detailed how reddit's CEO Steve Huffman had internally accused him
of blackmailing the company for 10 million dollars what actually happened
as evidenced by Selix transcripts and audio recording of his phone call with
Huffman was that selig jokingly offered
to sell his app to Reddit for what would amount to six months of its API costs
but Hoffman misunderstood this as a threat he's always on edge selig then
clarified it was a joke and Huffman apologized profusely yet apparently
later told others that that it was blackmail selig's joke wasn't very good
but if you want to see a tremendous joke check out today's AMA with Reddit CEO
Steve Huffman someone actually asked him about the accusations and Huffman
replied saying the real problem with selling was how he would communicate
differently privately and publicly naturally selig replied and asked for
receipts Hoffman replied to that and said he must have left him in his pants
when he threw them in the wash then Sally clarified he wasn't talking about
physical paper receipts these guys really need to learn to communicate
better also those last two things we said were a joke we're not blackmailing
you and a leaked Tesla report shows the
Cyber truck had serious design flaws like for example not releasing in 2021
the information is brought To Us by a hundred Gigabyte leak given to German
Outlet which contained a report dated January
25th 2022 that said the pre-production truck struggled with things like body
sealing handling braking and suspension which I believe are things that cars
need to grow up big and strong
the brakes were especially bad earning a poor rating on the Society of Automotive
Engineers rating scale instead of the fair the engineers were hoping for
that's not a lot of Hope is it that's not one called Obi-Wan also the brake
pedal pressure pad was still under design at least a month after the Cyber
truck was supposed to originally release so the alpha model experienced excessive
pedal travel and even inconsistent stop which is something Jacob sometimes
suffers when he starts talking sounds like it was but it's all okay because
Tesla says they will have release candidates for the Cyber truck around
August of this year and you can take that to the bank unlike the 100 cyber
truck deposit you put down almost four years ago that's
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people died Riley don't ask any more questions the organic life form known as
Mark middle name Elliott Zuckerberg Unleashed a hot new diss track about
Apple's recently announced Vision Pro headset during a company-wide meeting on
Thursday according to Elliott our colleague of now well it's smelly it
according to said Elliot Apple didn't demonstrate any major technical
breakthrough that meta hasn't already explored and that there's a real
philosophical difference in how the two companies are approaching VR because
every demo that Apple showed was a
person sitting on a couch by themselves our vision is meta-talking for the
metaverse is fundamentally social it's about people interacting in new ways and
feeling closer in new ways said Mark Zuckerberg a man who pays his employees
to sit at the same table as him during lunch a source alleged The Source was me
just now I heard it too Logitech will be
ending the blue brand dead
the name under which it sells its extremely popular Sona Yeti and snowball
microphones it's a name that has launched a thousand two-man podcast
about weed which is why it's strange that Logitech is actually the brand
that's strong Market the mics aren't going away of course unless you count
most of them blues music and audio recording mics are absent from Logitech
site seemingly only the streamer focused Yeti snowball and blue Sona have been
rolled under the Logitech G brand alongside Astro headsets which will at
least retain the Astro name Logitech G of course standing for Logitech
gangster see it's it's more like it's
more like thank you managers may be using
telemetric data from workplace software to track the productivity of remote
workers even though companies like Microsoft and slack explicitly asked
them not to use the data they give your boss access to and it may only get worse
in the future the UK's information Commissioner's Office issued a report on
neurodata and suggest that workplaces of
the future may use neurotechnology to
track productivity and even as a recruitment tool so get ready to ask
your friend to put his brain in a cup for you it's the only way come on man I
do it for you will I die you know
don't worry about it I drank like three beers last night I need a replacement
brain summer game Fest is in full swing with
the main showcase a day of the devs event and devolver all showing off the
games you'll buy and forget you own for three years
stop why are you buying something among the Hall of announcements from summer
game Fest was Alan Wake 2 Gameplay and a new Star Trek game from Paradox Star
Trek infinite what does it mean it's
infinitely good day of the dev showed off a bunch of titles and even some new
gameplay from hyper light breaker heart machine I like them and devolver showed
off exactly four games one of them is the Talos principle 2 the sequel to one
of my favorite games you're just tailoring this to me and I can sincerely
say that when this game comes out I will neglect my wife and child I do not sign
off on that that's not it's true and the creators of ape out and getting over it
respectively the story of a gorilla-led prison break and a cautionary tale about
the consequences of replacing your legs with a cauldron don't do it are teaming
up on a game called Baby Steps A Very literal walking simulator with a fully
Dynamic onesie soilage system starring
Nate a 35 year old man who lives in his parents basement but is one day
magically transported to a random Cavern in the middle of the woods Barefoot and
in his pajamas he must then embark on a journey of meaning by waddling around
through the Wilderness like a baby with an overlaiden diaper
and I think the main thing is that you control one leg at a time and that's
what makes it funny finally a character we can all relate to and you'll
definitely be able to relate to Monday's Tech news so why not come on back and
say hi I won't hear you but I'll feel it in all of my bones so don't say it too
loud my bones will rattle hi Riley