So got the x-ray installed, was looking to leave work early on a Friday, but got involved in some catch-up when my collegue comes to me and asks if I can work tomorrow to help out because a piece of equipment broke and put production behind a full day. (Don't ask any follow-up questions, I cannot answer them).

So I called the Motel with no vegan options (because other than the restaurant it's a nice place and convenient to the food/ liquor stores I frequent when I am in this city.

Did I mention it is a slow news day?


Any way checked in and made small talk with one of the owners, who was in the process of changing the menu... so I asked, any interest in some vegetarian items?  She listed off two generic items (vegetable soup and chopped vegetables). But she did ask for some suggestions, which I agreed to provide by e-mail, which I will. It is a large motel but ultimately owned by this couple and based on our conversation, they are innocently clueless as to what a vegetarian is ("Do you eat fish or are you a strict vegatarian?") so I figure I can help them out.

Did I mention it was a slow news day?

aspro said:

So in Australia, there is a LOT of trash TV that is brilliantly produced. I watch none of it, but you can see from the ads it is crack cocaine for certain demographics. Farmer Wants a Wife. Is this a thing elsewhere? Sort of bachellor but specific to a mode of occupation. In a world of woke cancel culture (which I think is on the decline) would this be acceptable anywhere? Consider the alternatives:



School Bus Driver Wants a Wife



Catholic Priest Wants a Wife



Drunk Trans Wants a Wife


IT Worker Wants a Wife

I believe that's already a show.

gamingeek said:

There was a farmer wife program here a few years back. It's hard for them to date normally.

Because they always smell like manure.

And don't forget it's kinkier counterpart OnlyFarmers.com for all you dirty piggies.

No one bought Tinykin yet?

Archangel3371 said:

gamingeek said:

No one bought Tinykin yet?

What’s a Tinykin?

Mini Pikmin

So if haven't heard, there's this YouTuber with Nvidia contacts who seems reliable. He's been leaking Nintendo switch 2 tech details recently where he normally does PC video cards. He did a PS5 Pro video recently too.

So on Switch 2 on the fabrication node its 8nm Samsung. Apparently it was the perfect choice for them. The smaller node was an option but there's a lot of competition from other companies to produce tech on that node. So the prices can surge depending on demand. Apparently the production method for these is also not as reliable, so you have a lot of discarded wafers that have to be junked. He also says that if they went with the smaller node, it's a misconception that it would be more powerful than 8nm. He said that if it was 5nm it would have less shader cores and Nintendo would simply run the clocks higher.

He also said the design goal was for it to run games on a 4ktv without it looking bad.

And that the goal was that it could do 4k at 30fps of major third party games (using DLSS)

To back this up He posted links to an equivalent gpu running games at 4k using DLSS.

He said the power would be better than steam deck, graphically, image quality, texture resolution etc. But with lower framerates as the cpu was worse than steam deck.

Docked he said it would come near to the Xbox Series S.

In his opinion, he said that if the system was to be future proofed it needed 12gb RAM. He said that's what developers needed to look at it as viable for future support.