No. They paused the tariffs that were in response to the ongoing steel and aluminum tariffs when Trump lowered the “lib day” tariffs from 20% to 10%.

steam hardware survey shows 17% AMD and 8% Intel

The assumption was that nobody used win8 lol

But again I think people who grew up with 10/11 are more likely to use the windows store than you think. They used an iPad before they got a chromebook before they got a windows computer. My little cousins don’t play minecraft Java, they play minecraft bedrock. I don’t think they know what VLC is.

Ok fair, last time I used windows you had to install gpu drivers manually. I think you still are recommended to do so, since the windows ones are really old.

But yeah manual driver installation/specialized distros for Nvidia is a problem that’s in the process of getting fixed with NVK, Nova, and the official drivers. Intel and AMD are there already.

I would rather have one extra manual step like that than dealing with/paying for Windows 11

Yeah I think in the future, we’ll figure out how to make NixOS configuration modular enough to be viable for laymen, but Linux Mint works well enough for Windows refugees.

Linux mint has an app store like Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

I think it supports flathub, which has every app you could need, but I haven’t checked since I run a very customized NixOS.

People don’t really download .exes anymore, it’s just people who are used to windows 7 and earlier who still do that.

Pre-installed Nvidia drivers will likely be fixed in the next two years, but:

1. You’ll have zero driver issues if you use an Nvidia compatible distro like PopOS or Nobara

B. The 25% of gamers not using Nvidia GPUs do not have driver issues on Linux

III. Windows has tons of driver issues, so I’m not sure why Linux Nvidia drivers are a significant detail here. We don’t expect little Jimmy to know to install drivers, and know what to do when windows update fucks your drivers randomly. Linux actually soves those issues for you.

That’s a weird way to spell Linux Mint

Who made the graphic?

Check out this website for information about multiplayer games on Linux:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

There’s only about 700 games that have broken anticheat and Hunt: Showdown’s anticheat system officially supports running on Linux.

5380 USD here. About a quarter of that was my steam deck and my Index. About 250 USD a year on average spent on just games then 🤔

In terms of industrial applications, the abstract states

We have realized all-optical wavelength conversion for a more than 200-nm-wide wavelength span at 100 Gbit s−1 without amplifying the signal and idler waves. As the 32-GBd 16-QAM is the dominant modulation format of current optical-fibre communication systems connecting the continents on Earth, the Si3N4-chip high-efficiency wavelength conversion demonstrated has a bright future in the all-optical reconfiguration of global WDM optical networks by unlocking transmission beyond the C and L bands of optical fibres and increasing the capacity of optical neuromorphic computing for artificial intelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08824-3

From the abstract: “we obtained a continuous-wave gain bandwidth of 330 nm in the near-infrared regime. […] Furthermore, we realized wide all-optical wavelength conversion of single-wavelength signals beyond 100 Gbit s−1 without amplifying the signal and idler wave.”

Here is the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08824-3

I think figure 4 from the PDF shows it the best. Their amplifier covers 1400 nm to 1700 nm infrared lasers.

Yes, but natural gas is a more potent greenhouse gas than co2 and there are continuous natural gas leaks. All the CO2 savings (vs coal) from each KwH of burned natural gas is completely negated by all the leaks on the way to the consumer. Note that most oil companies are very bad at reporting leaks, we basically have to measure them manually from satellites to know about them.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-does-natural-gas-contribute-climate-change-through-co2-emissions-when-fuel-burned

Never said electrification was a bad thing, just natural gas. Instead of building new natural gas plants and patting ourselves on the back for it not being coal, we should just build more renewables.

Natural gas electricity contributes more greenhouse gasses per kwh than coal though. The PRC also has lower co2 emissions per capita.

35% Tarriffs on eu/Asia and 104% Tarriffs on China is still a recession. Other countries arent removing their Tarriffs

The only positive thing this did was show that Trump is weak, so hopefully he’ll stay at these rates and maybe he’ll be out by the end of the year

SFP is the modern standard for pluggable laser modules. RJ45 sfp modules exist, but only for 1G and 10G. There’s also DAC cables for sfp, but those are limited to 2-3m, and the point was to focus on the benefits of fiber. Maybe the economies of scale necessitate some modern silicon photonics like a fiber on package option, but then you have repairability issues.

The minimum bend radius is mostly because of complete internal reflection, fiber is very flexible, and it’s not really possible to break an armored fiber cable by hand. You do have to worry about dust on the ends, though.

Toslink is cool, but it’s a very low bandwidth standard, less than 1gbit. You need proper glass fiber and lasers for high bandwidth.

Tell Russia that, the EU never turned them off or stopped ordering. It was Russia who turned them off to try to bully the EU.

yeah, I guess tvs and receivers would come with active optical cables to make it simpler, but the main thing is that optical is much cheaper and faster than copper once you get the economies of scale down on the transceivers. 1 terabit over 100km, down a cable thinner than a USB cable, is no problem with the right lasers. Meanwhile, I have interference and patent issues at 0.02tbps on hdmi cables less than a meter long.

Plenty of cheap optical HDMI cables out there, but they have compatibility issues. It would be so much easier with standard mmf mpo or SMF lc cables.

apalrd did review a unique product recently that embeds a mmf transceiver into the existing HDMI for factor, though.

https://youtu.be/1aIK01S5qa4

Imagine putting out a new high bandwidth cable standard in 2025 based on copper.

The sooner display and networking move to SFP, the better.