There may be Windows only solutions to folder password protection (the one I remember is from 20 years ago lol), but they are unlikely to be cross platform.

Of the top of my head the only thing that would work in a cross platform manner are password protected archives.

You could argue the same about the initial transition from hardware keypad phones to slab style touch screen phones.

I am not saying foldables will without doubt become mainstream, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

$12 million is nothing for them.

Full asset seizure (home, car, every last cent) and at least 10 years mandatory live-in community service de-mining work for executives would be far more effective.

Yes, A sounds far more neutral.

B is borderline misinformation as there was nothing in their own article to backs up the "make U.S. less dependent on China".

Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.

Blow words from Huang.

It's difficult to track the ever changing US tarrif landscape, I thought restriction were removed by Trump after a bribe structured as a million dollar payment for "lunch".

A bit of a tangent, but Tom's Hardware ran an A/B test for their headline with the following options:

A: WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China.

B: This HDD recycling process could make U.S. less dependent on China.

I get the point of A/B testing, but this is an example where as a media organization you have to pick whether you believe in A or B. If you are into technology, you can make a solid argument that A and B are extremely different.

Also depends on your taste in gaming. More niche games and some retro games can be really hit or miss. But I do agree that in the last ~5 years there has been a revolution in gaming on Linux.

I am not arguing for or against a given form factor, I personally like big screens, but I would only be happy for there to be offerings and more competition.

I am just saying that it's not completely unreasonable to speculate that in the future almost all smartphone will use the foldable format.

I still have to move away from Windows (by far the biggest issue due to line of business applications and gaming) and Android with Google.

I have experience with Linux via a headless Raspberry Pi home server, but desktop/laptop is whole different level of complexity.

I would argue there is also a national component to this. Huawei, a leading Chines tech company (heavily sanctioned by the US), was first to bring a trifold to the market.

I think in 5-10 years foldables will have a strong market presence.

Remember "phablets"; almost all smartphones eventually turned into phablets.

I believe the enterprise variant of HP is doing fine (it's a separate company that was split out from a common HP, but they are still called Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

But pricing is the big challenge today. NVIDIA says that this card has an MSRP of $430, with the 8GB variant at $380 and RTX 5060 non-Ti at $300, launching in May.

These numbers don't look right at all. I will speculate that even in the US (I live in Europe), you won't be able to find the products at those type of list prices.

We’ve provided the benchmark numbers above. At the very least, you have the data you need to figure out if an upgrade makes sense for you. This is going to be one where we withhold full value judgment until it properly launches because we do not trust the MSRP to persist for the majority of purchasers.

It certainly isn’t going to 50x a GTX 1060, though.

An excellent conclusion by GN.

This is primarily driven by customer demand from clients such as Nvidia and AMD rather than in response to the threat of tariffs, according to TSMC.

The company said it had not yet decided whether future advanced process nodes such as its A14 (1.4nm) and A10 (1nm) technologies would also be put into operation in its US facilities.

The second point directly contradicts the first point. If the expansion in the US was driven by demand, then one would think building out future nodes in the US would also be subject to the same dynamic.

$4 M is nothing. It would be far more effective to target the executives who implemented this scheme. No one is going to risk getting assigned to 10 years mandatory community service as a live-in junior janitor at a infectious disease institution for a slightly bigger bonus.

Let's just hope that this has a noticeable impact on the hyperscale CSPs bottom lines in 4-6 quarters. Europe has a very a very bad habit of kicking the can down the road and not rocking the boat. Now is not the time for such meekness.

If you don't live in the US, you're asking for trouble if you use American tech. Doesn't matter if the provider is sane or not, they are still subject to the whims of a proto-facist regime. But even beyond the regime, the American business community is extremely corrupt. They might not see it as corruption (corruption is what happens in some shithole), but that's just an excuse.

And with all due respect to sane Americans, unless there is a massive change in their risk tolerance, it is unlikely there will be any movement away from proto-facism in the short to medium term.

Things aren't going to magically sort themselves out.

Flash drive-based vendor Pure Storage has a different point of view, as you might expect. It takes a system-level view rather than per-drive. Pure suggests that, for a 1 exabyte deployment over ten years with a five-year life cycle for the HDDs and a ten-year life cycle for DirectFlash Modules, it finds that the HDD system emits 107,984 metric tons of carbon whereas a Pure-based system emits 14,779 tons.

Their "findings" are almost diametrically opposed to the "research" from Seagate.

Apologies, I wasn't very clear.

Yes, as it stands today it's not even close to a viable solution. From what I've read a year or two ago, the price is astronomical.

I meant what I said in a more hypothetical way.

We are thrilled to report that running the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with PCI-Express 4.0 x8 has an insignificant impact on performance. Averaged across all game tests, we see a 2% drop in FPS at 1080p, and an even smaller 1% drop at 1440p. While not exactly relevant to this GPU, even 4K Ultra HD posts only a 1% drop in performance with PCIe Gen 4 x8.

There is basically no difference with using PCIe 4.0. 1-2% is likely unnoticeable in real life. That's what I've been hearing/reading in the last few years; the PCIe isn't really a bottleneck for dGPUs for consumers.

Even with PCIe 3.0, techpowerup are seeing a mere ~4% decrease in performance.