We had a little walk at Coline Candos where we discovered some unique plants in Mauritius.
Can you identify this fruit?
It’s a unique fruit of Mauritius. Still can’t guess? Let’s zoom in a bit.
Ahan! It’s a Blue Marlin fruit.
So, what colour does this fruit become when it’s ripe and falls to the ground? Can you guess?
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Do you know this colour? Share with your friends to see if they know it too!
2020 is kinda exciting year for computer hardware. AMD has been killing it.
But would I recommend an AMD for a laptop? Hmm, I’ve been looking at eGPU systems lately. It does require a thunderbolt port to work with. Unfortunately thunderbolt is an Intel exclusive technology for now. You will thus not be able to use your ultra light AMD laptop as a real gaming monster. I don’t know if USB4 works with eGPUs. Anyways, always confirm that your Intel laptop does have a thunderbolt port. My Asus Zenbook has no thunderbolt.
On the GPU side, the 6900XT seems to be on par with the RTX 3090. But most machine learning libraries such as tensorflow are optimised to be running on CUDA/nvidia. I hope the machine learning community start using AMD GPUs as well. Maybe it is AMD which is keeping some APIs close or something. But I hope machine learning takes on AMD GPUs as well. It’ll be awesome.
Will I be able to afford all these techs? I don’t think i’ll be building a PC anytime soon as I don’t have the money and space in my house to be able to get a huge TV for entertainment.
I was going to activate my NVIDIA 940MX to play some Tomb Raider when I saw that nvidia-settings has a new option: on-demand.
Activating the option allows you to run only selected applications on the discrete GPU. How to activate that on Steam?
Let’s take an example of Tomb Raider:
Step 1: Open steam and go to Library
Step 2: Go on game settings:
Step 3: Set launch option as follows:
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%
And voila! Next time you open the game, it’ll run on your discrete GPU. You can check it with nvidia-smi
Ship-wrecked on our shores
Governed by dinosaurs
Knight in shining armour
The sheep got a voice
3820 gave you their support
The Dinosaurs heard your roar!
No one thought you could be bought
Lo! Dinosaurs got themselves a knight-shepherd
Sheep are giving away their wool to have the oil soaked
Meanwhile The Dinosaurs are after the insurance money…
The box doesn’t feel cheap at all. When you open the box, you get the Bluetooth headphones first. Underneath, you’ll find a micro-usb cable, aux cable and a manual thrown in.
The bass isn’t impressive in any way but I find it adequate. I’d say it’s very balanced and does it’s job.
Oh dear it sucks. Everyone complained about a loud static noise in the mic during remote work meetings. But they could understand when I talk though. Weird.
First time wearing your headset is a real pain as it really presses on your head. I tried to stretch my previous Bluedio headset by hands and that’s how I broke it. I stretch the AWEI headset using its box itself everyday for 2 weeks before it became somewhat comfortable.
For the price of Rs 1500 in Mauritius (saw it being sold at Rs 1000 too), I think it’s an okay headset. Not great but also not bad. In times where international ecommerce websites are slow to ship, I’m okay with it.