4 Physical Cores, 4 Virtual running at 4Ghz with 4 Gigabytes of VRAM in a Radeon R9 395X and I’m encoding a 4K video and for some reason, the system is only 30% utilized in CPU and 5% utilized in GPU: Why doesn’t it utilize everything I have? This is a 1st party application on …
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Rants: Amazon, please stop including “Alexa” commands in your commercials
I don’t watch cable TV but my girlfriend does. She uses DirectTV now to watch terrible (I mean god-awful bury me alive now) television shows like elimination contests involving people partially famous 20 years ago….. These shows are loaded with even worst adverts and Amazon is injecting tons of advertisements for their Echo personal assistant …
Rants: The Gizmodo RSS Feed is broken…again
In 2010, I posted to this blog that I was going to stop reading Gizmodo because their RSS feed went to excerpts only. It’s a way for publishers to monetize readers who use RSS feeds. Basically, you’re given an excerpt of the article with a read-more link to see the full thing which takes you …
Technology / Rants: My new $2,000 USD Television has advertisements
Why can’t Apple just make a television????? I had to go through 10 screens to manually opt-out of multiple terms & conditions that I never agreed to initially and then I reset the TV and went through a bunch of hoops and I still can’t get these ads to go away! My girlfriend was wondering …
Technology: Automatic Pro and Lite and a Sub-Par product
I’m pretty upset with how Automatic handled their 2016 product lineup. First, some background: I pre-ordered the Automatic in 2013. I’ve covered the device extensively on this blog both the good and the bad and It think their V2 product made this a mainstream and awesome device. Here’s my past coverage: https://adamchandler.me/blog/2013/09/06/technology-automatic-smart-driving-assistant/ https://adamchandler.me/blog/2015/04/27/tech-the-automatic-link-car-adapter/ https://adamchandler.me/blog/2015/05/19/tech-automatic-car-dongle-version-2-released/ https://adamchandler.me/blog/2015/12/02/my-car-automatic-driving-data/ …