GPU power connectors run at very very low voltages - just 12V. And you need to have ridiculously beefy connectors and wires to run high loads at 12V. At 48V you can have 4x more power with the same wire (if insulation is rated for 48V).

Most OLED HDR TVs peak at over 300W.

S&S are going down and you’re selling, money markets are going up and you’re buying. You’re literally doing the opposite of what you want, lol.

You’re doing the exact opposite.

The only one losing money is you.

Smart people don’t sell stocks and shares when markets crash. They buy instead.

That’s the dumbest advice ever! That’s how you lose all your money. Recession is the perfect time to buy even more stocks and shares. Don’t get out, get in!

You can’t say anything is 100% with a chaotic and erratic president. There’s always a chance that Trump will undo everything next week and things will stabilise for a short while. That chance might be very low, but it effectively invalidates 100% prediction.

Pretty serious. Recessions affect different layers of the economy at different times. First markets crash, but your income and job security stays the same. Then markets plateau, but workers start losing jobs. Finally, markets start to grow again, but you’re still living under the bridge.

If you’re not a billionaire, this is the best time to invest - you still have a job, but markets are going down rapidly. You won’t have cash later on.

That looks an awful lot like a pandemic mini crash. If you invest in ETF right now, you’ll make shit loads of money out of thin air next year.

People like eating shit and drinking piss. Every fermented food and drink, be it bread or beer, is full of bacteria and yeast shit and piss. Somehow humans find microbe excrements very tasty.

Just like Lemmy admins do!

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I’m talking about regular smart/fitness/sport watches: VivoActive, Venu, Forerunner, Fenix, etc. None of them are dive watches, but they all have the exact same hardware feature set. Battery size and screen resolution are dictated by the watch size and apart from physical dimensions they all are exactly the same.

P.S. My very personal issue is with Forerunner series. 265 has the screen size I want, but 965 has additional MTB sports I need. Sports and watch size are the only fucking difference! Even if I don’t care about the price, I can’t have the watch I want, because Garmin decided to show me a middle finger.

As for apps, Garmin store has some useful apps, which show additional data, and additional sport types, etc, but Garmin shop itself is a bloody cancer. If you want to buy something, most developers opt for a separate PayPal payment or bank transfer, then you need to wait for them to mail you a licence, etc. It’s just a cumbersome piece of shit, which leaves you open to scams, etc.

one model for everything would be quite expensive though given all the extra sensors, better displays, solar charging and stuff the higher end ones have yeah?

That’s the problem with Garmin - it won’t be more expensive. If we ignore optional gimmicks like solar charging, then there are no real hardware differences between VivoActive 5 and Fenix 8 apart from the barometer, which was present in even cheaper VivoActive 3. Depth sensor, for example, is just a software feature of a barometer (you need to calculate depth and altitude differently from the same data).

Garmin is selling software features packaged as different hardware SKUs and charging up to 4x more depending on a feature set. Their product range is extremely large with multiple product families divided into multiple physical products, which all are essentially the same piece of hardware. And today their range is actually more streamlined than it was before.

This is a stark contrast to Apple, for example, where you have one bloody watch and that’s it. Yes, you have different physical sizes to fit different people, you have different materials and finishes to choose from, but when you’re buying an iWatch you’re getting all the features no matter which screen size and arm band you choose.

Garmin should realistically only have two lines of watches - base model which has everything Fenix 8 has for £250-300 to compete with iWatch and advanced model with solar and other gimmicks no one cares about for £650-800 to compete with iWatch Ultra. That’s all.

Garmin is not trying to compete, but Apple and Samsung came and took the market by storm.

I don’t want them to add anything, I want them to switch from making a thousand models and selling software features as hardware revisions to making one model which can go do everything and to have a proper app store instead of a joke they have right now.