The Fridge

‘We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it’: Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro’s ‘freakishly good battery life’

As a fan of gaming on the go—whether that be handhelds or yearning for the good old days when my ancient gaming laptop actually worked—I can tell you that the spectre of ‘low battery’ haunts me. So when modular laptop aficionados Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro earlier this week, touting both its battery life…

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“A Lottery” – Be Careful When Ordering Wii USB-C Power Adapters

“Not recommended”. Modern technology brings a host of advantages, and that applies equally to retro gaming. We’ve seen vintage systems retrofitted with HDMI output, optical drive replacements, and wireless controllers – all things that simply wouldn’t have been possible when these consoles were brand-new products. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Not recommended”. Modern technology…

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Former head of FSR development at AMD posts ‘big trouble’ meme when asked why the company won’t release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs

Here’s a fun one for fans of conspiracy theories. The former lead of AMD’s FSR upscaling technology, including the first version of FSR 4, has implied he won’t talk about the company’s reasoning behind not releasing the technology for older GPUs for fear of getting in trouble. In response to a query over AMD’s failure…

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Seagate FireCuda X Vault review

Even though SSDs have been around for years, steadily improving in speed, reliability, and capacity, the good old hard disk drive is still worth considering for your gaming PC. That’s because when it comes to outright storage per buck, there’s nothing that beats an HDD. And in the current situation where DRAM and flash memory…

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