That’s not even remotely true. You can be as far as 3.5 feet from a 27in monitor for 4K. The resolution becomes useless when going to 8k. The real argument is that graphically games don’t come close to saturating 4K resolution, so the gains from 1440 to 4K are not as significant as they should be.

Haven’t for some time, I’ve got a CX and it is missing there too. It’s really fucking annoying using it with Plex. Having to transcode 4K streams kind of sucks for power usage on my server (no graphics card) and buffers time to time.

Ah, the beginners you mean lol I’ve always paid more attention to surround and audio than picture quality in the tv room. Finally upgraded so they’re equivalent

There are satellites that use IR sensing to locate potential wildfires. NASA has their MODIS and VIIRS satellites, however because they must orbit, detection may be delayed by a few hours. The resolution is also limited to about 0.5 km.

Sounds interesting. Although, this is the same idea as Smokey The Bear which is part of the reason we have mega-fires now. If we put out all the smaller natural fires, you don’t have control of the underbrush, causing higher density of flora, allowing fires to spread more easily.

They have buttons on computers now

It’s a smoke detecting nose on Dolph Lundgren’s baahhhhddyyyyy!

Reinventing the wheel here

Mini-Fit does not melt at 100W unless significantly damaged. Molex's own spec for eight circuits onto a PCB is 10A per circuit at 16AWG (120W) for 30C temperature rise over ambient. You could run 360W on 3+3 pins before you even brush up against the safety margins which, again, are given with a third more heat since they assume all eight circuits are carrying load. Conversely, I've seen cards with two 8p connections burn one up at under 200W loading, because the receptacle was bent and didn't make proper contact.

I see what you pulled out of your nose there.

Sorry, we only have that kind of money for war

“Electronic Nose” like we’re rolling chicken bones here.

A smoke detector with telemetry.

Oh a smoke smeller, yeah that's completely different

Keep your government electric noses off of my trees!

No it smells smoke no detecting is involved

Love mine, no issues. Does wonders for VR simulation and pegging everything else at 144hz at 1440p.

It’s not THAT MUCH overspecified .. stable limit is somewhere 75w per rail (210w per 8p rail ) . With 100w (300w per rail ) even old 8p melted . Now imagine - they shrinked contact area for 1/2 of old 8pin connector.. and said - 100w per rail and 600w per connector- guaranteed 🤣

Yea I’m in the same boat. External AVR + sound processing. Folks who rely on ARC from the set might care tho

How many million of these would you need to setup? Why can’t we just have more Angelina Jolie’s sitting in a tower. Case closed.

It had me wondering if thermal satellite imagery was a real thing? Or is that just drones in spy movies?

Mini-Fit is so insanely overspecified for the requirements of a PCIe unit load (which is why PSU manufacturers can offer Y-cables that use the same physical connector for two unit loads without issue) that it could have worked. The problem is they went entirely the other way and ran the Micro-Fit connector as close to the edge as they possibly could, then sold people adapters that introduce design elements not considered when Molex designed the thing. What they should have done is just shrink the PCIe 8p connector to Micro-Fit and take the opportunity to repurpose the wasted main pins from compatibility with the 6p, so that it would have an actual 4+4 power pins. You'd get a 30% reduction in size from the switch from 4.2mm to 3.0mm pitch and a 30% increase in power from using the fourth pin, for a total of 80% increase in power density and still tons of headroom for unknowns. At that point, the area occupied by the connectors would be no issue at all. But they decided to go for that 270% instead, and here we are.

Oh dang, I think I may have a Cobalt leak in my house.

Some kind of… electronic nose than can find or detect smoke in case of emergencies.

True, but no consumer is purchasing that unless you are in the top 1% literally.

Switching from my old, cheaper 4k to the C1 was almost like switching from CRT to an HDTV for the first time.

It's CO, not Co. Co is Cobalt