Summary of the week of September 19, 2022

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Sony enters the SSD business

Sony makes its debut in the SSD field by presenting several PCI 5.0 models from 1 to 4 TB that reach rates of 9500 MB/s in reading and 8500 MB/s in writing.

EVGA breaks with Nvidia

EVGA has decided to break its commercial relationship with Nvidia, according to them, for disrespectful treatment. The manufacturer focused on GPUs developed in Santa Clara, has assured support to all those who have a graphics card under warranty.

How to copy and paste in Linux

Linux has two clipboards. The first is used with the classic combinations ctrl-c and ctrl-v. To copy to the second, you just have to select the text with the mouse. To paste the copy, you click with the middle button.

Nvidia publishes Lovelace prices

In an attempt to keep prices inflated from the golden era of cryptocurrencies, Nvidia has published prices for Lovelace GPUs much higher than the starting prices of their Ampere counterparts.

Nvidia presents DLSS 3.0

DLSS 3.0 generates complete frames and up to 87% of the pixels improving the performance of the previous version. It will only be compatible with the 40 series.

AMD launches the Mendocino APUs

AMD has reused the codename Mendocino (used by Intel to name their Celerons from the late 90s) to designate their APUs based on Ryzen 2 and the Athlon 7020 series.

Firefox 105 available

Firefox 105 comes with improvements in the print dialog and improvements in touchpad gestures. In addition, it now complies with the W3 User Timing L3 standard and has improved the performance of searches in very large lists.

Nvidia doesn't want to lower prices

Nvidia has said that the idea that GPUs will lower in price is a thing of the past. Meanwhile, it has kept the 40 series in storage waiting for the stock of the previous generation to sell.

The effect of grilles on fan noise

In this entry, they have analyzed the effect on noise that the shape of the grille protecting the fan has. The least noisy is not having any type of protection while the noisiest is a turbine pattern.

Gnome 43 available

Version 43 of Gnome is now available. In this version, the migration to GTK 4 continues and it comes with design changes in the system status menu.