TheLostSwedeYeah? You go tell that to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, the US, Canada and all the West Indian islands and all other nations that speak English.
It's not a single language and most likely never has been. When I moved to the UK many moons ago, I had no idea what they were selling down the local market. I thought I understood English, but I've met so many people that I have struggled to understand, yet to them, their native language was English.

There is obviously a difference between what's called dialect and local changes, and outward-facing communication and I'm obviously talking about the latter because that is what we see on TPU and in ads. Those local changes to a language simply do not work well outside their native country.

Our stance on the Chinglish and other twisted English therefore isn't so strange. It doesn't work, because communication gets distorted, and yes, it deserves to be ridiculed - do better. Simple. That is the social discourse in an internet-based world, we troll each other into the ground to improve these days, or we cooperate to improve, and we lean towards best practices over local interpretations - even the Taiwanese surely have started at an Oxford Dictionary of some sort, to develop their education, and if they haven't, well GG. The snowflake approach of 'you're all right, and there is no problem' is never a good path. It leads to laziness, and more and more errors, until we really stop understanding each other and my grass is your sky; or even worse, we start detecting a rising % of illiteracy in countries, see below. Its really worrying. Education is everything - and it should indeed strive to unify the type of English being taught as much as possible. Especially in a world carried by digital, international communication.

edtrust.org/blog/the-literacy-crisis-in-the-u-s-is-deeply-concerning-and-totally-preventable/

We can observe the facts, but we can still have an opinion and stance on what is considered 'good' in language use and communication. In the end, the whole point of it is that we understand each other, and keep doing so.

@Vayra86
whats worse is ppl introducing english words into their language, acting they dont have words for things like "whats up/cool/boyfriend/burger..".

for a weeks was driving a car from a friend at just listened to local stations already saved, and in a short conversation, a guy at least in his mid 30s
used so many english words, not the translation or even the (common) german word you would use, sounding more like someone reading from an online translator,
rather than someone with proper education.

kapone32That makes no sense the other CCD is 700 mhz faster than the X3D cores on Dual CCD X3D chips. That is not slow.

That feature is made for gaming and for that specific use the CCD having the X3D in it is much faster in >90% of the games no matter the clock decrease.

By far the most important BIOS setting on any modern motherboard from the tier-one vendors is one that never used to exist; It's the setting that prevents the automatic installation of vendor bloatware once you get into Windows.

I have been using PCs for 30+ years and I have never, ever experienced motherboard software that isn't genuinely awful, useless, malware.

Vayra86There is obviously a difference between what's called dialect and local changes, and outward-facing communication and I'm obviously talking about the latter because that is what we see on TPU and in ads. Those local changes to a language simply do not work well outside their native country.

Yeah, no, those "dialects" as you call it, is exactly what's being used in outside communications in those countries. I think you're vastly overestimating how the real world works.

Vayra86Our stance on the Chinglish and other twisted English therefore isn't so strange. It doesn't work, because communication gets distorted, and yes, it deserves to be ridiculed - do better. Simple. That is the social discourse in an internet-based world, we troll each other into the ground to improve these days, or we cooperate to improve, and we lean towards best practices over local interpretations - even the Taiwanese surely have started at an Oxford Dictionary of some sort, to develop their education, and if they haven't, well GG. The snowflake approach of 'you're all right, and there is no problem' is never a good path. It leads to laziness, and more and more errors, until we really stop understanding each other and my grass is your sky; or even worse, we start detecting a rising % of illiteracy in countries, see below. Its really worrying. Education is everything - and it should indeed strive to unify the type of English being taught as much as possible. Especially in a world carried by digital, international communication.

Chinglish is something else though, as that is some terrible mix and not proper English. I don't see any of that in this press release, although Gigabyte has been know to use chinglish in the past, but they've stepped up their game in their PR in the past couple of years. I have been one of many people that have been bugging Taiwanese companies to improve their English in things like press releases, but alas, most of the time, they simply do not care. As already pointed out, they've been running successful businesses for 40+ years, so why change the way they're doing things?

This is the most popular translation tool in Taiwan...
yun.dreye.com/ews/index_dict.php
www.dreye.com/en/
It has all kinds of issues from what I can tell, but it's the one preferred by most people in Taiwan based on my experience.

I have as I said, never defended the bad English, I have in fact suggested a lot of companies should hire experienced English teachers in Taiwan, as their copy editors, but apparently you can pay a local that studied in the US (or some other English speaking country) less, than a foreigner, so they go that route instead...

You and I are both from countries that have a much better than average English language level, just go to France or Germany and it's impossible to manage on just English. This applies to most of the world, so we're actually in the minority here. However, recently the new here in Sweden has picked up on the fact that 1/10 boys that finish 9th grade are unable to read properly, which is quite scary and an even higher percentage of people finishing school here are unable to read longer pieces of text and find it unimportant. We're really hurtling towards Idiocracy at an incredible pace.

Vayra86edtrust.org/blog/the-literacy-crisis-in-the-u-s-is-deeply-concerning-and-totally-preventable/

We can observe the facts, but we can still have an opinion and stance on what is considered 'good' in language use and communication. In the end, the whole point of it is that we understand each other, and keep doing so.

I still don't see the issue with this press release, apart from the choice of the word snatch, but the slang meaning of the word, is still not how most people use.

Chrispy_By far the most important BIOS setting on any modern motherboard from the tier-one vendors is one that never used to exist; It's the setting that prevents the automatic installation of vendor bloatware once you get into Windows.

I have been using PCs for 30+ years and I have never, ever experienced motherboard software that isn't genuinely awful, useless, malware.

Good thing that is just a UEFI toggle on Gigabyte boards then. Very easy to disable on first boot.

TheLostSwedeGood thing that is just a UEFI toggle on Gigabyte boards then. Very easy to disable on first boot.

It's not as easy or obvious as it needs to be for a shady, rootkit-like piece of advertising and data-harvesting software that's barely disguised as a "driver", IMO. They don't even try to disguise it any more!

For a start, it's never shown on the EZ-BIOS that every vendor starts with, you have to go into the advanced UEFI page to find it. It's also not even anywhere obvious there, it's often hidden under Advanced OS options, or boot options. Asus probably have the least bad offering, it's simply under Tools in the advanced UEFI menu. Gigabyte have the worst, its' EZ-BIOS > Advanced BIOS > Settings > Advanced > IO Ports. Yeah, they didn't want you to find it, and IMO it has very little to do with IO ports.

Opt-in is better than opt-out. Everyone knows that, especially when data collection and telemetry is involved - but that's why they try to smuggle it through in an opt-out, obscurely-hidden menu item. The people who least need these vendor shitware infections are the ones who are most likely to use the EZ-BIOS.

Chrispy_By far the most important BIOS setting on any modern motherboard from the tier-one vendors is one that never used to exist; It's the setting that prevents the automatic installation of vendor bloatware once you get into Windows.

ASUS Armory Crate - downloads and runs itself. What else do you want as a binary which download itself and executes itself on windows 11 pro 24h2. It's very nice when ASUS armory crate had security issues several times. MSI was in the same boat.

When ASUS has a broken firmware for ~2 years in their mainboard and windows 11 pro 24h2 needs tpm - the user is enforced to update the firmware / uefi of the mainboard again. Than tpm works but the malware gets installed by starting up windows and running the windows update. I do forget sometimes to disable ASUS Armory Crate after an uefi update.

Chrispy_Opt-in is better than opt-out. Everyone knows that, especially when data collection and telemetry is involved - but that's why they try to smuggle it through in an opt-out, obscurely-hidden menu item. The people who least need these vendor shitware infections are the ones who are most likely to use the EZ-BIOS.

For sure, but this is meant to "help" inexperienced people though, so...

TheLostSwedeFor sure, but this is meant to "help" inexperienced people though, so...

That's one interpretation, but on the flipside, con-artists always go after the easiest targets.

I've been familiar with AI Snatch for a while now.

Stuff like this should be benchmarked

Chrispy_That's one interpretation, but on the flipside, con-artists always go after the easiest targets.

Well, I didn't say it was a good solution...

TheLostSwedeWell, I didn't say it was a good solution...

It's a solution :P

As in past stories about Aorus' Snatch on here, I felt compelled to add my two cents (blame it on the snatch. The power of snatch compels me!).....

Big Mean Birb Snatch. That is all.

(I say birb because the Aorus mascot is supposed to be a falcon or hawk of some kind. So, big mean birb.)

The slow creep of AI convenience... I don't like where this is going. :shadedshu:

Seriously, they did this just for the "average" PC gamer & not enthusiasts who will dig into the bios & enable or not enable, certain settings for improved gaming performance with or without X3D processors.

Those bios settings are just a few here & not a lot, but there will always be those who are afraid to venture into the bios & figure things out or look them up online, so this AI feature obviously does the thinking for them & it's claimed the data that the AI uses is based on a broad range of datasets; did it take into account silicon quality with memory ICs & CPUs? I'm not so sure about those 2 as its very much a lottery for the end consumer in what they ultimately end up with in regards to OC potential & stability.

”Aorus AI Snatch”…

Giggles…

Thank you, Gigabyte! Don’t ever change it!

All the software from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI is straight up malware.

Gonna need some VR to play with this?

freeagentGonna need some VR to play with this?

Haptic undies?