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With 1000hz monitors now being closer to reality than ever, I was wondering, if any of you here can get 1000 fps average in any game on your Snapdragon devices?

Doesn't matter which game, can be as lightweight and old as you want, but seeing 1000 fps on the fps counter, no matter how low the settings and resolution, should be the goal for Windows 11 ARM gaming, instead of only testing GPU/iGPU limited scenarios all the time, and cause the X2 Elite Extreme chip has the fastest single core speed of any Windows cpu ever, no x86 is faster, ignoring overclocking.

I will test all the games I can, again, on my Asus Zenbook A16 with the Exteme chip, and try to achieve this, but please, feel free to contribute as well, and try hitting 1000 fps in games like minecraft, WoW, whatever :)

Just arrived in Trondheim in Norway, and they seem to only have a single short tram line.

How would ya'll expand the network, and why?

Just thinking there's a lot of potential to connect major dedtinations like the central station, the massive cathedral, and other places.

Air travel is getting high-speed Starlink internet everywhere now.

Why are trains still stuck in the slow lane?

Are you seeing any actual progress on real-time connectivity where you live?

DSB will officially take over all rail operations in Central/West Jutland and the Svendborg line from GoCollective starting Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. This transition follows a long-discussed plan by former Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen (V), but the process was accelerated by an urgent financial crisis at GoCollective Rail, which faced imminent bankruptcy.

The Ministry of Transport revealed that GoCollective was unable to cover expenses of approximately 100 million DKK due this coming Monday, June 29th. An independent auditor's review confirmed the company's insolvency, which threatened a complete cessation of rail traffic. To prevent this, a supplementary contract was signed today; GoCollective's original contract, set to expire in 2028, will terminate at the end of August, with the state providing an additional 30 million DKK per month for July and August to ensure continued operations.

GoCollective’s owner, the private equity firm Mutares, has provided financial guarantees, and DSB will withhold 10% of the payment for the acquired rolling stock as further security. Additionally, the state will receive a share of the proceeds when Mutares eventually sells GoCollective’s bus business.

DSB will purchase 59 Alstom Lint and Siemens Desiro trainsets for 479 million DKK, based on an independent valuation. The fleet includes 29 Lint sets from 2004, 12 from 2010, and 2 from 2012, alongside 16 Desiro units from 2002 and 2010. Nine of these units (Lint 1004, 1005, 1015, 1020, 1023, 1026 and Desiro 3065, 3069, 3071) are being handed over immediately, though they are currently not in operating condition.

Operations will be moved to a new DSB subsidiary based in Silkeborg, occupying the current GoCollective Rail headquarters. All GoCollective employees will be transferred to DSB as part of a business transfer.

GoCollective attributes their financial failure to post-pandemic passenger levels remaining significantly below original contractual forecasts. As the contract was a "net contract" where the operator assumes the risk for fluctuating ticket revenue—unlike typical Danish bus contracts—the operator was left vulnerable to the decline in ridership and other unfavorable economic factors.

Transport Minister Signe Munk (SF) emphasized that this agreement secures the thousands of daily passengers against chaotic service disruptions. While the deal requires final approval from the Finance Committee, the immediate purchase of the nine units and the bridge funding for July and August are locked in to ensure stability.

I am exhausted by the quiet acceptance that living in a rental apartment means I must suffer through dangerous indoor temperatures whenever the seasons shift. I have spent far too much time navigating the legal grey zones of "habitable housing" while my own health and safety are compromised by the total lack of integrated, professional climate control in my home. I am tired of the industry and policymakers acting as if a healthy indoor temperature is a luxury add-on rather than a non-negotiable requirement for a basic, dignified standard of living.

I have looked into the conventions governing our rights, and it is infuriating how clearly this is addressed while being systematically ignored by landlords and housing authorities. The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is explicit about the right to an "adequate standard of living," which includes a dwelling that is truly habitable and protects residents from health-threatening heat and cold. I am not asking for a premium feature; I am demanding that the legal definition of a "fit for purpose" home finally catches up to the 21st-century reality of our changing climate.

I am sick of the dismissive argument that I should just buy a noisy, inefficient mobile unit as a stopgap solution. I refuse to be told that it is my personal responsibility to retrofit a rental apartment with temporary, makeshift cooling solutions when it is the landlords and the housing developers who are failing their fundamental legal duties. I am done with the societal expectation that tenants should shoulder the financial and physical burden of creating a livable space in buildings that are structurally incapable of maintaining a healthy temperature.

I have come to the conclusion that this is not a personal failure, but a structural, human rights issue that we have allowed to slide for far too long. I will not continue to be quiet while my right to a healthy, temperature-stable home is treated as secondary to property management profits and outdated building codes. I am pushing for a systemic shift where integrated, sustainable climate control is a default, legally required utility in all rental housing, just like running water or electricity.

I am tired of hearing that this is too difficult or expensive when the actual cost is the systemic degradation of public health for millions of tenants. I will continue to highlight the clear legal and moral obligations that landlords have to provide a safe, habitable environment regardless of whether I own the walls I live within. I am done being a passive tenant in a system that ignores my basic rights, and I will keep forcing this conversation until a stable, healthy indoor climate is recognized as the mandatory standard it always should have been.

I am tired of the systemic failure that leaves millions of renters trapped in apartments without basic, sustainable climate control. I am done accepting the dangerous reality where healthy indoor temperatures are treated as a luxury rather than a fundamental human right. I refuse to be told that it is my individual responsibility to mitigate these structural failures with temporary, inefficient solutions while landlords continue to bypass their clear obligations to provide habitable, safe, and energy-efficient living environments.

I have realized that we will never achieve the necessary systemic shift if we keep treating this as a personal inconvenience rather than a critical policy failure. I am currently reaching out to my local housing representatives and demanding that they include mandatory, integrated, and high-efficiency climate control as a default utility in all rental building codes. I am pushing to codify the legal right to a healthy, stable indoor environment into our local housing regulations to ensure that every tenant, regardless of ownership, is protected from the accelerating threats of extreme temperatures.

I am calling on every reader to take immediate, concrete action by contacting your local council members, housing board authorities, or national parliamentary representatives today. Please copy the template below, customize it with your local details, and send it directly to your decision-makers to force this issue onto the legislative agenda. We must move beyond individual survival and demand a mandatory, sustainable standard for all.

Call to Action:

1. Find the contact information for your local housing committee or parliamentary representative responsible for building regulations.
2. Send the following email (or a variation of it) to ensure they feel the pressure to act:

"I am writing to demand that you introduce legislation requiring all rental housing to be equipped with high-efficiency, integrated climate control systems by default. Current housing standards fail to guarantee the right to an adequate, habitable indoor environment, leaving tenants vulnerable to extreme temperatures and high energy costs. We must stop treating healthy indoor air and stable temperatures as a luxury and begin regulating them as a mandatory utility for all citizens. Please outline the specific steps your office is taking to modernize building codes and hold landlords accountable for these basic standards of habitability."

I am exhausted by the quiet acceptance that living in a rental apartment means I must suffer through dangerous temperatures whenever the seasons shift. I have spent far too much time navigating the legal grey zones of "habitable housing" while my own health and safety are compromised by the total lack of integrated, professional climate control in my home. I am tired of the industry and policymakers acting as if a healthy indoor temperature is a luxury add-on rather than a non-negotiable requirement for a basic, dignified standard of living.

I have looked into the conventions governing our rights, and it is infuriating how clearly this is addressed while being systematically ignored by landlords and housing authorities. The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is explicit about the right to an "adequate standard of living," which includes a dwelling that is truly habitable and protects residents from health-threatening heat and cold. I am not asking for a premium feature; I am demanding that the legal definition of a "fit for purpose" home finally catches up to the 21st-century reality of our changing climate.

I am sick of the dismissive argument that I should just buy a noisy, inefficient mobile unit as a stopgap solution. I refuse to be told that it is my personal responsibility to retrofit a rental apartment with temporary, makeshift cooling solutions when it is the landlords and the housing developers who are failing their fundamental legal duties. I am done with the societal expectation that tenants should shoulder the financial and physical burden of creating a livable space in buildings that are structurally incapable of maintaining a healthy temperature.

I have come to the conclusion that this is not a personal failure, but a structural, human rights issue that we have allowed to slide for far too long. I will not continue to be quiet while my right to a healthy, temperature-stable home is treated as secondary to property management profits and outdated building codes. I am pushing for a systemic shift where integrated, sustainable climate control is a default, legally required utility in all rental housing, just like running water or electricity.

I am tired of hearing that this is too difficult or expensive when the actual cost is the systemic degradation of public health for millions of tenants. I will continue to highlight the clear legal and moral obligations that landlords have to provide a safe, habitable environment regardless of whether I own the walls I live within. I am done being a passive tenant in a system that ignores my basic rights, and I will keep forcing this conversation until a stable, healthy indoor climate is recognized as the mandatory standard it always should have been.

I love my Asus Zenbook A16, but man those fans can get really loud in performance mode.

Yes, it is a thin device, but I would rather have thermal throttling instead, and fanless designs also force passive cooling and chip efficiency innovation, not to mention better battery life.

How important is this to y'all, and are there currently any fanless Snapdragon laptops available, or any upcoming ones?

I would also love a fanless Extreme chip Mini PC, even if a bigger Mini PC design like the Mac Studio, because I'm very sensitive to noise, and it should be possible, surely by 2030.

Been living with 24/7 highway noise for 20 years so yeah, constant noise sucks, big time.

This is the only device I could find:

The new ASUS Ascent QN10 confirms the potential here, with an 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite and an < 0.7 L footprint.

Yet, it still relies on a cooling system reaching 53 dBA at load.

Why are we still prioritizing peak performance benchmarks over silent operation when the efficiency gains are already here, and is anyone else waiting for a truly fanless, passive design, or are we stuck with active cooling for the foreseeable future?

Building on our recent discussion, the biggest risk we face in the "DeGoogle" journey is the push toward proprietary identity verification. Many governments and platforms are rushing to roll out "solutions" that are essentially centralized, closed-source surveillance tools.

My dialogue with national digitalization authorities suggests that unless we demand Open Source and OS-independence from day one, these new wallets will simply become another layer of Big Tech dependency.

• We need to demand that identity protocols are auditable and open-source.
• We must insist on independence from GMS (Google Mobile Services) and proprietary ecosystems.

If we don’t force the "zero-knowledge" standard to be truly decentralized, we risk replacing Google’s harvesting with government/corporate "black box" harvesting. Is anyone else here engaging with national digital agencies to ensure these wallets are actually FOSS-friendly?

National emergency siren/alert systems are typically reserved for immediate disasters like floods or industrial accidents.

However, hazardous air quality levels (AQI 5+) present long-term and immediate risks to public health.

Is it feasible to incorporate environmental thresholds into current disaster management alert protocols, or does this risk "alert fatigue" among the population?

Currently, severe air pollution (AQI levels 5-6) is often treated as a monitoring issue rather than an acute public health emergency.

This creates a reliance on citizens proactively checking apps, which fails to protect those most at risk.

What regulatory frameworks are required to mandate that hazardous air quality triggers an automated, location-based public health notification?

There is a significant gap between environmental monitoring data and public-facing emergency alert systems.

While air quality levels are tracked, they remain passive data points on websites rather than active push notifications during hazardous events.

How can we better integrate IoT air quality sensors with existing cell-broadcast emergency alert protocols to ensure vulnerable citizens receive actionable guidance when thresholds are breached?

I’ve been tracking severe AQI levels (5-6) in major European cities recently.

Despite the data being available, there is no automated "siren" or push notification to the general public to advise on closing windows or restricting outdoor activity.

Does anyone know of regions that do have effective, automated alert systems for air pollution, and how they bridge the gap between data collection and public awareness?

I was at an electronics store today and felt the difference between my Asus Zenbook A16 X2 Elite Extreme and the latest MacBooks.

My A16 weighs 1.2kg while providing a 16-inch screen, whereas the MacBook Pro 16-inch sits at 2.15kg.

It feels like we have hit a point where Snapdragon-based hardware allows for a significant reduction in chassis mass without sacrificing build quality or performance.

The Zenbook A14 is even lighter at 0.98kg, effectively beating the weight of the MacBook Air 13-inch.

It makes me wonder if Apple’s design philosophy regarding "premium" materials and thermal mass is becoming a bottleneck for ultraportable design.

With efficiency-focused silicon, do you think we will see a shift in the industry toward lighter materials, or is the weight of current MacBooks necessary for their specific thermal and structural goals?

I was just in an electronics store today, and tried lifting every single current macbook they had on display.

They all felt heavier than my Asus Zenbook A16 X2 Elite Extreme, which only weighs 1.2kg.

Even the Macbook Neo and Macbook Air 13 inch both felt heavier, and are heavier on paper, at around 1.25kg, which is insane to me, 13 inch laptops being heavier than a 16 inch laptop.

And forget about the 16 inch macbook pro, which weighs 2.15kg, not far from double!

And the Zenbook A14 comes in at just 0.98kg, much lower than the macbook air 15 and macbook pro 14 inch.

Did this very low weight inform your purchasing decision, those of you who've bought one of these 2 Snapdragon laptops? And despite this low weight, do they still feel premium to you, and not cheap?

My A16 certainly feels premium, and to get a 16 inch laptop, it's so much cheaper than the 16 inch macbook pro, which is certainly quite a bit faster, but also has worse battery life, Snapdragon is unmatched here as well.

And how come Macbook are still so heavy? I would've thought Apple would be king here, as much as they've always bragged about how thin and light all their devices are...

When using TikTok on my laptop, I find it so annoying that I cannot fast forward or backwards using the left and right arrow keys, nor two fingers two fingers and the trackpad, and pulling left or right.

Any other gestures or keyboard controls ya'll would love to be implemented for TikTok, that would make using it easier or more enjoyable?