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- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 day ago:
If your PC doesn’t support Windows 11 then it makes sense to switch to Linux. But staying on an EOL OS when you could upgrade is plain stupid.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 2 days ago:
“Vote” and “emperor” don’t go in the same sentence.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 week ago:
Empty story with clickbait title. Wouldn’t expect any less from modern “journalists”
- Comment on Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet 1 month ago:
The only way AI wipes out humanity is if they put it in the control system for nuclear bombs, hallucinate (as usual), and blow everything up. Not due to some “eliminate all humans” mentality or whatever they’re implying in that website.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand 1 month ago:
enginepatrol.com/two-gr-corollas-caught-fire-toyo…
Here are two Toyota vehicles randomly bursting into flames. Toyota makes shitty cars (ranked 3rd most reliable by consumerreports.org, btw). consumerreports.org/…/who-makes-the-most-reliable…
- Comment on Matrix is cooked 1 month ago:
Today I learned that VC funded companies are not allowed to invest in open source projects. Matrix would be nowhere near its current state if it wasn’t thanks to Element. It’s not the best, but it’s far from “cooked”.
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 2 months ago:
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 2 months ago:
Add it to the list
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 months ago:
You can allow guest accounts, although it’s disabled by default in synapse.
Call supports depends on the client you’re using. Element is usually ahead in features implementation, but you can get a list of clients and filter by features in the matrix website.
Also I’m not sure what the other person meant by easy to setup. Matrix servers are notoriously hard to setup when compared to anything most things you would find yourself selfhosting, specially with WebRTC/TURN. I think there’s an ansible playbook somewhere, but I never tried it.
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 2 months ago:
Interesting how they forgot to go over the architecture for LMDecompress.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 2 months ago:
- Comment on Looking for Creative Uses for Jellyfin Streaming Clients running Debian at Friends' Houses 3 months ago:
You’d make a great tech CEO.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 3 months ago:
Just in: Orange farmers are part of the police state because they sell oranges to the government, including policemen.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 5 months ago:
You could make an ATX form factor ARM or RISC-V machine with a lot of processing power and run Linux on it, but who would buy it and for what? That question is why no one makes such a thing.
The same people who buy ATX form factor x86? The only thing making these platforms different is software support, which is getting better for RISC-V everyday. You wouldn’t buy a RISC-V computer today for high performance gaming or scientific computing, but it definitely works as a general purpose machine (web browsing, office apps, watching videos, etc.) This year shouldn’t see much progress in hardware since RVA23 just came out (maybe some RVA22 + V), but you can expect some nice things to come out 2026-2027 since now you have all you need to build a competent RISC-V CPU.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You are complaining about the photo monitoring functionality, which happens 100% on device. You can confirm this very easily by monitoring the app’s network activity when you receive an image. Android System SafetyCore does a lot more things than photo monitoring, one of which is providing emergency location data (ELS). This is required by law in the EU, India, and the USA.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 5 months ago:
Is there even an inkling of a plan to go from “dev kit” to “widely available consumer product?”
It’s not a dev kit, it’s meant to be a regular PC with upgradable storage, RAM, and PCIe slot for $120. Milk-V and other RISC-V companies already have widely available consumer products (Milk-V Mars, Banana Pi, etc.), they’re just usually SBCs because that’s what’s easiest to produce and RISC-V is early in development. Remember that the first standard with Vector instructions just came out a few months ago (RVA23), and there’s no point in trying to seriously compete with X86/ARM PCs until you have that.
Even a lot of x86 devices are going to the soldered everything approach.
That right there tells you this is not a RISC-V/ARM problem. It’s just that everyone knows on-SOC memory performs better than DIMM, and manufacturers are starting to offer these to compete with Apple M chips.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The app doesn’t connect to the internet, so it’s not that big of a deal. I guess that could change in the future though.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 5 months ago:
Milk-V Oasis Mini ITX board was going to have replaceable RAM, M.2 slot for SSD, and 4x SATA slots. The only reason it didn’t release was because of Sophgo sanctions (They make the SG2380 which was the Oasis was based on)
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 8 months ago:
I honestly cannot trust game reviewers after seeing some of the reviews for this exceptional game
I don’t understand your point. Do you want them to ignore the bugs and performance issues? Would you be happier if the reviews lied to you and said the game was perfect? If they took that route, I guarantee you’d be complaining about that as well.
where the fuck was that when Starfield came out?
“They didn’t complain about that game, so they shouldn’t complain about any game ever!”
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 8 months ago:
Unironically, the Apple USB-C DAC is the best you can buy for that price. You’d have to go for something double or triple its price to get the same performance from any other dongle, specially at that size.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 8 months ago:
A Russian official has said that the game could face a total ban in Russia
The whole article is based off this unnamed “Russian official” btw.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 9 months ago:
Politicians when they realize the commercialized espionage they’ve allowed also applies to them:
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 9 months ago:
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 9 months ago:
And it does not concern you that this RVA profile is version 23
Not sure where you got that information. There are only 5 RISC-V profiles.
And they are incompatible, with version 23 because they lack instructions?
Like all the x86 CPUs from a few years ago that don’t have all the new extensions? Not supporting new extensions doesn’t mean the CPU is useless, only that it’s worse than new ones, as things should be when there’s progress. Or I guess you throw out your x86 CPU every time Intel/AMD create a new instruction?
So a compiler would have to support at least a certain number of those profiles
Do you think compilers only target one x86 version with one set of instructions? For example in x86, there’s SIMD versions SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, compilers support all of them, and that’s literally just for the SIMD instructions. What’s new?
- Comment on Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024 9 months ago:
It’s getting there but running a full on PC is such a complex task over micros or special purpose devices.
Design application ready CPUs are hard, but not really for these companies. The main issue was the need for a standard, given how many optional extensions are available for RISC-V. The RVA profiles fix this problem by giving a set of required extensions to be user-mode application ready, and they have been a thing for a while. However, these were lacking one important capability for modern applications: vector extensions. RISC-V already had SIMD support (similar to what x86 has), but the vector extension is so much better there’s really no need to even bother with it except with some microcontrollers .
The RVA23 profile, ratified 4 days ago, addresses this by adding the vector extension to the list of required extensions for an application ready CPU. This should be enough for running modern applications, so maybe we’ll see some nice stuff in the next 1-2 years.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 9 months ago:
That’s a good thing, meaning you can design RISC-V CPUs without functionality you don’t need (like microcontrollers that only need basic operations). However, for those who want a complete CPU, there are RVA profiles (latest being RVA23), which are a list of extensions required to be an application-ready CPU. So there’s really just 1 “standard” for general purpose computing, everything else is for specialized products.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 9 months ago:
What do you mean by standards?
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 9 months ago:
ISPs have nothing to do with what the article talks about, this is about logical gates. Anyways, this tech sounds like a research toy to secure some grants for the laboratory.
- Comment on Intel is a security risk for China, says influential industry group. 9 months ago:
Government comprises many departments and organizations, which do many things. It’s not a single blob of all good or all bad.
I don’t remember saying the contrary. When one part of the government does something, it was still the government.
not all back doors and CPU bugs are government-imposed
Don’t remember saying every single backdoor is government-imposed. Fact is there’s at least one backdoor that is for the government, whether there’s 1 or 5 doesn’t really matter.
- Comment on Intel is a security risk for China, says influential industry group. 9 months ago:
you don’t know his actual usage
Why would I need to know his usage? Whatever it might be, a newer CPU can do the same amount of work as an old CPU for a fraction of the energy.
meaningless anyway unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.
You mean the CPU that was already manufactured years ago and won’t magically disappear due to you refusing to upgrade to it? Whether you use it or not the energy to create it was already spent.
you haven’t addressed the other problems mentioned at all
And I didn’t mean to. I simply corrected you when you congratulated him for using less energy, which is not true.