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On 11/17/2022 at 9:40 AM, 05032-Mendicant-Bias said:

no real world applications where the blockchain technology is the right tool for the job.

https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020mar-nochanges-faq-a4-v03-blockchain-1-1.pdf

Got my backpack today and got an email from Shopify that I think LTT Store would approve of...

Why yes... yes I would like a screwdriver.

6 hours ago, 4P3t3sSake said:

I've seen some updates on the LTT Reddit about other Wave 1 orders shipping out, but I was at tail end of wave 1 (around the 8,000 mark) and haven't seen any notifications yet. Anyone else having any luck?

Pretty sure I was around ~6500 in wave 1 and haven't received shipping notification yet. With the (US) holiday today, I'm assuming we will see a bit of a delay over what was stated. 

6 minutes ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

That isn't sideloading an app. Apple doesn't want that, sure, but that is somewhat unrelated in that the payment itself not being in the app store, and in the browser instead. Safari isn't a sideloaded app.

You've misunderstood what was said. Apple doesn't want an app manufacturer, regardless of medium, to have a method to use their platform to cut out Apple out of the installation (and therefore payment) process. I don't mean a link that launches the App Store. I mean one that straight bypasses it. 

Edit: This is sideloading. It's the scary part of sideloading for Apple. 

On 3/9/2022 at 12:44 PM, Spindel said:

At a power draw of 65-70 W on the CPU

This is the amazing/frustrating part. I really wish Apple would make cores that are allowed to clock higher on desktop (where they will have the cooling). I think this has to be coming in future iterations of Apple's silicon. 

I love reading comments about sideloading on tech forums because 50%+ of it is people complaining it makes pirating harder and the other part has a legitimate but incredibly niche reason to allow it. And yet, this has literally zero to do with what Apple is concerned about: 

Apple doesn't want someone like Epic to be able to put a link in the Epic Game Store to "Install (fortnite) on my Phone", cutting them out of a significant portion of the revenue. It has nothing to do with security, as this would be a very small market. This has nothing to do with privacy. 

Sideloading is important because it stops Apple from abusing its position as the market leader in terms of revenue generated on platform. It's not one specific app or idea. It's what keeps a company like Apple from being the regulatory body in a free market. Company's shouldn't have to grovel to Apple to make money. This is the net neutrality debate, applied to phones.

If this existed here, it wouldn't be as bad to drive through LA (highway) traffic. Going the a distance that would usually take 30 minutes (like 30 miles) but takes 2 hours instead would be nice if I had a system that could do that for me. I get that this won't work in BFE, but it's still very useful in certain (incredibly terrible) situations. The next step is to go from 60 kmph to 90 kmph. ]

19 hours ago, hishnash said:

For this video there is another aspect that was not even mentioned at all and that is the MASSIVE VRAM this device gives your gpu, this means that for many pros you can do tasks on it that you just can't do on other laptops were your vRAM limit will be 12GB or maybe 16GB.  Talking about rendering, unless your just rendering out individual assets most professionals will find themselves with scenes that are to large for mobile RTX GPUS but the M1 Pro/Max will be able (if you configure them) to render these without issue.  Just running benchmarks that have been optimised to be small downloads over the web is not a very good real world test.  

 

This is kind of the crux of why most reviewers are bad sources of information. Outside of video editing, most tech reviewers (on youtube) don't do demanding things. Seeing someone post a video talking about how they compiled something in 9 seconds vs 10 on an Intel Mac just makes me die on the inside. I appreciate the effort - but it really doesn't tell you anything. 

I see videos like "is 64 GB of RAM worth it?" and think to myself "if you have to ask, then no." The problem is, it is really really worth it in cases where you need it (and generally, the people that need it know they need it). And when you don't, you won't see any difference. If the OS is optimized to handle switching between apps well, then there is no need for 64GB of RAM just because you have 20 chrome tabs, a video editor, and something else open. 

I love watching these videos and then going into the comment sections. The longer this series goes on, the more the linux gatekeeping and toxic users come out. If this series was a full year, the final comment sections would be unreadable by anyone without a neckbeard. 

This is a clear violation of a monopoly position. EU should just fine them 10 billion or something. 

17 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I thought the iPod was stupendously popular.  Which model might matter.  There were a lot of them.  The last iPod I saw in use wasn’t even used for mp3s, but more as a sort of internet phone to avoid network charges.  A poor man’s cellphone standin sort of.

The point is that Windows Phone didn't fail because Microsoft was late. The iPod was late by about 5 years. It was massively successful. The iPhone was brought into a market with the blackberry. etc. 

It has nothing to do with being late.

On 11/24/2021 at 12:04 PM, Kisai said:

I'm saying that Phone 8 was way too late to matter.

 

Apple, had the iPod as a base.

There is no such thing as being too late. Counterpoint: the iPod. The iPod launched 5 years after many trusted market leaders (like Sony who had the Walkman that everyone wanted/had) were already launched MP3 Players. 

It lost because they couldn't make people want it - and frankly there are obvious reasons for that. 

I'd like to see a podcast happen - even if it was only like once a month or something. 

7 minutes ago, finest feck fips said:

  I agree! I actually had a copy of that chart printed as a poster and hung it on the door to my office

As a software engineer - I find it incredibly cool.

As an idiot user (what I aim to be when I am at home), that looks like a nightmare. 

The OS letting you uninstall your DE instead of checking to see if conflicting packages might be out of date is straight hostile to users. I think the change is a good one, but a better one is to make sure the user is aware of why the issue exists. And dumping 150+ packages to the screen that conflict is not "making them aware."

A message like "Hey. We noticed you have a lot of system level packages that are conflicting with this request. Have you tried an update or are you sure this is a valid install file? Continuing may remove critical system features like your desktop" instead of listing 30+ conflicts and asking "would you like to nuke your system? Type: 'Yes, do as I say.'"

I'm all for the linux community having distros for power users, but an os like Pop_OS! isn't that. 

There are still developer tools that require Rosetta to run. 

If this were 2 years, I would understand. But this is 7 months...

6 hours ago, BuckGup said:

So are foundries just so advanced only a few know how to do it otherwise I don't see why we can't open more fabs? The issue affects everyone on Earth so surely they could pool money together to make more fabs

It's a huge cost of entry and a technology gap. It would take multiple companies investing almost all of their liquid capital to make one. And we're talking about big companies, not random small ones. 

14 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yeah, i don't understand why governments want to adopt this concept, isn't the money in our banks already "digital".

I can just swipe my debit card and boom, money digitally transferred.

ewallet is also a form of digital money, and it has been predominant mode of cashless transaction in many asia countries.

It cuts costs of transferring physical money and can cut on cost of transferring money globally. 

Part of me hopes this works, because if we can get machines that can do basic tasks better than current intel laptops (web browsing, document editing, etc), then it will be great for a lot of people. It doesn't need to game at 4k144+. It just needs to check certain boxes. 

That said, I 100% guarantee you that a basic core i3 laptop will be better (sans some battery life and heat). 

On 2/18/2021 at 4:35 AM, Aereldor said:

Breath of the Wild 2 is the new Elder Scrolls 6 at this point. What's it been, almost 2 years since that teaser? 

I see everyone has forgotten about Metroid Prime 4...

Maybe the 16GB version was a good idea...

1 hour ago, papajo said:

They are 0 years ahead of anyone else

So why do the 8CX based devices suck so badly? And why are Intel worried that a 'lifestyle company' is now designing better chips? 

18 hours ago, Pc6777 said:

they optimize that cpu for their os and programs so a lot of it is just optimization.

It's not. There are plenty of cross platform benchmarks to show how fast the chip is. Combined with the platform dependent benchmarks, you can say how fast it is. The notion that it's only fast because of integration is the dumbest take on the internet by people that dont understand how hardware and software engineering work. Sure, you can argue that FCPX is fast because of tight integration with hardware, but not that the entire chip is fast because of software. The reality is that Apple has no ARM competitors right now. 

I respect people wanting to use open platforms and hate to see how Apple is moving towards a more closed ecosystem, but that does not mean the chip isn't fast and the work of Apple's Silicon Division isn't monumental.

Apple is competing with Intel using chips that are running no hotter than spikes to 70C when Intel can't manage to run below 95+C with massive cooling systems. 

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Huh.

I've got a decently big card (maybe 0.5mm smaller than a 3070 FE) and I don't have that problem.

Are you using an AIB card?

Nvidia branded one, but I've had this problem for ages. I just hate when I have to fight my way through the cables to plug in a random drive. That said, I have gotten smarter and just plug all of my cables in first and then hide them in the case until I need them. 

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Are you using a 3090 or a mini ITX board?

2080TI on a ATX board, but some of my SATA ports are literally under the card.