MarvinKMooney

How can bestbuy possibly tell you with any certainty that it is a manufacturing defect without even testing it? That is not how it works.
You don't understand. Anything after the warranty, Asus has no obligation to fix, be it free or for money. It sucks, but that is the way it works.
 
Also, fans and batteries are consumables. They don't last an indefinite amount of time. And laptop fans are usually the worst of the kind. As for the battery, there are many things that kill the life of a battery. Did you leave the laptop plugged in constantly?

you really are not getting my point at all here. again, I am totally lost to your points as well. The reddit story has massive holes in it, someone is not being honest, information to fill those holes being left out. 

Therefore being mad at ASUS on Reddit thread OP's behalf is stupid. Because OP is not being honest with you. I am not putting intent on OP's honesty, it could be accidental, I'm not here accusing OP of anything. That's the only thing I used the word intention for, to be explicit in that I am not claiming OP is intentionally being dishonest when I claim OP is being dishonest.

The job being simple is inconsequential here. 

you gonna let something like the power budget of a small city get in the way of owning a supercomputer?

When seeking help, its helpful to those you're asking to provide information about the problem, as much as you possibly can. Can you go back to the questions above and answer more than just one of them? We have little to no information to help.

Is it content you would've otherwise had access to?
 
If paywalling content is the creator's choice, I don't see a problem with that. It's YouTube's attempt to keep that content on its platform instead of watching the revenue it generates go to another service like Patreon.

Simple, feel nothing.
Not the only "Members Only" thing in the world, that's for sure.
Plus... not like it's something crucial to livelihood.

If anything, this is the creators choice..

Winona Fighter - I'M IN THE MARKET TO PLEASE NO ONE

Best lyrics ever in the history of metal 😂
 

BIG SPECIAL - DUST OFF / START AGAIN

Summary
 A US state government has proposed a law requiring retroactively that generative AI models have their training data sources disclosed. 
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 This is nothing but good IMO. If we start requiring AI models to disclose what data they have ingested, we will have better quality models that can be checked against biases, and highlight which models are likely to result in output being lawsuit bait from purposely scraping/ripping commercial websites of non-free UGC material and other UGC sources. 
 
What I predict, is that if it does become law, commercial use of AI (eg ChatGPT) might slow down because the need to disclose will reveal which models have ingested copyrighted material should the output of an AI be claimed to be plagiarized of a copyrighted work. Can't use the defense of "well ChatGPT created it", when ChatGPT might have actually used the copyrighted work in it's training. Visual and Musical Artists will have a field day should it be revealed that their works were used to train a model and are being commercially used to replicate their styles.
 
What I don't see happening is any actual abandoning or shutdown of commercial generative AI use. They'll just change their TOS to put the liability on the end user for checking.
 
*UGC = User Generated Content, where the website is merely the publisher, not the owner. Think DeviantArt and Reddit.
 
Sources
 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-a-public-database-of-all-ai-training-material/ 
https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-introduces-groundbreaking-bill-to-create-ai-transparency-between-creators-and-companies
https://schiff.house.gov/imo/media/doc/the_generative_ai_copyright_disclosure_act.pdf

so at the end of the day is there ANY reason at all for people to actually get these other than they are desperate to get people to pay attention to them? any actual, practical, real reason that isn't just "hey look at me!"? based on all the posts that seems to be the sole reason.

this is amazing.

Summary
As of April 10th, 2024, an FCC Ruling has been put in effect that ISP's must show accurate pricing, speeds, and data caps displayed like food labels on a cereal box. (Shown in the spoiler box below)
 
Quotes
My thoughts
This is a huge win for consumer rights. Companies should never have been able to hide pricing for anything and hopefully these labels will minimize hidden fee's. This has been a long time coming with the original plan made in 2022 and I'm glad it is finally implemented. 
I also want to add that the fact that they need to display these like a food label is also just slightly hilarious.
 
Sources
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/starting-today-isps-must-display-labels-with-price-speeds-and-data-caps/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/major-isps-required-to-display-nutrition-fact-labels-for-broadband-starting

Summary
Apple are going to be making changes the the parts calibration servers so that if you swap parts between apple devices they can still fetch their respective calibration profiles from apples servers so long as the past is not coming from a stolen device. 
 
My thoughts
This seems like a readable tradeoff to ensure the value of stealing a phone is not increased. But still letting people with legitimate parts use these to repair other phones. 
 
Sources
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/04/apple-to-expand-repair-options-with-support-for-used-genuine-parts/

Hard to consider what took place if you don't know (and you don't).

As for the appropriateness of the joke, we've always been PG / PG-13. I don't think there's really gonna be an overall change there. A self-deprecating joke about one's own promiscuity/infidelity is well in-bounds, and watching that get turned into trivializing sexual harassment has been bizarre to behold. Projection is for watching movies, not posting in forums.

 

What? rent free.
 
Not everything men say is "sexual harassment".

Dude, they're a bunch of Tech Gods (cuz you all hold them on that pedestal) who are huge fish in their tiny little pond. 
 
Of COURSE they're going to joke that up.  They are literally untouchable.
 
Hell, Luke did a 69 joke in the apology video!  Which we all know was PR bullshit, but still.
 
You, sir, are wasting your time.   You should know better.

So you let a sexual harassment joke slip into the TechLinked video on April 3rd... Too soon buds, um rather poor taste. I'll let this one slip as a late April Fools joke, but, do better guys.

Considering that's a 9 year old chip, I doubt you'd get 8 hours today. 
 
Intel parts generally go
Xeon (no power saving)
X/KF (little power saving)
K/KS (little power saving)
H/HX (little power saving / Mobile)
non-K/T
U
Y

Those are the "most power efficient"
H/HX/T/non-K are way down here:

Notice where the M1 is.
This is where the highest energy efficient Apple is

 
 
Now re-compare this on the performance graph:
 

So the M1 8 core is similar to the i5 1334U and i3-12100E/F in performance
 
Meanwhile the 20 core:

Note the 14th gen HX part AND the 12900K/KF and the Ryzen ThreadRipper PRO are pretty close.
 
 
Apple's parts are running circles around the Intel parts, for obvious reasons. The 20 core is 16+4 at 60TDP, the M1 8 core is 4+4 at 15W
 
The 12900TE is 35W, The 12900KF is 241W
 
So the Apple M1 Ultra 20 core has the same performance as a Intel chip 4 times the TDP. The M1 8 core is a bit less than half the TDP of the closest Intel part.
 
By any reasonable measure, what is crippling Apple is the adherance to these crappy "ultrabook" designs that have thin, hot, batteries that don't last very long. People like "thin and light" laptops, but they are the absolute worst performers, and when they are paired with small batteries, makes them completely pointless to have. 
 
You know how long a battery should last in a laptop? As standard? It should last the same as the longest flight/train ride someone can reasonably expect to take. So NYC to Shanghai is about 19 hours. The trans-siberian train is 7 days. The longest train ride in North America is about 4 days (Vancouver to Toronto) or 3 days( Seattle WA to Chicago/Emeryville CA to Chicago/LA to Chicago)
 
So the most reasonable "battery life" someone should expect from a laptop is 7 days of standby time with about 60 hours of active runtime. What does the Apple Macbook Air actually get? 17 hours of active runtime (Pro gets 19, Pro max gets 22.) This is a far cry from the worst-case scenario. However if you use the US or Canada travel time, it's probably fine which is 4 days of standby time with 35 hours of active time. Really the battery length in the Pro will last you the flight from NYC to Shanghai, and most Americans would rather fly than drive/train.
 
This also intentionally ignores that trains and ferries generally have had native power outlets since the 80's, where as airplanes might not have any at all. If a laptop is under 65w, you can just take along additional USB-C batteries. Good luck taking those on an airplane, but you can on trains and ferries.
 
 

for those who care about more than pointing and laughing at apple.. here's some detail:
 

ArsTechinca source:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/
It appears it can be mitigated, but only by the third party cryptographic software.
It seems that it doesn't need root access to be performed, and take advantage of DMPs and predictive memory access.
Both the attack and the target need to be run on the same cluster
 
Also interesting to note that DMPs are also found in 13th gen intel