MarvinKMooney

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)
 
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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
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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

Summary
There is a silicon design level bug in the apple M1, M2 and M3 SoCs, and the only way to get rid of it, is to release the M4 and throw all M1/2/3 systems away.
 
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My thoughts
This would have been hard to find, it would have taken a lot of people, a lot of time, specifically looking for this sort of thing to find it. To dedicate that time to finding this, means that it is worth the time to find this, showing that the Apple Silicon chips are now popular enough in the general public to warrant somebody looking for this.
 
Sources
 
https://gofetch.fail/
https://gofetch.fail/files/gofetch.pdf
 

Good.
They are a monopoly

Wow... so having a high market share means you are a monopoly apparently. Want to know something funny, that 39.66% of other, shows that Apple indeed does not have a monopoly by definition. By that logic, Boeing has a monopoly too on the 700 series, or that Youtube is the monopoly on video streaming.
 
If you want to see a real monopoly, check out Luxotica. 
 
Also, dear DoJ, We are we going after google next?

by these figures nvidia has a monopoly on GPU's, intel has a monopoly on CPU's, and lays has a monopoly on potato chips.

(heads up:  this post is a pointless rambling personal odyssey of nostalgia, dont read on if you have anything better to do)  

Ive been building my PC's since the late 90's. Back when you needed to use jumpers to tweak the fsb a tiny bit things and pins were sharper than exacto knives (bloody hand prints all over the beige boxes)  but THEN I got an Athlon 700... with dipswitches! 
 
...Sure UEFI was a "nice" change from bios BUT not needing to account for the cost of tetanus shot to the build cost was next level.   
 
Anyway, prior to my Athlon 700 overclocking was too daunting to try. Now we still did't have UEFI or Ryzen Master so we had to buy a special tool called a "#2 Pencil"

Step 1) get a #2 pencil. 
Step 2) draw 4 little lines on the cpu
Step 3) ...nope, no step 3. Your CPU runs 35% faster now. 
 
I was a little worried about temps, and the whole reason I'm writting this is because I found my old Athlon heatsink. 
At 950mhz my 700mhz would idle at 50° and hit 70C° under, I was too stupid to look up if that was good or bad. Seemed bad.  So I bought a 75cent 80mm to 50mm fan adapter. And the most powerful 80mm fan I could get for $2. 
Replaced the dinky but silent 50mm 9cfm fan with a 45db 50cfm fan which ran at full speed 24/7, this was the loudest DC fan I ever owned, but then stick it on squat plastic funnel and it can drown out a lawn mower.   (again... I was very stupid). But Gaming or idle didn't matter. the CPU stayed <45° always. 

Ive bought a dozen heat sink since the AMD 700. Every single time I but a new heatsink I try to upgrade the fan and it's never been worth the effort, yet I still keep doing it.

TLDR: Today's "Aha moment": 23year ago I got my cpu temps to drop 25° buy spending <$3. Apparently, I've been chasing that first high for my entire adult life. 

The "new" Athlon 700 fan vs (i believe) oem fan 
 

New Fan + Adapter + Oem Athlon 700 heatsink. 
 
note #1: those neon pink zipties were the first zip ties I ever owned.
note #2: 10 years ago I used that fan to dry spackle, hence the splatter of spackle on it
note #3: by the time I owned a quad core I decided to see how long the Athlon 700 would survive with no heatsink... it kept shutting down but I was able to kill it in an afternoon. 


The end  =P

"Monsters" written by Fat Mike

Business is booming
 
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Yep, a RUD
 
Which is why it's being tested. So it doesn't happen once humans are on board.

NOTE: 
What I plan to do with this thread is just collected any news that might be interesting regarding Space related technology in this thread.  New news will be marked as a solution.  To see the new news see the solution. 
Summary
Space X's Starship had a launch today which did clear the launch pad. The pad did better this time by a lot.  The first stage did explode "Rapid unplanned disassembly" according to Space x.  Second stage was clear and away when it did and seemed to be rocketing along ... until it too appears to have had a rapid unplanned disassembly.  On the bright side parts of it may have reached orbit. 
 
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According to Space X
 
My thoughts
This is much better than before but still far from good enough.  If NASA had SLS blow up twice they'd be done for.    Both of those systems have taken a toll on their launch structures.  Super heavy appears to have not even knocked over the cameras and the water deluge appears to have been enough without the flame trench.  Closer examination could change that but at least it wasn't the mass destruction that occurred before.  A real improvement. 

All engines stayed lit on superheavy.  
 
Superheavy blew up after hot staging of Starship.    Star ship was clear and away, it appeared to be clear and away by a lot when super heavy did explode.    
 
The above images show the explosion of Starship itself.  In real time Tim Dodd was not smiling like that when it blew up he was looking concerned and confused by the Space X people cheering.  He is due to ride on one of these around the Moon in one of the first missions, a private mission called "Dear Moon".   
 
Congratulations to Space X for doing a little better.  Bear in mind, for comparison.  No Saturn V ever blew up during testing.   No Space shuttle did during testing, sadly two did fail while manned.   In modern times SLS has not blown up once.   Falcon Heavy has not blown up once.  The numbers are small but for this number of launches this number of failures is not good.  
 
Sources
SpaceX’s Second Starship Test Flight Ends in Another Explosion - WSJ 
 
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2

I have definitely seen LMG videos that call out Razer for everything from poor design choices to poor QC to their legendarily bad customer service.
 
A laptop secret shopper would be great, especially if it focused on models with similar to identical specs across different brands. Something that really highlights the differences in cost and quality between brands. Like, brand A's laptop with a 7840HS, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM side-by-side against brand B's laptop and brand C's laptop with similar specs so we can see who's using the crappiest screen, who's got a cooling system designed for the hardware and who's just dropped a blob of copper and a vacuum cleaner of a fan in there, who used crappy plastic and who used a metal frame, that kind of thing. That would be far more useful than reviews from all over Youtube that spend 15 minutes to get to the conclusion of, "Yep, $189 Walmart Specials with a dual-core Celeron from 2016 still suck."
 
You out there, @LinusTech? I'm guessing you guys have a few laptops lying around with specs close enough to each other to do something like this.

Would love a laptop secret shopper. 
 
i do believe they have discussed various quality control issues with razor over the years. Iirc on wan they discussed buying everyone razor laptops for they Christmas party giveaway only for basically all of them to have issues. 
 
 

Martin O'Donnell And Michael Salvatori - Halo 3 ODST Soundtrack (2009) [Full Album OST] 🇺🇸

The smaller the node, the less reliable and less durable it becomes, which is why NAND flash kinda is stuck at 16nm for SLC. https://web.archive.org/web/20210517040328/https://www.skhynix.com/eng/about/history2010.jsp
 
No SLC has been developed since. Now we're at:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/SK-Hynix-working-on-cutting-edge-321-layer-NAND-flash-memory#:~:text=SK Hynix is the first,the first half of 2025.
 
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/electronics/electronics-10-03156/article_deploy/electronics-10-03156-v2.pdf?version=1640157777#:~:text=In the CMOS under Array,is available for CMOS circuits.
Only things that really matter what the process node is are logic circuits for math. Once you're off to storage, network or i/o, the process node doesn't really need to "get faster", it needs to "become more reliable". For example, we've had 10/100 Ethernet since the 90's, and have had Gbit on PowerMac's since 2000. So we've gone 24 years without any innovation in Gbit ethernet, and what has brought Gbit into standard on desktop PC's was Realtek's PCIe Gbit chips... in 2005, which was probably 90nm. A lot of the stuff on the cheapy RTL chips was software, so that built in ethernet was passible, but not enterprise grade. Gbit Ethernet has not gotten any faster, because it can't. What do you get by shrinking the process node? less energy use? Does that make the chip any cheaper?
 
2.5Gbit? 10gbit? It is appearing in consumer products. Just only Apple seems it necessary to put it into it's hardware, and not ALL of it's hardware. 
 
Then you have SATA and USB, and really, how much faster do you need the i/o die to be? the interconnect between the i/o die (or traditionally the south bridge) hasn't changed and on AMD it's still just a PCIe interconnect.
 
Most gains with the i/o die are physical space and energy use, but we aren't seeing any new functionality being added to justify it. I'd rather have more PCIe lanes so I can have several PCIe NVMe drives AND a GPU. But Intel and AMD are like "nah, you only need 20 lanes, or you need our server product."
 

You use the right nodes appropriate for the product. I think some of my Canon big camera sensors were made on 180nm. For that specific use case, you don't get much benefit moving to newer nodes.
 
Here's a visualisation of TSMC's revenue by node. 5+3 make roughly half of their revenue. Older nodes make much less per wafer, so if you count by volume leading edge is only a small part. There is demand for both leading edge and mature nodes. Even Intel is making new 12nm offerings in partnership with UMC as part of their foundry service. It'll be a kind of general node for those that don't need to be near leading edge.