The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

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Filipe Espósito / Oct 23, 2023 / News

Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2

Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...

Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.

I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale.

I didn’t understand any of this

It’s not for you, just buy what you are told to like a good sheep.

TELL ME WHAT TO BUY !

I am now looking at buying 60m of Petzl rad line in case you can find that cheap, I can recommend it.

Kilemall

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I forgot that Macs also had PowerPC chips in the 90s before switching to Intel. PowerBook G4 was über. It was the fastest laptop on the planet and the battery lasted hours more than any x86 laptop at the time.

Ya been through all these RISC crazes, usually mismanaged into irrelevance.

This is a good breakdown of Qualcomm’s chip . It’s all based on Qualcomm’s own PR materials but, man, it looks promising

Qualcomm Launches a 12-Core Laptop Processor to Rival the Apple M2 - Snapdragon X Elite

They claim it equals or beats the M2 in raw performance for some categories and either doubles the performance of the competing x86 chips or equals them for a third of the power consumption. The graphs look very selective and dumbed down though so we’ll have to wait for real world benchmarks.

Lob12

Damn I just wasted all this time reading about M2s and X86s and now you’re telling me it’s obsolete?!?!?

I hate this.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Damn I just wasted all this time reading about M2s and X86s and now you’re telling me it’s obsolete?!?!?

I hate this.

Welcome to sexy fashionista it chips.

Gators1

Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!

Kilemall

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!

I literally have been in roll ins for mainframes. It was a whole thing for the vendor to check that their boxes arrived in good order.

Gators1

When I was a kid my friend’s dad worked for some hardware company in the 70s and 80s. He brought home a damaged or defective disc from a big ass hard drive. It was glass with this heavy metal thing in the middle to mount it. It was so big they used it for a coffee table.

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!

Two hundred thousand of those vs this:

I suspect the above would have been unimaginable to anyone working on the tech in the 50’s.

The Slow Death of Windows

I hadn’t realized quite how dire things were (are) for Windows. The vid shows Windows market share is down from 95% in 2009 to 62% in 2023 (even less in the US where there are more Mac users). And that’s against a backdrop of a declining PC market.

Then there were all these misadventures trying to reverse the slide:

Nobody could miss the massive fail that was Windows 8 and the way they butchered the desktop experience before reversing course, but I wasn’t even aware of the mixed reality Windows version, Windows 10X and Windows 10S which were also soon to be abandoned.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

The Slow Death of Windows

I hadn’t realized quite how dire things were (are) for Windows. The vid shows Windows market share is down from 95% in 2009 to 62% in 2023 (even less in the US where there are more Mac users). And that’s against a backdrop of a declining PC market.

Then there were all these misadventures trying to reverse the slide:

Nobody could miss the massive fail that was Windows 8 and the way they butchered the desktop experience before reversing course, but I wasn’t even aware of the mixed reality Windows version, Windows 10X and Windows 10X which were also soon to be abandoned.

They are aware of their position, near as I can tell they are working towards an office/services cloud and Xbox for pc gaming future.

Tom Warren / Nov 2, 2023 / microsoft

Microsoft employees aren’t happy that they’re losing free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

The perk changes start in January 2024.

Funny to see the culture change at tech companies. A few years ago it’s, “can I offer you a free massage and a canape?” Now it’s, “fuck you peasant! Get back in the mines!”

L1thu

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Lying ass Hog! Will never trust another Asian!

NEVAH! and we won’t rent to them either!

- YouTube

Tazz

Came across this olde. Nice try commie spying bastages.

Jul 14, 2020 / lifestyle

Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple

Don't cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display.

Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple

Don’t cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display.

Consumers should rely on the green camera indicator light adjacent to their laptop camera, Apple told owners of MacBooks, MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros this month. Putting a sticker, Post-it note or other covering in front of the camera itself impedes the tightly designed computer’s ability to close and could shatter the screen.

One MacBook Pro owner’s internal display broke after he applied a webcam cover in April, MacRumors reported.

“If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances,” Apple wrote on its website. Camera covers can also interfere with the machine’s ambient light sensor and prevent features, including automatic brightness and Apple’s Retina display True Tone technology, from working properly.

Enshittification is a contagious disease. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been watching a YouTube short and though, “Hang on, what was that?” and then wanted to rewind but you can’t. They’ve hidden the horizontal time scroller (in the YouTube web page anyway; you can see it when a video is embedded here for instance). So you’ve got to start at the beginning and wait for it to get back to where it was.

I blamed it on a half arsed implementation by YouTube and thought they’d fix it one day because, you know, pausing and going back 5 seconds to make sure you understood something is like basic functionality right? Well today I’m watching a video on Facebook “Reels” of the resort we’re staying at during our next vacation and, same thing happened: “Ooh, let me go back and see that water again… wtf? You can’t?” If both YouTube and Facebook are doing it, it’s not a fuck up, it’s deliberate.

Apparently being able to pause and go back is functionality that is too fucking complicated for us to be trusted with even though it’s been a feature of every recorded medium since the fucking gramophone. Stop making the world dumber and harder to navigate you cunts.

/rant

Tazz

Blame Gen Z. They watch it once and laugh or don’t get it and then move on without giving any effort to figure something out or understand why something happens. AI will only make it worse in the future when it says anything or does everything for them. Barely point and click and poof … it’s done. If it’s wrong nobody will care or remember.