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by DCKing 6y ago
Apple ships a utility on Apple Silicon Macs that allows you to sign kernels yourself for booting yourself, sort of like EFI Secure Boot: https://twitter.com/never_released/status/132631574108015001... Surely the L
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by DCKing 6y ago
I've been anticipating a new cairo release for some time. The same Mathias Clasen who wrote this email has done amazing work at getting Pango font rendering a lot closer to what is possible on Windows and macOS. The killer feature for
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by DCKing 6y ago
While Docker support will surely come, this thread does give me the feeling that Docker on Apple Silicon Macs will take at least several more months still to be released. I would have expected Apple to be far more proactive in working with
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by DCKing 6y ago
This M1 chip is really interesting, but they seem to be hard limited in RAM to 16GB. That will surely limit the interest there is in the initial batch amongst the HN crowd. It makes sense maybe for the MacBook Air, but not that much for the
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by DCKing 6y ago
The complexity of the distribution of such a vaccine on such a large scale will be a major bottleneck in a return to a society without imposed pandemic measures. A much less sexy and more human bottleneck, which permits of far more classes
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by DCKing 6y ago
Proper leadership would have taken this risk seriously, and would not have tied up microarchitecture development so much to process improvement. Basing your strategy so fully on Moore's Law keeping up is a recipe for disaster. Clearly
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah, it's worth noting that Intel's planned microarchitecture iteration on the desktop was delayed by over three years - from 2017 to 2021 - and in 2021 will be released on a larger process than originally planned. AMD's exe
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by DCKing 6y ago
Sure, I should spell out that I'm commenting on the obvious and much leaked next step which is PCIe cards based on this line of chips.
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by DCKing 6y ago
The GPU is usually an important part to upgrade to get old desktop hardware on with the times. Not because of games, but because having modern or many Displayport/HDMI connections is nice, and modern hardware video codecs can offload a
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah! People say AMD has the best Linux drivers, but they're wrong! Intel's are feature rich and stable, and I think they're better than AMD's [1]. They're just kind of ignored since nobody "chooses" to us
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes, this process of moving away from X11 has been terribly mismanaged - by not being managed at all really. But it's not quite as dire as you're saying. > For most users X is good enough It's good to understand the conver
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by DCKing 6y ago
I can't find the story you're talking about here, but one thing that would be good to understand here is whether this is some flaw in the Wayland protocol, or whether this is an implementation issue in a specific Wayland composito
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm not sure why that's your takeaway here. Wayland exists precisely because things should easily mix and match - it should be easy to get your apps displaying/moving on any standard compositor. The same would go for other
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Maybe the problem is precisely that Wayland is not an X replacement For the understanding of all of this by the community, certainly. But Wayland could have never been a direct replacement for X. The problem with X is not that it'
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by DCKing 6y ago
Wayland is a display protocol. X.org is a display protocol, its own server implementation of that protocol, and many utilities to interface with that server. And even more stuff. To illustrate this: if you run Gnome on X.org, you will see y
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by DCKing 6y ago
To be fair to """Wayland""" (again, whatever that means), Gnome on Wayland seems to be a lot better when it comes to the core smoothness of the desktop experience. I have never seen tearing on Gnome on Wayland,
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by DCKing 6y ago
The problem with Wayland is really that people understand it to be a drop-in replacement of X11, or something close to it. But it's not a replacement of X11. You don't "switch to Wayland", despite what that GDM button se
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by DCKing 6y ago
As far as I know all Threadripper chips and board were required to support ECC. Mind you this means UDIMM ECC commonly targeted at workstations, not the RDIMM ECC used in servers.
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by DCKing 6y ago
AMD guarantees ECC works with their workstation focused Threadripper line. On Ryzen, it only works if you do your homework picking hardware. It's a shame they made the TR platform much more expensive in the last generation.
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm aware of the Xeon D line, but sadly that was also squarely aimed at the enterprise albeit maybe a smaller scale enterprise. It's not something you can easily go out and buy any more, and when you do it's both very expensi
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by DCKing 6y ago
I've seen bit flips reported in edac utils on a system with ECC memory. People routinely try to induce memory errors by overclocking their memory (to verify ECC is working). The triggering of bit flips is the very foundation of the Row
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by DCKing 6y ago
If you could point me to a <20W machine with ECC memory that I can buy online like a mere mortal human person, then I'd very interested! The only thing that comes to mind in that category for me is the PC Engines APU2. The APU2 is a
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by DCKing 6y ago
I do think that there will still be some people interested in ECC detection and reporting, but that's not really why I'm interested in ECC memory. The dividing line "enterprise = error correction with monitoring / non-e
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ryan Smith in the link above seems to suggest error correction will be done transparently anyway, so it seems like it won't reported to the OS. So it doesn't look like Intel could cripple it even if they wanted to.
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by DCKing 6y ago
I guess what I don't understand then is what big advantage "enterprise ECC" has left over this DDR5 "non-enterprise ECC". (Seriously, why is ECC "enterprise"? Everybody wins with memory error correction.)
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by DCKing 6y ago
One thing I'd like to understand better about DDR5 is how well the built-in ECC is going to work to improve reliability. DDR5 comes with "chip level ECC" [1] of which the main purpose is to be able to better sell highly compl
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by DCKing 6y ago
Apple has enough incentive to do it now because Windows on x86 is something people actually want/need to use. It doesn't cost much to support and probably sells a bunch of Macs. Windows on ARM is not really something people woul
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes. There is the fact that macOS on ARM does not appear to have a standardized boot method (Apple says the boot sequence is "based on iPadOS"), and there is the fact that Apple also uses their own GPU architecture for which they&
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by DCKing 6y ago
What I've seen most is issues with drivers. Even AMD, whose open GPU drivers make/made the planned included supplier of GPUs for this notebook have said that you're on your own on big endian systems. If you use the PCI Expres
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by DCKing 6y ago
In addition to this, even if this eventually leads to actual hardware, it will be based on a dead architecture. The PowerPC e6500 supports big endian ppc64, which is unfortunately a dead end. Since 2014 and the launch of POWER8, all Power d

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