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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
They do mention that the 8 Gig version of the laptop is stuttering while just working on Google Docs in a way that the 16 Gig version does not. > The Surface Laptop would hang for a few seconds like this several times a day, even when I
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Even Microsoft couldn't make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM(theverge.com)
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
Personally, I would rather see public resources used to teach parents how to use the existing controls (in iOS and Android) to restrict what their own kids can do on their own smartphone. However, if a school district wants to restrict the
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
DRAM doesn't require cutting edge Fabs, and Chinese manufacturers have finally caught up to the DDR5 standard. > Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation https://www.pc
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
Not just VAT. For example, the EU mandates extended warranty protections that would be an optional purchase in other markets.
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
Dave Cutler created and ran the Windows NT product line through Windows 2000. Other people ran Windows XP, but Cutler was still in charge of Server 2003 before moving on to special projects like creating 64 bit Windows and Microsoft Azure.
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
Macs allow the machine owner to install (and boot) a completely unsigned OS on a different partition without having it affect security when you do boot MacOS. The Mac partitions are encrypted by default and the system partition is signed an
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
The firmware blobs (and the system files) for MacOS live on a read only partition that is digitally signed.
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
> pace of development is doomed to be too slow When the new leadership team took over, they announced that they would prioritize upstreaming the existing work over adding support for newer hardware. Upstreaming their changes into the ker
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by GeekyBear 3mo ago
It's nice to see M3 support progressing well. They first mentioned that efforts to add M3 support were starting in February: > For quite some time, m1n1 has had basic support for the M3 series machines. What has been missing are Dev
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Oddly enough, Samsung and SK Hynix decided that they needed to expand production on the same day another lawsuit accused them of colluding to keep production low and prices high. > South Korea announces $520bn chip plant project with Sa
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
You can control which apps children can install, how much time they are allowed to use those apps a day, decide if they have access to the web, which web sites they can visit, and decide who they are allowed to communicate with. What featur
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Parents already have the ability to lock down Android or iOS devices for their own children, if they choose to do so.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
InFO combines chiplets, but does not do so by bonding multiple chiplets directly to a silicon interposer as CoWoS does. The article compares CoWoS to InFO. > CoWoS uses a passive silicon interposer—etched with thousands of fine interconn
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
You can start by reading up on TSMC's name for the tech (although there are many versions at TSMC and TSMC isn't the only company packaging chiplets and memory on top of a silicon interposer). > CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrat
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Is there anything less interesting on this site than baseless claims that other people's posts are AI?
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Apple isn't just transitioning to TSMC's 2nm node, they are also transitioning to a chiplet based design using TSMC's advanced packaging. > What sets the A20 apart isn’t just the node shrink—it’s the revolution in packagin
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> This means there won't be a redesigned MBP this year since there won't be M6 Pro/Max chips. They can release a redesigned MBP with the base M6 chip.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today. > The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. https://kotaku.co
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Amazon has Prime Day discounts off the old price today.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
If you wanted to buy in the near term, Amazon is offering Prime Day discounts off of the old prices today. > M5 MacBook Air - $949.00 (now $1,299.00 at Apple) M5 MacBook Pro - $1,549.00 (now $1,999.00 at Apple) https://www.mac
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
Windows 2000 was the last version of the Windows NT lineage with Dave Cutler in charge of everything. His no-nonsense attitude towards fixing known bugs was sorely missed in later versions as Windows quality began its decline.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
I find this take (from the guy who wrote the Windows task manager while at Microsoft) to be evenhanded. > Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
If Google and Apple also decided to remove support for common video formats instead of just paying the slightly higher licensing fee, I might have some sympathy. Microsoft thinks they have all the money in the world when it comes to wasting
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
For an abuse of monopoly power this big, I would argue that only getting ~400 upvotes is indeed little notice.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
When sites attempt to block users who use ad blocking extensions, dynamic filtering allows well written ad blockers to continue to work. For instance: > Last year, Google/YouTube ramped up its efforts against ad-blockers, preventin
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
> For uBlock Origin users on Chrome, there’s uBlock Origin Lite. However, the Lite version “allows some tracking, its blocklist is a fraction of what the original blocked, and it can't perform the dynamic filtering that made the ori
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
"Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension" really doesn't tell a general audience what is happening here. No wonder it gained little notice.
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
This isn't Claude specific. Developers can also write apps that call Google's server based Gemini models. > At WWDC, Apple announced that it's opening its Foundation Models framework to third-party cloud model providers. S
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by GeekyBear 4mo ago
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