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by alpanka 6y ago
It's a factor, but not the only one. It also depends on the foundary and the exact process and of course the CPU design.
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by alpanka 6y ago
Note that AMD has been beating Apple on single core performance since day 1. See the comparison between 4700u, M1 and micromagic Risc-v: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/new-risc-v-cpu-claim... I assum
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by alpanka 6y ago
I think the big news here is that Qualcomm SoC releases were a fire and forget operation before this deal. How could they become the dominant chip maker without providing better after sales support for Linux/Android untill now? The cyn
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by alpanka 6y ago
How long have you used android? Samsung updating their phones 3-6 months after Google is a good thing. Android releases are buggy as hell the first few months. If pixel users want to act unpaid beta tester that's fine, but I don't
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by alpanka 6y ago
If I understand this correctly, he uses a SIMD instruction since that switches the most number of transistors at the same time and causes a tiny ripple in chip power line. The receiver sees an aliased version of one of the harmonics. But wh
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by alpanka 6y ago
So what happens if I decide to close my account, have some money left and I don't want to give them my banking & SSN information?
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by alpanka 6y ago
So basically rules created to stop money laundering forced honest citizens to engage in money laundering??
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by alpanka 6y ago
I have s few cents left in my account. Is there a charity I can send it to, without giving most of it to PayPal?
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by alpanka 6y ago
HP laserjets have pretty good Linux support, it's usually plugnplay on Ubuntu.
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by alpanka 6y ago
A VP at HP once told me they make 3/4 of their profits from selling inks (I am sure he exaggerated but still). You can buy original laserjet cartridges for $150 or third party cartridges for $40-60 (or $25 if you are happy with noname
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by alpanka 6y ago
Segger also provides cheap high quality development boards and very affordable academic versions. Lauterbach on the other hand...
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by alpanka 6y ago
Has anyone tested the android support? It could be an interesting tool for prototypes.
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by alpanka 6y ago
Does this apply to other apple stuff, such as airpods?
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by alpanka 6y ago
The sad fact is that SOCs are getting better and better every day, but front-end developers manage to raise the requirement for a smooth browsing experience at a faster speed.
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by alpanka 6y ago
But the iPad pro LTE is significantly (6-7x ?)more expensive and you are still only using it as a dumb terminal.
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by alpanka 6y ago
Why not buy one, join the community and help writing better drivers? After all, pinebook is more a hacker device than a consumer device.
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by alpanka 6y ago
"I’ve never perceived KDE to be particularly lightweight" Isn't kde pretty lightweight nowadays?
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by alpanka 6y ago
To be fair, they didn't have the resources to do it any other way. For example, lack of gloves etc led to spread of covid in elderly care homes. That happened because countries like Germany stopped export of gloves and mask from their