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by kllrnohj 6mo ago
Presumably the upside for Google is they'll just lock it behind the "Google AI Plus" subscription plan if it isn't already
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by kllrnohj 6mo ago
The only reason I haven't canceled my Plex is because I bought a lifetime pass a decade ago so I literally can't. :/ I almost wish I hadn't specifically so I could cancel it and send that signal. But yes Plex is quite en
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by kllrnohj 6mo ago
Since DVDs are ~5mbps mpeg2, no, no it isn't. 5 mbps h264 is dramatically better. Now, when compared to blu-ray ... That's different. Very, very different.
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by kllrnohj 6mo ago
> OP here might be misremembering DVDs, here: the physical media skipped or froze intermittently and the players themselves were finicky In my teens my friends and I watched probably hundreds of DVDs, and they almost never had a proble
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by kllrnohj 6mo ago
> You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A "Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection" is $12. You get the idea. The image quality on these is also quite bad, especially with cost cutting resulting in these being
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The MX440 was an entry level budget card? If it was all the rage in pro gaming circles at the time that's really just a reflection of how poor pro gamers were back then rather than anything to do with the MX440 being particularly notew
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The GeForce 4 generation as a whole, while being solid enough cards, were historically not interesting. They were just basic spec bumps over the GeForce 3. No new features or similar. And, critically, the 9700 Pro released the same year as
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
Why? Just make iMessage users put up with green bubbles if they want to talk to you? Thanks to Apple co-opting phone numbers, there's literally no need to ever have iMessage for anyone
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
They can abandon it multiple times ;) When they introduced the cheese grater Mac Pro the new high end GPUs were a showcase feature of it. Complete with the bespoke "Duo" variants and the special power connector doohickey (MPX iirc
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The Thunderbolt offerings on the current Mac lineup offer dramatically less bandwidth in total if that matters for a given use case. Thunderbolt 5 is the equivalent of PCI-E Gen 4 x4. So if all 4 of the Thunderbolt 5 ports on a Mac Studio
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
Their compact solution doesn't cover all needs, they just decided that they didn't care about some of those needs. The Intel Mac Pro was the last Apple offering with high end GPU capabilities. That's now a market segment they
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
I use Nix for my homelab servers, and I'm using AI to be my IT support staff essentially. I don't need to ask AI for help installing hyperland, that is trivial as you say, but setting up nginx port forwarding? samba configs? k3s o
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
yeah I'm using mobile Firefox and it has an awfully high overlap with Safari. Almost like a bunch of the stuff Chrome supports isn't actually a standard at all yet...
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
javac for better or worse is aggressively against doing optimizations to the point of producing the most ridiculously bad code. The belief tends to be that the JIT will do a better job fixing it if it has byte code that's as close as p
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The problem is it's quite easy to poke holes in a sandbox when you're outside the sandbox looking in, especially when the user is granting you special permissions they don't understand. These apps aren't doing things lik
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
I purposely picked a CPU with the same thread geometry as your 9900K to avoid calls of "apples & oranges" or whatever. If you want more threads, the 9950X is right there in the same socket. Or Core Ultra 9 285k. Either of whic
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
Your 9900k at 5ghz does work slower than a Ryzen 9800X3D at 5ghz. A lot slower (1700 single core geekbench vs 3300, and just about any benchmark will tell the same story). Clock speed alone doesn't mean anything.
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
If M5 has 9-18 cores and takes ~20w, then that's ~1-2w per CPU core. If these are 200-300W, and have ~100-200 CPU cores, then guess what? That's also ~1-2w per CPU core. Xeons, Epycs, whatever this is - they are all also typically
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
> you swapped your whole system memory in 3 seconds, which is impressive. As a user a 3 second hang is unusable. Also, critically, swap consumes the life of the drive. Since the Neo's isn't user-replaceable, a 3-5 year lifespan
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The SSD in the Neo only manages around 1,500 MB/s in sequential benchmarks, it's not an impressive drive. > It's shocking but pretty much all laptops from Dell, HP, etc come with some form of eMMC storage. I just went to D
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
The CPU is capable. The 8GB of RAM not so much. If this had even just the 12GB of the A19 Pro that'd be a huge upgrade. Unless the RAM shortage gets developers to actually start giving a shit about RAM efficiency, but that seems unlike
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
> SpacemiT K3 is on par with Rockchip RK3588. So, about 4 years behind ARM. That'd be ~7 years behind, not 4. Cortex A76 came out in late 2018. Also what benchmarks are you looking at? > Tenstorrent Atlantis (first Ascalon silico
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by kllrnohj 7mo ago
> Imagine trying to compile this on ARM 10 years ago Cortex A57 is 14 years old and is significantly faster than the 9 year old Cortex A55 these RISC-V cores are being compared against. So yes it's many years behind. Many, many ye
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
Many of these, like RGB or YUV, are intermediate "simplifications", not what you're necessarily supposed to be working in to generate them. It's like a physics calculation where everyone just decides to randomly stop hal
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
> RGB on the other hand is device dependent No, it isn't. RGB is just a color model. You cannot convert between a color model and a color space any more than you can covert between float and Euros. In order to convert between RGB an
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
The base 27" wasn't even a new display 4 years ago, it's the same thing they were shipping in iMacs before that. It dates back to like 2017?
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
The $1600 Studio Display is also 60hz, including this "brand new" one (which appears to be the exact same, just with a new web cam?) Asus has picked up the 5k 27" monitor from LG, it's the $730 PA27JCV
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
> you an also just buy a RPI for a fraction of the price of the GMKtec G10. Sadly not really. The Pi 5 8gb canakit starter set, which feels like a more true price since it's including power supply, MicroSD card, and case, is now $21
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
That's true, but also requires that companies believe those subsidies will remain in place over ~20-30 years. Assuming US elections remain fair, that's not going to be the case. By contrast solar / wind subsidies are effectiv
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by kllrnohj 8mo ago
It doesn't need to. The reality is companies are going to go for whatever the cheapest cost for electricity is, and solar w/ batteries has taken that lead. Capitalism happens to align with a renewable energy green transition, rega

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