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by metildaa 7y ago
Intel is strip mining its current customers by jacking up newer server chip prices and discontinuing their older chips (due to 10nm fabs not being ready). Intel is producing few low-end chips(i3/i5), which has in part caused the curren
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by metildaa 7y ago
Optane is not durable enough to survive as main memory, hence use cases using it as primarily read memory to avoid wearing out the cells with writes. Take a look at how cagey Intel is acting about Optane: https://www.semiaccurate
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by metildaa 7y ago
Yep, exactly what I was getting at. If you have a giant database and a big budget, Optane is great. It could be really useful for smaller users too, but its unlikely to become widely popular as the average developer won't have it avail
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by metildaa 7y ago
Optane will be squandered by limited CPU support and slim software support :c Optane is a neat idea, but the severe change in software architecture combined with only select CPUs even supporting it will limit uptake outside FAANGs or organi
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by metildaa 7y ago
Apple was Intel's only LTE modem client, Apple did everything they could for years to give Intel the secrets that made Qualcomm's modems so performant, yet Intel was still a half decade behind in modem sensitivity, leaving a huge
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by metildaa 7y ago
NVidia still equals NoVideo in my book, for a time it seemed like every other driver release would brick your card, and Linux support is abysmal. Wayland still isn't supported, despite AMD, Intel and even no-name HDMI Phy manufacturers
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by metildaa 7y ago
When your buffers are too big for the connection, it induces latency as your computer sends 100Mbps of traffic, yet the modem is capped to say 5Mbps. Its better to drop this traffic as TCP/IP and UDP will throttle itself, rather than l
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by metildaa 7y ago
Doubtful, T-Mobile has shown it is quite profitable without Sprint, taking on Sprint's debt and assets will force T-Mobile to act like a classic telecom company much moreso than they already do. T-Mobile is only interested in buying Sp
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by metildaa 7y ago
I specifically called out Intel's software team as competent/good. They are obviously able to take buggy silicon and make it do impressive things, but when it comes to shaping and interpreting analog RF waves it seems this is outs
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by metildaa 7y ago
When Intel was making mobile SoCs, they couldn't get everything onto one chip, nor were they able to make a LTE capable device. What they were able to produce were $100 tablets and phones for the low end of the market that were subsidi
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by metildaa 7y ago
Intel couldn't make WiMax work right (too power hungry and low speed), their attempts to build an LTE chip have fared worse than Samsung and Qualcomm, to the point that they are a full 5 years behind their competitors, and their cable
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by metildaa 7y ago
Most countries view it as a monopolistic tactic akin to how railroads used to be the only buyer for produce & grain in many rural areas of the US, as they would refuse to sell space for bulk goods that they also traded in. Vertical inte
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by metildaa 7y ago
Generally you just follow people, making accounts on each instance would be rather silly.
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by metildaa 7y ago
Note that China also does this, and this is illegal in nearly every other country under anti-trust law. This happens to also be the only way to make passenger profitable, capturing the positive financial externality.
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by metildaa 7y ago
At least they haven't purged it, if this were Google then there would be no ZIP support in newer OS versions. They even killed ChromeOS ans Chorme updates for a bunch of 3 to 4 year old Chromebooks recently, despite the hardware being
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by metildaa 7y ago
It seems more like fear among Atom's users that Microsoft will decide to kill Atom or let it slowly slide into irrelevancy. VS Code is slowly eating the classic Visual Studio userbase IMO.
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by metildaa 7y ago
If your users post hate speech, child porn or run amok reply guying, then yes your likely to not federate with other instances. For other differing rules, instaces generally silence from the federated timeline. Eg: I can still follow Humblr
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by metildaa 7y ago
Mastodon and other fediverse software support pointing your old account to a new one. Keybase could be useful for confirming both are your accounts, but its hardly the only way.
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by metildaa 7y ago
You can also block just media if an instance is known to host images that are illegal in your country or your users don't want to see (silencing is a better option for the latter tho).
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by metildaa 7y ago
There are lots of interesting people on Mastodon, I would recommend searching by hashtag and joining an instance that matches your interests (eg: sdf.org, sergal.org (furries), cybre.space, etc). Many instances block Mastodon.social and oth
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by metildaa 8y ago
Wow, heartless people purposefully spreading disease!
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by metildaa 8y ago
Sounds like a branding mishap, Microsoft created the same type of hard to understand mess with the Microsoft Dynamics branding.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Haven't they had stability issues? I know it was troublesome for some Mastodon instances.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Most Qualcomm chips expect DDR3L/DDR4L, so desktop and most 2+ year old laptop ram won't work. Additionally, the drivers for Snapdragon SOCs are a mess, and they haven't made an effort to get all their changes in the mainline
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by metildaa 8y ago
X11 and Wayland works just fine on Allwinner A series & H series chips as the community has added nearly complete blobless support for everything from the HDMI phy to the Gigabit ethernet controller to the oddball WiFi chips some boards
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by metildaa 8y ago
This assumes a level market with even distribution of information and power. Companies pay as little as they can get away with, not what the job is worth.
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by metildaa 8y ago
I was blaming Valve for making gaming on Linux have such a broad library of titles. They've made Wine very easy to use, to the point that users barely know that it isn't a Linux native game.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Servo is a research project to build a fast browser, ignoring older web standards. Project Quantum is Mozilla cleaning up those components from Servo (adding support for older standards) and migrating them into Firefox. For refactoring a ma
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by metildaa 8y ago
Apple will likely stick to Safari based on their Webkit fork. Look at their stewardship of coreutils and the graphics stack on MacOS, its plain to see that they just don't care if MacOS is 5+ years behind the curve on features and perf
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by metildaa 8y ago
Either the vendor needs to invest in support, or you need the community to come together and build support like with Allwinner chips (which are dirt cheap, hence people building mainline, blobless support). Apple doesn't invest in Linu

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