pathartl

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421.
by pathartl 5y ago
How about we just make it 10-5?
422.
by pathartl 5y ago
Yes, and instead of writing an open standard or adapting Vulkan when it came around, they instead decided to double down on proprietary and moved to Metal 2.
423.
by pathartl 5y ago
The trashcan Mac Pro was announced almost 9 years ago. Apple today is a very different company. They've moved onto chiplet designed SoC's with little to no care about upgradability.
424.
by pathartl 5y ago
They've moved on to chiplet design. Don't disregard their clear direction to SoC's with non-upgradeable RAM, GPU, CPU.
425.
by pathartl 5y ago
Unfortunately that runs into the issue of education, expense, and general preference. We're never going to remove it by relying on consumer choice.
426.
by pathartl 5y ago
I myself have a 135TB home server. I am well aware and invested in local data hoarding. It still doesn't remove the fact that it's getting harder to find certain media. Additionally, most people can't spin up a server... hell
427.
by pathartl 5y ago
Not just inconvenient, but expensive and out of reach.
428.
by pathartl 5y ago
Records are a different story because they're more of a collector's item. Interesting with CD sales going up, but I assume shortly we're going to start seeing the CD/DVD drive go away. I mean it's already out of mos
429.
by pathartl 5y ago
It's certainly still possible, but it's what it's always been, a niche solution for a small demographic.
430.
by pathartl 5y ago
They would never do that
431.
by pathartl 5y ago
Even if their claims are accurate, it usually has the asterisk of *Only with Apple Metal 2. I honestly cannot understand why Apple decided they needed to write their own graphics API when the rest of the world is working hard to get away fr
432.
by pathartl 5y ago
Unfortunately, locally stored music is a dead media.
433.
by pathartl 5y ago
Sugar isn't really optional these days. It's snuck into so much of our processed food it's sickening.
434.
by pathartl 5y ago
While purely anecdotal, mine's been working for over two years using a .tl tld.
435.
by pathartl 5y ago
I wish my fiber ISP was part of that 50%. But nope, here I am behind a CGNAT and was promised IPv6 adoption about a year ago. Unfortunately the only other options in my area (downtown Milwaukee) are some form of wireless, DSL, or Spectrum.
436.
by pathartl 5y ago
Lots of flux and a way to inspect it. There's tons of cheap USB microscopes out there now that you can use for soldering. If you put a tiny bit of flux underneath the connector, heat it up, and let it sit you'll make it tacky and
437.
by pathartl 5y ago
Yeah, I remember using this as far back as 2009 or 2010
438.
by pathartl 5y ago
On top of that, it's expensive for what it does.
439.
by pathartl 5y ago
Yep, the better terms to use are ones like stable or anchored. Companies that aren't trying to push the bounds of development and are just trying to work for their own business.
440.
by pathartl 6y ago
By clever I mostly mean, from what I've seen from reports, handling stuff like transition from x86 to arm by baking in instruction translation into the die. Their approach with some things is a bit different from what others are doing,
441.
by pathartl 6y ago
I didn't say that they wouldn't go Arm, I said they wouldn't buy chips from Apple. Apple would never sell it like that.
442.
by pathartl 6y ago
It's all going to come down to user experience and versatility. Apple is doing some crazy stuff with the M1, but I personally would chock (most of it) it up more to being clever than true innovation. I think only Intel needs to be conc
443.
by pathartl 6y ago
It's because of their loyal customer base. The culture they've developed since the very beginning has set them up as almost too big to fail. Without that "cult"ure you don't get to set up their type of vertical inte
444.
by pathartl 6y ago
https://inovelli.com/black-series-dimmer-switch-z-wave/ I've also bought Zooz switches, but wouldn't recommend them. Inovelli has had major issues with stock in the past, but otherwise makes a good product.
445.
by pathartl 6y ago
Not to mention that Apple setting a standard of throttling at 100c and not giving the machines adequate cooling affects performance in a non-trivial fashion.
446.
by pathartl 6y ago
I think this is RIP to the Mac Pro for anyone that cares about extensibility. I can't see Apple making a board with a socketed CPU of their own silicon. I'd even say something like RAM would be a stretch.
447.
by pathartl 6y ago
I agree. I also hate the sentiment "vote with your wallet". By all means, send them a message by not buying their products, that surely will do something. However, it's also important to give feedback in written form either d
448.
by pathartl 6y ago
The community has ported a bunch of native stuff and it still performs poorly.
449.
by pathartl 6y ago
I love what Pine is trying to do, but man those A53 CPUs and Mali-400 GPUs are really pretty crummy. Similarly spec'd Allwinner chips were on the PlayStation Classic and Nintendo Classic microconsoles.
450.
by pathartl 6y ago
3-4 years ago it wasn't difficult at all to replace macOS with pretty much any EFI-enabled OS. Moving to a proprietary ARM CPU/GPU will probably result in not being able to write applications unless it's using Apple's to

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