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601.
by sliken 4y ago
There's two aspects of the apple advantage for me. The first is apple hardware is reliably nice. It's just done right, with minimal corners cut. Full aluminum body (not plastic), great screen (bright, high resolution, great colo
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by sliken 4y ago
Bandwidth on the macs is pretty good. M2 = 100GB/sec peak, M2 pro = 200GB/sec peak, M2 Max = 400GB/sec peak. A $3k lenovo thinkpad p16 uses DDR4-4800 or 76.8GB/sec peak. That also ignores the arm relaxes memory model,
603.
by sliken 4y ago
Over the years I've seen numerous thinkpad tweaks for wifi, sleeping with the lid closed, restarting wifi on lid open, numerous tweaks for the function keys (audio up/down/mute, brightness up/down), clock speed/ther
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by sliken 4y ago
I believe 4k pages works with Asahi Linux today. However the CPU can do 4k and 16k pages, the GPU is 16k pages only. So you give up accelerated 3D to run 4k pages.
605.
by sliken 4y ago
Yes. Marcan, Asahi Lina, and related folks have been working on improving 3d accelerations. It's good enough for desktop use and some gaming so far, games like tuxracer, video playback, minecraft, etc. First the driver was in user sp
606.
by sliken 4y ago
I read a bunch of posts on that thread, but it wasn't clear to me the setup. Certainly seems possible that different implementations would have different CPU utilization, and impact the power supply differently. Not to mention RF noi
607.
by sliken 4y ago
Dunno, things are just starting. Ads benefit the ad network and the site. I don't see any reason GPT couldn't do similar.
608.
by sliken 4y ago
I've always wished I could have an ad free internet experience, I'd happily pay whatever revenue the ads would have generated. Would it be terrible is GPT replaced ads with subscriptions? Of course they'd have to split the i
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by sliken 4y ago
I think that was fixed a year or more ago. Just install new signal on new phone and when it launches it asks "migrate messages?". Click yes, the phone figure it out, and you approve the transfer on your old phone. I've done
610.
by sliken 4y ago
Not much != 0. How much are you paying for WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc?
611.
by sliken 4y ago
It's pretty common to buy/beg/borrow an old cell phone and just use it over wifi. Especially kids or anyone who is tight on money. Food/water/shelter ranks much higher than cell service and monthly server + Data p
612.
by sliken 4y ago
Indeed, sending a little invite, saying "Install signal ..." Sadly that's exactly what every phishing attack wants you to do.
613.
by sliken 4y ago
I do wonder whose fault it is though. Companies exist to make a profit. I'm sure some extra returns are caused by 3rd party laser and ink cartridges. I've personally seen a 3rd party toner cart have some kind of internal failure
614.
by sliken 4y ago
Sadly uselessly so. At least last I heard the updates prevent the known jailbreak, so no root for ps5 owners anymore.
615.
by sliken 4y ago
Heh, well, seems silly to have a 2 channel standard, 4 channel standard, and TWO 8 channel standards. The volumes don't justify it, and it's just a big waste of money. It contributes to expensive motherboards among other thing
616.
by sliken 4y ago
Light gaming seems common, asahi linux streams have have minecraft, tux racer, mario kart, and related. Seems like a fair amount of ML (both inference and training) going on. PyTouch now works with CPU, GPU, and AMX (via metal), and seen
617.
by sliken 4y ago
It does cost quite a bit more though. Otherwise everyone would ship 1k bit wide memory interfaces instead of 128 bit wide. Just look at the premium AMD and Intel charge for 256 bit wide memory, let alone 1024 bit wide. Xeon servers have 5
618.
by sliken 4y ago
Sadly they are hard to run Linux on 8-(.
619.
by sliken 4y ago
Depends, how cache friendly is your workload? The M1 ultra has more than 4x the memory bandwidth of the threadripper. Of course the GPU makes a big difference in cost and power use. If you need a 4090, there's nothing comparable. B
620.
by sliken 4y ago
It's an appealing platform. Entry level is $600, nice memory systems (66GB/sec to 800GB/sec), and nice iGPU. The laptops have nice keyboards, nice trackpads, nice screens, and great battery life. The desktops are built in
621.
by sliken 4y ago
How so? Memory bandwidth (peak, not stream) Ryzen 7950x = 84GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-5200 M1 = 66GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-4800 M2 = 100GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-6400 M1/M2 Pro = 20
622.
by sliken 4y ago
Depends, whats the GPU on the 7950x?
623.
by sliken 4y ago
Dunno, M1 max (400GB/sec twice a threadripper) fits in a thin laptop, performance well, and has a decent iGPU. That's more bandwidth than a threadripper, better iGPU then anything Intel/AMD ships, and still sips on the power
624.
by sliken 4y ago
That's the cost for 10x the memory bandwidth of the Ryzen 7950x.
625.
by sliken 4y ago
Sort of. Is the Linux kernel huge and has an amazing number of man years in it .... certainly. If starting over from scratch could you ignore most architectures, drivers, etc and support current hardware ... also yes. A new OS could skip 3
626.
by sliken 4y ago
Does Redox OS bring anything unique to the table, besides being written in Rust?
627.
by sliken 4y ago
Sure if you have $50k for a car, can charge at home, and want to drive 300 miles without charging then you need 1 ton (or so) of batteries. But as electrification improves, more charging stations, better autonomous driving, car sharing serv
628.
by sliken 4y ago
Not to mention XboxX and PS5, both use flavors of the AMD APU/iGPU. Sad that cheap consoles have better memory systems than any normal AMD/Intel box short of a Xeon, Epyc, or Threadripper.
629.
by sliken 4y ago
Possible. I had a fair amount of CPU going on, trying to keep 8 cores busy with SHA256(plaintext), encrypt, and SHA256(encrypted_blob). I was just trying to be straight forward, keep files queued, so that when a core went idle it could gr
630.
by sliken 4y ago
I was trying to shop various higher end intel iGPUs. Generally the premiums were so high than a low end Nvidia was much faster AND cheaper. They were somewhat lower power, but it was a pretty narrow space where Intel had the advantage.

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