Too bad, zoomers, nobody asking you a permission. In fact, you are the first digital surveillance generation that delivering steady stream of data from your birth to your death. It will greatly help to fine tune digital gulag your children (if any) will live in 30 years.
Readit Newsalexklarjr commented on Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication edri.org/our-work/press-r... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
alexklarjr commented on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU chipsandcheese.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/zdw
Wow I’m glad somebody is finally quantifying why the steam deck has terrible CPU performance. I thought it might be the tiny cache.
Many older games struggle to hit a consistent 60 FPS due to CPU limitations. With some testing you can usually figure out which options are mostly bottlenecked by the CPU.
There are some games, like Fallout 3, that will chug down towards 30 FPS in busy areas regardless of settings :/
I disagree, it is not really terrible, it is on par with i7 4770, i7 7700hq and even 10310u at two-four times less power consumed. 99% games are only needs 4 cores to achieve 60 fps, and apu is only limit for them at these extremely low TDP.
AMD put a decent apu for balance, and compare to 6800u with twice more cores and 1.5 more powerful apu, they only lose 10-20% while consuming 2 times less power.
Or for disgruntled slaveware users, who got pushed over the edge by the software companies ("Windows really trying to force you to use a micro$oft account these days", or "Apple rolling out their spyware to scan for photos on your phone and reporting to them despite saying not to"[1]).
1. https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
Ackchyually, apple only wanted to scan photos on your iphone so they can keep them encrypted in the cloud. They want to be compliant with laws, your government (people you never elected and never even seen on TV) constantly evolving to control you.
In 5 years Linux distros will have same scan features because it will be new law that outlaw to own a PC without connected surveillance. It just another regulation. Your car already have eCall spyware mic/gps tracker, so you won’t really care. You just be disgruntled about new AI robocalls inside Windows or new build of “voice control first” GNOME desktop on Ubuntu.
> systemd (the attempt to turn Linux into Windows)
systemd was actually inspired by launchd, not Windows. But I guess systemd, Windows and launchd do share one thing in common which is not having a bunch of bandaid shell scripts hanging the system together.
well, systemd “services” are just bunch of scripts and init files.
alexklarjr commented on Four ways to build web apps tomhummel.com/posts/four-... · Posted by u/tphummel
Why not PHP on a shared or dedicated hosted server?
and keep data on actual SQL server? No thanks, only boomers do it.
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alexklarjr commented on PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years tomshardware.com/news/pc-... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Intel’s naming convention on consumer parts is relatively easy to grok, as it’s been much more consistent for the last 12 years than their server/workstation parts.
Breaking both down we have 3 things to take note of:
i5/i7 - indicates relative performance or feature set within a given generation, bigger is generally better
13/7 - the generation of processor
600/700 - where Intel rates a given processor within a generation, this is consistent and doesn’t (to my knowledge) involve overlap between i3/5/7/9 - generally bigger is better.
So i5-13600 is a thirteenth gen i5, type 600. i7-7700 is a seventh gen i7, type 700
Then you get the legion of letter suffixes determining other features, mobile SKUs etc.
Also, “gens” are announcing/releasing during every year, starting 2010, so 7700 was released in 2016 and 13600 at the end of last year.
Performance gains are shifting unevenly sometimes there is marginal gains, sometimes (when AMD bites) it is much more. For example i7 2017 is equivalent of i3 from 2020.
alexklarjr commented on PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years tomshardware.com/news/pc-... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
A CPU a few years old is still good enough. If you have a limited budget and want the most bang for your buck, then stick with your old CPU and get a new GPU instead.
10 years old CPU (i7 4790) is still a decent and fully usable for everything except few unoptimised AAA games and jetbraing IDEs. It is performance equivalent to late 2021 mobile i5 10300h.
The gap between different CPUs lines is huge. Back in 2020 you could buy a new celeron n3060 laptop with performance of pentium dual core from 2006. It was a straight e-waste, but people actually did something on it.
alexklarjr commented on PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years tomshardware.com/news/pc-... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Dear any disenchanted Intel or AMD employees or executives reading,
I will buy a new CPU when you offer one without Intel (CS)ME / AMD Secure Technology (formerly PSP).
Until then, I will never buy a new x86 processor ever again.
Sincerely, - A larger chunk of your potential customers than you think
I think their processors are not including management engine, so you are safe to buy one. The management engine that included in chipsets can be switched off permanently.
In general usage, it does not matter while you use third party controlled CAs, distro repositories and automatic updates, not speaking about microsoft, google, nvidia, valve, mozilla spyware that can do anything with your data anytime they (or US/EU government agencies) want.
alexklarjr commented on Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control techspot.com/news/97535-w... · Posted by u/jlpcsl
I am pretty sure that WoW, a game from 2004, doesn't require DirectX 12 ? (Heck, even with engine upgrades, they probably still support DirectX 9 ?)
>Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial framerate improvement. After seeing such performance wins for their gamers running DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Blizzard wanted to bring wins to their gamers who remain on Windows 7, where DirectX 12 was not available.
>At Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems