Apple wants the world to know.... that it sells over priced shiny shit that can't hold a candle to a properly specced X86 machine.
Posts by The Central Scrutinizer
409 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2017
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club
Western Digital wasn't the only one - Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks
I once worked for a Telco/ISP.
Walked in one morning and several screens were displaying a "no signal" message. My so called manager was in a panic and was on hold to tech support saying "we have to get this problem fixed".
I sat at one of the machines displaying the message and got it up and running. When the manager asked me how I fixed it I went into smug mode and said "I turned the computer on".
She quickly terminated the call with tech support.
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Well, I'll be watching my gloriously dumb Sony until it dies.
This enshitificatio of everything is seriously bloody out of control. I believe some TVs won't let you use them unless you agree to all the tracking. How's that for "informed consent"?!
Cars are out of control too, sending all sorts of telemetry to the mother ship, from where it's siphoned off to scumbag advertisers.
And the mega corps wonder why we hate them so much.
Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?
Re: Woa - desktops = production??
Yeah but I do actual real work on my PC. Not just email and browsing yada yada. Graphics intensive 3D stuff and video editing.
As long as my PC supplier of choice exists I will still be speccing my computers with the hardware I want.
Thanks for the downvotes, whoever did that.
Numpties.
Re: Woa - desktops = production??
"In other words, 5Y or so, you may still have things that *look* like desktops, but in fact, they're sealed boxes, non-expandable... but you can use your own keyboard and mouse and screens. Which is still worth having, but it's only a small part of what's worth having."
So the options for those of us who carefully spec their machines with particular CPUs, graphics cards etc are just going to dry up?
I think not.
AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that
AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand
Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line
AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords
Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha
We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?
FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them
Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails
Ah the Amiga
I went from a C64 to an A500 and then an A4000 in fairly quick succession. It had a 120 meg hard drive and 4 meg of RAM. The power!
The Video Toaster came bundled with LightWave, which was used to create the Babylon 5 models and various effects. The station, the jump gate, the Starfuries etc etc.Babylon 5 inspired me to get into 3D graphics and when Newtek started selling stand alone LightWave, I bought my first copy of it and was hooked.
I still have my March 1993 copy of Amazing Computing magazine where Ron Thornton and Paul Beigle-Bryant talk about setting up Foundation Imaging to create the B5 universe.
They really were heady days for those of us getting into 3D graphics, but eventually of course, Commodore screwed it all up.
I always get a bit misty eyed when I think back to those early days of 3D and how good the Amigas were.
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
US 'laptop farm' man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Korea to fund weapons programs
Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'
Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows
"Mint, on the other hand, is prone to problems, and it's hardly supported at all. There is little written about how to work with Mint, almost none of it up todate, and little other support on the Internet. When you ask for help on Mint forums with any problem you get told "reinstall". Its developers clearly don't care at all. The operating system and its files are arranged completely differently, which is quite unecessary and must have been done deliberately to make it hard to work with Mint under the hood, since Mint is basically Ubuntu with the desktop made more attractive and user friendly. This means that usually the solution to problems in Ubuntu don't work in Mint."
That is all just flat out wrong.
In just over 10 years of using Mint I have had one audio problem with it. That's it. If you don't like Mint just say so, but don't spread untruths about it.
Nvidia's next Linux driver to be… just as open
Wow, all the hate for nVidia. I am running an nVidia card with Mint, using the proprietary driver and it ... works very well, as in, not a problem at all
I'm rendering 3D scenes with the GPU and it's as smooth as. As far as game performance goes I have no idea as I don't play graphics heavy games.
I don't get all bent out of shape about being "pure" and refusing to run the proprietary driver as I like to use what gets the job done.
Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man
Assange may not be the nicest person on the planet, but the insane level of rage against him here is pathetic, to say the least.
He and WikiLeaks exposed American war crimes.
It is a bad day when journalism is being punished. Trump has repeatedly threatened to go after journalists if he's re-elected.
Think about that for a millisecond, if you can.