IPC, or instructions per clock. So how many instructions it can process per Hz.
And which instructions it supports. For example AVX512 can speed up bulk data processing in specific applications that support it.
With all these complications the only way to really compare CPUs accurately is to benchmark the programs or games you intend to run on them. Obviously this is not realistic so reviewers benchmark a few varied real world programs, games and artificial tests. Those results usually extrapolate fairly well to other, similar software.
Even "heavy" linux distros are easy to run for a pc capable of running and streaming modern games. Lightweight distros are mostly relevant for older or underpowered hardware.
Besides what people already pointed out about individual's wealth, I also want to mention the US has a lot of debt with other countries and institutions. Those would get very upset if it looks like the government can no longer pay those debts.
I agree. My previous phone was a OnePlus 7 Pro, the last one with a pop-up camera. I only ever used that camera as a party trick, didn't take a single real photo with it. The only reason I switched to Motorola edge 50 is because the OnePlus hadn't gotten security updates in 2 years and it's second battery was also starting to degrade. I'd use an aftermarket ROM but my banking app probably won't like that.
The Motorola is fine I guess. The punch hole doesn't often get in the way. But it'll never be quite as cool as the 7 pro..
The easy path to getting storefronts like EA working is through Lutris. It does all the setup for you through guided wizards. I can't help much with deciding a distro tho, I've been using Fedora for years and that works well enough but is not exactly gaming focussed.
There are benchmarks on the huggingface page. The larger model is close to GPT4o performance. Which makes this worse than deepseek-r1. But it is a smaller model and not a reasoning model (doesn't use up extra tokens to "think"). So still very impressive and important for open source.
Belgian here. We have not fallen to fascism. I would not call NVA extreme right, just right. That would be Vlaams Belang, who also got a lot of votes to be fair but they're not part of the government coalition because none of the other parties want to work with those nutcases. There is a coalition of parties. Because we have a healthy number of parties to vote for, no single party ever gets the majority vote. Five parties just signed a coalition agreement. That's why Belgium has the record for being the longest without a government. It takes a long time for these parties to come to an agreement but it also means more balanced policies.
Things change slowly in Belgian government, we don't get big swings from left to right. But that doesn't make for good headlines.
You can know that, statistically, you are more likely to be mugged by a minority. And then there is also knowing that treating people badly based on those statistics just makes the problem worse.
Playing devil's advocate here. Mouse movements and key presses have been commonly used as bot detection method for a decade now. Like that captcha service that is just a checkbox, that's part of how they guessed that you are not a bot.
IPC, or instructions per clock. So how many instructions it can process per Hz. And which instructions it supports. For example AVX512 can speed up bulk data processing in specific applications that support it.
With all these complications the only way to really compare CPUs accurately is to benchmark the programs or games you intend to run on them. Obviously this is not realistic so reviewers benchmark a few varied real world programs, games and artificial tests. Those results usually extrapolate fairly well to other, similar software.