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build quality on most $1000 laptops

You're not kidding.

I have a couple of laptops from various vendors, and they're all built like shit.

ASUS is especially eyerolly: the case is literally crumbling into pieces. Like seriously? You couldn't have picked a material that's not literally going to disintegrate in two years on a $1200 laptop?

They state the code will be released after the first orders ship, which makes a certain kind of sense given this is a competitive space suddenly.

Though, I 10000% agree that there's no reason to take a leap of faith when you can just wait like, uh, a month, and see what they do after release. It's not like they won't still be selling these or something.

What techbros want, I guess?

Right, but you're pulling way more power than the homeserver I'm running is, and at 10-15w it's doing frigate + openvino based (on the igpu) identification on 4 cameras, usually 2 jellyfin streams at any given time, 4 VMs, home assistant, and ~80 other containers plus a couple of on-host services for NAS duties (smb, nfs, ftp, afp, nginx, etc.)

I was just surprised that a Ryzen U-series chip would be worse re. power usage.

You know, I think I did the thing I always do and forget how bad the idle power for Ryzen cpus are due to how they're architected.

Like, my home server is a 10850k, which is a CPU known for using 200+w... except that, of course, at idle/normal background loads it's sitting at more like 8-15w. I did some tweaking to tell it to both respect it's TDP and also adjusting turbo boost to uh, don't, but still: it's shockingly efficient after fiddling.

I wouldn't have expected a 5500u to sit at 30w under normal loads, but I suppose that depends on the load?

It’s now almost 8 years since AMD revealed Ryzen, and Intel still can’t beat it.

That feels a slight bit unfair.

For non-gaming workloads, they're basically sitting on par or better because of the giant pile of e-cores, and for single-threaded performance (on p-cores) they're also on par to slightly ahead.

Sure, the x3d chips are the gaming kings and no argument here, but that's not moving volume - even AMD is all-in on the datacenter side because their gaming/consumer side sales have evaporated into nothingness.

Intel's problem isn't an inability to design CPUs that are competitive, it's an inability to create production-ready processes that are competitive with TSMC.

At some point they're going to have to decide if spending endless billions on processes that aren't competitive is the best use of their resources. Owning the ability to make your product is super important, but for certain market segments (client desktop and laptop) maybe going 'fuck it' and fabbing on the best process you can find so that your CPUs come out competitive is probably the way to go - and, honestly, is pretty much already what they've done with ARL.

I'd also maybe agree that the pricing is an issue: they're not industry-leading anymore but they've kept that pricing which almost immediately makes them less appealing than AMD if you don't need something Intel is offering you (like the accelerators in scalable Xeons or whatever). ARL immediately made me go 'How much? What the bleep?' when they announced pricing, because uh, they're way off on what they really should be asking.

Ryzen 7, so definitely not a low power

It's a laptop chip, and a 15w one at that so I wouldn't exactly say that's high-power.

I don't really think it's necessarily a deal breaker, but it's caused a lot of people a lot of nagging little issues and might be worth making sure you're not going to run into anything.

I'm super stoked at the appearance of the nas appliance form factor with hardware that's got performance that isn't rotten potato level.

Next rebuild I do is certainly going to be one of these things, though that's probably a billion years away since my current nas is hilariously overpowered.

Private APIs that "trusted sites" have access to that can make all sorts of browser-level changes?

So many questions:

1. Why in the hell? No, seriously what big-brain was involved in the idea that some site needs that level of access to my browser?
2. Who didn't see this coming? I mean if you make basically a secret back door, of COURSE your shit's getting pwnt as soon as someone else notices it.

Also note to self: don't install Opera I guess.

I don't think a change in testing on YouTube for the last few days made any difference to the number of people who used PeerTube last month.

I like PeerTube and use it where I can, but it's still basically the content problem, which is to say there's no content on PeerTube from anyone I follow on Youtube with the exception of one dude. (Hi Jan Beta!)

I watch mostly tech/retro tech/retro gaming/random old crap Youtube stuff so it's a big overlap in user bases, but, well, no monetization means there's no incentive for people who do that as a job so there's still... nothing there.

Youtube won't make a critical screw up that'll tilt the scales meaningfully in the favor of other platforms unless they massacre payouts to the point that Patreon and sponsor funded creators no longer care about Google's pennies, and will be more receptive to at least parallel uploads to other platforms.

The user experience is unlikely to enshittify enough that creators decide to bail from the google money, no matter what they do.

Looks like it's a i226-v nic, which uh, has a reputation for being kinda shit.

It's not a universal problem, but it's probably something to keep in mind.

Fresh groundwater is shockingly limited and slow to replenish and unlike ai slop, you'll die without it.

We have lots of water, sure, but most of it isn't drinkable without even more power being burned to make it that way.

Cute how he keeps calling the people fired employees.

Pretty sure they're not once you've fired them.

Mine's running just fine (along with about a dozen other things) on the A1/ARM instance you can get for free.

I wouldn't say performance is stunningly good - the Ampere cores aren't especially fast single threaded, and postgres is.... well, it's not the most threaded thing ever under really low loads - but it does what it's supposed to.

So don't take this as rude, but if none of you have experience running email for a business, you're probably better off contracting that part out.

It's a lot of work to get working, keep working, and is prone to exploding for no particular reason so if this is a business-critical component, it's worth the $20 a month to get it hosted where making your email actually deliver to people's inbox is someone else's problem.

Same for the business website: if it being down is going to cost money, a simple static page like that is hostable for literally free with cloudflare or netlify or any of a couple of other providers, and that's probably what I'd do. (And, frankly, is what I do with a lot of stuff I host.)

As for storing and accessing remote documents, if you pay for gsuite or office365, you'll get that included in the price, so like uh, that might be the best way to go.

I know this is literally not what you asked, but....

If you have a credit card and can pass their validation, Oracle offers a shockingly good set of free cloud options.

4 core, 24gb ram ARM instance, two potato epyc instances, 200gb of disk space and 10tb of transfer and various other little bits and pieces for the grand total of $0.

Some people have had their accounts closed for "no reason", but I'm closing in on 2 years of free shit with no problems, so ymmv.

(I strongly suspect no reason has a reason and a huge number of these people were running VPNs, so I'd wager they either did something stupid/illegal, or someone they gave access to did something stupid/illegal.)

Finally, a power button my stupid cats can't sit on and turn the computer off with.

Laptop? Oh yeah, they'll turn that off. Gaming desktop? Yep, but only if it's annoying for them to have done so. Home server? Yes, but only because they know that's the most annoying thing to power cycle.

Been an OS X user since, well, the preview release.

It really scratches the need-a-unixish-userspace and wants-a-gui-that-makes-some-damn-sense itches really well.

It's hardly perfect, but it's a case where 95% of things work 95% of the time, leaving me to do what I meant to do, and not figure out what stupid thing is broken and what I'm supposed to do to un-broken it.

Modern desktop Linux, especially if you ditch Gnome and go with KDE, is shockingly close, until you run into something that just plain is missing. I can't say I've had an experience like that with OS X so it's staying on the desktop until I do and/or linux makes me an offer I can't refuse.

I will say if you're into "tweaking" shit and customizing everything and enjoy fiddling with the OS endlessly for the sake of fiddling you're probably not going to like OS X. It's more of a 'set your settings, and then don't touch anything' kind of experience.

I totally don't need this, and I guess my big, loud, hot, noisy, annoying desktop is finally stable so I don't reeeeallllly have any justification there but somehow I still preordered.

...and got the trackpad.

Be nice to be free of both Windows and Linux on the desktop - sorry guys: <3 Linux-the-Server but not Linux-the-Desktop, even after 25 years of trying to.

Maybe?

It depends on if the added functions are software-based, or if there's some hardware funkery going on.

Given it's a consumer product, I'd wager it's just a drive in an enclosure that does all their mirroring/backups/encryption stuff in software, but their marketing material doesn't seem to say one way or the other.

Google indicates older versions can be reformatted, so I'd bet that's still true.

If I'm wrong it's not my fault, etc.