While your risk tolerance might be low, I want security updates to my bios.

I'm sure some of them do. Tech has a lot of people with strong political beliefs, but they're not all Democrats. There are quite a few libertarians who often vote for Republicans. Executives vote more for republicans at these firms and I'm sure the company will put money into Republicans in the area.

They just had a qualcomm rep get interviewed on PC World's youtube channel this week. They spent 20 minutes not discussing details about what it could do. It was obvious that the interviewer was asked not to ask about many things. He was struggling to ask questions without breaking the unknown rules agreed to.

The only answer was that 'casual games will work and maybe a few AAA titles'. He mentioned a few workloads like resolve and audio creation. I have no idea if this thing will actually work for software development. In a work context, I do java + docker stuff all day long. Will that even work? How fast? On a personal level, I need good virtualization performance. No idea if it even has VT acceleration.

The first info about these things was that it was for casual consumer and business use only. I am confused at this point what the target demographic is for these laptops.

Exactly this. They also have situations where some firmware for products they sell requires running Windows long enough to install it. Kind of annoying if you are buying for Linux or *BSD use.

I bought a laptop last year that I absolutely hate. I was trying to save money over a framework or thinkpad. Big mistake. I'd like to see them get the bios issues resolved so I can consider one to replace this POS HP Victus.

First, we've seen foreign investment scams before like the foxconn deal. Once washington doesn't care about this anymore, we'll be back to square one. Second, we also need a packaging plant built in the US or there's no point in this plant. If they have to ship chips outside of the country to be packaged, they are just wasting shipping time. That should have been a requirement for grants. Finally, it would have made more sense to put the money into Intel from a national security perspective. What if china invades taiwan in the future and we have no chip production?

It doesn't compare to gas powered cars though. Did they sell fewer gas powered cars too?

I know a lot of people who have been putting off buying a car in hopes that interest rates would drop. I'm actually in that camp. The fed has been very slow to drop rates and it's likely not going back down to where it was a few years ago. However, cars have doubled in price and interest rates added to that make them a non-starter for many people. My car is 10 years old at this point. I want a new one. I'm not even against buying an EV other than the price. I'm more likely to buy a hybrid or gas powered vehicle though because I don't want to spend 50k.

The movie model is already a problem. They misuse the word 'buy' to mean extended rental. Apple and other companies lose rights and then steal the content from you that you paid for. It's not clear to the end user. NBC Universal is particularly bad about revoking content every few years to force a re-buy. They don't even tell you your content is going to disappear.

Then there's the streaming model where it's impossible to find what you want to watch. If you don't want to watch something specific, it's great. Random stuff on random subscriptions. If you do want to watch a specific movie or tv show, it's a nightmare to find it. Imagine that but for games. Yuck.

Microsoft and Qualcomm are going to need to help and possibly pay companies to migrate apps over to ARM quickly. The entire adobe suite is one example, but there are many others if they want their apple M1 downgrade moment. For apple, blowing off gamers didn't matter too much and it cost them counter strike. Microsoft actually needs gamers. Where's the ARM kit and compatibility toolkit for that? Did anyone get valve on board? Epic? Activision Blizzard?

Arm based macs are only good at youtube video creation now. Apple decided they didn't care about huge groups of users. They can still make profit. Is microsoft ok with mass pissing off people? Are they going to do it poorly like windows mobile? Break APIs when it doesn't work so you lose progress?

In my view, microsoft has to be all in on this or it's going to fail quickly. That means moving every segment of the market into arm from gamers to business apps to cad to AI/ML workloads and developers. When I say developers, I don't just mean people who are developing windows apps either. I mean Java devs, php devs, python devs, front end devs, AI/ML devs, etc. Apple partially failed at this and still has crap docker support on arm, and virtualization is a joke. Microsoft can't do that if they want to succeed.

Coverage is still terrible. My wife has an iPhone with 5G support and it rarely works in 5G and we're in a college town. What's the point of buying a phone for 5G when it's not accessible?

5G is the only reason I've considered buying an upgrade for my iPhone XR, but it's just not worth it until networks expand a bit more.

10 bucks says Microsoft will start advertising defender is protecting you in game after their aquisition. (Game screen technology)

CCS can go up to around 400kW. Well, actually I think it is 500kW now. Which is 1000VDC x 400A or 500A.

Most BEVs canâ(TM)t go that high. In fact, I think there are only one or two that can actually max out current 350kW chargers for any decent amount of time. Neither of Them T

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Yes, but nobody fast DC charges to 100%. The charge rate drops modestly past 60% and precipitously above 80%. So people only charge to 60-80% and no more. Usually 30-40 minutes max. And if your final destination is close and destination charging is available, only enough to get there. So for trips just beyond the vehicle range, the charging stop can be very short, like 10-15 minutes.

At home, or at a destination, people will charge to 100% overnight if they will be taking a long trip the next day, and otherwise only charge to 70% or 80%. Unless itâ(TM)s a model 3 with a LFP battery, in which case people charge to 100% overnight.

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Yah. The connector standard has settled down, which is good. Chargers are typically only able to do AC or DC anyway, not both. CCS on the vehicle allows both J1772 (AC only) and also has the extra pins for high amperage DC.

L1 (120VAC) 11-16A (in vehicle charger)
L2 (240VAC) 24-80A (in vehicle charger)
L3 (was never implemented)
Fast DC charging, direct DC to battery, dynamically managed up to 1000VDC and 500A.

Limited by the lower of what the external unit can supply and the vehicle can accept.

Chademo is being steadily removed. The cable standard was too limited. So if you own an old leaf, you need to start carrying around an adapter.

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I apologize for the (TM) junk. I donâ(TM)t know why the iPad is doing that. It isnâ(TM)t in my edit box.

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Iâ(TM)m sure it is looked at. The bigger fast DC chargers have to be located near fairly hefty distribution lines (several thousand volts AC is preferred), in order to be able to situate a sufficient number of DC supplies at a location. A DC fast charger outputs 300VDC to 1000VDC based on the vehicleâ(TM)s battery pack requirements, and up to 500A. All dynamically controlled via continuous communication with the vehicle.

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