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)

Netflix price hikes are getting out of hand. I'm seriously considering cancelling at this point. It's the cost of TWO streaming services now for me.

Firefox is still more cross-platform than chrome. Firefox will build on several of the BSDs, but not all of them. It will build on many other operating systems as well but they must have a rust compiler, unfortunately. Google won't take upstream patches for anything but the big 3... win/mac/linux. For some people, that is computing now but the reality is that Google is killing the little guy and they love it.

The number one complaint I get is about browsers. Can't upstream to Chromium. Too small for firefox. LLVM wants me to buy them servers to get upstreamed. That is a dependency for rust. What does this all mean? I have to spend 2 weeks port LLVM. A few weeks on rust. A few months on firefox. Meanwhile, I can get a new webkit building in a few hours. Mozilla needs to stop fighting open source and embrace it. Take the patches. Work with people. Be the exclusive browser in more places. Push it forward. Get momentum among tech oriented people again. People ask us what to use. We tell them what we use. It's that simple.

webkit exists. it's the basis for safari, gnome web (epiphany), and midori. We should be focusing on getting that up to snuff because it's the only thing that's tolerable to port to different platforms.

Firefox is a mess. it needs rust. It has thousands of ifdef os checks throughout the code. It's not thought out. It doesn't assume a default of a unix like os in many places which is much more common than anything else.

You can spend months porting firefox now. It used to take a few weeks. It's a nightmare to work with. They won't take upstream patches for smaller OS projects. That mean reporting over and over and over and over.

On platforms that firefox supports, it's actually not terrible aside from losing features over time. That's the most frustrating part. I think I'm two features away from being able to switch to firefox as my primary on some of the OSes I use.
1. Easier integration with yubikey. It does support it but it's a hassle whereas it just works in chrome.
2. CASTING. If i could cast content to a chromecast without using chrome it would be awesome.

This is also true for most languages in the last few decades. Look at PHP. it was break after break up through 7.x. 4.x to 5.x was really bad. Rust devs love to keep adding/modify and then expect everyone to do yearly upgrades. Go lang is the same way.

The biggest problem with the python upgrade from 2.x to 3.x is all the build software on top of 2.x. So many apps depend on python code to build including X.org, Gnome, Chrome and it's variants, etc. I just recently started deprecating large parts of python 2.x modules in my OS. Still issues with that too. So much software has to be removed from package repos due to this.

Luckily people are starting to wise up. Ninja is being rewritten in C now as samurai. Hoping many of the other tools are as well. Can't take the hit again with python 4.

Isn't that a feature in this case?