Since getting my latest work machine (a T14G3 AMD) and being forced to figure out modern standby (they've removed the BIOS option for S3 sleep), I've found that setting the machine to hibernate after an hour or so is the only way to preserve your battery in a bag over night.
Modern standby itself is a complete clusterfuck....
The cost going down has a lot to do with economies of scale... we'll still have price decreases as the newer technologies become more widely adopted - but the performance gains between each generation will start to diminish.
Kinda sucks for people like GPU or CPU manufacturers, but hey... maybe game developers will start optimizing titles a little
Replying to undo wrong moderation... whoops. This entire thread is quite insightful and I accidentally hit redundant
My only real problem with LED lights is that they are frequently much brighter than they actually need to be, i.e. my LED headlights seem to piss off other drivers.
That's actually partly once again due to the color spectrum. The bluer the LED, the brighter it appears to the human eye, which is why cheap flashlights and "High power super LED" car headlights are never warm-white. Unfortunately, the colder (bluer) the light, the more painful it is for oncoming traffic in the relative darkness.
The fact that they're also overly bright doesn't help things, of course.
I'm still driving one of the last generations that came with actual halogen headlights and even for me as the driver it's a much nicer experience - while dimmer than LED, the color reproduction is better, depth perception at high speed (I live in Germany) feels more in line with daylight (this is particularly jarring in an LED-equipped rental car, IMO) and the more natural spill pattern (i.e. a slight hotspot in front of the car and gradual falloff to the sides) from the single light source with a reflector means roadsigns don't blind me at night.
When (well-implemented!) adaptive LED headlights with warm color temperatures and zero PWM are the standard on something like a Dacia Sandero I'll take another look. Until then, halogen baby!
Finally, you have to ask, "why bother" with chasing 80 Gbps speeds. Almost no storage device in a common PC can send or receive at that speed. Maybe a M.2 PCIE drive or maybe transmitting directly to or from RAM. But just like USB 3 and USB 2 before it the bottleneck is the storage which usually can't read, and certainly can't write, at those speeds anyway.
If everyone thought that way we'd still have "full speed" USB at 12MBit/s on everything. USB PD would be a distant pipe dream. It's called forward-thinking development.
As for the applications: 80GBit is 10GByte/sec... things like high refresh rate high resolution displays will eat that up in a heartbeat. nVME SSDs are hitting 7GByte/sec, bumping up against the PCIe 4.0 limits. Why would you not want to be able to put those SSDs in an external housing and access them at full speed? Have you never used a portable hard drive and wished it was as fast as the internal storage in your machine?
I did not know that. Thanks for clearing that up!
Screw that, Firefox has become a viable option on Android and they have full add-on support. That includes uBlock Origin...
IMO: That single project is or was Ubuntu, and according to power users (not myself - I'm running Ubuntu LTS builds on all my non-Windows machines and I'm very much *not* a Linux power user) it's already failed because "Ew Canonical and SNAP".
As long as power users jump ship and fork a la "I'll build my own distro, with blackjack... and hookers!" as soon as something doesn't go their way, we'll never reach a single default Linux desktop for everyone. It sometimes even seems like power users don't want this and are actively working against it - running something that not many people run or requires a lot of time and skill to set up and use seems to be like a badge of honor...
It's amazing how much better the Android-based experience is when there aren't ads and trackers and things popping up to annoy me.
What you're describing isn't an Android-based experience, but rather the Samsung experience.
It's not just SaaS. A lot of software (FOSS, SaaS or otherwise) updates automatically these days... if you don't read changelogs religiously every time your updater pops up you'll find things like this happening on many applications across many platforms.
Whether it's Linux distros with their repositories, mobile devices with their app stores, Windows updating first-party software through Windows Update or just individual applications auto-updating through their own proprietary update routines on startup, devs can remove or cripple existing features at any time.
Your choices? Fork or run an outdated version that still has the functionality you require.
With the current pricing of desktop hardware the price/performance gap is shrinking.
Depends what part of the world you're in and your specific ISP (or the infrastructure they're leasing). The last mile of telephone wire vs. coax is only half the story - here in my part of Germany, the cable network back-end is pretty flaky (ping & jitter issues, especially when you're stuck on a 6-to-4 connection and things like gaming servers are stlil IPv4 only). The (V)DSL / jank-ass-phone-wire network on the other hand, while slower in terms of overall bandwidth, is rock solid because the infrastructure behind it is better.
Anecdotal evidence, of course, from my own connections throughout the past 20 years or so as well as friends and family...
How else would chords work?
Have you owned a Thinkpad? Or just Dell and HP? Because the trackpoints on Thinkpads are the only usable ones, IMO. Huge productivity boost for text-heavy workflows.
... I've already switched to Linux on my personal systems. Only one left is the gaming PC and that's switching directly from Win10 to Linux in 2025 at the latest.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
