You may not like windows, and that is your opinion, but to say running windows is unprofessional is very myopic. Windows provides a number of business friendly features that simply do not have a comparable alternative in linux or macs. I'll chalk that up to just anti-Microsoft hate, and a naive view of business needs and the current business landscape.

As for TPM in VMs, that is overblown. You can install Windows 11 in any VM hypervisor that supports either TPM pass through or TPM emulation. If the VM hypervisor of your choice doesn't support either that is a limitation of your hypervisor -- switch to a better one.

To be fair, for most people, the 5900X is actually a better processor than the 5950X. The 5950X will perform worse in most cases for single threaded applications. It does eek out in multi-core, but then you have to deal with the additional thermal stress of the additional cores which will make it so it turbos up less and for shorter periods unless you have really good cooling (Beyond a decent 360mm AIO water cooler) and you do manual overclocking.

Just saying it is not totally wrong there in the 5900X vs 5950X comparison. If you don't believe me, go look at the real world benchmarks by other sources. Side by side with the same configurations, the 5900X will put up more FPS in games than the 5950X.

I think you are looking at the wrong metrics. First, the 5950X is a 16-core processor, not 8, so it's a 6-core processor vs 16-core, and each core is ~47% more efficient. 16 / 6 * 1.47 = 3.92.

I think the 47% more efficient is a little on the low side, but I took it from your link:

Well considering that I have a similar system currently sitting in the corner of my home office because I upgraded from it about a year ago, I'd say it is a crappy old computer. It got replaced by a AMD 5900X and I can honestly say it is much faster in every metric -- single core, multi core, memory bandwidth, performance per watt.

Good news is I was able to remove the power supply, 2080TI, NVMe drives, and memory for re-use in my new build.

If you think linux exploitation is rare you obviously aren't looking.

I have no sympathy for google ever since they bought out Nest and then made all the Nest products incompatible with all the open APIs they already supported like IFTT.

You are correct, this is not what you consider full self driving.

But you are incorrect when you say it's not what anyone is asking for. There are a lot of people who are asking for it. Yes, they want even more, but they want this, now. And it's one step closer to what you want, which is full self driving from beginning to end where the car may not even have a steering wheel or pedals anymore. You can't get there without going here first.

Uh huh.

I think you missed the point.

For tasks that can use more than 10 cores (how many of these do you ever do?), then the higher core count AMD parts will perform better than the Intel counterparts. However, for all the other tasks, which includes 99.9% of what people use desktops for, including gaming, then the Intel parts will perform better.

And yes, the 10900k will perform better than the 10700k and the 9900k.

For servers and workstations, you'd be correct. For gamers and most productivity tasks, then no. Games and productivity tasks (and many others), single threaded performance is everything, and while AMD has made large gains, they still lag here. They are still behind by about 15% (on average, some tests are closer to 34%) in IPC (Instructions per Clock), and they can't seem to get their clock frequencies up (4.7GHz vs 5.2GHz) which hits them for another 11% disadvantage.

Considering how far Zen2 came, most industry experts are expecting Zen3 to be when AMD finally catches up, or is really close unless Intel does something, which at this point most people are expecting that they aren't going to. Zen2 did beat Intel to the PCIe 4.0 punch. Hopefully they maintain that by releasing PCIe 5.0 with Zen 3.

It really wasn't quite that simple. Windows 98 just added another layer of security, which prevented mapping all the IO ports in a DOS VM, but that change didn't really affect whether it was running under or over MSDOS.

Or windows NT 3.1.

The last project I did was machine learning with natural language and it used SQL.

I have to agree. I was originally turned off on all the supposed wokeness in the teasers and pre-release hype, but still decided to see it anyhow because I actually like the Harley Quinn character and hoped they would do something with it.

Robbie did a great job, but she was handed a terrible script with a silly plot. How the director even let some of these things slip past I'll never know. It was so comedic the near-end movie "team up" where even a washed up policeman utterly destroys a near army of bikers and thugs was just so unbelievable and out of place you couldn't help but land up scratching your head wondering wtf.

It was definitely a less than a "Meh" movie, even without all the wokeness it promised to have (and the movie really didn't.. much). Yes, the bad guy (played by Ewan McGregor) was unbelievable. Again, it wasn't his acting. He played the woman hating, moronic, bafoon quite well.

A better script, a better director, and a better marketing team and this could have been a great movie. Shame.

Why are YOU bringing up the first amendment?

1) This was a ruling in France which doesn't observe laws in the US.
2) If this was in the US, this still wouldn't be first amendment related. Please go back and read it again.