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First line of the summary: "The latest RISC-V port..."

The headline writer seemingly thought the word "port" was unnecessary or redundant. That's its own problem.

Just like squirrels!

I've played around with ePub text to speech using some different AI voice generators.

You are absolutely correct that it doesn't always get the inflection and the tone 100% correct, but some of the voices do a very good. Pacing, intontation, pitch--these are all in play, and the tech is getting better, rapidly.

Someone released a mod for World of Warcraft that voices all of the old unvoiced parts from the last 20 years. It's pretty darn good! They could use some more diversity in voices, but I'm very excited to see the continued innovation in text to speech over the next few years.

Hundreds of cops for 4 months for €10M?

And how it has a large possible attack surface.

And systemd *doesn't*!?

Is that for the Dell? Wow, that steep for a lowend model, even by Apple standards.

Macbook is:

8gb model $999
16gb model $1199 (also includes 2 more GPU cores)
24gb model $1499

Macbook Pro 16"

18gb model $2499
36gb model $2899
48gb model $3799 (!) (4 more CPU cores, 22 more GPU cores)
64gb model $3999
128gb model $4799 (holy crap)

Apple has been infamous for charging very inflated rates for memory upgrades for memory years.

Back in the Steve Jobs day it was almost comical how every bump up in model came with just enough features to REALLY convince you to spend the extra $. The upgrades were usually pretty compelling.

Today most Apple models are differentiated only by ram and disk sizes, and then cpu/gpu cores, and cpu/gpu cores probably don't realistically matter to 90% of buyers. Obviously my made up statistic...

I do agree that e-waste, in general, is a huge problem, but Apple is also one of the better players in terms of taking electronics back and recycling (or at least pretending to recycle!) them.

I purchase computers for a ~30-40 person company. Apples tend to last about twice as long as the PCs we buy (Dells mostly, some Surfaces). The modern Apples from the last ~10 years have been some of the longest lasting models I've seen. It's true across the industry, but we basically have no reason to upgrade anymore until the hardware dies. Our older Intel computers are going to be forcibly aged out in the next couple of years, unfortunately, but for our workloads, we should be good for some time.

Are you me? That sounds eerily similar to my, IIRC, 2008 MBP. I think I did every single one of those replacements except for the wifi daughterboard (certainly SSD, memory, battery, fan replacement, replaced optical drive with an extra SSD, etc). After one fall and crack that loosened a screen connector I had a mini industrial strength clip holding the bottom left corner of the screen together.

Having said that, my current MBP is a 2017 and I have not had a single thing go wrong with it. 7 years in and the battery is still over 80% of capacity. I don't like the Touchbar, but other than that, this thing is about perfect. I do miss tinkering, but I have raspberry pi, arduino, etc., for that now.

Interesting. I thought I thought a change along these lines had already happened. ScummVM has been on the AppStore for a couple of months now. You can hook it up to cloud services (Dropbox etc) or copy files from iCloud/etc to ScummVM storage on the ipad. It works really well.

They're expensive as shit.

Or Larry Wall of Perl. Was a music and chemsitry major, ultimately did linguistics and language.

I'm also a Liberal Arts major and grad schooler. I was 2 classes shy of an undergrad computer science major (2 prereq math classes I didn't care to take) and I've never felt that has held me back!

I'm running OCLP on a 2017 imac and it runs about 98% fine. The 2% is that occasionally, like once a month or so it will fail to wake up from sleep. I haven't had to disable anything. I guess ther eare some issues with the old GPUs in the 2014 model? What did you have to disable?

Which hypervisor?

But streaming caught up in quality and quantity, and now torrenting isn't really worth the bother.

What are you talking about? With the fragmentation of platforms, the steep rise in prices, and them regularly removing content, it's entirely worth the bother again.