Pretty sure it's something in the BIOS in particular, but yeah.

Oh, that's super cool.

Check out Brax’s OpenSlate tablet, it’s right up your alley.

four USB-C, one USB-A (yubikey nano?) and a micro-USB for backwards compatibility. Hardware switches for all the privacy functions — radios microphones etc.

Personally, my 16 year old gaming PC finally had a “brain-stem stroke” and won’t even throw a POST code any more.

For the first two four-year service-life extension programs, the RAM was doubled each time and the GPU was upgraded. The final two SLEP upgrades consisted solely of GPU upgrades.

Only about last year did I become CPU bound; I had a 3570k that I undervolted and overcooled and that worked amazingly well for the longest time — at the time it was the GOAT for single core performance, and today’s GOAT is tomorrow’s mainstream.

I betchu other budget-minded gamers do the same.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-toys-with-the-competition-MacBook-Neo-offers-more-single-core-performance-than-any-mobile-processor-from-AMD-Intel-or-Qualcomm.1248134.0.html

Apple’s old chips still have higher single-thread performance than anything Wintel (or “Lintel” at this rate the way gamers are switching!) can manage.

Apropos of nothing: Warframe plays substantially better on my iPhone than my Xbox, and Zenless Zone Zero runs perfectly on the iphone and not at all on an aging Xbox.

If it’s solely a toy, you’ll appreciate the great keyboard and trackpad, but also the rock solid frame rates once you do the thermal-pad mod.

For games, Gamesir’s launching an app called GameHub which fully automates integration between macOS, Steam, and WINE. I’ll let you know when I get into the beta how well it works for me, but it looks really fucking good already.

That’s not far from something you’d run Stadia, Luna, or XCloud shit on. I’m not even sure they’ll have to fix the switch for that, but they should anyway – control latency.

Here’s hoping that somebody with influence has the same thought. :)

This has to be an AI bubble grift. I can’t think of a single sysadmin I know that wouldn’t kick you square in the nuts for even suggesting that you do this with their infrastructure.

Game streaming becomes feasible with this kind of edge computing.

• The last mile power and comms is questionable (the grid may have 40% capacity)

Yes, but ideally this will continue to function without a perfect uplink, or have a Starlink dish in standby mode to provide failover. Caching servers for Netflix are historically deployed close as can be to clients, and exist to make this questionable last mile less problematic.

• The availability will suck

Not for edge compute.

• The latency will suck

REALLY not for edge compute. That’s the whole reason you put compute near the client!

• The downtime until a operator can get out to fix it will really suck

Truth. Getting the system to fail gracefully will be vital.

• Homeowners will kick them out after the first 3:00am service call

I’ll be breathing over the tech’s shoulder waiting for Warframe to come back up, but I’m somewhere between nocturnal and crepuscular, so you can’t generalize my expectations (based on a large sample of past behavior) to everybody else. I recommend that you (the homebuilder) put a nerd in the house with the data-shed out back

This would be genuinely fucking awesome for game streaming services. A pity Stadia wasn't sufficiently rapidly profitable, Amazon can't keep a fucking ownership model, and Microsoft is well, Xcloud fucking sucks. 3 to 4 seconds of click to photon latency. Too late now, I guess?

Seconded. Honestly, I'm getting to the unbelievable point where I'd seriously consider a WebOS or Tizen set-top box because of their support for game streaming being just that much better than Google's after the debacle that was Stadia.

Is it good? no. Is it better than not playing anything that night because everything needs update? Yup. Is it more or less absolutely fine if I'm streaming from a GPU two rooms away? Yes. Unfortunately, there's no *great* UI for this yet, in my opinion. Steam Link is getting there, though.

Really glad he tipped his hand before I bought a new TV for the first time in forever

Code that is burned into systems and often never updated. So the belief that it will be patched if the back door is discovered is false. The back door will remain forever.

In a lot of cases, such as the Clipper Chip, hardware will include ROM level backdoors, and bluntly, no replacement hardware will ever become available.

At least one person is reading this thread, and treasuring the level of dialogue going on

Until we reach a point where AI is basically running everything and we are just enjoying ourselves without any control over our destiny.

Sounds like The Culture. I’m down for that!

(PS, if you need me, I’m gonna be over there building a Dyson sphere for the next few thousand years)

There are a few that are genuinely unpickable. Will they be that way forever? Doubtful. Will they ever be trivially defeated? Hell nah. That forces invaders to resort to less clandestine methods of entry, which leave more evidence, or to spend an unbearable amount of time attempting to pick while neighbors may notice.

Bowley Lock Company has one of the practically unpickable options on the market now, and LockPickingLawyer has a great video on the chain-key lock.

Best case, they’re still just a speedbump in the path of a home invader, but kicking down a door leaves a bootprint, and makes a hell of a lot of noise, which means that you have time to grab earpro, night vision, and your rifle before the attackers make it to the bedroom. ;)

Stadia fan, and brokeass. At the time, I had a dodgy system with a failing GeForce. Stadia kept me sane during the plague when my PC wasn’t stable, and the PC kept me sane when the internet wasn’t good enough for stadia. Near the end, however, I switched to T-Mobile’s 5g internet service, and Stadia became rock solid. (5G should NOT be better than DSL! Fuck!)

I was desperately hoping that Google would resort to a strategy of benign neglect for Stadia, since I had like three or four games that I could play for the rest of my life on there.

I felt like I had a stroke when Ubisoft turned out to be the only ones to handle the shutdown gracefully.

Google did the right thing in the end with the controller firmware, but they should have had that ready on day 1 as a consolation prize. (I also would have liked it if they had some way to continue gaming on a Chromecast, or even better, a virtualized ChromeOS desktop in the cloud, but what I want clearly doesn’t matter to them, lol!) Glad they stepped up in the end, though. Those are still the most comfortable controllers I’ve ever used!

I also feel like Google should have negotiated some approach to license transfers from Stadia to elsewhere. Luna is still a laggy mess compared to the worst days on Stadia (at least, when it would start at allThanks, CenturyStink!) so the best bet would probably be to Microsoft — games available streamed via XCloud or locally on Windows or Xbox, for maximum flexibility. Steam would have been another obvious choice.

Come to think of it, for a while I hoped Valve would buy Stadia