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Comment Re:Just like how this was the "Year of Linux"? (Score 1) 67

Except that the Apple M series chips are only good at Geekbench and Cinebench. Any real world application and it just isn't as fast as AMD's and Intel's chips. Especially gaming because IPC in gaming is not the same as synthetic benchmarks. Even the M4 which is scoring much higher in Geekbench is doing so because of a new extension called SME, which increases matrix multiplications which basically means AI. But yet somehow Geekbench gave Apple another 300 points for it. As for the differences between CISC vs RISC it doesn't matter for the past two decades. Intel went superscaler years ago and most modern CPU's are a hybrid of VLIW. The reason people think Apple's M series is doing so well because all reviews do is run Geekbench and Cinebench, while sometimes running stuff like Speedometer. Geekbench is made by an Apple fanboy while Speedometer was made by Apple's webkit team. This is why in the PC world we avoid running synthetic tests as they rarely represent the real world and can easily have a bias. Wanna know how bad Qualcomm is at gaming? You can raise a family in the time it takes for the game to respond. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxV...

Comment Can't unlock bootloader on Samsung (Score 1) 69

Samsung phones don't allow you to get OEM Unlock to even appear. I personally would not touch a phone that won't allow me to install a custom OS. On top of that, if and when the screen breaks, the cost of a new screen is almost as much as the phone itself. Newer Samsung phones no longer come with an SD Card slot. Samsung wants to be like Apple, but people who buy Samsung don't want Apple like devices.

Comment Linux needs more software... stupid (Score 1) 197

I like how this guy says what everyone else says that doesn't use Linux. OMG too many distros! Most distros can be boiled down to Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch knock offs. You can boil it down further to Debian, Arch, and unique distros as Debian and Ubuntu are very similar. At this point most distros are just flavors of existing distros. Like Ubuntu but want a more Windows UI, well then we have Linux Mint. Like Ubuntu but want a more Mac OSX UI then we have ElementaryOS. These aren't problems as Windows 11 said fuck you to traditional Windows UI and moved it just a tad closer to tablet style. If you don't like this then too bad because you can't change it without using 3rd party software. We have different UI's on linux because at least we recognize that not everyone wants to use the same UI. As for apps just make sure everyone uses appimages. Seriously these work very well and kinda work the same as how Mac OSX deals with apps. You just download it and then run the appimage.

As someone who uses Linux exclusively, Windows applications are the problem. I'd like to use Fusion360, Photoshop, and etc without hating Wine. Wine sucks and even though Valve has put a lot of effort into Proton, I feel this isn't helping Wine a lot in general. I need to run Windows apps and I hate VM's, and I hate dual booting, even though I use both. Just get Windows applications to work without me having to hunt down ideas how to fix them. More often than not it does require me to use a VM or booting into Windows.

Comment Re:UBI did the trick (Score 1) 126

It's not a UBI but it is money from the government like a UBI would work. While I'm sure most people would have preferred to work, I'm sure those same people would also be happier to receive some money. This helps you when times are tough, like when you're between jobs or determining if this job is for you. Extra spending cash to buy something you've wanted or pay bills.

Comment I like advertising too (Score 1) 109

The good thing about advertising is that I never have to see it. As someone who uses ublock, YouTube Vanced, and blocking through my router. Online ads for me is so 2006. But if the government gets paid for advertising then it'll be in their best interest to have me remove my ad blockers, and will probably make it illegal.

We all know the only people who get to see ads are Apple users and nobody likes them anyway.

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