When prices of electricity first went up a few years ago, I calculated my 2010 was using £50 per month. Replaced it with an M1 Mac mini at £5/month. Sad to turn off that beast but it's so expensive to run (and so very slow compared to Apple Silicon). It was all maxed out, including USB 3, eSATa expansions.

Interesting, this does not seem to be the standard server CPU with Intel calling them "efficiency" cores. I wonder if they feel they have fallen behind the performance game to AMD and trying shift to "efficiency". Their Sapphire Rapids was disappointing, the next one Emerald Rapids was also not great (ok performance if you did not use all cores, which did not make a good solution for cloud providers), but Granite Rapids seemed to be a meaningful improvement - just AMD's Turin came out and was so much faster (I published a comparison of 44 VM families over 7 cloud providers recently and it's pretty consistent).

Wow. You live in the past. Macs are now probably the best in both performance and performance/price. This is from someone who, despite having to work on them, would never spend any of their own money on a Mac before the M1 came out. I would still not suggest Apple hardware though for those who don't want to use MacOS.

But I am very puzzled about the summary talking about Linux not being ARM ready. I use ARM with Debian on the Cloud for most things as they are the most cost effective. That's the whole point of open source, everything builds fine. Are they using some sort of proprietary binaries for something? Because that's definitely not Linux's fault.

Yeah, no, that's wrong. Even small doses are bad. What you are thinking of is probably wine which has some good properties - but you'd really have to remove the alcohol from it to be a net positive.

You'd think that he would want the studio to be successful and make money so he can claim part of it...

It's not really Apple-like. They take the worst part of the Apple naming - the variants of their Phones which everyone agrees is confusing, adding the even sillier "Premium", applying them to laptops instead, but then using "Dell" as the base name!

Apple's laptops are "Macbook Air" and "Macbook Pro". In the past they had plain "Macbook" too.

What Dell is doing is like Apple coming out with laptops named "Apple", "Apple Pro", "Apple Premium", "Apple Pro Max".

So this is in addition to them not being able to read 24h-based time that's common everywhere else and they think only the military uses?

eSIM was never about customers, it was all about control. We obviously don't gain anything as consumers, we only lose. It's the same as the trend for everything to be remotely controlled and revocable. Be it the phone service you pay for, the movie or song or game you buy, even your car at times...

I don't know how to feel about this. I use an Android myself, but the iPhone is certainly not a monopoly. So if we impose non-monopolies to allow 3rd party sources to install software, does that mean that we should also force Nintendo or Sony to allow us to install homebrew games etc? I would think a company should be allowed to develop hardware that only runs their own software as a profit model (with some safeguards, like them not revoking rights to sold software etc), but if we agree that they shouldn't, surely this should apply to all companies? Nintendo/Sony are the direct examples...

It sounds like there is more to this. Satellites don't respect political boundaries. Also, a simple "loss of signal" happens when you park your Porche in a garage - it doesn't even have to be a multi-storey underground one, I bet the satellite signal is blocked easier than that. And yet we've never heard of any issue with this outside Russia, so there's more to the story than Porche being stupid thinking that they should disable cars who lose satellite connection.

Yeah, their Mars figure was correct, but they got the one in Iran wrong by a factor of 30. It's about 10mSv/year on average so 0.027mSv/day.

He should have pivoted to "Ha! This obvious AI-generated paper fooled so many researchers! THAT was my actual research into fake AI-generated papers!".

These were mass registrations by bots that were not used, disabled years ago. I see none of the privacy reasons, legitimate private email would not get into them any more than what already happens accidentally with people mistyping the intended recipient. This is a non issue, definitely not worth a post here. Even on reddit the top comment is release them, but as they are valuable ones (the bots got tons of "nice" ones), release them to paid users - which sounds fair to me...

You speak in riddles old man...