. . . but come on, we've have been seeing this story pop up multiple times a year for more than two decades. The year of the Linux desktop has been perpetually happening for years. Linux distros aren't Windows and shouldn't strive to be. They aren't going to replace Windows. This fixation is unhealthy, Linux already won in so many more important ways than being adopted by my grandma.

I 100% agree the article's argument is bullshit. Came here to say that myself and glad to see you and Penguinoflight already on it.

That this generation shares the same broad CPU architecture as the previous gen (and like, almost all modern gaming PCs) for the first time is a huge deal like you say, and changes how the industry has taken advantage of "easy" cross-gen releases.

I do want to poke at your statement that PS5 has less than 2x the power of the PS4 Pro. I'm no fanboy, I'm in all the gaming ecosystems and am brimming with love for them all. But anyhow, in teraflops--which is arguably not a great metric for generational comparisons but I digress--PS5 is a bit more than double (4.2 vs 10.28). The even bigger game changer than raw horsepower though is the I/O system and PCIe 4 SSD. Custom I/O processors in the PS5 allow for hyper fast Kraken decompression off the SSD and dumping data to fill the shared system memory almost as fast as it can flush it. The compression effectively boosts the data rate from ~5.5GBps to ~9GBps, probably the biggest gain the PS5 has over the Series X. On top of this, the PS5 SSD is a bit exotic in that it supports six data priority levels vs two in the standard NVMe spec.

Possible your mom wouldn't take it well, but you could save yourself and her a lot of grief by creating a new admin account and setting her up as a standard user so she can't install anything.

My company used to deal with tapes, legacy procedure going back decades. Several divisions in my company were hit by ransomware a couple years ago and we magically got all the financial resources to modernize. I still have 140 tapes at an offsite archival vendor costing a few hundred a month just for storage, but I can't imagine going back to that now.

Now, we have at each division:

*Local FIPS-compliant SAN with 4-hour datastore snapshots
*Hourly backup of VM disks to a local backup appliance
*Daily (at minimum) backup of the local backup appliance to a geo-redundant offsite backup appliance
*Weekly backup of the local backup appliance to a local air-gapped SAN. The downside to this is our backup appliance is not backing up VMs over the weekend while the air-gapped transfer is in progress.

I'm dealing with DOD (ITAR/CMMC) type data. Even if we get totally fucked with ransomware at every division and all our backups are also wiped (as any thorough ransom taker would do), the very worst case nightmare scenario is restoring from the weekly backups. Not great, but definitely would never result in us needing to pay a ransom. I'm sure there's even better steps that could be take and would love to hear them.

Everything with Huang while in his kitchen was normal in-camera shots until that very last swoosh zoom at the very end after he's done speaking. Seems obvious on its own, but if you need proof, pay attention to the arrangement of the objects on his kitchen counter. After the zoom in, they are in completely different locations. The white box with the green label, the bowl, the coffee grinder, etc.

I can't comprehend how they didn't make sure to make those things were all relatively positioned to each other correctly in the CGI. They had to have spent days if not weeks modeling everything in the kitchen to hyper-realistic levels, and then somehow failed to take 5 minutes in Unreal or Unity or whatever to approximate the objects' real world placement in the CGI scene.

Baffling.

Sorry, I'm an idiot and did not read your complete message. Disregard!

You'll be pleased to know the hardware is being done by Teenage Engineering who themselves are completely unbelievably dope at hardware. They do primarily pro audio equipment and also did those hip new Nothing Ear (1) ear buds the kids are flipping out about at the moment.