• It's not worth the effort of trying to port Linux to Apple's Arm-based Macs says Linus Torvalds.  (ZDNet)
  
  Yeah?  What would he know?
  
  
  
• How to install audio apps on the new Arm-based Macs.  (Six Colors)
  
  Step One: Reboot into recovery mode.
  Step Two: Configure MacOS into "Reduced Security".
  Step Three: Enable kernel extensions.
  Step Four: Reboot again.
  Step Five: Install the app.
  Step Six: Find out it doesn't actually work.
  Step Seven: Get a PC.
  
  
  
• Vivaldi are building mail, calendar, and feed reader support into their browser.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Currently in technical preview.
  
  
  
• 32GB SODIMMs are A$150 on Amazon with free two-day shipping.
  
  I'm tempted to buy one and try it.  These should work in my Dell desktops (Inspiron 27 7775 all-in-ones) and one module would take me to 40GB, but I can't find anyone who's tried it.
  
  On the other hand, the 5900X seems to be back in stock.
  
  The new Asus Vivomini models are also in stock, ranging from A$499 for the 4300U to A$699 for the 4700U.  Those definitely do support 32GB modules.  I could get one and populate it with the discarded memory and SSD from upgrading my Dells, but spending $500 to re-use $175 in parts seems a bit
   counter-productive.
  
  
  
• Memory leaks are out of scope.  Won't fix.  (GitHub)
  
  VSCode is built on a fundamentally shitty platform making memory leaks almost impossible to fix.
  
  I've used VSCode for some tasks where IntelliJ doesn't have the necessary language support.  It is bad.  I wouldn't quite prefer Notepad, but it's very close.
  
  
  
• Xioami have announced the Poco M3, starting at $149 unless they haven't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It uses a Snapdragon 662, which has four A73 cores, so performance should be reasonable if well behind flagship devices.  But it has a fingerprint reader, headphone jack, and microSD slot, putting it ahead of many flagship devices including every iPhone ever released.  Main camera is 48 megapixels, though on a device this cheap I wouldn't expect the best lenses and image processing.
  
  
  
• The 2020 Razer Blade Stealth is a well-designed and completely pointless laptop.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The included 1650 Ti isn't fast enough for serious gaming, and a Ryzen APU laptop like the MSI Modern 14 is half the price and capable of running Minecraft at 120fps, leaving the Stealth in a place where it makes nobody happy.
  
  
  

Posted by: normal at Thursday, November 26 2020 09:29 AM (obo9H)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, November 26 2020 01:54 PM (PiXy!)

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