• The blockchain is like a database server with a thousand-dollar-a-day crack habit.
  
  Some days it has flashes of brilliance, but most of the time its out with your car and your credit card trying to pick up tranny hookers.
  
  
  
• The HP Elite X2 G8 is very similar to my late(ish), lamented Spectre X2s, with updated hardware.  Same 3000x2000 display, silver finish instead of charcoal and copper, and with a 4 core 11th gen CPU rather than the 2 core 7th gen I had.
  
  Hopefully also the battery has been fixed so that it doesn't swell up and destroy the device.
  
  
  
• A trillion dollar company with the most feted industrial design team on the planet vs. a menu bar.
  
  
  
  
  Well, that's kind of shit.

• AMD's Zen 5 server chips could have up to 256 cores and burn 600W.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's a lot, but the current 64 core parts go as high as 280W.  Four times the cores at a little over twice the power isn't so bad.
  
  They won't be here until 2024, but they'll go into the same socket as next year's Zen 4 server CPUs.  The Zen 4 parts will use a maximum of 400W, but the socket has been specified to go as high as 700W.
  
  
  
• MANGA is the new FAANG.  (Ayedot)
  
  Oh, yeah.  Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta.
  
  
  
• Speaking of manga, Amazon reported $111 billion in quarterly revenues.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  As a retailer they have fairly small margins, so net income of only $3.2 billion.
  
  Apple earned $20.6 billion on sales of $83.4 billion.
  
  Google pulled in $19 billion on $65 billion in sales.  Which is to say, ads.
  
  And Microsoft had a net income of $20 billion on revenues of $45 billion.  Nearly 40% of that revenue now comes from their cloud services, which are GARBAGE.
  
  
  

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