Tuesday, February 15
Daily News Stuff 15 February 2022
Spare Laptop Edition
Disclaimer: I hate sausage rolls, put another pie in the oven baby.
Spare Laptop Edition
Top Story
-
Long day at work - and it isn't over yet - so short one today.
-
The UK tax department has seized NFTs worth a total of $1.8 million as part of a broader tax fraud investigation. (Tom's Hardware)
Which makes me wonder if I can pay my taxes in NFTs.
Tech News
-
Intel's Core i3-12100 is a pretty good CPU for $120. (Tom's Hardware)
No low-power cores to to complicate things, reasonable clock speeds (4.3GHz), modest power requirements (60W base, 89W turbo), good single-threaded performance, and decent multi-threaded performance. With "only" four cores it's not a 3D rendering powerhouse, but for the average user it should cope quite well. It's slower on multi-threaded tasks than my spare new laptop, which has a 15W 6-core AMD Ryzen 5600U, but only by about 10%, and it's 15% faster single-threaded.
-
As in, you can run complete standalone Linux and Windows instances on your phone. Right now just the Pixel 6, but in the future all up-to-date mobile devices. Why you would want to do this is another question, but my A$300 phone came with 8GB of RAM, so if there's a use for it there's no reason not to do it.
Party Like It's 1980-ish Video of the Day
Disclaimer: I hate sausage rolls, put another pie in the oven baby.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
06:57 PM
| No Comments
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 235 words, total size 2 kb.
49kb generated in CPU 0.0122, elapsed 0.1037 seconds.
56 queries taking 0.0969 seconds, 346 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
56 queries taking 0.0969 seconds, 346 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
