Friday, November 22
Daily News Stuff 22 November 2024
Trucked Up Edition
Trucked Up Edition
Top Story
- The problem is clear: Our customers are dumb. (Intel)
Intel commissioned a study to find out how much more efficient users were when equipped with a fancy new "AI PC".
It turned out:At the same time, AI PCs offered a potentially transformative impact on people’s lives, saving individuals roughly 240 minutes a week on routine digital tasks. But the study also highlighted that current AI PC owners spend longer on tasks than their counterparts using traditional PCs. Study results show that greater consumer education is needed to bridge the gap between the promise and reality of AI PCs.
AI PCs make things worse, but the real problem is the users.
- Meanwhile at Microsoft. (Business Insider) (archive site)
Microsoft Copilot is a little too efficient, it seems... At sharing confidential information with people who shouldn't have it.
Tech News
- Microsoft really really really really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. (The Register)
Really.
- Well, that's less than ideal: Finastra, which provides technology services to 45 of the 50 largest banks in the world, got hacked and saw 400GB of data stolen. (Krebs on Security)
There's no need to worry, though, unless you or someone you know uses a bank.
- OpenAI "accidentally" erased evidence pertaining to the lawsuit by the New York Times. (The Verge)
Just call me Mister Butterfingers!
- Kairos Power - which recently signed a contract to provide power to Google's datacenters - has received approval to build two test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Tech Crunch)
These are small modular reactors, or SMRs, using molten salt cooling systems. They're supposed to be simpler and safer - as well as smaller - than conventional designs.
The test reactors will produce 35MW of heat each, while the production models will produce 150MW.
Disclaimer: What is that in Scoville units?
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Yeah, I've gotten a few of those full-screen things on my Zephyrus. It should be fine to go to 11 but I don't use it much so I have been delaying.
My gaming desktop is Raptor Lake so I "needed" 11 from day one anyway.
But I am spending about half my computing time these days on Linux. Modded Minecraft plays fine on a Radeon 680M iGPU. Guild Wars 2 is almost playable, although combat's a bit rough, and world bosses? Rough. Diablo IV is almost unplayable at around 12fps even on low settings with upscaling.
My gaming desktop is Raptor Lake so I "needed" 11 from day one anyway.
But I am spending about half my computing time these days on Linux. Modded Minecraft plays fine on a Radeon 680M iGPU. Guild Wars 2 is almost playable, although combat's a bit rough, and world bosses? Rough. Diablo IV is almost unplayable at around 12fps even on low settings with upscaling.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, November 23 2024 12:55 AM (NEIix)
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All Microsoft convinced me to do was install Linux Mint finally.
Aside from a few glitches, it has been relatively painless transition.
Aside from a few glitches, it has been relatively painless transition.
Posted by: Zendo Deb at Monday, November 25 2024 12:47 PM (YGUlK)
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I've been using Mint as my daily driver for about two months, and it's gone mostly well, except for a little incident this weekend where I turned off my wifi for a minute to install an application so I could disable its analytics, and while it was off, the icon disappeared, leaving me unable to turn it back on.
Just like with Windows these days, you have to reboot (or at least log out and log back in) to make it come back.
Just like with Windows these days, you have to reboot (or at least log out and log back in) to make it come back.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, November 25 2024 10:22 PM (NEIix)
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Rick C,
What? No such thing as "service networkmanager restart"? I mean, I'm assuming . . . oh, right.
What? No such thing as "service networkmanager restart"? I mean, I'm assuming . . . oh, right.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, November 26 2024 11:10 AM (bg2DR)
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Normal: there doesn't appear to be anything you can do to control the network once the icon's gone (maybe there's a text-mode utility but I wasn't going to go looking for it with no network.)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, November 26 2024 11:07 PM (NEIix)
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Rick C,
No, I was joking about that, because systemd and other linuxisms make simple troubleshooting steps (like force-restarting a service) basically impossible anyway: it's either not restartable, or it's not actually a 'service' that could be restarted in any case, so you're just forced to reboot the whole system. Sorta like a certain monster from the 1980s who took over in the 1990s.
No, I was joking about that, because systemd and other linuxisms make simple troubleshooting steps (like force-restarting a service) basically impossible anyway: it's either not restartable, or it's not actually a 'service' that could be restarted in any case, so you're just forced to reboot the whole system. Sorta like a certain monster from the 1980s who took over in the 1990s.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, November 27 2024 12:44 PM (bg2DR)
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