Tuesday, December 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 December 2018

Tech News

  • Want a new system based on AMD's Zen CPU and Vega graphics?  Only got fifty bucks?  AMD got you covered with the Athlon 200GE.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Yeah, don't expect too much out of the integrated graphics on a $55 CPU, even in 2018.  If you want to play games, and don't have even a second-hand graphics card, scrape together the money for the Ryzen 2200G which can actually put in a decent showing at 1080p if you turn down the detail settings a bit.

  • In shutting the barn door after the horses have disappeared over the horizon making gleeful whinnying noises news, the iPhone 6S, 7, and 8 can no longer be sold in China.  (WCCFTech)

    This is over the ongoing patent dispute with Qualcomm.

    China is enforcing foreign patents?  China?

  • It includes dust covers for the serial ports.  (Fanless Tech)

    They're still used in embedded applications!


Social Media News

  • The European Union has fired back in the fiercely competitive stupidest government body in the world stakes.  (Tech Dirt)

    Their latest bid tells social networks and content providers that (a) they need to block all potentially infringing content, (b) never let infringing content return after it has been blocked, (c) never block non-infringing content, and, the piece-de-la-creme, (d) not use filters for this.

  • Apple, Google, and Microsoft have called the Australian government a bunch of flamin' wowsers over the country's new internet insecurity legislation.  (Tech Crunch)

    Meanwhile, the Labor Party has likened the new law to a cane toad which is a bit fucking rich after they voted to pass it.  (ZDNet)

  • Google is planning to shut down Google+ after a bug was discovered to have given developers access to private data of over 50 million users.  (WCCFTech)

    No, not that one.  This is brand new.  The bug was introduced during code updates last month as the company moved to shut down the network next August.

    The shut down has now been moved up to April.

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1 The 2200G is a great little CPU, especially if you live near enough to a Micro Center to be able to buy one in person at 20% off.  I overclocked mine to 3.9 right off the bat and it's rock-solid; I haven't even tried pushing it higher because it's on a Linux system I'm just using for playing around.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 12 2018 12:53 AM (Q/JG2)

2 Yep.  Four cores and enough graphics horsepower to actually play most games at acceptable settings, for under $100.  I love my current system with its R7 1700 and RX 580, but 90% of the time a 2200G would do just fine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, December 12 2018 01:26 AM (PiXy!)

3 Really, Intel has had only marginal performance gains over the last decade or more, except for applications that take advantage of new vector hardware/instructions. I recently bought a used Haswell-based business desktop for a bit over $100 off fleabay and a GTX 1060 3GB (half the memory and about 10% fewer rasterization/texturing resources than a standard GTX 1060) for another $100 and have a more than reasonable gaming system after adding a cheap SSD.

Posted by: Kayle at Wednesday, December 12 2018 05:03 AM (nux2T)

4 There's a good amount of that going around.  Depending on the hardware you get, you may miss out on more modern features like USB3 or NVMe hard drives.  I don't do a lot of sneakernet these days but I do have this insanely fast USB3 flash drive for when I do.  I've taken to leaving full installers for stuff like Windows or SQL Server on it, because it's faster than installing from optical media.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 12 2018 06:35 AM (Q/JG2)

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