Thursday, May 07
Daily News Stuff 7 May 2020
Weebles Do Fall Down If You Get Them Drunk Enough Edition
Weebles Do Fall Down If You Get Them Drunk Enough Edition
Tech News
- Microsoft has announced the Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3. (AnandTech)
They're both Intel-based unfortunately, but the Surface Go 2 delivers a 10.5" 550g Windows 10 tablet starting at $399. 1920x1280 screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC on the base model. $549 with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD.
Bezels are kind of chunky though. And keyboard is extra.
- Lenovo has announced a swarm of new ThinkPads with Ryzen 4000 CPUs. (AnandTech)
Models now available with the Ryzen 4000 include the E14, E15, T14, T14s, L14, L15, and X15. Prices start at $639.
- The EU says that you have to give users access to your site even if it needs cookies to work and they refuse to accept your cookies. (Tech Crunch)
Tech Crunch just happens to do exactly what the EU forbids.
- The Ryzen 1600AF as a cheap server processor. (Serve the Home)
The 1600AF is a 1600 built on Global Foundries' 12nm process, so it's the exact same architecture as before but with somewhat better power and thermals.
It's not blazingly fast - you'd want to jump up to a 3600 or 3700 if you want speed - but it competes pretty well with Xeons costing two to three times as much. And all Ryzen desktop chips support ECC even if it's not officially official. At the price, there's nothing that can match it.
- Someone sneezed in New York, let's cancel the space program. (ZDNet)
Or let's not and say we did.
Disclaimer: Or just stop funding NASA and hand it over to Elon Musk. That works too.
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Maybe we can get a cheap-as-chips Chinee contracter to haul our meat into space. Course, the might end up doing a bit worse than17 deaths in 53 years doing it, but maybe it's worth the cost to get into space, honestly.
This is all assuming the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't arrive suddenly in his full power, glory, and majesty and moot the whole scheme in the meantime.
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 08 2020 08:32 AM (obo9H)
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Wait....they had Weebles in Australia.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, May 08 2020 09:15 AM (5iiQK)
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So, which of those lenovos has dedicated pgup/pgdn keys? I mean, you can get by with g/G if your application supports that sort of syntax (hint: most degenerate applications don't) for home/end, but most of the basic unix pager/editor jumping commands are simply unknown (and clobbered) in most (degenerate) applications.
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 08 2020 09:30 AM (obo9H)
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Lenovo is pretty good on providing those keys, but not always in my preferred layout. They usually have PgUp/PgDn above the arrow keys and Home/End next to the function keys.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 08 2020 10:59 AM (PiXy!)
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Here's an example of one of their 14" models. I prefer them in a vertical strip to the right of the main layout, but this is better than nothing.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 08 2020 01:35 PM (PiXy!)
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That's basically the keylayout on the e495 I bought for my wife. I mean, I'm not a fan of it, but it's better than no pgup/pgdn.
Also, I hate that clit in the middle, what an annoyance!
Also, I hate that clit in the middle, what an annoyance!
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 08 2020 01:55 PM (obo9H)
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