Saturday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2024
Urinating Dog Edition
Urinating Dog Edition
Top Story
- Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are on track to spend a total of $200 billion on AI this year. (BNN Bloomberg)
There are worse things they could be doing with their money, I suppose. De-orbiting the Moon, or promoting polonium as a pizza topping. Reintroducing rinderpest and smallpox.
Okay, those aren't much worse, but they are worse.
Tech News
- Intel's Lunar Lake, with its integrated memory, is a one-off. (Tom's Hardware)
Future laptop chips will return to having memory on the motherboard, or on modules that connect to the motherboard.
Not because soldering the memory directly to the CPU is an anti-consumer nightmare, but because it eats into Intel's margins.
Apple can get away with 1000% markups on memory, because its customer base likes shiny things.
Intel, since it sells its chips to other manufacturers who then sell computers to you, cannot.
- Speaking of laptop memory, CAMM2 is on its way. For realsies. (Tom's Hardware)
CAMM2 modules lie flat on a laptop's motherboard rather than slotting into a socket, so the take up less room and can have more pins. And that lets them support a 128-bit bus with one module rather than the usual 64 bits.
And they also support faster LPDDR5X memory, which usually has to be soldered directly onto the motherboard itself.
Only problem is they are taking a long time to arrive. There's basically one desktop motherboard from MSI and one laptop from Lenovo using these modules right now.
- Australia's Lord Howe Island shifts by 30 minutes when daylight saving time beings and ends. (SSO Ready)
Just to annoy everyone.
- Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel phones after the company failed to meet a requirement of 40% local content. (Tech Crunch)
What about Apple, you ask?
They are at least playing fair. The iPhone 16 was banned there last week.
- GPD's new Pocket 4 is an absurdly tiny and extremely powerful laptop. (Liliputing)
The existing model of the Pocket 3 has a dual core Intel CPU and 16GB of RAM.
The Pocket 4 replaces the CPU with a twelve core AMD Ryzen 370, and offers options of 32 or 64GB of RAM.
The 8.8" touchscreen is bumped from 1920x1200 at 60Hz to 2560x1600 at 144Hz.
It would be an amazing device for an engineer that needs to go on-site and plug things in, if those people still exist.
Disclaimer: Chimkin.
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hmmm...
our elites, such as the apple, microsoft, and so forth, seem pretty captured
I'm not sure why the PRC hasn't reintroduced rinderpest yet.
I'm pretty sure the big tech idiots would be down for that.
our elites, such as the apple, microsoft, and so forth, seem pretty captured
I'm not sure why the PRC hasn't reintroduced rinderpest yet.
I'm pretty sure the big tech idiots would be down for that.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, November 02 2024 11:09 PM (rcPLc)
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On an entirely different subject - Mint had a karaoke stream with her 3.0 model...And she probably had the most emotional rendition of Astrogirl since Sana's graduation stream. Very well done.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sunday, November 03 2024 01:28 PM (ZLF73)
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Thanks, I only caught part of that. Too many of my favourite vtubers streaming at the same time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, November 03 2024 04:44 PM (PiXy!)
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