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    Google search for "notebookreview forum" produces a second link to here, Qwant is like 6th or 7th so not too hard to find overall.
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    He was just spotted chatting with Jared Kushner. Wonder if all pretence will soon be abandoned as he just hands the platform over to Trump&Co. All according to the will of the people (bots/trolls) of course - the decision has already been made, and the new CEO has already been chosen. Doesn't seem like a great idea. He seems unstable just dealing with the standard I/O.
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    Thanks, makes sense. The i7-1255U was announced on Jan 4 2021. Normally I wouldn't bother waiting in this case, but because Raptor Lake is so awesome, it would kind of be sad to buy a new Alder Lake device. This is an entry level $1k laptop meant for very light use, and the price delta won't be significant either way, plus the new models might offer further improvements (or they could regress into soldered RAM for instance, which is what worries me a bit - but in this case they will still run old models for a while).
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    Guys, when is mobile Raptor Lake launching exactly? I need to buy a lightweight laptop. Can grab something like an Inspiron with i7-1255U right now, but no huge rush so could wait a little for the updated model. Not sure how quickly will Dell update their lower-end models, but presumably they won't be waiting around, as this probably sells in decent volumes.
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    Moreover, there is a real risk that at some point governments (outside of China, which of course is a dystopian state already) will state mandating the use of certain privacy-violating technologies, and/or ban the use of technologies that help preserve privacy, such as encryption. At the moment the use is accepted, as long as it can be circumvented for specific law enforcement related reasons, however, you can already see inroads being made into areas unrelated to policing (e.g. covid contact tracking apps were required for access to certain venues in some countries).
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    Pretty depressing, and unfortunately there is no easy way out of this. There has been some regulatory pushback in Europe, and obviously the fairly robust personal data protection via GDPR makes a difference, but the US folks are literally left to their own devices.
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    Looks to me like this Twitter thing may be his undoing, at least in terms of business reputation. The veneer has been falling off fast, which would likely deal further blows to Tesla stock, as the valuation is mostly based on the Elon hype. This video has aged well:
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    I wouldn't generalise. The lower tier brands might be able to compete on features, but there probably will be a bit less polish, quality or durability, and more corner cases to deal with. It's amazing how much more complicated TVs have become, it's a bit strange actually.
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    Just be aware that Zorin may contain some opt-out telemetry: https://www.linux.org/threads/zorin-os-15-and-privacy-concerns.26415/
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    One of the problems is that some people (most likely including Musk himself) believe he is a superhuman, therefore this self-inflicted slow-burning learning process has been necessary in order to get the myth dispelled.
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    Not all do, despite their children committing horrible crimes. "The Dharmer Tapes" or "Ted Bundy Tapes" on Netflix showcase major examples of this, and at least in the former case, the parents were also part of the problem. To me, this just shows that the whole bunch is rotten to the bone.
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    BTW anyone with older PC hardware or a Mac can always install Linux. In terms of longevity, they are now dropping i486 support in the kernel, so that's like 30 years of support lol
  13. Etern4l
    Good point, although to be fair my comment was SciFi :) I was talking about the completely hypothetical scenario where not getting Apple is just irrational from both pure performance and performance/price perspectives. In reality, even if they managed to come up with much faster HW, they would jack up the prices to extract more value with lower volume, as usual.
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    I can understand mild brand loyalty, guilty as charged in some cases (Intel) - however, taken to the extreme it is not healthy behaviour. If Apple came out with a serious Intel+NVidia destroyer, I would get that.
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    Welcome back! I assumed you got banned or worse by TT due to all the critical content against Apple, Google etc. :)
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    Alright. MacOS devices, laptops in particular, are of no interest to me due to the lack of both NVidia HW and material cooling, e.g. as per Linus here (apologies if this is a clickbait on his part, just watched the beginning where he talks about the effects of doing "real work" on the device): That said, I probably wouldn't mind using MacOS, but the hardware is not there for me. They seem to be targetting style-conscious, lighter users (whatever you want to call them - people who don't need to put substantial extended loads on the device).
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    Is that the case with their laptops? On the mobile side, my understanding is that Apple has an advantage over most Android manufacturers in terms of the length of time they provide support and software updates for. The IPad Pro we bought a whiiiile back for educational purposes is holding up much longer than expected, despite our faithful acceptance of all the updates which are still being offered. The amount of time Android device manufacturers (except Google) bother with updates has felt like < 2 years.
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    Etern4l replied to Reciever's topic in General

    The (single?) advantage of smart plugs with remote access is that you can see if something is wrong if the power consumption is not as expected. Privacy breaches can get very real with AV-capable devices:
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    LOL. I believe the technical term is 'snowflake' :)
  20. Etern4l
    To play the devil's advocate, some people being excited about something doesn't make it a viable business. Still, I agree it seems like a strange move.
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    Wow, you are one of the last people I would suspect of truly supporting cloud gaming. I guess with sky-high hardware costs just paying per use becomes more appealing, especially for more occasional gaming. That said, I imagine they found it hard to compete with the consoles.
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    Some day, but for now the mighty Google killed Stadia off.
  23. Etern4l
    Thanks to the Twitter Debacle, I discovered Mastodon. The foundational principles look cool, however, accessing the actual content doesn't seem as straightforward as one could imagine it should be?
  24. Etern4l
    I thought they show has been fine, mostly thanks to core characters being cast and acted well enough, although I also don't understand why they didn't just follow the source material verbatim instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. They are not far off, but things seem a bit out of order. No way someone not familiar with the source material would be able to completely follow the story as it was intended (although to be fair the timeline is already a bit convoluted in the books, perhaps the writers got confused lol). Some aspects of the Witcher character seem to be completely missing AFAIR. He is basically an outcast, a dying breed, and tends to be mocked/insulted or deeply feared whenever he shows up among the male general public, whereas with Cavill in the role they made him more of an generally adored stud... I am worried Liam Hemsworth will struggle to introduce that extra depth to the character, fingers crossed though.
  25. Etern4l
    I suspect the SA gang have made quite a bit of money off the various tweets (perhaps one of the underlying motivations behind the pursuit of the ownership of the platform?), as a general rule it would probably be safe to assume the opposite to what the official messages claim is taking or will take place.
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