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    And that's OK. A VM is really not that different from other apps in practice, just need to pay the extra RAM cost. What I would do though is have a look for alternatives. In this case, the first hit looks surprisingly promising - almost 5 stars on flathub is rare. One click to install, looks fine - not sure if it supports pen inputs (that's how I tried using OneNote for a while). https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-onenote/?license=opensource No built-in import from One Note, but some tools are available: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/importing-notes-from-other-notebook-applications/22425 I personally use XMind for note taking, Linux version available straight in the software center.
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    I haven't had a chance to play around with Wine yet. Everything I need is available as a native Linux version or a better alternative, with the slight exception of Libre Office which is a bit more clunky than Office, but still workable at this point. Should I need support for native Windows apps, I would indeed try Wine quickly, but then just run Windows in a VM if that fails.
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    Another good one was "The bird is freed".... More like captured by an individual who is increasingly looking like a sophisticated bad actor. For him to be able to legitimately claim the bird is freed, he would have to turn it into a fully decentralized solution, with him ending up having zero control. I am pretty sure that's not the idea here. And again, that would be hard to get to work without creating a bot/foreign troll paradise. The underlying assumption is that most people are stupid and won't be able to see the ruse, which unfortunately is probably correct. Shocking even if kind of expected, isn't it? It's kind of impressive YT didn't take that down under some pretence. Perhaps there is a bit of "Don't be evil" left in there. Unfortunately fair to assume there would be people who, when shown the video, would either not really comprehend content and it's significance, or just reject / rationalise it away as a coping strategy upon realising they have been the primary target here. Here is another one - an interview recorded right after the 2016 election, where he goes into some details of the methodology, and their involvement in the successful campaign: The level of ingenious stealth privacy violation is astounding, but what many people don't realise is just how serious the consequences are. It's not about whether you receive nappy or Budweiser ads. 5000 data points on every individual in the US, available commercially to billionaires everywhere. Again, kudos to YT for not deleting.
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    The problem is that it's still a closed source OS at the core.
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    That's so meaningful. A Twitter poll is definitely not easily manipulated by fake accounts and bots. I mean it's a joke. On the other hand, should this guy or another have the power to ban an account from the platform? Probably not either. There should be a legal framework around it, with a right to recourse. I am not sure Web 3.0 blockchain-based decentralization is the solution either.
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    It's interesting that while I probably disagree with you to some extent, I don't have to resort to these tirades etc. Anyway, I see social media as a problem, but probably for different reasons. Should some moderation apply? Likely so, at least in cases of extreme abuse, and the reason is that unfortunately most people are not sophisticated rational agents, and thus very easily manipulated. In fact, they are basically helpless in the face of sophisticated brain-washing technology. Needless to say, you don't want foreign actors to get significantly involved either. Is Musk the right person to be in charge of this? Ridiculous. Is Mark Z.? Evidently not either. Check this out, the guy who helped elect Obama and his successor explaining how it's done: It's not a hoax, it's not fake - it's the actual guy speaking up in public on how to break democracy. Unbelievable hubris. It was a huge scandal, and CA has been shut down after the FB data breach came out, but I'm sure this guy and others are continuing the work underground. That's what it's all about. Divide, manipulate, and conquer.
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    Well, I can imagine it but it's still nonsense - hot and noisy mess, to be more precise. It's OK though, the is just a different use case for laptops - they can only replace very basic desktops, not enthusiast ones or workstations. Sure, core temp 15-100C, definitely stock cooling. Anyway, the above is irrelevant. Just need to look at the median stock score to remove the OC variance, which will be representative of the average CPU performance: 12900HX: 23150 12900KS: 29056 +25% (notebookcheck doesn't have a page for the 12900KS to save 12900HX the embarassment) The deal with laptops is that you get a portable machine at a significant premium and sacrifice around 25% (conservatively) in CPU performance, and I'd say easily 200-300% in max GPU performance (with multiple GPUs). In most cases, the user is also limited to 64GB of RAM in today's crippled thin laptops. Now, for many the trade-off will work, and that's OK.
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    " The company has removed the feature entirely and one of the reasons could be performance issues." LOL. Well, non-technical people could well buy this. How much power do you need to refresh the miniscule fraction of the screen containing seconds? In the unlikely case there was a legitimate concern, which I highly doubt, they could have added a power-saving mode where the second updates are suspended when there is otherwise no load on the machine. Honestly, I like my explanation better :)
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    A lot of people might be, although we are just a group of sophisticated individuals - with (by declaration) no direct exposure to Musk - discussing. Nobody is butthurting here. Now, folks referring to the guy as "Elon", as if he was their friend or something, is one of his fairly amazing PR achievements. He's kind of like this "Boris" guy in the UK. Very charismatic, a bit eccentric, but essentially a despicable and rotten individual who significantly damaged the country. Not being able to discern the glaring difference between 10%ish cuts where even the most pompous CEOs come out expressing deep regrets etc., and this hostile takeover sh*tshow resulting in a significant media company being basically bulldozered is quite an "achievement".
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    Good question, but that's what hostile takeovers are for, which is what this essentially is. Twitter did not want to do a deal with him, although they sold out in the end. Makes me wonder if the whole thing with pulling out wasn't orchestrated. If you're going to raze a public platform of this magnitude, you better have some good rationale in the public view. BTW I suspect the motivation behind the deal is not immediately financial for him and the private investors who chipped in. They want to control a major global source of information to some end which probably doesn't involve having any pesky "old guard" free-thinking operators trying to suppress hate speech etc. on the platform. It's funny how hard it is to find people who actually use Twitter, but it's always all over the media. Information is power, and that's probably worth more than a 100 Twitters. There you have it folks.
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    Very interesting. I was initially confused like probably most people, as there is quite a lot of misinformation out there, but now it's fairly clear to me what the agenda is. He may have at some point realised the plan is a bit too nuts, even by his standards, and may result in too much PR cost, but was committed by that point. The official story goes: poor (figuratively) overworked to the point of being eccentric but deeply good Iron Man Elon got cheated by bad Twitter people. Nice. I mean he is clever, no doubt about that. Oh yeah, the plan will work on the Twitter side, but potentially the PR concerns are real. The thing is that his customer base is not really the people who would be overly concerned by exploitation of American tech workers (not to mention H1Bs), so he may be fine there too unless he wishes to expand his empire to retail. Still, it just seems like the upside is overall limited, but by now I'm convinced he has some grand plans for this that we just don't see, and they probably won't be pretty.
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    Musk's takeover is essentially an act of war on Twitter. What his actions are conveying is that Twitter is/was an enemy of itself, and his value proposition is in being able to come in and wipe out Twitter as we know it. The new Twitter will be run by employees who are happy to work 12h/day, ideally 7 days a week, for above average pay, but more importantly are on the same page. The bulk of the work will be done by volunteers on the Internet anyway, and those free resources will be given a bit more leeway in terms of working hours. The antics around angry firings, "work ethics", and "code quality" tests are likely just designed to cast Twitter employees as precisely "old guard" comprised of poor coders and shirkers. I very much doubt the best of the best would want to work there, simply because Musk doesn't seem to pay enough and the work regimen on offer is not sustainable for very long - he admitted this in interviews. Check out glassdoor and indeed reviews for Tesla to get an idea. Dreadful place to work from what I can see, doesn't seem like they pay big bucks in exchange for those long hours, and obviously the product is not cheap. This is how you become the richest man in the world. Leveraged buyouts are nothing new, but this seems like a particularly aggressive example - I feel sorry for the people caught up. Will be interesting to see if this blows up in his face and costs him his "the amazing Iron Man, saviour of the world" persona he cleverly constructed.
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    Their concern would be understandable. For starters, it's much easier to find educational resources on how to stop being a yes-man, than on becoming one. I ran a quick google and the situation is dire, but I did find something, kind of appropriate actually. Hope this would help them. Perhaps Elon could organize a series of internal training sessions around this.
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    Will be interesting to see if the market ever normalizes such that consumers can expect to actually get more value from next generation graphics cards. It's possible that it will take some technical breakthrough that will dethrone the current technologies and/or players. For the moment though, Ampere and perhaps Radeons look like better value for most people in practical terms.
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    Would Tim Cook deliver the iPod, iPhone and iPad, or was Steve Jobs really necessary. Is Elon still a benefit to Tesla, or more of a micromanaging megalomaniac hindering progress. Hard to answer from the outside. I suspect he is still instrumental because he intentionally surrounded himself with yes-men. You can see how this works in early stages at Twitter: those of different opinions are summarily dismissed. Apparently Jobs became different past Pixar, and really started valuing diversity of thought.
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    Looks like he is also hurting Tesla shareholders. He actually took out gigantic loans secured against $62bn of Tesla stock. Interest alone exceeds Twitter's pre takeover earnings. His vision for Twitter included: * Open sourcing the algorithms - why, other than to be able to cut in-house engineers? At least the layoffs are consistent. Who will be the open source team? * Combating spam bots - that's fine, although it would be good to know how he was proposing to improve on what Twitter was already doing. If the anti-bot algos are open sourced, won't that make bot writers' life so much easier? * Championing free speech - that's probably where the $7bn he took from private investors came from Well, if he can avoid the meltdown, he will probably turn this into something. He still has deep enough pockets to carry the company for a bit to avoid a complete disaster and embarrassment. Then he can flog what's left to some fellow champions of free speech, like the Saudis or Qataris. Really weird, but looking deeper things are leaning more on the nefarious side.
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    So originally I thought this kind of cooling potentially makes sense in constrained space, and might enable side-by-side mounting of 2 3090/4090s 3 slots apart. Unfortunately I've seen a video claiming a 3090TI and a 4090 FEs seated 3 slots apart run very hot, so it's probably not as effective as the typical workstation/server blower designs which also have top-side and rear intakes.
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    Apparently not Andrei Karpathy, Tesla's former head of AI whom not that long ago Elon touted as "the best programmer in the world" ;) I mean what is he trying to achieve, besides the severe downsizing. At this point he must be really furious he got forced to go through with the takeover. All these chaotic decisions indicate he is struggling to keep it together. How did the takeover even get approved? He must have had some appealing vision to present to the shareholders, or was this just based on his street cred? I wasn't following that process too closely TBH. His Twitter antics bored me pretty quickly, can't believe people were investing in Dogecoin based on that. Then of course Twitter decided to FORCE him to go through with the deal. Why would you want someone who at this point probably hates your company (and is known to be a little unstable) take it over? Perhaps he is actually trying to destroy the company in order to punish the investors for forcing him to take it over? I mean there would be a strange logic in that. His first step was to exact vengeance by firing everyone at the top. It's all so bizarre, yet the market is not panicking... TBH it's a bit hard to see that $41B market cap at the moment. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-may-have-lost-more-than-a-million-users-since-elon-musk-took-over/
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    They knew the top-side location of the socket + crazy adapter was bad in the 3090 Ti already, hence the attempt to mitigate using the angled socket. Seems like with the Ada consumer cards, someone at Nvidia said "f.. it!" and just left it at the right angle. The workstation cards typically have the socket at the rear of the card. I guess more space that way in most cases, and no need for weird cable routing. Like you said though, the socket location options are limited by the shorter PCB relative to the cooler, to accommodate the rear fan. In theory board partners could have improved on this (unless they are forced to use Nvidia board designs verbatim), but I guess none of them did.
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    You know it's bad when a 15 minute tutorial is needed to ensure a cable is properly plugged in.
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    Just eyeballing the GeekBench score, that's slower than 12900KS so some 33-40% slower than 13900K. Still impressive in terms of efficiency. Pretty sure there won't be any socketed versions. The idea of a DTR is dead. Can you imagine a 300W CPU in a laptop?
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    Elon went full ghetto startup mode on a "$44B" business. Hope those who endure will be rewarded appropriately. I mean he might have an actual point. I am not sure what Twitter does that warrants, what? a 5k headcount originally? Still, a pretty crazy management strategy.
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    Complete nonsense, in line with an extended pattern of irratic... tweets.
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    Paranoid, schizophrenic, bipolar - I'm not an expert, but something would appear to be out of order. It's possible that casually dropping $40B on top of everything he's been through over the years has loosened a screw or two. That said, strict governance around production releases doesn't strike me as anything but best practice. It's more about his behaviour towards the staff. In Europe he'd be in the court (again) over this already. Basically he's the single point of failure for tens of B of equity now. What could go wrong!
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    Twitter staff locked out of the office. What kind of gestapo management is that?
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