zurohki

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget heat. You can't just drain the local water supply to cool all your systems in space, you need to actually radiate all those kilowatts of power after your chips convert them into heat.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

A lot of it hasn't actually been made, though. The AI companies have put in orders for future production. That future capacity can be redirected with a wave of a pen.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There's probably a lot of people on 'stable' distros who are still running Wayland code from a couple of years ago and hitting bugs that have been fixed already.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of people tried Wayland in 2020, a bunch of things didn't work and they've been permanently traumatised.

I switched my laptop years ago, but my desktop only fairly recently - multi screen, mixed DPI with variable refresh rates for gaming took longer to be ready than my laptop's single screen, normal DPI, fixed refresh rate config.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you deal with the fundamental problems of the protocol itself and also provide backwards compatibility... Congrats, you've just reinvented Wayland and XWayland.

Dealing with X11's problems while still being X11, when X11 is the problem? Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath either.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago

I remember hearing back during COVID when everyone was WFH that sales of business pants had tanked. Sales of business shirts hadn't. So that tracks.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

XP was the first one that had proper memory protection so that badly written programs would just crash instead of taking down the whole system.

It was a dramatic step forward compared to 98, where you'd be lucky to go a whole day without bluescreening. There's a reason XP hung on for so long. It was the first Windows version that was really good enough for most people.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Anything is if you're brave enough.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's DSL, so the speed depends on line length. To reliably get 250M you're probably doing fibre to the footpath outside the building.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hbm is really server stuff, and as is, you cannot repurpose it

I mean, you and I can't, but memory manufacturers? They'll find a way.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago

Smeg-heads do be like that.

 

Just two years ago my car's 50 kWh battery weighed around 350 kg, now you can get a 45 kWh battery that fits in the palm of your hand!

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