Numerlor

The swap/memory situation in linux has surprised me quite a bit coming from Windows.

Windows remains mostly fully responsive even when memory is being pushed to the limits and swapping gigabytes per second, while on linux when I ran a stress test that ate all the memory I had trouble even terminating the script

Apple doesn't expose the kind of introspection necessary to compare with the data the article is about. Any mention would just be about Apple's chips existing and being better

Wouldn't having an adversarial country to be spying on you be the better option for you personally? At least privacy wise, not using your machine as some infiltration point, as the country you reside in has many more opportunities to abuse the data

How can the solar panel itself radiate heat when it's being heated up generating supplying power? Looking at pictures of the ISS there's radiators that look like they're there specifically to cool the solar panels.

And even if viable, why would you just not cool using air down on earth? Water is used for cooling because it increases effectiveness significantly, but even a closed loop system with simple dry air heat exchangers is quite a lot more effective than radiative cooling

It's a matter of deploying it for cheaper or with fewer downsides than what can be done on earth. Launching things to space is expensive even with reusable rockets, and a single server blade would need a lot of accompanying tech to power it, cool it, and connect to other satellites and earth.

Right now only upsides an expensive satellite acting as a server node would be physical security and avoiding various local environmental laws and effects

Samsung had been kind of side grading their flagships and offering worse SOCs depending on location, paired with there plainly being more options for Android there'll be more variety spread out over the different manufacturers

> It only became off by default after those "daily rage sessions" created sufficient public pressure to turn them off.

99% of the daily rage sessions happened before it was even released

NTFS getting corrupted by the tiniest errors would be one reason to use ReFS

Using it for the OS partition is not very well supported right now though (for a consumer), installing etc. works fine, but DISM doesn't support ReFS so adding features generally doesn't work

Have you tried e.g. Mojo that can vectorize/do SIMD without having to do intrinsics everywhere?

Computer monitors have been getting a lot better while being cheaper, with no ads or services. You can get a high resresh rate 4K ips for about $200 nowadays. Display tech is just advancing faster than other tech at the moment

Why is their browser using so much memory? I'm quite bad at closing tabs since I've switched to vertical and just open new windows instead. And even with that I don't think I ever broke 10gb on edge except for when I opened many YouTube videos at once and then went through them which kept the tabs loaded

> LNL throttles heavily even on the default profile, not just power saver modes.

This does also show it not changing in other benchmarks, but I don't have a LNL laptop myself to test things myself, just going off of what people I know tested. It's still also balanced so best performance power plan would I assume push it to use its cores normally - on windows laptops I've owned this could be done with a hotkey.

> Lunar Lake uses TSMC N3 for compute tile. There is no node advantage.

LNL is N3B, Apple is on N3E which is a slight improvement for efficency

> Yet, M4 is 42% faster in ST and M5 is 50% faster based on Geekbench 6 ST.

Like I said they simply have a better architecture at the moment, which also more focused on client that GB benchmarks because their use cases are narrower. If you compare something like optimized SIMD Intel/AMD will come out on top with perf/watt.

And I'm not sure why being behind the market leader would make one lose faith in Intel, their most recent client fuckup was raptor lake instability and I'd say that was handled decently. For now nothing else that'd indicate Windows ARM getting to Apple level battery performance without all of the vertical integration

ETA: looking at things the throttling behaviour seems to be very much OEM dependent, though the tradeoffs will always remain the same

Nobody is duplicating the macbook experience because Apple is integrating both hardware and os, while others are fighting Windows, and OEMs being horrible at firmware.

LNL should only power throttle when you go to power saver modes, battery life will suffer when you let it boost high on all cores but you're not getting great battery life when doing heavy all core loads either way. Overall MT should be better on Panther lake with the unified architecture, as afaik LNLs main problem was being too expensive so higher end high core count SKUs were served by mobile arrow lake. And we're also getting what seems to be a very good iGPU while AMD's iGPUs outside of Strix Halo are barely worth talking about

ST is about the same as AMD. Apple being ahead is nothing out of the ordinary since their ARM switch, as there's the node advantage, what I mentioned with the OS, and just better architecture as they plainly have the best people at the moment working at it

Lost faith from what? On x86 mobile Lunar lake chips are the clear best for battery life at the moment, and mobile arrowlake is competitive with amd's offerings. Only thing they're missing is a Strix halo equivalent but AMD messed that one up and there's like 2 laptops with it.

The new intel node seems to be kinda weaker than tsmc's going by the frequency numbers of the CPUs, but what'll matter the most in a laptop is real battery life anyway

It was with the fast profile using both software and hardware deciding, important detail I forgot was that the video was av1. Don't have the link to it now but it was from jellyfin's test files

I did recently see someone compare mpv and vlc on a 8k HDR @ 60fps file with mpv really lagging while vlc doing it fine. I could confirm the mpv lags but don't have vlc, so not sure if it's just better in that specific case or did something like no actual HDR

Most articles I've seen from them on here have been negative enough that I'd assume bias the other way

From my tests defender has minimal impact on performance even when doing a full scan, except for making some io slower when you're e.g. unpacking new files but NTFS is plenty slow by itself there

Enterprise likes to layer multiple invasive security products though that'll do a lot worse than defender

There aren't because nobody is betting on ai demand to last. Then they'd have a couple billion dollar fab sitting around doing nothing and employees that'd have to be fired.

There already was scaling back for dram and and production post COVID, where I believe nand was being sold close to cost because of oversupply

Afaik production of nand was reduced as some of the lines can be repurposed for dram that's more in demand.

Significantly increasing supply is also a huge multi year investment into a new fab that'd likely not pay out when the artificial demand breaks down.

Value wise when trying to spec out my personal Lenovo laptop on framework, it'd never get anywhere close to being worth it even if I completely made use of the hardware after a future upgrade.

Framework makes sense if you're going in on the sustainability idea, but other than that it's really just an expensive laptop that's not compelling against its competitors

The polish is what they seem to have trouble with lately.

I much prefer their ides to say vscode, but their development has been a mess for a while with half-assed implementations and long standing bugs

The socket io locks in the amount of memory channels. Some pins could be repurposed but that's pretty much a new socket anyway.

They could in theory do on package dram as faster first level memory, but I doubt we'll see that anytime soon on desktop and it probably wouldn't fit under the heat spreader

Fwiw if you want a simple pastebin, I've been running pinnwand for a couple years without any issues off of a single short docker compose file, I think running it on host also shouldn't be complicated

DDR4 manufacturing is mostly shut down, so if any real demand picks starts there the prices will shoot up

This article about them got published just yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124883

There's a lot of misleading information in what they publish, plagiarism, and I believe some information that wouldn't be possible to get without breaking NDAs

But also note that a memory test passing doesn't mean the ram (or CPU) is fine.

I overclocked my system for fun and for ram you'd run 2-3 different tests to be able to call it stable with some confidence, as they all have different access patterns and r/w ratios.

Memtest86/+ are usually seen as worse compared to the other tests like say or karhu ram test or testme5, but those also need an OS to run and in the rare chance only some region of memory is faulty could miss it

I'll admit, bit of a poor choice of word,l. But when you need to do e.g. physical security, costs add up quickly over what you'd spend on cloud in say a year, and the compliance companies are usually a huge headache to deal with so that'll be some nice amount of your staff's time lost

For company hosting cloud solutions gets you the various compliance stuff for free which can be worth it if you're not too large, and of course faster turnaround if you need to get a product out.

For personal a cheap vps will end up costing around the same as something you can do on your own, without the risk of messing up your machine/network from a vulnerable endpont

Yes it should work with the codec pack, and they're keeping it on some of their laptops like with dedicated gpus