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Google’s TPU’s are not powering Gemini or whatever X equivalent LLM you want to compare to.

But is the new Affinity app quite literally feature equivalent? Is there anything the latest version of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo Desktop edition can do that the new combined Affinity app cannot do? That's my only concern.

I agree with you. When I read that my first thought was "the one area"? Personally I think its the complete opposite, like really strongly. like really really strongly. I'm certain for at least 10 years now, once a week I think "I miss old desktop operating systems". Any of them. 7,vista,xp. snow leopard,leopard,tiger. I even stopped using Ubuntu when it went from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and other options at that time were pretty bad so I ended up getting back into mac's for my home desktop. I still use all 3 daily, but hate all of them.

If that's true I think its genuinely disrespectful. Truly.

What Lenovo model + screen option do you have that is better than the M1 Pro 16 inch screen? I've yet to see anything better.

Randomly found this while searching around about the history of Windows XP. Has anyone made a collection of sites similar to this? I've been seeing so many great ones lately like old Mac ones.

One thing that I notice nobody mention about VMWare on Windows is what about the issues with "Virtualization Based Security"? If you have this enabled VMWare uses "Windows Hypervisor Platform" which I think is also tied in with Hyper-V for running VMs through VMware making them noticeably worse and more unstable especially when dealing with USB devices. During the installer, you'll be warned of this too if memory serves correct. Cons are you cannot use WSL2 and reduced security. How much in reality does it reduce security I'm not exactly sure but I wish it wasn't like this or there was a better workaround for VMware on Windows. VBS feature is enabled by default on all Windows 11 and I think most later releases of Windows 10.

I hadn’t before looking it up, and my mind immediately autocorrected “Hyperlight” to Silverlight.

Jeff Bezo’s foaming at the mouth right now because of what you just wrote.

First thought that popped into my head.

How about like 10-15 years ago when everybody and their mother could spin up a RAT and do drive-by installations with a webpage?

I had this exact same experience with a brand new Dell XPS 15 I purchased around 2018 I believe. It came with a killer branded Wi-Fi card and I noticed shortly after purchasing that it would literally bring down my entire home network at the time. I don’t remember what router I was running or the rest of my home network set up at the time, but it was definitely a really bizarre thing to witness, I ended upreplacing the Wi-Fi card.

I’ve actually had some strange anomalies happen like this on a couple laptops I have. Rebooting or even holding the power button long enough to do according to the manufacturer some kind of CMOS or hard reset didn’t work either. I had to open up the bottom, cover unplugged, the battery completely Then re-plugged in and everything went back to operational condition.

I purchased lifetime, I've actually been looking for something like this for a while.

This seriously makes me want to dual boot Linux just to try. I think I'll add it to my todo list on a free weekend.

I tried GlazeWM and it does what it says “technically” but there’s a lot of edge cases where it doesn’t and things just glitch out or don’t tile. Applications that don’t work well where you have to edit the configs per app etc. I settled on using Komorebi [1] instead and it’s a lot more of “just works”, just run it and go.

[1] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

The perfect keyboard for me has been the Kinesis Freestyle Pro. Split keyboard with all the keys you would want plus 10 macro keys on the left side you can map to anything. There is absolutely no way I could go back to using any other keyboard after using this for a few years now. Shoulder and wrist pain completely gone.

Firefox extensions disabled: 16.8 +- 0.59 Brave extensions disabled: 19.0 +- 0.88

Interesting because I have only 5 extensions. The heaviest extension seems to be Dark Reader which causes over 5 point changes.

The Firefox profile I'm using is no more than 3 weeks old. Fresh install of Windows was done around that time.

I tested this with Firefox stable release and Brave stable release, 3 runs on each. Same exact extensions across both.

Highest scores across tests: Firefox: 6.34 +- 0.31 Brave: 11.3 +- 0.37 on Ryzen 9 7940HS + RTX 3060 mobile

Which really sucks since I highly prefer Firefox but this past week I've been trying out Brave and I think its noticeably faster and smoother to me. Even with the reduced speed I'm still swayed toward Firefox for the customization factor you can achieve with userchrome.css file.

I remember before CraftBukkit there was hMod, I think that team went on to make CraftBukkit.

Any source or further information for what makes you say there were engineers that that provided information? I always suspected some of the people in these communities were engineers but never discovered anything for my thoughts to make it past just being suspicions.

For me, it's just the amount of tweaking necessary in order to get things how I want one. 3 years ago I made multiple attempts to switch and stay on it. First issues were getting Windows applications to run. I tried Wine/Proton/PlayOnLinux and even running a Windows VM with some trickery to make apps appear native through RDP tools I found on github to make it as seamless as possible, it was a lot of work and in the end wasn't very reliable. On top of that for laptops there were even more issues. Laptops with a dGPU and an iGPU had issues switching between the two between battery mode and plugged in, more research and tools in order to fix all the little bugs with this. Even further, battery life was another issue, install more packages make changes to config files and still battery life wouldn't be as good as Windows or macOS on the same hardware, let's say a ThinkPad or Dell XPS that supported Windows or macOS through Hackintosh. In the end I just gave up. I'll always use Linux on servers because nothing comes close but personally I'll stick to Windows Enterprise or Pro, run chocolatey and get everything I need up and running working quickly. For friends and family, Windows 10 IOT LTSC 2021 with a non-admin account and a browser installed. Reliable.

Wouldn’t plain WireGuard also do that?

Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.

I believe this also applies to plain Beeper Cloud according to the Beeper Updates channel inside the app. Been a user since May of this year and it was working beautifully. RIP, end of an era. I just sold all of my Macs recently and don't think I'll acquire a Mac just for this reason :(

I think I saw somewhere (somewhere in the Beeper updates channel) that Beeper Cloud switched to using their new method a little while back before releasing Beeper Mini, which would explain the cut off.

What was he doing with the IPs? Reselling them?

I can definitely get 30C idle temps if I turn off the dGPU but I use it most of the time docked up to external monitors which forces the dGPU to run. At that point with my usual programs open I'm at 65-90C depending on what I'm doing within those programs. I can get this down to 50-55C stable if I disable boost on the CPU which keeps it at 3GHz no turbo but there is a noticeably performance hit.

This is great, nice work.