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i believe the latest rumors suggest 16GB unified GDDR6, but the relevant tech here might be sophisticated caching technology that also leverages a fast PCIe 4.0 SSD

How do you feel about Tesla in this regard?

this was fixed in software a while ago, even my old 2011 (?) Mac mini no longer needed the dummy hdmi dongle connected to have aresponsive/hw accelerated UI via remote access

I know which one has more "oomph" when I need a CLI and package manager...

Im not sure I agree; a set of $700 wheels won’t make anybody who can easily afford them feel like struggling customers again. Wealthy people that I got to know would likely feel offended by the price tag in relation to the functionality. The nouveau riche crowd looking to display status on the other hand...

Some large motherboard vendors do this too. They'll happily drop an autoupdater onto any fresh Windows installation booted from the board.

https://www.techpowerup.com/248827/asus-z390-motherboards-au...

In a way they already do.

All current Macs include a T2 chip, which is a variant of the A10 chip that handles various tasks like controlling the SSD NAND, TouchID, Webcam DSP, various security tasks and more.

The scenario you mention — a upgraded "T3" chip based on a newer architecture that would act as a coprocessor used to execute ARM code natively on x86 machines — seems possible, but I don't know how likely it is.

Interesting, is this feasible in everyday life?

I do not use Linux on my desktop or notebook but I would like to do so in the near future. This means I should strive to keep all my user created data within the home directory at all times? How about program preferences and configs that get saved elsewhere by default?

I imagine having ZFS snapshots of / would be useful for updates going forward.

Yes, there's also the topic of unrecoverable read errors (URE) and their effect on successful RAID rebuilds. [1][2]

Most consumer drives are still sold rated as <10^14 bits read per error. That's 12.5 terabytes, so in the worst case you could end up in situations where — on average — you are unable read a full 16TB drive without an error. Needless to say this is less than optimal for rebuilding a failed RAID array.

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. very low error rates during ZFS scrubs) suggests that manufacturers underrate their drives and they are much more reliable than that, but it is something to keep in mind.

Fortunately drive capacity completely outpaced my needs for personal data storage in the recent years, so I am happy with JBOD or RAID1, with backups of course.

[1]http://www.raidtips.com/raid5-ure.aspx [2]https://magj.github.io/raid-failure/

Intel is selling it as a way to keep secrets safe inside the processor against attackers with root/hypervisor software access or even physical access. Of course, a bevy of attacks in the recent months have demonstrated that this isn’t really achievable given the extremely large attack surface.

As a layman I have to wonder, should we expect similar attacks on Apple's Secure Enclave in the future?

"the internet" from a dedicated fiber line is not the same as "the internet" from a oversubscribed 3G cell tower in the same country.

Running better/more aggressive last mile QoS in the affected regions would make more sense to me, though I can see the advantage of netflix throttling "voluntarily" because this approach may avoid net neutrality violations.

The CTO of de-cix recently gave an interview regarding the current situation. They monitored the situation in Italy, put some upgrades in place earlier than originally planned and are not worried about a 40% increase within the next four weeks.

https://www.golem.de/news/internet-traffic-de-cix-sieht-kein...

That's exactly what I was wondering!

With my (relatively small) Cable ISP in an affected country it obvious to me that any Netflix content gets served from very close to the edge, with higher bandwidth and lower latency than almost any other content from the internet.

The last mile does not appear to be close to oversubscribed either, as indicated by my firewall which tracks RTT to the first hop (which is interestingly trending down compared to the past weeks) and the occasional speedtest that never drops below nominal bandwidth (200 Mbit).

If anything it is low latency livestreaming content (i.e. Youtube, Twitch, Mixer) that should be throttled, particularly over cellular networks. I assume it's a matter of scale.

wouldn't it be risky to ride behind a potentially infected rider? after all you'd be breathing in their exhaled air, or would the speed and wind dillute the aerosol quickly enough to make it harmless?

I read that italy banned bicycling in affected locations to avoid accidents that would further strain their already stressed health care system. sorry, no source.

My opinion is that MacBook Pros turned into consumer machines somewhere along the way and the overwhelming majority of buyers use them for Facebook, Youtube and Mail.app. I imagine Apple has a vast amount of metrics on this. None of these use cases require better thermals, so Apple engineers the devices accordingly.

I don't recall my 17" Powerbook G4 ever having thermal issues but how many people would buy a ~$5000 base spec MBP today? See Mac Pro.

I had both (a gift I didn't ask for) and prefer the QC35s for NC and regular Airpods for casual on-the-go use.

Airpod Pros had worse noise cancelling but slightly better sound quality (clearer mids/highs, less bass). I think this is very subjective and depends on the situation and type of noise you're looking to block out.

If I could only own one pair of headphones I have to admit that the Airpod Pros would be hard to beat, as ridiculous as the pricetag seems.

My eye doctor told me that it's all made up by the optometric industry and there's no meaningful evidence.

(I still use night mode and calibrate my screens for low temperatures because even if it is just a placebo, it works for my comfort)

Yes, I'm using the https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI... format with af_youtube_embed enabled and it is just showing blank entries on the newest version of ttrs & plugins. Looks like my installation is bugged then, but I don't have the time to investigate at the moment.

Have you found a way to subscribe to youtube channels and view the video embedded insite ttrss? The official youtube feeds appear to be empty or just contain a URL to the video.

Yes, I consider it my main source of internet news.

Selfhosted, no additional ads except for those on the sites, no algorithm trying to keep me "in" with noisy influencer clickbait. I rarely add sites but I'm quick to remove them if they become too sensationalist/inaccurate.

Interesting. As a datapoint, I was unexpectedly gifted Airpod Pros for Christmas and all three tip sizes seal well in my ears according to the test app. The middle sized one is most comfortable. Regular Airpods fit fine.

That being said I'm planning on passing them on to somebody without Airpods (after buying new eartips!) because I already own regular Airpods and Bose QC35s. I prefer the on-ear Boses for ANC and the Airpods for comfort (not completely in-ear, easy to take in/out for casual listening, less isolation than Pro's transparency mode, they fall out and pause playback when I fall asleep).

The Airpod Pros aren't bad, they would be a good compromise between the two for somebody who likes in-ear buds. I just don't have a use for them and find them overpriced.

Apple's hardware recently improved by reverting some changes done over the last few years. Many attribute this to the departure of a certain designer that was also in charge of iOS 7, so I feel like there’s hope.

Am I cynical to expect one of these in every Echo/Home/Portal "assistant" within a decade? You know, strictly for 3D-avatar VR communication purposes only.

... then the subscription fee business model turns out to be unsustainable, so they add a few harmless affiliate links to pay staff. then ads. then sponsored content ...

I think this is Steve Job's famous truck, the vehicle that only very few people need.[1] Admittedly this is slightly ironic given recent Tesla news headlines.

Unlike with the iPad this device can be upgraded, repaired at home, it'll run software purchased outside the app store, the battery won't degrade and users may even get a whole decade of use out of it. One could argue that's all lost potential revenue to Apple and thus priced into the machines.

Perhaps I'm wrong. The main thing that makes me doubt this theory is that the Mac mini exists at its current price point. Come to think about it, one could build quite the renderfarm out of these for $60k.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJ3QxJYsw8

I'm curious if AMD could produce an internal engineering sample that simply copies all the relevant product strings from the competing vendor. They could check for statistically relevant performance discrepancies from just that modification.

https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Der-optimale-PC-2020-4564302...

to clarify, these are vetted parts lists by a leading german computer magazine, complete with optional upgrades, videos to aid with the build process and even detailed BIOS settings.

Not to mention the numerous times where TM casually asks to wipe your backup history because the integrity test didn't pass without errors. Usually this can be fixed with a few commands copied off a blogpost that must be getting thousands of hits every day.

It seems obvious to me that TM was intended to run on a snapshotting filesystem such as ZFS* and when this didn't materialize the engineers tried their best to make it work using the tools available to them. Unfortunately thsoe were sparsebundles and hardlinks. I would hope that TM will get updated to use APFS snapshots sooner rather than later, assuming the feature is proven and stable. iOS makes use of APFS snapshots for rolling back failed updates, so one would assume it is.

* http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/ and https://arstechnica.com/staff/2006/08/4995/

the german site computerbase.de does this. they also do crowdsourced benchmarks for various applications and video game titles. I find that their articles are some of the best on the web, though you'll need machine translation to read them.

case in point: https://www.computerbase.de/2019-11/amd-ryzen-3950x-test/3/#...

you can press the button on the top right of the graph to show/hide other, less relevant entries. click an entry to lock it in for relative comparison. the top dropdown menu lets you choose between multicore, singlecore and application specific results.

I just checked with the Intel Power Gadget on a 2015 MBP 10.14.6, iGPU only, same video at 1080p, package power consumption (CPU + iGPU):

~6,4W average in Safari 13.0.3

~8,6W average in Firefox 70