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Yeah, you can unlock when retrieved, so no issues there. The thing is, the remote lock and wipe, is specifically designed to make the device e-waste to make them less desirable to be stolen. But as we have seen, people are dumb and only see the potential value in something. If you read the...

Also something to consider is the security options available on the device. Does android support something akin to "Find My", and the ability to remote brick the device. (if the device is lost / stolen) How long does it take for someone to acquire data off the device with out the users...

Typically 5+ years after last sale of the device. The iPhone XS/XR (removed from sale 5 years ago), will be getting iOS 18 (to be released shortly). The prior iPhone X, shipped with iOS 11, and stopped at iOS 16, and the last patch for iOS 16 was just over a month ago. The prior iPhone 8...

PSA: After 27 years, AnandTech is closing... https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

Nvidia just displaced Microsoft as the 1st most valuable company (based on Mkt Cap). Nvidia - 3.335T Microsoft - 3.317T Apple - 3.286T Nvidia (based on Mkt Cap) is now the worlds most valuable company... As they say, when there's a gold rush, be the one selling the shovels, not the one...

Anyone playing/played "The Long Dark" ? Just started and so far it's interesting and frustrating at the same time.

For a few companies, yes, the majority, no.

Played "Firewatch" recently, really well worth the few hours of gameplay time. (I got it on sale).

Nvidia just displaced Apple as the 2nd most valuable company (based on Mkt Cap). Microsoft - 3.151T Nvidia - 3.012T Apple - 3.003T Nvidia shares have jumped $837.86 per share in the last 12 mths, with $312.02 per share in the last month alone. (currently trading at $1,224.40 per share).

We're not that remote, but our infrastructure provider (NBN) rolled out VDSL to many areas in the last 10 years and are now ripping all that out to replace with GPON based fibre. (The project started as a full GPON rollout and got changed at the start of the project due to political interference...

Cries with my barely reaching 50Mbps / 15Mbps connection on VSDL2... (That's the best on offer and no upgrades for at least 2 years where I am).

For the most part, yes, by increasing the width of the memory bus and bringing the memory chips onto the CPU package (which allows higher MT's). Case in point: The M2 Max is capable of 400GB/s. The M2 Ultra doubles that to 800GB/s. Intel 12th Gen or Ryzen 7000 series with dual channel...

Sed pretty much nailed it. 68K -> PPC - used fat binaries PPC -> Intel - used fat binaries OR Rosetta for translation Intel -> ARM - used fat binaries OR Rosetta 2 for translation

IIRC, the first Alpha's did it all in software (called FX!32 all done by DEC), but later versions added some additional CPU instructions to assist in the translated code performance. (IIRC Apple did the same with Apple Silicon, it has a very extra CPU instructions that assist Rosetta2 in working...

To make stock holders happy that {insert company} is delivering on AI. At a more fundamental level, LM mentioned the current primary reason (at least in the x86 world), is for AI accelerated workflows especially in image and video cleanup or enhancements. Adobe especially seems to be adding in...

On the current Apple Silicon series stuff, they are custom devices as the actual drive controller is in the SOC and the 'HDD' is just a card with NAND flash and a bridge chip on it. You can source upgrades and DIY, but you may need access to some Apple software to reset the drive controller in...

Based on my reading, it's firmware tweaked for AI workloads that process video... My guess it's the same firmware used for video surveillance systems (basically linear writes at low IO queue depth), but tweaked to be more responsive to random IO in regions the were written recently... (The cache...

I would assume the 'AI' part means the firmware is designed for typical IO workloads found when used with AI software. Similar to how drives for video systems is designed more for linear IO, vs random IO. And HHDs for NAS may be tweaked for more random IO and quieter running, and so on.

IIRC, SDR -> DDR4 were a single 64bit wide data bus to the DIMM, but with DDR5 that was changed to a 2x 32bit data bus, thus allowing 2x 32bit reads to the DIMM to done independently. Due to the change to 32bit wide channels we can now have non power of 2 sizing of the actual memory chip...

Sounds a lot like the approach Sun took with the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 series.

Sorry to hear, with my sincere my condolences. RIP.

IIRC, nVidia said no new architecture until 2025. Will look at refreshes of current generation (aka Super's and Super Ti's) and continued focus on AI for 2024... Some reports are also indicating the the 50xx series will be a refresh of the current Ada Lovelace GPU (same architecture on a die...

I was going to recommend cablemod for right angle adapters, but they are not currently doing 8pin/6pin PCIe adapters but only 12VHPWR at the moment... apparently 8pin are on there way... https://store.cablemod.com/product-category/angled-adapters/

Interesting take on Ryzen vs Intel

Thermite is the only way...

Appears I was slightly incorrect, it appears ASMedia designed the actual chipsets themselves... Source for the above: https://www.techpowerup.com/242485/asmedia-remains-amd-chipset-usb-partner-increases-revenues-by-44-7...

The Powerbook 100 came in black, didn't it? Or is that more of a very dark grey? Otherwise one of the G3 based models was certainly black...

The only items to really note, was the unusual RAM size for the M3 Pro based MacBooks, eg, based installed size is 18GB, and that the M3 Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth compared to the M2 Pro (150GB/s vs 200GB/s). Mind you, having colour matched keyboards on the iMac is a nice touch...

IIRC, AMD licensed and used one the ASMedia USB 3.x controller designs in their Ryzen chipsets, so you won't see as ASMedia, but rather as a AMD chipset controller. Motherboard manufacturers would often add additional USB controllers to boost the number of USB ports. It was speculated that it...

Typically 2 years from the release of the 'version' of Windows 11 (for Home/Pro, excluding Enterprise which has it's own release cycle). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-home-and-pro

Works fine in Safari as well...

Rumours of Windows 12 potentially being subscription based: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-windows-12-could-require-a-subscription However, these rumours appear to have been debunked, as the subscription information appears to relate to IoT Enterprise services that MS are...

$3 120GB SSD performance.... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/reviewer-tests-3-sata-ssd-gets-exactly-what-they-paid-for/

Puts hand up, yep did that back in the day, 20-odd years ago. It was awesome to print to the "Fax" and have to send directly from the PC. Just be warned, if ordering a VOIP service (as opposed to a real PSTN service), you want to confirm that the service is suitable for fax and data services...

Next up, custom water loops that go from the CPU to the NVMe to the GPU coupled with a 380mm+ radiator... And people boasting keeping it all under 60C under full load...

Out of interest as we are now starting to see some of the new PCIe Gen5 NVMe now coming with large heat sinks and reporting operating temperatures in the 70-80C range, does anyone have any links to papers that report on life expectancy vs average operating temperature with the common NAND being...

If you need the data destroyed, and it's not detected by the system, then the only choice is physical destruction of the NAND chips and controller.

With our Brother MFC, absolutely no problems. In fact my wife's Windows 11 PC has the most problems, primarily dropped print jobs, but yet my Linux desktop has 0 issues, my iPad and iPhone has 0 issues, my work macBook has 0 issues... Just be aware, AirPrint is a network based protocol and works...

I think the best item with the printer move, is no having to download and install the x00MB driver packages... We have a brother MFC at home that supports AirPrint. Mac laptop, iPad and linux desktop took 10 secs to find and setup the print/scan/fax functions for the printer. Windows, 250MB...

Mini-rant about Win11... The built in backup solutions downright suck. MS has nerfed the old "Windows 7 Backup and Recovery" in ways that it fails to run the backup on a schedule, with some of the most BS reasons. (This includes using both local and remote backup destinations). IIRC, the root...

Just had a realisation that this isn't too surprising on Intel's part with recent discontinuations of other parts, like server motherboards/bare bones, GPUs (IIRC Intel built Arc cards are no longer being made and I've read rumors that Intel will only do a very short run of Battlemage cards...

Intel is killing off its own NUC range, but will still support partners is building the platform/form factor... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/intel-is-apparently-winding-down-its-nuc-mini-pcs-after-more-than-a-decade/

May or may not help, but this is my home LAN setup: Use Cloudflare for DNS. (1.1.1.3 - malware and adult content black-holed). https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families/ Router has basic parental controls enabled: MAC address whitelist for 24/7 access. (TVs and parents...

Lets see: Instant crush Slow crush, (death in 30secs) Loss of engines and comms, but oxygen ok for 4-5days and have lights. Lack of oxygen with lights, no engine, no comms Total loss of power, no oxygen, lights, engine or comms I think most would choose option 1...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/camera-review-site-dpreview-finds-a-buyer-avoids-shutdown-by-amazon/ Nice to see another resource being saved...

Oh Gigabyte... My take on it is, Gigabyte is using a slightly more brittle PCB material (than other manufacturers) is that more prone to cracking when installing/removing, coupled with traces close to stress points on the retention mechanism leading to failures.

Oh, so much this. A lot of time it's assumed knowledge, since kids have grown up with tech. But the tech they've grown up is Android and iOS/iPadOS, where the desktop/file/workspace concepts are largely mute and ignored. I know when my kids started doing tech subjects at school, things like file...

Yep there were heaps of those... Mind you, there were a heap that supported either Adlib or Sound Blaster 2.0 or Sound Blaster 16 at the hardware emulation level as well (for DOS compatibility).

Ah, Transmeta, something that could have been... I was sticking to the Pentium 1 era stuff, and Transmeta was P2 / P3 era with AGP already widespread. Forgot about Aureal despite being quite big at the time. For audio, there's also ESS, Realtek, Analog Devices, Philips, Winbond, etc.