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Firefox uses the Windows DirectWrite APIs. This means that Firefox leans into the support that Windows has for variable fonts, and that was dicey until a few releases ago.
I love the M1, it's a great work machine, I have very few complaints about it. I hardly ever hit 100% memory usage, and if I do - it's thanks to either Chrome/Spotify/Teams/Slack/Discord.
I think - and this might be a bit controversial - the ThinkBook is better... because it is. The M1 is a great chip, awesome thermals (no fan!), but the laptop booted into Windows is faster.
Hey, maybe it's the memory, who knows! It doesn't swap, so I don't think it is.
You can read my parent post for my reasons. You can't quite run Windows or a stable Linux on a MacBook now, can you? Can't quite remove a 4GB stick and replace it with a 32GB stick, right?
I don't usually push this machine too hard - maybe the most that I do is recompiling ffmpeg a few times a day, so it might just be a result of my usage patterns? I'll get back to you with more solid figures later tonight.
EDIT: Just had a play around with sysbench running a few prime number tests while compiling a kernel or two. The k10temp-pci-00c3 (CPU temperature under lm_sensors) seems to stick around at a crispy +64.1°C for a good few minutes, before rising to +65.6°C. It seems to drop back down to +64.2°C. The fan is pretty noisy. The CPU drops down to +50.0°C within 60 seconds of the sysbench benchmark stopping, and the fan noise is completely gone after 90 seconds. Temp is +36.9°C. Idle temp looks like it's around +34.4°C. Not sure how I can measure the db level of the fans? I do have a recorder, so I might be able to do it that way.
Not sure what a good way to actually benchmark the machine would be - it hasn't really come up as a necessity. Maybe I can use the Phoronix Test Suite?
EDIT 2: Doing some searching, maybe I got the machine just in time? 5.17 looks like it added some code specifically around P-states for Linux. https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.17#New_P-State_driver_for_... ... Someone else with my exact same kernel version reports AMD issues being fixed in Arch that they previously had. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/u7kwza/recent_ar...
It's the most fun I have had using a laptop since my first MacBook. Moving from the MBP to the ThinkBook has made me realize how... boring MacBooks are - not saying that's a bad thing. MacBooks do 'just work'.
But the ThinkBook? The machine is fantastic. Sure, it has some soldered on RAM, but half of it is upgrade-able. The disk is a standard M.2 drive - easily replaced. It blows the M1 MacBook I use for work out of the water in almost every single number, except battery life. It was $100 more than a MacBook.
It's got double the RAM (16GB vs 8GB on the Mac), double the storage (1TB vs. 512GB), the NVidia 3060 seems to work a little better with OpenGL apps then the M1's GPU. More importantly, you can use two 4k monitors at the same time -which is impossible with the M1 MacBook Pro.
The Windows install was vanilla - not really anything additional installed. Maybe a Lenovo support app? Easy to remove from the control panel. Pretty much everything with the Lenovo machine was supported without too much fiddling around after installing Arch Linux.
Explain XKCD is great if you know roughly what topic was covered by a comic, but can't quite find the URL. https://www.explainxkcd.com/
I love being able to put an SD card in my phone to get a bit of extra storage, without paying Samsung the extra $200 to double the provided storage. In the S6 era, they removed the SD card, only for it to return (briefly) with the S7. Since the S20, it has once again been removed.
I will keep my S10 until it dies, but there is no point me 'upgrading' to a new phone that looses the headphone jack, and removes the SD slot.
I'm looking at the Sony Xperia 1 iii as a possible new phone, but it's a toss up between that and an iPhone.
Phone support is another issue. Three years, and your device will no longer receive Android updates. Apple is much better in this regard.
I used to update my phone every two years, religiously. Phones are now fast enough that it simply is not required. What do I get if I upgrade to the S22? 120hz refresh, a little better 3D graphics? I don't really game on my phone, so these things are not important to me.
Samsung's desire to just copy Apple means it's probably better to just go get the device they are copying.
I can't see anything replacing Reddit any time soon, though.
Sure, it also uses an RTL8153, and might need the Realtek drivers to work (out of luck if you are on macOS 11+) but it was the first USB hub that I used forever, where everything just worked.
I don't use it for PD, I don't trust that on any hub.
Late last year I kitted out my home with a switch and two wireless access points.
The switch (S3410-10TF-P) does everything that you expect a switch to do. It has a pretty simple web interface, and a pretty comprehensive CLI.
The access points are AP-W6T6817C (6800mbps WiFi 6, 802.11ax). It is rebranded from Ruijie Networks. The access points have a simple web UI for configuring everything, the range is pretty awesome. Multiple radios can be configured with separate SSIDs that have access to different VLANs.
The usability is less than Ubiquiti, but it seems that they work a little better than my old UniFi setup that this replaced (though, that was purchased more than 8 years ago).
There's WPA3 support.
Getting data via SNMP into Prometheus means that you can see per-client usage history, too.
Edit:
Access Point AP-W6T6817C: https://www.fs.com/products/108707.html
Switch S3410-10TF-P: https://www.fs.com/products/115387.html
> Harvey Norman repaid all the wage subsidies for its “controlled entities”
The businesses that were claiming the cash were the franchisees of Harvey Norman. Not the publicly listed company (and it's owned subsidiaries). It could well be that those franchisees were indeed justified in claiming the Jobkeeper subsidies.
I love picking on Gerry Harvey/Harvey Norman us much as the next guy, but this time it is unwarented. Pick on the plenty of other ASX (publicly) listed companies that used the money, didn't repay, and still dished out dividends to their shareholders.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/07/less-...
For example, Premier Investments (ASX: PMV) received $87m over two years, paid back $15.6m. In that period, they paid out $1.04 per share of dividends! They have as of writing 158.99M shares outstanding, so why did Just Jeans, Smiggle and Jay Jays need Jobkeeper? All that cash went straight to the shareholders pockets.
What is a setup that would be passable then? I think a setup like the one that I have described [I believe] would be impossible with Hyper-V or ESXi (though, not that I have even attempted it with either).
I can boot into Linux, and swap into Windows in 2 seconds with this setup. I have a dirty 20 line Bash script that deals with detaching the console, and passing the right things to the right place, but it all works.
ROCm on consumer cards does not work well. The tooling sucks. Massively. I don't understand why AMD doesn't have an extra team of 20 devs working just on the tooling.
Using DirectML with Windows Subsystem for Linux gives you better ML GPGPU support then AMDs native tooling.
The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
Section 2.4 RFC 2821, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
Seems very hostile, and a way to have users agree to all the cookies regardless.
On a Samsung S9.
The Verge also did an interview with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on the process of creating the demo which is quite interesting to watch, too [2].
[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/introducing-the-matr...
sjdz, the work you have done putting this layout together is awesome!
Bright Sun Films covers heaps of crazy abandoned projects like this. His channel is amazing.
I have floated the idea of starting a hackerspace in Sydney City with a bunch of friends, but it has never really got beyond the talking phase. The cost of renting a small (~90 sqm) workshop/office space in the CBD makes it cost prohibitive without a large amount of members joining. I wonder how many people would be interested in setting up a co-op for this?
https://www.rev.com/blog/how-to-import-an-edit-decision-list...
This could help when you have for example multiple camera angles, to switch between/do morph cuts (https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/morph-cut.html) for video interviews.
The new AMD graphics cards have drivers that ship as part of the Linux driver, and work perfectly fine. Better than Nvidia under a number of circumstances (where is Nvidia with Wayland support?)
Hopefully rocm 5 will bring support for RDNA 2 cards, but I said that about rocm 4 too.
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1180#issuec...
6000-series cards work under WSL with Windows using DirectML, so it can't be too far away.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/directml/gpu-ten...
When your house requires you to have a large influx of contact workers, you want to have the cheapest most efficient setup possible. Apple just doesn't cut the mustard here.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-11-unity-reve...
> the company noted that it's the 11th consecutive quarter during which revenue growth reached 30% or more.