Recent content by Lakados

The discount key sites all try to do this, they get the keys in a region where the currency is crap and sell them for a substantial markup in other countries. It’s how they work.

I only have issues with how they resell them in this case, usually they are buying the licenses in places like Brazil for $3 maybe $5, and they are reselling those for $40. Reselling within the same geographical region sure, but upselling like that opens a lot of loopholes I’d rather stayed closed.

Well given how bad the SnapdragonX supposedly is, it makes sense that Microsoft would want an alternative choice.

While I like that idea that would require the USB group to actually enforce a standard and not cave under the slightest oncoming breeze to just create a cheaper less feature rich USB sub variant. Thunderbolt works because Intel gives a very strict list of requirements and gives no room for...

I honestly didn’t know that was a thing, I have so few Mac’s that I have to care about the data on that I’ve encountered it maybe twice where I had a lot of data to move and we just hard wired them. The stories I hear are from colleagues and family. I will remember this though for the next time...

The program isn’t even available yet. https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-us

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-lunar-lake-mobile-chips-to-feature-16gb-or-32gb-of-embedded-memory Intel copying from Apples playbook, it saddens me a little. But at least there is no 8GB option…

I think its the same GPU used in the Asus ROG Phone

Sort of, but yes. There are also two different non-compatible CAMM formats making the rounds and OEMs are torn between them and the iEEE is staying out of it. Until there is just one, I doubt any 3'rd parties are going to bother with it unless it suddenly gets stupid popular.

LPCAMM2 was first announced at CES this year, there aren't many devices using it yet. I'm hoping it does become a thing because the more devices that use it the cheaper they get, which drives more devices to use it. But it is way more cost-effective currently for OEMs to solder the memory, the...

Yeah, game dev cycle. We’re falling behind schedule so let’s bring in programmers. The new programmers have sped up production but they make a lot of mistakes. Let’s bring in more programmers to help fix the mistakes. New programmers make almost as many mistakes as they find, but now there’s no...

I love that SKHynix named their new tech MR-MUF… A little bit on how it works and how TSMC plays into it. https://www.semianalysis.com/p/ai-expansion-supply-chain-analysis#§veeco-phased-out-sk-hynixs-hbm-packaging-innovation https://www.semianalysis.com/p/intel-genai-for-yield-tsmc-cfet-and...

Microsoft isn’t alone here, there are a couple of things going on. The whole gaming industry is in an uproar, devs who were specialized in Unity are basically useless now as is a lot of the talent who was ultra specialized on in house engines. Studios are buying up licenses for Unreal and...

These are too big for me, that scares me. The rebuild times on my 12TB SAS drives are problematic enough 30… no thank you. Granted if I had multiple storage arrays mirrored so it could not only rebuild but also check against a known good data set… I don’t think I’d get budget approval. But a...

Back in 2022 I moved all our outward facing web services off site. And had almost no budget to do it and the AWS ARM instances were priced where I needed them so it was very much a case of well, it’s got to be better than what I’ve got these running on now. My biggest headache was getting the...