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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...

Apple licenses Thunderbolt from Intel for their M series chips. I wonder if the M4 has a license for this tech. This may be some "new feature" for fast transfers from your old device to your new device. Because transferring multiple TB over Wifi during a new device setup is... Not fun... Often...

Thunderbolt isn't USB, while they share a connector, it's easier to think of Thunderbolt as a superset of USB rather than something directly comparable. This is one of the many reasons I am annoyed by the USB consortium.

Last time I checked Nvidia's Int4 was upwards of 120x faster than their nearest competitor, that's a pretty boring bar chart.

I have several PiZeroW's and W2's installed inside devices acting as network-enabled monitors, digital sign boards, or remote terminals. The Zero W's though have mostly been relegated to functioning as WiFi-enabled USB keys, so I can remotely push files to them for firmware updates, displays...

The issue with the iPads and such and the benchmarks is very few things push the chips to 100% so what it translates to most is better battery. For most tasks we’re talking about going from 7s down to 6.2 seconds, 8% CPU/GPU utilization instead of 12% which nets you an extra hour over a day. Or...

Struggle to buy 1 from an actual Pi retailer at cost, 350 of them at a 1000% Amazon markup? Probably cheaper to buy a second-hand Altera system.

Honestly, Intel and AMD need some competition in the server space. ARM is popular for cloud-based servers, but what if you don't want to run something in the cloud? Your options are non-existent. I would welcome an ARM option, that was on an ATX form factor that wasn't a developer kit.

Yeah that Avago purchase back in 2016 changed the company a lot, I don't know if I would call them a US company per se but it's likely close enough, apparently not close enough for the Trump administration, but that was then and this is now. Bah the tech sector is going to hell in a shopping...

Switch 2 (or whatever they call it) My current one is a first gen original so once I replace it I will be modding it.

Honestly I’d just rather the new Switch, I can play the PC at home when I’m out and about or lounging sometimes simple is better and it doesn’t get much simpler than Nintendo.

Like I said, get it while the getting is good.

https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nearly-all-nintendo-64-games-can-now-be-recompiled-into-native-pc-ports-to-add-proper-ray-tracing-ultrawide-high-fps-and-more Enjoy it while you can.

IF, you are connected with Win 11, on a machine with a TPM 2, and you are using a Microsoft account with that system. Then I can say it works very smoothly, I am using it on my personal device through an outlook.com account, and at the office it’s managed through Intune and O365 and so far both...

I’ve had to pull more than my fair share of data back from dead drives and with most people choosing to “recycle” and replace their devices rather than repair them I’d bet more than a little personal information gets leaked that way. This will help that a lot. Performance wise the TPM chips will...

I’ve only had one experience with Asus warranty and it was painless, I see now I am certainly the exception to the rule. Board shipped to me with an old bios so it refused to detect my CPU, they just swapped the board. I think ill avoid them for a bit regardless.

Games get weird if you try to really push them across threads it’s very easy to enter deadlock states or find yourself waiting for memory access.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1GQ22N/ I thought they were Chinese-based, but everything I see says they are American... I thought they were bought up by China back in their 2016 merger but I guess not. It is followed up with this though...

And with Meta releasing the Horizon OS to vendors to they can make their own headsets, Apple might have a lot more competition in that space then they would have had otherwise. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/

Buyer's remorse paired with a simply whelming experience was bound to result in these popping up all over.

The CoWoS process is specialized but it was formerly used by a lot of companies… Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Meta, etc… If this is true it completely screws their datacenter AI plans, as well as a lot of other things.

Headquarters in Singapore, close ties to the CCP and Huawei. It’s why Broadcom was named in the whole 5G fiasco, and why they will be in the impending 6G one too.

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-entire-cowos-supply-reserved-by-nvidia-amd-until-2025

Factual answer no, no they couldn’t. The US Govt would not allow that to fall into the hands of China cutting off access to the closest thing to a modern node from a US company on US soil.

I just got off a call with HP and in it they detailed that they do enable BitLocker automatically and it's part of their onboard security platform for business and enterprise clients, it's part of what they call their HP Wolf Security which is a whole platform and part of their Pro Support and...

Giggles in 6000 lumens...