The annoying thing is they’re not even that much thinner. They’ve just reshaped the edge to make it look like there isn’t room for real ports.

Skynet’s real origin story. We might just deserve judgement day.

Don’t want to get lumbered with a bunch of old stock now, do you?

The thing is Twitter costs, even at its height, under a billion a year to run.

He could pull all advertising and run it to the end of his life as a hobby.

But he can’t have that, because the line must go up and the workers must cower in fear whenever their boss stalks the building.

It may well be the case that they’re similar or even swapped now. I can see that the N100 is pretty low power compared to the newest low end AMD chips, but then the AMD chips are better in terms of what they can do.

This one reckons they’re pretty similar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/10evt0z/ryzen_vs_intels_idle_power_consumption_whole/

This one reckons Intel are better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809852

I doubt there’s much in it either way. Even if AMD are ahead now, laptops don’t get replaced right away, normies replace shit when it fails or is too slow to run whatever shit Google shoehorned into Chrome this year, and the most popular laptops are probably the ones with the lowest sticker price.

That’s under load. At Idle (which is where your average home PC will spend most of it’s time) I think Intel has the edge still.

It’s certainly a consideration for a battery device. Watching a video reading emails or staring at a spreadsheet will likely have better battery life than a similar spec AMD device.

We’ve reached a point where most everyday computing tasks can be handled by a cheapo N100 mini PC.

It’s taken this long for Intel to lose gamer trust.

Intel also have lower power consumption iirc, which is useful for laptops etc.

AMD have the best server chips: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

You have to remember that most people aren’t “choosing a CPU” as much as buying a PC. If the majority of pre-build retail PCs have Intel, then the majority of purchases will be Intel.

But for that you can buy a mini PC that runs it locally. What the fuck is this even for?

Big purchase. Big screen.

If they can get a version that just runs all Windows programs (not just games) out of the box without user modification then great. I’d consider that to be an actual Windows replacement.

If all you’re running is a browser and some light office suite use then great, Linux can do that now. Otherwise what people saying “just switch to Linux” are really saying is “stop using your PC”.

Android and iOS already replaced Windows for normies.

The UK is a lot further north, and it’s probably not a massive loss.

It was enough to prevent me getting “free” solar panels (while that was a thing) though, so I’m still salty about that.

I love it when uppity kids think they have a “job description” the allows them to not do things.

Your job is what the manager says it is, or you find a new one.

Truth.

I’ve been in software development for 25 year at this point, and this is my #1 takeaway. No matter what it is, people won’t read it.

“Trevor” is not a valid integer. This will erase your database. This will share your porn habits with our 1832 trusted data partners. Click click click, get out of my way!

All the new houses around here with no solar would indicate that is not true. They’re not even required to have a south facing roof.

I legit thought that was a picture of Olivia Colman as I scrolled past.

It was either that or show that picture of Bin Laden again.

I’d expect a lot more use of buy now pay later schemes like Klarna.

It’s similar to a credit card, but prevents build up of crippling debt.

I personally use my credit card and pay in full each month, not because I need the credit, but because in the UK you get the benefit of Section 75 protection on purchases. I’ve used that a few times when companies have gone bust. If I’d paid on debit card I’d have been screwed.

I don’t see why it would only be Chinese immigrants doing it.

It’s all over the place.

It’s all fun and games until you’re left with a bunch of crap you can’t sell, or it turns out you were shipping dangerous products and now you’re on the hook for it.

Enjoy your 5% profits though.

What that would actually mean is a complete lock-out on credit cards for the poor.