Alphane_Moon

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I am sure you could do it, but the specs look like you would get a worse experience than the OG Doom experience from the early to mid 90s.

The base-level kit was "so bad, it's basically disposable" he said, consisting of a 24MHz Cortex M0+ chip, 24KB of flash storage and just 3KB of static RAM, but it was still workable.

The 3K RAM in particular sounds like a borderline deal-breaker and you would have to replace the 24KB flash storage with something larger.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I don't know how I feel about this. While easier icon theming is a good thing, I don't think more power to Google is desirable.

We need less control from Google over the Android ecosystem, not more.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I am assuming this was meant to be posted in a different community? Or did OP decide to get some feedback by posting to the largest community they could find?

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Taiwanese news outlet Ctee reports Nvidia might beat Apple to become one of the first companies to use TSMC's next-gen A16 node.

I guess Nvidia feels that they can pass the cost on to their customers and improve margins without impacting demand. Since the A16 nodes seems to be aimed at late 2027, it would be funny if the bubble popped around that time (although it may never pop and simply live on hype).

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

These is truth to the Chinese claims. Nvidia clearly leverages their dominant position to lower competition and charge higher prices.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be interesting to see benchmarks for this case from the likes of GN.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Not very practical, but I can't deny it looks great in a retro-futuristic sort of way.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is actually a pretty good and rational change both on in terms of generational naming and core type naming. ARM's generational and SKU branding always felt more confusing than Intel and AMD (and they've done their fair share of tricks with pushing older micro-architecture in newer product series).

In past iterations of Mali you could configure the cores themselves to have different ratios of units in them, especially at the low end where 3D was less of a priority than pixel pushing, think TV/video controllers vs gaming devices. That feature seems to be a thing of the past but most of the low end devices there will probably stick with older GPU families for area and cost savings, if the new features are not going to be used, why pay for them?

I am surprised they didn't offer a G1-Nano option for the their GPUs.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Roblox said it is designed with “rigorous built in safety features” and is “continually innovating new safety features — over 100 this year alone — that protect our users and empower parents and caregivers with greater control and visibility.”

The fact that they are framing it in this manner "100 features in this year alone" (what does this even mean?) suggests that they don't care.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The second would look into suspected dumping of imports of some U.S. analog chips used in devices such as hearing aids, Wi-Fi routers and temperature sensors.

Funny to see China complain about dumping.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This is pretty cool. I even like the ghetto aesthetic (I am a nerd though).

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I don't think it's reasonable to assume that Yen is this naive.

As a Proton subscriber not from the US (but who has lived in the US); I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously claim that any of the two major US political parties have any interest in real competition and anti-trust.

One has to remember the Microsoft case from the 90s. I still don't understand what the "legal excuse" was for not breaking up Microsoft.

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