mitch074

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Joined: Mar 17, 2006

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- mitch074 replied to the thread News US investigates China's access to RISC-V — open-source instruction set may become new site of US-China chip war.
  
  The last time someone tried to pull that, it was SCO (as a Microsoft-funded puppet) to all users of Linux. The result : SCO is gone...
  
  Thursday at 8:41 AM
- mitch074 replied to the thread News AMD Strix Point engineering sample underwhelms in early Geekbench 6 results.
  
  Going back to the processor's performance, the numbers seem low, but if it indeed stayed at 1.4 GHz, performance should be actually...
  
  Thursday at 4:04 AM
- mitch074 replied to the thread News Microsoft updates Windows 11 24H2 requirements, CPU must support SSE4.2 or the OS will not boot.
  
  Actually, yes - an Athlon II X4 620 was a cheap quad core that could overclock like mad, and can still do stuff somewhat today. I...
  
  Wednesday at 8:48 AM
- mitch074 reacted to ekio's post in the thread News Adding ZIP file support to Windows 30 years ago almost got the creator of Task Manager fired with Like.
  
  What is sad is that every time this guys says I did this stuff in 2 days, quickly and crappy, to just get it working, he ends up saying...
  
  Sunday at 10:28 AM
- mitch074 replied to the thread News Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS.
  
  Last time I had to use a CLI was to unlock a feature in... Windows. On Ubuntu ? Only when it's faster than using a GUI. So you need the...
  
  Apr 19, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News Tuxedo's Sirius 16 Gen2 is an All-AMD Linux gaming laptop with a 165 Hz IPS panel — starts at 1699 Euros.
  
  Please go and find one - it's not so easy to find. Also, stuff like fingerprint readers and infrared webcams (used by Windows Hello)...
  
  Apr 15, 2024
- mitch074 reacted to bit_user's post in the thread News Chinese gov't pushes Huawei's HarmonyOS hard, sets adoption targets to beat Windows, Android, and iOS with Like.
  
  There are lots of developing countries where lots of people still don't have a smart phone. To the extent they even know or care about...
  
  Apr 8, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News AMD may have a new platform for upcoming Ryzen CPUs — AM5+ socket and Granite Ridge CPUs listed in a microcode extraction tool.
  
  That might be the reason for that new socket - I wouldn't be surprised if that socket didn't include some fancy PCIe trickery to support...
  
  Apr 7, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News AMD may have a new platform for upcoming Ryzen CPUs — AM5+ socket and Granite Ridge CPUs listed in a microcode extraction tool.
  
  No - AM3+ was not fully backward compatible with AM3; it supported AM3 processors but not AM2 ones, and AM3+ processors couldn't plug...
  
  Apr 7, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News M2 MacBook Pro SSD became so full that data couldn't be deleted — user had to wipe SSD to make system functional again.
  
  My bet : disk so full you can't even write to journal. Solution : disable hfs+ journaling (may need mounting on other system), delete...
  
  Apr 5, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News New RISC-V microprocessor can run CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads simultaneously.
  
  The last name for that was Socket 7. Then Intel copyrighted their CPU's pinout. Before that, you actually had systems where the...
  
  Apr 5, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread Info HammerBot Feedback Round 2!.
  
  That's one way, yes. I have yet to find a LLM that can be given some data as "cold hard fact" that it won't try to adapt in some...
  
  Apr 5, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread Info HammerBot Feedback Round 2!.
  
  Yeah, I know all that - been using LLMs for a few months now. And I do know they're still nothing much than glorified probability...
  
  Apr 4, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread Info HammerBot Feedback Round 2!.
  
  It thinks the 8088 came out in 1972 and is a 8-bit CPU. More training needed.
  
  Apr 4, 2024
- mitch074 replied to the thread News Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year break – grows from 50MB to 700MB.
  
  I did just that, actually - Ubuntu dropped x86 support for 18.04, but 20.04 still booted on a Core 2 Quad, and with enough RAM, worked...
  
  Apr 4, 2024
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