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amanda , 21 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

Interesting! Do you have a link to a write up about this? I don’t know anything about the windows memory manager

amanda , 21 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

Presumably you’d have a QPU in your regular computer, like with other accelerators for graphics etc, or possibly a tiny one for cryptography integrated in the CPU

amanda , 23 days ago to Technology in Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

Sounds like that list is getting pretty short

amanda , 23 days ago to Technology in Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser

It depends. For development work it’s literally the same since you usually set up a container for each project that runs regular fedora. Otherwise you usually install software from flatpak.

Installing system wide packages is possible but kind of annoying since they don’t activate until you reboot.

amanda , 24 days ago to Technology in iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch

This is a very similar question to piracy vs unauthorised AI training and I think the underlying thing is power and agency.

It’s absolutely possible, consistent and valid to be for something in a situation where it equalises power and against it in a situation where it skews it even worse towards inequality.

amanda , 28 days ago to Selfhosted in Nextcloud or Syncthing - which one do you suggest?

I’ve also set up both and in my experience Nextcloud is much much more complicated to set up but simpler to use and syncthing is pretty much the exact opposite.

In my case, a rather long time ago, it failed to reliably sync my files, had a super annoying web based UI, was a pain to get all my devices to talk to each other because because they had to join some sort of peer to peer network and authenticate with the earth other all three. It also didn’t have any working solution for mobile devices. Hopefully all of that’s fixed now because there’s no inherent reason it couldn’t work.