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pycorax ,

Laughs in airfox

pycorax ,

Isn't the multi-monitor support better in 11? It properly supports restoring windows into the correct monitor when you reconnect monitors.

pycorax ,

It was pretty buggy though, my class had people's laptops permanently locked into the browser and unable to close it after the exam. Sometimes it wouldn't even let you start the exam even after launching with the browser until you restarted the whole system.

pycorax ,

There's not really a lot of options out there. Can't say I agree with Samsung's policies but their devices are pretty good compared to everyone else. iPhones are well, if you'd consider an iPhone then we wouldn't be in this conversation. Chinese brands generally have very problematic software, Pixels are pretty barebones unless you're into the AI stuff (Material 3 is also pretty ugly), Sony is very expensive and fairly barebones too.

pycorax ,

There's nothing stopping x86-64 processors from being power efficient. This article is pretty technical but does a really good explanation of why that's the case: https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/27/why-x86-doesnt-need-to-die/

It's just that traditionally Intel and AMD earn most of their money from the server and enterprise sectors where high performance is more important than super low power usage. And even with that, AMD's Z1 Extreme also gets within striking distance of the M3 at a similar power draw. It also helps that Apple is generally one node ahead.

pycorax ,

Do you mind elaborating what is it about the difference on their memory models that makes a difference?

pycorax ,

Their primary money makers are what's stopping them I reckon. Apple's move to ARM is because they already had a ton of experience with building their own in house processors for their mobile devices and ARM licenses stock chip designs, making it easier for other companies to come up with their own custom chips whereas there really isn't any equivalent for x86-64. There were some disagreements between Intel and AMD over patents on the x86 instruction set too.

pycorax ,

Do x86 CPUs with iGPUs not already use unified memory? I'm not exactly sure what you mean but are you referring to the overhead of having to do data copying over from CPU to GPU memory on discrete graphics cards when performing GPU calculations?

pycorax ,

Thanks for the links, they're really informative. That said, it doesn't seem to be entirely certain that the extra work done by the x86 arch would incur a comparatively huge difference in energy consumption. Granted, that isn't really the point of the article. I would love to hear from someone who's more well versed in CPU design on the impact of it's memory model. The paper is more interesting with regards to performance but I don't find it very conclusive since it's comparing ARM vs TSO on an ARM processor. It does link this paper which seems more relevant to our discussion but a shame that it's paywalled.

pycorax ,

Do you have any sources for this? Can't seem to find anything specific describing the behaviour. It's quite surprising to me since the Xbox and PS5 uses unified memory on x86-64 and would be strange if it is extremely slow for such a use case.

pycorax ,

Well for the current generation consoles they're both x86-64 CPUs with only a single set of GDDR6 memory shared across the CPU and GPU so I'm not sure if you have such a penalty anymore

It’s not that unified memory can’t be created, but it’s not the architecture of a PC, where peripheral cards communicate over the PCI bus, with great penalties to touch RAM.

Are there any tests showing the difference in memory access of x86-64 CPUs with iGPUs compared to ARM chips?

pycorax ,

When they compromised on their UI design to make it more like Android and iOS in WP10, it was already over. It was also such a buggy mess compared to WP8.1.

What a shame.

pycorax ,

That phone still has the best image stabilisation I've used. I could take pictures while walking and the pictures it took were never blur.

pycorax ,

Games. I have a Steam Deck so yea I get that Proton works really well now but it's still not perfect. And also I write software for customers that use Windows so ¯\(ツ)/¯

pycorax ,

My Zephyrus G14 could do that too while running Visual Studio. AMD's mobile chips are also pretty efficient and Windows laptops are not as far off from Macbooks in terms of battery life as people think.

pycorax ,

12 is a stretch but the person I replied to said 8 hours which is pretty doable. I was working on building a game engine in Visual Studio which is something I'd consider intense. Granted my model is the 2021 version and AMD has made greater strides in efficiency since, I wouldn't be surprised if the newer models can go a bit longer.

pycorax ,

I'm guessing this for the US market? I had a completely different experience in Singapore and it was perfectly fine.

pycorax ,

My 2009 Macbook became slow as heck after installing Mountain Lion on it 4 years after I got it, taking half an hour to even boot up. Ironically, Windows on it was a lot more usable. I agree that yea, there are cheap Windows laptops that are pretty bad but all the laptops I've had after that which I paid similar or slightly less for, have been far more reliable and longer lasting than my Macbook ever had.

And as for complaints, doesn't that really depend on what you're used to? Every time I have to use a Mac, I find a quirk that I can complain about every other minute but that's just because I'm used to the Windows workflow or Linux where I can modify it to work the way I want it to.

pycorax ,

The incoming Snapdragon Elite chips should make for an interesting change to the laptop landscape.

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    pycorax ,

    Same here, went through multiple upgrades but even when I had a 3700X and a Vega 64 with 32 GB of RAM and a SN550, it was really snappy.

    pycorax ,

    That was what 10X was supposed to be. It was supposed to be practically a full rewrite of the OS to shake off all the legacy cruft with support for existing Win32 apps through containerization. It was dropped along with the Surface Neo and they shifted their focus to Win 11 instead which is a real shame.

    pycorax ,

    I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

    pycorax ,

    Jump to what? Another Chromium based browser?

    US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

    The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

    pycorax ,

    Wait is there actually proof of this? That's pretty damning.

    pycorax ,

    While I agree with you, this isn't as outright as I though it would be though. Apple fan boys could very easily just handwave this away. Frankly I don't live in the US so no one here uses iMessage anyways so I don't really have any examples I have seen or could use to show people.

    pycorax ,

    The Surface Pros pretty much revamped the entire 2-in-1 form factor and the Surface Book was a really cool neat little device even though it was ridiculously pricey.

    There was a time where Microsoft made some pretty exciting and cool hardware. The Neo was a really neat concept but nothing that came out since they unveiled and cancelled that thing has been interesting.

    It doesn't help that they typically release with processors that aren't always the latest. If I'm looking for a Surface Pro now, I'd honestly much rather get Asus's Z13. I just wish that came with an AMD CPU instead.

    pycorax ,

    Apple said EVERYBODY MAKE ARM APPS NOW, and compatibility problems lasted a year. Not ten years.

    Because Apple's priority has never been legacy support and backwards compatibility but Microsoft's whole business model and key advantage with Windows is legacy support and backwards compatibility. It's a different beast when you're marketing to the enterprise instead of personal users.

    pycorax ,

    Yea it's the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to me cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys we brought into restaurants (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).

    I can understand if they're blasting the audio out from the tablet and disrupting everyone else but if they're not I don't get what's the fuss.

    pycorax ,

    Have you used a modern version of Linux or Windows? You can basically use most Linuxes like Android with a guide app store, and there's almost no way to break it. Windows also will still let you be admin and let you break it. Neither is particularly easy to break anymore.

    It's still something that can happen. I've run into an issue trying to install Ubuntu onto a PC which worked fine on the live USB but installed the incorrect Nvidia driver and ended up failing to boot. Took me a whole day, even as a software engineer, to fix it and even then, that's just to get it to display, I had to do a lot more digging to even get CUDA to run on it since I was still using an incorrect driver. I'm fine with that but I can't imagine most people are.

    Even if Windows doesn't get the best driver for the job, more often than not it will still somewhat function for the hardware that most people use.

    It's a lot better than it used to be but there's still issues here and there. For the average user, better the devil you know than the one you don't.

    pycorax ,

    I get your analogy but it's a way larger jump going from Windows to Linux versus McDonald's to Linux. To bring it back to what we were talking about, I think it's more that the switch might end up costing more money and time because realistically, most people are gonna disregard the EOL status because "it still works and I can still use it". Those who do switch are probably those who require or want an upgrade of some form.

    pycorax ,

    Isn't this in some way the same as how China bans a number of foreign companies from operating? I don't think doing the exact same thing is entirely fair but when others aren't playing by the same rules, it's a lot less black and white.

    Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

    We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

    pycorax ,

    What do you mean it doesn't support ultrawide monitors? I had an ultrawide for almost a decade and every version of Windows supported it flawlessly.

    pycorax ,

    Hm so you mean the task bar isn't flexible then? Not quite what I understood by not working with ultrawides but I guess I can see where you're coming from.

    pycorax ,

    Man what in the world are they doing.

    pycorax ,

    Pretty sure you're thinking about a completely different feature that's tied to the Your Phone app. This is about running Android apps natively on Windows.

    pycorax ,

    I very much doubt Google would let them do that.

    pycorax ,

    I use it for a couple utilities since they do auto-update. I also used to install Firefox and Discord from there since it's faster than going to the website and downloading the installer manually but now with winget, I found that more convenient.

    It seems important for as I've seen it being used in updating some system components so disabling it outright might not be a good idea.

    pycorax ,

    What do you mean verify on the Android phone? I had 0 instances of that when I was using it.

    pycorax ,

    I mean you could just sideload with adb easily. That's how I got Tachiyomi on it.

    pycorax ,

    I already mentioned that I am. My only issue with winget is that it doesn't update automatically, you need to do it manually and the list of updates includes a lot of apps that you didn't install through winget sometimes so it becomes a pain to exclude some apps. Winget UI seems interesting but I personally find it quite ugly.

    pycorax ,

    I still found those controllers to be the most comfortable and best VR controllers I've ever used. The Index controllers are great for its features but they're a bit too heavy for my liking.

    pycorax ,

    Budget flights don't have that kind of luxury.

    pycorax ,

    Time to report all those shitty government websites.

    pycorax ,

    I'd take a native UWP app over shitty bloated electron based apps any day. Aside from games, they work pretty well in my experience.

    pycorax ,

    Yea and even then pass through AR sucks for those use cases. I worked in the industry for a bit and every client always wanted transparent displays because that human face to face connection was way too important to forgo.

    pycorax ,

    To play devil's advocate, that's because Edge is the system web view used for system components. Removing it means certain UI for system components won't be able to be rendered. It's the same reason why uninstalling Chrome from Android breaks a bunch of stuff. They should decouple the web view from the browser but here we are.

    pycorax ,

    Those AMD and Intel chips drew a lot more power though. That said, AMD's Z1 Extreme looks very promising and shows that AMD can compete in the same ballpark or even surpass. It's just a matter of waiting for laptops to adopt it.

    pycorax ,

    Do you mean a dedicated tab bar? If not, I'm using it on my Android tablet and foldable with no issues whatsoever.

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