Summary of the week of November 2, 2020

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A desktop computer with Raspberry Pi 400

The new series of boards have brought Raspberry Pi to the desktop. It is a desktop computer of the size of a keyboard. Its price will be around 70€.

The controversy with Youtube-DL

A few days ago, GitHub removed the repository of the tool that serves to download videos from Youtube at the request of the RIAA. Now it is warning that they will also delete the multiple forks that have appeared.

Core i5-10400/F

A few days ago someone brought two new Comet Lake to our database. The difference between the i5-10400 with and without F is that the first one has iGPU and the second one does not. Otherwise, the performance is the same. They remain number 1 and 2 in the ranking of the Comet Lakes that we have and end up in position 18 of the general classification.

The first HDMI 2.1 implementation is defective

These are the first audio receivers with HDMI 2.1 support from Denon, Marantz and Yamaha.

The PCIe 6.0 draft is ready

The new version of the standard will arrive sometime in 2021 and will double the transfer rate of the current version.

Dell adds privacy support to Linux

The Dell models that will appear next year will have buttons to disable the microphone and camera by hardware. From now on, the kernel will have support for those disables.

Why memories have stayed at 40nm

The flash memories used in SSD drives are increasing their information density in the third dimension, but they have been stagnant in surface density for a while.

The state of Wayland

The substitute for X has been a promise for years to end the old graphic server, but it seems that it is not being materialized. Someone has created a page where the progress of development in the different areas is exposed.