The guy who made the little program says that the DeepL API is paid and that without funding, he can't pay the fees.

Mining bitcoins in 3, 2, 1...

Honestly, it seems to me like a way to have captive customers and squeeze more out of them. You manufacture the complete module, so you make money on the processor, but also on the rest of the components, and instead of replacing the component, you replace the entire system.
The only advantage I see is that by changing the module, you save time, since you don't have to figure out which part is failing, you change everything at once and that's it.

I also think it's quite normal and in fact, a good service on the part of Microsoft. To be honest, I expected Windows 7 to be completely abandoned and I don't see any reason to keep Windows 7. The hardware hasn't evolved as much as it did when we moved from Windows XP to 7; back then it was more understandable that it was necessary for some to keep XP for a while longer. An average decent PC from 10 years ago can run Windows 10 without any major problems. A PC from the late 90s that could run Windows XP with some ease (let's say a Pentium II/III) couldn't run Windows 7 in a functional way, not even remotely.

What a nice competition Without the resurgence of AMD they would continue to pwn users.

I think what they want to do is reserve a part of the ram to store some data related to private keys, a virtual ram. But I don't know if that will solve the problem. It would be too much if it were another ram socket to put on the boards

Leaving aside the limitations imposed by the processor and internal storage, it seems to me a pretty interesting option for a good number of tasks. Moreover, x86 laptops in that price range do not even come close to having an FHD IPS screen. Anyway, I have read that it is a bit unbalanced in terms of weight because the internal components are not much bulkier than those of a Raspberry Pi 4 and it seems that the screen weighs almost more than the base.

It is still curious how complex it is to visualize a single transistor and how easy and fast it is to manufacture billions of them.

What a ridiculous comparison. I try to get the geek in me to see the interest it might have, but it's like watching a monkey play a Steinway

And yet they are still more expensive than Ryzen. Who would have thought that 2 years ago. And on top of that, the HEDT, which have two CCX per chiplet in the 39x0, the read/write in memory is almost double that of the 3700/3800

@Gallina we love you

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Today it might have worked better, since multi-threaded programming has developed a lot, but back then it was a suicide and they ended up going bankrupt.

I think that's where their problem was. They were visionaries, but the technology that we have now didn't exist. The thing with 8 instructions in parallel, is that what AMD wants to use now to increase their performance in the ryzen 3?

From what I've read, not exactly. I think what AMD wants to do is what IBM does with the Power, like a hyperthreading of 4 threads per core to take advantage of the units that are not active, and widen the cores with more decoding units, integer, floating point... not 2 as until now. They are still 64-bit instructions that internally distributes them and executes them as it can.

Transmeta's thing was more heavy, their instructions internally were 256 bits, to package 8 of 32 bits per cycle, so if they couldn't parallelize in the interpreter, they put nop instructions to fill in.

The issue of false positives has already been seen with adblock. There came a point when it was the one who paid that didn't appear on the lists, even if it was intrusive advertising or similar. Now we'll see who reviews that list as it grows.

But as it says there, and as you rightly say, it can be worth it for many reads, and if the ssd's capacity improves and the price is much lower, then even better. And also, in the article it talks about NAS and RAID0. There it will greatly improve its speed and it won't be noticeable compared to SLC, and it doesn't replace the others.
That said, for home use, for price/performance I'll stick with an MLC

@cobito Without haste, I thought it was a silly thing and I didn't know how to do it. You're putting in a lot of hard work...

This is a bit old now, it's surprising that they're releasing the patch now. This link talks about Crucial and Samsung drives.

This gives me mixed feelings. On the one hand, I think it's great that Linux commands are becoming standard in other systems. But on the other hand, couldn't Microsoft have created their own tools to enrich the ecosystem a bit? I don't like GPLv3 too much because of how restrictive it is, but sometimes I understand its followers.