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You should only be using an old computer
submitted 3 years ago by [deleted] from lukesmith.xyz
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[–]solder0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (9 children)
There are workarounds for the IME with the "vendor's privilege", and the PSP wasn't anywhere near to being that terrible. But what I am worried about now is this thing from microsoft called "pluton". Look that up! I am seriously fucking pissed off with this, it's enough to make me ditch x86 and go with Open Power (PowerPC).
God damn it, I was going to go with an APU and use the onboard graphics with a workstation gpu. AMD seems to be on the pluton train too. Fuck, just fuck. Luke makes a good point, but as someone who feels the way he does about technology, it's probably easy for him to feel this way. Old won't cut it forever.
[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (5 children)
ARM processors are currently taking over Amazon AWS. Maybe there's hope for the x86 reign of terror ending. And holy jesus maybe this Pluton thing will help to accelerate it.
[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
ARM processors are currently taking over Amazon AWS.
Wow I didn't know that, that's surprising
[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Well I'm exaggerating about the takeover part, but it's a thing. I think Amazon likes ARM for the lower power bills. ARM/Gravitron stuff is all over the AWS EC2 pricing lists.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Huh interesting stuff. I guess it makes sense, since they were designed for low-power cell phones and then got mass-produced probably even more than x86 processors
[–]Optimus85 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
The Raspberry Pi is looking more and more attractive...
[–]solder0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
I hear RISC-V might overtake ARM. ;)
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
What if you want to mine cryptocurrencies with CPU? I haven't seen any PowerPC options on my local market. Should I mine with GPU instead?
[–]solder0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
That's a good point. I am going to stock up on some x86 dev board/SBC's to mine some monero. Look up odysee, or whatever it's called. It's from seeed studio. That might be good for that.
[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
the PSP wasn't anywhere near to being that terrible.
Could you expand on that / provide links? There's no way to neutralize PSP, so I want to know exactly what it does. But how can we even know that when the code is proprietary?
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