You should only be using an old computer

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[–]solder0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (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 - 2 fun -  (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 - 2 fun -  (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 - 2 fun -  (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 - 2 fun -  (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 - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Raspberry Pi is looking more and more attractive...

[–]solder0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hear RISC-V might overtake ARM. ;)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (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 - 1 fun -  (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 - 1 fun -  (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?