Anyone here want this 2010-era Sony Vaio VPCS111FM core i5 laptop that won't turn on? 👀 I tried replacing the battery and power supply... Does not post. Power light flashes green. Was working a month ago though.
4GB RAM
No HDD
Wifi works
Card slot
Everything else... Works...
The display is only like 1366x768, but it has VGA and HDMI. The keyboard is decent and lights up nicely. Solid machine... if you can get it to turn on.
I am currently composing a new #PC for my father...
And I'm currently faced with the question "#AMD or #Intel" - It's not supposed to be a high-end system, but rather a well-performing computer that should also last for about a good decade. (He VERY rarely gets a new one) So I will use the latest of the latest.
As for #CPU selection, I find AMD simpler simply because there aren't as many models. (I'm also a bit of a AMD fanboy) What do you think?
In this one, we have the Cyber Resiliency Act, a new EU set of regulations that might seriously harm Open Source software, we have repairable laptops from #Framework and (in the future) from #Lenovo, and we have some big performance improvements for #Intel GPUs on Linux:
I'm at the Intel Innovation conference today in San Jose. I expect a coming-out party for Meteor Lake, Intel's next-gen PC processor arriving later this year. Plus lots of chatter about chipmaking, AI, Xeon, development software. It wouldn't be an Intel event without lots of 300mm wafers. 1/n #Intel#processors#semiconductors#chips
I just paid under $300 for a #desktop#miniPC with 9 CORES up to 3.8Ghz, 16GB of RAM, and dual 2.5GbE NICs. It's even got a GPU with video decoding so it can transcode Plex. What a time to #homelab
"Was vor 5 Jahren noch wie ein Wunder geklungen haette, wird jetzt bereits von einigen Bedenkentraegern kritisiert. Ein Rant auf die Zukunft des Standortes!"
Ich habe mir den Frust von der Seele gebloggt/gepodcastet, weil in den letzten Tagen einfach so unfassbar viel Bloedsinn geschrieben wurde!
Freue mich auf eure Boosts & Reposts. Danke im Voraus 🙏
⭐ What graphics card and processor do you have? Is there any reason why?
as for me, I was assembling my last computer in 2021, i9 and GeForce 3080Ti. This year I bought a laptop Rog Strix with AMD. I see that Unity works faster on amd.
#AlderLake is really a major regression in #Intel support for #Linux. The webcam in #Dell#XPS13Plus doesn't work out for the box because it doesn't have mainline kernel drivers even after a year in the market. Now I found out that the mic is recognized as 'sof-soundwire', but has no audio input.
Last time I had such problems with Linux on a laptop was in 2005 when I got #Acer TravelMate.
ICYMI: I interviewed the hacker known as "USDoD" who was responsible for the InfraGard incident last year, as well as the recent Airbus and TransUnion breaches. He tells me he's been busy targeting NATO, Europol, CEPOL, and Interpol. He's an ambitious hacker and is really going after U.S. military intelligence in his own way and for his own endgame purposes.
Why does he tell us his targets? For the challenge -- he wants to beat his targets when they know he's coming.
Read what he told me in “I’m Not Pro-Russia and I’m Not a Terrorist!” —- InfraGard and Airbus Hacker 'USDoD' Unveils His New Campaigns:"
On a positive note, it appears that NATO detected him when he attempted to gain access to an internal area; part of their site has now been "under maintenance" for days.
How serious a threat is he really? I can't judge that -- maybe you can.
GPU acceleration isn't always faster. Wayland is supposed to be faster because it utilises the GPU. Well, Firefox had the same idea with WebRender. Now, when I scroll on my poor laptop's Intel HD 4000, both Firefox and Wayland are fighting over GPU resources resulting in less FPS compared to X11. The CPU is almost idle. 😅
Corporate #FLOSS at its worst: #NVIDIA controls the #Thrust library and its #CUDA, #OpenMP and #TBB backend. #AMD provides rocThrust, that is just Thrust with the CUDA part stripped and a new backend for #ROCm / #HIP. Nobody* is working on a backend for #SYCL #Intel provides its own #oneAPI alternative as #oneDPL, which is NOT a drop-in replacement.
Here's something curious. The latest beta version of Intel's graphics drivers are 50 MiB larger than the previous version. That's an 8% increase in size and it's described in the release notes as:
> Graphics Driver package has temporarily increased to significantly reduce the Starfield* game load duration.
This sounds like they baked-in pre-compiled versions of the game's shaders. I had no idea these had become so large.
If #capitalism is so responsible for innovation, why are #intel and #amd still working on the x86-based processor series? The wave of the future is in ARM and Open RISC-V. AMD and Intel would rather just keep money coming in the door than innovate. RISC-based architectures are more power-efficient and thereby greener processors. They're also faster now.
Last night, I received a task to investigate a massive #performance regression in certain parts of the game.
So today I began investigating and ran the latest build on my 4 testing machines. And indeed, the machines that had an #Intel#GPU only achieved ~10% of the FPS they usually had. "Oh no!" I thought, and spent all day profiling and disabling various engine features, but no matter what I did, the performance didn't improve much.
And then I found it. Those Intel machines still had #Mesa DLLs in their build directories from the last time I was investigating a graphics driver issue. Which means they have been using a #software implementation of #OpenGL all this time! :drgn_stare:
I removed the DLLs and the performance returned to normal.
And now I'm back to square one, unable to reproduce the performance issue. :drgn_weary_sob:
Oh god, the Intel N100 and N-series CPUs are game changers! You get Skylake like performance (i5-6600 to i7-6700) for CHEAP at 6W, and all that with AVX2! And with i3-N300 you get 8 cores! One thing it's missing for me is a TB3/USB4 controller.
Also, can confirm that the it weirdly performs on par with the E-cores in my i7-13900K! I wanted to test if my game would work fine on N100 before getting one, so I ran my game on the E-cores and it worked!
Milliarden-Subventionen: Ist Intel erst der Anfang?
Der Staat zahlt zehn Milliarden Euro für die Intel-Ansiedlung in Magdeburg. Die Warnungen vor einer teuren, aggressiveren Subventionspolitik werden lauter. Andere drohen: Gibt es nicht mehr Geld, sind wir weg. Von Daniel Pokraka.
I'm not actually hoping for AMD and Intel to overtake NVIDIA in the GPU market. I'd rather see their integrated GPUs get so good that we don't need dedicated GPUs anymore.