I'm looking to replace my family's laptop used mostly for web browsing, word processing, and making sure my cross platform apps work. I have a Framework Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen in pre-order which is supposed to ship next month.
Would a Surface Pro 9 or a Thinkpad X13s be a good choice for this use case?
Microsoft App Assure helps Opera build Arm-optimized browser.
“App Assure engineers worked directly with Opera’s engineering team, offering technical assistance and guidance. It quickly became apparent that both teams had a similar take on strong signals reflecting growing industry awareness of the performance and efficiency benefits offered by Arm devices.”
Another reason to run things such as #RabbitMQ as a cluster: If the #Docker image is missing the #arm64 arch one pod will stay pending while the continues working
As I knew I was on holiday for soft freeze I got all my #qemu maintainer PRs in early for 9.0. It is now released to the wild. The big #arm64 update is FEAT_NV2 emulation as well as a number of enhancements to various board models (and some deprecations of the older unloved code). For #tcg#plugins we now support reading register values as well as a new thread-safe inline ops API. The #gdbstub also saw a number of tweaks. More to come for 9.1 and the tree is now open ;-) https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/
Is it just me or is #FFMPEG v7 way faster (on #ARM64 at least) when doing multiple things at once? (ie: #nlmeans noise reduction, #crop, then #x265)
I mean these used to take hours and hours on several of my Agatha Christie files (which need noise reduction, crop and encoding). These fly through now at about 30% time reduction per file. Not to mention about 15% smaller size (thanks x265 3.6.x update!)
Finally consolidated my notes on things I've done to get the #PineTab2 working (mostly) the way I want it to. Some gathered from the forums, some that I noticed and/or figured out myself.
Been banging my head on the keyboard for a few days trying to set up a virtualized #kvm supporting a #debian#armhf system on an #arm64 host machine... I have several machines set up with this working.
Finally had a breakthrough...
Debian does not support #secureboot on armhf. Disabled secure boot and yay, it boots the debian-installer mini.iso just fine!
Now if I could just figure out why #macvtap does not work... it would be all set to crank through lots of builds!
I'm now switching to the next generation: the :raspberrypi: #raspberry pi 5.
It's amazing how this small companion has evolved over the last decade.
Armed with #debian 12 #arm64 I'm sure we will have fun for the next years.
RPi4 was great when it came out, but bloated websites made it a lame browsing machine.
So I hope the improved performance of #RPi5 can keep up with modern trends.
Regarding power consumption nobody can beat this little hero. 🥰
So it seems like i'm gonna switch my server to a Hetzner #arm64 server.
Is there anything i should watch out for(like idk some common server software not working properly on arm yet)?
Are there any #Linux distributions with #Speakup in them that work on the new #mac machines in #vmare or #utm? I tried #debian 12 and under this distro Speakup froze up at random intervals and locked up the vm. I am starting to think that two different physical machines may be the best for me. #arm64 with #accessibility features doesn't seem to be stable enough yet for prime time.