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RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#10451: Sep 11th 2024 at 9:33:23 AM

If you maintain your own systems and lose all the institutional knowledge to maintain them... yeah, that's a problem.

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#10452: Sep 11th 2024 at 6:42:45 PM

Ahh I upgraded from 10 which explains why the letters are kept.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#10453: Sep 13th 2024 at 4:31:24 AM

I was expecting transferring everything over to Proton services (so, emails, password management, any docs I want to share etc.) to be painful, but it's been… hmm, I wouldn't say painless? I keep running into places that don't allow email changes etc. and that's annoying, but swapping over the password management was trivial.

And the number of services you get is definitely worth the price of paying (I wanted multiple emails, mostly, but getting the VPN etc. too seemed nice).

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#10454: Sep 20th 2024 at 4:59:34 PM

Qualcomm has reportedly approached Intel with a takeover offer within the past few days.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#10455: Sep 20th 2024 at 5:03:38 PM

Wow. Does that mean Intel is not doing well?

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Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#10456: Sep 20th 2024 at 5:13:54 PM

As far as I'm aware they're not doing great, they had a bunch of layoffs recently. I don't know if they're actually doing badly or if they're just doing suboptimally and did the layoffs to reassure investors though.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#10457: Sep 20th 2024 at 5:20:31 PM

they're doing (relatively speaking) great actually thanks to that massive market share they have,a buyout isn't always because their business is failing it usually means the buyer is looking to create a monopoly (in Intel case,chipsets) and they can afford the price tag

Edited by Ultimatum on Sep 20th 2024 at 1:20:54 PM

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#10458: Sep 20th 2024 at 5:21:42 PM

From what I've read, they've been having a bunch of failures over the past 15 or so years, such as failing to get into the mobile market, people slowly moving away from their chips, missing deadlines on transistor shinkings, missing the AI boom, and struggling to play catch-up with other chip makers. This article from April goes over it.

They also tried to make a foundry for other chip makers to use, but had to spin it off to reduce losses.

They also tried to get the Playstation 6 business and were banking on it for the chipmaking foundry, but lost it to ARM due to profit sharing disagreements and backwards compatibility concerns.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
#10459: Sep 20th 2024 at 5:38:20 PM

Not doing well is an understatement. They lost 57% of their share value so far, to which if you put it in perspective, if you were to say invested a 1000 bucks in Intel back in 95, it's still like a 1000 bucks today. That's how badly it tanked.

They had to lay off employees to cut costs, which doesn't look good in general as that kind of look threatens the funding Intel would be getting from the CHI Ps Act.

Their processes doesn't look too great as they had to cancel 20A process to focus on 18A instead. As a result, Arrow Lake, which was supposed to use their 20A, had to source their chips from TSMC instead.

And there's the whole debacle with 13th/14th gen where chips began to degrade badly because of overagressive voltages, oxidation and whatever process Intel was using for them being not great. In fact, once the i7/i9 reach a point of degradation, they're outright beyond repair. It didn't help that Intel initially tried to blame the motherboard manufacturers and Nvidia, then kept a bit mum on their fault when the mbs and Nvidia more or less said "not our fault." Steve of Gamers Nexus plotted out the timeline of all this.

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Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#10460: Sep 20th 2024 at 6:16:50 PM

Share value is not entirely connected to overall performance though, it just shows that investors are not confident.

Though yes they do not seem to be doing well, I imagine they're not about to entirely disintegrate anytime soon.

terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object
#10461: Sep 20th 2024 at 6:33:14 PM

Nobody wants that. Competition keeps the other(s) from being too complacent. Else we have a repeat of Skylake and AMD pre-Ryzen.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#10462: Sep 21st 2024 at 3:28:03 AM

Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating: Tiny device installed inside TI-84 enables Wi-Fi Internet, access to AI chatbot.

Sounds impressive, but you'd need to be pretty skilled to pull it off, since it requires installing custom hardware, and probably some programming too. If you're that smart, you probably don't need to cheat on your math test anyway.

Also, typing messages on your calculator numpad would be pretty obvious to an attentive teacher, so I think the actual cheating potential of this device would be rather limited.

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Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#10463: Sep 21st 2024 at 3:31:12 AM

I mean at that point why not just store out-of-compliance notes in your calculator, or use the internet connection on its own? It seems it would be faster.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#10464: Sep 21st 2024 at 6:20:38 AM

Oddly, for 1080p gaming, I've only heard good things about Arc once they sorted out the drivers. At least, the computer I put together for a friend has had 0 issues or complaints. Ryzen CPU, though, not sure what that says.

On my email front: loving having an "unsubscribe from mailing list" button.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#10466: Oct 9th 2024 at 4:46:47 PM

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

It also suffered a DDoS attack earlier today.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#10467: Oct 9th 2024 at 4:52:02 PM

The Internet Archive has users to impact? How, exactly? I thought it was just, well, an archive.

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Chortleous she/her friend to the hooved (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
she/her friend to the hooved
#10469: Oct 9th 2024 at 8:44:58 PM

...'users' as in people using it as a repository. An archive. Why would it not?

Edited by Chortleous on Oct 9th 2024 at 3:45:35 PM

Florien The They who said it from statistically, slightly right behind you. Since: Aug, 2019
The They who said it
#10470: Oct 9th 2024 at 8:48:47 PM

[up][up] They probably don't, the attackers claimed they did it to grab email addresses and passwords

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#10471: Oct 10th 2024 at 12:49:04 AM

The Internet Archive has users to impact? How, exactly? I thought it was just, well, an archive.
Same, I didn't even know the Internet Archive even had registered users (other than its admins), let alone millions of them.

Edited by Medinoc on Oct 10th 2024 at 9:49:38 PM

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#10472: Oct 10th 2024 at 1:20:17 AM

But why would you have to register to use it?

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KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#10473: Oct 10th 2024 at 1:49:17 AM

I don't think you need an account to request internet pages to be archived, but you do need one to upload files onto the site or to borrow books from their virtual library.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#10474: Oct 10th 2024 at 5:21:34 AM

I have noticed lately that Office apps opened in the browser are suddenly a giant RAM hog, at least on Firefox. Having Outlook open in a tab took up 2 GB of RAM. Anyone else have this issue?

I had something like that with Facebook in the past too. Some sites are just massive resource hogs.

Edited by Redmess on Oct 10th 2024 at 2:22:02 PM

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#10475: Oct 22nd 2024 at 8:30:16 PM

ARM to cancel Qualcomm's chip design license.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

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