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).
Qualcomm has reportedly approached Intel with a takeover offer within the past few days.
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 serverFrom 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.
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.
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.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesInternet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
It also suffered a DDoS attack earlier today.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Why do we, or they, hate the Internet Archive?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"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."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
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesARM to cancel Qualcomm's chip design license.

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