Well, I guess I should've upgraded my Samsung instead of postponing another year and awaiting the S26 Ultra. #tarrifs
In other tech news, I fared much better.
www.theverge.com/tech/638566/...
@verge I am proudly micro usb free. Tossed my last device last week.
#computers #usb #tech
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Well, I guess I should've upgraded my Samsung instead of postponing another years. #tarrifs
In other tech news, I fared better.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/638566/micro-usb-is-the-worst
@verge I am proudly micro usb free. Tossed my last device last week.
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 is out!
KDE Plasma 6.3.4, which is a minor version from the 6.3.x series, is out today to fix many crashes related to the desktop and many components. If your desktop is experiencing crashes, you should be able to use KDE without any trouble the next time you update it to the latest version, which is 6.3.4.
According to the mini release notes for this version of Plasma, we have observed the following key changes:
You can see the full changelogs when clicking in the below buttons at the end of the blog. Meanwhile, why not download this version of KDE Plasma to improve your user experience and to eliminate persistent crashes?
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ASC-15, digital computer for the Titan II.
Why Banana Pi chooses to develop RK3588-based products pin-compatible with Jetson Nano
https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/why-banana-pi-chooses-to-develop-rk3588-based-products-pin-compatible-with-jetson-nano/22832
#bananapi #Jetson #NVIDIA #ai #rk3588 #edge #computers
Pilot ACE, computer.
(11 Dec) How To Know If You’re The Baddies: A Metric For Evil People
Without touching a penny of their existing wealth, while still leaving $500,000 per year income each, the top 1% in America could raise everyone above the poverty line 3,781 times over.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/v6j0z
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/g9awq
#computers #economics #ethics #philosophy #social-justice #society #sociology #evil #poverty #uspol
The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, 'lasagna code'. Too many layers.
-- Roberto Waltman
#Wisdom #Quotes #RobertoWaltman #Computers #Programming
#Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
We discovered the ELIZA Effect 50+ years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
Yet we're still SO desperate to believe we've arrived at actual "artificial intelligence." (Maybe someday. But so far, bullshit extruded by con men and spread by fools.)
Let's distinguish today's painfully fake "AI" from someday-real AI by calling the former "AIIIEEEEEE!"
Like "This exciting (= mega-profitable) update is powered by our fabulous (= not true) hot (= planet-burning) new AIIIEEEEEE."
#CUDIMM looks like a great technology for iGPU like the RX 8600S and similar others.
Oh hey, there is a still in use Dell latitude Xp from 1994 with built in trackball and 3.5 inch floppy built in, still in active use at work! From the dust on the keyboard, it’s barely in use… but it would cause a “world of hurt” if it was to die.
#legacytech #vintagetech #computers
Linux 6.15 will support ASUS Zenbook A14
ASUS Zenbook A14 is an ARM64-based laptop that uses the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon X chipset (either X1-26-100 or X1P-42-100 with 45 TOPS). ASUS considers it as a Copilot+ PC that weighs under 1 kg and promises up to 32 hours of battery life. The laptop features a 1920×1200 14-inch OLED display, 16 GB or 32 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and 512 GB or 1 TB of NVMe storage. It runs Windows 11 as a primary operating system.
As for the chassis, the Ceraluminum chassis is a military-grade US MIL-STD 810H standard to ensure that your laptop is the toughest. Right now, it only supports Windows, but open source developers are working towards opening support for this laptop to run Linux efficiently.
Linux 6.15 ensures that this happens by adding support for this laptop. Right now, support is similar to other Snapdragon X1-based laptops, which means that the following features are not expected to work: (listed below is the abovementioned laptop in this case)
The following features have been added to support said laptop as of this patch series:
However, the key differences were:
However, those additions are currently under review and will land to the main Linux 6.15 branch once accepted.
ASUS Eee Box PC, computer line from ASUS.
Linux 6.15 brings improved exFAT file system performance for file deletions!
#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Filesystem #Files #exFAT #Performance #Boost #TechNews #TechUpdates
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/linux-6-15s-exfat-file-deletion-performance-boosted/
Linux 6.15’s exFAT file deletion performance boosted
A recent development in the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has been spotted, because there was a big improvement to the exFAT file system implementation in relation to how it deletes the files when the “discard” mount option is used. This improvement significantly saves time as a test file after the merge has been deleted in 1.6 seconds, compared to more than 4 minutes of the total time taken.
This pull request makes sure that, upon file deletion, it discards a group of contiguous clusters (that is, clusters that are next to each other) in batch instead of discarding them one by one. This was because in prior kernels, such as 6.14, “if the discard mount option is enabled, the file’s clusters are discarded when they are freed. Discarding clusters one by one will significantly reduce performance. Poor performance may cause soft lockup when lots of clusters are freed.”
The change has been introduced in commit a36e0ab. Since then, the pull request has been merged to the kernel and it will be integrated to the first release candidate of Linux 6.15. A simple performance benchmark has been verified with the following commands:
# truncate -s 80G /mnt/file# time rm /mnt/fileIn detail, the performance of this filesystem without this commit is poor, totalling about 4 minutes and 46 seconds in real time, with 12 seconds of system time. In contrast to the patched kernel, it totals about 1 second in real time, with 17 milliseconds of system time.
It’s a huge improvement!
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CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 brings retro benchmarking to systems from Windows 95 to Windows 11
Microsoft has removed the 'BypassNRO.cmd' script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system.
"This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
Epson Equity, series of IBM PC Compatibles.
In honor of Trans Day of Visibility, here’s something really cool for you to know…
A computer scientist trans woman by the name of Sophie Mary Wilson was a co-creator of the ARM architecture.
More about Sophie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
Great video on the history of ARM, which is computer science geeky stuff (sorry about YT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwdhPOVOUk
