Xatolos

So Gameboy isn't retro?

President Musk and first lady Donny.

Ironically, that iPhone will (now) have a shorter support window than the new Pixel.

Let Me Solo Her

Bank checks and balances.

All about getting that government money checks to inflate their bank accounts.

3.5 inch or 5.25 inch?

AI summary:

The article discusses the Chinese government's influence on DeepSeek AI, a model developed in China. PromptFoo, an AI engineering and evaluation firm, tested DeepSeek with 1,156 prompts on sensitive topics in China, such as Taiwan, Tibet, and the Tiananmen Square protests. They found that 85% of the responses were "canned refusals" promoting the Chinese government's views. However, these restrictions can be easily bypassed by omitting China-specific terms or using benign contexts. Ars Technica's spot-checks revealed inconsistencies in how these restrictions are enforced. While some prompts were blocked, others received detailed responses.

(I'd add that the canned refusals stated "Any actions that undermine national sovereignty and territorial integrity will be resolutely opposed by all Chinese people and are bound to be met with failure,". Also that while other chat models will refuse to explain things like how to hotwire a car, DeepSky gave a "general, theoretical overview" of the steps involved (while also noting the illegality of following those steps in real life).

It's less that and more public schools are already under funded, and this will just make them even more under funded, possibly leading to closures and consolidation of public schools. All of this will make public schools worse and private (mostly religious/Christian) look like a better and better option for your children.

Public schools are funded by an amount set by the government, but private schools are funded by what the school demands. This allows private schools to be better funded because they'll demand that the money per student is higher, and when it's the tax payer that is paying it, more and more parents won't notice or care about price anymore (since it isn't coming from their pocket) and will pick the better funded school and hope to deal with the consequences (of indoctrination) later (if they know about it at all until too late).

This is something that the Republicans would like since religious schools typically tell students that Republicans (aka God fearing people) are good and Democratic (aka not God fearing) are bad and real Christians always vote for the Republican party. Indoctrination from the start. And the Republicans get to wash their hands of any negative claims because "it's not a government school" so free speech and all that. Don't like it? Go to the worse and horribly under funded public schools instead.

Very. It's unpatchable. It's taking advantage of a speculative execution flaw, which is baked into the CPU microcode. This is the Apple M-chip version of Spectre/Meltdown that happened on x86 CPUs a few years ago.

The best Apple can do is attempt to add some code to the OS to help prevent this issue, but if Spectre was any example, it'll cause a hit to the CPU performance.

And this entire side thing was a giant whataboutism. All laptops have always been unique. It's why I made sure to point out things like the pentalobe screws. But you were so desperate to defend Apple that you grabbed at laptop mobos as your only hope. Think also things like Apple keyboards/mice using RJ-11 connectors, TSR connectors, ADB connectors, etc... Always refused to use any standard for a long time. Other things like ADC for monitors. No one else does this.

The correct answer for that other model is that you just dump it in the trash

What are you, 5 years old? You ask a question, got an answer and this is the best response you could think of? Bad troll. Also, it's not "easy to stock parts for most Macs when you're running a refurb shop", since with Apple doing "parts pairing", those parts don't work. It's been happening since 2018.

And you know CMOS batteries leak and can permanently fry the mobo. And again, this is Apple it's not a standard CMOS, it's a PRAM battery, same thing, different name.

First off, look we get it, you love Apple and that's fine. Just don't make comments of "oh, I don't like them but let me make a bunch of easily disproven claims to make them seem perfect and amazing".

Except now Windows is dropping support randomly for older CPUs, including many that would run Win11 easily, just because they can. So they're honestly the same as Apple in that regard.

And they are all over 10 years old. Apple at best supports 7ish. This isn't the brag you think it is.

They support the old architecture for several years, how's that a bad thing?

Again, same answer. They are the shortest time supporter, and the highest cost.

They used to literally ship you parts with repair guides.

No, they didn't. I've used Mac's since the 80s, in the 90s, and have a 2009 MBP. No they didn't. Never have.

Go find me a motherboard for 2012 Macbook Air 13".

Go find me one with a working CMOS battery. Those are soldered, non-replaceable. Again, I have a 2009 MBP, and even that can be replaced. And a quick eBay check will find the other motherboard.

Of course they do. Now go look at how much Google does of the same.

And go look at how much Google claims to do the opposite. Which one is better, the one who's up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?

Worst with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Google.

Uh, huh..... Again, which one is better, the one who's up front and honest, or the one who lies to your face?