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Save money? I am writing this comment on a 10 year old laptop that still works fine. (Admittedly, it was an expensive laptop, and now performs like a average laptop) But a 5 year old Pixel is EOL? https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom... Does not seem like a savings to me.

Rent to lose your privacy... Remember that after 5 years it is EOL, and boot locked so you can not change it. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom...

https://www.reddit.com/r/great...
https://qmap.pub/
Draw your own conclusions on what it all means, or what the implications are, but if you're not paying attention to what Q is posting you don't know what the hell is going on....

Take away their safe harbor protection, since they are no longer one. If they curate, it's no longer just the comments of the participants, it's now "journalism" and things like libel apply...which would of course, shut down all the people on the "other side" from the ones they're silencing as well, and we could go back to kitty pix and meals and platitudes....in peace.

It's not just media aggregators though. Even Amazon which has displaced countless competitors censors many buyers for arbitrary rules such as "too negative". They keep a list of accounts banned from reviewing items on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGr... They are even worse to sellers who depend on the site for their livelihoods.

1. Jailbreak it by installing new firmware.
2. (Optional) Set it up to multi-boot with rEFInd, if you still want to be able to use ChromeOS.
3. Put any distro you want on it. GalliumOS is particularly tailored for Chromebooks, but Ubuntu and Mint also both work fine on mine.

You can also install Windows 8.1 or 10 (64-bit only) if you want. I haven't retained ChromeOS, but I do have both W10 and Gallium installed. Mostly I just use Gallium for those times Windows shits the bed and then refuses to let me clean up after it.

Current version of GalliumOS supports most Chromebooks. It's an Ubuntu 16.04 base with adjustments for specific chromebook models (media key customization, other hardware configurations, etc. Doesn't seem to support ARM chipsets or Intel Pineview boards.
Systems that are supported by GalliumOS
and the newer version based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is in the works
version 3.0 alpha

I have noticed that the people who complain loudest about "witch hunts" with regards to Trump were strangely silent when it came to investigations on issues such as Obama's birth certificate, the multiple Benghazi investigations, Hillary's emails, Whitewater, etc. It seems that only Democrats are capable of witch hunts, and Republican investigations are only done with the purest of motives.

Some discussion here:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29...

Regardless, the best way to protect yourself from witch hunts, is to not be a witch, and to not associate with those who are. When numerous people around you start pleading guilty to felonies ("I'm a witch and I admit it!") your case for being a blameless pious churchgoer that never had an impure thought in your life starts to look shaky, and the case for you being the head of the local coven starts seeming more plausible.

So far, the rate of admitted criminality among Trump's friends and associates is starting to make the crime rate among the immigrants he is always complaining about seem paltry by comparison, and yet Trump steadfastly maintains that he has never done anything illegal. I find that very hard to believe, given the evidence that has come out so far, and given Trump's own behavior (e.g. the glowing way he talks about Putin and Russia in general, and seems to consider them no threat whatsoever, while our allies (Europe, NATO, etc.) somehow he sees as a major problem). He seems to have a massive blind spot when it comes to Russia specifically, and I think that one can reasonably ask why that is. His repeated threats to fire Mueller, Sessions, and others, and threats to pull other nasty tricks (threatening to withhold security clearances from those who criticize him, etc.) do not make him seem to be acting like someone who is innocent.

As for "The Russians" and "collusion" being irrelevant to Cohen, a very small amount of research turns up articles like the following. It's not hard to find information on this stuff. If you're actually interested in knowing. Not likely to be covered on Fox News, though.

Some examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/polit...
http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...

https://www.reddit.com/r/water...

This seems to be the best answer sadly: maybe, but apulse would work most likely

Risks need to be managed or avoided in rocket science.

Gene Kranz has some insights into this, having lived though Apollo as flight director of multiple missions. https://www.reddit.com/r/Space... Rocket science is a dangerous business, people WILL die. At issue is an analysis of the risks, mitigation strategies for the identified risks and the acceptance of the remaining risks that cannot be controlled.

Where I share your concern with Space-X's process, the question is really for the rocket scientists to argue over and not a PR campaign. Is this an acceptable risk? Can it be effectively managed in the processes and procedures used to fuel the rocket and are the remaining risks acceptable? Maybe, maybe not.

I'm just an engineer, so I'll let the rocket scientists hash this one out.

Typical Nvidia. Good point on the usefulness of FP16 in games and graphical applications as well. Now I'm regretting having gotten a (Pascal) 1070. This reddit comment says the AMD Vega and Nvidia Volta both have 12 TFLOPS single precision, but the Volta has 12 TFLOPS FP16 while the Vega has 25. Presumably Nvidia deliberately chose to execute FP16 calculations as FP32, because I'm sure they have FP16 support somewhere on die and their crappy driver or firmware cripples the card. I know what GPU manufacturer I won't buy from next time.

It would be even more interesting if RISC-V machines with vector units come out - that extension natively support FP16 (see the V-extension part of the user-mode spec on that site - right now, page 93, the part where they mention supporting a vector of 16 bit floats as a type), without having to go through a GPU driver or deal with nvidia and their ilk.

The article however is about video games - which are to those simulators like a skateboard is to a F1 racer.

I'm not sure your mental picture of "video games" has quite advanced with technology.

Check out some of the cockpit control setups people have made at home for their video game software:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homecockpits/

People have made everything imaginable from simple 6 spot control inputs, all the way up to people who buy actual plane cockpit frames from airliner junk yards and rewire as input devices for PCs...

"video game" need not be limited to the guy in front of their TV with nothing but an xbox controller.

Windows under KVM with GPU passthrough is a thing

Some Microsoftie with mod points doesn't like that post.

Hey how about getting your own shit to work with Linux before worrying about third party stuff

A lot of Steam stuff is on Linux. Dota2 works great for example, including with vulkan. And BTW, the Dota2 International just started today.

There is a great wine gaming resource here.

Took 3 seconds to find. Tons of other references available. Why is there denialism about this issue? Hell, in 1989 Bernie Sanders traveled to Cuba on a trip organized by the Center for Cuban Studies, a pro-Castro group based in New York, hoping to come away with a "balanced" picture of the country. The late, legendary Vermont journalist Peter Freyne sighed that Sanders "came back singing the praises of Fidel Castro."

Heres all the links i have bookmarked. Im sure you can make it work. The performance is basically bare metal. you have to pull some fuckery with the conf file for nvidia cards or you get error 53 i believe, because theyre cocksuckers that want to milk everybody. but thats a different issue. i hope these work for you.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/l...
https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08...
https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...
https://lime-technology.com/fo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/...
https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-...
http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/...
https://www.se7ensins.com/foru...
https://forums.lime-technology...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
http://blog.quindorian.org/201...

Heres all the links i have bookmarked. Im sure you can make it work. The performance is basically bare metal. you have to pull some fuckery with the conf file for nvidia cards or you get error 53 i believe, because theyre cocksuckers that want to milk everybody. but thats a different issue. i hope these work for you.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/l...
https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08...
https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...
https://lime-technology.com/fo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/...
https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-...
http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/...
https://www.se7ensins.com/foru...
https://forums.lime-technology...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
http://blog.quindorian.org/201...

Intel is extracting higher speeds from their designs.

Marginally, and not for all single core loads. And never forget that standard operating practice for Intel is to place their thumb on the benchmark scales. For example, check this out. No shortage of reports like that.

Whatever slim lead Intel still has in single-core performance is widely expected to evaporate because of Intel's 10nm node fiasco, whereas AMD is already starting the 7nm production ramp for Instinct GPGPU parts. Don't just take my word for it.

In short, Intel is about to lose whatever single-core IPC lead they still have, entirely because they built their own fabs and messed up. Going fabless for the 10nm node would have been brilliant but too late for that now. Maybe next node.

Here, watch this: 10 EPIC games with VULKAN support (PC 2018). There is a good reason why it is easier to name the game engines that do not support Vulkan than those that do. What reason? Better performance. Those engines that currently do not support Vulkan, do support DX12 or Metal, basically the same thing. So 100% of major engines are already moved to Vulkan or similar. For most of those, their Vulkan render path gives the best performance.

Now, somebody desperate to justify their pet theory that Vulkan is not the way forward for 3D rendering might point to some cases where Vulkan (or DX12) actually slows the game down. This is because the initial implementation of Vulkan is sometimes just a translation layer for OpenGL, which is single-threaded, so the translation is single-threaded too. On top of that you have the translation overhead. Result: no improvement, or actually a regression. However, that was then, this is now. (...we continue to see much lower CPU utilization when using Vulkan rather than OpenGL.)

Vulkan improves performance in several ways: 1) distributes rendering across multiple cores 2) lifts state out of the inner render loops 3) shortens the path for submitting render data 4) supports fine grained control over caching of render assets. (Not an exhaustive list.) None of this is a secret; all of it is known to anybody who could call themselves a game developer. You are very obviously not one of those. But do us all a favor and please stop shitting on the internet with your ignorance. If you are confused then do a little research.

Actually, not in this reality.

Here, in this simulation, the actual quote is

> Mostly everyone's mad here!

See https://www.reddit.com/r/Mande...

...you should also remember they were sued, successfully, by the patent troll that claimed to own the protocol...

Which would make them not patent trolls. They defended their patents against the most well-funded legal team in existence, and showed that the protocol used their invention. They most certainly did not claim to own the protocol.

They were/are Patent Trolls. First it was FaceTime, then it was iMessage. I didn't call them Patent Trolls, the entire Tech-Press did:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

https://gizmodo.com/apple-orde...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4302...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Oh, and this Discussion Thread EXACTLY addresses the original question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

etc. etc...

VirnetX patented something fairly obvious that they had no intention of ever bringing to market, which, after all, is the entire reason behind the Patent system, and simply lay-in-wait for someone with deep pockets to accidentally trip-into their patent-trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Significantly helped along by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I mean, the obvious corruption got so bad that the Supremes had to put a stop to it!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

So, don't paint Apple as the bad guy here.

http://reddit.com/r/massivecoc...

What linux virtualization solution would you recommend for hosting Win10 + games with gpu virtualization?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but there are multiple reports of success with Ryzen+KVM+GPU+W10, for example this one.

You say its 'good enough' to run AAA games. What sort of performance hit am I really facing?

My impression is, very little. GPU virtualization gives the guest OS direct access to PCI registers, the overhead can get very close to zero. This report from 2014 shows overhead consistently less than 3%, often a lot less, and remarkably, sometimes actually faster in the VM. I'm not sure how that last one works.

The big overhead for VMs tends not to be CPU, but memory consumption, make sure you have enough to make both host and guest comfortable. You should be fine with 16 GB, but more memory is always better, I'm liking how it feels with 32 GB. You will want a separate SSD for Windows, I think, but that's not going to break the bank.

Do some games "just-not-work" What sort of stability loss am i looking at?

Again, I'm not doing it myself right now (I have too many unplayed games already without a bunch more from Windows) but I see multiple reports of success with GTA 5 and I don't see any horror stories. My feeling is, your system as a whole will be more stable than it is now, and the VM+Windows part of it will be exactly as stable as now.

I've got an i7 and a gtx1080, if that's a factor.

Though I am a newly-minted Ryzen fanboy, I love Intel too except for their business practices. VM stability seems exactly the same for Intel and AMD. That is very cool. Number of VM crashes I had over the years on Intel or AMD: exactly zero, and I really thrash those VMs.

What's the situation with multi-monitor support with something like this?

Dunno. I'm waiting for your report. The question you ought to ask is, what's the situation with sharing the GPU between host and guest? Lots of active discussion on it. It's a thing, and multi-monitor passthrough is a thing.

And peripheral pass through? (usb headsets, usb controllers).

KVM has good USB passthrough, but for mouse and audio where performance is not an issue you probably want the virtual devices. There are a whole pile of online resources on it, e.g. here and the community is active. Mostly people seem to be using libvirt and virt-manager. I don't, I just read the man page and run KVM/QEMU from the command line. Do that only if you enjoy that kind of thing.

There is a great and supportive community here.

What linux virtualization solution would you recommend for hosting Win10 + games with gpu virtualization?

I haven't tried it myself yet, but there are multiple reports of success with Ryzen+KVM+GPU+W10, for example this one.

You say its 'good enough' to run AAA games. What sort of performance hit am I really facing?

My impression is, very little. GPU virtualization gives the guest OS direct access to PCI registers, the overhead can get very close to zero. This report from 2014 shows overhead consistently less than 3%, often a lot less, and remarkably, sometimes actually faster in the VM. I'm not sure how that last one works.

The big overhead for VMs tends not to be CPU, but memory consumption, make sure you have enough to make both host and guest comfortable. You should be fine with 16 GB, but more memory is always better, I'm liking how it feels with 32 GB. You will want a separate SSD for Windows, I think, but that's not going to break the bank.

Do some games "just-not-work" What sort of stability loss am i looking at?

Again, I'm not doing it myself right now (I have too many unplayed games already without a bunch more from Windows) but I see multiple reports of success with GTA 5 and I don't see any horror stories. My feeling is, your system as a whole will be more stable than it is now, and the VM+Windows part of it will be exactly as stable as now.

I've got an i7 and a gtx1080, if that's a factor.

Though I am a newly-minted Ryzen fanboy, I love Intel too except for their business practices. VM stability seems exactly the same for Intel and AMD. That is very cool. Number of VM crashes I had over the years on Intel or AMD: exactly zero, and I really thrash those VMs.

What's the situation with multi-monitor support with something like this?

Dunno. I'm waiting for your report. The question you ought to ask is, what's the situation with sharing the GPU between host and guest? Lots of active discussion on it. It's a thing, and multi-monitor passthrough is a thing.

And peripheral pass through? (usb headsets, usb controllers).

KVM has good USB passthrough, but for mouse and audio where performance is not an issue you probably want the virtual devices. There are a whole pile of online resources on it, e.g. here and the community is active. Mostly people seem to be using libvirt and virt-manager. I don't, I just read the man page and run KVM/QEMU from the command line. Do that only if you enjoy that kind of thing.

There is a great and supportive community here.

Chromebooks have been able to run Windows for a few years now, thanks to the chrultrabook crew. Google provided some assistance in the project, asking the developers to attend some of its internal conferences and lending them a Pixel 2 for a while (which turned out to have damaged audio hardware, making that a complete waste of time). Unfortunately, those same developers decided that newer Chromebooks are no longer worth supporting, due to undersized/underpowered non-replaceable components. (The good ones used to have M.2 slots. They don't anymore.) Thus, the project has pretty much closed shop.

If someone else is going to take up the reins, that's great. The Libreboot people declined to take it over, so I'm glad someone is interested.

Will KVM work with Intel CPUs that lack VT-d?

You are out there beyond my personal experience. My impression is that it wil but the performance hit is too much for high end gaming.

I bought the 4770 instead of the 4790 because it was cheaper. I regret that choice as it doesn't support I/O pass thru. As a result I am limited to Windows 10/Hyper-V or Virtualbox unless I want to pluck $$$$ for VMWare workstation

Sorry Intel screwed you. Instead of dropping bucks on VMWare, why not change out the 4770 for a Ryzen? A motherboard swap is kind of hard core the first time but its a great skill to learn, and alternatively any decent screwdriver shop can do it in minutes.

Informative thread here.

I'm not surprised that today's 64-bit PCs can easily handle emulating those games.

Joke? Hard to tell. Anyway, GTA V on Arch Linux But much more straightforward on a straight up gaming rig, or what the enthusiasts are doing these days, kickass Linux Ryzen workstations that also rock high end games. BTW, 4K Displayport monitors are now really cheap, it's a great time to be a nerd.

Even vague and generalized research implications of cancer for a product that every homeowner uses successfully on his lawn are worth a huge amount of money, while Nicholas White, the New Yorker who, riding an elevator to work on a Friday evening, was stuck there for an entire weekend, got nothing but his legal expenses back after a 4-year struggle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/video...

If only it had been a Monsanto elevator.

When is Linux going to work properly on X1 Tablet Gen3? launched in Feb, still trackpoint/buttons not working, suspend not working.

Looks like patches have been available for some time, some discussion here. Maybe just not landed in your distro yet. Make sure your bios is updated to current and check around to see which firmware packages you need. If you still have issues then get on a forum, Slashdot isn't ideal.

All is well, took a few posts but you at least owned up to your mistake. it happens, thank you for not turning toxic about it like users have done to me in the past for correcting them. however as i said above you make some valid points. one being the latency issue on ryzen, which a threadripper user alerted me of under certain memory intensive processing. https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/c... there is the link if you want to read up on what he has come to so far. i gathered a few other irc users i know that have ryzen and threadripper parts, including 2nd gen. same issue persists. that being said i still love my ryzen cpu. the power/price was great and i was sort of an early adopter. also as i had stated in a prior reply to you, google zen2 leaks. its showing zen 2 with 15% ipc increase before node shrink, and if thats the case in real life and not exaggerated(zen launch was actually higher ipc lift than amd said it was gonna bring, doubt it happens twice though) that along with the 7nm shrink, it will put intel into 2nd place. and possibly even when intel gets their 10nm working correctly which is said to be on par with GF/TSMC 7nm process. that also being said GF has made the process so close to TSMC's process that amd will be able to dual source and wont run afoul of legal trouble as GF has welcomed it saying demand is much higher than they can produce anyways. times are looking up for us consumers, and ive always liked amd because they use realistic pricing(my own opinion) however it is going to take a lot of work to put a real dent into intel's market share. from the way intel has been stumbling lately and the "tricks" their trying to pull.. they might be in deep water for a few years. only time will tell. let the best CPU be the cheapest!! if only we could be so lucky right.

But Metal (not even considering Metal 2) is over twice as efficient as Vulkan; so why would Apple Devs. want to give up all that extra performance, just to use a VASTLY inferior API?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

I can't find any benchmarks to back up that claim at all, well not even any benchmarks, just any information at all that backs up that claim. Also in that post there seems to be a comparison of some broad term of "efficiency" to something with a more specific term "draw call" (draw calls being just one bit of what you do with a graphics API).

Whatever it is that those terms are actually referring to when you look at what it translates to in terms of performance in the real world it's not that much: Metal vs OpenGL.

Suggesting it's a vastly inferior API based on comparison of two different things with no numbers, evidence, benchmarks or justification at all is a bit of a stretch.

He drive 510km at normal highway speed in Norway in the tyres/wheels that the car comes with. What do you want Rei, what specific set-up do you require for the Rei Certified Efficient Driving Range Test?

You don't have to do "Youtube drive tests" to measure efficiencies. That's what drive cycles are for. Hyundai expects Kona to receive a 250 mile rating in the US. Tesla expects Model 3 SR to receive 220 miles. LR received 310, but RWD was downrated from 334. These are the facts. I'm sorry if you don't like them.

Look at the speedometer

He specifically stated that the average was 120. Regardless of what the speedometer happened to show at some random time.

He was doing the speed limit or slightly above. Most of Europe has the same limit.

1. Nope.
2. You've been acting like that's "fast", "inefficient". When in reality it's below average.

He got 220 miles, which is the same as the similarly priced Model 3 SR gets with efficient driving.

What's your obsession with ignoring formal drivecycle measurements? Guess I have to repeat what I wrote before: "Model 3 LR starts at $44k USD. You're adding PUP and who knows what else in. The "long range" Kona starts at £34,500 in the UK (no US pricing yet). So subtracting 20% VAT and converting to USD, that's $37830. Pricewise, that's slotting in 31% of the way between SR and LR. Range-wise, that's 33% of the way between SR and the nominal LR range of 310 miles, or 26% of the way between SR and the measured LR range of 334 miles."

And your beloved Model 3 also tanks efficiency at higher speeds. That's how drag works

To be more specifically, drag works by CdA. Kona's Cd is reported as 0,29, Model 3's is 0,22. A is not 32% more in Model 3. Do the math.

And the Kona is still showing better efficiency at 120 kph in Bjorn's test.

189 Wh/km / 304Wh/mi is not better than Model 3 at 120 kph / 75mph (on aero wheels and eco tires like the Kona). Not even better than the heavier Model 3 LR, let alone Model 3 SR. 304 Wh/mi at 120kph/75mph is Model S levels of energy consumption, not Model 3.

Since you prefer ancedotes to drivecycles, here you go.

Wheels: unknown. Time of year unknown. Lifetime average: 267 Wh/mi, primarily at 79-83 mph: "Have you set a separate trip meter at 75 mph to see what your wh / mi would be?" "Yep I’ve tested that. Goes down to about 244 Wh/mi.

Wheels: unknown. January in Portland : "75 mph - 303 wh/mile"

Wheels: unknown. Time of year unknown "Similar numbers. Model 3 LR, ~600 miles, 19" wheels, Colorado. 239Wh/mile, majority at 65-75mph."

Wheels unknown: ". In summer, dry road conditions I am able to get 285 miles on a full charge driving 75-80 MPH, or 305 miles if I back it down to 65 MPH." (285 mi = 263 Wh/mi) "going 75 MPH over 200 miles, I lost around 35 miles of rated range" (275mi = 272 Wh/mi) "Long road trip on very hot days: 80 mph with A/C I lost 20% of my range. I have 18" w/Aeros on. I think that's as bad as it could ever get." (258mi = 290 Wh/mi)

Random Model 3s: "All other Wh/mi at hwy speeds (75/80/90) were much higher than in your figure. I've seen 255-300 "

These are just the first hits I get for searching "model 3 Wh/mi 75mph

He drive 510km at normal highway speed in Norway in the tyres/wheels that the car comes with. What do you want Rei, what specific set-up do you require for the Rei Certified Efficient Driving Range Test?

You don't have to do "Youtube drive tests" to measure efficiencies. That's what drive cycles are for. Hyundai expects Kona to receive a 250 mile rating in the US. Tesla expects Model 3 SR to receive 220 miles. LR received 310, but RWD was downrated from 334. These are the facts. I'm sorry if you don't like them.

Look at the speedometer

He specifically stated that the average was 120. Regardless of what the speedometer happened to show at some random time.

He was doing the speed limit or slightly above. Most of Europe has the same limit.

1. Nope.
2. You've been acting like that's "fast", "inefficient". When in reality it's below average.

He got 220 miles, which is the same as the similarly priced Model 3 SR gets with efficient driving.

What's your obsession with ignoring formal drivecycle measurements? Guess I have to repeat what I wrote before: "Model 3 LR starts at $44k USD. You're adding PUP and who knows what else in. The "long range" Kona starts at £34,500 in the UK (no US pricing yet). So subtracting 20% VAT and converting to USD, that's $37830. Pricewise, that's slotting in 31% of the way between SR and LR. Range-wise, that's 33% of the way between SR and the nominal LR range of 310 miles, or 26% of the way between SR and the measured LR range of 334 miles."

And your beloved Model 3 also tanks efficiency at higher speeds. That's how drag works

To be more specifically, drag works by CdA. Kona's Cd is reported as 0,29, Model 3's is 0,22. A is not 32% more in Model 3. Do the math.

And the Kona is still showing better efficiency at 120 kph in Bjorn's test.

189 Wh/km / 304Wh/mi is not better than Model 3 at 120 kph / 75mph (on aero wheels and eco tires like the Kona). Not even better than the heavier Model 3 LR, let alone Model 3 SR. 304 Wh/mi at 120kph/75mph is Model S levels of energy consumption, not Model 3.

Since you prefer ancedotes to drivecycles, here you go.

Wheels: unknown. Time of year unknown. Lifetime average: 267 Wh/mi, primarily at 79-83 mph: "Have you set a separate trip meter at 75 mph to see what your wh / mi would be?" "Yep I’ve tested that. Goes down to about 244 Wh/mi.

Wheels: unknown. January in Portland : "75 mph - 303 wh/mile"

Wheels: unknown. Time of year unknown "Similar numbers. Model 3 LR, ~600 miles, 19" wheels, Colorado. 239Wh/mile, majority at 65-75mph."

Wheels unknown: ". In summer, dry road conditions I am able to get 285 miles on a full charge driving 75-80 MPH, or 305 miles if I back it down to 65 MPH." (285 mi = 263 Wh/mi) "going 75 MPH over 200 miles, I lost around 35 miles of rated range" (275mi = 272 Wh/mi) "Long road trip on very hot days: 80 mph with A/C I lost 20% of my range. I have 18" w/Aeros on. I think that's as bad as it could ever get." (258mi = 290 Wh/mi)

Random Model 3s: "All other Wh/mi at hwy speeds (75/80/90) were much higher than in your figure. I've seen 255-300 "

These are just the first hits I get for searching "model 3 Wh/mi 75mph

So then, based upon your "claim" and the data I posted, that would make the Windows/Android world around 6 billion. Again, tell me why you would focus on a single-digit segment of the market?

So NOW you want to conflate Windows (who pushes DirectX) and ANDROID (which is just a Clusterfuck, to the point where even its Mommy (Google) wants to do a retroactive Abortion on it). By and large, Windows Devs. that are performance-conscious don't use Vulkan; so it really IS only down to Android and Linux (and we all know what kind of miniscule marketshare Linux has...) that are keeping Vulkan alive.

Sorry, not impressed.

Oh, and it is MY "Claim", it is Credit Suisse's. And that is 588 Million unique Apple USERS, spread over MORE THAN A BILLION Apple Devices:

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Besides, it seems like MoltenVK is a pretty viable alternative to having to (re)code against multiple graphics APIs:

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

But Metal (not even considering Metal 2) is over twice as efficient as Vulkan; so why would Apple Devs. want to give up all that extra performance, just to use a VASTLY inferior API?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

Drives up insurance prices for everyone. If $100K cars are regularly trashed from minor fender benders, then insurance costs for everyone will have to consider such things. When we see cars effectively turned off from simple body damage, your insurance now has to take into consideration that if you back into a Tesla at a parking lot you may have just caused $100,000 in damage.

BOOM. Asshole.

They've been shitting on firefox's code since the version 27.0.
They destroyed the add-ons community,
they destroyed the interface,
they have zero mobile presence,
they lost a shitload of market-share,
they started taking political positions,
and what did they learn about this?
remove moar features.

do you remember https://www.reddit.com/r/firef... ?

Sure thing. All you need to do is go to a site like eBay or Amazon, purchase the cartridge/disc for the game you want (buying it used should be fine), and then rip it yourself using one of the numerous ripping devices that are legally available. Easy peasy.

When you get down to it, the process is more or less identical to ripping audio from a CD or a video from a DVD (in fact, I used to rip all of my PS1 games from disc, just like I would my CDs, and I actually intend to go back and do so for all of my disc-based games in the next few years here) and, for the most part, just as legal.

The most obvious way that you might run afoul of the law with the steps above is that some emulators require that you separately download a copy of the console's BIOS before they'll work, which is an act of copyright infringement. Thankfully, more and more emulators are moving away from that practice by doing the tough work of reverse engineering the original BIOS so that they no longer need a copy of it to work, and the standing precedent in the US is that they are perfectly legal. The other way you might run afoul of the law is that newer systems may have copy protection mechanisms in place. Just as you're allowed to format shift a blu-ray but you're not necessarily allowed to break the encryption on the blu-ray to do so, you may run into issues with games on newer consoles that have similar protections in place.

Alternatively, if you don't want to deal with ripping ROMs from your own, legally-purchased copies of the game, most of the popular games from old Nintendo systems (as well as others) are available for purchase on newer Nintendo systems. Were you actually interested in pursuing this legally (rather than simply asking a rhetorical question as a poor rationalization for your illegal behavior), you'd already know that the Wii and Wii U provide a rather extensive back catalog of old titles that are available for purchase (though I think the Wii is losing access to the store in a few months). Likewise, many old console games are available on Steam, GOG, or similar storefronts. And for older games that had a PC release, many are still playable thanks to WINE, ScummVM, or other pieces of software that allow you to simulate outdated hardware.

Honestly, it's easier than ever to go about this stuff legally. Unless you're talking about obscure games that have been lost to time, there's almost always a legal avenue open that (after a possible fixed cost for the some necessary hardware) only costs whatever the prevailing price is for the game.

Instead of saying "Apple went the cheap way, instead of the right way"
you claim that nobody(you, someone) needs that.
Let me tell you this.
Intel modem: 28nm
Qualcomm modem: 14nm
not only you get a worse modem, but you get one that consumes more. ...and even if you get the good modem, it's locked in order to be as fast as the bad one.
all in all, apple jewed itself for $5 BOM
more here https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

Louis Rossman said once that the Apple consumers police themselves.
In other companies, one consumer would react and the rest would've followed.
With apple, one reacts and the rest are using arguments like:
"you don't need that"
"you aren't supposed to do that"
"you are using it wrong"
"you are holding it wrong"

My statement that there was some credence to it being a systemic attack. This is derived, as I implied, from the swarm of "Gamer identity is dead" articles posted in concert with each other during gamergate. Makes me suspicious, like I saw a mask being torn. I don't consider it proof, but it's not tinfoil hat territory either. Here is one list.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

Back to reddit

ABC news reported that Paul Manafort pleaded guilty to 5 charges of manslaughter, which is pretty specific, damaging, and completely fake. Is Trump right about ABC news being a "fake news" site?

Huge list with examples of misleading and false reporting coming from the major media networks. CNN, Washington Post, Fox News, New York Times, RT, Guardian, NBC, ABC, etc.

Chinese words and promises are as valuable and robust as the finest chinesium.

The only way they are getting to the moon is with stolen technology.

Eh? It works fine for me, but I can't upload images. I even asked in https://www.reddit.com/r/Insta... ... :(

'Jessica Price was fired last week after she accused a Twitter user of "mansplaining"' No she wasn't forced for "mansplaining": ref:

'After a long AMA on the Guild Wars 2 Reddit, Jessica Price; a writer for ArenaNet, went on to Twitter to post a 25-part essay on how she comes up with stories, and what is relevant as far as stories in todays MMO's. (Very rough synopsis, quite a good read.)

After posting the essay, many community members chimed in to thank Price on sharing her views, and how insightful the read was, with one very popular community member; who has his own NPC inside of Guild Wars 2, commenting on the essay hoping to be able to start a civil and polite conversation with, one of his favorite writers. (He denotes this in his Twitch stream before the Twitter debacle)

The attempt however at starting a polite and civil conversation with the ArenaNet Writer, ended in Price slandering and defaming the community member as a sexist who is trying to mans-plain the job to her, even after the community member apologized for trying to start a civil conversation. (Community member posted a total of 2 Replys to Price, the first being the initial polite conversation starter, the second the apology for attempting communication.)

The next day on July 5th (This all occurred on July 4th), ArenaNet's CEO Mike O' Brian released a statement on a Guild Wars 2 Reddit post stating that Jessica Price and another ArenaNet member have been fired for harassment of an community member, when no such harassment was necessary.'

Except you saying stuff like "virgin beta cucks" makes clear you're from this community of fine gentlemen, thus the least likely person on earth to get laid.

Sorry, pal.

I'm not sure about other providers, but with T-Mobile's ONE plan, after the "limit", your connection is only deprioritized rather than throttled. (On their legacy/grandfathered plans, throttling is still in place.)

Some potentially relevant links:
https://www.t-mobile.com/respo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobi...
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/...

Sprint is desperate for customers. I took advantage of their "switch to Sprint for a year for free plan" and moved my family to Sprint in such a debacle that I wrote about it online, and it got their CEO's attention, a personal e-mail, then his executive services team involved to fix my account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprin...

I'm currently four months into my free year, and when it's over, I'll be switching to Verizon, simply for the fact that Sprint has shitty coverage. There's a tower 3 miles from my house so that I can at least get a signal (but bad data), but data (and thus streaming music) is unavailable for most of my trips to other towns.

I called Sprint Executive Services back a month or two ago to ask if they had any magic boxes - so that I could put one on my property and at least have good reception at home, but they were out of stock and the support person suggested I consider changing carriers. T-Mobile uses the same network, so it doesn't matter how much people chirp about how awesome they are....if they don't have coverage, you don't get to use them.

It's actually a well documented problem.

This caused issues for a lot of corporate users (who usually aren't broke). Also, we're in an iPhone updates discussion thread, which is a healthy indicator that the last thing we are is broke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes...