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Because GIMP is an acronym. "GIMP = Green is My Pepper" -Richard Stallman(free software extraordinaire and toe cheese enthusiast)

I have a Thinkpad T480 from 2018, bought it last year for $100. Peoples needs in a laptop are far lower than marketers would have you believe. Where as many M1 macs users are findi…

This Autistic hero has a youtube.

HBM would be having it bandwidth reduced significantly to sync with the on system. Thats ignoring how the timings for everything would be ruined which is a pretty important and har…

ARM has abysmal SIMD support. Not even supporting AVX 256. for reference that is about a 10 year lag behind x86. Neon is not an adequate substitute. Additionally when AVX is used, …

I'm more surprised Netflix is doing so well. Although a 1.8m isnt even 1% of Netflix's total subscribers.

according to the Anime Captain falcon gets his power from Jesus Christ. Im not even joking.

With the power of God and Schizophrenia on my side. https://templeos.org/

BSD is really do for companies that want to keep their code closed, but not start from scratch. I see this as a large reason why Netflix uses them and Sony uses BSD on playstations…

Its a loophole. UHD4k is what tv advertiser used to dilute meaning and not get sued. I believe the definition has been diluted to the point 4k is expected to be UHD.

The Bulldozer design had a few main issues. 1.Bulldozer had a very long pipeline akin to a Pentium 4. This allows for highclocks but comparatively little work being done per cycle …

Intel has used political incentives often though its history to great effect. I think its a much smaller issue than you think. Its part of their standard game-plan for over 30 year…

Crazy new drivers have always been around. you probably just live in a more populated area now. I remember People ripping down my roads in the 90s.

While true, Its important to note that the second Cell wasn't gonna be the same type as the main CPU cell. The cell they intended to use as the GPU would have only 4SPEs(vs 7 in th…

Nothing more classic than IBM shooting themselves in the foot.

WTFHappendin1971 & this article both practice bad economics and make gross assumptions. Is like the writer took every point made and picked the exact opposite take while missing th…

I dont think a culture that uses tea bags should be snooty about tea. They love tea, but its not inherently English just because they drink the third most per capita. He poopoos th…

" from social conservatives against LGBT people" Its not just from social conservatives, many social liberals are also in this group. This is adding an inherent bias. Trans-exclusi…

Its gotten worse as egotistic sudo-intellectuals have taken over and revert any proper changes even when properly source because it conflicts with their personal beliefs. Like coll…

Those aren't performance based requirements though. The TPM 2 requirements that actually limit many computers from running it is entirely arbitrary to limit user ability to modify …

Neat. Gonna do this to my IDE tomorrow. Might help a bit.

DDR5 chips are already semi-buffered. It was part of the major changes from DDR4 to DDR5.