Literally all we did all day in efnet was call every new, suspicious user a fed. (You can tell I'm old because we used the word "fed" instead of "glowie")
I have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?
Well, as an app store, it pretty much has complete access to your degoogled phone, but (until recently) it defaulted to a pool of shared google burner accounts that were only used to download software.
When you open a comment thread, the upper part of the scrollbar is hidden behind the header. You have to scroll down a bit to be able to see and drag the scrollbar thumb. This on Chrome on Windows.
Precisely why I abandoned Tor and shut down my relays. It went from a technical project that solved an interesting problem to a "human rights" project that wanted to shape the world in a liberal Western fashion. That's a no-no from me.
Because technologies like GPON or HFC were designed with asymmetry in place because most users download much, much more than they upload. In the case of HFC the asymmetry can be particularly egregious.
GPON has a bunch of modes, some of which are symmetric. Notably a 1.2 Gbit/s down/up setup for gigabit service. Many modes are choosen to be asymmetric, yes, but the technology is not intrinsically one or the other. Notably, just like non-multiple-access fiber connections increasing upstream speed doesn't negatively impact downstream speed (as it does for copper-based connections).
2.4/2.4 is also a standardized GPON speed... Just not very common.
But either way it's irrelevant to the point that the technology can very well support symmetric speeds and offering symmetric doesn't "need a lot of "active" equipment and that drives the costs up." as the commenter I originally replied to claimed. Also evidenced by XGPON having the exact same amount of active equipment.
For what is worth, I haven't had much contact with technology in the last couple of years and things might have changed. My comment was based on my last experience where GPON by design was asymmetric and if you wanted symmetric speeds you would need an MC on both ends of the fiber, hence de "active equipment" need. And then from the MC to a router or whatever you had there.
On the other hand, more than 300Mbps upload is quite ok even with heavy video conferencing and what not.
I'm sure those options will be dog slow and unreliable.
I buy wintel so I can run my software from 15 years ago without interference. Literally the only reason I don't buy a mac. If they want to take that away, well, good luck to them
Considering Intel is merely considering it at this stage means they're probably still several years away from actually releasing chips without 16/32-bit support.
By that time, CPUs will be faster, and Intel will have had plenty of time to figure out the emulation layer.
These days, how much performance-critical software is even being built in 32-bit?
> These days, how much performance-critical software is even being built in 32-bit?
I think the better question is how much performance critical software built in 32 bit is still relied on, and may potentially outlive hardware with 32 bit support
If it's old, even with emulation it'd have a good chance to be as fast or faster than on its original target chips. So you'd need to not only rely on it, but also be demanding more from it over time. And given that you're running 32-bit software in a 32-bit vm on a 64-bit cpu in the first place (in a scenario where you're spending significant amounts of time in ring 0!), you clearly do not really care about performance anyway.
Everything is performance-critical. I buy new hardware so it runs my software as fast as it can. Why would I upgrade my CPU if I knew my programs would start running slower?
I completely agree. I still run Windows 7 on most of my systems (and please ... not interested in hearing any "bot farm" or other specious bullshit about how my machines have been Taken Over By Hackers!), and almost all of the very high quality software I use is 32-bit, because the 64-bit versions either don't exist or are burning dumpster fires.
Example? Lately I've been doing a lot of video transcoding with ffmpeg. The latest 64-bit version running under Windows 11 is lucky to average 10 to 14 frames per second. The last 32-bit version of ffmpeg running on Windows 7 does 64 frames per second or better.
In every case that comes to mind, the 32-bit versions of the applications I use far outperform the 64-bit versions. The only exception I can think of at the moment is Notepad++. NP++ is just plain awesome as a 64-bit application!
You can change your account's country by opening the store and tapping on your avatar. It's a bit convoluted (requires you to make up an address) but it's not the end of the world.
I watch long videos at any time. Usually during coding. For instance this summary and review of utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx2QM0Z8Qo 7 hours : 41 minutes, watched it one go.
In manual cars, it's always felt wrong how much and how fast the car can decelerate by changing to lower gears without the brake light turning on - even if you are not technically using the brake, you can lower the speed so much as to create a dangerous situation with the guy coming behind, and therefore turning on the brake light would be appropriate.
It’s a feature not a bug. Everyone immediately SLAMS the brake when they see a cop and it’s a dead giveaway if you want to get a speeding ticket. Engine braking has saved me more than once because you can slow down without being an immediate target for the cop.
