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From what I watched of the presentation, there was also a fair bit of moving around. In my studio, we primarily used it as a way to hide main camera adjustments in the edit, usually from the interviewee changing positions, slouching, etc. Generally, a high enough quality production will never rely on a single camera regardless.

You're right! They suck, this is the first time they've ever built a phone and they have no history of working devices to prove themselves!

The bigger problem with Qualcomm is that they're primarily the reason why devices only got a two year span of updates and poor support. Each board built for each phone still had to get the software support starting with Qualcomm before it could be built with new source for updates. Outside that 2 year window, every device OEM had to support the hardware themselves. That's why new phones with older SOCs never got any updates at all. (Read up on Project Mainline as one attempt to mitigate this problem.)

I'm not surprised at all that OEMs are moving towards own/custom SOCs or other sources. Been seeing more Motorola phones with Mediatek socs, Samsung has Exynos, Google now with Tensor.

> The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange.

B-Camera angles are common in interviews. It's to help create a less formal and less stuffy 'presentation' like feel. It's intended to be more of a "you're standing there, somewhat behind the scenes" feel.

Mint and Pop are still Ubuntu based, not to ignore the Debian underpinnings of Ubuntu.

I've stuck with xUbuntu because it seems to be the most sane of the bunch when it comes to defaults and preinstalled software. Once installed, it does a good job of staying out of my way UI wise.

Proton.

Play on Linux.

Lutris.

Anecdotal but no less amusing: I upgraded my desktop and used the extra parts to rebuild my Windows 10 system, the nearly cutting edge hardware on the newly rebuilt main desktop all worked when I reinstalled xUbuntu 20.04 on the new SSD.

The hand me down parts, while not ancient, were still old enough that I had expected Windows 10 to be able to support it when I installed it on the SSD for that machine. Wifi and Webcam both did not work after Windows finished installing and detecting hardware/updating.

Windows 10 later decided to reboot my system, unprompted, when I still had a project file open in Premiere.

How far Linux has come is honestly refreshing. How long Windows has continued to have absolute dealbreaker issues is astounding.

When the glued batteries first started showing up, they were showing up in devices with security screws where bits were not available and the expectation of being able to swap batteries out at will. (Macbooks vs regular Laptops of the day)

The glue was so strong that you could not avoid damaging the battery when attempting to remove it.

You also could not safely remove the battery if it had started to bloat/become swollen.

This was, of course, about 10 years before pulltabs and adhesives that were solvent sensitive were used.

Yep. This seems to be the point the "FUD! FUD!" criers are ignoring.

Apple has a long, continuous history of locking down hardware. Never having a bootloader unlockable iDevice, unibody, glue, soldered on components that are traditionally user replaceable, soldering in displays and backs when people try to repair batteries, serializing the components so you can't even swap official parts.

Apple has never gone in the reverse direction to make components more easily user serviceable. It's always been in the more restrictive direction. More proprietary with every iteration. Now it's the CPU. Bootloader locking on an M1 Macbook is the next logical step.

Bootcamp is not allowing someone to fully boot any OS from the device. It is still a walled garden that limits hardware access, preventing the user from getting full performance out of the device.

> Perhaps if you weren't so hostile in your replies, you'd be down-voted less. You come across as angry.

You get what you read into it.

Majority of my posts are statements of fact yet they get downvoted because there's no placating the Apple horde with the truth.

Forcing people who have broken their new iPhone's screen to trade it in for a refurb because no third party repair shop can swap out a serialized display isn't user hostile?

What I'm saying is that I feel it's a better use of man hours of open source advocates to code for hardware from companies that support OSS and not one that is viciously hostile to its users.

Perhaps you should expand your definition of what 'unsupported hack' means instead of taking it as an insult.

I support the work of anyone who gets Linux running on any hardware, I condemn the difficulty in which Apple unnecessarily restricts people from doing what they want with the hardware they own.

It is an unsupported hack because Apple doesn't provide means (such as documentation or code) for people to run what they want. So anything you can do will always end up being a method that Apple may decide to close up with later software updates and everything has to be reverse engineered from scratch.

Contrast this with AMD and Intel code in the Linux Kernel contributed by those companies themselves and being able to just boot from USB using a user accessible BIOS/UEFI loader.

It's Apple's restrictions that make this necessary to be a hack.

No, it doesn't. It pisses on Apple for being an incredibly and unnecessarily restrictive company.

I disagree.

Intel and AMD both contribute heavily to the Linux Kernel. This means that on the vast majority of Intel or AMD based systems, you can boot from USB and have a working system.

Apple doesn't even release documentation on their SOCs.

Apple doesn't use standard, open boot methods to allow other OSes to simply boot from USB. No BIOS/Standard UEFI.

There is a huge chasm between what you can do on the vast majority of PCs out there... and what you have to do to get anything else running on Apple hardware. IF you can get anything running. (Eg, locked bootloaders on iDevices)

Expresscard was supposed to replace it. It's literally a pin for pin pci express slot. But the "market" spoke (more like Apple decided they were too good for useful ports) and laptops got slimmer and less able to be expanded on.

I think most of the teenager mindset moved towards the Apple camp. Apple has been far more restrictive and anticompetitive than Microsoft ever was at its worst. Mention something like how Safari being the only allowed web engine on iOS and get downvoted, don't agree that Google is the ultimate evil and point out they're open sourcing Android, Chromium and etc... get downvoted.

The embrace of Apple on tech sites is something I'll never understand considering the attitudes that were prevalent when it came to Microsoft just a decade or two before.

Their business model is to specifically cater towards neo nazis.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

> Just disconnect the light

Thanks, I'm cured.

1) A lot of laptops are sealed with glue. "Just disconnecting the light" would involve prying layers apart.

2) Companies may frown upon that if you should try to modify a company issue laptop.

3) Disabling a recording indicator may be illegal where you live.

He's a major fuckup and cokehead. Take everything he says with a winter's road crew pile of salt.

TLDR: You're not using era appropriate examples.

I told you to get off my lawn.

Power7+ came out in 2012 which was the first gen of Power CPUs to include AES acceleration. [1]

The most powerful Power Macs with non Intel CPUs were discontinued in 2006. (G5, released 2003.) [2]

Your laptop from 2014 was already running at LEAST a 64bit CPU and likely has AES instructions as they were introduced in 2010 [3]

So even if your laptop from 2014 onward didn't include AES instructions like some Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium models... (Acer C720P Chromebook, for example came out in 2014 and has a Intel Celeron 2955U [4] and [5]) It was still an architecture that is/was ELEVEN YEARS NEWER. A Celeron 2955U is roughly equivalent in performance to a Core 2 Duo E4700 or an AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ ... which is still quite ahead of a PowerMac G5. [6] and [7]

TLDR: Time marches on and along with cpu improvements come instructions and other benefits not immediately visible to the end user.

Try using your old 2003-era system to generate keys again and tell us how fun it is. Bonus if you try it on a Pre-2000 era Performa Mac as a user typically had with SystemOS 7, 8 and 9. Those ran at 16 to 66mhz. [8]

For reference, SystemOS 7 came out in 1991. [9] OS8 came out in 1997. [10] And OS9 came out in 1999. [11]

The CPUs inside the Performa Macs running System 7, OS8 and OS9, at best, can be compared to the 486s on the Intel side. Not even Pentium level. This places the architecture at LEAST a dozen architecture generations behind what you're generating keys on. This means if the CPUs we're looking at here were aged up, your laptop is starting first or second grade while the actual CPUs of the time are now finishing their masters' degrees with a kid or two on the way.

Rather than naively using your extremely modern in comparison 'crappy laptop' cpu as a reference point, perhaps you should use something more typical from the time these OSes were considered relevant.

TLDR to the TLDR: Get off my lawn.

[1] https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5

[3] https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720P-2666-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-...

[5] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75608/i...

[6] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-2955U-vs-...

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PowerMac...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Performa

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9

> Is modern encryption a challenge to those old machines?

Ooooooh yeah. It's got some serious overhead on single core systems several-hundred-megahertz systems without the instructions that are used to accelerate encryption these days. AES is what modern CPUs use to help with that. It wasn't until Power7+ before encryption was accelerated on that class of CPUs. The latest Mac to use Power CPUs was discontinued 6 years before that.

*crickets*

That puts it pretty damn close to the 50-55% wireless efficiency figure I keep seeing thrown around. Yay! Wireless!

Inefficiency at several steps.

Battery voltage to charging voltage is a step.

Charging method (wireless) adds a step.

Input voltage to battery voltage is a step.

Plus you have the extra circuitry of Wireless to power.

Nothing runs straight off 5v of USB or 3.7v (nominal) of LiPo. There's little converters for everything, every step of the way.

This is why you'll never see a 3.7-4.2v battery pack delivering 1:1 charge to a smartphone over 5v USB. I did the math a long time ago and the capacity conversion is around 74% to 84%. So if you have a 10,000 mAh battery, expect it to charge about ~8000mAh worth of your phone.

For wireless, it's even worse.

Terrible attempt at a "No, u, lib" retort.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case...

> A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" takes the primetime host Tucker Carlson seriously, a new court filing said.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

>Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-tosses-suit-trump-affair-...

> The judge said that lawyers for Fox "persuasively" argued that "any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements" Carlson makes, according to a court filing.

I wonder if the xkcd comic about this is still accurate, being that it's generally safer to have longer passwords regardless of how it's formatted.

https://xkcd.com/936/

I recently signed up for a ticketing website to buy tickets for a concert and was appalled that the site wouldn't accept my 50+ character generated password... I had to enter something between 8 and 15 characters.

Still seems to me that "^Zh7*2wNfRG7ehj" would still be inherently less secure than "thisisasuperlongpasswordandithas12345alotofcharactersinitthatwouldtake12345rainbowtablesalongtimetocalculatefor"

15 vs 111 characters to find permutations for.

That is, of course, even assuming that the password db for the site is even hashed (AND salted) or not.

> 102. Lee's increasingly erratic behavior made LTM a miserable place to work. In addition to the long hours and high-stress environment at LTM, Lee's conduct made employees uncomfortable and fearful for both their own wellbeing and the continued viability of the company.

> 103. Lee would frequently use cocaine in front of LTM's clients, colleagues, certain employees, and trusted advisors. Plaintiffs Ken, Jane, Michael, John, and James all personally observed Lee's pervasive drug use.

> 104. Lee would regularly leave cocaine and marijuana residue in the office. Ken, who . was typically the first to arrive in the office every morning, would find Lee's leftover food, drugs, and alcohol bottles on work stations, and would clean everything up before other L TM personnel arrived.

> 105. Lee made a habit of barging into Ken's living quarters in the middle of the night to play loud music, entertain random women, and use drugs.

> 106. In or around February 2015, Lee wanted to hire an assistant. After interviewing a particular female candidate, Lee-a married man-insisted on hiring her because he wanted to have sex with her. Ken and Park talked Lee out of it, advising Lee that his requested conduct was wrong and could cost L TM in a potential lawsuit. Lee retorted that he did not care about any sexual harassment suit or potential liability for LTM because. he would pay any settlement out of his own pocket.

> 107. Lee also stated that he wanted to start a "modeling agency" under the L TM umbrella called "Breakout Agency." Lee rented a house in the Hollywood Hills for the "models" to live in. Before renting the house and starting the agency, Lee circulated a draft memo to the male LTM executives advising them to make sure to "wear a condom" when having sex with the "models." The draft memorandum was outrageous and, like the incident above, could form the basis of a potential sexual harassment suit. Again, Ken and Park were forced to talk with Lee and insist that he refrain from sending such communication.

> 108. Lee further indicated to LTM personnel that he planned to move the company's workspace to the house in Hollywood Hills, where they would work alongside the models. All LTM personnel recognized that moving the company would create an unstable and unprofessional work environment; and Jane in particular, as one of LTM's few female employees, was not comfortable with the rampant sexism that this move presaged.

> 109. Making matters worse, Lee also had an ongoing relationship with a mistress that he brought to company functions and the LTM offices, despite people knowing that he was married. Lee met his mistress through a company offering female companionship for money. Lee abandoned his wife and newborn child to spend time with this woman, and their relationship was toxic. His mistress was physically and verbally abusive towards Lee, erratic and unpredictable, and caused Lee to act over-emotionally.

> 110. The two fought on a daily basis. And this happened in front of LTM employees, including Plaintiffs. For example, a few days after the February 2015 Meeting, Lee and his mistress had a violent altercation at a club in front of Park, Ken, James, and other L TM personnel. His mistress became infuriated and violent when Lee did not pay attention to her to attend to a conference call concerning L TM business. She punched Lee in the face, causing Lee to lose a tooth.

TLDR: Money can't buy class, yo.