Me too, and I recall the Cyrix "Pentium-like" chips were cheaper and faster than Intel's actual Pentium chips! [1]

[1] https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/49259.html

For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes.

Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.

Cyrix 686 166 PR200 was flying in Linux.

Remember this video? https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1169ku2/unknown_p...

Curious to hear why people pick GPT and Claude over Google (when sometimes you’d think they have a natural advantage on costs, resources and business model etc)?

In my workplace, its availability. We have to use US-only models for government-compliance reasons, so we have access to Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4, but only Gemini 2.5 which isn't in the same class as the first two.

Because Claude is so much more expensive, and I rarely need the best.

gpt-5.4 is really good now also for tricky problems. Just for the unsolvable problems we take opus-4.6. Or if someone pays for it.

Have you used gemini models for code work? Claude and Codex are miles ahead in terms of quality and how thorough they are

You can go forth and back with some chatbots for details like this ("What is it and how is it different to..." etc). But it does a few things. If all you use it for is a generic chatbot for example then it's a huge waste of time for probably a mediocre result. But I'd probably call it an agent orchestration platform that you can interface with via your favourite messaging app. It can run multiple agents that can use skills, but it can also create it's own skills, update itself, write code and use tools (tons of wrappers to things like calendars, messaging etc). Which then really means you can in theory do "most" things but of course there's risks when you have the AI chain tools together and do whatever it wants (if you let it) and lots of people are trying to prompt inject it because a lot of users have connected sensitive accounts (mail, calendar, credentials, crypto stuff etc) to their bots to get maximum usage.

[assuming you work for Meta or a social media company] in theory (and not that debatable IMHO) if the net contribution to society on balance is negative?

Isn’t there tons more, like the note from Andy Jassy at Amazon and the CEO at Airwallex etc? Maybe you can use an ai agent to find all the other big examples? ;-)

Happy birthday!

So cool - built-in internet and UPS :) wonder if it’d be very easy to use it as a remote webcam on a farm as a bit of a fun little project?

I always read that if you keep a phone plugged in for long periods of time, its battery will eventually fail and expand into a spicy pillow, which often deforms the frame, or worse, causes fires.

The solution seems to be removing the battery and keeping it running on the charger.

Definitely, but with just standard playstore apps. You really can't get much hardware access from Andronix/Termux AFAIK so GPS, camera, etc don't work.

Would using native AI apps only prevent this? I think so right?

Which "AI" has a native app?

Or you mean the web sites packed with a copy of chromium?

Correct. The article is about Chrome and MS Edge browser extensions.

Coffee can also be a very social thing right? In Denmark for example (Australia slightly less so) there are lots of social “coffee breaks” at work.