Hmm, not sure what you mean. The consumer cards from AMD and Nvidia are still gaming-first, and games utilize new features like ray-tracing and DSS. Speaking as a lifelong PC gamer and current Twitch addict, the industry still seems very healthy.
Games are targeting 3090 or 4090 for decent settings and frame rates. My 2070S is tired as hell. The mid range jumped from $150 to $500 in a couple of years. The enthusiast range jumped from $250 to $1500. That’s painful.
Expensive, but the Omnichord very much comes across as an expensive toy for adults to me in terms of which market it targets. It looks like a heap of fun though and I am happy that my analysis of the name (OM-108) back in December when Midi was unconfirmed was incorrect [1]. Now there is the option to run it through your synthesisers and effects.
Agree with these points, but at 1.5 I'd insert: intimate knowledge of the maps. "Holding angles" is such a profound advantage, and requires knowing the maps inside-and-out.
To me this fits under the game sense category. I don’t think these are really a linear progression. It’s absolutely possible to get much better at “game sense” as a way of compensating for aim that isn’t that great. At high levels, you’ll see pros who can take out cheaters with an aim bot because they know enough about the maps and angles and game mechanics to overcome perfect aim and reaction time.
Super interesting to read everyone's opinions about C&P. I too was force-fed lots of classics in school, and practically always resorted to CliffsNotes. For whatever reason, C&P struck such a chord with me, I "couldn't put it down", won a scholarship writing about it, and got to skip a bunch of Lit classes in college :)
There were many classic novels forced via English class that I actively disliked. Most of Melville gives me an eye twitch to this day. But C&P clicked with me and my friend group. We all loved the weeks we spent on it, discussing in class, and it remains a book I re-read every few years.
This is heresy, but if you skip the chapters in Moby Dick of asides, it's a pretty gripping story. There's a reason why Star Trek keeps stealing Ahab's best lines. I like some of the chapters of asides, but they're really not what makes the book a classic.
Check out Firefox if you need a cross-platform browser that syncs passwords, etc. I use Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS, and I've found Firefox to be my best option.
>I'm pretty sure the Firefox data is E2E encrypted. As in "If you forget your password, your data is gone."
The argument though is that it's not true E2E without the secure enclave. App data can be compromised in many ways. Apple goes to incredible lengths (including burning the root key which cannot be retrieved or reset from outside the enclave into the silicon during manufacturing with no way of them being able to tell what it is) to ensure a chain of trust from the point that anything physically enters the device.
True, but then they also added mandatory key escrow using server-side HSMs with no way to opt out – and these are by their nature much harder to audit than local secure enclaves.
In other words, with Firefox you trust the security of your device, whereas with Apple you trust the security of their entire ecosystem. In most cases, that's probably even a good thing, but I wouldn't exactly label one as strictly better than the other in all scenarios.
I don't think this actually opts you out of key escrow these days. It only replaces SMS-OTP with the recovery key, as far as I understand.
It's impossible to tell, though – Apple's platform security guide has been last updated in April 2022, which predates Advanced Data Protection. (Weirdly they do mention it in the document [1], though, so the date might also be incorrect and they might have added that information since I last looked a year ago.)
At least according to [2], it seems possible to gain access to the encrypted data using the iCloud account password and the passcode/login password of one other device on the iCloud account in any case.
>At least according to [2], it seems possible to gain access to the encrypted data using the iCloud account password and the passcode/login password of one other device on the iCloud account in any case.
But iCloud access is forced to 2FA with one of your signed in devices, which requires the local password (pin, touch id, or face id, all of which never leave the enclave) to approve. There's really no way to get something covered by ADP short of physical device access + a stolen/coerced pin number.
i blame the marketing. i dont want to talk about the historically unencrypted backups nulling so much of what people thought from the ads, it might awaken sneak
RPis are great hobby electronics projects, but IMO they don’t have any benefit for this kind of use over a thin client?
They’re more expensive, you need an extra RPi enclosure and power supply, you can’t use M.2 SSD sticks without an additional USB3 enclosure, they have a history of corrupting flash cards, and their idle power is only a little bit lower.
Can confirm about MicroSD flash cards, they're too unreliable for stuff that must be on 24/7, and get corrupt easily. Good for tinkering projects and media players, not for critical stuff where the downtime needed to pull the card and fsck/reinstall it might not be an option.
I've been running a weather website on a RPi2 since 2014. And it's on the same SD card. MicroSD cards don't get corrupted as much as the interwebz says they do.
It has probably to do with the number of unmanaged power cycles. A hobby electronics project will see many of those. A weather station may only see them when the power in the neighbor goes down.
For something critical, especially one which already involves an external drive, there is zero reason to store your root fs on an SD card. Booting using other methods has been supported for literally years.
That seems pretty similar to this, just swapping out the thin client and pi (and the exact Linux distro, if that matters). Which makes it a trade in all the particulars:), depending on exact price, power use, etc.
