trashcanman

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by trashcanman 3y ago
Lol! and the Sun story was hysterical. Mailing update floppies to a target and letting them install the malware for you. That’s just priceless comedy
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Wow didn’t see that coming. I met him at a HOPE conference with Steve Wozniak. Followed him for years from hacker zine texts distributed on CDs back in the day. Wow that’s really sad what a fun guy he was. His social engineering book was pr
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by trashcanman 3y ago
no but maybe I should lol
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Well it wasn’t paranoia because hours later they released the 16” crowdfund so obviously it was a PR campaign and from the looks of the sales a very successful one. Assuming they aren’t creating false scarcity to feign demand
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by trashcanman 3y ago
We’ll see what the net savings in human hours really are when that experiment concludes
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Not to negate the amazing accomplishments here but, is saved the right word? After all they were saved but only to later die of something else. So prolonged might be more accurate although then you are forced to consider if that’s a good or
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Yes but the AMD design draws double the power even though it was fabbed on a lower process node. I mean it defeats the purpose of a portable. Now you need double the battery weight or lose half the runtime. No, the M2 still wins. If process
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by trashcanman 3y ago
The storage and memory upgrades are expensive and also have a penalty in terms of power. Memory draws the same current regardless of if it’s being used and that is significant. Unified memory is also very different, has much higher bandwidt
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Apple doesn’t verify that purchases from the educational store are from students it’s honor system. Those prices are available to everyone, in small quantities. Sit the 15 inch MBA next to the 16 inch MBP and the screens look identical. Per
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Ok, but that same spec is 1699 plus tax direct from Apple without a discount so the same as frameworks pre built 16 inch option that ships in Q4. If you compare their “build it yourself and bring your own OS” version without memory or stora
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by trashcanman 3y ago
No compare it to the MBA 15 w 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM upgrades and the 70W charger from their educational store + $150 gift card offer. $1575 inc Cali tax
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by trashcanman 3y ago
I’ve seen it firsthand when I shared a doc
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Macbooks use unified memory and ARM SoCs and substantially outperform Intel machines with nearly double the battery life. The MBAs can use two external displays either 4k@120 or 6k@60. There’s also a big usability difference between a 15 an
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Wait you access a google drive document and the user sharing gets your email address. Sketch
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by trashcanman 3y ago
Yes but it’s the only item on the list with a link and really shouldn’t be on the list at all. A laptop with a two hour battery is a long way from perfect. I’ve seen too many of these articles for this to be a coincidence. Pretty sure it’s
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by trashcanman 3y ago
You know 32 core NIB EPYC 7551s are $100 on ebay would make a very nice router w the right mb https://www.ebay.com/itm/394632582514