Why Villains Never Use iPhones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7i3y3Wb4LY

Cat, I Farted (and Other Branding Catastrophes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXA0ocSZhI

Watch This BEFORE You Buy a Monitor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEAyY9dzAZ0

The M3 iMac Isn't for me (or you...)

Apple's iMac strategy doesn't make sense.  The iMac used to be a top-of-the-line computer, but now they want you to buy a Mac Studio with a separate display that costs as much as an iMac.

As far as the iMac is concerned, there is no way I would go from a gorgeous 27-inch 5K display to a 24-inch 4K display.  The smaller iMac is not intended for pro users.  It would make a good family computer, but the lack of x86 compatibility is a serious drawback.

The M3 Pro chip benchmarks almost the same as the Ryzen 9 7940hs computer I paid just $640 for.  The base model M3 iMac starts at $1299.

Apple can only charge so much because, for some unfathomable reason, people are still buying their products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRnyLbDe3yk&t=461s

People Are Doing Something Very Dark With AI-Generated Jesus, Expert Warns

To be clear, the various talking Jesuses posted by the Daily Believer account don't seem to be asking people for money in the vein of its evangelical predecessors, but the videos do ask viewers for something almost as good and well within TikTok's rules: comments, subscriptions, and shares, a sort of unholy trinity [!!!] for the streaming set.

Those who believe in God, the robotized white Jesus tells viewers, will get everything their heart desires — as long as they comment "I believe" and send videos to friends.

And if they don't, they may be subject to God's wrath, because one of the Daily Believer's animated Jesuses reminds viewers in its most popular video — "Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-jesus-tiktok

I don't think that many religious people would take this seriously.

How Qualcomm Outpaced Apple: The Battle For Chip Speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68RE0M8zhk

We're Running Out of Sand to Make CPUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgcxGmbCTpQ

Apple versus AMD

Apple's top of the line phone is twice as powerful as my 2017 iMac. It also costs more. That seems like overkill, although I'm kind of impressed.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+A17+Pro&id=5683

My new AMD Ryzen 9 7940hs mini-computer is five times faster than the 2017 iMac. According to Geekbench, the new Apple M3 chip is 1% slower than the AMD chip, although that doesn't compare the extra functionality on both chips, like graphics and AI.

Apple has more powerful versions of the M3. However, the base model M3 laptop starts at $1600. Apple products are not cost effective, at least not compared to AMD. If you want Apple products then you pay more.

It was just 10 months ago that everyone went orgasmic over the new M2 Mac Mini. However, you couldn't upgrade the computers once you bought them, and the $600 base model came with inadequate memory and storage. Apple charged a fortune to get better specs. This looked like a scam to me.

Minisforum UM790 Pro 7940HS Mini PC

My new (mini) computer has impressed me so far. On paper, it runs five times faster than my 2017 iMac. Although certain apps, like chess-playing programs, don't run five times faster (because adding more cores does not produce a linear improvement), the computer is a multitasking beast. Not only does it have 8 processor cores, but hyperthreading gives it 16 logical cores. I have tried to slow it down by having 14 cores doing computationally intensive tasks, and the computer handles it with no problem.

This is a different experience than my 2017 iMac which would slow to a crawl if I tried to do something computationally intensive on all four cores. (I'm not sure if some of this improvement is due to Windows 11. I noticed that Windows 10 uses a lot of CPU power just for the Operating System and so far that is not the case with Windows 11.)

I've seen some evidence of thermal throttling if I push the processor, but it is not bad. The fan can get a little noisy. Hypothetically, if the same processor were in a bigger case it could have a better cooling system and maybe be overclocked.

It might be a different experience if I were gaming which is one of the features of the Ryzen 9 7940hs processor, because it has the graphics cores built into it. There is no need for a separate graphics card, which makes the computer cheaper, but it will not be as good as a $1200 to $1500 gaming computer.

I saved $60 by ordering it from Ali Express (in China), but then I had to wait five weeks for it to get here. Now the manufacturer has a Halloween sale with $60 off, but the company is also in China. However, Amazon also has it listed for $60 off.

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um790-pro?variant=43865372786933

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The end of Apple Silicon’s reign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=honVlz3wn_k

Back in January 2023, people went orgasmic over the "inexpensive" M2 Mac Mini.  However, this seems like a scam because the computer is not upgradeable, and you have to pay dearly to get decent specs.

I just bought a UM790 Pro with the Ryzen 9 7940hs processor.  Not only does the chip trounce the M2, but the computer has four times the memory and storage and is upgradeable.

Slow Windows 10/Minisforum UM790 Pro

Has Windows 10 gotten slower lately? I noticed the same thing with Mac OS. This could be due to security updates, which put more burden on the computer. In addition, Windows Defender sometimes runs in the background making the computer slower.

In late May I had problems with my 2017 iMac and had to reinstall MacOS and Windows 10. During the repair process, I used my somewhat slow laptop as my main computer, but I was impressed at how well it ran Windows. However, I tried the laptop the other day, and it seemed sluggish. I also noticed that the iMac was sluggish.

Fortunately, I recently bought a new mini-computer. It uses the recently released 4-nanometer AMD 7940hs processor with a whopping 8 cores and 16 threads. Compared to my other computers, it is ridiculously fast. This is also my first computer that uses SSD for storage. SSDs are very fast and have been around for a while, but they became much more affordable this year.

I waited for the computer to go on sale and ordered it from China to save money. However, I had to wait 6 weeks for it to ship from China. I just noticed that it is on sale on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7V29HBQ?th=1

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

Pi | Don McMillan Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb57fOW8ois

HP is scraping the bottom of the barrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACX_VfsjkZA

Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus

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From: Albert

It's interesting how he thought we would have a workstation at home that would connect to the mainframe. A desktop/laptop PC can do this using the internet, but operate independently using software. Imagine if someone told him, the workstation idea would fit in your pocket and be taken for granted as your phone because it would be part of your mobile smartphone.

It was a good statement about the future. Are we better off as a society? We should be, but are we?

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 8:48 PM John wrote:
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> https://youtu.be/sTdWQAKzESA?si=0lCYAN1EtSkc9nBF

One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus

https://youtu.be/sTdWQAKzESA?si=0lCYAN1EtSkc9nBF

Pytorch opens way for AMD

How AMD May Get Across the CUDA Moat (hpcwire.com)

Darth Vader sings My Way (AI Cover)

https://youtu.be/tvuPqDxdUzM?si=Gm9s95_IUEKemTtX

Diamond Mike – Timex/Sinclair Computers

This is a videogame I wrote in 1985.  I thought that it was lost forever.  I had given away my Timex Sinclair stuff to my cousin when I moved to Utah in 1993.  I wish that I had kept it.  She said that eventually the computer died.

I contacted the website manager and asked him to look out for the game. He not only found a copy but sent me the tape from 38 years ago!

He made a downloadable online version.  I tried to run it using an emulator.  With the emulator, I was having trouble getting the controls to work.

https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/diamond-mike/

The Atari ST version I wrote in 1986 looks better but is essentially the same game.  I have a copy of this, but no hardware to run it on.

I made money on this stuff in the mid-1980s but eventually had to get a real job.

My 7940hs computer order

The problem with trying to order from Ali Express to save money is that they can slow to deliver the products. My past purchases took between 2.5 to 5 weeks to arrive.

I ordered this computer four weeks ago today. They claimed that they were offering a guaranteed on time delivery of a week ago.

Unity Backpedals And Apologizes. Is in full damage control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Mo-luiMcA

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized]

I don't recommend watching more than a minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

This video brings back memories.  There was an editor war among computer programmers in the late 1980s and 1990s.  Two of the factions were "VI" and "Emacs".  I heard plenty of arguments for both.  I was forced to learn "VI" on the job in 1988, which is so complex that I wouldn't recommend anyone try to learn it.  However, once I got past the learning curve, I really liked it and I still use it.

The problem is that these editors are complex systems with many powerful features that are difficult to learn.  You can write code that changes how the editors work.   They were born out of a previous era where graphical user interfaces didn't exist, but programmers still wanted powerful editing features.   However, if all you wanted to do was edit text, these editors were overkill by a very wide margin.

Thanks to modern graphical user interfaces, there are editors that are simple to use, like Visual Studio Code, which still have all the features a computer programmer could want.

My computer order is delayed (due to COVID?)

This is what I get for ordering from China.  I ordered from Ali Express to save some money. 

However, the manufacturer is in China anyway.  I could have ordered from the manufacturer and still faced the same delays.

I ordered this computer 23 days ago. The estimated delivery day was September 12th. There has been no tracking information, although the Ali Express app claims that the computer is still in China and that there are delays.

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Do you have any information about if the computer has left China or when it will be delivered?

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This was advertised as "Guaranteed On Time Delivery." This led me to believe that the delivery would take 3 weeks.

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The End Of The Smartphone Is Near

https://youtu.be/qEdyIvbzohs?si=Unu83oeTdQWpDbhU

Apple Built The Vision Pro to FAIL, and it's GENIUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNEni_DP4fY

Realistically, the amount of hardware needed to make this work is not going to fit in an unobtrusive pair of glasses.  Not in this decade.  Maybe in the next one.

Flipper Zero WiFi Hacking (Rogue AP)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lci63yMBNEI

Computer ordered

Ali Express has a sale that started last night.  This computer usually sells for $700.

I am buying another computer because this new model has a new 4-nanometer chip that is five times faster than my 2017 iMac.  For some tasks like compiling code, my iMac seems slow.  The new computer uses an AMD APU that has the graphics built into the CPU.  This makes it just good enough for playing games without having to buy a graphics card costing hundreds of dollars.

I already bought a 27-inch 1440P monitor to use with this computer, which I got off of Facebook Marketplace for $50.  I had to drive all the way to Noblesville to get the monitor.

I have been wanting a powerful AMD APU ever since new video game systems came out in 2019 featuring powerful custom AMD APUs.  It took them this long to come out with a powerful AMD APU for home computers.

Horrible design of Apple's soldered in SSDs; it's WORSE than you thought!

https://youtu.be/RYG4VMqatEY

Phone Store Extortion | Jim Gaffigan

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o9EswhAoGjI

What is DIMM and SO-DIMM Slot? | Samsung India

In notebooks , Small outline Dual Input Memory Module (SO-DIMM) slots are used since there is lack of space in smaller and compact devices. SO-DIMM slots takes half the space in comparison to DIMM slots, but they draw higher power than its bigger variant

https://www.samsung.com/in/support/computing/what-is-dimm-and-so-dimm-slot/

The mini-pc I want to but uses so-dimm memory.