Google is certainly planning on it being viable.

They’ve been merging RISC-V support in Android and have documented the minimum extensions over the base ISA that must be implemented for Android certification

Yeah, that’s bizarre. I’d never have guessed /home was created by tmpfiles

Starting with the iPhone 14, they put the last generation processor in the non-pro and the current generation processor in the pro

The weird thing here is that the 15 non-pro (the new processor from the 14 gen - A16) has a faster NPU than the M1 processor that does support the AI feature

The only possible technical reason is because they put such an anemic amount of RAM in their phones. Otherwise it’s entirely an artificial limitation

Running top of the line models does require a lot of RAM, so it’s not an entirely ridiculous theory.

The one I run on my desktop needs at least 12 gigs of VRAM

There are reasonably frequent rebuilds of basically all packages as new versions of the compiler, gcc, come in

To expand - DirectX is a proprietary Windows solution. Any time you pick it on Linux, it will run through a translation layer

OpenGL/Vulkan are cross-platform

OpenGL is to DirectX 11 as Vulkan is to DirectX 12

Microsoft kept the same branding, but also followed in Vulkans/Metals footsteps of using lower level calls to the hardware. This makes the graphics drivers simpler, and can be way more performant because the CPU doesn’t have to do as much

The RK3588 is pretty nifty, and is the first Mali GPU (610) where ARM themselves have contributed the firmware upstream and have helped with Collabora with Panfrost development

Bleeding edge, still, but kernel 6.10 and Mesa 24.1 have GPU support

HDMI TX and DSI/CSI are still in-progress

Sure. I just think this might be the first time that the current iPhone would be missing a feature on the next iOS update

I’d guess most iPhone 15 owners would have assumed their phone was new enough for the feature

One thing to note is that they announced Apple intelligence is only coming to the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max for their iOS release

I’m working off the assumption you are using one GPU for the host and one for the guest

The guest one is permanently blacklisted on the host, and you can select the passthrough settings in the GUI

If you’re dynamically detaching the GPU, my statement was incorrect

Not to mention that even in the 60’s Nixon’s cabinet has stated he specifically started the war on drugs and marijuana in order to imprison black people and anyone against the war.

“We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

If your motherboard supports it, it’s really easy

Ensure IOMMU is enabled and run the little script in section 2.2 to see if you can isolate the graphics card

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

After that, you can do everything in the virtual-manager GUI

If you’re relying on iMessage for privacy, ensure you and everyone you’re messaging have gone to iCloud settings and enabled “Advanced Data Protection”

Yeah, just wanted to make sure people knew this wasn’t some new thing. It’s been going on since at least the 90’s, and I’d bet if you found someone older, they’d say it’s been going on longer

Not that it’s better, but it’s not new

I did something similar as a kid in the 90’s at a papa johns

My assumption is that because “the state claimed the rights” for that specific book makes me think this is a special case in their laws

Can a US state or the federal government claim the right to someone else’s writing?

The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?

I always assumed that was just the US copyright system

I can’t say for all of them, I just knew that e.g. the z790 chipset still ran the ethernet phy, audio dsp, SPI, their version of TrustZone, etc through the chipset

https://www.funkykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/intel-z790-chipset-diagram.jpg

If you have the block diagrams for the laptop ones, I’d be curious

I enjoy that they literally did. The article says the OTA update is just to ignore a hardware sensor

Which begs the question, why was that sensor needed originally?

I haven’t looked that closely at laptop CPUs

My guess would be partially because there are fewer possible interfaces, and they’re directly connecting the CPU to a separate Ethernet/WiFi MAC, USB hub controller, and audio DSP rather than having a separate chipset arbitrating who’s talking to the CPU and doing some of those functions?

For most intents and purposes

SoC is from the embedded system development world - as more and more coprocessors were being put into the same chip to consolidate board space and power efficiency, it wasn’t “just” a cpu - it had the CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and other coprocessors in one

x86 has moved a lot closer to this architecture over the years, but you still generally have a separate chipset controller on the motherboard the CPU interfaces with