She might get a video quality downgrade on Netflix because of DRM

This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

Not what I’d call easy. But still neat

Sir I think you have stumbled into the wrong sublemmy

I guess we should also force everyone to use wheelchairs because they are great for paraplegics.

IPC, or instructions per clock. So how many instructions it can process per Hz. And which instructions it supports. For example AVX512 can speed up bulk data processing in specific applications that support it.

With all these complications the only way to really compare CPUs accurately is to benchmark the programs or games you intend to run on them. Obviously this is not realistic so reviewers benchmark a few varied real world programs, games and artificial tests. Those results usually extrapolate fairly well to other, similar software.

Even “heavy” linux distros are easy to run for a pc capable of running and streaming modern games. Lightweight distros are mostly relevant for older or underpowered hardware.

Besides what people already pointed out about individual’s wealth, I also want to mention the US has a lot of debt with other countries and institutions. Those would get very upset if it looks like the government can no longer pay those debts.

Have you checked out https://openrazer.github.io/#devices

I agree. My previous phone was a OnePlus 7 Pro, the last one with a pop-up camera. I only ever used that camera as a party trick, didn’t take a single real photo with it. The only reason I switched to Motorola edge 50 is because the OnePlus hadn’t gotten security updates in 2 years and it’s second battery was also starting to degrade. I’d use an aftermarket ROM but my banking app probably won’t like that. The Motorola is fine I guess. The punch hole doesn’t often get in the way. But it’ll never be quite as cool as the 7 pro…

The easy path to getting storefronts like EA working is through Lutris. It does all the setup for you through guided wizards. I can’t help much with deciding a distro tho, I’ve been using Fedora for years and that works well enough but is not exactly gaming focussed.

I agree but in this case an unlocked bootloader is unlikely to help. These niche devices rarely get good roms

There are benchmarks on the huggingface page. The larger model is close to GPT4o performance. Which makes this worse than deepseek-r1. But it is a smaller model and not a reasoning model (doesn’t use up extra tokens to “think”). So still very impressive and important for open source.

Bleu d’Auvergne

You want us to yell out our credit card details over the phone like the good old days?

Need? No. But hardware acceleration makes things faster and more efficient.

Those cost money too

I’d be more worried about the windows bootloader deciding to overwrite grub

For a company this big it would also have to have gotten past a code review and QA team, right? … right? …

Depends. Since this is security software it probably has a kernel driver component. I think in linux a 3rd party kernel module could do the same. But the community would not accept closed source security software, especially not in the kernel.