Interesting Tech Articles

[Definitions2]

Why does this, and many of your other posts sound like AI generated?

Hmm I wonder who's a 🇧ot
Where's Sherlock? Anybody seen him?

[mevinyavin]

https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-microsofts-lawsuit-against-the-linux-based-lindows-os/

[WayBackMachine]

https://yvoloshin.github.io/php/2018/01/20/why-does-php-speak-hebrew/

Good luck BSD most servers run on PHP
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language


this is cool

https://onlinephp.io/

[mevinyavin]

Not saying much but I enjoyed his writing style.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/chatgpt-is-leaking-again-we-shouldnt-be-surprised-but-we-should-be-disturbed

[mevinyavin]

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-does-the-cold-affect-laptops/

[Moshe Green]

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-does-the-cold-affect-laptops/

how cold does the storage area of a plane get?

[mevinyavin]

how cold does the storage area of a plane get?

Do you take the lithium-ion battery out of the laptop (because of the rules) and then put it in your suitcase?
Though TBH I've been wondering about the creation of condensation in products packed under the plane and then taken out to bake in the sunlight.

[Moshe Green]

Do you take the lithium-ion battery out of the laptop (because of the rules) and then put it in your suitcase?
Though TBH I've been wondering about the creation of condensation in products packed under the plane and then taken out to bake in the sunlight.

i usually take the battery out and bring them with me in my carry on. But many don't.

[mevinyavin]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2254480/10-things-i-would-never-do-as-an-it-professional.html
Read: 10 things I would never do because I am paranoid (though some are sensible)
Note (because I am racist): written by a German

[mevinyavin]

It appears to be official: Apple has fixed the problems with the slowdown occurring on 8GB models of M2 laptops - on the M3, they shouldn't occur.

https://www.neowin.net/news/apple-m3-macbook-air-base-model-now-comes-with-a-faster-ssd/

[AsherO]

It appears to be official: Apple has fixed the problems with the slowdown occurring on 8GB models of M2 laptops - on the M3, they shouldn't occur.

https://www.neowin.net/news/apple-m3-macbook-air-base-model-now-comes-with-a-faster-ssd/

Just spend another $2k upgrading lol.

[mevinyavin]

Just spend another $2k upgrading lol.

There was never a need to spend 2K. You simply needed to upgrade to either 16GB of RAM or to 512GB SSD. But now you don't need to upgrade from the base model.

[mevinyavin]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/the-five-best-intel-cpus-of-all-time-chipzillas-rise-and-fall-and-rise
Officially an article on the 'best' five Intel processors, but has a lot of background on the Intel-AMD chip wars.

[Definitions2]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/once-too-scary-to-release-gpt-2-gets-squeezed-into-an-excel-spreadsheet/

[mevinyavin]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2267257/caution-these-pc-noises-are-warning-signals.html

[mevinyavin]

[aygart]

Here they think they have the real reason, but DDF knows better!

They say that if you bury your electronics in rice and leave them overnight, the rice will attract Orientals who will come and fix your device for you.

[mevinyavin]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Next-Apple-Watch-may-detect-drowning-and-alert-nearby-devices-suggests-new-patent.826528.0.html

[mevinyavin]

The first laptop with the version of CAMM that is supposed to replace SODIMM (laptop RAM) is now on the market.
https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-unveils-its-new-ai-ready-thinkpad-p1-gen-7-mobile-workstation/