After seeing this i was like “this reminds me of something…” and I TOTALLY forgot about the OLPC!!!! Damn. It’s been awhile

> generally useless

Firefox now has JavaScript JIT acceleration for their RISC-V builds. Most of what I do is in the browser (and all of it could be in the browser) so doesn't seem generally useless to me.

I think I’ve seen posts like this every year for the past 15 years

I don't know. No one does, after many, many years. I mean, other than screwing over competition with legal wrangling.

The joke is that Intel has very literally stalled or outright managed to crush several attempts to put x86 instruction set emulators and cisc-implementations on various RISC-computers, now that the instruction set level storage is no longer prohibitively expensive on a computation unit. The actual legal details of this ongoing feud is so sordid and ridiculous at the same time, that in several cases even completely blank judges have decided the arguments don't hold up. But at the moment, if you wanted to do cisc-type optimisation of an x86 emulation engine, whether this is programmable instruction sets or not, this runs afoul Intel's definition of PC. So does chip-constructions that simply store instruction sets on general computation cores.

So there is in a sense still a requirement that an abstraction of a RISC-implementation cannot actually use x86 instruction sets at all. Which is why it is such a big deal that google throws it's weight behind a general Risc-v abstraction layer, in an attempt to make this a full ecosystem. I'm sure Intel will stick to the existing market forever in the same way. And surely there will be endless amounts of lawsuits coming the instant someone figures out how to emulate x86 VMs with any speed on Risc-V architectures. And at this point I wouldn't even be surprised if Intel will claim that any architecture technically capable of execution an emulated x86 instruction set in hardware will infringe on this utility of the x86 instruction set Intel has defined as a PC.

Anyway - at some point Intel will be gone, and this idiocy will end. But judging by how it's being done now, it won't end until the company is bankrupt.

None of the terms you wrote there make any sense. And the rest is at best just false.

But if it helps you support something that doesn't suck the air out of the global integrated curcuit market, with the great power of your opinon on the Internet -- sure, buddy. I'm sure it'll be great for the Internet of Things..

Seriously, though -- what in the world do you mean with any of that?

The last Era of pc gaming being cost effective

They ever fix their thermal paste issue?

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Keep in mind motherboards these days have a lot built in compared to older boards. 150-200 bucks for a well equipped board isn't that much of an ask, and it's been 8 years since I built my own rig.
Anyway, other than the SSD I would buy everything used anyway. Why pay bleeding edge prices when everything is going to be "obsolete" in a couple months?

The original post is not about SBC it's about modular laptops. No one is saying riscv SBC would not be a big market. The whole thread was about laptops and their marketplace.

But you need 25 power phases and wifi 6e+

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The best way to make the NY law irrelevant is to pass a decent Federal law.

Second best is probably just to pass a decent law in California so the tech companies all have to follow it anyway. If Apple is forced to do something with brief hardware/software for CA customers they aren’t going to do it differently for other states.

China can also use MIPS since that ISA was also made open source.

Get a pop socket- holding your phone that way causes actual vascular and neurological changes to your pinky and people are starting to need hand surgery for ut

Crimson Typhoon?

Full vid clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSTnEpW7Q0&list=LL&index=67

Heeeey you guys should try bringing down the price of a mid tier mobo from $270

What the hell is that

I've always wondered how double opposable thumbs would work.

Price of housing has little to do with construction prices I'm afraid, though this is still an important tech.

This is really what it comes down to.

There's a sweet spot of ads - just an uninvasive sidebar jpeg image that doesn't move or flash or scroll or actually invade the content space - that while sometimes weird, isn't actually invasive enough to justify using adblockers.

Adblock for me became a godsend because of bullshit pop-ups and scrolling menu ads, strobe effects/non-ADA compliance, jarring sounds, and crippling browser speeds with long embedded videos back in the day when computational resources were way more important when doing basic multitasking.

I'll usually turn them off on small community websites if they're not placed grossly, because I want those communities to keep existing. But that's really on the community and site owner to make sure they're not being dicks about them.

1. Laptop/Tablet (mobile) form factor.
2. Ubuntu/Windows (software) accessibility.
3. Low-price (affordability) that allows penetration into mass deployments first like schools or enterprise.

It checks two of the boxes out of three, not holding breath for Windows support but System76's Pop!_OS is a fork of Ubuntu and from someone that sells hardware - if we can all come together and focus on one distro like Asahi Linux on macOS systems then this would be a go like the growth of Chromebooks which is lesser than the adoption of Ubuntu based devices outside of US (like India) because when a central body buy for others (Institutions, Governments…) they want the most viable (or cheapest) price-to-performance ratio without the marketing shenanigans.

Tl;dr – OS would determine the state of its success, support can quickly build up wherever the numbers are if it gradually builds up its userbase. Enough numbers, then Microsoft wouldn't be too far away too in the future of Cloud systems.

This is what it looks like when the GPU manufacturers fuck over the entire industry.

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Arbitrarily increasing the price of a PC build by several hundred dollars/euros/pounds whatever has meant that untold thousands of planned PC builds will have been shelved worldwide. Especially in this economy.

Who’s got got two thumbs and the world at their fingertips? Not this guy’s cousin…

And no decent graphics card available why would you bother upgrading you motherboard