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nipsen t1_jdi8t1x wrote

Reply to comment by financialmisconduct in The Framework Laptop 16 promises the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics. by SUPRVLLAN

Yes and no, so to speak. My dearly bought Thinkbook has it. Any Asus of any price-range. Most HPs made in recent years. Literally anything in a slim form-factor will have this solution with the keyboard being plastic-welded to the top chassis.

Ironically, a lot of the actual consumer-grade shit, like Lenovo Yoga, etc., inherited their design from the old elephant euthanasia brick devices, and have detachable keyboard modules. But it is actually glued and fused to what is doubling as the back panel for the mainboard. Which is also the solution on many of the older IBM-ish Lenovos. The keyboard module itself is not difficult to produce or replace on these devices, and is just attached with a standard ribbon cable. But to actually replace it requires some form of OEM-specific voodoo.

I am told by entirely reliable industry insiders that this is not done to make sure the laptops must be specified to different regions, to maintain these artificial region-offices of these companies, at all. Or that it is one of the few remaining things that can be glued to the laptop, so that when it breaks, the whole thing has to be replaced - meaning that it is a great way to make sure random consumers also buy warranty "deals". I'm told none of these things are involved, at all.

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RBVegabond t1_jdi7l9b wrote

Reply to comment by ifarteditssmelly in Feds Stalked Suspects With an Apple AirTag, Report Says by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1

Yes. If the owner of the tag is in proximity it will relay off the tag and not alert other devices around. This stops annoying things like driving passed someone and it alerting them about proximity, walking in public and alerting everyone. If the person leaves proximity after a while it will alert to let you know in case someone was following you and is no longer there. It’s not going to be immediate if the relay is in proximity, as like you and your mother, there can be a legitimate reason for it being there.

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singingquest t1_jdhxgy4 wrote

Reply to comment by one_classy_broad in Feds Stalked Suspects With an Apple AirTag, Report Says by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1

Not a lawyer, but if the cops had a valid search warrant, then yeah that’s probably legal. Even if they didn’t have a search warrant, it might still be legal. That would maybe depend on things like whether the person of interest was only being tracked in public places, whether the cops themselves physically planted the airtag on the person of interest or his possessions, etc.

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qtzd t1_jdhwbp6 wrote

Reply to comment by Clarkeprops in Feds Stalked Suspects With an Apple AirTag, Report Says by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1

Or any other number of GPS based tracking devices which require no network of devices (like AirTags or Tiles) and don’t alert your phone if they’re tracking you. This is what law enforcement generally uses to track suspects. Throwback to the on Redditor who found one on their friends car years ago and federal agents asked for it back lol

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celaconacr t1_jdhs888 wrote

Reply to comment by Svenskensmat in The Framework Laptop 16 promises the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics. by SUPRVLLAN

It doesn't particularly matter what it maxes out at if the utilisation over time is much lower. e.g. a spike loading a new texture set would potentially have to wait 4 cycles rather than 1 but if there isn't another texture set waiting to be loaded after it's a small hit on performance.

The main bottlenecks for modern graphics cards aren't usually the PCIe lanes. As I put performance tests show it's about a 20% hit on a desktop class card with current games. Before eGPUs existed similar tests were done with GPUs running on 4 and 8 lanes with similar results. The result will vary by game, texture volume and the cards memory. The more memory the card has the less it will use PCIe.

For the future Thunderbolt 5 will be 80Gb/s uni-directional or upto 120 bi-directional so it will be even less of an issue. PCIe 5 will be a similar increase but again is likely low utilisation over time.

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Clarkeprops t1_jdhr7dl wrote

Reply to comment by munkeyears in Feds Stalked Suspects With an Apple AirTag, Report Says by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1

The AirTag is the WORST tracker for stalkers. It has the stalkers personal ID embedded in the device, all the tracking data is stored with apple, and it tells the target that it’s tracking them.

It’s like you’re trying to get caught. Meanwhile, there are devices you can buy that are THE SAME PRICE that do none of those things

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innkeeper_77 t1_jdhouje wrote

Reply to comment by JimNixon in The Framework Laptop 16 promises the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics. by SUPRVLLAN

Oh certainly- but there are important components that would need to be purchased as they are needed for the laptop if you are upgrading- ram, storage, etc.

Old laptop motherboards certainly make more sense to use for small home servers than purpose built hardware though! This would theoretically make a strong reselling market for old framework components, and reduce demand for brand new hardware.

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