I think the bigger issue with Canonical is that their previous open-source projects was developed, dropped in the open, and if you wanted to submit a fix you had to sign a CLA.

That's basically signalling that they didn't really want to cooperate.

A few of their projects was very successful in my opinion. Unity is one of them.

Another big issue is their doubling down on their own thing which is incompatible with everyone else, like them dragging Upstart for years after it was clear they lost to Systemd, and the same with how they Snap everything.

Canonical doesn't listen to its users, Even when they have something good (like early Unity) they make it really hard for anyone else to use, and even harder for anyone else to work on it.
Then after the initial good work, they leave it to stagnate.

Same with Launchpad. Same with Upstart.
Look at the LXD fiasco, their one project that got outside traction somehow affronted them and they killed it off.

There is some really weird culture going on there.

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It's really looking like a second order trend line would match those stats much better.
Or at least a trend line before/after the steam-deck release?

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It's a laudable effort from Canonical to try and harden the linux desktop by using sandboxing as standard.
Just, why do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

True, Snap supports more use cases than either Flatpak or oci, but its such a closed ecosystem that nobody else dares adopt it. So it just develops at a slower pace, and gets less testing. And sits with horrible performance for years, etc...

It's basically the reason I tell people to move off Ubuntu as their snapification of everything is really breaking things.

Frustrating that Ubuntu (Means: Working together well) is not working together.

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More like the M1 interested me in that Apple didn't skimp on the IGP like Intel/AMD does. And the extra RAM bandwidth is interesting. The whole wide and slow thing is great for power management.

When you put it under load, it's efficiency is surprisingly average though.

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Quoting: nondetect

Quoting: grigiSo many people I know absolutely despise anything "AI". (That includes me

Am I correct in understanding that if the new model is a continuation of the 7040/8040 processor series, let's say 9040, you would be fine with that?

The previous naming convention would end up calling these ones 8850/9850. It's a continuation of those models, yes.

It looks like a great CPU, just, I hate the name.

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Honestly, that mobile naming convention... It's terrible.

So many people I know absolutely despise anything "AI". (That includes me)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: grigiDo you have alternative donation platforms than Patreon or once-off paypal?
I honestly don't care about the rewards, I just want as much of my money to arrive at you Liam. (As in the minimum charges).

I'm asking because Patreon has been in the news for taking what many people think is an unfair percentage of fees.

Nope. Every additional platform is more admin/tax work for me. Paypal and Patreon keep it simple and I am personally happy with both.

Cool, so which one should I setup? The one that charges you less fees?

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Do you have alternative donation platforms than Patreon or once-off paypal?
I honestly don't care about the rewards, I just want as much of my money to arrive at you Liam. (As in the minimum charges).

I'm asking because Patreon has been in the news for taking what many people think is an unfair percentage of fees.

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I looked at that video...

I'm confused now...

:woot:

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: grigi* 6-8 cores (no need to go above 8) that's very power optimized

afaik, runing 1 core at 4ghz consume way more power than 2 cores at 2 ghz, so maybe increasing the ammount of cores might be a good idea

Agreed, 4 cores is fine for the current deck, but it would need more for deck2.

Issue is that even with this times of fat multithreading, games still needs a fast single core.

But having 8 zen5c optimized for power, would easily be >3 times as powerful in the same power budget. Note that the zen2 cluster in the Deck is a bit gimped, it doesn't clock well, and due to the memory controller configuration suffers from memory latency issues where the cores just use more power for no performance gain when going over 80% of their rated clockspeed (which is already low).

So I was suggesting to just take that further, as in optimizing for power a little harder would be I think a better solution.

Note the *c cores are basically BIG cores, just power optimized. So don't clock as high. I think currently the 4c cores are about 60% of the area, performs identically clock-for-clock, but delivers only 80% of the clock-speed. All whilst pulling less power at every performance point.
So Assuming they use a core optimized in the same way, you could get a significant speedup in the same low power budget that a handheld would have.

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