Recent content by DukenukemX

I don't blame VW for what they did. Australia is more lenient towards NOx which allowed engines to run leaner. As a Corvette owner I basically copied their feature to get lean cruise mode in my American Vette. It does create more NOx, but it also gets you a 40mpg Corvette. Though I put a cam...

The vote passes. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet.html "In a 3-to-2 vote along party lines, the five-member commission appointed by President Biden revived the rules that declare broadband a utility-like service regulated like phones and water. The...

I've seen ceramic bearings, but not ceramic ball bearings. I'd imagine that would also cause the engine to wear out sooner. There are manufacturers like Toyota who made engines with less tighter piston rings, which again increase MPG but also causes the engine to burn oil and eventually wear...

It could be true, but this might one of those situations where we get more fuel efficiency but at the cost of these engines not lasting. There are a number of ways to make an engine more efficient, but they always comes at a cost. A lot of engines like the ones found in the Prius have the...

Hold my beer. Apple hasn’t seen numbers that low since 2017. Makes sense when iPhone 15 is just an iPhone 14 Pro, while iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are having over heating issues. It doesn't help that the iPhone 15's aren't compelling upgrades for owners of older iPhones...

Why an Intel and not an M-Series based machine? Someone at Apple screwed up.

Big surprise, the Snapdragon Elite X is lying through their teeth. https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/24/1432240/qualcomm-is-cheating-on-their-snapdragon-x-elitepro-benchmarks https://www.semiaccurate.com/2024/04/19/what-is-qualcomms-purwa-x-pro-soc/ "The rest of the 'disclosure' for...

From a really recent review, it has a lot of problems. Mutahar explains some things that reviewers seem to have left out. Like there's no multi-monitor while using the Vision Pro, without paying extra for an app that does this. It also doesn't feed the Macbooks audio to the headsets speakers...

Apple's iPhone sales dropped 19% in China due to Huawei gaining 69% nice market share increase. Ain't looking good for Apple investors. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/apple-iphone-sales-drop-19percent-in-china-as-huawei-demand-soars-counterpoint.html

Doesn't look like the Vision Pro is selling well after all. Ain't the only thing falling sharply for Apple recently. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments/ "Orders have been scaled back before the Vision Pro has launched in markets outside of the United States...

This isn't something new, and has been going on for over a decade. The problem is that AMD and Intel don't hold motherboard manufacturers accountable for playing with their CPU's in order to get consumers to "buy the better motherboard". If AMD and Intel sell them a chipset then they better...

If you're in a corporate environment then you have distros with support like Red Hat. As an end user, Microsoft doesn't provide support. I get more support from visiting Ubuntu's forums or even Linux Mint's compared to anything from Microsoft. Yea but Apple didn't exactly adopt any standard...

Here's a really good video that explains the creation of the Z80. You'll find the name Federico Faggin in a lot of products that we still use today, including Intel 8080, which big surprise is what the Z80 is based on. Talking about a guy who's responsible for the Intel 4004 as well as...

Dude says it better than me.

When you break down a distro you start to see a lot of similarities. How many distros use SystemD? How many use Mesa for graphics? We know they all use the Linux kernel. The things that do change are UI's, settings, preinstalled applications, and defaults. Some distros go much further like...