Red Falcon
[H]ard DCOTM December 2023
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This is ridiculous!
I can't even run it on my PC...
ARM is the future, baby!
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This is ridiculous!
I can't even run it on my PC...
Apparently. I have a couple of ARM based system, a Pi 4 and an Odroid N2+ both built to run emulators, I love em.ARM is the future, baby!
Apparently. I have a couple of ARM based system, a Pi 4 and an Odroid N2+ both built to run emulators, I love em.
Its funny, a friend of mine about 10 years ago told me that ARM was the future, I didn't believe him, but here we are!
Well at least when compared to 10 year old Intel hardware. The pi 4 is surprisingly competitive with a 2500k at stock speed for a fraction power usage.ARM is the future, baby!
Hybrid on my side. But yeah, for small and medium business it’s hard to argue against it.Business outcomes - tie it straight to revenue, even COGS. Servers and apps deliver a business outcome. Cloud services do so to, and do so very easily. That's the problem - why run a DC when you don't need to? Folks do, sure - but lots don't. I sell enterprise IT for on-prem workloads, and even I can see that the majority of the future is cloud built. Too much overhead if you don't need on-prem.
Yep. And enterprise will always have some on prem, but it’s shrinking.Hybrid on my side. But yeah, for small and medium business it’s hard to argue against it.
Just wait until Nvidia buys ARM, all that money for R&D, ARM is going to really take off in the next 5-10 years.Well at least when compared to 10 year old Intel hardware. The pi 4 is surprisingly competitive with a 2500k at stock speed for a fraction power usage.
for cutting edge single thread performance, I’m not really seeing arm close much ground. For performance per watt, Arm is a serious contender.
You ever setup an FTP before? You can setup multiple users to share only what you want them to see. Of course FTP is stored remotely though no remote execution. I don't know what locking is.Uh, no. FTP is a protocol with put/pull, and that's... really it. Cloud storage, in the concepts being discussed here, has locking, sharing, multiple access points simultaneously, active access while stored remotely, remote execution, etc.
I'm not even sure how that's done on cloud storage, unless that's a feature of excel and not the cloud itself. Keep in mind that you arguing these small details is just proving my point in that it's just someone else's computer. FTP is just one example, as there's also NAS.Show me how to have 15 people editing a excel file simultaneously with FTP - I'm curious - because that's a business outcome. Same for source code with git and github (which is a different variety of cloud storage).
Doesn't explain why TPM is needed and what it does.They choose to make it optional. They can, and do, use it if you want to and it's present. Microsoft made a different choice. Not saying it's the right choice, but I understand the choice and what they're trying to accomplish (at least publicly).
That's a lie and you know that.And you know that FTP is not the same as cloud enabled filesystems or storage.
Sounds like Microsoft being cheap is going to get very expensive for them.Dropping support for older architectures for financial reasons is what places that are driven by revenue do. 5 year refresh cycle - Kaby Lake came out in 2016. No business revenue behind it, and consumer revenue is smaller than business (at least those who care - like us - who get their licenses far under MSRP).
That's explaining what TPM is, not what TPM does for Windows 11.See above. Same reason - separate processor with limited API interaction (at the hardware level) is more secure than a general purpose application that is queried, even at Ring 0, because a writable application can be corrupted - a read only (or limited access) device that just holds keys is more reliable. And no, I'm pointing out that the majority of users won't care, or notice a difference - because they ~won't~. There's a reason that key-exchange systems are still used today - and why most root CAs (the true roots, not the intermediates that provide signing responses) are run the way they are.
Offline? Kinda what Microsoft isn't doing with Windows 11 install.Question - you might understand this better if you can answer this: What state is a Root CA kept at? (These are the root CA's that are listed in MSFT and Linux root Cert stores and distributed with the OSes or browsers (Firefox, for one, and I know Chrome was looking at their own root store)).
FTP is old and insecure so nobody would really use it for anything serious. Doesn't mean there aren't other similar tools that do the same. I use FTP as a point in that this Cloud Storage is very old.Uh, no. Not quite. One is leveraged into business outcomes and drives revenue - the other is a tool. I sell enterprise IT. No one even thinks about FTP, outside of basic log offload/backup offload from small tools (see: VMware NSX-T offloading config backups to SFTP, other vmware tools, etc that do the same. Small text files. Also support uploads).
Lots of idiots out there.But people pay literal millions of dollars for OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, etc.
It’s a feature of excel you can do that via simple SMB share too cloud has nothing to do with it. The process involves selective locks on tables, cells, or sheets as users interact with them. Though when synced back to office 365 it then does give extra options with auto save and revision tracking so you can do full file audits incase bad things happen, or depending on what functionality levels you can encrypt specific parts so say User A can edit anything, but B can only edit sheets 3-5 but user C only sees sheets 3 and 5 but they show up as sheets 1&2 to them and they don’t even know those other sheets exist.I'm not even sure how that's done on cloud storage, unless that's a feature of excel and not the cloud itself. Keep in mind that you arguing these small details is just proving my point in that it's just someone else's computer. FTP is just one example, as there's also NAS.
Honestly, the best "TPM 2.0 module" you can buy is a Ryzen 5950X, and I highly recommend going that route both to stay in Microsoft's good graces, and stay out of their crosshairs as Windows 11 slowly and inevitably becomes mandatory.Welp I have a Ryzen 1700x so no 11 for me. My motherboard does have a 20 pin header for a TPM module though. Will adding one let me install Window 11? If so can anyone recommend where to buy a reliable TPM 2.0 module?
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Got my answer. Also scalpers suck!
Yeah. I'd like an explanation for this as well. I understand it can work with BitLocker, but really how many home users are using full-disk encryption? Seems like a business features that most users wouldn't even understand.That's explaining what TPM is not what TPM does for Windows 11.
This is ridiculous!
I can't even run it on my PC...
I thought most cloud-based solutions used WebDAV for syncing stead of FTP or SFTP?I think we are getting in the weeds here. FTP is obviously an ancestor of cloud storage, of course there have been advancements in recent years.
But if you take something simple like the original DropBox, or even MegaUpload, no, it is basically an FTP server. You upload a file to a remote computer and download it from somewhere else. Not that different.
That makes sense... before the pandemic hit and the price of computer hardware got jacked up. Not that I would upgrade just for Windows 11 because I could ride Windows 10 for years before I need to upgrade and that's what most people are going to do. Microsoft turned Windows 10 into the next Windows XP.Honestly, the best "TPM 2.0 module" you can buy is a Ryzen 5950X, and I highly recommend going that route both to stay in Microsoft's good graces, and stay out of their crosshairs as Windows 11 slowly and inevitably becomes mandatory.
Is this a joke? I get wiping Windows 10 machines, though I can see lots of lawsuits with that one, but Linux and iOS devices? Microsoft ain't God.If anyone remembers the "upgrade-gate" of Windows 10 where they force-installed 10 over Windows 7 and 8 PC's without permission, in the middle of the night, even if you had updates disabled, well Microsoft could take that one step further with Windows 11 and just start wiping harddisks for any PC caught running *any OS* without TPM 2.0 capability - even Windows Enterprise SKU's, even Linux. Fuckem. Let's get stupid. And it sickens me the way I'd have to be with them 100% of the way. Gabe Newell's Athlon64 PC running Ubuntu? WIPE. Oprah Winfrey's iPad Mini? WIPE. Miley Cyrus' RING doorbell cam? WIPE.
I've successfully made Linux Mint installs look like Windows 10 with no backlash from the users. Fixed a laptop for my friend and he doesn't know it's Linux Mint 20. He just uses it to browse the web and play games off RetroArch.Honestly, if you are a Linux noob you could be infinitely more productive with a Pi 4 running Twister OS that's skinned to look exactly like Win10 rather than running WoR.
Full disk encryption is kinda tricky as it usually slows down your PC while also making data recovery more difficult. With most PC's using SSD's this might not be as much of a concern but god forbid grandma forgot her login password and can't get her family photos. Most users don't even have a password to log in their PC, because most users aren't using it for business. I don't even encrypt and password lock my Android phone because I want whoever finds my phone to use it because I can track it and even remote control it as a method to recover my phone. Plus I'm not stupid enough to store sensitive data on my phone that can be easily lost, broken, or stolen.Yeah. I'd like an explanation for this as well. I understand it can work with BitLocker, but really how many home users are using full-disk encryption? Seems like a business features that most users wouldn't even understand.
Problem is, Windows runs a plethora of stuff they don't want, with new variants being released weekly in the tens of thousands. The OS is far from perfect, with a 50/50 touch/desktop UI but not really excelling at either, a bloody horrible updating mechanism, and then there's Microsoft as a company that are trying harder and harder to lock users into things like 'non limited accounts' - Which is Microsoft manipulative lingo for Microsoft account.No one said ignorant or stupid - if it runs their programs, doesn't run stuff they don't want (especially malware), and does so at a decent rate and performance, mission done.
Furthermore, just who's computer is it?
I've heard this argument for years. Reality is that if you use the classic Win 9X start menu (you know, the one that everyone on H was whined about 7 removing), it took more space once you had enough folders.Yeah, there's always someone that thinks the year of the Linux desktop is a rolling joke - The reality is the desktop OS market is disheveled and dying. I look at Windows 10 in it's current fat fingered iteration making poor use of screen real estate, I look at MacOS and the fact that with every release it's looking more like iOS, and I understand that the desktop OS as people know it is in it's death throws.
So harp on about the year of the Linux desktop all you like, pretty soon it just may be the only true desktop OS option available.
Presumably they can run windows too. Is it 2025? Maybe you intend to use the same CPU until the day you die, but as of now, the average age of PCs, in the usa, are just over 4 years. Mine is 6 and the only reason I consider updating it is because of Intel bugs...and I've thought of doing that long before i knew there was a Windows 11 that may or may not support my CPU.Is my AMD FX 8350 a joke to you? Actually I got two of them. They already run Linux.
Man if I had a dollar for every time someone said window was going down, I'd be richer than Elon Musk. Of course if each instance had to be from a unique person, I'd only be a multi-thousandaire.Windows will not control the market forever "just because". They haven't really been innovating and, like Intel, they could easily lose out to a competent competitor.
As we see, Chrome OS has already surpassed macOS for the quarter. Not exactly the desktop Linux we were hoping for, but is technically a Linux kernel.
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Steam is coming to Chrome OS later this year in Q3, which could be huge.
https://chromeunboxed.com/borealis-a-k-a-steam-will-live-in-the-chrome-os-settings-menu/
That really is Windows last hold out for desktop enthusiasts. With Valve investing so much in Proton, improvements on Linux and also bringing to Chrome OS (and possibly the SteamPal handheld), well Windows days are numbered.
Yes, businesses will likely stay on Windows for Office and certain proprietary software, but honestly the ship is going down.
Personally wouldn't run Chrome OS as a daily driver, since I need development tools, but for many people that is enough to use the web and cloud-based web apps. And soon they can game as well.
Those FX 8350's are ready to be melted down into keychains. We can't have them on our secure Windows 11 TPM 2.0 network, threatening our new way of life. Even if they run Linux. Especially if they run LInux.Is my AMD FX 8350 a joke to you? Actually I got two of them. They already run Linux.
Not as much as they'd hate Linux. Or did you forget when Dell and others tried selling *nix computers and users fucking hated it, because it wasn't Windows. My parents bought a power mac....it sits on a counter unused, because neither understand Mac OS and that's a hell of a lot more user friendly than Linux.No, Linux isn't going to become as popular as Windows unless Microsoft shoot themselves in the head.
The only reason for the popularity of Windows is the fact it's on the device when you buy it, most actually hate it, they use it under duress.
You deal with a subset of people that have problems. Most people don't have major issues that require Mazzspeed's services.No I'm not, I deal with the public and their Windows issues - Believe me, they care. Contrary to right wing belief, 100% of the masses aren't stupid or ignorant.
WTH are you talking about. The settings gui is generally better than CP. CP applets often cannot be resized and do not work well with high DPI displays. Settings does. I still recall all the WHINING about the new calculator size, but all you had to do was resize it. I have no idea what the touch elements are in Windows, because it all looks, feels and works like a desktop GUI.For one, it means no manipulative tactics forcing people to online cloud based accounts. The other feature that defines a desktop OS is no forced touch UI element at all. The new Settings Panel taking place of the Control Panel, something Microsoft are relentlessly forcing on their users, is an example of a touch UI making poor use of screen real estate regarding desktop users.
There's also the implication that the uploading of personal metadata is in no way taking place on behalf of the OS itself, such features are strictly opt in only.
For one, it means no manipulative tactics forcing people to online cloud based accounts. The other feature that defines a desktop OS is no forced touch UI element at all. The new Settings Panel taking place of the Control Panel, something Microsoft are relentlessly forcing on their users, is an example of a touch UI making poor use of screen real estate regarding desktop users.
There's also the implication that the uploading of personal metadata is in no way taking place on behalf of the OS itself, such features are strictly opt in only.
I got SWTOR to run through Steam using proton but it runs terrible.What are you playing? Enable proton in steam, hit install, and go...? I'll give some of the ones you're struggling with a shot.
its still 10 just with a new face. runs the same, maybe a little more responsive.My laptop meets the requirements to run Windows 11 but if launch is anything like Windows 10 then I'll wait until the bugs are worked out.
Can't move the start bar aroundits still 10 just with a new face. runs the same, maybe a little more responsive.
at the moment, not sure if it will stay that way.Can't move the start bar around
So it is 10 minus some feature(s)
Absolutely. Now have 14 people editing the same file at the same time. As for locking - the ability for users to define that a file is locked (streaming updates to it) and making it RO automatically for other users (if needed), or preventing two people from editing the same thing at the same time (closer to a GIT merge type of scenario, but it's handled automatically on almost every cloud platform now).You ever setup an FTP before? You can setup multiple users to share only what you want them to see. Of course FTP is stored remotely though no remote execution. I don't know what locking is.
Feature of OneDrive, and (to a limited level) dropbox. With Google tools, they're all tied to GoogleDrive which will do the same via their systems (and supposedly the desktop apps / excel / etc, I just haven't tried). Can't do that on NAS either - it's tied to the ODFB filesystem that OneDrive "layers" on top of the existing filesystem (supports FAT/NTFS/HFS/APFS).I'm not even sure how that's done on cloud storage, unless that's a feature of excel and not the cloud itself. Keep in mind that you arguing these small details is just proving my point in that it's just someone else's computer. FTP is just one example, as there's also NAS.
Because you need a secure way to store keys. If you don't understand public-key cryptography, this will be a somewhat difficult discussion. A Fun read to learn it is Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson - he covers a lot of it. Also writes a good thriller based around it too! Nazis! Gold! Weird japanese holdouts from WW2! Crypto!Doesn't explain why TPM is needed and what it does.
I just proved it isn't.That's a lie and you know that.
Of course they're being cheap. Their revenue stream doesn't really care.Sounds like Microsoft being cheap is going to get very expensive for them.
See prior statement and recommendation for Cryptonomicon.That's explaining what TPM is, not what TPM does for Windows 11.
Offline, off net, and locked in a bloody steel box if you can. You ONLY access it when you need to revoke a cert (key) and issue a new one to the intermediate (software layer). TPM does the same thing, conceptually - it's offline and only used for secure storage of the root "key" (ish, simplifying) that is used to validate a binary is what it says it is. Because it's not stored locally or in an easily written to place, it's more secure than just software sitting on the OS drive. Root CA's never touch the network - properly done, you get a new cert with a USB stick and take it to an intermediate to distribute. TPM, only gets queried to read the key.Offline? Kinda what Microsoft isn't doing with Windows 11 install.
Cloud storage is an old concept - what it delivers is a ~new~ concept, or more appropriately, an old concept finally being realized. Shared simultaneous access is incredibly difficult - cloud storage layers remote access, file transfer, locking, version coordination and management, and simultaneous access at the same time. That's new. Containers are an old concept too - but we're just getting to the point that they're useful. Consumer use could be replaced by FTP. Enterprise use (where the money is), can't be.FTP is old and insecure so nobody would really use it for anything serious. Doesn't mean there aren't other similar tools that do the same. I use FTP as a point in that this Cloud Storage is very old.
Lots of idiots out there.
To be fair, a ton of business is just automatic upload of a payroll report or updated customer list to an FTP site for processing, and doesn't need 15 people editing the file simultaneously.Uh, no. FTP is a protocol with put/pull, and that's... really it. Cloud storage, in the concepts being discussed here, has locking, sharing, multiple access points simultaneously, active access while stored remotely, remote execution, etc. There's a drastic difference in terms of ~business outcome~, which is why cloud storage drives billions of dollars in revenue, and FTP is just a tool included in every OS. Doesn't matter as much for the home user, at least not the same way, but business activities cannot be simply replaced with FTP - saving a file remotely is different than collaboration tools. Show me how to have 15 people editing a excel file simultaneously with FTP - I'm curious - because that's a business outcome. Same for source code with git and github (which is a different variety of cloud storage).
Certainly, which is why every OS under the sun has FTP built in now, at least in some form - it's about as ubiquitous as it comes. You can totally build things with business value around FTP - but the value comes from what you built around it, not a simple file transfer protocol. Just like whatever basic upload tool OneDrive has doesn't have that much value to begin with, but when you add all the other parts - now you have something that people pay for (O365).To be fair, a ton of business is just automatic upload of a payroll report or updated customer list to an FTP site for processing, and doesn't need 15 people editing the file simultaneously.
There is nothing new going on in computing. It is just giving old ideas a few tweaks and a trendy new name.
All the real innovation happened decades ago.
Maybe quantum computing is new, but no one has actually accomplished anything with it.
By this point in its evolution the UNIVAC was on the Jetsons. What are the cartoons of today doing with quantum computers??? Nuthin.
If they're struggling to use Linux then they aren't as smart as you think. I have made many Linux Mint installs look just like Windows from the start button to the startup animation to the sound effects the computer makes when you use it. It has successfully fooled many family and friends to this day. What exact function of Windows does your parents need that Linux doesn't offer?The reality of it is, GNU/Linux is not the answer. I wish it was. But when users like my mom and dad, very smart people that once worked for NASA, struggle even with basic Windows/Internet concepts because they don't 'live the PC culture', there's no chance of them switching to something else.
Most of the stuff today is being made for them, it's just that Microsoft is trying to please people like us as well and you can't make everyone happy because we know the shit Microsoft pulls.But things really aren't being made for them, or even PC enthusiasts anymore. They're being made to attract the mainstream audience that is somewhere in the middle.
That's not the problem here. The issue is that Microsoft is pulling some stupid shit and they want us to fall in line. The difference between your parents and us is that we know Microsoft is fucking us. We know all the technical details of how they're fucking us.At some point though, we're going to have to accept the fact we're not the crowd being catered to by large corporations.
For fucking what though? What exactly do we need encryption for?Because you need a secure way to store keys. If you don't understand public-key cryptography, this will be a somewhat difficult discussion. A Fun read to learn it is Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson - he covers a lot of it. Also writes a good thriller based around it too! Nazis! Gold! Weird japanese holdouts from WW2! Crypto!
Wait until Windows 12 when they no longer require TPM. It's going to happen. There will be consequences to not having TPM but it will happen.Of course they're being cheap. Their revenue stream doesn't really care.
What hardware and OS you using?I got SWTOR to run through Steam using proton but it runs terrible.
When you go ARM give me your 4790k. Will probably be more useful than any ARM device within the decade.Because of this news, I was tempted to dispose of my 4790k... but then again, I do think ARM is really going to be the next big shift this decade... so I will sit on the fence and ride my current X86 lineup as they are for a few years to see how things shake out. No big hurry to shift to 11.. but will go to 11 on my main 9700k rig after a year or so (not in a hurry to be an early adopter either.. someone else can live with the bugs).