I was kinda guessing that images, video and such are your use case - yep, those might really benefit from a faster memory and plenty of cores. Not sure if it affect ML much since it’d be calculated on GPU. Thanks for info on gaming.

How time flies, eh? I went searching for more info - https://www.techpowerup.com/339178/ddr6-memory-arrives-in-2027-with-8-800-17-600-mt-s-speeds It also mentions an architectural change to increase the speed further.

Not sure, but I assume a couple of years at least - it might be also affected by stupid external factors, like insane tariffs and such. Also it will take some time for DDR6 perf to go up - for both mobos and memory. So even at the start you might be still better off DDR5 and if you go with DDR6 you might need to replace mobo and memory to get better perf. That’s my impression on hardware situation, I might be wrong, though.

What is your use case for threadripper, I’m curious? AFAIK it’s not a good match for gaming at least. Or is it?

Why DDR6 though? It will be expensive at start and won’t bring much to your workstation unless you are really memory perf bound.

He’s talking about non Android phones. We all know that Android is Linux based.

From what I read so far, hardware key is just another way to decrypting, not the required. So it’s just a convenient method to avoid typing a (long) password and instead just few PIN chars. So, if somebody gets hold of password, can still decrypt the disk even without the hardware key. Not perfect, but still better than only password.

Yes, currently I’m using my brain for that and was thinking a security key such as Yubikey with touch requirement + PIN. But at least on Linux there is no support for that, or is it?

Edit: Ha, there actually is - https://mhdez.com/posts/unlocking-encrypted-linux-with-a-yubikey/

Where would you store it then?

That’s great.

While measuring power efficiency is not an easy task, I doubt that AMD is better. Here is an older article https://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4070-vs-radeon-rx-6950-xt-which-gpu-is-better But you are right, things seem changing https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/incredibly-efficient-amd-rx-9070-gpu-review-benchmarks-vs-9070-xt-rtx-5070 Hopefully AMD improves on efficiency in future.

From just hardware perspective, Nvidia cards are more energy efficient.

Edit: I stand corrected, series 9070 is much more energy efficient.

With current (and in general) EU leadership I wouldn’t be optimistic as they don’t understand any of it.

Yep, there are also development tools missing (at least at the level Android and iOS have them) and the motivation for developers to support yet another platform with no users (at least initially). A good example is Microsoft which thrown awful lot of money and resources at Windows Phone only to give up eventually. OTOH it’d be interesting if i.e. EU decided to support a new phone/OS, that’d certainly help with those delicate apps at least.

I don’t see this happen, sadly. I mean yes, few enthusiasts will jump aboard, but that will be it. I’d go with AOSP modified in a way that can run google services and their apps in isolated mode, which at least GrapheneOS is doing (if I’m not mistaken).

Get off Android to … Android 🤪

There are some (many is really a stretch) but not available in many countries nor supported by many merchants.

We need Digital Euro yesterday.

You have some valid points. Yes, economical aspect is crap, countries should push laws demanding that producers guarantee recycling and/or state clear lifecycle of the battery (actually it should be applied to all products). Even still, there are companies that do recycle batteries for profit, so it’s not that absurd. But you miss the whole other aspect with different chemistries, many even harmless to the environment. You are focused only on current li-ion it seems which are not very network storage friendly anyway.

I think you are wrong then. First, even Li-ion batteries are recyclable to a huge amount, usually the problem is that different manufacturers pack them differently without any blueprint and then it’s much harder to recycle them. Then there are a ton of different chemistries with ones really harmless (i.e. using sodium instead of lithium) but they come with less energy density. Which isn’t that important when it comes to energy storage for the network purpose but it’s important when it comes to cars and portable electronic devices. Also different chemistries have different lifetime, i.e. LFP batteries have better durability and are less fire prone than the standard li-ion.

Sure, but even then we don’t have a solution today. It’s all in the fuzzy future.