Microsoft has been infamous for stack-ranking for decades now.
Peloton is overpriced to the point of being predatory, but at least the concept of an exercise bike in your house makes reasonable sense. Or at least, it’s no worse than mounting your real bike to a stationary trainer.
What really boggles my mind is things like “spin classes” and exercise bikes at gyms, where you waste time/money/pollution/road capacity driving a car to a place, pay to ride a fake bike there, and then drive home again. If you’d just ridden a real bike instead, you’d get the same benefit with both less money and less time.
Peloton. An expensive exercise bike that doesn’t work without an expensive subscription, and which has now even resorted to trying to discourage resale of used machines by extorting an activation fee from second-hand buyers.
I think what OP is asking about is less about loss-leaders and more about vendor lock-in.
I’m having a hard time understanding your question, but I’ll try my best:
if the new gen of gpus has accellerators
GPUs are pretty much nothing but [graphics] accelerators, although they are increasingly general-purpose for parallel computation and have a few other bits and pieces tacked on, like hardware video compression/decompression.
If you typo’d “CPU,” then the answer appears to be that Intel desktop CPUs with integrated graphics are much more common than AMD CPUs with integrated graphics (a.k.a. “APUs”) because Intel sprinkles them in throughout their product range, whereas AMD mostly leaves the mid- to top-end of their range sans graphics because they assume you’ll buy a discrete graphics card. The integrated graphics on the AMD chips that do have them tend to be way faster than Intel integrated graphics, however.
If you mean “AI accelerators,” then the answer is that that functionality is inherently part of what GPUs do these days (give or take driver support for Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA API) and also CPUs (from both Intel and AMD) are starting to come out with dedicated AI cores.
does any of the new intel stuff have any of that? I am still at the old i5 chips
“Old i5 chips” doesn’t mean much – that just means you have a midrange chip from any time between 2008 and now. What matters is the model number that comes after the “Core i5” part, e.g. “Core i5 750” (1st-gen from 2008) vs. “Core i5 14600” (most recent gen before rebranding to “Core Ultra 5”, from just last year).
As far as “it makes sense” goes, to be honest, an Intel CPU would still probably be a hard sell for me. The only reason I might consider one is if I had some niche circumstance (e.g. I was trying to build a Jellyfin server and having the best integrated hardware video encode/decode was the only thing I cared about).
What I really had in mind when I say it makes me want to buy Intel (aside from joking about rejecting “AI” buzzword hype) is the new Intel discrete GPU (“Battlemage”), oddly enough. It’s getting to be about time for me to finally upgrade from the AMD Vega 56 I’ve been using for over seven(!) years now, so I’ll be interested to see how the Intel Arc B770 might compare to the AMD Radeon RX 9070 (or whichever model it’s competing against).
Reminds me of a year and a half ago when !selfhosted was the biggest/most active community (or close to it).
This makes me want to buy Intel instead of AMD for the first time in a couple of decades.
Valve has always “let you” install SteamOS on anything you want – it’s copyleft software; they don’t have a choice.
What’s different now is that Valve will be facilitating you to do it by packaging the software in a less Steam Deck-specific way to make it easier.
I realize some might think this is a pedantic distinction, but it’s not okay for the media to disparage Free Software by ascribing more authority to Valve than it actually has.
She’s not the only one, either. They always expect you to figure it out.
I mean… they’re not wrong. If you’ve got the knack and they know it, there’s nothing you can do about it.
But you do know how to do it. It was right there in your previous sentence.
Admittedly, I don’t know a whole lot about what instruction set features the ESP32 actually has, but isn’t an embedded processor that small by nature lacking in things like, say, a memory management unit? Don’t take this the wrong way, but the notion of making a general-purpose OS that relies on cooperative multitasking seems a bit sketchy at a time when you could just spend an extra buck to move up to something like a Raspberry Pi Zero that can run a proper memory-safe and preemptive OS.
Did you consider using the FreeCAD Gridfinity Workbench (or, for that matter, writing a patch for it to support drawers)?
Do I think it’s intentional that smartphones are ‘dumbed down’ compared to PCs, so as to turn them into devices for mindless consumption of corporate-controlled media instead of devices for empowering user freedom? Yes, yes I do.
inadvertently
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
I guess because it’s only at like version 0.2? There’s probably lots of things that it should do, but doesn’t yet.
“Older GPUs” means between the Radeon HD 2000 Series (2007) and Vega 20 (2018) for the decode part, and between the Radeon HD 7000 series (2012) and Vega 20 (2018) for the encode part.
I’ve still got a R7 260X (2013) in my Proxmox server; I wonder if this will make it more useful for Jellyfin transcoding?
That would never happen; the yellow filter would clash with the neon.