Your hypothetical energy savings from new hardware is nothing but a wild guess since you don't know his actual usage, and meaningless anyway unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.

Also, you haven't addressed the other problems mentioned at all.

Government comprises many departments and organizations, which do many things. It's not a single blob of all good or all bad.

Also, not all back doors and CPU bugs are government-imposed.

I'm online, and I commend you for continuing to use your hardware for as long as it does the job, instead of adding to the world's energy, material, and e-waste problems. Well done.

According to the translation I read, the security-related complaint in CSAC's post is mainly about Intel Management Engine. And you know what? They're right. It is a back door, and it is a security risk. Not a new or obscure one, though, and not just for China.

The risks imposed by Intel Management Engine and AMD's Platform Security Processor have been known for several CPU generations. Obviously, a lot of us are unhappy about this and would like a way to disable them.

https://support.system76.com/articles/intel-me/

https://hackaday.com/2020/06/16/disable-intels-backdoor-on-modern-hardware/

Instead, these components have been made more and more integrated with core system functionality, making the prospect of disabling them less and less practical. I fear it may take legislation to give us back control of the computers we supposedly own.

To clarify, these dialogs are only native on linux if the user happens to be using a Gtk-based desktop. Qt-based desktops like KDE Plasma are not supported by the underlying library.

Mirror of Phil Park's tweet:

https://xcancel.com/cantworkitout/status/1847292719254630721

Intel was all about market segmentation

See also: ECC memory.

Khan is indeed doing good stuff, but I was referring specifically to corporations interfering with our ownership and repair of the things we buy.

I just did. Thanks, Biscuit.

Tractors seem as good a starting place as any. Let's not stop there.

I've never played arid shrublands, so the cooking problem described here got me curious. Would moving the kitchen outdoors under a roof keep a cook in cool clothing from passing out?

Echoing what others have said, I think temperate forest would be much better for a relaxed game. Lots of resources, easy weather.

That's encouraging. Thank you.

If this teaser is representative of the game, I don't think I like that characters' faces are shown. My memory of the original is entirely in first-person perspective, which was an important part of it being so immersive. It felt like being in all those tense situations myself, rather than watching someone else from a distance.

This is one of the two that jump to mind. Red Dead Redemption 2 had beautiful, atmospheric storms that were a sight to behold at a distance. Breath of the Wild brought the lightning up close and personal.

There's nothing quite like deciding to take a fight in a thunderstorm while the only gear you have left is metal, or carefully sneaking up on an enemy only to have a bolt of nature's electric fury crash down two meters behind you and shake the ground you're standing on. Especially in surround sound.

Yeah, that was a pity. I agree that guy did great sound design for the first game, but great art doesn't make up for the harmful societal views he supported. I don't think I would want to work with him, either.

It's better in the name of performance but with more aggressive ramping of the core/memory clock frequencies it can come with an increase to power use by default.

A Phoronix comment says this increases power draw by more than 10W at idle. That's pretty wasteful for systems that spend most of the day at or near idle. (And AMD's recent GPUs already have a reputation for idling with too much power draw on linux.)

I hope the change comes with an easy to revert it. If they can't figure out how to automatically enter and leave this mode on demand, we need a way for a script or gamemode hook to do it. Efficiency is important even in desktop systems.

Or to put that another way, it would take putting the teeth back in regulation (among other things).

Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)

I think Below Zero was made by a (mostly) different team, which could explain at least some of the differences. I wonder who will be working on this new one.

You might also like to know:

• If game crashes cause your system to freeze, it might not be the crash itself, but systemd hogging all the system resources while it writes a massive core dump to a file or journal (which can take a long time). You can disable this behavior with Storage=none and ProcessSizeMax=0 in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.
• Debian-based systems have a useful zram config skeleton in /etc/default/zramswap if you install the zram-tools package.
• The Arch Linux wiki has more info on zram tuning, including swappiness and other kernel related parameters.
• The /sbin/zramctl command will tell you how zram is doing.