Ah, the old lemmy switcharoo

it’s obviously a scheduler/p-state bug in windows, look at the Linux performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x

Similar vulnerability threat as the Intel ME bug. Annoying for security-critical applications where you start worrying about hardware security, but virtually no real-world threat. Might be useful for users wishing to disable security processors though.

Stingrays generally use 2G, as the security on earlier standards was pretty lax/broken. I thought that tower spoofing wasn’t possible on 4G/5G?

Servo is working on becoming a standalone browser.

Yeah, I’m thinking of trying it out once my fan less N100 box arrives from china. Should have much better AV1 performance and subtitle rendering performance than my Google TV.

I had a “fun” experience the other month with my Google TV where it was refusing to connect to my Jellyfin server. Turns out Google hasn’t updated the HTTPS CAs in over 2 years, and it was no longer compatible with the latest Let’s Encrypt X2 certificates which was announced back in 2020. Android TV has some good apps, but it is a software, ads, and security nightmare.

KDE Plasma Big screen looks promising. Combine it with TV friendly apps like Jellyfin and plasma tube, and it should be pretty competitive and actually receive updates.

I’ve taken those facts into account.

I haven’t seen any benchmarks that include power usage for Apple CPUs.

AMD cpus are not like Intel CPUs, they don’t use more than the TDP under load. https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/3

The difference between N5P and N4 isn’t significant compared to architectural differences, and the fact that Apple’s architecture is inferior is exactly my point. If the AMD 370 and the Apple M3 are neck and neck, despite Apple being an entire process node ahead (5nm vs 3nm), that shows that Apple’s architecture is inferior.

I don’t think it’s a fair comparison to compare the 27w 370 to the ~50w M2 Pro.

It’s true that power efficiency is such a hard metric to compare, especially on laptops and across different operating systems, but that’s the point I’m making with the rough figures we have available.

Sure, I was just explaining it because the whole 5/4 thing is confusing.

Rumors before the M2 release said that it used 4nm.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/10/m2-macs-with-tsmc-4nm-process/

Apple says they use “second generation 5nm technology”

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-m2-with-breakthrough-performance-and-capabilities/

TSMC’s website says they have 6 different 5nm nodes: N5, N5P, N5A N4, N4P, N4X

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/logic/l_5nm

So the M2 likely uses N5P, N4, or N4P. N4 and N4P are usually called 4nm in marketing material.

There’s probably a leaker out there with more knowledge.

Yeah, Apple’s vertical integration and volume is enviable.

It’s the best option on the market right now and the most compatible one. The drivers are owned by the Linux Foundation, and there are no known hardware bugs with Intel GPUs, unlike with Intel CPUs. You have so much flexibility; Buying an Intel GPU doesn’t prevent you from using another CPU, even GPU-less AMD Epyc CPUs that have the cheapest PCIe/$. All you need is a PCIe slot and you get all the benefits of Intel with none of the drawbacks.

I’m a bit of an AMD fanboy sometimes and I own AMD stock, but the A310 can’t be beat for Jellyfin transcoding. If you really hate Intel, keep in mind that Intel probably loses money on every GPU they sell 😉

Both chips are 20w class cpus, but the AMD cpu is much faster.

Apple CPUs don’t report wattage, so it’s a bit tricky to measure actual power consumption, but I can’t imagine the AMD cpu uses 50% more power under load.

The Apple CPU might score some wins for idle power consumption though, considering the optimizations in MacOS, and the focus on power consumption across the whole system design.

I believe both M2 and Zen 5 use 4nm. 4nm is just a slightly improved 5nm, though. It’s the same process node, not an entirely new process node like 3nm.

AMD’s CPUs are faster and more power efficient on the same process node. (i.e. 5nm vs 5nm)

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_ai_9_hx_370-vs-apple_m2

Apple just has a big budget to buy out TSMC process nodes a generation early, their designs and architectures aren’t actually faster or more power efficient than AMD’s x86 cpus.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/22/apple-secures-tsmc-3nm-chips/

I think AMF is still faster/better quality than CPU transcoding, depending on the preset.

I guess that makes sense, but I wonder if it would be hard to get clean data out of the per-token confidence values. The LLM could be hallucinating, or it could just be generating bad grammar. It seems like it’s hard enough already to get LLMs to distinguish between “killing processes” and murder, but maybe there could be some novel training and inference techniques that come up.

I thought confidence levels were for image recognition? How do confidence levels work for transformer LLMs?

The latest AMD cpus do have transcoding, but Amd transcode isn’t very good and isn’t very compatible with Linux.

You can pick up an Intel A310 single slot GPU for $100 and it has AV1 encode, which is something that the igpu QSV doesn’t have. Works very well in my Epyc motherboard with 76 pcie lanes. I definitely recommend going with an ATX 1st gen Epyc cpu+motherboard if you want something that can do NVMe raid.

Being able to find and read software documentation and knowing how to use the tools that automate software deployment are why SRE/devops/cloud guys get paid the big bucks.

I definitely recommend synapse over dendrite or conduit btw. dendrite and conduit have a bunch of missing features, and my first attempt at dendrite server shat the bed with its NATS store and died. I definitely recommend Synapse for all matrix servers going forward.

The .well-known entries I found were the hardest to test, since synapse doesn’t provide a web server for them, and Element throws a fit if you don’t have CORS set up exactly in the way it wants you to.

I mostly have my matrix server working now, with bridges even. However, Element randomly logs itself out on a daily basis which is really frustrating :/