Not really a game changer as AMD already has this (but is quite terrible at marketing it). This is the reason why you can run pretty big AI models on reasonable speeds on embedded GPUs on the Ryzen AI SoCs and get even better performance on the Ryzen AI Max+ SoCs.

As a example I have a HX370 based laptop with 128G RAM and due to these specs can instruct the included firmware to share up to 96G (or approximately 66% of available system memory) with the embedded GPU, which gives quite some headroom to experiment with local models as said before.

The included GPU with 6144 CUDA cores isn't really big news either to be honest, as the DGX Spark already has them too. Likely because they simply integrated the same (or very similar) GPU on this SoC. In fact the whole thing looks eerily similar to the DGX Spark SoC, so the only new thing pretty much seems to be the support for Windows.

And then there's still Firefox and all of its forks.

Best of luck to Big Tech as people will move on elsewhere.

I wouldn't call it incidentally. It's actually a very important story. It tells the tale about the early days of the Rebellion and how they sniffed out the construction of the Death Star, eventually leading up (and connected) to the events in Rogue One and A New Hope.

https://lemonade-server.ai/

To be clear: These two are based on completely different system architectures. Ofcourse performance is different, and probably in favor of Apple. Especially because everything running on top of Apple Silicon is heavily optimized from the get-go to do so (due to hardcore system level optimization by the build chain and kernel engineering groups at Apple).

If you want a excellent quasi open and self repairable/modifiable laptop running Linux there's probably nothing better on the market than a Framework laptop. But I might be a little bit biased because my main system is a Framework 16 running Gentoo with OpenRC.

I can do everything I want with it including local AI, since the 6.x kernel series - including AMD NPU support - was released to stable, and AMD creating a excellent runtime to serve local AI models through AMD NPUs and GPUs called Lemonade (https://lemonade-server.ai/) a little while back.

If you no longer play any of Riot's games (which you should if you really care about the integrity of your system) and Vanguard is no longer active on your system you should be able to safely remove it.

Some governments, like in the Netherlands, also allow a percentage of travel costs to be deducted from yearly tax if a employer does not reimburse costs directly.

They do read the appeals. I know this because I was falsely permanently suspended, without lawful reasons and without prior notice, with an account in good standing, a few years ago.

After writing several appeals over the years, in which I even mentioned article 19 of the UN UDHR (which pretty much mentions everyone has the right of freedom of expression and freedom of speech), and after receiving several rejections with the standard boilerplate text I got a very angry human written reply from somebody working at the Safety and Security team mentioning amongst other things I should never try to appeal again, and that they would automatically reject every appeal if I would. Or at least, that was basically the gist of it.

And I tried it once afterwards, and they didn't lie about that.

This was after the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, by the way.

So yes, they do read appeals (even before the Elon purchase likely). But they don't care.

If Trump is truely insane and his plan "to bomb the living shit out of Iran's energy infrastructure" includes the Bushehr NPP, mainly operated by Russian nuclear scientists and engineers, the world will likely face even bigger problems than they are facing now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant

TikTok across Europe and Asia is still run by TikTok Pte Ltd, the ByteDance subsidiary in Singapore, under the old EULA.

FAFO, Orange Man.

Pretty much all critical Dutch gov services are located in sovereign data centres across the Netherlands. Why they can't do it with DigiD baffles me. Especially because it is (or at least used to be) based on a plain Java and Oracle stack.

The only thing you'll have to decide is if you want a desktop which looks more similar to MacOS (GNOME) or Windows (KDE). For now they don't even care about even more advantages or disadvantages, like the fact that KDE is customizable to the point things can get a little crazy.

Graphical desktop and Steam support (with a little pinch of Lutris added on top), and that's good enough.

And for those you still have options, through streaming:

1> A small headless Windows PC powered with a videocard like a Radeon 9070 XT and a nifty app called Moonlight (https://moonlight-stream.org/) enables you to stream games protected with kernel level anti cheat to Linux machines (and some other devices).

2> Geforce Now supports some games notoriously renowned for their kernel level anti cheat like Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7. With some trickery it is possible to run the app they "exclusively" developed for handhelds like the Deck on any Linux distro, because it is just a desktop app distributed through Flatpak.

Something you can already see in Venezuela as we speak: The Trump Administration has essentially blocked countries like Russia and Iran to ship oil from Venezuela.

If they capture Greenland and can build a big Naval presence there they are in a great position to confiscate every cargo ship destined to Russian harbors in the north, and close off China's trading route in the Arctic aswell.

Because controlling Greenland means whoever has it gets excessive control over the Arctic Sea. And both parties, but especially Russia, do not want a party like the United States to have this amount of control given the Arctic is in their backyard.