Very smart, he sure showed them. 🤣

this would have is some sort of tracking.

It’s right at the top of the announcement, that it’s mainly for more accurate stats on unique users.
It’s not that I think this is a good idea, because I don’t, but some people are blowing it out of proportions. Especially since this isn’t at all decided. Which I seriously doubt it will.

And he is, one review at a time.

You can see the code of what is send.
I’m not aware that Google claims they collect data anonymously, on everything where you are logged in.
So that’s a false equivalence.

The MAC address is anonymized with sha256, and IP adresses aren’t stored.
So this seems to me to be perfectly anonymous.

This may be illegal in EU if they don’t use opt in. Even then it may be illegal for under 18 year olds to collect MAC addresses and disk serial numbers, as those can potentially be used for identification.

The data is anonymized, and the IP is NOT stored. So I’m not sure this violates GDPR?

From the code we can see the machine ID is anonymized, sending only a SHA256 checksum.

def get_hashed_device_id():
    # Read the machine ID
    with open("/etc/machine-id", "r") as f:
        machine_id = f.read().strip()

    # Hash the machine ID using SHA-256 to anonymize it
    hashed_id = hashlib.sha256(machine_id.encode()).digest()

    # Convert the first 16 bytes of the hash to a UUID (version 5 UUID format)
    return str(uuid.UUID(bytes=hashed_id[:16], version=5))

This makes it somewhat a nothingburger IMO.

Power consumption is not efficiency, PPW is.

When you are brainwashed by religion, you become a sociopath, and as a result of that, vote against abortion, healthcare for all, food stamps, and anything else that is humane. In short the exact opposite of what Jesus preached.

The American exaggerated rhetoric about freedom, is so extreme that sociopathy has become a virtue. Because an absolute lack of conscience is absolute freedom.

From then on the entire point is moot.

No it’s not, because the point is that design matters. When Ryzen came out originally, it was far more energy efficient than the Intel Skylake. And Intel had the node advantage.

I heard that they don’t have similar problems in China, because they’ve made laws against it.
Why can’t we do that here in EU?

No but the M4 Max is claimed to be as fast, and Intel improved their chip, so it’s down from 250W for previous gen! And the M4 Max is faster.

The new Intel Arrow Lake is supposed to max out at 150W, but it doesn’t. And that’s still almost 40% better than previous gen Intel!
So hovering around 80-90W max is pretty modest by today’s standards.

The laws of physics apply to everyone

That is obviously true, but a ridiculous argument, there are plenty examples of systems performing better and using less power than the competition.
For years Intel chips used twice the power for similar performance compared to AMD Ryzen. And in the Buldozer days it was the same except the other way around.

Arm has designed chips for efficiency for a decade before the first smartphones came out, and they’ve kept their eye on the ball the entire time since.
It’s no wonder Arm is way more energy efficient than X86, and Apple made by far the best Arm CPU when M1 arrived.

The great advantage of Apple is that they are usually a node ahead

Yes that is an advantage, but so it is for the new Intel Arrow Lake compared to current Ryzen, yet Arrow Lake use more power for similar performance. Despite Arrow Lake is designed for efficiency.

It’s notable that Intel was unable to match Arm on power efficiency for an entire decade, even when Intel had the better production node. So it’s not just a matter of physics, it is also very much a matter of design. And Intel has never been able to match Arm on that. Arm still has the superior design for energy efficiency over X86, and AMD has the superior design over Intel.

I hope it’s true they can help Ukraine, it sounds great on the surface, but the whole piece also sounds like an ad.

Yes and also Turkey and Iran. Most is supposed to come from Turkey.

The interesting thing is that allegedly this is caused by the unstable economic situation in Russia, it’s simply too risky to invest in production.
And as long as that is true, the Russian industrial output will keep shrinking, making the economy even worse.

This is just one of the reasons we need deregulation. It’s a huge nuisance that we are not allowed to make false advertising. /s

Apart from general economic information, which has to be filtered for propaganda, I don’t have much.
But there has been pretty thorough reporting of the butter situation, like this article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-wartime-economy-butter-price-inflation-1.7371742

The central bank forecast 8.5% inflation for the year, but that seems unrealistic. But they can politically freeze some prices for instance on fuel and electricity. But they also dictate “free market” prices more widely now, something they’ve done to keep cost for the war machine down. This may dampen inflation, but instead is likely cause shortages. It’s hard to do that for food though, because shortages there is as bad or probably worse than high prices. So that may explain why inflation on food is higher than average.

@MrMakabar@slrpnk.net posted a very interesting link to a debate on twitter on inflation:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1841884096655720630.html

Thanks for the twitter free link 👍, Interesting read. Despite examples on single items that are higher, I think 30% is a bit on the high end, but it’s good to see people debunk the official propaganda.

I found the butter situation mostly confirming my own estimate.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-wartime-economy-butter-price-inflation-1.7371742

But even this article on a single issue doesn’t state the size of the package:

Reuters reporters found shopping bills showed the price of a pack of Brest-Litovsk high-grade butter in Moscow has risen by 34 per cent since the start of the year to 239.96 roubles ($3.41 Cdn).

Searching further I found that the brand is generally sold in either 120 or 180 gram packages.
So that doesn’t help much except here we generally used 250 gram but many have shrinked it to 200g, so Russia may suffer some shrinkflation too?
But the claim is that butter has officially increased 25.7%, but according to Reuter price checks it’s 34%. But butter is supposed to be in the high end.

For sure inflation is nipping away the value of Russian wages. And it’s weird to read about Russians that are puzzled about why prices are increasing? But maybe they don’t dare say what they are thinking.

Absolutely, My kitchen scale remains accurate and can use the same battery for years.

I look forward to watching a Gamers Nexus review of this. I hope it’s as good as they say. 😀