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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • melroy@kbin.melroy.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results
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    1 day ago

    I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you’re right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.

    So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so … that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.

    EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results
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    1 day ago

    Anyhow, you’re right something is not going great. Although I upgraded to a great Threadripper platform now and we do have great AMD laptop processors. It could have multiple causes:

    • Doing below 4nm, 3nm, and 2 nm will give more and more issues, we are basically hitting a wall. Since quantum effects are increasingly becoming an issue at these small scales. Especially with high NA.
    • Monopoly of AMD in the CPU market, Intel is lacking behind. On the long term this could mean less innovation.
    • Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to “average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks”. It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just “fine” with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

    Disclaimer: I’m working in the Lithography sector at ASML.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.orgtoLinux@programming.dev•PSA: /c/linux has a matrix chat!
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    6 months ago

    Mbin support quite a lot of activitypub protocols, including PeerTube even.
    Mbin also support microblogs like Mastodon, all within the same web frontend. Mbin has quite an impressive moderation tools by now, while we are still improving moderation support. Mbin has a very different user-interface, which I like much much better than Lemmy UI. Mbin also has tons of user-side options to fine-tune the UI, like Infinite scrolling, moving the menu to the left-side, different themes, page width settings, sticky navbar, and so much more! Mbin is developed by a developers who aren’t Lemmy core devs (I’m not going into more details here). Mbin has a very complete API, allowing app developers like Interstellar to develop apps around Mbin instances. Mbin is still in heavy development, we implement tons of new features, frontend improvements and bugfixes every single day/week. Mbin embraces the C4 specification for contributors, meaning that every person could become a core developer.