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Not entirely sure about that. I have a bunch of systems with the current 8cx, and that's pretty much 10 years behind Apple performance wise, while being similar in heat and power consumed. It is perfectly fine for the average office and webbrowsing workload, though - a 10 year old mobile i7 still is an acceptable CPU for that nowadays, the more problematic areas of IO speed are better with the Snapdragon. (That's also the reason why Apple is getting away with that 8GB thing - the performance impact caused by that still keeps a usable system for the average user. The lie is not that it doesn't work - the lie is that it doesn't have an impact).

From the articles I see about the Snapdragon Elite it seems to have something like double the multicore performance of the 8cx - which is a nice improvement, but still quite a bit away from catching up to the Apple chips. You could have a large percentage of office workers use them and be happy - but for demanding workloads you'd still need to go intel/AMD/Apple. I don't think many companies will go for Windows/Arm when they can't really switch everybody over. Plus, the deployment tools for ARM are not very stable yet - and big parts of what you'd need for doing deployments in an organization have just been available for ARM for a few months now (I've been waiting for that, but didn't have a time to evaluate if they're working).

Dazu kommt dann noch der zusaetzliche Schaden in der Wirtschaft, auch von Leuten die so aussehen als wuerden sie sich bemuehen: Bestenfalls koennen wir die Bewerbung direkt aussortieren, und verschwenden nur ein paar Minuten damit, schlimmstenfalls stellen wir dann jemand ein der versucht in der Probezeit wieder entlassen zu werden.

Langfristig gehen wir eh in Richtung weniger Beschaeftigung - statt hier Leute zu gaengeln die nicht wollen, und damit noch Kollateralschaden verursachen sollte man das einfach akzeptieren, und schauen dass wir Produktionsmittel die Arbeitsplaetze ersetzen so besteuern dass wir uns leisten koennen wenn jemand nicht arbeiten will.

Briefkasten leeren, Leser fuettern, bei Fehlern schauen was los ist. Mal abgesehen davon dass man einen Leser fuer etwas unterhalten muss das seit zwei Jahrzehnten obsolet ist. Kann natuerlich gerne ueber eine Grundgebuehr gemacht werden - aber dann bitte als separates Amish-Konto das die Kosten fuer die Leser und aehnliches ohne Quersubvention deckt.

It also is perfectly fine for running a few minute long compile cycles - without running into thermal throttling. I guess if you do some hour long stuff it might eventually become an issue - but generally the CPUs available in the Airs seem to be perfectly fine with passive cooling even for longer peak loads. Definitely usable as a developer machine, though, if you can live with the low memory (16GB for the M1, which I have).

I bought some Apple hardware for a customer project - which was pretty much first time seriously touching Apple stuff since the 90s, as i'm not much of a friend of them - and was pretty surprised about performance as well as lack of heat. That thing is now running Linux, and it made me replace my aging Thinkpad x230 with a Macbook Pro - where active cooling clearly is required, but you also get a lot of performance out of it.

The real big thing is that they managed to scale power usage nicely over the complete load range. For the Max/Ultra variants you get comparable performance (and power draw/heat) on high load to the top Ryzen mobile CPUs - but for low load you still get a responsive system at significantly less power draw than the Ryzens.

Intel is playing a completely different game - they did manage to catch up a bit, but generally are still running hot, and are power hogs. Currently it's just a race between Apple and AMD - and AMD is gimped by nobody building proper notebooks with their CPUs. Prices Apple is charging for RAM and SSDs are insane, though - they do get additional performance out of their design (unlike pretty much all x86 notebooks, where soldered RAM will offer the same throughput as a socketed on), but having a M.2 slot for a lower speed extra SSD would be very welcome.

Enter und Shift sind unterschiedlich (die Deutsche Entertaste ist doof). Ich hatte Tastaturen ohne staggering getestet, fand ich doof (kann aber natuerlich auch muscle memory als vielschreiber sein - das unvoreingenommen testen wird vermutlich schwierig wenn man mehrere Jahrzehnte blind getippt hat)

Waren an der Mueritz ist ne fette Chilloutzone.

Überweisung auf Papier [..] Und Gott bewahre, wenn du Münzgeld haben oder bringen willst.

Das sind Leistungen bei denen ich tatsaechlich auch meine dass das separat abgerechnet werden sollte. Basis sollte eine kostenlose bzw. von der Grundgebuehr abgedeckte Nutzung des Kontos im Selfservice sein - also alles Online oder an Selbstbedienungsterminals, sowie uebliche Kartennutzung im Eurogebiet. Fuer Sachen die man selbermachen kann eine Person beschaeftigen zu wollen ist ein Luxusproblem - und dafuer kann man dann auch zahlen.

Vanilla teams is a a stinking pile of shit. Corporate policies just add a bit of bonus nuclear waste to that.

Technically this fits your requirements...

It starts with them only doing initial talks about buying their hardware for a project with you for a 7-figure payment, and doesn't improve from there.

It has been a while since I touched ssmtp, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt.

Problem with ssmtp and related when I was testing it was its behaviour in error conditions - due to a lack of any kind of spool it doesn't fail very gracefully, and if the sending software doesn't expect it and implement a spool itself (which it typically doesn't have a reason to, as pretty much the only situation where something like sendmail would fail is a situation where it also wouldn't be able to write a spool) this can very easily lead to loss of mails.

I already had a working SMTP client capable of fishing mails out of a Maildir at that point, so I ended up just doing a simple sendmail program throwing whatever it receives into a Maildir, and a cronjob to send this forward. This might be the most minimalistic setup for reliably sending out mail (and I'm using it an all my computers behind Emacs to do so) - but it is badly documented, so if you don't care about reliability postfix might be a better choice, or if you don't just go with ssmtp or similar. Or if you do want to dig into that message me, and I'll help making things more user friendly.

A problem of this bubble is that it is making AI synonymous with LLM - and when it goes down will burn other more sensibly forms of AI.