The best you can do is help them install uBlock Origin and FB/Insta Lite (not great options, but better than the mainline apps).

I can’t stand Android WebView apps, especially in retail. The whole point of installing a mobile app is to get a smoother experience than using the mobile webUI.

I understand that and I don’t have any illusions about things changing (short of major policy break in the EU that emphasizes that you can’t beat the Americans at their own game and you need to develop a novel approach that the Americans can’t compete with).

My counter argument is an application like QBittorrent. It’s an open source app with no budget, it’s cross-platform (including CLI and webUI, albeit MacOS support seems to be subpar due to lack of developers) and it is very efficient.

In the non-open source and/or Windows-only sphere, there is Mp3Tag, Notepad++, FastStone Image Viewer, Media Player Classic BE.

All very snappy applications, with a huge range of features/options (by the standard of consumer software) and they have the ability to handle large throughput.

I am not a developer, so this is just speculation, but I think the current development community (outside of individuals with a personal interest in the topic) is largely incapable of developing efficient, well-optimized applications. Not that they don’t have the capability, but the broader industry ecosystem (on the consumer side) doesn’t exist in terms of efficient application development.

That’s a reasonable use case for SATA SSDs.

Depends on the the type office work.

If you use excel heavily with large datasets or say data vizualization software like PowerBI and Tableau, 8GB is definitely not going to be enough.

That being said, my grandma has an a 6GB RAM Windows 10 machine and it works fine for her relatively resource-lite use cases.

Was just going to say this.

Do you really need SATA SSDs for a NAS though?

From my understanding SATA SSDs would work better for smaller files, but for bigger files (e.g. media) the benefits seem to be minimal (much more so if you don’t have a 10 GB network connection)

While I am on a desktop, I am also happy that that I bought 64 GB of relatively high performance DDR4.

It looks like I will have to stay with my AM4 system for at least another 2-3 years. It works very well, the only thing that I am missing is an update to 5800X3D, which unfortunately is impossible to get for a fair price since it was a one-time run only it seems.

And DIY components is a relatively small segment of the market compared to laptops and pre-builts. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in the 10-15% range of total revenues even for companies like AMD that have strong market momentum in the space.

For a second I thought Samsung was ending production of all consumer SSDs, including NVMe.

SATA SSDs are IMO a niche use case. If you don’t have any free M.2 slots, you can always get a PCIe adapter card and deploy multiple NVMe drives.

The piece about ~14 billion years is clearly a marketing deception.

That being said, this looks like a completely different technology to CD/DVDs, one that will be deployed in an enterprise environment and likely have certain mandatory performance requirements.

It’s crazy how terrible their web search has become. The quality is comically bad outside of mainstream topics and it’s litered with spam type results.

Welcome back to the 15th to 19th centuries!

Perhaps that time never really went away.

Agreed. :)

Got to disagree with you on this one.

Depending on the implementation, this might be an efficient approach.

If anything they are likely overplaying the AI angle for PR reasons.

The CCP is going to do it’s best to force companies to use local enterprise GPUs.

This is actually a smart move on the part of the Americans, keep selling older enterprise GPUs (that are still significantly more efficient that Chinese made products) to have a caustic effect on local products.

I wonder if the CCP will simply ban Nvidia products.