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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I haven’t wanted an Intel processor for years. Their “innovation” is driven by marketing rather than technical prowess.

    The latest batch of 13900k and again with 14900k power envelope microcode bullshit was the final “last” straw.

    They were more interested in something they could brand as a competitor to ryzen. Then left everyone who bought one (and I bought three at work) holding the bag.

    We’ve not made the same mistake again.

    Intel dying and its corpse being consumed by its competitors is a fairy tale ending.












  • ARM won the mobile/tablet form factor right from the start. Apple popularised ARM on the desktop. Amazon popularised ARM in the cloud.

    Intel’s been busy shitting out crap like the 13900K/14900K and pretending that ARM and RISC-V aren’t going to eat their lunch.

    The only beef I have with ARM systems is the typical SoC formula, I still want to build systems from off the shelf components.

    I can’t wait.


  • Backup backup backup! If you have btrfs them just take a snapshot first: instantly.

    One could do a non-destructive rename first. E.g. prepend deleteme. to the file name, sanity check it, then ‘rollback’ by renaming back without the prefix or commit and delete anything with the prefix.