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Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

Engineer, KSP modder, Amtrak buttercake evangelist, future environmental storytelling skeleton


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Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

instead of liquid glass or whatever all operating systems should use the design language of the Railroad Tycoon II UI

screenshot of Railroad Tycoon II. Everything is styled like 19th century railroad equipment. The notification popup has a cowcatcher on it and a bald eagle
Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

So later-model Intel Macs have a "T2" security chip that handles encryption and serves as the system's SSD controller

This T2 contains the entire CPU cluster of the A10 chip, the SoC used in the iPhone 7 [1]

Which means that for the 2018/2019 MacBook Air models, the SSD controller is quite a bit faster, at least in theory, than the entire main CPU the OS is running on [2]

[1]: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/301118-apples-orphan-silicon/
[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/12861845?baseline=12862708

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

I REFUSE TO GENERALIZE THE OPINIONS OF WOMEN AND FISH

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

instead of liquid glass or whatever all operating systems should use the design language of the Railroad Tycoon II UI

screenshot of Railroad Tycoon II. Everything is styled like 19th century railroad equipment. The notification popup has a cowcatcher on it and a bald eagle
Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

remember kids, just say “ask again later” to drugs

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

typical UK email server

A PC case that’s also a fish tank
Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

Sorry I didn’t read your email I had to delete it to save water

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

A look at Leg.

Designed to Speed

Streetsblog california article in an rss reader with the preview “A look at Leg. Designed to Speed…”
Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

"oh hey there's a .nexus TLD I wonder who owns...

...of course torment.nexus is a mastodon instance"

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

booooo .es domains require a Spanish address

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

Suddenly remembered a very vivid dream where I was explaining semiconductor band gaps and why you need to use weird inefficient organic substrates to get multiple LED colors on one material.

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

So later-model Intel Macs have a "T2" security chip that handles encryption and serves as the system's SSD controller

This T2 contains the entire CPU cluster of the A10 chip, the SoC used in the iPhone 7 [1]

Which means that for the 2018/2019 MacBook Air models, the SSD controller is quite a bit faster, at least in theory, than the entire main CPU the OS is running on [2]

[1]: https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/301118-apples-orphan-silicon/
[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/12861845?baseline=12862708

Andrew
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town

I REFUSE TO GENERALIZE THE OPINIONS OF WOMEN AND FISH