Some motherboards can update the BIOS without a CPU installed. Look for a BIOS flash button on the motherboard.

Ebay is probably going to be flooded with damaged Intel CPUs.

So each supercharger will need it’s own miniature fusion power plant. Great, now fast charging solid state batteries will always be 30 years away.

The dedicated Intel GPUs have nowhere near as much performance as an RX 7900. The video encoder is very good though.

GPU support is a real mess. Those ARM SOCs are intended for embeded systems, not PCs. None of the manufacturers want to release an open source driver and the blobs typically don’t work with a recent kernel.

For ARM on the desktop, I would want an ATX motherboard with a socketed 3+ GHz CPU with 8-16 cores, socketed RAM and a PCIe slot for a desktop GPU.

Almost all Linux software will run natively on ARM if you have a working GPU. Getting windows games to run on ARM with decent performance would probably be difficult. It would probably need a CPU that’s been optimized for emulating x86 like what Apple did with theirs.

Basically, yes. The big issue with solid state batteries is figuring out how to mass produce them at a price where someone will actually buy them.

It’s not quite there for desktop use yet, but it probably won’t be too much longer.

I’ve never had LibreOffice crash my computer. Sure, it crashes occasionally, but it never takes anything else with it.

If you’re putting enough stuff into a spreadsheet to crash it, it’s time to move to a real database.

If you don’t release your source code due to security concerns, you just announced to the world that your software is vulnerable and you’re relying on security through obscurity.

To use secure boot correctly, you need disable or delete the keys that come preinstalled and add your own keys. Then you have to sign the kernel and any drivers yourself. It is possible to automate the signing the kernel and kernel modules though. Just make sure the private key is kept secure. If someone else gets a hold of it, they can create code that your computer will trust.

They don’t need enough workers to watch every video uploaded, they only need enough to review copyright claims.

They should get rid of the copyright claim system since it gets badly abused and just use DCMA since it’s illegal to file a false DCMA claim.

Some Lemmy instances disallow indexing in robots.txt, however indexers can choose to ignore that and actually blocking them takes a lot more effort.

Oh nice, maybe I will get a check for less than the cost to mail it in 5 years.

It seems like it’s mostly just bots left there now.

It’s best to install yt-dlp manually and let it self update. It needs to be kept on the latest version since youtube is constantly breaking things. It’s only a single file and it can be installed in any directory in your $PATH.

Hopefully that would get a lot of developers to switch to Vulkan.

That would be great for a server, but 1.7GHz is a bit slow for a desktop.

Nice one Intel. My next computer certainly will not contain an Intel CPU.

I wish someone would start making desktop motherboards with socketed RISC-V and ARM CPUs.

Yeah, they really want to keep your data.

Have you tried mounting the google drive on your computer and copying the files with your file manager?