• @DicJacobus
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    527 minutes ago

    I was about to get extremely upset, and then I remembered I haven’t used intel since 2012.

    • @BreadstickNinja
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      I have a 13700K that’s growing increasingly unstable due to their fuckup on voltage control. Never again. My next rebuild will be AMD.

  • @ikidd
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    Who wants to get in bed with Elon so he drives the brand into the ground? How much has Fidelity written down their investment in Twitter, 80%?

  • @pozzy77
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    324 hours ago

    They have to old slogan of intel inside ready to be rebranded as incel inside

  • @[email protected]
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    274 hours ago

    I appreciate him doing this after intel lost their magic, otherwise, it would have been much harder emotionally.

    • @cm0002OP
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      144 hours ago

      They lost it in CPUs, but I think they’re actually nailing it in GPUs though (for once(at least for the budget/entry level))

      • @CookieOfFortune
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        31 hour ago

        Eh unless they have the most efficient overall, they won’t make inroads into the server market. The entry level laptop and desktop markets are getting smaller and has less margins.

      • @ikidd
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        93 hours ago

        They have what, 2 models? And in the GPU market, they aren’t even a pimple on the fly on the ass of nVidia or AMD

  • @GhostlyPixel
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    315 hours ago

    He’s going to rename the i series to something ridiculous like i69, i420, i1337, and iX isn’t he?

  • @[email protected]
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    105 hours ago

    You don’t need to buy an entire company to control or profit from it… He’s really that dumb isn’t he. He could do the whole Black Rock thing and control every company in the world, instead he has this idea of just owning everything.

    I’m starting to suspect the price speculation of things he owns is by his own hand, nothing to do with the market whatsoever.

    • sepi
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      x86 is already dead yo

      edit: downvoters don’t understand they are using amd64 and not x86 lol wtf

      • @[email protected]
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        255 hours ago

        It’s very much not? It’s not even certain if an alternative architecture will ever fully replace it

        • sepi
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          x86 has been dead for years. y’all are using amd64. Or do y’all not know the difference?

        • @[email protected]
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          65 hours ago

          To me x86 is currently in similar position to internal combustion engine cars. We are already almost certain some of the alternatives available right now are better.

          The reason ICE/x86 seem better is that they have the benefit of being greatly optimised due to years of market dominance pulling billions if not trillions of dollars into research. Some company has to sacrifice a lot of money to get the ball rolling on new tech as it is very difficult for an emerging technology to break old tech dominance. However considering Apple seems to be pulling similar numbers on a way less developed architecture I d say we might be close.

          • sepi
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            13 minutes ago

            x86 has been dead for years and you have been using amd64

          • @[email protected]
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            94 hours ago

            I don’t know enough about the subjects to go into details, but I know enough to say that that is reductive. ARM/alternatives are not inherently better, at least not universally. And, especially because of the inertia, I do not expect x86 to be fully replaced on the desktop any time soon. The motivations behind companies such as Apple using ARM likely have more to do with licensing than anything else

            It’s probably more useful to think of x86 and ARM as slightly different tools that are slightly better suited to different tasks. Desktop, server (and possibly high-performance) computing are x86’s specialty, and I do not expect it to be replaced

            All-in-all, from what I know, the practical differences between ARM and x86 are nowhere near large enough to be compared to something like the electric vs internal combustion engine. It’s probably closer to a difference of, say, a typical train and a subway

            But, please read up on this yourself. I am not an expert in hardware, this is just what i casually picked up as a layperson

            • sepi
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              12 minutes ago

              x86 is dead. Has been for years. You’ve been using amd64. I am not referring to ARM

        • sepi
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          17 minutes ago

          What are you smoking? x86 has been gone for years. Y’all are using amd64.

  • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
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    1289 hours ago

    This was always the inevitable outcome of capitalism. Just some rich lying dipshit buying the world.

    • @alsu2launda
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      I think elons would be needed to be broken down by government like the Rockefellers.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah.

        And there’s a very good chance that Elon spends his waning years in and out of every court, trying to stay out of jail.

        Source: Rockefeller’s biography.

        And that’s actually the optimistic version, from Elon’s perspective. There’s been plenty of rich assholes in history that didn’t have to worry about the courts.

        • sepi
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          75 hours ago

          Epstein doesn’t have to worry about the courts anymore

        • @[email protected]
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          I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

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            Yeah. Rockefeller pretty much owned the government in his heyday, too.

            And then at some point he didn’t anymore. Money can buy power, but it does run out eventually.

            Rockefeller was a lot smarter than Musk, and got a bit ahead of it with publicity stunt donations, before his influence ran out.

            Musk thinks he can achieve a better outcome by controlling the media or the courts.

            I think it’s objectively true that controlling the media does work, but I also think Musk wildly overestimates his own competence, and is in for a worse time than Rockefeller had.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 hours ago

          Not doing to happen in this political climate. The robber barons has nothing in the tech companies.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      He hasn’t bought it yet, maybe everyone else will stay buying Intel stocks after this news and it’ll get too expensive for him.

  • @EvilBit
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    No responsible board should sell as much as a paper clip to this sociopathic weenis piss baby.

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      What? It worked out for Twitter shareholders though.

      What bothers me about all these political posts is when people act surprised when profit seeking people act purely in their self interest.

      I agree it’s bad, but it’s weird to be constantly mad about things so obvious like parasites acting parasitically.

    • @breakingcups
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      Now give me an example of a corporate board at Intel’s scale being responsible when given the choice between being responsible or buttloads of short-term profits.

          • @Skyrmir
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            117 hours ago

            McAfee was a solid product in the beginning, it turned to crap after it’s admittedly crazy founder sold it off.

            • @Kvoth
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              Yeah, dude is straight bat shit, but he made a good product. Buying McAfee wasn’t the mistake, ruining it was

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      Responsible to who?
      Of course they will sell if there’s a profit to be made. Companies exist to make profits, if they can make a profit from it, it’s actually their responsibility to the shareholders to do it.

      Maybe you mean responsible in some way that has to do with morals, but if you think morals apart from staying within the law, have any say in this whatsoever, you are being very naive. That’s not at all how the system works.

      That said I don’t see any other way than corruption for Musk to be interested. Musk buys Intel, and Trump doubles the subsidies to Intel and give them extra sweet government contracts. And everybody profit, except the stupid taxpayers including those that voted Trump.

      Only the law helps super capitalist narcissists to stay at least somewhat within moral norms.
      And in USA the law doesn’t even count anymore. So there you go, everything is fucked up, until Americans figure it out. Which means it will be fucked up for a loooong time.

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    Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.

    Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.

    Bad vibes, I say.

    For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

    Tldr - it’s a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.

    AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.