blastdoor

Here's the thing about Zuckerberg -- he believes in nothing other than his own self-interest and will say or do anything, without shame, to advance his self interest. If circumstances require him to apologize, he will apologize. He will literally say whatever anybody wants to hear if that results in him getting what he wants. 

I've heard it said that sociopaths are made while psychopaths are born. I suspect he's a psychopath. 

netrox said:

That is why I am working on deactivating my Meta accounts. I am so fed up with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and their stances on many topics that are simply incompatible with my values.  

A consideration -- if you deactivate or delete an account, someone else can create one using your name/id. That might not be ideal. 

The thing that hurts Meta and X is if you just don't use your account and don't look at any content/ads on their platforms. That's really the key. 

DAalseth said:

Two years ago I snagged a M2Pro MM off of the Refurb page. The Refurb discount mostly offset the extra cost of the 16GB of RAM and bigger drive, and the Pro chip was a bonus. This is a solid little computer that takes whatever I throw at it. I expect to keep it beyond 2030.

I also bought an M2Pro MM refurb, but with 32 GB of RAM and the 2 TB of storage. It's a great little machine. 

If Apple would update the Studio on the same schedule (or at most a couple months delay), I'd spring for a Studio Ultra. But I'm really starting to think the way for me to go is to just buy a new Pro Mini every two years and spread my work across multiple minis (that works for my workloads). It's not as elegant as having a single brawny beast, but I think I might end up with a lot more processing bang for my buck. 

So... I'm seriously thinking about adding an M4 pro to my MM collection, and due to geopolitical concerns, maybe sooner than I otherwise would have. 

mpantone said:

This is such a strange statement from AMD, Apple was using integrated graphics in their early Intel-powered notebooks.

Today's Apple Silicon is a descendant of the A-series SoCs so it's not like Apple had the sudden epiphany of integrated graphics when they launched the M-series silicon.

This AMD guy is trying to take credit for something that wasn't AMD's doing. It's worth pointing out that Apple also used discrete Nvidia GPUs years ago. His braggadocio is nonsense.

So weird.

APU isn’t just integrated graphics. It’s GPU compute in the same memory space as the CPU. Apple first used opencl i(ie, gpu compute) n 2009 on the Mac and released metal in 2014. The first PowerVR GPU to support opencl was from 2011. 

9secondkox2 said:

Amd is talking out of their butts again. 

Apple has been doing the SOC thing way back since they combined Samsungs cpu with a power vr GPU in the iPhone. 

Then They made their own and dominated iPhones and tablets. Then put it in Macs - and dominated the pc space. 

Apples been not only talking about it, DOING it for a long time. 

AMD needs to get honest about thst. They copied Apple’s idea. Only talking about the pc space is pretending that apple hasn’t been already doing this. They just had to wait until the tech was powerfully enough to whoop on AMD and Intel. Before putting the phone and tablet SOCs in Mac’s. 

AMD bought ATI, motivated by a vision for APUs, in 2006.