The PC was new. There were only Intels in PCs. Linux was made for the PC.
Backstory: Prof. Tanenbaum was teaching operating systems. His example was MINIX (his own academic example). This motivated one student to try to make a new operating system for PCs, doing some things like the professor, and other things quite differently. This student knew the specifics of the Intels and used them good for performance etc.
Without Intel processors, Linux wouldn’t have been possible in the first place.
But today we have good processors from many different manufacturers. The Linux community must, and can, stay alive even without the support of one major player.
I don’t believe you! (that it is coincidential)
:)
I’d like to lower my power usage, if possible
40 cores of Xeon E5-2680
So there are your power whores. TDP 4 x 115 W. But they are old and very poor…
my load average is less than 1
… because nobody ever comes to visit them. Kindly give them the boot.
my knowledge of desktop technology
No worries. You don’t need to go that far :) At least don’t touch things that have “Gaming” as their firstname. Just look for some (nearly) modern CPU(s) because they are so much more power efficient, and spend some hours at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/
An example from the other end: my current server runs an Intel G4560T (35W). My next server will get 1 or 2 Ryzen 5825U’s (15W each).
That’s because it’s mostly blah, blah.
Florida inmates have access to emails
abundant luxury there…
in a flat dry desert
Hopefully you are free not to live there…
everything else we’ve used so far (nearly all Lithium based).
We have used water before lithium, and it isn’t bad at all.
Buy 10 rubber masks that resemble your own face. Wear one, sometimes. Make sure all your friends know that! Sell the other 9 pieces somewhere, anonymously.
Then you can say: their evidence is worthless, because that camera has never seen my real face. You can never know if it was me.
Watch them try to prove anything ;-)
Didn’t know that ml still exists LOL
People are actually asking a text generator for such advice?
The only one who sells L4 to real people currently is Mercedes.
VW doesn’t operate. They rather sell the cars that they build. So what’s your problem with that?
operating
So?
L5 autonomy.
Nobody has that yet.
All the real carmakers.
Currently the German ones may be the techology leaders, and some Chinese brand may be the market leader - but I’m no expert, I just see what everybody can see.
the go-to name for autonomous driving
Only inside Usa.
than you would expect.
The cause might be somewhere in your expectations…
Asimov had quite a different idea.
What if robots become like humans some day?
That was his general topic through many of his stories. The three laws were quite similar to former slavery laws of Usa. With this analogy he worked on the question if robots are nearly like humans, and if they are even indistinguishable from humans: Would/should they still stay our servants then?
We need to learn from it.
Similar attacks may be possible against our industry.
ARMs are coming. RISCV are coming. Some Chinese brands have been seen, too.