Some “bootlegs” are licensed and sold in Amazon. Note the manufacturer.

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“Bootleg”

I guess you do understand what the M chip is, which makes your comparison even more surprising. First, comparing a SoC to a GPU is wildly unfair. Second, you are severely underselling exactly how much more energy efficient an M chip is versus a CPU/GPU combo. My PC laptop with an i7 and a 4070 built in will run for about 20 minutes, maybe 30, under a full workload, all the while being hot enough to fry an egg and noisier than a jet engine. Even then, the performance will be trash and get worse as the temps rise. My MBP M3 Max will run a DAW sessions my PC could never dream of, with multiple plugins, on battery, silent, no heat, for a couple of hours without even the hint of a stutter.

All of that said, when it comes to price, Apple’s gonna Apple.

PS: I’m typing this on my phone while the idle i7/4070 laptop is fanning (again, fully idle) because it runs so hot. I might need to start traveling for work again and, if I do, I might need to switch to a MacBook Air for work on the road unless I can find an ultra-slim, powerful yet efficient, high resolution screen, Linux supported laptop. Simply because of the chip. We need an equivalent on the PC side.

I don’t think you quite grasp what an M chip is if you are comparing it to a 4070 Ti.

I believe in using the best tool for the job. For that reason, I use Macs for all my music stuff, Windows if I have to, and Linux for everything else.

My money is on Motorola.

You don’t want finicky but want an Arch based distro? Okie dokie.

Apple’s M chips are amazing. If only there was full Linux support for Apple hardware.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) -
Google said on Thursday that there were likely to be more than 100 companies affected by an ambitious hacking campaign that targeted Oracle’s (ORCL.N) suite of business products, an early assessment that could portend wide-ranging damage.

Google, a unit of Alphabet, (GOOGL.O) said in a statement that “mass amounts of customer data” were stolen in an operation it said may have begun as early as three months ago.

“This level of investment suggests the threat actor(s) responsible for the initial intrusion likely dedicated significant resources to pre-attack research,” the email said.

Google, which has a vast cybersecurity practice alongside its better known search, email and video offerings, noted in a blog post that the group believed to be at the center of the intrusions, CL0P, has a long history of wide-ranging compromises against third party software or service providers.

In a separate statement to Reuters, Google analyst Austin Larsen said that “we are aware of dozens of victims, but we expect there are many more. Based on the scale of previous CL0P campaigns, it is likely there are over a hundred.”

Google said the hackers targeted Oracle’s E-Business Suite of applications, which Oracle clients use to manage customers, suppliers, manufacturing, logistics, and other business processes.

Oracle did not immediately return an email seeking comment. Previously, the company had confirmed that there was extortion activity aimed at its clients. CL0P did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Previously, the hacker group said it would soon be clear that Oracle had “bugged up their core product.”

So is that a lie?

It always was and it will always be. Data is the real commodity and Discord had no intention of wasting it when they could profit from it. This applies to ALL “free” products offered by corporations. You are and have always been the product.

I had to get back to work but I plan to add more to this post if I find others.

Also, you want to use grimtools.com

I taught adult education in college and always introduced people to computing with “DOS for Dummies” even though Windows was the OS they interacted with. By teaching them in a command line only environment first I could then easily teach them the desktop environment because they understood what was going on behind the scenes. I think the same could be done with Linux.