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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #266 on: June 10, 2025, 10:03:59 PM »
I miss the days when “AI” meant Allen Iverson
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #267 on: June 11, 2025, 09:30:25 AM »
I miss the days when AI meant "futuristic gibberish."

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« Reply #268 on: June 12, 2025, 11:01:24 AM »
Don't know if this goes here or in the Grumpy Old Man thread.

What do you do about all the dual-factor authentication these days if you don't want a smart phone?  I've thought several times that the next phone I get will be an old flip phone with only call and text capability.  But everything at work, like logging in remotely via VPN and a number of other things requires me to enter a code on my phone on an app called Duo Mobile.  And personal things, like signing into my Google account on a new/foreign device requires me to enter a code on my phone's native OS (not through any specific app).  There's probably other things I'm not thinking of.

It's like jobs and major services force you to have a smartphone.  I wonder, can that stuff be circumvented or done another way for people who don't have smartphones? 

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« Reply #269 on: June 12, 2025, 11:03:29 AM »
Grumpy Old Man thread
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #270 on: June 12, 2025, 11:29:10 AM »
anybody check out Apple's new big reveal? liquid glass in the new iOS. they are rightfully being made fun of relentlessly for this garbage. Jobs was still alive when they developed the Apple Watch right? Cause I feel like that's the last actually really cool innovative thing they've done and that was decade plus ago.....

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« Reply #271 on: June 12, 2025, 11:46:27 AM »
As usual, Apple stans think Apple invented some new revolutionary innovative device... When Sony, Samsung, and Motorola already had smart watches on the market...

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« Reply #272 on: June 12, 2025, 12:24:42 PM »
As usual, Apple stans think Apple invented some new revolutionary innovative device... When Sony, Samsung, and Motorola already had smart watches on the market...

Oh yeah?  Well who was first to market with this sweet tech, huh?


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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #273 on: June 12, 2025, 12:30:32 PM »
As usual, Apple stans think Apple invented some new revolutionary innovative device... When Sony, Samsung, and Motorola already had smart watches on the market...
Often, first to invent trails first to market a product successfully in terms of popularity and profit.  A lot of the inventions where I worked were borrowed or bought, but they weren't marketed as well.  I used to have a nonApple SW that was "fine", I was gifted an Apple SW which also is fine.  Apple has cache the others lacked.

That may be changing now.  Apple was on the ropes a few years back when Jobs returned.  He got them doing new stuff again.

It's interesting how terms like a "Xerox" or a "Kleenex" or an "Aspirin" are actually brand names that came to mean a certain general kind of product, Coke as well in the South.  Now "iPad" is likely a term like that even if it refers to a Sony.

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« Reply #274 on: June 12, 2025, 01:01:29 PM »
Often, first to invent trails first to market a product successfully in terms of popularity and profit.
Of course. Apple has been absolutely masterful at that. 

I just find it funny how many Apple folks seem to think something isn't actually invented until Apple copies and implements it their way. 

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« Reply #275 on: June 12, 2025, 01:06:07 PM »
Of course. Apple has been absolutely masterful at that.

I just find it funny how many Apple folks seem to think something isn't actually invented until Apple copies and implements it their way.


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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #276 on: June 12, 2025, 01:10:00 PM »
I view Apple more as a marketing company than a tech company.  And in a world where many tech companies are poor at marketing, it works.  

I worked at what many view as the premier marketing company in the world.  I got to know some of the folks in marketing pretty well and worked side by side at times.  It was a very different world.

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #277 on: June 12, 2025, 01:19:33 PM »
Ok nerds, time to earn your keep around here. 

I need a new laptop and processors have moved on 8 different times since the last time I did any research about them, so I'm looking for some quick help. 

Dell website says I can get one with an Intel Core i7-1355U for $400

Or a AMD Ryzen 7 7730U for just $279.99

Or a Intel Core Ultra 9 288V for $750

Of course there's lot of other options that factor into the price, and there's also lots more options.  I'm just throwing out a bit of a range with some different processors that appear frequently.

I feel like I don't need anything too powerful because hopefully in the next year I'm going to build a Ferrari-level desktop, and for the most part I don't do a ton on my home laptop other than basic office work and web surfing.  But I do like to mess with Python and R programming, and I need something that will neatly handle the basic ML algorithms (which, actually, shouldn't be too taxing, my very old laptop handles this just fine.....I don't really need to do any deep learning, neural networks, that kind of thing).  In other words, I can probably get by with something that's "fine," I just don't want "lame." 

Any quick, basic info in layman's terms on any of these processors would be appreciated.  Since I may later build a desktop, I'm inclined to go as cheap as possible here, but since I will use this machine for years to come one way or another, and may need to do at least a few non-Chromebook tasks on it, I don't want something that completely lacks horsepower. 

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« Reply #278 on: June 12, 2025, 01:20:58 PM »
Dell. 

Nothing else is acceptable.

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #279 on: June 12, 2025, 01:22:40 PM »
It's interesting how terms like a "Xerox" or a "Kleenex" or an "Aspirin" are actually brand names that came to mean a certain general kind of product, Coke as well in the South.  Now "iPad" is likely a term like that even if it refers to a Sony.

Toward the end of my marketing degree 1500 years ago, I had to do a research case study on Kleenex.  It was a very intentional thing on their part, for tissues to be commonly referred to as Kleenex.  They spent a lot of money on marketing that and maneuvering public perception/language.  

I think you're right about iPads.  Most people are non-techy, and non-techy people I know tend to call their tablets iPads, no matter what brand they actually are.  Although they're usually actually iPads.  

 

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