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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This is exactly why I said it may make sense for laptops, where mobile chips like rx6600 mobile will still be better performance wise, but you don’t have to worry about thermal throttling with igpus. This is nice for graphics intensive tasks on the go, but with the right laptop design I think a dedicated mobile GPU will still be the better option as a mobile workstation.

    If the 15in laptop is too big, there’s many 14in laptops with mobile GPUs better than iGPUs; again, at the cost of increased thermal throttling. So if your goal is to play a game on battery with the laptop on your lap, and you want to optimize for price and size, then an APU will make sense.




  • With 200K+ homeless, 40M would mean 200$ per person; that’s enough to maybe cover 2 weeks of rent, after which they will be homeless again unless they find a job to cover for it.

    How much is enough then? Well, the 1.1B budgeted in 2021 and 500M for 2022-2023 is definitely an improvement, but it’s unclear what the impact is, in retrospective, as there have not been any reliable statistics on how many homeless there are, how they are receiving help, why they were homeless in the first place. It’s unclear what proportion of the money is used to create new housing, given directly to the homeless, provided to non-profit without string attached, or used in specific programs (food bank/stamp, rehab, mental health centers, etc.)

    The best way to learn more about it is to directly be involved in volunteering opportunities to help the homeless, which is much more effective than complaining about wo the government should be caring about.