My main computer is an M1 MBA and the performance of the Neo is overall about 15% worse than the original M1 MBA https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/i-put-the-macbook-neo-through-the-same-tests-as-i-did-the-macbook-air-m1-i-think-the-results-will-surprise-you

Single core performance is better though, but with 4 fewer cores it falls behind in multi core.

My M1 is not laggy at all even in 2026 and I do an IT degree. It’s my primary machine and it dutifully does everything I throw at it. The only qualifier to my experience is I’ve not updated to macOS 26 (Liquid Glass) as 15 works just fine and I still get security updates.

My personal opinion is the Neo would be perfect for anyone going through college, with all sorts of productivity apps open and browser tabs, but don’t expect more from it.

Reminds me of penisland (dot) com - looks like the domain redirects to some bullshit now but that was a website for pens.

Based on the comments on that article, n+1

Huh, then I wonder why God put all that asbestos in the earth then? And all the arsenic. And all the other lovely toxic minerals that I couldn’t think of in 10 seconds

Text article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-more-capable-than-trump-admin-publicly-acknowledging

I love the sound of this, and so to start it off, I’ve added a very rushed together section on my personal website (and yes, absolutely a plug for my very static website).

It only points to this post’s bookmark list and my personal list of high quality YouTubers, but I do want to maintain a fairly high standard of things I’d want to link there, which is why I’ll leave that to a time when I’m less preoccupied.

Man, if I didn’t get out of gaming, this post would have me downloading that pack right away. The combination of older Minecraft (especially from my teenage era) and deeper mods like Tinkers, oh man what a joyous time that would be.

Wow, the days of dodgy toolbar extensions never truly went away. They just evolved to become part of your operating system.

The thing that actually baffles me about this is how this looks in the face of their next major competitor in the consumer market, Apple and their macOS.

macOS (or any other Apple product) has never (to my knowledge) had anything like this and it would be extremely out of character for Apple to suddenly change that. With all other manufacturers raising prices (including the Surface as of today) and the MacBook Neo directly competing with the mid tier PC laptops, this is what Microsoft decides to do?

At some point, one would hope that the average user starts to ask the question, can I have a computer that won’t pull this bullshit on me? But I think unfortunately most typical users (especially anyone daily driving Edge) just think there’s too much friction to move away from Windows, and so they stay, continuing to get fucked in the ass by megacorps.

But hey, I’m not in the running for a free car like them. Not like I’ll install Edge onto my Mac or Arch Linux computer and sync my shit with OneDrive.

I’ve been using What’s Up Docker as an alternative instead. With my containers set up in Yacht, I can check for updates with WUD and then actually update them with Yacht

Oh I’m with you, the tests are precalculated and expect a true to return on something like 99991, this function as expected returns false, which throws the test into a fail.

Thank you for that explanation

I’m struggling to follow the code here. I’m guessing it’s C++ (which I’m very unfamiliar with)

bool is_prime(int x) {
    return false;
}

Wouldn’t this just always return false regardless of x (which I presume is half the joke)? Why is it that when it’s tested up to 99999, it has a roughly 95% success rate then?

Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

Our product is so good, we mandate our employees to use it and watch them closely to make sure they do!

I would never buy brand new from them, but yes, my older devices are Intel because they were second hand and I knew more about them at the time than their AMD counterparts.

I’ve still got a ThinkPad X260 with an i5, and a MacBook Air 11" also with an i5. Those still get daily use from me and I’m not throwing them out because Intel is a shithouse company.

I’m out of the loop on German politics - from the headline, I assumed Germany may have been negotiating with the Taliban to get German’s stuck in Afghanistan back.

But the article contents actually clarify Germany is deporting their own Afghanistan civilians? Are they just racistly saying all Afghani people in Germany aren’t welcome?

There’s always more to the story than what a news article and lawsuit will give, so I think it’s best to keep that in mind with this post.

I maintain that the parents should perhaps have been more perceptive and involved with this kid’s life, and ensuring this kid felt safe to come to them in times of need. The article mentions that the kid was already seeing a therapist, so I think it’s safe to say there were some signs.

However, holy absolute shit, the model fucked up bad here and it’s practically mirroring a predator here, isolating this kid further from getting help. There absolutely needs to be hard coded safeguards in place to prevent this kind of ideation even beginning. I would consider it negligent that any safeguards they had failed outright in this scenario.