Daily Tech News 14 August 2022

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Running Android without Google. (Tom's Guide)

Okay, so the hardware in the two tests reported here is sold by google - the Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 - but the software is two versions of Android - /e/OS and GrapheneOS - stripped of all the Google-specific software and tracking.

You can still install the Play Store and install all your usual apps, and they will (mostly) work the same as before. The one thing highlighted here is that you will lose Google's custom camera app - and this results in a marked drop in photo quality because the software is doing most of the magic there.

But if you want out of the Google trap without losing compatibility entirely, either of these might be a viable option.

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What's coming up in AMD motherboards. (PC Magazine)

AMD launches Ryzen 7000 and the matching Socket AM5 motherboards on September 15, and the motherboard makers have gone beyond leaks to official previews of the hardware.

The new boards will bring a few new features: PCIe 5 for double the I/O bandwidth, DDR5 for about 60% more memory bandwidth, and USB 4 for double the bandwidth there if and when 40Gbps USB devices show up.

10Gb Ethernet also seems to be more common than on the last generation, which is welcome given the paucity of PCIe slots these days.
AMD is also releasing a new range of video cards this year. (Tom's Hardware)

These will offer a lot more compute power than the current generation - two to three times at the high end, but it remains to be seen what that translates to in terms of graphics performance and power consumption. I suspect you'll get something like a 50% improvement at the same MSRP and TDP, with the high-end cards being way out there on both numbers.
Does the Dog Die is a cute idea driven into the ground and then nuked from orbit. (Does the Dog Die)

There's a Twitter account CanYouPetTheDog which simply documents what video games let you pet a dog. That's fun.

Does the Dog Die tries to catalog every potential trigger for the most hyper-neurotic people in existence. That's not fun at all.

Disclaimer: You can pet the dog in Holocure. You'll probably get killed by the swarms of enemies if you try, but you can do it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 yay!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2022 04:02 AM (GkGYg)

2 >>>to catalog every potential trigger for the most hyper-neurotic people in existence. That's not fun at all.

Yes, that's not fun.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2022 04:11 AM (GkGYg)

3 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 04:17 AM (T4tVD)

4 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 04:17 AM (T4tVD)

5 Hiya m !

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 04:17 AM (T4tVD)

6 Morning!

Been awake for a while. Decided to get up and drink coffee.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:31 AM (vd8XM)

7 Slow day in Blogland......

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 04:31 AM (T4tVD)

8 Slow day in Blogland......
Posted by: JT

Back to school doings for so many. The HS here started on Thursday.

They then say, "but they'll be out of school by mid May!"

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:33 AM (vd8XM)

9 Back about 10 years ago, we owned a lake house with another couple in Wis. Best weekend of the year was the weekend before Labor Day.
Most of the Illinois families had school doings starting up and the lake would be almost empty of boats.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:35 AM (vd8XM)

10 The Bee missed an opportunity:

https://nitter.it/ThatmattersNews/status/1558179346455592965

Posted by: Biden's Dog at August 14, 2022 04:39 AM (odVni)

11 I missed the ONT. The first thing I thought of with the Australia Google driving directions mishap (a family ended up stuck on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere) was the Death Valley Germans, a family of tourists who vanished without a trace in 1996. Their car was discovered months later in a remote corner of the park. As best as can be determined they were using an outdated map and going for a shortcut to get to California. Years later a couple of guys obsessed with the case went searching and found the adults' remains (just a few bones) and several items like a driver's license.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at August 14, 2022 04:40 AM (kWPzI)

12 Years later a couple of guys obsessed with the case went searching and found the adults' remains (just a few bones) and several items like a driver's license.
Posted by: JuJuBee,

But, the adults had an "I Voted" sticker on them from the previous month

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:42 AM (vd8XM)

13 Blood oranges...

Did Pixy bring any?

I need some

Posted by: Miklos likes Cochinita Pibil at August 14, 2022 04:47 AM (hXIvZ)

14 Benn cat napping since 3am, might as well get uo

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2022 04:47 AM (k8B25)

15 Back to school doings for so many. The HS here started on Thursday.

They then say, "but they'll be out of school by mid May!"

Posted by: Bruce

So how can I get High School Cheerleaders to buy me beer?

I got the money

Posted by: Miklos gets confused about the drinking age at August 14, 2022 04:49 AM (hXIvZ)

16 JT

Posted by: is now for Hiyatimings at August 14, 2022 04:52 AM (hXIvZ)

17 Miklos !

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 04:55 AM (T4tVD)

18 So how can I get High School Cheerleaders to buy me beer?

I got the money
Posted by: Miklos

A sooper kool tricked out van?

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:58 AM (vd8XM)

19 A sooper kool tricked out van?
Posted by: Bruce

Down by the river!

Posted by: only moderately creepy Old Man Miklos, thwarting the Scooby kids by buying their van at August 14, 2022 05:13 AM (hXIvZ)

20 8 Slow day in Blogland......
Posted by: JT

Back to school doings for so many. The HS here started on Thursday.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 04:33 AM (vd8XM)

I was wondering why it was all so slow around here and other sites I check.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2022 05:14 AM (RtN13)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 14, 2022 05:15 AM (ENBF0)

22 https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2022/08/
welcome-to-united-stasi-of-america.html

Dip is always a good short read

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2022 05:16 AM (k8B25)

23 Kamala, our daily ~~dose~~ doze:

https://nitter.it/stillgray/status/1558575476427198464

Posted by: Biden's Dog at August 14, 2022 05:24 AM (odVni)

24 The one thing highlighted here is that you will lose Google's custom camera app - and this results in a marked drop in photo quality because the software is doing most of the magic there.

I didn't know that that the cameras were so reliant on software.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 05:24 AM (vd8XM)

25 Kamala, our daily dose doze:

https://nitter.it/stillgray/status/1558575476427198464
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Geez. Reminds me of corporate meetings and the verbiage they would use to soften the blow (heh) before a 20% reduction in labor to improve the bottom line.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 05:28 AM (vd8XM)

26 Or the time my wife and I went to a neighbors start up church, because we're nice people, for there grand opening. Our neighbor was the pastor. He talked in much the same way during his sermon(?). My wife and I looked at each other about a half hour into the service.

You could hear our eyes roll.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 05:33 AM (vd8XM)

27 Morning, y'all. A fusion testbed in CA managed to achieve ignition (it happened last year but it took a year to write the per reviewed articles) that lasted for at least a couple of nanoseconds.

They haven't been able to duplicate the result again. Uh huh.

Starlink's terminals are hackable, and can then even be used to try and hack the satellites. Starlink released a 'fix', the finder of the weakness sez the flaw is inherent in the terminal chip. He got paid a bounty by Starlink, and then released all the step by step details of the hack. Swell.

Oh, and SpaceX launched another 46 Starlink sats, just a week after launching 53 or 54. Starlink is approved for 12k sats, and is already well over 3k in orbit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2022 05:38 AM (JOtiF)

28 Good morning morons

Mexico is collapsing. US citizens are urged to shelter in place in Tijuana as the cartels ratchet up their violence, they attacked civilians at random in Juarez yesterday killing 9.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2022 05:45 AM (EZebt)

29 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 05:49 AM (Z/jzm)

30 Hiya MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 05:50 AM (T4tVD)

31 Hey, JT!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 05:51 AM (Z/jzm)

32 Mexico is collapsing. US citizens are urged to shelter in place in Tijuana as the cartels ratchet up their violence, they attacked civilians at random in Juarez yesterday killing 9.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Book your Mexico vacation now!

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2022 05:52 AM (vd8XM)

33 My sister and nephew arrived last night from AZ. We're heading to the great U.P. this morning for mom's burial tomorrow.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 05:54 AM (Z/jzm)

34 I've been to Baja and Guerrero often in my youth, but wouldn't think of it today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2022 05:54 AM (EZebt)

35 Sister will be here a week. She is a bit freaked out about staying in mom's room. Lol. I wonder if she slept at all!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 05:56 AM (Z/jzm)

36 My sister and nephew arrived last night from AZ. We're heading to the great U.P. this morning for mom's burial tomorrow.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Prayers up....

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

37 Its refreshingly cool out thar....

Posted by: JT at August 14, 2022 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

38 Thanks, JT. It'll be a nice send off for mom. She deserves that.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 05:59 AM (Z/jzm)

39 Grace for trials - A Christian devotional from "Our Daily Bread":

https://tinyurl.com/3544mxdf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2022 06:02 AM (yAgb6)

40 May your mom's memory be a blessing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2022 06:02 AM (EZebt)

41 KRAK OF DAWN HAS ARRIVED

Posted by: Skip advising you of your Nood threads at August 14, 2022 06:02 AM (k8B25)

42 22 https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2022/08/
welcome-to-united-stasi-of-america.html

Dip is always a good short read
Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2022 05:16 AM (k8B25)

It looks like Sarah (Sarah Elizabeth!) posts on Dip as well

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 14, 2022 06:04 AM (mdjgu)

43 Growing up, sister always thought this house was haunted. Weird stuff would happen that convinced her. (I'm not entirely sure she's wrong.) Anyway, I've had off of work all last week due to my burn injuries of 2 weeks ago, (they got infected - it was kinda scary) and I stayed here because mom's house is closer to the burn center i've had to go to daily.

I can report, no weird happenings while I've been here.since mom died.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 06:04 AM (Z/jzm)

44 Thanks, San Fran

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 06:05 AM (Z/jzm)

45 28 Mexico collapsing under cartel violence. Just think, PDT wanted to start drone strikes on cartel HQs. Somehow, the smart people in Deep State figured that wouldn't accomplish anything (except slowing down some grift no doubt coming in from down Mexico way).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 14, 2022 06:08 AM (lz5hY)

46 Prayers for travelling mercies for MLII and others going up to UP for her mom,'s memorial service.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2022 06:12 AM (yAgb6)

47 Thank you, Fen. Much appreciated.

Hope all is well with you

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 06:14 AM (Z/jzm)

48 43 I've had off of work all last week due to my burn injuries of 2 weeks ago, (they got infected - it was kinda scary) and I stayed here because mom's house is closer to the burn center i've had to go to daily.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 06:04 AM (Z/jzm)

Bless you on all that you're doing.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2022 06:16 AM (RtN13)

49 I won't say it's been easy, but I would do it all again. She was a genuinely nice person and a wonderful mom. She deserved a much better end of life than she was given with the suffering with dementia. My comfort is that she probably didn't know. At least not the last year.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 14, 2022 06:22 AM (Z/jzm)

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