Daily Tech News 13 January 2022

• My Lenovo Tab M8 FHD arrived, and despite some listing weirdness (Amazon has it as a "business laptop" running ChromeOS) it is actually the right thing.
  
  Since it's currently the only small Android tablet with a high resolution screen, and at A$234 including international shipping and taxes it's reasonably priced - less than a third of the cheapest iPad Mini - if it works well I'll buy a second one.
  
  Lenovo has an 8.8" gaming tablet in the works, but nothing showed up at CES so it could be some way off. Samsung's latest small tablet only has a resolution of 1340x800 which is barely better than the 2012 Nexus 7.
  
  
  
• Why you can't hire engineers. (GitHub)
  
  Probability 1: Your company sucks.
  
  Probability 2: Everything else sucks, so even though they are actively looking for a new job because their current company sucks, you need to work twice as hard just to convince them that your company might suck less.
  
  Probability 3: Someone at your company installed Node.js without your knowledge, and now it looms over your headquarters like a great looming thing.
  
  
  
  

• Plausible Analytics is an alternative to Google. (GitHub)
  
  Uses 1k of JavaScript on your website, and the server-side code is written in Elixir, which while not quite a mainstream language is miles ahead of garbage like PHP or Node.js.
  
  Free to download and run yourself, or available as cloud service from $9 per month.
  
  Not a paid ad, just that any solid alternative to Big Tech is worth a mention.
  
  
  
• Intel's new Celeron runs single-threaded tasks as fast as the Core i9-10900K. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Meaning if you only need computer for light use - email, word processing, spreadsheets, web browsing, YouTube - a $42 CPU might be all you need.
  
  
  
• A little upmarket, Intel's i5 12400 makes a good Linux CPU. (Phoronix)
  
  No low-power cores so no performance weirdness, and it's pretty solid on both single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks while keeping power consumption under control.
  
  
  
• Apple fixed a bug that would kill your iPhone if it detected an IoT device with a bad name. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Add Cthulhu to your network Y/N?
  
  
  

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