Daily Tech News 19 September 2022

• The case for my new computer - the limited edition Hololive one - has shipped.
  
  I don't have any parts to go in it, but I'll sort that out in coming months.
  
  One thing: The case is laid out such that the graphics card is vertical, using a right-angle PCIe adaptor. This is common in the kind of flashy show-off cases I don't usually buy, and by usually I mean ever.
  
  The PCIe adaptor is PCIe 4. The CPU, motherboard, and graphics card I'll be buying will all support PCIe 5. I think it will automatically fall back to PCIe 4. If not I will be quite irked.
  
  
  
• Google and Facebook now control only 80% of all online advertising. (The Economist via Archive.org)
  
  Down from 85% previously. The main new competitor is TikTok, which is not an improvement.
  
  
  

• The Verge is the latest site to go in for an ah my eyes what where they thinking design makeover. (The Verge)
  
  It's crap.
  
  
  
• If the polar ice caps melt we can just freeze them again. (Phys.org)
  
  Would cost around $11 billion a year, which is a lot of money to you or me but compared with the insane cost of "Net Zero" is pocket change.
  
  
  
• Xroar is an emulator for all variants of the TRS-80 Color Computer. (Vintage is the New Old)
  
  This was my first computer - the CoCo 2, anyway, which had a real keyboard. 16k of RAM, 16k of ROM, and a 6809 clocked at a zippy 895kHz.
  
  I don't really miss it because my second computer was an Amiga.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:50 AM

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