Daily Tech News 23 June 2023

• LexisNexis is providing bulk personal records to ICE without so much as a hint of a warrant, specifically so that ICE can target people who have not actually committed any crimes. (The Intercept)
  
  Ctrl-F precrime: No results.
  
  Ctrl-F fascism: No results.
  
  The Intercept? More like the Internept. Internot? Something like that. What good are you?

• Windows 11 is garbage.
  
  When I get back home, Tanya the Evil is getting a Windows 10 upgrade.
  
  
  
• Intel has made it official: There won't be a 14th generation desktop chip based on the Meteor Lake architecture this year. (WCCFTech)
  
  There will however be a 14th generation desktop chip based on the Raptor Lake architecture, which is 13th generation, and a 14th generation laptop HX chip based on the Raptor Lake architecture, which is still 13th generation, a 1st generation laptop U/H Ultra chip based on the Meteor Lake architecture, which is 14th generation, and a 1st generation laptop U/H chip based on the Raptor Lake architecture, which as we mentioned earlier is 13th generation.
  
  All clear?
  
  Good.
  
  Don't buy anything.
  
  
  
• The 7840HS in the Beelink GTR7 makes for a potent NUC. (Serve the Home)
  
  They tested it in light gaming such as League of Legends and logged no real improvement over the previous generation GTR6 with a 6900HX processor.
  
  Then they realised that the new model has been tested on 4k resolution instead of 1080p.
  
  
  
• Since I'm back in a big city for a few days I stopped at an electronics store to see if there exists a phone appreciably larger than my Samsung, um, A52 5G I think it is. Not that I have 5G back home in West Wyalong* but I did in Sydney before the move.
  
  Well, I didn't; in fact I barely had any Gs at all. I had five hypothetical Gs, but zero point one actual Gs.
  
  Anyway, no.
  
  No good small tablets either. The sales guys - there were are group of them standing around chatting - paused when I said there were no good small tablets, and then unpaused when I added except for the iPad Mini which I don't want.
  
  I think I might have to get one, though. I have my Samsung A7 Lite with me on this trip as well, and it's just a big bundle of meh.
  
  * May not contain any actual West Wyalong.
  
  
  
• Prism Project has announced its seventh generation of vtubers. (Twitter)
  
  This comes a month after Gen 6, which came a month after Gen 5, which came 18 months after Gen 4, so it seems that someone at Sony finally woke up and remembered that they bought a vtuber agency a couple of years ago. (The exact terms of the deal weren't made public, but day-to-day operations are handle by Sony now and the talents' music is released under the Sony label).
  
  The three new talents are all well-known indie vtubers, which is something Phase Connect also did with its "Phase Invaders" generations, and it's what Kawa Entertainment is all about. Give them a home, let them keep their models and fanbases, and skim a little off the top in return for managing things like music and gameplay rights.
  
  
  
• So apart from Windows 11, Mrs Pixy, how's the new laptop? (The HP Pavilion 14, non-Plus version.)
  
  It's okay. The screen is definitely meh. The CPU is significantly faster than my old laptop (six cores vs. four, so it should be), and it has 64GB of RAM and 4TB of SSD because such things are cheap if you can just find a laptop that is still upgradeable, which is the only reason I got this and not the much nicer but unupgradeable Plus.
  
  Keyboard I'm getting used to, but the screen is not as good as the old laptop even after the old laptop's screen went bad. Battery life is far from spectacular as well.
  
  I brought along a little 65W GaN charger with three USB ports to keep the laptop, phone, and tablet topped up and chugging alone.
  
  It can't do that.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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