Month: February 2022

In den letzten 20 Jahren hat Grönland 1,2 Zentimeter zum Meeresspiegelanstieg beigetragen. Tendenz: Zunehmend

Wer noch 2022 einen VW mit Elektroantrieb haben will, muss sich beeilen: Händler erhalten nur noch geringe Stückzahlen des ID.3 und ID.4. (Volkswagen ID., Tron)

Der elektrische Bus von Volkswagen wird viel teurer als gedacht. Der E-Bulli ID Buzz soll rund 60.000 Euro vor Förderung kosten. (Volkswagen ID., Elektroauto)

Provokationen, Ignoranz und Rechtsbrüche bestimmen die Politik in Belfast. Das Konfliktpotenzial ist erheblich

Überlegungen zur außerparlamentarischen Opposition, die derzeit im Angebot ist

Chinese PC maker Chuwi has a history of offering small, affordable computers including laptops, tablets, and compact desktop PCs. Some keep the price low by tapping entry-level processors like Intel’s Atom-based Celeron and Pentium Silver chips. Others tap processors that are a few generations old instead.

The Chuwi LarkBox X takes the latter approach. It’s a 5″ x 5″ x 1.9″ desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 3000 series processor. The LarkBox X is available from Amazon for $399.

For that price you get a small desktop computer with 8GB of DDR4-2400 memory and a 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSD, both of which are user upgradeable. When Chuwi first launched the Larkbox X in February, the company shipped it with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700U 15-watt processor, but at the end of April, 2022 the company updated the processor to a 35-watt Ryzen 7 3750H chip.

Both are 4-core, 8-thread processors with AMD Zen+ CPU cores and Radeon Vega 10 graphics. But the H-series chip should offer better sustained performance under heavy load.

One thing to keep in mind though, is that while Chuwi sent me a press release indicating that the LarkBox X now ships with a Ryzen 7 3750H processor, the Amazon product page still shows a Ryzen 7 3700U processor, so either the page needs updating, or Chuwi may still have some old models to clear out… so it’s a little unclear which model you’d get if you placed an order today.

Chuwi has also updated the mini PC’s wireless card from an Intel AC7265 card to an AMD RZ608 module, which means that new models should support WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 (an improvement from WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2.

The LarkBox X has a selection of ports that includes include:

• 4 x USB 3.0 Type-A
• 1 x USB Type-C (w/4K@30Hz video output)
• 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
• 1 x HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz)
• 1 x DisplayPort (4K@60Hz)
• 1 x 3.5mm audio
• 1 x DC power input

Chuwi says the system can support up to three displays at once and the system also comes with a wireless card that supports WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2.

While the Ryzen 7 3750H processor is a few years old at this point, having been released in early 2019, it’s faster than a cheaper Intel Atom-based chip like the current-gen Intel Pentium Silver N6005 and offers better multi-core performance than an Intel Core i3-1115G4 Tiger Lake processor (although Intel’s Core i3 chip comes out on top in single-core tests. So there are probably worse options for folks looking for a small, cheap laptop that can function as a 4K media streamer or home media server, among other things.

Chuwi’s marketing materials brand the LarkBox X as a gaming PC, which seems a little ambitious though. With a laptop-class 14nm processor featuring Zen+ CPU cores Radeon Vega 10 integrated graphics, and no option for a discrete GPU, the computer is probably only suited for game streaming or for playing older or less graphically-intense PC games.

This article was first published February 6, 2022 and most recently updated April 26, 2022.

via AndroidTVBox

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Die Bevölkerung des ostasiatischen Inselreichs hält sich überwiegend an Empfehlungen. Sonst wurde auf strikte Einreisebeschränkungen gesetzt und wenig getestet

After we published an article about the prolonged downtime at the ETTV torrent site, the operator has confirmed what many users already feared.

Another piracy icon bites the dust.

“The website is shut down indefinitely. I couldn’t afford to run it anymore. I will not renew the domains,” ETTV informs TorrentFreak.

ETTV Shuts Down

These comments come from ‘sidekickbob,’ an admin who took over the helm when the original ETTV operator disappeared two years ago. With his financial support, the site and the upload bots remained operational for a while but this was never meant to be permanent.

Initially, sidekickbob had hoped to sell the site to a reputable third party who could keep it intact. This is still an option but since nothing material happened, the road ends here for now.

“It was a hard decision to make. The site had around 250 thousand loyal visitors a day, and many uploaders were uploading daily since the beginning of it all,” sidekickbob says.

ETTV certainly wasn’t the most popular torrent site online but it had a dedicated team of uploaders and loyal visitors. ETTV’s upload bots also built quite a track record. Torrents with the ETTV and EtHD tags were also shared on dedicated accounts at third-party sites such as 1337x and The Pirate Bay.

This has come to an end as well.

ETTV History

The ETTV group became active in 2011 at the now-defunct ExtraTorrent site. It started as an alternative to the original EZTV group, which was dominant at the time, and the goal was to get TV-show releases out much quicker.

ETTV at ExtraTorrent

ETTV wasn’t meant as competition. They had a lot of respect for the original EZTV group. However, they simply wanted to improve ‘pirate’ release windows.

“At the time the real EZTV was still active. They released stuff hours after it was released from The Scene, leaving sites to wait very long for shows to arrive in public,” ETTV told us previously.

While ETTV is commonly referred to as a “group,” it was initially a one-person operation. This person configured the script which automatically grabbed Scene releases, put them on a seedbox, and posted the related torrents on torrent sites.

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It didn’t take long before pirates got wind of the new distribution ‘group’ and demand for the torrents quickly exploded. This meant that a single seedbox was no longer sufficient to keep everything running smoothly.

Luckily for ETTV, several people offered to help out and the ExtraTorrent owners chipped in with financial support to keep the operation going.

When ExtraTorrent voluntarily shut its doors in 2017, the ETTV and EtHD groups became homeless. They continued to upload to other torrent sites, however, and a few months later they launched their own website.

ETTV site when it launched

Things seemed to go well until the operator of the site disappeared. This is when sidekickbob stepped up. He kept the site and bots functional for nearly two years, despite the ever-present legal pressure.

However, it was clear from the start that it would be hard to keep ETTV online without financial resources. These funds eventually dried up now and, after more than a decade, the group’s road ends here.

“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” sidekickbob says.

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Der Elektroroller Zero-One von Naon soll durch interessante Detaillösungen und eine hohe Reichweite die Elektromobilität auf zwei Rädern voranbringen. (Elektroroller, Technologie)

"Die Trümmer einer Fassadendemokratie": Zur Kritik der herrschenden Meinung und der Kernaufgabe der Medien