[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: AVX512-capable laptop

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lauantaina 6. tammikuuta 2024, 18.13.33 EET Lynne a écrit :
> A fire would put me out for much more than a week tbh.

What aboutism much? In this case, you would loose your internet access, and 
potentially spend a long time hospitalised.

You're dodging the real issues here: why should *you* get a laptop? Sure, some 
of the stuff that you do will with high probability become important in the 
medium term (e.g. Vulkan video decoding stuff), but it does not seem so urgent 
as to justify purchasing a second computer. The foundation already invested in 
a well-above average price to equip you with a suitable desktop system for 
your development. It would be far more sensible to spend on updated or 
replacement parts for that system as needed, than to buy a whole new system 
just in case.

Furthermore, there are quite a few key developers and system adminstrators in 
the project whose continued ability to work is at least equally critical.

> Other than that, occasional trips, during which reviews still have to be
> made. Plus, power analysis of whether AVX512 helps on current-gen mobile
> devices. I don't see this as being too big of a thing to ask for,
> considering how much we have and how much we receive each year, and how
> very rarely requests are done. Nor something that deserves a lengthy
> article on the benefits, ergonomics, and ongoing maintenance of desktop
> versus mobile systems.

Indeed, you should not have made the preposterous argument that my points were 
"subjective" when they were not. Then I would not have had to waste time 
elaborating.

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