I do not like that both "ARM" and "AMD" begin with the letter A. I do not like this because sometimes people abbreviate "ARM" as "A" but the major competing platform to ARM is AMD64 and I get confused.
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@mcc because both Intel and AMD make processors for AMD64, I like to call it IA64
AMD should get bought by *picking a name randomly* Binance. Wait. Wait no. No i take it back I TAKE IT BACK
@mcc more than once burnt an ARM ISO by accident
@mcc Since AMD64 is popular on personal computers, I just abbreviate it as PPC (Personal PC).
@mcc I do keep wondering if it's just me that's incredibly easily confused by lots of names in the same setting beginning with the same letter
@mcc To disambiguate, one could use "A" for one architecture and "M" for the other .... 🤔
@mcc I still reasonably frequently download arm64 images instead of amd64 images, and vice-versa :(
@mcc i have never seen people abbreviate ARM as A.
@dysfun@treehouse.systems @mcc@mastodon.social The only place where this is true is AArch64
@mcc I lean toward "ARM64" (or "A64" for brevity) and "X64" (as a descendant of x86/i32), but I don't think that's at all common usage...