A large part of the benefit of being an American taxpayer when living or working abroad was that the USA would absolutely your back diplomatically and use the power of the government to extricated you back to the USA if there were difficult diplomatic situations or in times of violence/war.
If trump is just giving those Americans the finger when they need this help, that would be a severe reduction in the benefit of continuing to be a US citizen outside of the USA.
Carlson missed his chance to take his Fox News derived fortune and disappear from the lime light so he could spend his day getting high of snorting orphan blood or whatever it is these assholes do. Instead he got greedy and doubled down on the fascism. Now he is getting eaten by a monster he helped create.
This joke took me way too long to get. Well done.
We take on the dark contract with the old gods, gaining not only their power, but their damnation.
!ukaB ni gnicar er’ew dna tuo og sthgil ehT
For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.
They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me).
There’s an irony that the most valuable laptops for resale right now are the ones with soldered RAM. Why? Because the socketed units have their RAM stripped for resale separately from the unit. Even corporate fleets are doing this now and the bulk resale laptops are arriving without SSDs and RAM. Which units still have both? Units where both are soldered and not removable.
Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.
Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS.
These sell for $149 USD brand new. A general user would not spend a second of time troubleshooting a failed one. They’d just buy whatever the current model is for $149 which would probably be 4x as fast and with more storage anyway, then pitch the old one in ewaste.
Fair enough. Although Asus sells at least one laptop with 8 GB of soldered RAM, too.
Granted, it’s “only” a Chromebook, but still.
Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.
Soldered RAM is almost always a bad thing, no matter the size. Maybe when it’s the most the mainboard can support it’s not too bad but even then you’re out of luck if it ends up dying.
I used to think that too, but then I realized that the way I use computers (and it sounds like you do too) is to keep a unit a long time, take care of it, and use it to its limits (and perhaps beyond). There are millions of users that don’t do what we do. They may be young kids that end up breaking the unit before 2 years pass. They may be a fashionista that has to change out their unit when the new fall color comes out (so they may not even own it a year). They may be an older person that only uses it to check facebook to keep up with their kids.
In all of these cases soldered RAM is just fine because the user will never reach the point they need to upgrade it. What they get in return for this is cost savings and likely a smaller (thinner?) unit, that is probably a bit more structurally sound (because it doesn’t have to have a door or clips to have the RAM sockets accessible.
For users like you and me, soldered RAM is a bad thing. For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.
I’m agreeing with you.
The trump administration got high on its own supply and believed their own bullshit about a war with Iran being a cakewalk. The US military is not the effective military it was with Hegseth and trump in command of it.
All the charges against all of these folks seem to stem from this one act by one person:
One of the protesters was standing in the woods with an AR-15 and hit [a police officer] in the shoulder. The officer would survive.
The Smithsonian National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas had an extensive exhibit on the Fallout franchise including full sized mock ups of the in-game vault rooms. This is an official Bethesda display.
The gift shop also had Vault tech merch items when I was there in November.
I daily drive my personal Macbook air M2 running Asahi (only booted into OSX twice in the time I’ve owned it). I really like the experience of Linux (Fedora) on Apple hardware.
However, its still got some growing pains before most folks would be happy with it as their primary. One of those limitations abslutely applies to the Neo. Asahi Linux on 8GB of RAM is VERY cramped. I’ve got 24GB of RAM and even I run into limitations sometimes. The other issue is the current maturity level of power management. Asahi does not have full use of the low standby power states. This means that even with “sleep” your battery will exhaust itself in less than a day if its not plugged in. The alternative is to power down the unit entirely, which works fine to save the battery, but means having to open all your applications back up when you power it back up. Since Mac hardware doesn’t use ACPI, hibernation is also not available, which would also be a fine way to address this.
None of this is criticism agianst the Asahi team. They’ve done AMAZING things so far and what exists today is fully usable to me. Improvements also come early and often. The team is amazing!
However, Macbook Neo probably won’t be a good use case for Asahi Linux for the forseeable future.
EEEs were amazing! Not because of their performance or specs, but because they were a fully working compute for dirt cheap at only $199! Remember, these were released 5 years before the first Raspberry Pi. The original model of EEE with its 7" screen 512MB RAM and 4GB of slow SSD storage were plenty of compute for small tasks or portable applications. The cheapest fully functional laptop you could buy at retail those days would still cost you $800-$900 for a pretty horrible machine.
Linux was part of the secret sauce that made them successful because it meant they didn’t have to pay for an OEM Windows XP license.
Yes, because Asus laptops all have non-soldered RAM…
I think what that poster was communicating is that shipping a laptop with 8GB of RAM would be okay if it was socketed (allowing for an upgrade by the user) or if the shipped unit with soldered RAM was greater than 8GB (16GB?, 32GB?,64GB? soldered).
This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.
These days an annual salary of $100k is at the very low end for most IT jobs in the USA (beyond the junior level). Even in my MCOL area $125k-$200k is more common.
You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in tech debt.
It’s worth noting that this is talking about plug in solar, so would be at standard mains voltage.
Thats fair.
At least in the UK, they tend to run 3 phase to a road, but only a single phase goes into a given house. You need to get a special hook up to get 3 phase to a domestic premise, and they don’t like doing it.
TIL about the UK electrical system. Thanks!
I’m at the edge of my knowledge but that sounds like it matches the USA system (for the number of phases).
So cute! How do you hold yourself back from petting her or holding her all the time!?
It eludes to it here:
Putting myself in the place of a victim, if someone calls or txts me randomly claiming to be a bank office that is investigating a problem with my account, I’ll probably dismiss it, or at most make a phone call to my bank (to a phone number I know is the bank, not one they give me).
If instead its a video call where I could clearly see they were in a very convincing bank, I might give it more legitimacy. I probably helps the scammer actors to be in the set to maintain the mindset. They could probably work together with other scammers in the same building something like: “Sir, I’m contacting you from [your bank]. [Police department from another country] has reached out to us because your account flagged for attempting to pay for [illegally imported goods]. I’m sure this is a mistake, but can you jump on this Zoom call I’m in with the officer so we together can make it clear to the officer this is not your doing?”