It’s DSL, so the speed depends on line length. To reliably get 250M you’re probably doing fibre to the footpath outside the building.

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Smeg-heads do be like that.

The market isn’t growing due to demand, though. AI is being pushed by businesses and investors hoping that demand will appear in the future. They’re burning through tons of cash, not growing naturally due to user interest.

I just wish each video decoder manufacturer didn’t feel the need to create their own API that isn’t supported by anything.

Sudden onset defenestration. It’s an epidemic.

the ICQ age

There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!

IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.

The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.

To be fair, those cars don’t just get set on fire when they’re done with them. They’re supplying the used car market.

It’s a terrible idea financially, but it isn’t actually wasteful.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.

Probably because they insist on replacing the browser’s right click menu with theirs, and web pages can’t just grab the clipboard contents for security reasons.

Current capacity, safety and power delivery are fine for most purposes, really.

LFP batteries really solved battery fires - they can’t produce their own oxygen like older NMC batteries, so they just get really hot and die instead of going off like fireworks.

Once you get past 300 miles, you’re pushing the limits of the average bladder and you need to stop before the car does.

With current electric trucks, if you’re doing some city driving and plug the truck in when you take a break, a truck driver will run out of hours before the truck runs out of range.

EVs are even better - you’re fully in control of the power, without an engine and transmission imposing a bunch of limits and power bands based on engine RPM and vehicle speed.

You actually get the experience that automatic transmissions promise but fail to deliver. If you want power, press the pedal. If you want more power, press the pedal more. That’s it. No power fade, surges, hiccups as it shifts, etc.

I prefer a manual to an automatic, but they’re both obsolete. Electric motors just do as they’re told.

I wonder if they’re going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

Because then they’ll actually need to do recalls instead of just patching issues with an update.

Those people who can’t pay aren’t really worth anything to advertise to, though.

Mmm. It’s going to be a bit of an uphill battle for manufacturers, though - not everyone has wifi signal in their laundry, that’s not a part of the house that you usually hang around in.

“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.”

- Richard M. Stallman

As an EV driver, this sounds like someone talking about how they preferred the days when you had to have a feel for the temperature and pressure of your steam engine, hear the hiss of the steam, really feel the heat from the firebox.

Your distro can also decide what version to be on for each package. Slackware regularly rolls back a broken package until upstream fixes it.