Ahem, it's not really running on an Apple ][e if you're using the Z80 card. That's an entire computer on an add-on board.

Yeah, because THE GOVERNMENT BUILT THOSE HOMES.

The Canadian government used to build housing because of COURSE builders want to make a profit, and there's no profit in providing homes for the poor. When the austerity budgets hit in the 90s, the funding to build those homes went away. The responsibility for building homes has been pushed off onto provincial and municipal governments. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunda...

Stop giving the capitalists more money to do this stuff. They never will. They don't want to. If it's profitable for people to be homeless (and it is; our current system requires the constant reminder that you could be homeless to scare you into accepting even the worst jobs) then it doesn't matter if the regulations are relaxed or there's innovation funds. None of those homes go to the poor.

Even when you put conditions on a development--like the developer has to build some low-cost housing as well--they'll build the luxury condos first, then sell the part of the development that was supposed to go to low cost housing and it never gets built.

Speaking of JPEG XL, Whatever happened to JPEG 2000?

After checking out, the receipts took hours to be produced so I was wondering if they were being reviewed by humans. I seem to remember that Amazon Fresh said the system was automated but it's interesting to learn there were 1,000 people watching the cameras.

I half agree with you, and I fully agree with you for all of the part where you're saying that Musk is just a billionaire that's playing us.

But EVs now will get better. The batteries will get lighter and cheaper and there are places where the grid is shit but everyone has started installing solar and batteries at home because it means more stability. But BE cars and trucks are hugely heavy, destroy the roads, and require an upgrade in DRIVING infrastructure. Turns out a 9000lbs BE Hummer is too heavy to be stopped by conventional guardrails at 100km/hr. Forget about the cost to upgrade the grid, we're already so far behind on keeping the roads in good repair and BEVs are NOT helping.

Honestly, the best solution for the environment will be electric bicycles. I've seen a couple analyses done, and you can make a good argument that the lifetime emissions of an electric bike are LESS than those for a conventional bicycle when you take into account the diet of the rider. Turns out electric motors are so good for that sort of thing that you have to be a very small vegan to have any chance of out-performing the electric bike.

And at that point, the stability of the grid will be even less of a concern. Electric vehicles are the future, I just hope it's mostly bikes.

USENET posts?! What is this, an article from 1997?

I think you will find plenty of GNU software in the "Help...About" menu, and in the command line console it sure does look like GNU/Linux to me.

About that e-waste thing: I have several Chromebooks that I really liked over the past decade and a half but after three to five years the batteries wear out. It's almost like they're planned to wear out once Google support runs out.

I hate basically everything about gmail. Other than the reliability, the UI and filters are honestly terrible. I'm forced to use it at work (in the web interface), and good luck getting it to filter multiple exact strings, and it definitely can't filter anything based on X-header information. It's a wonder to me that it can be so bad and still be so ubiquitous, but it's big and free and has momentum and it does have extremely good uptime.

I had their free hosting for many years, and I'm glad I pay someone else to do it now. People are so used to how bad gmail is they don't realize that life can be better. (That said, I don't know what the other free options are like; I presume that they have similar limitations.)

Here's a technical discussion over at Reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Catas...

What about the Cyrix people?

I'm curious how many of the original Cyrix engineers are still working and are they also at Intel or are they at VIA?

The internal competition between Cyrix and Centaur around the time of the VIA acquisition would be a good book to read.

Loongson is still a MIPS derivative, not "indigenous" as they like to call it.

At least it's multicore now, so there's that.

Sure, and so do my handheld game devices that use 128 GB and 256 GB cards.

I use Rufus on Windows to format them but pretty much any other utility can do it (and I'm just guessing the latest versions of FORMAT.EXE can do it, too).

For whatever reason these handheld game devices come with 64 GB SD Cards formatted with FAT32 in a clear demonstration of how the FAT32 limitation can be exceeded, even if it's not the most efficient way to store data because the cluster size (minimum file size) gets kinda large.