Arguably, it's the "news' which got us into this quagmire in the first place.

I can't possibly imagine why anyone would ascribe their "truth" from organizations which have consistently and intentionally lied to the American public. Hubris, I suppose.

I realize you're likely approaching retirement age based on your low slashdot ID (as am I), but the world has not only changed - it's made it apparent that the world we grew up in didn't even exist.

Perhaps you should look into the involvement of various intelligence agencies (CIA, Mossad) in the control and manipulation of various esteemed "institutions of truth" like the New York Times, as it relates to things which were obviously false. Or how many of our vanguard institutions were largely subverted by communist interests.

Babies in incubators, remember that one? How about WMDs in Iraq? Jayson Blair scandal is also notable - and let's not forget the complete fabrication which was Russiagate, paraded by media for months without so much as a verification of fact (which, if had they done it with honesty, would've made the whole thing fall apart). We could go way back, to how they (the NYT) suppressed news of the Soviets were in fact not starving their peasants in the 1920s and 1930s so that we would go to war, or we could dial it forward and the 2020s when the media provided years of cover for the "Chinese biolab" genesis of COVID-19 (which has since been acknowledged). We could also most certainly include the official Charlie Kirk narrative, which the media continues to parrot (when it's mentioned at all), and which has been scientifically confirmed as impossible by numerous forensic investigators (largely based on audio recording).

This is just the NYT, mind you - the broader media establishment is just as culpable. Establishment media has long shied away from truthful reporting, instead pushing sensationalism and ideological alignment.

Online news allows people who care about truth to get ahead of these narratives and see them for what they are, or at the very least consider alternative possibilities, before the lies catapult us into wars and ideological witch hunts.

I suppose you still think Oswald was the lone gunman, too, huh?

It was an unusual campaign in that 95% of campaign promises weren't not just unfulfilled but 180* opposite of policy. Ultimate con man.

But now that Philippines is nearly out of oil China has made overtures to take care of their oil needs which have been defacto accepted.

The quid pro quo isn't stated yet but US caused their oil crisis so this announcement isn't real.

What an odd thing to say.

I rip my DVD and Bluray discs to a NAS and play them with Jellyfin. There's not even an optical player near a TV anymore. The last one died in about 2008.

But I have put some of those files on USB before for the kids.

Used Blurays are about $5 usually and much better quality than any streaming service rental.

The Onn is an excellent device for the money and most questionable aspects can be disabled or piholed. Jellyfin and SmartTube and Projectivy are all fine.

I should go see if LineageOS has added any new low-power devices in the past year. That's the best option but nothing supported was for sale when I last looked.

Exactly.

Somebody said they spent a lot of time and money coming up with a new "nonbinary" mascot.

I started using Firefox over 20 years ago and never had any idea whether the fox was male or female. Since thunderbirds are fictional I'm not sure about the sexual dimorphism of their plumage.

It's hard to understand how they think these days. At least Ladybird will offer a second rendering engine when the bubble pops. Engineering-focused software organizations used to be the norm.

I guess a Ladybird is a female, not that it matters at all. The AI should have Majel Barret's voice anyway.

"Otherwise IPv6 is not in any meaningful way different, better or worse than IPv4."

Tell that to the tech who can't read hex or the guy trying to find a network range in logs using sed/grep on an 80x30 crash cart terminal in a DC, because something broke at 1am.

It is wholly unsuitable to straight up replace IPv4 for these reasons: it isn't a human-accessible protocol.

That's what I meant by "which IPv6?" SLAAC, RAs, DHCPv6, authoritative DNS AAAA with reverse are all basic table stakes to make it useful, which already grossly exceed what small IPv4 business networks have for v4, and there's still another dozen services required to get full interoperability with v4.

And you're forgetting that IPv6 was never intended to run dual stack with v4, that was a hackish afterthought which didn't work for half a damn for over a decade, because v6 wasn't backwards compatible. Needing to deploy v6 to "maintain a global network of peers" is only necessary if IPv6 exists; it serves only the purpose of sustaining itself.

If AMD and Intel were smart, they'd get together with IBM and figure out how to get out of that abusive relationship.

It would likely involve a skunkworks effort to "fix" open source Linux to be a useable desktop. Close it up a bit and then start ripping things out from the top to bottom, then release it as their own thing. LLMs make this much more tenable now than it would've in years past. No reason they couldn't keep the license the same, either.

In a world where "rewrite libreoffice to not be shit" is a tenable project for a small team and individuals are effectively reverse engineering and porting old Windows games to MacOS Apple Silicon in a weekend, I don't see why this couldn't be done. It just requires the intention, these companies have the money to do it.

There's one exceptional gem in the Celeron lineup: the 300A.

You could trivially overclock it about 33% with a FSB kick up from 66MHz to 100MHz, and the CPU had L2 cache (which as you probably recall, basically didn't exist otherwise on Celeron).

They were all just under binned chips, and that 33% was the baseline conservative overclock. It wasn't uncommon to push them past 500MHz with a good cooler. It was the era of peltiers and water blocks starting to take off.

Your mental modality is wired to Windows.

You can get tiling with a 3rd party app, Magnet. It works unobtrusively and I forget it's not native.

There are also Spaces, which is effectively a virtual desktop. It works pretty well. There are numerous tools which make it better (up to full tiling window manager with yabai).

Not sure why you'd complain about the 'out of the box' experience on a desktop OS anymore when there are so many third party options to make it better - particularly when your preference OS is horrible out of the gate on the things which really matter, like stability, memory use, management, and security.

Posting since it was only in the footnotes.

15W might be good for use cases where n1x0 are a bit slow.

I'd consider a mini pc with one of these for kiosk-type applications. I have an n100 platform that gets maxed out with about 8 4K streams running. Would be nice to bump those up to 12 streams without much more power.

The iGPU code for ffmpeg is pretty good.

Hopefully these move beyond laptops later in the year.

That in no way relates to what I said.

"Windows sucks"
"Yeah but linux will work!"

That's a pretty poor argument, considering you can't buy the camera modules for that.

Yeah, but -which- ipv6 is implemented everywhere?

That's the problem. You deploy IPv4 and it works. You deploy IPv6 and... half the internet is black, and almost nothing works. And it's comparably difficult to use - and that makes it meaningfully worse, in both regards.

To get any of the good features of IPv6, the things that make it worth the time, you've got bolt on a half dozen different higher level (OSI) services.

Some colos don't even provide v6 yet.

Some ISP's still don't suport it.

Some classes of network gear only recently got hardware v6 support. Older gear still in service pushes v6 onto the CPU. Probably why those colos and ISP's don't support it.

And I still see important v6 fixes coming in hardware changelogs, mostly on the LAN management stacks (neighbor discovery, mDNS, etc.)

That said, the pieces are finally coming together in the past two years, roughly.

I would bet 2030* will see v6 at around 75% of traffic as that old gear is tricked out and the stacks wind up in maintenance mode.

At home I actually have more light bulbs on v6 than desktops, but that'll change when my switches get too old and tired. I could replace them all right now to change but there would be no benefit to me for dropping three to four grand. None of my home use cases would benefit.

* 2038 if the politicians do actually create a global depression which is looking increasingly likely