"And it's leaving the door open to selling people's genes to the highest bidder again in the future..."

How exactly can a person's genes be sold? Do we have slavery once again? Unless you can buy and sell people, people's genes cannot be sold.

"Never mind that Wojcicki and her privacy protocols are what put your DNA at risk in the first place."

No one's DNA is at risk, their personal information is. Why do people say such stupid things, and is is too much to ask for "editors" to do their job? This is literally what editors do, they identify these kinds of errors before they get published.

I'd dispute their claims it's not using an emulator - an FPGA is still an emulator of sorts, not of software but of hardware. But it demonstrates more effort than just slapping a cheap Arm board into a case and calling it a day. An FPGA should be capable of running C64/C128 software almost perfectly, aside from any weird video PAL/NTSC blanking tricks that might not work when output on HDMI.

Since there are already FPGA based C64/C128 boards including one already called Ultimate 64, I wonder if this is just an official rebadge of an existing product perhaps with a matching case to go with it.

I haven't had a word/office license, or even been plagued with a windows machine of any kind, since 5 jobs ago. Maybe the stodgy old legacy grandfathers of tech still use office and windows. But all the startups I've worked for since have all used gSuite (or Google Workspace after the re-branding) for everything the house of gates used to provide. Endpoints have been all either Mac or Linux laptops in that time. At my current startup, windows machines aren't even allowed on the office wifi. And the only microsoft licenses we have for the entire company are a handful of Teams accounts for the devs and QA who work on that integration and one office license for our bookkeeper who for some reason just really, Really, REALLY loves Excel.

Variable names and what constitutes good or bad ones have been a point of contention and flame wars since most of us were toddlers, or even not even born yet. Remember those crusty old neckbeard rants we used to find on BBSs, usenet, and gopher about how "real programmers" don't eat quiche, program in Pascal, can diagnose bugs by watching das blinkenlights on the front panel, and write and deploy their code fixes by using the bit toggles on said front panel to directly change the assembly in-memory? Yeah... those had a lot to say about variable names too. And they ranged from "Just use a, b, c, etc. And don't comment your code. If some shit-for-brains idiot can't figure it out, they don't deserve to be on the system in terms of first place." to "Your variable names should be so descriptive... use full sentences if necessary... that your code should be readable like a book to a layman and no comments are needed." to every point in-between.

Luckily these days gcc produces faster code than icc.

When I worked for an IC design company we used Sun's compiler for the same reason.

Yeah I was wondering about the idea of factories attracting the best people. That's not how factories work, the few people doing the maintenance aside. The work for the people on the line is designed to not require the best people.

Are you okay?

As usual the summary is shit, it left out the most important detail.

These aren't Google Android devices, they are running some variant of AOSP.

All three of them? (I would have said two, but we have one here.)

Sure, or a good distribution.

My hope is that it will make sense to switch to using this new minipc for my interface, and to leave it running for long-running tasks. I have a 5900X desktop with a Nvidia card that I'm tired of dealing with video driver problems with. Speaking of Debian updates, I run Devuan. The main install on the system is an update from the prior version, and my fresh "recovery" install on another disk has no video driver problems...

It's why I wouldn't have run this one even if I had heard of it. I really liked Moblin, but it wouldn't run on anything non-Intel anyway, so I never put it on anything else. I think I might actually have that Acer still, but I do not use it.

I am waiting for another AMD-based PC to come in the mail right now, a mini with a 5825U — the last AMD notebook/minipc processor I could find with really low consumption, 15W... And I have a Zen3 desktop too, so I can share optimized binaries between the systems.

I find most Office UI to be pretty good, though I don't mean 365 here. The performance is terrible, though. This used to be true of LibreOffice, and Calc still crumbles if you really load a lot of rows into it and Excel doesn't, but the UI is really painfully slow on desktop Office now and I've no clue why. Nothing else I run on the same machine has this problem. e.g. I can scroll a PDF really fast and it draws fine, but if I don't scroll a Word or Excel doc really slow, it can't keep up.

I put Moblin on my Acer Aspire, it was lovely. Guess how that story ends, hint, it actually involves the death of another Linux distribution that it took down with it.

Ad Hominem. Even if so, it doesn't make him wrong. Stay on topic.