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.

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.

If you use more than you produce, you are going to run into shortages.

The rest of the world can produce enough oil to make up for the oil lost in the straits, but they can't ramp up quickly. It would take years.

btw the biggest fear right now is that Pakistan might give nuclear missiles to Iran. It's something they've talked about in the past, and if I were Iran, I would be using all my persuasive power to get one from Pakistan.

If the missile works, if the missile still exists, if it gets past missile defenses, if mine sweepers don't clear up the mines, etc.

A treaty needs to be ratified by the senate to be legally binding.

Note that Ukraine has caught on to this trick, and is now insisting that any defense treaty make it through congress. Earlier we promised to help Ukraine, but the Budepest Memorandum wasn't ratified by congress.

The Iraq war only affected Iraq.

Closing the straights affects oil from Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

As an American, I'm still just hoping we don't end the Trump presidency in WW3.

The real question is, how will the government abuse this?

We've seen that every time we give the government power, they abuse it. This will be the same.

This would not be a problem if it weren't for war.

We should work towards world peace.

If your point is that vaping is bad, ok, I can agree with that.

If your point is that cigarettes are better than vaping, no you are wrong. Smoking is much worse. The mechanism is well understood.

Switching to vape from cigarettes will give you immediate health improvements. If a dermal patch works for you, then do that. If vape works for you, then do that. But stop the cigarettes.

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