But... Apple charge a lot to spec a machine with > 8GiB, and it's not user upgradable afterwards.

I do appreciate that it makes sense for them from a business perspective, but previously Apple products, whilst expensive, have generally been over-specified, and thus continue to be usable for many years after purchase. 8GiB is a bit tight though... if they charged less for the entry level, non-upgradable machine... then perhaps that's useful, but otherwise, it seems unwise to buy the low-end hardware because it's still expensive!

On the face of it, this is terrible and we can all blame that individual.

But I have a suspicion that *many* people must've known that there was an issue and that at some point, it would be public. And in that context, I suspect that the CBE award was specifically so that that person could be thrown under a bus later?

Not that that individual doesn't have questions to answer for... but just I think there's prolly a lot of other people who are likely more culpable.

+1

Must admit, that I didn't expect much of interest from either page, but they were both very much worth reading!

You say that, but it's possible they did because by pulling in a bunch of OpenAI people directly into MS, they might gain more than they lose by destroying OpenAI itself?

This is total speculation on my part... there may well be far more to it.

Funny that he called them "Communists" though... and he seemed *very* absolute that Communists == bad people who deserve to die.

Clearly the situation is more nuanced; it almost always is. The "vigilantes" might've been "protesters". But to be fair, likely there was a mix of people... but for that reason, just blank labelling everyone as a Communist is... kind of dumb really! And I'd hope ESR's red-mist has faded and perhaps the passing of time might allow him to see a bit more objectively?

But the thing I find really ironic is that Ballmer (and others) prolly thought ESR was a communist. Honestly, that *is* pretty funny really!

:D

Wow that was grim reading... (I only read ~~20 comments or so). ESR was *very* sure of his position... I wonder if he still feels like that now. :(

Predictably, this guide does try to keep people with Windows as their primary OS, but still, it would never have happened under Ballmer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en...

Related article: https://www.theregister.com/20...

^ this!
PS> winget install Google.Chrome
I think you can even do this in a regular (non-admin) PowerShell window?

I believe the Mars rovers need to have enough power to keep their batteries cosy during the night time. I'm guessing that having enough battery power to keep heaters running for 14ish Earth-days might be hard.

I still have, but is no longer my daily, a self-built ASUS P7P55D + Core i5 750 which I also originally got that in 2009. I only replaced it around this time last year. It was getting a little slow to be fair, but by the end I was running with an SSD as the primary boot device, 8GB RAM, and I'd added a USB-3 card.

I still have every Raspberry Pi I've every purchased (think there's about 10 of those now!), and I have an original 2012 model B with 256MB RAM running PiHole... I have had to replace the original PSU though as they don't last. I suspect one of my Pi's will be my longest lasting machine in the end.

Oh, I do have a 2007 polycarbonate MacBook as TFA mentions... but mine, despite not being used much, has a dead battery (unsurprising I guess), and the stupid audio ports have switched to optical mode... so have a red light flashing out of them.

In fairness to them, if they didn't prioritise commercial customers, it would've made the product not viable to these people which is a shame since they've made a point of producing the same product, for the same price, for at least X years precisely because that predictability is what makes the product perfect for commercial customers.

I totally agree and feel the pain of the current non-availability of Raspberry Pi's. It is *really* frustrating.

But I guess the current situation was rather difficult to foresee. We can hope that the situation will ease soon. (fingers crossed)

They just dropped their prices rather a lot which doesn't seem to support what you're saying.

Don't get me wrong Tesla still have value, but that value does seem to be diminishing right now. I suspect any ability to maintain share-price is a least in part to the idea "someone else" might buy Tesla out. If they don't get bought out, they need new product asap.

I mean, it's only 2023, so is there any chance this can work reliably enough that I can use it?