Given there's a "Windows 11 pre-installed" option available, the answer would be yes.

This looks interesting, and the pricing is high-ish but not absurd IMHO. They offer Intel or AMD processors - I do wish there was an "ARM" option available.

These people are already employed by Meta. They know what to expect... they've been enabling it themselves, after all.

Internally, wealthy Republicans refer to tariffs as "transfer of money from poor people to us".

I'm certain the answer can be found somewhere on Hunter's laptop!

That'll happen right after Mexico gets reimbursed for The Wall.

Is it some counterpoint to the "Birds aren't real" meme?

I've been working 42 years, and I certainly feel like I might be running out of power. And that's with vacations and weekends off, which poor Voyager doesn't get (perhaps they should've joined a better union?).

In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

This almost certainly has more to do with the recent closure of numerous court cases which were brought by various states against the Trump administration after Trump arbitrarily blocked the disbursement of allocated funds that Congress had previously approved for the purchase of those chargers. Unsuprisingly, Trump has lost just about all of those cases since his behavior is clearly unconstitutional.

I think that, despite the undeniable pain and suffering Trump has caused, we should thank our lucky stars that he's prioritized toady-ism over subject matter competence when filling roles during Trump 2. As bad as it's been, it could've been much worse. And it seems increasingly likely he's going to lose both the House AND the Senate this fall.

I mostly agree, but I also remember (this was back in the 1980s) a feeling of being inducted into a special fraternity and learning its arcane secrets.

It's funny because, in my home office right now, I still have a SyQuest EZ 135 drive sitting on a high shelf. Hadn't been touched for probably 25+ years until just now, when I pulled it down to remind myself what brand it was.

I have a vague memory of needing to do something similar with an old HP size-of-a-portable-dishwasher disk drive from my very first job. Couldn't tell you what it was, though.

Funnily enough, (somewhat later than your story) I recall my teammates and I spending literally months convincing our still-in-love-with-tapes boss that instead of expanding our tape library, we could get better utility and save money by deploying a couple backup servers (one onsite, one elsewhere) with nice big RAIDs.

Not sure what sources of "press coverage" you're following, but... it was all over the news I read and watch, at least.

Here's an idea - give it to Boeing / ULA. You save money because you don't have to worry about the return leg of the trip.

Thank heavens it didn't require they decouple the phase inducer array or reverse polarization of the warp field matrix!