Whoops - that's actually $390 AUD per 128Gb! Looked at the invoice properly.... On June 16th 2025, a 64Gb kit was $195 AUD...

I upgraded both of my home lab Proxmox servers to 128Gb of DDR4 - cost me $390 AUD per 64Gb kit (2 x 32Gb sticks).

Could sell that second hand now for over $1600 AUD... Problem is, then you have nothing to replace it with because everything else is just nuts.

A while back, I upgraded from an AMD 5700XT GPU to a 6700XT and it cost me ~$200 out of pocket... Mostly for the mining craze wanting the 5700XT...

I haven't bought any real major upgrades since - its just too expensive...

One would hope that given this guy was deprived of his freedom through no fault of his own that there would be substantial compensation due.

It's one thing to just vacate the sentence, its another to make up for what those actions of the state did to this guy...

Worst part, you can only screw a community so many times before they just decide not to play ball anymore.

At that point, its almost impossible to restore the status quo - which is likely bad for everyone using MS kit at that point.

Does DNS over HTTPS (aka Private DNS) not fix this issue?

You mean, pull social media out of Australia?

Yes please!

```
# systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 16.145s (firmware) + 1.093s (loader) + 860ms (kernel) + 6.285s (initrd) + 3.888s (userspace) = 28.273s
```

16 seconds in the BIOS, the rest actually doing things...

If this is what it is, I don't want it... Anywhere...

Please. He'd have to not be high for a moment to consider something like that...

Don't worry - at the pace the Gnome development team comes up with and removes APIs, no extension will be accepted ever again.

Given I haven't used Firefox for that long now, do they finally have the ability to select input and output devices for audio?

I use speakers for normal audio, but Teams / Discord etc on a headset only.

Yet the feature request to be able to select audio streams has been around for at least a decade and never implemented... I gave up caring in waiting for an outbreak of common sense - but you wanted to know what 'tech' is missing...

Don't worry - they'll claw back the expense of the free periods by increasing charges outside of these hours...

No such thing as a free lunch...

We've seen what Americans will vote for.

They've proven they don't deserve a say in the matter...

When companies like Rockstar refuse to do basic actions like tick a checkbox to allow linux and steamdeck players to play GTA V online, there's the complete malicious angle as well...

Same. Got two sets - both connected via SPDIF optical. Worked very well for many years now.

I did however replace the LCD on the volume control because it faded beyond readable. Was a whole $20 or so to fix.