Um. Did you mean to post that to your diary? This is actually Slashdot you're at right now.

>" ... 'cause now I'm craving peanut butter and jam sandwiches."

Well, you can certainly buy a hell of a lot of PBJ sandwiches for just one of those SSD's. Probably way over a lifetime's worth for one of those servers.

>"The companies are pitching the hardware squarely at AI and hyperscale workloads, where storage is rapidly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute."

And where, apparently, price is no object. I wish they would focus on that crap and leave normal business and consumer-sized parts alone so we can afford them again.

>"Kioxia claims the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption"

So the AI datacenters can just buy more of them in the same space and still strain all the grids as much so consumer electricity prices continue to rise.

>"The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capacities are escalating"

While consumer-grade storage capacities are stagnant or even REDUCING just so people can get by.

I wish this bubble would burst sooner than later.

Oh seriously?

I use both Slack and Teams day to day (we use Slack internally, client uses Teams, so we are on both as a result).

Slack we never have any issues with, and can find information from previous conversations easily.

Teams? Fuck teams. Fuck it and then fuck it some more. Its slow, clunky, constantly has issues, very hard to find information unless you still have the chat open somewhere, and chats are spread all over the place (chats, teams, channels...). Teams also requires you to have access to the workspaces OneDrive and SharePoint as well if you want to share files, so if you dont have access to those things then ... you are limited to text only.

Its video call system is sorely limited, and even doing things like zooming in to the presenters shared screen is clunky and shit.

Teams is the worst collaboration system I have ever used, so dont try making out that its better than Slack or Zoom. It is by far the worst of the three.

My thoughts exactly. How exactly is this "local" and they clearly say it is using ChatPGT and other cloud services? It is just making queries to AI data centers. You can do that with any computer already. You can even do it semi-anonymously through something like Venice.

And "it is on 24/7"... so what? So is my Linux desktop computer at home. And interacting with it through Telegram??? Why? Wouldn't just a plain, direct web interface make more sense?

Clearly I am not the target market for such a machine, but I really don't understand who the target market is and why.

>"I swear that flying things have a radar set to seek and bite me, so I have to live with 1 acre bug-zappers indoors near all doors creating ozone because of this bullshit."

I, too, am one of those people who get ATTACKED by mosquitos, apparently way more than others. It really sucks. I am also apparently unusually allergic to the bites, so I can have a horrible welt that lasts for a week or longer. If I could snap my fingers and eliminate all mosquitos from the earth, I would do it in a heartbeat. I don't think it will upset the ecosystem much, but I kinda don't even care- they are responsible for more human (and animal) suffering than perhaps any other living thing.

In any case, I hate to break it to you, but biting mosquitos are NOT attracted to bug zapper lights. It will certainly attract flies, moths, and tons of OTHER flying insects, but not mosquitos. You might be able to get them to go near the zappers if you put a mosquito chemical lure inside them.

There are mosquito killers that work, but they typically burn propane to create heat, CO, and moisture, and typically have a vacuum fan that sucks them into a mesh bag where they are then trapped. They are expensive to buy/operate and require upkeep. But at least there is no annoying light or zapping sound :)

You are correct. The mitigation of banning of the modules for Dirty Frag also covers Fragnesia.

However, if you removed the mitigation after getting a patched kernel, the previous patches do NOT protect against Fragnesia, so you will have to mitigate again until the kernel is patched again.

>"They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns."

Well, no. They are printing parts of guns, not a whole gun. The barrel is certainly not printed. Nor are springs, fasteners, striker, etc.

>"You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM"

At least for now, [essentially] nobody has an EDM machine at home. And this is no different from just making parts with metal machining tools. Are we going to ban/restrict metal lathes and such? Or force computers on them so they can somehow detect you are manually making a barrel, trigger, firing pin, charger, springs, etc?

>"so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself."

Right. You could always do that. This new stuff doesn't really change that much. And it doesn't replace needing metal work. It might make some things easier, but still requires a lot of work/time and some expertise.

Amazon has the volume, but it is hands down the worst service I have experienced.

For the record, I have Prime so I'm supposedly paying for 2-day delivery. I also use a UPS Store box for all deliveries. As such, I don't have to worry about porch pirates or dropping off at the wrong house. I've also clearly recorded what the store hours are so that Amazon knows the store's schedule (generally 9a-8p hours on weekdays, and short hours on Sunday).

- They have tried delivering stuff at 10pm on a weekday
- They have tried delivering stuff at 7pm on Sunday (they know the store closes at 3pm)
- They have said they couldn't deliver a package at 1pm on a Tuesday (most likely they couldn't find a convenient parking spot)
- They tried delivering on Easter
- Their "photo proof" that something was delivered was a stack of 10 misc boxes with no way to identify which mine was (if it is even there)
- Their 2-day delivery doesn't start until something is shipped, which could take 1-4 days
- Their overnight deliveries are 50/50 on which night they start on. Could be the night the day you order, could be be tomorrow night.
- The routinely say something has shipped then a day or two later cancel the order saying it couldn't be shipped
- There is no real tracking. Just have to take their word for it.

Why anyone would voluntarily entrust their packages to this crew is beyond me.

>"This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us."

Please define "gun nuts" because exercising your constitutional and lawful rights to be able to defend yourself and others is not nutty. And printing accessory parts isn't really all that nutty, either. People aren't "printing guns", at least not with plastic printers.

Your ire should be pointed squarely at the people at fault for making this mess- legislators who are apparently completely clueless about both firearms and technology.

>"The new Harleys have a feature that randomly dumps oil on the ground to mimic the classic HD experience."

You forgot the horrible out-of-balance vibrations, strange noise, and mediocre performance. Then you would get closer.

There is a reason I ride a 16 valve inline 4 with variable valve timing (and stock muffler).

>"Frankly I'm thinking... whatever it takes to sell bikers on replacing their painfully noisy kill-me machines with silent kill-me machines is worth it."

They are only loud if illegally modified. Mine is no louder than most cars.

The problem with electric motorcycles is that there is not enough room for batteries. Until you can produce something with 160+hp per 600lbs *AND* 250 mile range, not interested.

>"Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting."

Um yeah, sure. But that doesn't require unrestricted internet/app access.

>"following pressure from parents who claim too much in-school screen time has zapped children's attention spans and left them worse off academically."

And how many of these parents gave their children phones/tablets/computers with full internet/app access?

>"seriously? of course firefox users fucking complained. That's why the mozilla had to add their AI kill-switch after they got caught auto-adding AI."

No. Mozilla never "added AI". They added the ability to optionally hook Firefox into third-party AI systems (with the default on). And there was ALWAYS AN OFF SWITCH. It just wasn't in the main settings, it was under about:config. Then they later added in the main settings as well.

It never downloaded or installed any AI system. Very different.