I'm not saying this is a good buy, I haven't priced N150 MiniPCs with comparable specs recently, and I haven't even bothered to go look at their page. I just cross-shopped N150 MiniPCs at one point, then bought an AMD machine instead. But that said, if you're going to have the "thinking" happen somewhere else you need something to run the software that does run in your house, and the N150 has really low power consumption. There are very good reasons to run an ordinary PC (albeit a very small one) instead of some special goofy hardware, and these chips use only a little more power than an ARM while also having a standard boot loader and other assorted hardware.

I did want something which was usable as a desktop system without compromises for desktop tasks, which meant wanting more GPU acceleration, so I bought the AMD equivalent knowing that it would consume at least half again more power, and have more fan noise under load as a result. (Under no load, neither needs to run fans at perceptible volumes.) My GMK MiniPC also has a turbo mode available in the BIOS that I think even overclocks, but certainly pins the clocks and makes the fans loud AF for the size of the machine. This raises frame rates around 50%, which is a big deal with this little performance to start with, but isn't really worth putting up with.

I live in California and it's not uncommon here either, in the mountains :) It's especially gross here because people are doing it because they're poor. That means they depend on whatever wood they can get. The local tree service, which has a building about a stone's throw from my back yard, puts stumps in their lot and lets people come and chainsaw them up for firewood, which they then burn wet. The noise pollution and smoke pollution both affect my quality of life. Then on top of that there's a lumber mill across the river, and they have a sawdust fired power plant there that can spread soot everywhere when the wind is right.

The rocket stove was invented to try to address the issue that wood smoke for cooking is a leading cause of death of women in the third world, but here in the allegedly first one, we still haven't figured it out. And in this county, you don't have to have an exhaust for your gas stove, either.

They should put those taxes on the commercial users that do the most damage and let the prices of goods transported by truck reflect the costs.

Oh look, some fuck with Zoom stock stopped off to moderate here.

Have to pay fuel tax and use a LPG tank rated for fuel use

" Honda design is typically more well thought out than a GM or Ford or Nissan vehicle"

Unless it's a Honda EV SUV and then it's made by GM.

Yeah but he only went because it was his first chance to hang out with the guy he said was a pedo

The current administration is not only not interested in that, the mission is obviously to destroy things only.

But prior administrations weren't interested in change either, it's been status quo or worse for decades.

Yeah, especially with the Northstar V8, then they were just as unreliable and expensive to repair

There is, and it's protectionism and cronyism.

Here in California, PG&E literally burned down [much of] Paradise[, CA] by skipping maintenance for literally 99 years.

The moral of the story is that it is easier and easier for police and intelligence services to quickly get meaningful information out of hard disks, including passwords and files in a personal workflow / storage structure (or lack of structure). LLMs might piece this together and be targeted. Security analysts would be faster and ignore noise better, but what is shown here might scale to millions of citizens.

Yes, and what this article is about is the value of the service declining, so people are leaving for services with a better value proposition.

Also, nuclear plant produces power, AI datacenter consumes it. Nuke plants won't make their power cheaper, but they also won't make it unavailable .

Yeah this. I use teams all the time and I'm not happy about it but it mostly works and it has a lot of features. Meanwhile zoom is highly likely to not work. Last time I tried to use it, both video and audio tested good, then NEITHER worked and I could only chat during the "call".

People who lived in a big county could have to pay fees to call people in the same county! They were called "local toll" calls. Telcos have always been parasites.