If you can live with DDR 4 RAM that is is still available and has 'only' doubled in price. A B550 motherboard and an AM4 processor is pretty decent. I use a 4600G and it does fine, but I'm not a gamer. Linux does fine with 16 GB. The price jump to a AM5 system and an 8600G is pretty large, Priced it out a couple months ago out of curiosity. I have no need for discrete graphics.

It depends on what you are doing of course.

My point is that even though you can access your account from your desktop, there are some things you just can't do from the website. There are times that the only way you can do what's needed is either on your phone app or at an ATM, and getting a big check deposited so that your rent check doesn't bounce is probably the most urgent one.

Missing the 90's yet? No interconnected cars, no interconnected fridges/freezers, no interconnected anything, as far as appliances go.

Sometimes progress for the sake of progress is derp, and interconnected cooling units is an example of "Jumped the Shark"

Google the phrase if you're too young to know what it means and how it came about.

If I lose my bank card, I can go to my desktop computer to manage my account.

Can you use your desktop computer to withdraw cash from your account or deposit a check? Even if you have a scanner, I don't think that the bank's website is capable of that.

I am in no way a security expert. ELI5, please.

Is a phone (which certainly CAN be secured to high levels but in my experience rarely is) inherently more secure than an atm card and pin that only the user knows?

How is a PC "more vulnerable" than a phone?

....In case anyone needed proof of ideological capture and some users having (apparently) legions of slashdot-rating bots. A genuine thank you for a good post is modded 'troll' as I've offended the progressive horde.

We had like 10 movies about this, seriously.

1) "Trade will continue to diversify away from the US"
It isn't. US Imports and Exports are BOTH GROWING.
â Imports: Rose 1.2% to a record high of $426.6 billion in September 2026, with goods imports reaching an all-time high of $346.9 billion.
â Exports: Rose 1.9% to $321.5 billion in September 2026, with goods exports increasing 2.5% to $211.0 billion.
(https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202611049237/us-trade-deficit-contracted-in-september)
EU-US Trade: Reached record levels despite tariff pressures, with EU exports to the U.S. growing around 2% to 7.7% depending on the specific goods-versus-services breakdown tracked
(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-trade-us-hits-record-063410731.html)
Meanwhile, fwiw, EU imports expanded at a faster rate than exports.

2) ahahahahahahaahahahaahahahhahahaahahhaa
No, stop, ahaahhaahahhahahahahahahahhahahah
(gasp) you're killin' me man. ahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Give me a call when EU can manage to mount a basic Coast Guard. Meanwhile, the German army (2015) was using black-painted sticks in training because they didn't have enough actual guns, their battle rifle doesn't shoot straight, and the Bundeswehr reached 186k...thats as many as the US just has parked overseas (https://www.us-militarynow.com/overseas.html)
Don't even start with "Euro" military until they decide their armies aren't just jobs programs for unemployables, and military development programs just industrial subsidies.*
*don't get me wrong, the US has its own MAJOR problems here too.

3) Yes. Congrats, you've managed to echo de Tocqueville in what, 1830? As has been opined correctly here, this vote was (rightly) against Trump's blundering, not in favor of Democrats but they are likely to believe that is true and indulge in the kind of ridiculous excess that got Trump elected for a 2nd time. If you faintly understood US politics, the expected next 2 years of paralysis and ceaseless lawfare just INCREASED the chance of a subsequent GOP president in 2030.

4) Good. I'll happily trade "stopping to pay for others' free lunches" and "falsely inflating the dollar to build EU manufacturing for 75 years" for a US economy based mainly on its own strengths. The "return" on that soft-power investment was looking fairly shitty since about 2010.

You don't want a US that's happy, prosperous, and self interested. Not really. Because then the US wouldn't give much of a fuck about Europeans' propensity to squabble violently.

Great post. Thanks

So he might even try to do things like use the IRS as a political weapon, or pay foreign countries to manufacture propaganda to use in upcoming elections?

Sincerely,

Yahoo.com

...I think we've conclusively closed the "don't be evil" chapter, haven't we boys?

PRC's NEV industry is only slightly younger than Tesla, and has been a "strategic sector" in CCP parlance almost from the start.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Ask your favorite LLM to tell you about history of Chinese NEV industry.

You're almost certainly right, because we don't know how current teenagers are going to turn out as young adults.

Frankly only one thing is all but certain. They won't be like us. They'll be something different, something new, something that is a reflection of the world they were raised in.

And that is nothing like worlds that boomers, x'ers, millenials or zoomers were raised in.

Unfortunately sensitivity to degradation is an inherent disadvantage of density when it comes to magnetic and flash memory mediums beyond a certain point.

It's like running an MLC SSD in SLC mode. It will remain readable far longer after being disconnected from power, because there's a much wider tolerance for voltage shift.