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When I got my newest Thinkpad, I immediately took it apart and swapped out the 16GB RAM and 250GB drive it shipped with and replaced them with 96GB RAM and a pair of 4TB drives, which cost me a total of around $600 over the ~$1700 I spent on the laptop. Apple wants US$7200 to get a laptop with 128GB RAM and 8TB of internal storage.

I'll take Lenovo's construction, input devices and global support every day of the week over what Apple offers. I've certainly never had to argue with Lenovo over how I'd prefer to have my notebooks serviced, whereas Apple support seems to think that "Just bring it to the closest Apple Store for a six-hour repair window" is a great answer for everything.

It's not uncommon to find white-box motherboards with a PS/2 port. I've seem them on contemporary AM5 boards from Gigabyte, Asrock and Asus; the Northgate Omnikey I'm typing on is still plugged in to a PS/2 port.

Wait we are putting untested code into the codebase? I dont care where untested code is coming from - it is never Ok. If AI code passes tests, then I don't care. If Linus Torvalds develops code himself and puts untested code into Linux... FORK immediately

He made his own

you know I did the Kessel run in under 6 GigaWatts - HS

That is a shame that you are in the rent paying class. The easiest way through life is to start young with nothing, spend less than you make and eventually own assets. You might start with a car rather than renting one (or borrowing money for one) all though cars are very bad investments. You might then start funding a 401k (in the USA) and start putting assets away for retirement in HORROR stocks and bonds of companies. You may want to stop paying rent and purchase your own home. Finally you may finally have enough money flowing into your retirement accounts that it is worth opening a normal brokerage account and investing into your future. You may find out that eventually your assets are generating more money that your labor and at that point you are in a good place.

Why would you decide to follow a path that only allows you to convert your current labor into things that you need - seems like a lack of foresight on your part

Upcoming? The iPhone 16e was released last year. These are schematics for a phone that has been out for a year.

The problem with this document's release is that it's technical information that was supposed to be kept confidential forever.

I'm assuming this is just an error on the FCC's part, and that they automatically released it after a year. Though with the current administration, Hanlon's razor is getting harder and harder to apply.

Whodathunkit

Sorry, the Secret Service has been a joke agency for a while now

Having an f/.95 aperture doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot the surface area of your sensor is a fraction of a square millimeter. My S24 has an f/1.7 lens on its main camera and it still produces pathetic output compared to a $400 mirrorless camera with a kit lens.

This... was the worst part of the outcome of the anti-trust loss... Microsoft had to remove active desktop from the UI, and now 25 years later they are getting a shittier version back. In the day it was fun to throw dilbert on the bottom of the screen, random stock quotes down the side and slashdot on the other side. This would just show you things you would want to see on a daily basis and didn't take opening a window. You just embedded the browser rendering engine into a chunk of your desktop.

Of course the best thing was to grab someone and put hamster dance as their windows desktop - especially if they had sound anywhere. Always fun at the office

I forget what the exact year is, I believe it is 1946.

We have only had one president born since 1946. Yeah - think about that.

Should be easy to get rid of those costly CEOs then.

I have a gaming laptop with two USB-A and USB-C ports, and it's a constant struggle to connect all my devices simultaneously without needing a hub. I use the two USB-A ports for my mouse and wireless headset dongles, while a phone charging cable and portable monitor take up the USB-Cs. This setup stresses me out because there's no extra space to connect anything else without losing functionality.

That's entirely why they inventing docking stations.