On a regular basis, my employer sends me test phishing emails. I have to use my brain, including common sense, to determine which ones they are. Most of them are very obvious, but a few of them are sneaky. My employer would be very upset with me if I were gullible. I would have to do trainings about it designed to make me more suspicious.

Which of those is someone dumb enough to install software from an unknown source outside of a VM?

I can detect AI style bullshit a good percentage of the time. There's just something about how it writes that's too much like ad copy. Worst case I run into a few false positives from writers who are insufferably full of themselves.

If more people were better readers, more people would detect more AI bullshit.

The literacy level in the USA is pathetic.

The worst vehicle emission by a long way is unburned hydrocarbons, which EVs don't put out, so that's a huge win. Unburned fuel is most harmful to people and has high GWP.

The second worst is PM 2.5 soot, which they also don't produce, yay.

Tire residue is still a problem though. They're highly enriched with additives and the dust washes into water systems. They're a reason why moving to EVs is rearranging deck chairs. EVs have lower lifecycle emissions than ICEVs but they're still much much higher than using rail. If the goal is really to reduce emissions, we need to reduce vehicle miles period and increase vehicle lifespans. Production energy cost is about 1/3 of EV total lifecycle emissions, for ICEVs it's about 1/4. So while switching to EVs makes a big improvement, just not building the vehicles at all is going to be the biggest one. Changing two-car families to one-car families would be a good start.

Now if only we had the will to run new rail lines, which would impact a few wealthy people a little bit, instead of using a system which negatively impacts everyone a whole lot...

If what you want is a budget style machine, then the Apple machines are very good for that. But they are fully soldered, so they are in practice disposable once they age unless you are personally good at SMD repair. And Apple has component DRM that complicates that as well.

But then the problem becomes, do I really want the most expensive and capable budget machine? Or if I am buying a budget machine anyway, why shouldn't I buy less machine? If I want to do real things I will use a desktop. All I really need on a laptop is a browser and some lightweight apps that will run fine on anything.

For a few people it might make a lot of sense, e.g. for mobile audio production. But those people are in a small minority.

The Framework laptops are extremely upgradable and repairable, so that's a fundamentally bogus comparison. Nobody sane is cross-shopping those with Apple equipment, though some bullshitters might do so in order to pretend they had a point in an argument.

I've done this and it can work ok but you really don't want to be using NTFS with Linux. At some point your filesystem will wind up with corruption that the Linux tools can't fix. On the other hand, migrating your Steam library from Windows to Linux usually works really well. If you just copy the files and then install the games, most of them will detect that their files are installed and not redownload, even if you are installing the Linux version. But since most games don't have one, it's the same software anyway, so of course it doesn't need to.

Even most gamers don't really know jack. They don't need to. A few of them know a whole lot, and tell the others what to do.

You have that backwards. As the numbers clearly show, Israel is the primary aggressor here. You're whatabouting on their behalf. When politicians do it for AIPAC money it's evil, you're just a stupid fucking clown.

I think more about being alert to obviously suspicious signs, usually these malicious fake companies make a bunch of errors you should be catching. But if you're desperate, you're not at your best. You're more likely to miss things.

Before the latest escalation Israel was killing ten times as many Palestinians as the reverse. Now it's a much, much higher ratio. In the process they have been murdering more journalists than all other nations combined, to attempt to prevent you from hearing about it. Despite this, the information has been generally available to anyone willing to know about it.

Who's trying to erase whom?

It's tempting to declare that these are failing results from people who shouldn't be employed in these industries anyway due to their gullibility, and it's not entirely wrong, but it's also noteworthy that desperation increases vulnerability. The jobs report says there was net job creation, but where are the jobs? Is the claim of job creation as false as the expectations of 2025?

They have grades of fancy SUV. Most of them are as you describe.

Some of us didn't get taken hunting even though we had a parent who hunted. We shouldn't be penalized for having shitty parents.

That's not true for the last few years, they now have quality materials and responsive infotainment. However, they still generally have low tech powertrains. They're also not cheap to maintain any more. Ford parts are priced like Mercedes parts.

There are exceptions, but it's a hassle to import a car less than 25 years old into the US. The exceptions cost extra money for certification.

They will just do some more tariffs and we will have no choice.

We are becoming the soviet union of America.

I have a pretty old router by modern standards, a WRT1200AC. It has 512MB. This is sufficient for packet shuffling, it's got 380MB free now. But I also run transmission on it, I've got a 512GB SATA in a $3 AliExpress-sourced USB dongle for that (I forgot it has eSATA! oh well) and I use nfsv4 to get data from it to my PC, so it's nice it has a little RAM.

You made the only important argument: As you say, 1GB is less than $5, it's really just not a real problem. This is not going to have any serious impact on the cost of the hardware. It's only a problem if they can't get the memory.