The trick is the average person can't keep that basic computer secure either.

"Be your own bank" is good but banks have armored cars and vaults and insurance.

If you write down your seed you better keep it in a place where nobody can ever find it.

There's no great solution that will always work. Some people do a dedicated Graphene phone and bury their seed stamped into titanium using a OTP in a forest an hour from home but for others there's a reason hardware wallets have market appeal.

I wish I had these four billion dollar problems. If these devices support multisig you could at least have a few of them.

Well each Matter release is supporting more device classes so hopefully fewer devices will need apps over time.

Apple support of Thread will help it gain momentum. Ikea helped but people want to sell to Apple customers.

I run OTBR nodes alongside ZigBee devices and Thread is much less reliable even though it should be better in every way.

I've stopped buying Thread devices for now even though it will eventually own the market.

The one thing I won't buy is Thread over Wifi devices, i want home stuff on completely different networks.

Now ask why the FBI didn't arrest him on those Epstein charges. Or any other Epstein clients.

Where's Katie Johnson's 302?

Why is DoJ illegally withholding and redacting millions of files?

Don't mistake two enemies fighting for friends.

Oh, and they're actively framing an autistic black man for terrorism.

There's always been suspicion about why Mozilla was so reluctant to support JPEG-XL where code would come and go, it would be implemented and pulled, etc.

Speculation was that while Google was paying Mozilla $300M/yr they were also trying to make webp happen. The AV1 stuff was good but shoehorning it into a static image format wasn't the best.

Same idea as why IPv6 took 30 years to catch on - it didn't offer most people much more with extra work required to not get much benefit.

JPEG-XL did so much more but mysteriously languished.

That Mozilla jumped as soon as Google did is noticeable. They used to be an industry leader but maybe all those people have moved on or been pushed out.

Without buying into the conspiracy theory, but this is why I dislike these short lifetimes. It makes my otherwise 100% autonomous website dependent on an external party. I think I'll go back to also offer the site on unencrypted http instead of making an https redirect.

The slow to a crawl is starting it up after a couple of missed Update Tuesdays, and if I wait long enough, the system settles down and runs just fine. It is just when I turn it on after being off for two weeks, the boot is sllooowwww!

What this has to do with TFA is I cheaped out on a Windows 11 replacement computer and this is what I am getting.

Copilot (yes, the A.I.) guided me through running Crystal Info, and true to form of a refurb machine, it has a Patriot 220 1 T SATA drive, the cheapest and slowest possible drive on the market, even for a SATA drive.

The Crystal Info SMART test shows the drive is healthy with only about 8% of its life used up in write cycles in where ever the refurb place got its drives from.

It's a game company. Odds are, they never valued programmers or artists.

use that root to sign a nice long-lived certificate (say, 10 years)

Apple caps that at 825 days. That's still a somewhat long time, but they can shorten it whenever they feel like it. And I fully expect them to do that sometime after the 47-day max for public CAs becomes normalized.

I helped clean up a 2021 laptop yesterday that had 32 gigs of RAM with a half TB of storage.

It was a standard-issue company laptop at the time.

Can you imagine paying more for an 8 gig machine today?

It may be the new normal but people without an urgent need are waiting to see if the bubble pops.

There doesn't seem to be a free market road to profitability without a significant resource breakthrough so maybe they're right.

At least CPM isn't CP/M but I always have to think twice.

Good call adding punctuation to the initialism, though.

the nuclear power industry "has a remarkably skilled but quickly shrinking workforce tasked with keeping old reactors online and possibly starting up new ones to meet surging demand for electricity,"

Maybe stop harassing scientists and experts so that they don't flee overseas.

I ran tests on the drive, and what Task Manager shows to be thrashing the drive is what Copilot tells me is involved in processing Windows Update.

Given enought time, the system quiets down, the drive light goes dark, and the system runs fine. The claim is that Windows changed their way of doing updates that it isn't the raw drive throughput as much as the fine-grained using the SSD as RAM that is going on.

Owing to the October 2025 Windows 10 phase-out/scare/scolding, I purchased a refurb Dell Micro for cheap that came with Windows 11 Pro. 16 G RAM, 1 T SSD, what was there to not like.

Come March 2026, Windows Update was slowing this machine to a crawl, especially if I booted it every other week because it was my PC separate from work that I paid bills on.

Consulting with Copilot AI (natch, you would think Copilot is savy about Microsoft products), it turns out that my cheap PC has a SATA SSD, not an NVMe SSD, and around that time, Microsoft upgraded the thoroughness of their weekly Update Tuesday. Copilot suggested that I spend 50 bucks on a 1T NVMe stick, and with current memory prices, good luck with that.

Yeah, yeah and yeah again, I should just change over to Linux, but I run tax software that is Windows only, so there is that.

Anyone know anything about this or is Copilot funning me?

If that'll all they intended they could have agreed on a very narrowly-tailored agreement limiting the use to the same aspects of the film as manual animation.

Maybe Cage is doing some solidarity thing with animators or maybe Amazon intended to do much more and were attempting an underhanded trick.

It's hard to tell except you'd expect Cage to say something if animators' jobs were his cause.

It sounds like his agent or manager knew what was up.