Integral drone batteries would reduce complexity and likely
enhance structural strength. Warheads could similarly integrate explosive filler (with removable fuses for the usual transportation and handling safety reasons) and projectiles. Circuit boards could be rigidly supported without complex parts.

The simpler and more water and weatherproof a munition the better. Printing makes prototyping and mission-specific custom loads easy to fab. A nearly-non-metallic, low observable AI-assisted integral munitions drone package could work wonders on the battlefield and enable David to deter Goliath.

That was my immediate reaction too. $80 now would have been about $35 in the early 1990s, which is probably pretty close to what good third-party controllers cost back then.

It depends on what brand/model of SSD. Looking at Microcenter, I see some 512 GB SSDs for around $100 and some higher-end 2 TB SSDs for $350-400.

That's why systemd has been systematically making interoperability with grub and encryption more difficult, in no small part.

Oh cool so they fixed all the problems!

Simplification?

There was no simplification. It was all markedly more complicated and interdependent. That was literally the primary selling point of systemd, aside from "faster boot times".

What are the discreet benefits to the "1000s of containers at scale" scenario you mention which are satisfied with systemd which could not be or were not satisfied with init?

There was not a lack of uniformity before. In fact, it was more consistent and uniform before systemd at a system level.

The only benefit systemd provides is integration with eg. pulse audio - another one of this shmuck's horrible projects - and desktop integration. While that is potentially useful in and of itself, it didn't need to be done in such a massive, integrated, monolithic Microsoft-like fashion.

It'd be nice if people would use all this excess coding capacity as provided by AI to clean up the human written bloat slop they've been churning out for the past 20 years...

At least he doesn't have to watch what's left of his company go down in flames.

Never heard of it. Was it one of these?

https://theretroweb.com/expans...

Couple of options:

1) The data should be controlled and accessed by the courts instead of the police. The police can submit a query to the court, effectively making it the same as a warrant application.

2) All data queries require an identifier/password/key that is included with a warrant issued by a court. Any query that doesn't include a valid identifier results in immediate dismissal of the officer. Probably easier to implement than 1, though maybe not as effective.

Doesn't the risk of damaging the cell and causing a fire go up as you make the battery thinner?