Just saying... If you can turn it on and install an update without it leaving the box... you can turn it on and install a version with extra surveillance features for an organization without it leaving the box... (Vs the surveillance stuff built in from Google and Meta)

It was December 31st, 1999 and it was half the hands in the data center in case Y2K broke things. So someone had slipped a graphics card into an H80 (IBM's first 64bit AIX server) and installed doom since IBM had been including CDs for it in the RS/6K Media kits.

should be mandatory for high school.

At my grandfather's funeral there was a couple that looked like my parents... just 10 years younger. They had three children... a boy that looked like me but 10 years younger. And two girls that looked like my sister but 10 years younger.

Private/Incognito don't protect much Mutliple profiles slightly works when the browser isn't sending full surveillance back to the mother ship (Chrome).

Used to be you could pirate a video game and play it for years. Now it's a pile of nickeling and diming with games tuned to create compulsions rather than blow off steam. I just don't understand why they aren't shooting the Csuite for the game companies...

It's been 2 years of reality being sillier than the April Fool's pranks. I just can't tell anymore.

Well... someone needs to develop rubber bullets and shotgun beanbag rounds that start playing "Toilet Duck" commercials on impact.

All the rite-aids around here became walgreens. Fallout from the failed merger.

SSIA

They make clip on flip up reading glasses. Found them when the eye doctor insisted it was time for to get bifocals. Except I'm only halfway to my arms being too short.

Technically none because Congress hasn't done a formal declaration of war since WWII. Might save the lives of drivers. a 1MW diesel generator goes through about 72 gallons of fuel per hour at full load. That means 5 trips per week for an M978A4. Save more lives avoiding the shit show in the first place.

Car manufacturers want the part to be available for 20 years. They don't want latest, smallest, fastest tech. And they don't need it either outside of the infotainment system. And it's BAD when it's a chip wired to the spark plugs. The hiccup... Every car manufacturer has a different ECU, Brake Controller, etc. Potentially different ones for each make and model of car. There are opportunities for standardization. However, the car manufacturers want to lock in repairs to their mechanics, their diagnostics tools, and their parts. And there are hurdles on regression testing for safety on things that often kill people. Being pragmatic... an ECU that can handle the Bugatti 8.0 Liter W16 and the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C should handle everything else on the market. Good luck getting the engine manufacturers to cooperate and standardize. NXP and similar companies buy these old fabs for pennies on the dollar. And it goes to hell when all the old fabs for sale are concentrated in one geographic area with climate problems and neighbor problems. And the old fabs not for sale are owned by a company that's notorious for not sharing.

1) They're a huge brand where idiots want to work because it's a big brand. 2) Their primary products remain ads, marketing surveillance to place ads, and compute time to manage your own marketing surveillance to place ads. 3) They'll replace those that say "This is bullshit." They need to fail. Let's hope this helps.

So... I stopped seeing new SCSI installations around 2007. Around 2003-2005 Intel Xscale added an XOR engine and a Linux kernel guy updated md to support multiple xor engines. That became the core of several soho NAS products. Around the same time Intel and AMD vector instructions were providing sufficient xor speeds to max bandwidth to drives in a 1-2U system. Yes, you could get custom ASICs that ran faster... and the price tended to be on par with a second machine. That lead to... if you have the budget or insane NAS requirements... you could throw money at NetApp, EMC, Fishworks, or whatever they called the IBM/Lenovo GPFS based thing. Or you could build a distributed system and object based storage. Related... hardware raid is of no benefit for mirroring. And mirroring is your best hope with larger storage devices. Saw enough hardware raid5+ end up dead in the water because a second or third drive failed while getting data to the replacement drive. That was 2003-2005.