I mean, if youÃ(TM)re running AIs, youÃ(TM)re gonna want 128GB at least, and a fast GPU. At that point, it being a MacBook Pro isnÃ(TM)t going to make much difference. ItÃ(TM)s gonna cost $7000, which I grant you is a lot of money, howeveræ now find me another laptop with a GPU around the performance of the laptop 5080, and 128GB of RAM the GPU can access.

A laptop or desktop with 128GB of RAM will likely be around $7000, with RAM costs being what they are. Even a 64GB laptop is already around $4000-5000.

Sure, some manufacturers could throw in decent chargers and such, but honestly most of them are pretty lame.

Apple used to give you a 5W adapter. It would charge your iPhone, but slowly. It hung around (along with the green dot going back to the first generation iPhone because of a recall where the prongs might stay plugged in) until 2025 or so when Apple finally discontinued them. Likely the only reason being to those countries that insist on a charger being sold with every phone.

Even though you and I know that for the most part, those are going in the trash as e-waste because they aren't terribly useful unless you have a lot of USB powered trinkets. To which you probably can ask your friends for those adapters before they trash them.

The faster chargers they aren't going to give it to you for free.

Note that some phones come with faster chargers - Samsung, Qualcomm based ones, OnePlus, etc., because they don't use standard charging protocols like PD (OnePlus I believe only recently switched to PD) so if you wanted fast charging you needed to use their own special charger as a standard one wouldn't work. Qualcomm ones use QC (QuickCharge, a Qualcomm proprietary system that's dying out along with Apple, though at least many third party adapters support both).

It's funny, but they all still come with cables. You'd think as a standard object they'd get rid of them as well, but chances are they are valuable to have around since they do break often so you're less likely to toss it since you'll probably save it for when you need to replace a broken one.

The present age verification laws are creating FAR more problems than they solve.

Which is what the OS age verification was supposed to solve - the OS verifies your age and that's it. You don't have to send your ID to a million third party agencies. Of course, these agencies don't have to worry about OS verification taking over since not every OS will have that functionality (usually phrased as "open source OS exclusion").

All those Linux users will be keeping those third party services alive.

That's fine, competition is good. Though it's only a duopoly so it's not exactly ideal, but if it means communications with Mars gets competitive then it can only be a good thing.

Would bring a whole new meaning to the concept of "tip your server".

In the bad old days where servers were basically PCs in tower cases (with some being in nice double-wide cases), this actually happened. It was sitting under the desk of the person who basically was the IT guy in charge (he did stuff requiring high performance computers, so no one was going to question his need for a high performance computer to be a server back in the early days where office networks were starting to become a thing).

One day he accidentally kicked it and it tipped over. and landed flat. All we knew is it didn't boot. Not quite sure what the issue was, but likely the processor fell out of the slot and I think the drives were none to healthy after that. I think he moved it to a corner of his office after that and carefully routed the network cable out of the way.

The early days of networking were fun. Rarely did offices have Internet access so if you needed to do something on the Internet there was a computer with a modem in a open office. A year later it got upgraded to a PC running WinGate when the entire office and everyone's PC got networked together, but there was a delay accessing the Internet because it had to dial in to the ISP.

Tip your server, just like you tip your cows.

You said home ISPs sought to deploy Trusted Network Connect about 20 years ago. It hasn't happened. What's holding it up? The rise of mobile devices, smart TVs, and other devices incompatible with the remediation means available in quarantine?

Utilities will love this. Production just popping up all over the place.

Balcony solar generally isn't that much. Especially in North America where it can only provide half the load. Most balcony solar installations generally have less than 1000W of capacity which compared to the daytime load is basically nothing. (This is because they plug into a weedy 110V 15A outlet which restricts how much power can be pushed anyways)

A proper rooftop solar installation will generally have anywhere from 5-20kW of capacity - the larger installations generally include battery storage because it's usually not affordable to release it on the grid.

It's basically guaranteed that balcony solar systems will be used by the home it's plugged into.

The OSS exception prevents something being taken away. That is a win, even if we did not win something.

And what is that something?

All the OS age verification stuff does is avoid the third party age verification systems currently in place for things like Discord and other stuff. If you use Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android, the age verification can be done via an attestation from the OS. All the Linux exception does is not require Linux to support it.

That means a Linux user wanting to use Discord and accessing age-restricted features would require using the same third-party services they always had (these services are not going away since basically all OSes right now do not support it). And those third party services would require IDs and such, which will not be securely stored (since many have experienced breaches).

All I see is that if you run Linux, you're going to have to give up information to some third party who isn't trustworthy and who may experience a data breach tomorrow.

I believe Linux already supports CPU hot-swap if the hardware supports it. It was needed by IBM so their POWER mainframes could literally do just that.

Unfortunately I don't think there's many x86-based servers that support CPU hot swapping.

Or maybe it was a competitor who wasn't interested in stealing the laptop so much as stealing the game before its release?

In any other timeline, I'd agree. But given Gamescom has been going on for years and such stuff hasn't really been a thing, stealing laptops of some indie developer doesn't really get you much.

I'd think it was more for the hardware - tho laptops may not be worth too much, but you can bet they would have 64GB of RAM and likely a nice SSD, both of which can net you north of a grand. Plus SSDs and memory are tiny and can be stripped from the laptop in minutes.

I suppose we might find out if someone finds a bunch of laptops stripped of memory and SSDs. (If you want to use those Bitlocker exploits it requires the original machine so if the hardware is "discovered" then you know it was just for the hardware.).

The right-wing loonies are coming for the EU too. It's a constant battle, it never ends. There will always be people who vote for hate, everywhere. Countries outside the US are not immune to this nonsense either.

Correct. It's why it's a constant battle. In Europe, the last time it happened was in Germany just prior to WWII.

It is no coincidence that the US voted the way it did because WWII is basically a distant memory and the lessons of the past were forgotten. Especially since the rise of American Exceptionalism that happened in 1956 when the US became the superpower and took over from the UK.

There's no reason to not incorporate both.

The UI is easy - while the car is in motion (not stopped), the touch screen should be disabled. Any adjustments you need to make while moving needs to be done with buttons you can feel and navigate without looking.

So things like HVAC controls (fan speed, temperature, mode (AC/heat/defrost/etc)), radio (volume, forward/back depending on mode - e.g., radio seek forward/backwards, or track skip/repeat), seat heat/cooling, and seat adjustments all may need to done whilst in motion as they can affect safety and comfort. But things like setting your destination on the navigation, setting up your music playlist, etc. only need to be done while the car is stopped and thus can remain touchscreen only interface.

There should also be buttons to control what the screen should show as the main display - e.g., a button to show the map or navigation in action, a button to show infotainment information, car status (fuel, battery, power flow) etc. But that's only needed if there's not enough screen to show all the items together, and it should just be a readout status where you can glance at it.

It was offered as a choice I think. Debian put it up to a vote.

And the FSF has good reason for the GCC decision - because the legal status of AI contributed code is uncertain. Is it a code laundering machine that can turn GPL code into legitimate "free" code? Or does code retain the license? Either situation is bad, especially the second where incompatible licensed code (e.g., GPLv2, BSD, etc) might get introduced which complicates the licensing.

Debian is far less reliant on code - the amount of original Debian code is very small compared to the amount of code they ship. If the Linux kernel gets encumbered with legal issues, it doesn't really encumber Debian since Debian uses it as an input and the only contributions Debian makes are a few build, packaging and configuration files. At best they might have to do something if something becomes non-free but that's likely on a package level. Debian is basically bundling a bunch of software together and having only minor bits of it being their own original code.

The fact they've targetted Anthropic alone suggests they already have the evidence of internal Anthropic comms.

Or they found in their music and movie torrents IP addresses belonging to Anthropic. You think they've stopped monitoring torrent sites? It's just that they couldn't bring in one giant lawsuit asking for the identities of 1000 John Does and then dropping the lawsuit once they have them. They'd have to bring in 1000 individual lawsuits to identify and sue individuals and that is a lot more expensive.

Anthropic, however, is a much bigger target and since they're a commercial entity, a much juicier one. Instead of going after grandmas and kids, you've got companies with trillion dollar valuations. And they're selling access as well.

The "car battery" is actually a specially designed lead-acid battery. It's called ISL - Ignition, Starting, Lighting and is a battery designed for those loads. Basically to be able to provide initial lighting and ignition and starting current. Once the engine is started the alternator takes over. ISL batteries are terrible for deep cycle use - they should not be discharged deeply or they will degrade very quickly.

Most of the capacity of the battery is there to give it decent "engine off" battery life without degrading severely while in storage. So even though it may be 70-100AH, the car must still shut down to enter a low current state of about 10mA max draw. Modern cars generally have several low power states - one entered when you turn off the engine and remove the key - this mode most of the stuff turns off but stays alive. After an hour or so, then they will enter a deeper power saving state. This allows for short stops where everything doesn't need to initialize because they were still running, but then once parked for a longer time enter low power state so the battery can last several months and still start the engine.

The consumption of starting an engine even in the deep of winter is generally about 1-2% charge.

EVs which don't have to provide high currents still need a 12V system with significant capacity. But instead of needing an ISL battery, they can use a deep cycle battery, which cannot provide as much current (but you only need to power a contactor to enable the traction battery) but can provide power and be discharged fully without degradation. The reason you need a big battery still is the 12V systems still draw power and you need again, a long battery life since the battery cannot be charged unless the traction battery contactor is enabled.

The EV traction battery contactor is enabled only when the car is "running" or charging. If you're just put it into accessory only mode it's drawing 12V power from that but the traction battery isn't enabled. When you charge an EV, the charger also enables the DC-DC converter so the 12V battery gets charged too.