What’s really gross is the amount of money we’re talking about here isn’t even the loose change you’d find between the cushions on the congressional couch.

It’s a shockingly paltry amount of money they’re refusing to pay out, as they should.

The last generation has been a total mess for both Intel and AMD.

AMD had motherboards frying CPUs, crazy stupid post issues due to DDR5 memory training (and my personal build fails to post like 25% of the time due to this exact same stupid shit), and just generally less than a totally reliable experience compared to previous gens.

Intel has much the same set of problems on their 13/14th gen stuff: dead chips, memory training issues, instability.

Wonder if it’s just a fluke that both x86 vendors are having a shitty generation at the same time, or if something else is at play.

Here’s some useless retro crap: the 8" disks almost certainly cost more.

There was absolutely a reliability scale as you moved down the physical disk size: the 8 inch disks were more reliable than the 5.25, which were more reliable than the 3.5, due in large part to the market was requiring them to get cheaper as the drive tech matured, and thus you ended up with cheaper, less reliable media as you went along through the evolution.

40 years later, 8" disks nearly all read, 5.25" disks mostly all read, and 3.5" disks are an absolute crapshoot: I find that less than half of the ones I come across are still actually accessible, compared to about 90% of the 5.25" and 8" ones.

That experience of course has some personal bias, but that’s a story that holds pretty true talking to anyone who tries to archive old floppies, so it’s probably reasonable enough to use for actual data.

So, if you wanted the most reliable option, and since the military probably doesn’t care what it costs, you’d pick a 8" disk.

I mean, real person isn’t the bar I’d call ‘minimum’, a helpful real person is.

It sounds like they met one of those two, but the difference between an AI who can’t help you and a real human who can’t help you is pretty small: you still don’t get what you’re after either way.

Ah yes, the Lightning to 3.5 dongle. Which I’ve had to buy like 6 of because I keep losing the stupid thing.

You’d almost think that was the point, but

Introducing Apple Intelligence Genius. Now you can get technical support from the comfort of your home. We think you’re going to love it.

(It does nothing but tell you to reset your pram and turn it off and on again.)

Depends. Can I easily make the AI hallucinate and give me free shit/tell me something I can later use to get free shit?

A tech company that prioritizes money over security?

Well that’s certainly a new and unexpected twist!

(I don’t know if /s is necessary, but just to make sure: /s as fuck)

I’m going to argue that, yeah, probably, but it depends.

Are you at risk of just losing your personal data, or is this hosting services other people upload shit to?

If you’ve got other people’s photos or documents or passwords or whatever, then no. You need more than one backup, you need to automate testing of your backups, and you need to make damn sure that you can absolutely recover from BOTH sets of backups.

If it’s just your shit, then you do what you’re comfortable with: if you lost your home server and it’s backups, then are you okay with that outcome?

If that’s a ‘no’, then you need more than the one backup, and testing, and automation blah blah blah.

I have the live server data, archives on a different drive in the system, and archives uploaded to the cloud.

About once a week or so I burn the local backup files to a BD-R, chuck that in a media-rated fire safe (an aside: a paper-rated fire safe is not sufficient for plastic disks, so make sure you buy one that actually will keep your backups from being melted otherwise, meh, you didn’t really do anything).

The cloud versions are on a provider that claims 99.99999% durability, which is good enough, and I keep 60 days of backups in the cloud so that I have enough versions to rotate back through.

I also built a 2nd little baby server that’ll grab the backups and do an automated restore and stand up my entire stack once a month, just to verify that the backup archives are actually backups and actually can be downloaded, unarchived, and automatically bring up all the stacks and populate the databases and have everything just appear up and running.

Agree he should just resign and go spend the last couple years of his life doing whatever it is he does for fun rather than sitting in the Oval Office and having his brain continue to rot.

But eh, I don’t see there being a single chance for Kamala to actually win.

I have absolutely no idea, hence why I was asking.

It sounds like the problem is she accepted the questions in violation of policy, but the headlines around this don’t actually SAY that, and keep talking about how they gave her questions.

Which, fair enough, don’t do things your employer explicitly tells you not to do if you like your job and want to keep it, i guess?

They’re thinking “This doesn’t improve shareholder value, so we’re not going to put it on a sprint this quarter”, same as every other commercial piece of software does.

Also, this quarter becomes “ever” after about six months of it sitting in a backlog waiting.

Not passing judgement on anyone’s behavior, but isn’t it typical to be given a list of approved questions when interviewing someone like the president?

As a note: you did notice this is from the BBC, right? As in the British Broadcasting Company?

I’m not entirely sure the BBC is Republican-captured media, though I’ll tend to agree that their style guide leads to reading an awful lot like conservative media.

I didn’t even bother to look since, well, I just moved to compose files sitting in a folder instead but uh, $150? Seriously?

That’d be the most expensive bit of all of my stacks, including hosting and power costs.

I had to go look this up since I don’t use Discord, and I think I just had my first old person moment. $10 for a freaking frame around your avatar? What in the hell?

Perhaps I’m just old, but picking the color of your profile is all zoomers wanted?

I mean shit, I’m not going to be happy until I can have auto-playing music on my profile.

I know we hate Cloudflare, but that’s a good feature addition.

Went to turn it on on the domain covering some of my stuff, and they also directed me to their Radar site, which shows the volume of and which bots are making the most noise, and not the least bit shockingly, it’s AI bots all the way down.

If nothing breaks I’m totally leaving this on and Amazon, Google, and OpenAI can all go screw themselves.

If all you need is for it to go ‘I turned on the light’, they’re fine. I wouldn’t expect to use them for anything more detailed or music-oriented.

I’ve accomplished this with the Atom Echo and they work… fine?

The speaker is essentially inaudible, but the mic works well enough for me to just yell at HomeAssistant to do things.

And hey, can’t beat the size/price/power footprint and the deployment with ESPHome takes like, 30 seconds.