I work on heavy mining equipment and I tell the techs who are looking for a laptop to just buy something cheap because when you drop it off the top of a machine it's still just as broken.
Statistically your weird internal corpo program that was made bespoke over a decade several decades ago .....
Won't work at all because it lives on a shared drive that needs your windows login and your PC to be joined to the domain to reach it, and IT just said "lol no" to your request to join your home made windows VM to the domain.
Because the heatwaves are only gradually getting worse, and they can spin that as "1 in 100 year events are now 1 in 50/40/30/25 year events" and weasel away a few more years of raking in the cash, and then they can disappear to a fortified acreage in New Zealand somewhere to live a quiet life while the world burns.
Get some M-Discs and burn a couple of copies of your docs and photos. The theoretical lifetime of M-disc is ~1000 years. Good luck finding a Blu-ray drive in the 30th century though.
For some reason LLMs just looooove that "It's just physics" phrase. Its not just physics. Internal combustion engines are an unholy mix of nearly every field of science known to man. If you want to try and explain how awesome they are, you can't handwave it all away in the first paragraph with three words.
In any case, I side with their "devil's advocate" on every statement they try to assert.
Added comment: Modern EVs require the use of semiconductors / ICs in their drivetrains that are near the peak of semiconductor technology. Chip fabrication is hands-down absolutely the most complex manufacturing process humans have invented so far, with less than a dozen facilities worldwide capable of making the components needed for a modern EV.
That's quite an odessy. I put MX Linux on my 13 year old dell laptop, and there was an option in the MX utilities app to install the NVIDIA 340 drivers for it, and it merged them into the 7.0.something kernel that I had in about 3 minutes.
This isn't meant as snark. Get settled into things for a few months with what you've got and then boot a few distros off USB and see if there's something that better suits you or your hardware. You'll have a good idea by then if what you really want/need.
Your ISP can theoretically use your home Wi-Fi router to track your movements.
This requires ancillary hardware that isn't present on wifi routers, and then it also requires wifi devices spread around the place to provide a signal source for human bodies to distort, and then it requires significant computational hardware that also isn't present in common home wifi routers.
Not to say that the general method can't be used for basic presence detection - Philips Hue ZigBee devices can use the variations in the background signal strength of ZigBee devices they can see around them to infer that someone is in a room, so they can switch lights on/off automatically. But it requires multiple devices in a room for it to work reliably and they need calibration as well.
Not so much when you understand that Hook doesn't just want to kill Pan , he wants to make him suffer for losing his hand. It was all a game to Pan, but Hook was the one with the hook for a hand now.
So after what seems to be an eternity of him chasing this idiot, insufferable, man-child, the now-quite-crazed Hook has broken into his mortal enemies home, and now spots him asleep in his bed.
As I understand it, we have them by omission. So our constitution and legal framework grants specific abilities and powers to the various levels of government to allow it to perform its functions, and anything else that isn't explicitly mentioned is unrestricted.
It's relatively easy to have creeping expansion of powers eroding rights in this setup, but conversely, you don't have to think up and deal with every particular right that you want enshrined in law right now, you can let the "everything's allowed by default" future-proof things a bit.
It's not brilliant, it's something a software engineer should have mentioned in the first 5 minutes of the initial design meeting. It very likely was.
So what you need to understand is that mashing Bing and local results together was a deliberate design decision. Whether to artificially inflate Bing search numbers , or to get that sweet cash from sponsored results, who knows?
The CPU in an average consumer PC can do tens of billions of instructions per second now. 10,000,000,000+ instructions per second. And then it can also offload some work to other devices. Here, graphics card, deal with updating this display at 144Hz. Hey network card, take this buffer and squirt it out the ethernet port at a 1 gigabit line speed for me.
And even with all that help, it still takes for-fucking-ever to get shit done. What the fuck are all those instructions doing‽
There is a lot of "woo datacentres bad" in this article and very little actual substance.
A 4 million dollar data centre is tiny. It's not gonna have AI in it and draw gigawatts. My work has an off site redundant data centre that's essentially three shipping containers, and it cost them ten million bucks, and it just keeps a hot copy of the business data synced from a similar-sized data centre down the road.
So this very well could just be space for actual "legitimate" storage and compute for semi local businesses that want a backup far enough away so that when one burns down the other one is ok.
I had a MythTV system with an Athlon 700 cpu around 2005 as a DVR and somehow it was a ripping machine.
Using MythTV's built in encoder it could rip a standard feature length DVD to about 800MB in about 45 minutes, so I've got plenty of 2000's DVDs from the local video store on file still. The process was basically, watch movie via MythTVs interface, leave DVD in, select "encode" from the menu in MythTV, and about 45 minutes later, done.
A few years earlier I was putting bulk Looney Tunes cartoons onto VCD for my children, pretty much wore our DVD player out with those discs haha.
Get home at 6pm, plug in car, car is charged at 4am , leave for work at 7am. Enough spare time there to shift to charging outside peak evening usage at 9pm instead.
That thing looked like it took a 90 degree turn to what they were aiming at. I'd hate to be sitting at a traffic light in Moscow somewhere and get a Russian missile to the face.
The tubes keep it warm, obviously.