Neil44

We used to buy Dells with minimum RAM and add quality third party RAM for way less than Dell wanted for it. They also use ram quantity to leverage other specs we're not bothered about. Of course they are moving to soldered.

Same, I'm spamming the apt update and so far nothing on 22.04 or 24.04 lts

I realised that my linode and ovh vm's point at local mirrors not direct to ubuntu, I guess that's why the delay

This publicity is probably an actual advertising campaign for them.

Oh come on, if a company is placing job ads to comply with the letter of this law in 2026 they're 100% exploiting the process Vance outlines and would undoubtedly try to exploit whatever the replacement process was as well.

I have cookie bite hearing loss which is very gradually getting worse (48). I'm told genetics and not much can be done. I can empathize with the isolation. I'm often happy to sit back and just enjoy the atmosphere without necessarily hearing everything. But then sometimes it becomes awkward.

Truckers aren't just rolling around out there for their own enjoyment they're transporting the goods we all use every day, on pretty thin margins at that. I guess if you're trying to indirectly tax the users of trucking then OK.

Roads are subsided by people - what else would they be subsidised by, aliens?

I didn't realize that Dodos only lived on Mauritius. I thought they were everywhere for some reason. I guess little meat footballs that can't fly were never going to colonize the planet.

Yeah he doesn't want people delaying purchasing decisions

Well Great Lakes Works is still operating, and you can still buy Stratus ftServers, how nice is that after all this time?

That would be very cool. I wonder if you could get it through legislation though. I think all the legislation is based around reciprocating IC engines.

Can confirm my 11 year old says 'thats so AI' and means it as a slight insult.

Anecdotally my friend who works at the bar at a music venue said the rock and metal fans are always the chill-est and easiest going.

I suppose it's theft in so far as you're deriving value from something that others labored for. I think that sticks in peoples throats. You can go to the library and do that already, gain knowledge, start a business or whatever. But the scale feels impersonal and monstrous in comparison.

I understand the sentiment and partly agree. But also, the original has not gone anywhere. You're free to accumulate knowledge in the old way just as before. So maybe it's not theft of knowledge that we should be angry about, it's something else harder to define.

In the UK you can get agile tarrifs now where the price changes through the day according to demand and supply predictions. There's an API you can use to control chargers, heaters, bitcoin miners etc.