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  • it really depends on where and from whom you get it. i've seen laptops sold as 'brand new' that have been cracked-open by sellers and 'upgraded' to sata ssd from nvme (worked on one a few months ago a guy just bought as new off amazon, with no indication in the listing that it isn't as-built by hp originally); and i've seen more than a few 'refurbished' units (desktops and laptops) with cheap sata ssd used where nvme was available.

  • AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica

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  • some am stations go dark (off the air) at night, even. there's a 'daytimer' near where i am. it's weird.

  • Biden administration to require advanced safety tech on all new cars and trucks

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  • at least half the drivers (out of the many) that don't stop at the crosswalk i'm trying to use on my way to or from the office (my commute is a short walk. the street is the 'main drag' in a small town's downtown) either have their phone in their hands or are looking down (and i can't actually see the phone).

  • Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

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  • i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

  • People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

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  • "decades" from now, autonomous vehicles will have their own roadways, designed for them and with the infrastructure needed for the tech at that future time.

    the streets as we know them today will be for last-mile (literally) transport, pedestrians, bicycles, some forms of public transit, and what not.

  • Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained

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  • it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,

  • People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

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  • Full autonomous vehicles, and particularly significant levels of adoption of them are decades away

    the only way fully-autonomous vehicles will truly work and work as envisioned, is if user-operated ones are taken off the roads entirely. and yes, that is at least 'decades away'

  • What is the most popular Linux distribution on PC?

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  • you mean debian, right?

  • How is MX Linux reigning #1 on Distrowatch?

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  • they count clicks on a distro's page on their site, not usage or anything else.

    if they dared put hanna montana linux on there, it would be the perpetual #1 listing.

  • xkcd #2923: Scary Triangles

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  • aren't icebergs the 'icebergs of the sea'?

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  • for every person that figures out how to disable this stuff, there are many thousands of others who don't, don't bother, or don't even know it might be possible to... which is why they pull this shit in the first place--and (usually) get away with it.

  • Cough Cough... Chrome... Chough...

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  • i use private windows mainly so i don't clutter up browser histories with useless stuff i won't go back to (if i do run across something to save, it gets bookmarked or printed to pdf).

  • Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power

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  • my utility charges $25 a month just to be hooked up. then there's taxes and some community bullshit fees on top of the actual electricity usage. so even though my usage has dropped quite a bit over the years, and the base rate hasn't really gone up that much (about 10-12% total, over two decades).. my bill is still more than double what it used to be.

  • Americans’ new TV habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.

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  • they thought star trek would carry it.... when that didn't work, they shopped some of those titles around to play elsewhere and don't even have their entire flagship franchise available anymore.

  • Prosecutors will make history with opening statements in Trump's hush money criminal trial

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  • "a historic day in the court room today, as the court recessed for 15 minutes for a diaper change--interrupting the testimony from the very first witness called by the state."

  • Donald Trump is on the verge of another $1 billion Truth Social windfall

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  • diaperbaby: here's our new collateral for the appeal bond

    ny ag: lol no

  • Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it.

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  • of course i learn of this today, a day after i just spent $10 each to 'recycle' a bunch of dead monitors.

  • Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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  • it's not just apple anymore. all the major 'pc' makers have non-upgradeable laptops now.. just not across their entire line-up (yet).

  • I just won an auction for 25 computers. What should I setup on them?

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  • a pallet of 4th gens? i have a dozen left here from around that era that i can't get rid of without literally giving them away. they're 'tolerable' for a gui linux or win10 with an ssd, but the 'performance per watt' just isn't there with hardware this old. i used a few of them (none in an always-on role, though), but the rest just sit in the corner, without home nor purpose.

    these 800 g1s are, iirc, 12vo, so upgrade or reuse potential is a bit limited. most users would want windows, and win10 does run 'ok enough' on 4th gen, just make sure they're booting from ssd (120gb minimum). but they'll run into that arbitrarily-errected wall-of-obsolescence with trying to upgrade or install win11 when win10 retires in 18 months (you can 'rufus' a win11 installer, but there's no guarantee that you will be able to in the future). that limits demand and resale value of pretty much all the pre-8th gen hardware.

  • Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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  • the 'problem' is: you can't upgrade; you're stuck with that 8gb.

    want more in a year or two? you have to buy a new mac. and that's apple's goal--sell more product. buyers will be back (because they're hooked on the platform and ecosystem) to buy a new one sooner than they otherwise would have.