csdreamer7

> Actually, this seems to be mostly a spike in retail prices, not wholesale DRAM contracts that are only up 60% or so in the past few months according to Samsung. So we should most likely place at least some fraction of the blame on our fellow consumers for overreacting to the news and hoarding RAM at overinflated prices. DRAM sticks are the new toilet paper.

What is your source on that? Moore's Law is Dead directly contradicts your claims by saying that OpenAI has purchased unfinished wafers to squeeze the market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORRBce5TGw

> FWIW my bank refuses to accept unrolled coins, long before this month's retirement of the penny.

My (edit: old) bank refused to accept unrolled coins back in the early 2000s.

> It's also much nicer for the vehicles parked there to be in the shade.

Pedestrians too.

To add to this Nathan Briggs does reverse engineering to make old games work on modern Windows. Windows 11 has corrected faults in it's APIs that probably should have been fixed but somehow worked with older versions of Windows that gamedevs built around. He often posts the solution and sends it GOG. Often this involves updating a community maintained wrapper around the DirectX APIs that GOG uses.

I think you will really like this content.

https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs

Not sure what you are saying. If you saying you need the gamedev to recompile for arm you can run a virtualization layer, just like Mac and Windows. My friend has had the best results with: https://fex-emu.com/

> At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system release a full 7 years after release without issue?

Linux users do it all the time with WINE/Proton. :-)

Before you complain about the term 'major OEM operating system'; Ubuntu is shipped on major OEMs and listed in the supported requirements of many pieces of hardware and software.

> I doubt such a thing has ever happened in the history of consumer-facing computing.

Comments like this show how low standards have fallen. Mac OS X releases have short support lengths. The hardware is locked down-you need a massive RE effort just to get Linux to work. The last few gens of x86 Mac hardware did not have as much, but it was still locked down. M3 or M4 still do not have a working installer. None of this is funded by Apple to get it working on Linux or to get Windows ARM working on it as far as I know.

In comparison, my brother in-law found an old 32bit laptop that had Windows 7. It forced itself without his approval to update to Windows 10. It had support for 10 years from Microsoft with just 10. 7 pushed that 10 to... hmm... 13+ years of support?

I really do not understand the arguments of this article (or the libertarians in the comments complaining about it). It is so vague it offers little benefit to the discussion. The article makes it seem like the government pays a direct subsidy for mortgages. The GSAs do not do that; it insures the 30 year loans to provide market stability and makes money with guaranty fees. Just FDIC and NCUA insurance on private deposits-it is self funding and provides a positive to the market-stability. Same for FHA. This is exactly what the government should do. Private actors otherwise would have to find their own insurance and cyclical changes in the market would likely to higher fees to manage it than what the government is offering.

Nor does the article talk about the direct subsidies because it is very unpopular and the paper may lose readers. Like the mortgage interest deduction or VA loans.

Also, the paper picks out 30 year mortgage loans but leaves out other government incentives; like Trump's recent 20% tax deduction on non-owner operated business income... which really can only be claimed by a REIT as far as I know?

I specifically point out REITs as REITs led to their own share of property speculation.

The government benefits from these mortgages as it helps it develop underdeveloped regions in the nation-allowing them to reach that critical mass to support modern infrastructure and grows the middle class through home ownership. Your views on a community change when you have a decade of your wages invested in a part of that community.

My speculation is some think tank paid from the wealthy is paying for articles to find ways to raise revenue to keep the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy.

> It’s a shame. I have a RO filter because I don’t trust the government to maintain water quality. I know plenty of people with the double RO filter for their well water. Its really a travesty what water quality has become.

Last I checked the Federal government does not manage private wells. There are exempt under the Clean Water Act.

Would you share more about the priced out part? Wouldn't a stealth fighter be more expensive than an interceptor? Do you have links?

It also encourages users to upgrade to newer hardware since older devices are known to get slower as they age due to software increasing complexity and hardware mitigations (yes, they are also for phones). Most users will just blame the device.

Not saying that is the cause of this slow down, but since the mpeg4 patents don't expire till 2027(?) (and one of those patents prevents hardware decode on Linux) we as a society have given Google every incentive to do this and I welcome them to make mpeg4 irrelevant.

> This has major "poll test" energy: a transparent attempt to deny people their rights with an intentional bureaucratic hurdle.

Or a way to reach people (and reduce fraud) when your mailbox is destroyed and you are in temporary housing. Same with people who rent. There was a case where the Supreme Court heard that requiring postage and stationary to mail a form to access government services was a poll tax and they rejected it. The courts may view email as the same way.

Protonmail does not use sms verification, but a lot of places block @protonmail.com without telling you. Happened to me with British Airways and stranded me in Europe until I bought another ticket. Never heard from BA, but another service told me it was because they offer a VPN service.

Depending on the jurisdiction; they are.

>> 32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian

> Deprecated for Debian

> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues....

32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel... and... 'Debian, Arch, and Fedora still supports baseline x86_64'.

Please do not take things out of context.

I would too but do you have a link to them talking about it?

32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian, Arch, and Fedora still supports baseline x86_64.

RHEL 8 is still supported and Ubuntu is still baseline x86_64 I believe for commercial distros. Not sure about SuSE.

That was my intention; mATX AM5 parts.

This means their servers are very old ones that do not support x86-64-v2. Intel Core 2 Duo days?

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

Think of how much faster their servers would be with one of those Epyc consumer cpus.

I was about to ask people to donate, but they have $80k in their coffers. I realize their budget is only $17,000 a year, but I am curious why they haven't spent $2-3k on one of those Zen4 or Zen5 matx consumer Epyc servers as they are around under $2k under budget. If they have a fleet of these old servers I imagine a Zen5 one can replace at least a few of them and consume far less power and space.

https://opencollective.com/f-droid#category-BUDGET

Not sure if this includes their Librapay donations either:

https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/donate

If you can shift these tokens around like Bitcoin my first thought was tax or sanctions evasion. Buy some VOO tokens from a 3rd party since you know your corrupt government (and you made money from that corruption) will seize your bank account for any reason. You hold these tokens in a private wallet stored somewhere for a few decades as your escape plan.

There was an article on how cut-throat (pun intended) low the margins are for money laundering in the competition between businesses to get drug trafficked US dollars from Mexico to China.

> Well this isn't very long in terms of overhauling safety-critical systems that have many decades worth of processes and infrastructure built up around them, is it?

Do you actually know if 6 years is enough time? If so, provide info.

As for myself, I do not know. I do know once it was reported they were on floppy disks; they finished moving off it in 3 years. If wasn't for the media report I doubt it would happen. Once again, different systems, but likely public embarrassment motivated the move more than anything else.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479588478...

> ATC is a safety-critical function that has what amounts to a 100% uptime requirement. Whatever system they're running currently either works or has known flaws that they know how to work around, and air traffic controllers have been trained on these systems for more than a generation now. Upgrading merely for the sake of being up to date would have been foolish no matter how much funding Congress would have given them.

I do not have enough knowledge to disagree on this. But I will say the FAA is still on floppy disks when the US Nuclear Arsenal moved off floppies back in 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...

Yes, they have different requirements and yes, SACCS was using 8 inch IBM mainframe floppies from the 70s, but they are both 24/7 critical systems.

> If they're saying that they need the upgrade now, I'll trust them on that, but it was the right call to make it last.

The real answer is likely embarrassing incidents that came up during the start of this presidency. There is now political will to address it; instead of 'before' it becomes a problem. They are on Windows 95-it was budget issues.

> So, genuine question here: do companies have to pay full price in order to finance a technology that is used by 5% of their daily users?

As far as I know; Valve has cut the rate for larger companies.

> Of course this is a "devil advocate" question, but I would not consider Valve as "safer" than any other game / tech companies to be honest...

I do not know what the point of this comment is. We were not discussing if a company is 'safer'. As one US judge said when an Indie game company sued Valve and lost; the 30% rate is common among digital platforms. The point myself and the above poster made was that Valve does a lot more then most platforms that do charge 30%. Myself as a Linux enthusiast is very thankful for Valve for their work on Proton and Mesa.

As far as I know, purchases made through the Steam store is 30%; unless you are a larger publisher and have a different deal.

Also Steam keys and Proton. I heard they often don't charge for them. Valve has made Linux gaming into a real alternative to Windows. Much better than MacOS.

I find Stardew Valley to be stressful since I keep trying to max things out for the 3 year goal of meeting grandpa and that always stops me from continuing it.

Literally I have a todo list for it.

^This. People act so helpless to big tech, and especially Windows. Linux is still more effort for normies, but it should not be an issue for most people on this sub to want learn it-you are doing things already on Windows that would not be much different than Linux. AI w/ Nividia alone justifies Linux because Windows has performance issues. Then you have the freedom of leaving Windows if it continues to get hostile.

> Between 1861 and 1933, they had one of the highest average tariff rates on manufactured imports in the world. After 1942, the U.S. began to promote worldwide free trade.

The US did this because of the free trade treaties between west European states after WW2. This eventually led to the EU. The US, not wanting to be isolated, pushed for their own treaties.

Pretty much-was told by an insurance broker one of the biggest factors past history of weather and the obvious things (flooding possibility, dry trees) is my neighbors. Didn't get into specifics but I suspect drugs and gangs.

> Russia is the source of instability, but it can't be defeated or reasoned with. What to do?

Russia can be easily defeated; especially at this point. Their armies are demoralized, their equipment is terrible (they are using donkeys), and their budget is running out. The only reason they do not crumble is their sheer size against Ukraine. They would easily be wiped out by a more modern western military. Conservatives in the US now like Russia because they ban LGBT and Europe does not want to pay for a likely 2 year attack and show of force.

And don't talk to me about using nuclear weapons against the west. Russia won't use them. They haven't use them for 3 years despite threats to the west if they don't stop funding Ukraine. The second they use them against the west; the west uses them right back. All the money, power, and influence the elites have in Russia disappears. They won't let Putin launch them.

Threading is another case. The Asahi's gpu Tust driver was able to avoid a lot of threading issues because of Rust.

>> What open source alternatives?

> This is part of parent's point IMHO.

> I see VSCode as a net positive, but I think it's healthy to keep in mind the embrance->extend bigger picture.

It is a terrible point. Emacs and vim have been around for 'how' long and they are still niche and difficult to use.

VSCode made it better, especially with LSPs. Make all the terrible arguments you want. Still does not change that before more people used the Windows only VS Studio and now they can use the (mostly free) VSCode on Linux. Whatever attempt Microsoft is making to embrace Linux to prevent a possible dev shift they are still cannibalizing their VS Studio sales to do so and Vim/Emacs still does not offer a good response to Code.