theandrewbailey

I work in e-waste recycling. I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of Chromebooks come in from schools. They are five years old maximum, and most are in pretty bad shape.

The permanent floating accessibility menu is irritating. I'm reading this on a tablet, and it's very difficult to not have it cover text.

> letting you choose a degree of stability with one word

Debian Sid: the original rolling release distro.

May I suggest Debian? It's 90+% the same as Ubuntu, and is updated about as often as Ubuntu LTS, but no snaps.

I had a programming class just as Ubuntu was getting started, and the instructor gave us live CDs. I toyed with it for a few months, but went back to Windows.

A few years later (2008-ish), my college issued everybody Thinkpads. The default solution to nearly every problem was "re-image". Strangely, the images they used still had the 4-ish GB OEM recovery partition. I had enough insight to know they didn't use it. After searching for a user-friendly distro that could fit in 4GB, I settled on Xubuntu. I've since moved away from it (and Ubuntu in general), but not XFCE.

I work in e-waste recycling, and I can assure everyone that many schools issue Chromebooks to students.

Once again, CD Projekt Red treats their customers with respect. I look forward to replaying the Witcher 3 along with that new expansion soon.

When someone makes a submission, the text field becomes a comment when the URL field is not empty. (but sometimes not?) It's a poorly designed form that should be redone.

> ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

That's quite the statement, considering there's still more than a quarter left in 2026.

I work in e-waste recycling. About a year ago, one of these came in with a Mega-LD PAC. The Laserdisc/CD mechanism needed work, but it otherwise was functional. A co-worker called just about every retro game shop and collector nearby. We discovered that everyone who knew what it was already had one, and shops would rather have shelf space for things that sell faster. (It takes the space of like 5 Wiis, which can sell in less than a week.)

For several months, said co-worker would make a sales pitch to everyone that came in the warehouse. It eventually sold for about $800.

(2015)

It's a subsidy by proxy. The government forgoes tax revenue on money that goes to interest payments. People deliberately get loans for the interest deduction.

If you earned $100,000 in a year but paid $5,000 in mortgage interest, government will not collect taxes on that $5,000, because you gave it to the bank. The bank gets money, but government doesn't: makes little difference if you gave it to the government first (who then handed it on to a bank), or you gave it directly to the bank.

Perhaps interest should not be tax deductible. It's a huge subsidy to the banks and finance industry, which does not need any assistance, and has routinely caused destructive economic recessions.

> But if there are only a few of them, and a large fleet is being renewed, I suppose it can make sense from a fleet management point of view to renew the few perfectly current ones as well.

I suspect that had something to do with it. The Core Ultras came out of Dells, and as mentioned, the industry around here uses HP almost exclusively. (The rest of that load was HP, only about 1% were those Dells.) Some dogmatic system administrator probably said "We we are only supposed to use HP, get those Dells out of here!"

If an intern did it (or even a low paid full-time employee), one could easily turn a profit selling used equipment. (I work in the refurb department, reselling used stuff is literally my job!) 5 minutes per monitor @ $25/each = $300 per hour. You could sell to wholesalers for much less per unit, in exchange for not wasting time with random people.

I'm not sure how prevalent this practice is, but IT equipment is sometimes on a depreciation schedule. If an employee starts selling the company's PCs and monitors, an accountant will get very angry, because he told the government that the stuff is literally worthless, but it apparently isn't because it was sold for something. IANAL, but I'm fairly sure that's tax fraud. Once it's turned over to someone else (my company) for free, the valuation resets, or something.

> For what reason? It just makes no sense to me. Or am I too poor of a peasant to understand?

I don't understand it either. Two scenarios make sense to me:

Somewhat probable: everyone in a department got upgraded, no exceptions. 'This is a really nice PC, but the boss says it has to go.' (There were about 100 i5 9th gen mini PCs (still OK), and 500 t640 thin clients in that same load.)

Less probable: some department got closed and cleaned out.

> Are you in some rich part of the US?

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Not particularly rich (rust belt), but healthcare is a significant part of the local economy. About 90% of healthcare here seems to run on HP, but Dells can appear.

> Here in Europe I sometimes see hospitals and doctors practices using 10+ year old PCs and still rocking the old 17-19 inch 1280x1024 CCFL LCD monitors from like the mid 2000s.

My stomach turns seeing the dozens of 24" probably 1080p monitors we scrap every day. Pretty much all are significantly scratched when they come off the truck, otherwise reselling them might be good business.

> Was Richie Rich using them or something?

Sort of: there were about half a dozen in micro PCs in a load picked up from a hospital. I was kinda bummed that they were BIOS password locked (as were the other PCs from there). The model didn't have a password reset jumper (or any reset mechanism outside of contact Dell support with proof of purchase), so I couldn't sell them as whole systems, and stripped them for parts.

We get DDR5-based systems from time to time, but they're understandably rare. Most of the time, they still work. My rule: any day I come across DDR5 is a good day.

When I built my Ryzen 1800X desktop, I named it "AMD Ryzing". My optimism turned out well placed.

I recently upgraded from that to a Core Ultra 7 that I got from work (e-waste recycling). It was not my intended upgrade path, and I hope Lisa isn't too mad lol (I kept my Radeon though).

Fixing blue screens must be hard.

Halo used to be what everyone wanted (both to play and dethrone), but now it's sitting in the corner eating glue. Moving it under Activision is certainly an extreme measure, but if it means everyone who touched on it in the past 15 years can't anymore, I'm listening.

At this point, Halo is an irrelevant also-ran. A management shake-up is desperately needed to change that, because whatever vision it's had for the past 15 or so years hasn't been doing it any favors.

Obsidian moving under Bethesda? After New Vegas, I thought everyone there didn't want anything to do with Bethesda.

> “it’s not delivery—it’s DiGiorno”

We've had AI output all these decades, but never recognized it. Is this evidence of time travel?

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Maybe PyPy needs a Steve Jobs-like figure to write a "no C extension" manifesto, declaring that all Python apps must be 100% Python.

The title violates HN guidelines. Use the original title of the page.

The title tell me nothing. Why should I bother clicking this? It makes me think this is a low-tier ad that I come across all day, every day, therefore sus and should be ignored.

I'm not into cars, and this is the only car channel I watch.

It's not your English proficiency. I didn't know this game existed, so before clicking, I expected it was about LucasArt's legacy on the games industry, or what former people there are doing now.

I want all my software to use all my cores, because I'll have twice as many within 5 years.

> a Pentium 3 & a GeForce 2

That's the spec of my retro PC. I never had one of those back in the day, but it scratches the itch.

This is one reason why I don't save my payment method for anything. No saved payment method means one less way for surprise charges.

I remember when Microsoft was sued for forcing a web browser into Windows. How the times have changed.