Moore’s “law” died back in 2016. It’s not held for a while now. The only way they can scale the way they want without a major breakthrough is more power and larger machines

For my buddy and I our critical data doesn’t change often so once or twice a year when we get together we swap drives again. Simple spinning discs for us. No need for hardware or anything to keep them running. They just sit on a shelf just in case something happens we can hand it back to pull the data back onto a running server

My friend who lives a thousand miles away swaps hard drives with me that are backups of critical stuff. He keeps my data, I keep his. As others have said your garage is a start but you really want some sort of geographically separate backup.

Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.

For some that’s their main hobby. If they’ve got an emergency fund, retirement account, and can cover expenses, why shouldn’t they save for their hobby? Seems like they’re doing it the smart way.

I get what you’re saying, and agree, but there were many more, Ancestry.com and findagrave.com and many more were also down (while I’m in the middle of an ancestry fact finding trip). It really was massive.

Por que no los DOS? (Pun intended)

But really it’s been two things. I’ve had to adapt algorithms to some extremely ancient hardware that had another twenty years planned service, and I’ve had to work on robot operating systems where timing of operations is extremely important

“human legible”

Have you looked at a punch card? I like some assembly, but the punch card is just dots. They blur together until all you see are holes and more holes and structure has lost all meaning.

That econdary drive I highly recommend you find a way to move that out of your house. For me I have a friend 8 hours away, we swap drives on occasion to keep each other’s backups in case of flood/fire/toddler or whatever other force of nature to save ourselves cloud backup costs

That’s even assuming the book you want is available and wasn’t a super limited printing that you couldn’t even begin to afford in the first place.

For anyone stumbling along. “Retina display” is their marketing speak for higher pixel density than “average”.

I haven’t read the paper but they might mean “Generative AI”

Google has actually released a software update to try to prevent the modem battery issue and are replacing the battery in affected models for free. Rare easy win from a megacorp

Completely missed that. My eyes rushed over that as an alternative CPU I think.

We need more good AMD options dangit, not just NVIDIA

That’s a good point for the future, but I meant on my Pixel 6a and I bought it directly through Google.

That’s yet another trend that’s made me less and less interested in things. You’re not wrong though and will likely be my fall back

They even actually re-released a version of the 3310 a few years back. I still have my old Garmin knocking about, wonder if it’s got updated maps if I got a model without GPS.

Android is already based on Linux. But in general there are FOSS phone OS’s. GrapheneOS being the dominant player

I started joking that my next phone will be a Nokia 3310. I feel more and more each day like that should just be my actual next phone