Given there's a "Windows 11 pre-installed" option available, the answer would be yes.

This looks interesting, and the pricing is high-ish but not absurd IMHO. They offer Intel or AMD processors - I do wish there was an "ARM" option available.

These people are already employed by Meta. They know what to expect... they've been enabling it themselves, after all.

Internally, wealthy Republicans refer to tariffs as "transfer of money from poor people to us".

I'm certain the answer can be found somewhere on Hunter's laptop!

That'll happen right after Mexico gets reimbursed for The Wall.

Is it some counterpoint to the "Birds aren't real" meme?

100%. If the superior solution always won, Microsoft Windows would have been relegated to the dustbin long before Windows 95 existed (and we wouldn't be dealing with the disaster pile that is Windows 11 today). Similarly if the superior solution always won we'd have high speed rail in the US connecting all our major cities, but that hasn't happened either.

Including whose wheels you're willing to grease to get your inferior solution a leg up on the ones that are better.

The ZIP won out over a superior technology - Imation Superdisk - because it was first to market. Iomega's ZIP disc was proprietary and more expensive per megabyte, while also almost never being bootable. Imation solved those problems with the Superdisk, which could also read 1.44mb floppies in the same drive. However by the time Imation released theirs, Iomega had a huge headstart and few people paid attention.

Later on though Iomega's reliance on their being first to (mass) market ended up killing off their product. They weren't able to hit a cost per mb that was even remotely close to CD-R, let alone USB flash drives - nor could they get anywhere near the speed of USB flash drives. If they had taken the time to innovate further we would probably be talking about new ZIP-related technologies in the 10s of GBs (or larger), instead they are in the dustbin.

Pretty sure that's not a new bug, but the old anti-unicode stance that the slashdot libertarians so boldly took 20 years ago in the name of the empire. Clearly that has turned out well as enrollment keeps climbing and everyone uses this site on a regular basis.

I've been working 42 years, and I certainly feel like I might be running out of power. And that's with vacations and weekends off, which poor Voyager doesn't get (perhaps they should've joined a better union?).

In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

This almost certainly has more to do with the recent closure of numerous court cases which were brought by various states against the Trump administration after Trump arbitrarily blocked the disbursement of allocated funds that Congress had previously approved for the purchase of those chargers. Unsuprisingly, Trump has lost just about all of those cases since his behavior is clearly unconstitutional.

I think that, despite the undeniable pain and suffering Trump has caused, we should thank our lucky stars that he's prioritized toady-ism over subject matter competence when filling roles during Trump 2. As bad as it's been, it could've been much worse. And it seems increasingly likely he's going to lose both the House AND the Senate this fall.

I mostly agree, but I also remember (this was back in the 1980s) a feeling of being inducted into a special fraternity and learning its arcane secrets.

It's funny because, in my home office right now, I still have a SyQuest EZ 135 drive sitting on a high shelf. Hadn't been touched for probably 25+ years until just now, when I pulled it down to remind myself what brand it was.

I have a vague memory of needing to do something similar with an old HP size-of-a-portable-dishwasher disk drive from my very first job. Couldn't tell you what it was, though.

Funnily enough, (somewhat later than your story) I recall my teammates and I spending literally months convincing our still-in-love-with-tapes boss that instead of expanding our tape library, we could get better utility and save money by deploying a couple backup servers (one onsite, one elsewhere) with nice big RAIDs.