Windows has a weird situation where having more memory can lead to using less of it. If you try to run Windows 10 x64 with 4GB of memory it will run pretty good, but its memory usage is almost maxed out the whole time. It's probably swapping crap in and out constantly, but you don't notice because we all should have an SSD of some sort as the boot drive... this isn't the stone age. But if you have 8GB+, it will end up using most of it for the first 10 or so seconds of booting up, but then drop to ~2.5GB afterward

You are simply wrong. Sounds like a strong instance of PEBCAK

I travel a fair bit for work, and if I'm going to a new (to me) city I'll often google "X hotel chain Y city" to see what options I have. Unfortunately Google has been victimized in their search results on this for a long time; it's not just redirects to various third-party hotel sites but it can be other sites entirely as well. This can lead to outdated or completely inaccurate information, and bad phone numbers too. Sometimes I'll see the correct link about 5-6 entries down, but that's not guaranteed - and if chain X has more than one hotel of name A in or near city Y the results could well be missing some locations on the first page.

This is the old googlebombing technique from years ago (remember "miserable failure"?), but deployed for profit instead of politics.

These assholes charge $80-100 for a single checked bag. Their seats are honestly some of the worst I ever sat on IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, distanced so close to the seats surrounding yours that you will have aches and pains for the rest of the day that you flew with them. They are the bottom of the barrel shit hole airline, and people only need to fly with them once to realize they never want to do it again.

They are killing themselves

All this noise from Trump is intended to get you to forget about his ties to Epstein. Is it working?

Granted, the SCOTUS has already declared that laws do not apply to him, so it doesn't really matter. Nonetheless, he is wearing himself thin trying to run his own interference plays here.

That is an offense that has been committed by very nearly every automaker that sells cars or trucks in the US, and it is exceptionally well documented.

Today's Nissan Altima is larger than the Nissan Maxima of the 1990s.

Today's Subaru Outback is bigger than the Subaru Forester of the 1990s.

Today's Toyota Corrolla is bigger than the Toyota Camry of the 1990s.

It's just manufacturers responding to how they read the market. It doesn't mean it's right, it just is. But this is not a matter of just the big 3 doing it, everyone else is as well. Even Hyundai/Kia are selling large SUVs and several years ago they launched a premium / luxury line as well.

There are quite a few vehicles with CVTs but quite a few more that don't use them. My work car is a mass market 2025 Chevy Equinox and it has a regular automatic with real gears. Conversely I had as a family car a Ford Freestyle years ago that had a CVT, and it made it over 200,000 miles without ever needing any kind of transmission service (never even changed the transmission fluid). A CVT is not inherently a bad thing, depending on the application and manufacturer.

Some people just hate the American big 3 automakers, and will jump at any (perceived) opportunity to dunk on them. Don't bother trying to hold a discussion on this matter with them; they may be completely reasonable people in other aspects but they will keep telling you about how much they hated their mom's 86 Oldsmobile and how it somehow justifies hatred of every single vehicle ever made by the big 3, ever.

Paypal has now moved to providing a credit card linked to your account (whether you like it or not). I imagine that would work the same as any other credit card

Yes, I know Lenovo makes the ThinkPad. It's almost as good as the old IBM models, and it still carries the prestige even if it isn't. But really can't anyone else sell a laptop with any kind of trackpoint type device any more? I had one from HP for the first few years of my current job then they "upgraded" me to a new one that doesn't have it. Dell makes a few but they don't meet my needs.

We used to believe that the Infinite Wisdom of the Free Market would give us the best products in all industries. At some point we instead allowed the market to tell us what we really needed, regardless of our preferences. Give us back more options and I'll bring money; touchpads suck and touch screens suck even worse.

Do you understand what an NFT actually is? They don't, and usually aren't, sold as a scammy cryptocurrency token. I get an NFT every time I go to a concert and it is a fun talking point when a group of friends share what shows they've been to. It has no selling value and is use for entertainment

There is nothing stopping you from doing it

VMWare workstation is the best you can get for a desktop virtual machine host

There was a good chance of 23andme being able to make full-genome sequencing (which they weren't yet scaled up to) a commoditized service with the privacy protections that need to be ensured for all customers. However the business model collapsed along the way.

Now we see the most predictable outcome - someone who knows they can profit from the data is buying the remains of the company (with the data).

Only in the USA is the genomic data that valuable, and there is one sector of the economy who can benefit from it more than any other. Regeneron knows which industry that is, and while they aren't a direct part of it themselves they know they need to serve it.

Regeneron bought the data to eventually sell it to the Health Insurance Cartel. The Cartel was granted effective license to print money with the passage of the ACA, but they want more power. They still own an overwhelming majority of congress - on both sides of the aisle - but they want more power. With the genomic data they can start rewriting the rules on pre-existing conditions. As all other plans go up in price they can start offering plans that are less expensive if you consent to DNA testing, which will lead to treatment for some conditions being denied.

We can't win as long as the system is set up this way. We can't change it when the people who benefit from it control the people who set the rules.

The Trump administration has been largely a copy-paste production. When they initially wanted to "replace" the ACA back during his first term, their plan was to replace the ACA with the ACA - made better by putting his signature at the end instead of the signature of President Obama. When they were finally called out on that, they quietly dropped their efforts to repeal the ACA, instead focusing on various things they can do in the name of "border security" (nevermind that no effort has been made this term for the wall that he used to talk nonstop about).

This store reflects a retail model that is simply dead now. You don't go in to a surplus store looking for something specific, as you likely won't find it. You go in with general ideas and you see what you find along the way.

Unfortunately very nearly nobody shops like that any more. We have a chain of surplus stores where I live, and the last several times I've gone in I've walked back out empty handed as they didn't have anything I wanted. They had plenty of things that other people want, but nothing I was looking for at the moment. 500 feet of rope in 12 different diameters? Yep they have it but I'm not looking for it. Cartoon character umbrellas? Yep they have it but I'm not looking for it. Firewire cables? Yep them have them but I'm not looking for them. Strange animated movies I've never heard of? Yep lots of those too. The list goes on and on but if they don't have anything I'm looking for then they won't get any money from me.