Those diamond batteries were bullshit. The problem is that as the carbon-14 decays, the structure stops being diamond, because it's no longer made of all carbon. After even a decade or two, the diamond structure will be practically gone and the remaining carbon will impure as balls and in mostly graphite form. Once the structure is damaged enough, it will no longer hold itself together. I suppose you could encase the diamond in something like resin but part of the point of using diamond was the electrical properties (diamond is a good insulator of electricity which makes for good capacitors, the effects of which were being used in the device in part to make it work.). Also, while carbon-14 is screamingly radioactive; it's way, way less so than the currently used tritium. This means you'd a ton more of it to get the same wattage output, although it's longer half-life would mean that it could, assuming it maintained it's structure, last longer than the tritium betavoltaics. But to get it to maintain it's structure long-term would require using proportionally less carbon-14 and more carbon-12 and carbon-13. This means you lose one of the advantages of tritium - size.

Fuck em. Would be nice if they finish the job and go under completely. And take Axon and the Motorola shit with them.

No sympathy whatsoever or the people who lost their jobs.

As much as I despise a lot of what this current administration is doing, we still have to acknowledge when they do something right. With the facts currently at hand this seems like they are doing the right thing here and I encourage them to do more right things!

What still remains to be seen is whether Microsoft will announce some sort of investment and then this issue goes away. These tactics are pretty common these days. We no longer enforce antitrust laws regardless of who's in power, so it is no mystery that mega-corps are running wild.

Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

First, I'd paste it into notepad just to make sure.

The Meta Rayban glasses have a light when it's active. Now granted, many people do pay a mobile repair person to permanently disable that light. But personally, I think the people that do not disable that light shouldn't be penalized. And for that reason, I think the law is badly written.

I would love for my devices to have their AI models local like Apple did. It is really annoying to say "Play song ABC" and even though ABC is a local file, my device goes to the cloud. But Apple gave customers privacy, security, and resiliency - and everyone complained that it took up space. So next time you want to complain that companies are requiring Internet connections for stuff that could be done locally, remember that someone tried and it was rejected.

We have bubonic plague infections every year in the United States. Very, very few, admittedly, but it's not like it's been eradicated. So there's still benefit in studying it.

The more I hear about this so-called "SF Democratic Party," the more I'm convinced they don't speak for the majority of SF voters. Seriously. They seem to be some strange, centrist organization that no voters belong to and nobody knows where they get their money from.

Yes, they can. Like 20 years ago, when CmdrTaco was still running this site, they implemented Unicode support. But then a few weeks later they disabled it because they couldn't figure out how to stop the text direction markers from breaking the site. You could post a comment with a right-to-left direction and reverse all the text that came after, including the next comments, unless you remembered to change it back before the end of the comment. They never did re-enable Unicode, which is quite ridiculous. Everyone else figured this out 20 years ago or more.

Describe "0 free memory". When I say it is 100%, I am literally looking at Outlook, Windows services, and Excel taking almost 16GB by themselves. This is not cached memory model of the Linux and MacOS where free RAM is reserved for caching. At 16GB, the "cached memory" on my Windows machine is disk swap as I can see the disk activity.

I am not searching through this forum just because you can't be bothered to retype or paste a link. Also I have to read your mind to determine which of your posts apply? That's a no.

There are lots of things that could be removed from Windows that are unnecessary; however, MS makes it more difficult with each new update and patch. Removing them for the performance is such a hassle that few do it. For example, I don’t have an Xbox but MS deems it that I must have Xbox Gaming installed with each major update. It used to be that you could uninstall it. Now you can remove it but it really is not uninstalled as components still exist; for example all the modules that connect to the Xbox gaming servers still are present.

There are all sorts of service running that do not to be. I don’t have a touch screen yet all components for it cannot be removed. My machine is a desktop not a laptop yet airplane mode exists and cannot be removed. I know because one day it was triggered somehow and I was off the Internet until I rebooted and reset everything.

Again, security researchers could wait until quantum computers have broken 1024 bit RSA before working on countermeasures. Or they could start planning now. I would prefer if they started now.

I have a Windows 11 machine with 16GB. I can say 16GB is not enough as Windows itself is such a bloated mess.

It may be a while before the Neo has one as it uses an iPhone chip that was not designed to work with Thunderbolt. Not the Neo 2 but maybe the Neo 3 will have Thunderbolt.