Querying is completely fine. Training is a different story.

They're just smart about it and doing the extra hours on the side..

Obviously not. This just shows that they didn't want to pay the cost to have glass that was rated/certified and tested for the depths they were dealing with.

How many PST servers are set to America/Los_Angeles? Some installers no longer give an easy option for other locales. Adoption will have to be widely coordinated.

I have been running two 8-drive raidz2 arrays for 15 years without data loss, across MacZFS, Linux, Windows through a VM with physical device passthrough and several iterations of ARM. It works completely fine with a 1gb RAM total limit with 30TB of data. It works completely fine when the devices are attached via eSATA with PMP and even with USB3. You just need to tune the limits.

That would help isolate at-risk areas and possibly alert residents that they may have it before they know to test themselves ..

Set-tops, TVs and SBCs .. Fire TVs, tablets, Android phones ..

Keep in mind that e.g. the ARM Cortex A53 is just a standard. The implementations/manufacturers are pushing bounds on clock speeds, bandwidth, power optimization for incremental improvements between standards.

I just finished moving to a Rock64 (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pine64.org%2F%3Fpage_id%3D7147) as my main desktop machine. 4GB RAM, 4x cores, 4k LXLE desktop, media/TV server and 16x drives in two 16TB RAIDZ2 arrays.. and idling at a few watts.. for $50.

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  -- 6 cores, PCIe, good graphics--fast enough for a great Linux desktop/portable experience. The end result is a build-your-own-Chromebook scenario where you can upgrade and control all aspects like the breakout days of DIY PC builds..

They just need to use the same User-agent string as the PC.

Agreed. At some point in the next 5-10 years, it should be feasible to hunt for 'lost' bitcoin wallets with unspent coins sitting in them.

I think what happens here is that the West learned that it's not worth cutting every cent at the risk of damaging a brand and dealing with excessive returns. They reevaluate and often ditch factories/suppliers and raise their US prices to compensate. Shoddy parts/processes left behind with these factories have to end up somewhere, and with the US raising prices to compensate, the Hong Kong/China conduit/trade consultants see an opportunity to release cheap and generically non-returnable products within that low-end pricing market.

.. But now you have a sea of HK consultants in a pricing war in this separate ultra-low-end market, keeping quality down and selling 1,000 units at a time on Alibaba.com.

This might be partially related to the restaurant bubble ending.

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Scorpio sounds like the PC-ification of the XBox console world. The price point, the 'last console' hints.

They are selling you a PC with some modular components to switch out easily, that looks good next to your TV. You will upgrade it like a PC.

Perhaps they will offer simplified multi-functional module packs (i.e. CPU + GPU module, separate RAM module) .. but all this amounts to is enabling quality sliders in console games and having some annual update/version. I bet they want cute code names like Android uses. Or they will just use the year .. "2015+ Certified Game" .. the quality slider will just be set automatically based on the components.

The point of all of this is that they are burning through TONS of cash playing the hardware game against Sony. They like the licensing portion. It's cheap to manage and run. Project Scorpio is likely a hardware certification where partners can manufacture devices. It's "many" devices. Slow devices, fast devices, portable devices. They really are all just repackaged PCs. The question is if they can leverage their existing XBox user base to make the leap and how broad their nod toward the smartphone industry is. It sounds to me like they want to be the Google-to-Android of the Scorpio world, with ~$700 in upgrades every two years if you stay with the latest and greatest. Maybe Project Scorpio is just a glorified dock.