It was an unusual campaign in that 95% of campaign promises weren't not just unfulfilled but 180* opposite of policy. Ultimate con man.

But now that Philippines is nearly out of oil China has made overtures to take care of their oil needs which have been defacto accepted.

The quid pro quo isn't stated yet but US caused their oil crisis so this announcement isn't real.

What an odd thing to say.

I rip my DVD and Bluray discs to a NAS and play them with Jellyfin. There's not even an optical player near a TV anymore. The last one died in about 2008.

But I have put some of those files on USB before for the kids.

Used Blurays are about $5 usually and much better quality than any streaming service rental.

The Onn is an excellent device for the money and most questionable aspects can be disabled or piholed. Jellyfin and SmartTube and Projectivy are all fine.

I should go see if LineageOS has added any new low-power devices in the past year. That's the best option but nothing supported was for sale when I last looked.

Exactly.

Somebody said they spent a lot of time and money coming up with a new "nonbinary" mascot.

I started using Firefox over 20 years ago and never had any idea whether the fox was male or female. Since thunderbirds are fictional I'm not sure about the sexual dimorphism of their plumage.

It's hard to understand how they think these days. At least Ladybird will offer a second rendering engine when the bubble pops. Engineering-focused software organizations used to be the norm.

I guess a Ladybird is a female, not that it matters at all. The AI should have Majel Barret's voice anyway.

Posting since it was only in the footnotes.

15W might be good for use cases where n1x0 are a bit slow.

I'd consider a mini pc with one of these for kiosk-type applications. I have an n100 platform that gets maxed out with about 8 4K streams running. Would be nice to bump those up to 12 streams without much more power.

The iGPU code for ffmpeg is pretty good.

Hopefully these move beyond laptops later in the year.

No.

However, Kim Jong Un did meet with President Trump in June 2018 (but did not make any promises to abandon their nuclear program.)

Some colos don't even provide v6 yet.

Some ISP's still don't suport it.

Some classes of network gear only recently got hardware v6 support. Older gear still in service pushes v6 onto the CPU. Probably why those colos and ISP's don't support it.

And I still see important v6 fixes coming in hardware changelogs, mostly on the LAN management stacks (neighbor discovery, mDNS, etc.)

That said, the pieces are finally coming together in the past two years, roughly.

I would bet 2030* will see v6 at around 75% of traffic as that old gear is tricked out and the stacks wind up in maintenance mode.

At home I actually have more light bulbs on v6 than desktops, but that'll change when my switches get too old and tired. I could replace them all right now to change but there would be no benefit to me for dropping three to four grand. None of my home use cases would benefit.

* 2038 if the politicians do actually create a global depression which is looking increasingly likely

They already knew lead was bad, they just thought that the exposure would be too dilute to worry about. What they didn't anticipate was just how many automobiles would eventually be on the road.

Not true at all. Or, rather, it depends on some time scales and definitions.

The same way that there is no such thing as a "selfless" act - no one acts selflessly. They just value different goals in their assessment of selfishness. Selflessness is simply selfishness on a longer time scale or with a wider scope.

Chinese cars will be disruptive to the US auto industry, but devastating... that depends on what you mean. One could argue, and I would tend to agree, that the continuing artificial protections are doing the industry more overall and long term harm. The whole key to capitalism and the free market is that the market drives a path to highest efficiency. Artificially protecting Ford et al from those drivers to efficiency is creating waste and giving the worst of both worlds. The greed of capitalism and the self-serving of authoritarianism. Think of Soviet Russia circa 1980. Falling under its own weight and crumbling infrastucture because there were no drivers to efficiency.

Chinese cars are probably the only thing that can save the US auto industry. It badly needs a reset.

They're pissing on 'you' and telling you it's raining, if the summary is correct.

It usually follows the business model collapsing and precedes a fork and the original just going into support.

Does BYD make dumb cars or is that mandatory control-grid over there?

Also, how dare they not comply with a US control grid!

Excuse me while I go find a '77 Lincoln Town Car. But do make a dumb electric with a good cold-weather battery and let me know.

I've seen too much sausage being made to bet on cell service always existing .

"Redwood will turn those into a stationary storage installation that can help reduce Rivian's energy costs during times of peak demand, the companies said in a press release."
from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideevs.com%2Fnews%2F792...

If power is expensive at peak demand, and cheap (or free) at times with no demand, it makes sense to use batteries to store the cheap energy and use it when energy is expensive

Yes, but it could prove the genes that could eventually be targeted by a gene therapy. As a therapeutic it might work for eradication even if it's not integrated.

Then there was that Chinese guy who got arrested for creating engineered babies with the outside claim being he was introducing HIV resistance but everybody thinks he was trying to enhance intelligence. If both are true things could get interesting.

I'd mod this insightful, except I can't moderate topics I've posted in!

Agree, I like the trailers. If they had a showing of JUST trailers, I'd probably go!

The problem with ads is that they're repetitive, and hence boring.