I really hope MS doesn't kill GitHub now that the CEO is gone. I have had nothing but the best luck with their support, when a bug on their end caused problems... they had an efix in hours, it was in the beta in a few days, and in two weeks, it was in the release cycle. For a product that is the critical core of many companies, I hope support doesn't get worse.

That is easier said that done. A wild hog can chew or root their way through almost anything except heavy steel or reinforced concrete. It takes a lot to stop a hog... and often the entire sounder may join in.

I wish they did more with PCIe lanes. Mainly so we can get eGPUs as a mainstream option back, or other dedicated appliances that can be used on a bus instead of just the CPU and cards. For example, multiple TB5 lanes just for storage I/O or network I/O.

I wish this were better stated. Hybrids offer a lot of advantages that people want. The hybrid F-150 has torque that is up there with diesels, except without all the emissions stuff needed.

I just wish we had more PHEVs like the Prius Prime, or the Jeep 4xe. I'm lucky enough to have a 50 amp, 240 volt outlet outside which gives me a type 2 charger. Definitely not a Supercharger by any means... but good enough to top off a vehicle overnight. For daily commutes, being able to plug it in and not use gas are nice, then when I go somewhere rural where the best someone can do in 100+ miles is a 120 volt plug, at best, having regular fuel is useful.

Sadly serial hybrids seem to be dead. The RAMCharger is pushed back until next year, and the only ones I know of are the custom upfits by Edison motors. It would have been nice if that technology advanced. However, the usual dual-drivetrain isn't bad, and it gives a smooth enough ride to pretend you are in an EV for some distance.

I use two PW managers, one for the desktop passwords, and one for 2FA seeds. This way, if my desktop gets compromised, the 2FA codes are out of reach, as they are on the phone.

I have found that with a decent cloud service like GDrive, iCloud, OneDrive, or Dropbox, one can use apps that use KeePass's database format (Strongbox comes to mind), and that not just gives you the syncing that is needed, but solid security, especially if you use keyfiles which are never stored on the cloud service, but passed around manually from device to device. This way, if someone hacks the cloud drive service, they can't brute force their way in, as without the keyfile, they have to guess the key from the entire 256 bit length.

1Password is similar. It has a key password, and a 256 bit secret key that you load manually into devices, which ensures that if someone filched the backend databases on 1Password's side, the data would be useless to anyone, unless they could compromise endpoints.

The trick is to treat AI similar to a very eager, confident intern who is often clueless/ignorant, but will happily and confidently give results back that are wrong. If you have it do everything for you, expect brain rot. However, if you use it as a tool to help with things, it can be very useful.

So far, I've used AI to help find a good business name (I picked the name, it gave ideas), work on what to send to people, do some basic drawings that I could refine into usable logos, and other tasks which are time consuming, but narrow in scope, and can be easily validated. I've used AI to also validate research and cite relevant sources, which has come in handy.

In some cases, it may not be relevant to someone's life. Others, it can be an excellent force multiplier.

I have seen college campuses served well by chilled water systems. They are redundant, and instead of having A/C units in every building, there are just heat exchangers that put heat into the chilled water for it to be returned. Europe has a lot of water (relatively), so availability isn't a concern.

This might be the way to solve things, because done right, it ensures that A/C is available without the need for tons and tons of mini-split systems.

For retrofits, it might be the best thing are mini-splits, just because they don't take much ductwork other than connecting the inside and outside units.

If you are banned from paying, just hire a third party consultant for the price of the ransom + something on top of that. The third party pays the ransom, the main company has plausible deniability and can state they never would pay anything. If there is an audit, just feign surprise that the third party did that, and that would be the end of the investigation.

The SBCs from China are coming out at a breakneck speed, generation-wise. They are working on getting RISC-V up to par with x86 and ARM. I wouldn't be surprised to see servers with RISC-V CPUs in a year or two.

At that time, things were looking up. Intel didn't just have 486 CPUs, but had OverDrive slots, so eventually when those were made, one could fairly easily upgrade to that. Of course, that ended with a whimper, instead of a bang, but it was nice to have, and also helped prolong life of a machine.

All the cool stuff Intel was doing, be it SSDs, Optane, X86S are all gone. There isn't much left of that company, and they are definitely falling behind TSMC and AMD.

I wonder if a number of the people are mad because they were not the first ones to do this, and someone else beat them to the punch. I wouldn't be surprised if AI is the ultimate thing that large record labels want. No musicians that might not show up, or bring drama, no contracts to sign, unlimited records, feeding back responses to keep tuning albums, etc.

The only thing they don't have are live people for stage acts... but I wouldn't be surprised if holograms or even animatronics would wind up being used for this eventually.

Vote with your wallets, and frequent artists on Bandcamp is what I recommend.

Maybe, if this got all folded into Android, they could take a page from QubesOS, and offer containers for different apps and workspaces, so I could be doing stuff for one project, switch to another, and they would be stored completely separate from each other.

I have seen that tried on a few Android devices, even some back in 2010-2011. Oddly enough, having a desktop Linux on a phone worked well enough, assuming a lightweight DE. I was sorry the concept got tanked, but something like this that combines ChromeOS and Android would be quite useful, either for a lightweight PC, or even a decent OS for everyday use.

The best I saw was having Android with its own userland, but also having a Linux root, so apps could just assume they were in a Debian install would work without issue.

The IP owners have mainly been bought by holding companies. Holding companies don't give a shit about supply and demand. They will raise prices, fewer people will buy their stuff, then hike prices again on the remaining customers exponentially.

It isn't about supply and demand... it is about short term propping stock up.

To boot, Intel sold off all their other stuff. They cut X86S/AADG which was a next generation architecture and meant a long term future for x86, keeping it ahead of RISC-V. They sold off their SSD, and other divisions. They got rid of Optane which filled a BIG gap in storage, allowing for fast caches that wouldn't lose their data if power went off.

Now, what does Intel have? IMHO, I have not seen anything good about 18A. ARM and RISC-V are improving by leaps and bounds. Intel (IIRC) had a run of bad CPUs, so people are turning to AMD. I worry they are just getting ready for a bankruptcy, or a sale to some holding company for pennies on the dollar... then spun off and sent to bankruptcy.