'Cause it’s got layers!

There’s at least four different reasons this nonsense wouldn’t affect me, LOL. (I don’t use Facebook, don’t want Windows 11, don’t see ads because they’re blocked, and can’t run Windows malware because Linux.)

Can’t link because of lemmy.world TOS, but if you DDG the title the second result is a direct .pdf link on archive.org.

I’ve heard it claimed that motherboards are much more likely to go bad than other components, so there’s a legitimate market for new motherboards on obsolete platforms, to be used with secondhand CPUs (and presumably, secondhand RAM). I think that sort of thing is especially popular in developing countries that have less access to top-of-the-line stuff and/or where it costs a much higher percentage of the average income.

For example, looking at Aliexpress, I’m seeing brand-new motherboards like this for about $40 and this for about $30 designed to be used with old Xeons that you can also get from the same site for like $10 or less. (The second board is a better example than the first, because it’s DDR3 whereas the first is DDR4.)

I just bought 16Gb of DDR3L laptop memory for a low-power NAS I’m building, and even that cost almost 40 bucks.

Better yet, market it as patent medicine.

Three posts away in my feed, a thread about the Pentagon demanding the AI provider for the military to remove safeguards.

https://lemmy.world/post/43565531

You say “cosmetic;” I say “fake.”

A full tang blade is one where the metal of the blade extends all the way through the handle. Often, full-tang knives have “scales” instead of one-piece handles, where the two sides of the handle are riveted on and you can see the metal of the knife tang all the way around. Full tang knives are usually stronger than partial tang knives because the steel of the blade is stronger than the material used for the rest of the handle. A partial tang knife shouldn’t have a rivet at the back of the handle (because it wouldn’t actually be attaching anything); if it does, it’s because it’s trying to imitate a full tang to fool you.

Also, the difference between a stamped knife and a forged one is that a stamped blade is of uniform thickness except where the cutting edge is ground down to a point, whereas a forged knife is more of a wedge through its entire width and can have a thicker (stronger) spine, as well as a bolster to make it more comfortable to handle. (Some better-made stamped knives are stamped from a tapered sheet of steel so that they’ve got some of the “thicker spine” benefit, but they definitely never have a bolster integral with the blade.)

It has a full tang. You can tell by the rivet at the bottom of the handle.

This is all the distros.

Just not Android or ChromeOS.

How can you tell the blade is stamped rather than forged from an embroidery?

Okay, fine. Ben Eater’s 8-bit breadboard computer is the fastest fully-trustworthy computer you can build, with which you can write your own C compiler to bootstrap Linux on your old Opteron server.

Fun fact: an Asus KGPE-D16 flashed with Libreboot and populated with two Opteron 63XX chips is, as far as I can tell, the fastest fully-trustworthy computer you can buy.

The undocumented immigrants aka the “criminals”

Optimistic. I interpreted it as depicting straight-up convict leasing.

An entire article and thread and so far not even a single mention of RepRap? Being able to print the motors was like the single biggest hurdle left for that project!

IIRC, the last time I used a new install of LO for the first time, it asked me which interface I preferred instead of defaulting to the old one.

I don’t like the guy’s breathless over-enthusiasm, but NetworkChuck has a video on how to integrate LLM-based voice assistants with HomeAssistant using Whisper and Ollama.

Does anyone really think he did it by accident due to sheer incompetence, as opposed to on purpose as a component of some kind of crime (fraud, money laundering, etc.)?

A C compiler in two weeks is a difficult, but doable, grad school class project (especially if you use lex and yacc instead of hand-coding the parser). And I guarantee 80 hours of grad student time costs less than $20k.

Frankly, I’m not impressed with the presentation in your anecdote at all.

I understand they say the modified ads are offensive, but it’s still kind of annoying that the article doesn’t include any side-by-side comparisons so we can see how bad it actually is.

Also, after getting blown off by their bullshit “highest internal team,” the developer needs to escalate to their legal department by suing for defamation.