They’ve done that on and off for ages, and the ones being offered with Ubuntu here are mostly pretty expensive or else not so interesting. I’ve been content to buy older Thinkpads and self-install Debian for my past several laptops. I was somewhat tempted by recent Ideapad Yogas but resisted, and since then, prices have gone up, whether due to tariffs or whatever else.

Changing employment status is a qualifying event or whatever it’s called, so assuming the company offers its employees coverage immediately on hiring (not all do), you shouldn’t have to wait for open enrollment. However, while health coverage is a common benefit of employment, it’s not universal and policies vary by employer. That is: ask the company, or if for some reason you don’t want to ask, get a copy of the employee handbook, maybe by asking one of your co-workers for it. The info for the particular company is likely to be in there.

Mozilla propaganda. It’s not just about individually identifiable data. Privacy means not giving the bad guys ANY data, whether or not it points at any individual.

Never used any of them and get even more glad of it with passing time.

Well the small reactors still have to be cost competitive.

It’s a research reactor, it will be relatively small because it’s not intended to provide a production power source.

I get that and a research reactor is a fine thing, but I’d like to have gotten some info about the scaling potential. Like are there obstacles to large scale utility power being generated with thorium?

He’s confirmed alive

Unless Van Hollen brought back fingerprints or a DNA sample, or the family got to talk to the guy on the phone and confirm it was him, I have to keep open the possibility that Bukele put in an imposter.

This is about “Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target”.

Oh I didn’t know about the new requirements. Less backwards compatibility too. IBM 3592 looks better but costs even more. Tape drives can’t be that much higher tech than HDDs, so if they cranked up the volume they could likely be way more affordable.

The upfront cost of tape is excessive though. It wasn’t always like that. And LTO-9 missed its capacity target: it’s 18TB (1.5x LTO-8) instead of 24TB as planned. Who knows what will happen later in the roadmap.

I’m still driving mine and would be very reluctant to swap it for a modern enshittified car. I sometimes think of homebrewing my next car (DIY EV conversion of an older ICE car) rather than put up with any manufacturer’s offerings. Who knows.

"…the dreaded “death cross,” a historical indicator of a likely downturn for the company.

"Business Insider called out the event, which has been hitting the stock indexes of some major players over the last couple of weeks as tariff trouble has hit just about everyone. Tesla is just the latest to see the symbol of bearishness, which occurs when a company’s 50-day moving average crosses and drops below the 200-day average.x

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I still have a made in Finland Nokia N9 that cost $200 around 15 years ago. Too bad it became unusable in the US with the shutdown of the 3G network, whenever that was.

500 Euro for what amounts to a midrange phone still seems like yuppie consumerism to me. Better to get an older phone and hold onto it. My Moto G4 lasted 7 years before obsolescence and physical wear caught up with it. I wonder how many current Fairphones will still be in use in 2034.

Wait the Fairphone has a locked bootloader? The mind wobbles.

Yeah a buddy of mine (not rich) has one and seems to like it. It’s the big style not the Moto Razr style. It’s like two normal sized smartphones folded together, so when you open it you get a big roughly square screen about 6 inches on a side. About 2x the area of a normal phone screen. It’s a Samsung, idk what model or what it cost. It looks nice. No idea about fragility. If you have a question I can relay it to him.

You can get that much ram for 5k but maybe not in the densest modules. So you need a mobo with 2x as many socke5, raising costs again. I might look into it but I have trouble thinking of applications that can use so much ram. 256gb is quite easy to do and is also a lot.

Last I saw you had to use super premium ultra dense memory modules to get 1tb into a motherboard. Maybe that’s less so now. But the hope would be to use commodity ram and CPUs etc. 10k for a 1tb system is pretty good. Last I looked it was a lot more.

There are few motherboards with enough dram channels to handle a TB of dram. That’s basically why ram drives existed back in the day, and they are still potentially sort of relevant for the same reason. No a TB of ram wouldn’t fit on an m.2 card, but a box of ram with a pcie connector is still an interesting idea. Optane also aimed for this, but it never got enough traction to be viable, so it was scrapped.