At least they aren’t trying to get Steam to work on Kali.

I’ve seen someone try that.

Alcohol was involved.

Most of the EVs in the Australian market seem to be SUV-like

Eh, there’s SUVs and there’s SUVs. Manufacturers have taken to calling everything an SUV because people will pay more that way.

My EV gets called a “compact SUV” but really it’s an oversized hatch.

It’s only a safety feature if it stops someone from getting injured. If it just kills the device, that means they have to buy a replacement!

IIRC USB killers work because they’re sustained high voltage. USB ports can often deal with a static discharge or over current, but a sustained 200 volts will let the magic smoke out.

8GB GPUs still have a place, and that place is the $100 price tier.

I tried feeding Japanese audio to an LLM to generate English subs and it started translating silence and music as requests to donate to anime fansubbers.

No, really. Fansubbed anime would put their donation message over the intro music or when there wasn’t any speech to sub and the LLM learned that.

And Linux nerds.

The fun part is that even if you protect the factories, they’re moving more and more into automation. So the jobs will still be lost.

Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.

Okay, but your EV has an even smaller, slower charging battery than mine.

In the time it would take to get swappable batteries standardised and swap stations built and running, cheap EVs are going to have a lot more range and better charging speed. Swap stations aren’t up against today’s EVs, they’re up against 2035’s EVs.

You couldn’t crank your CPU in the olden days, it’d make games run in fast forward.

Nobody wants to deliberately use the wrong compression type when extracting, so modern tar will figure out the compression itself if you just point it at a file. So tar -xf filename works on almost anything. You don’t need to remember which flag to use on a .tar.bz2 file and which one for a .tar.xz file.

Eh. My car’s only 200 or so miles of range on the freeway and charges pretty slowly by modern standards, but I still find I want to stop before the car does and the car’s ready to go before I am.

When a charging stop comes three hours into a longer trip it doesn’t really slow me down. I want to pee, stretch my legs, and get a coffee and a sandwich anyway at that point.

We don’t really need battery swaps for cars, and with a longer range EV with faster charging that’s going to be even more true.

I think people who don’t own an EV don’t really get home charging. They think of fast charging as being equivalent to filling a gas car and imagine using a fast charger during a 20 minute drive to work like they fill up, when actually fast charging is something I only do once every few months.

It’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.

Ditching i686 could be a problem for people running 32-bit stuff on modern hardware, though. I expect that’ll hang around for a while yet.

Sounds like it’s even stupider than that - he wants to tariff movies sold in the US by US companies which were filmed overseas. So it not only doesn’t go through a port, the finished movie doesn’t cross borders at all.

Hollywood accounting is very experienced at making money disappear when taxes are due, I can’t imagine tariffs would pose any problem at all. Anything that crosses the border will be worth $0 and make a loss, they’ll have the paperwork to prove it.

I might be completely wrong about what Trump meant here. Which is fair, really - he likely doesn’t know what he meant either.

And we’re pronouncing it JIMP?

does he just love that racist asshole look?

It’s his way of supporting truth in political advertising.

Disney characters are proboscis monkeys:

I mean, they haven’t actually finished setting it up yet. That part makes sense.