I don't think I would have much success trying to build a SFF PC today for 1k or less. You pay a premium for mini-itx and really tiny cases, PSUs, everything. The only cost that is the same is the CPU really, even a heatsink often needs to be very specific to fit a case.

The last two SFF cases I picked up that are high quality were $200. Just look at minisforum stuff, their products are expensive and look nice, it's all in the same vein.

You can definitely find better deals for desktop gaming performance, for sure, but I doubt people are going to find something that's off the shelf at 27L or less and same or better perf for cheaper.

The idea that hibernation is going to cause substantial SSD wear is ludicrous on all but the smallest SSDs in systems with large amounts of RAM.

Hibernation is only going to be saving ram in memory, so for most consumer systems 8, 16 or 32GB. Most SSDs nowadays are rated for hundreds to thousands of terabytes written as an effective life so you would need to hibernate hundreds of thousands of times. Even an aggressively low lifespan drive like a 256GB with ~500TBW would last over 18,000 full 32GB writes. Let's pretend you hibernate four times a day every day, every year. 365*4 = 1460 hibernations per year. 18,000/1460 = 12.32 years. Long past the lifespan of a computer. No spinning disk is likely to survive this long either.

They even call it out in their article with their own math of twice a year and come up with 25 years of life. Just not something to worry about, at all, for almost any practical use case.

The fandom is insane for valve though. The steam controller is still flying off of ebay shelves at $300 a pop from scalpers doing their thing still. Prices are depressing though, i'm not going to lie. I predicted $1200 with no more than a $20 bundle savings for the controller and well, doesn't look like i'm too far off.

If you get a model with a controller you're effectively getting like $200 off after ebay sales fees if you sell it. The deck sold out quickly at $949, so i'm sure this will sell too, and that means someone who picks up the $1128 512GB model with controller will be in for less than 1k with a little work.

These will probably scalp for ~$2500 (2tb+controller) even if it makes absolutely no sense at that price. It's just how consumer electronic releases are from certain brands like valve or nvidia now as Day 1 scalping seems to be a hair under double for stuff like this. I don't think the market will bear much more than that, and not for very long anyway.

Basically, expect it to all sell out and for scalpers to have another pay day like they always do.

I have a pile of spinning disks that were online for less than ten years under low usage load that failed. I have bins and bins full of them at work with enterprise drives too.

I have personally had a single ssd fail in 15 years, it was an SX6000 that died from controller issues. My first ones were 64GB ones back in the infancy of SSDs. The controllers have come a long way and speeds are now 10-100x faster and much more reliable. Never, ever had one go bad from TBW personally or professionally. I've never even met someone who has gotten that to happen, the controllers usually go long before the NAND.

12 years is still beyond the lifetime of a typical computer. Even if you do not have component failures you start spending more money on power to run these things than it would cost to replace them with faster, larger capacity newer systems that use less energy for more oompf. Only people with free or nearly free power are immune to this which is not common.

I'm not saying just throw out all the old systems though, but most people aren't gonna limp along on a 12 year old system as their daily driver. It might be ok for basic web browsing, word processing and email... but not much more than that. If it's a laptop it's gonna be dog slow.

Physical access and obsolete tier devices means this will largely just provide a jailbreak method for older obsolete phones and some other, weirder devices.

Someone who knows what they are doing won't need a raspberry pi though. They just used one for their proof of concept and provided that code. Once a real jailbreak is here it will probably be as simple as plugging in a usb cable and running a program.

If you watch what drugs are being looked at, odds are those businesses have made bribes to the right people recently.

Probably no coincidence that mRNA approvals have made the news in the past few days as well after rejections.

$300 on ebay for completed listings like crazy. Why is anyone keeping these things vs taking $300 or even $200?

Daddy Netanyahu says no, you can’t have that agreement.

So here’s the tantrum.

Wow, they aren’t waiting two years to respond to this? Or another five to reimplement?

$140 = 2250 straws.

5c a straw feels expensive. I buy PLA straws at around 4c a straw. I don't think pasta straws are all that better unless you compost. All straws are bad if you're just chucking them in a bin at least from what i've heard.

My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back.

Almost certainly driver, sometimes a failing dock or cable though.

The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute.

That's just adobe products. They're great for subscription revenue for adobe.

I switched to fedora for work myself and onlyoffice is handling my current pdf needs, works great and FOSS. Can save to DOCX and everything.. and the same program handles those too.

i've had headsets with it. Just takes a very small battery with some seconds of life.

It was already stupidly diluted. Dumbest investment out there with only one way to go.

Still less of a disaster than iraq. Money means so much less than so many lives lost or ruined due to physical and mental injuries.

Why the fuck can't we stay out of the middle east, and the rest of the world? It's always stupid. Information warfare is what the rest of the world wages.

There’s a lot of similarities between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Most Portuguese speaking people can understand basic Spanish but it’s harder for Spanish speaking people to understand Portuguese.

At least that’s what my wife tells me as a Spanish native ~150 days into learning Portuguese.

Lol, this aint gonna go too well for vance.

Sucking up to his boss for protection is clearly the angle here. Must be real scared because the base is blaming him instead of the guy in charge. I wonder if the lapdog reputation will so easily go away once the cult of personality isn't around anymore, after all by 80 years old we all know our days are numbered.

Israel has a lot of US politicians in their pocket and doesn't care about the cult beyond how they can use it. This to me looks like the walls closing in. Hasn't he been sidelined already recently?

So i'm really confused. SB341 initially passed in the state senate with a small portion voting for it, and was sent to the judicial committee. The house version, HB670 was sent directly to judicial. I don't see an action that says this is dead (but going to committee is a common pathway to let bills die without any press or fanfare. Extremely common for things that the population wants but the politicians do not want to die this way.)

Almost all of the sponsors are democrats, 24 of 43 total. Only 6 republicans sponsored this of 89 in total, so clearly it's not a big priority for R.

https://legiscan.com/OH/votes/SB341/2025 / https://legiscan.com/OH/bill/HB670/2025

There's way too much stuff I need to do remotely to limit it to streaming just games or the UI. Back when I suffered windows I used parsec, but moonlight is far superior if you can solve for networking.

I can count to brazillion. It's a lot of tits.

Over 75% could be anywhere from 75%-~99.9% though. I wonder why they wouldn't give an exact number.