Chris has not seen a 32 month old toddler in his life.

There are more barriers to digital sovereignty every day.

My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.

Her phone storage was full, so:

• Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
• Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
• It then demanded payment to get access to her files.

Google Photos is ransomware by definition.

I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.

Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.

I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.

I’m in Australia. The only thing higher than the mercury is the power bill.

I skipped on solar when building the house. Maybe I should look at doing that. My whole cabinet idles at 100w. The RAM is in an old Cisco 1U server that idles at 130w and is actually slower than my 4th gen core i5 server. It’s never going into prod.

I tried it on Ubuntu and Bazzite. This on super old hardware. An AMD RX570 on a Core2Quad with 8GB DDR2.

Although, it was just as bad on my 10th-gen Core i5 with a 6600XT and 32GB DDR4. I’m not sure I even got Assetto running on it after 8 hours of trying to make .Net 4.7 install on proton.

I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.

This is an awesome move. My only concern is the support for my Logitech racing wheel. It just works on the XBox. On PC, it’s quite a bit harder to deal with.

It needs to function like a casino so that Trump can bankrupt it.

I’m worried it will be like ice melting in a glass. The liquid will remain a constant temperature while the ice melts, and heats up very suddenly once the ice is gone.

I have GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9a with everything backed up over NextCloud on a headless Ubuntu rackmount server.

You were waaaaay off 😆

Yes, footballers are generally a bunch of softcocks. I live next to a footy oval. 100% cars. Mostly monster trucks. It’s a 10 minute walk from the train station.

Spectators will watch from their cars. They don’t even walk to the fence. Every parent is overweight. None of them actually play.

Some of the cars come from houses so close that I can see them leave the park and pull into their driveway.

“Settlers” probably isn’t the best word to describe such an unsettling mob.

By definition, a continent and an island are mutually exclusive. Nothing can be both.

Australia isn’t a continent either. It’s in the continent of Oceania, which includes New Zealand.

Antarctica is a continent in its own right. It’s not a country and not a nation.

You’d be able to get to work. If you have kids younger than high-school age, or if anyone in the house plays a sport, you have zero chance.

Not once have I seen someone taking a train to footy or cricket practice.

Exactly the same as the Pixel now.

Price increases when demand goes up, or supply goes down.

It’s only cheap when supply exceeds demand. They’re cutting supply here.

To win the AI pop, you gotta have a supply of ECC motherboards ready to go when it all gets scrapped.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I remember when Adobe Flash was super late to the 64bit game. I think that was 15 years ago.

Now make Steam work on IPv6.

Edit: It was 18 years ago. I believe this is also the last year that intel made a pure x86 processor (the Atom N270).

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/adobe-answers-cries-for-64-bit-flash-on-linux/

Generated CSAM is banned. For the same reason, something like this should follow.

They need to separate gecko properly so we can build things using just the renderer.

Mine would go years without changing. The last few changes were caused by things like the upstream DHCP server failing and being replaced.