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I’m still convinced the person who chose the location of the sticks on the PS2’s controller had never seen human hands before. Or at the very least, they weren’t at all aware which direction our thumbs bend in.

I genuinely hope you enjoy all the negative reviews you’re about to receive, Sony.

Came to post the same. Seems like the most awkward possible way to phrase that.

Your “Disks not included” suggestion, or heck, just “empty” would surely be better.

Also yawn

Interestingly, looking at Gentoo’s package, they have both the github and tukaani.org URLs listed:

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/app-arch/xz-utils/xz-utils-5.6.1.ebuild#L28

From what I understand, those wouldn’t be the same tarball, and might have thrown an error.

Sharp also make great commerical-grade printers that are 100% Linux compatible, we’re using these at work: http://global.sharp/products/copier/products/bp_70c65/index.html

They don’t really make anything small enough to be a “home” model, this looks like their smallest printer: https://global.sharp/products/copier/products/mx_c358f/index.html (and that’s around $1000, if you could even find someone to sell you one).

eSATAp! What a wild combination.

Not actually a terrible idea, even if it frequently was limited to powering 2.5" drives due to a lack of 12V. Some had extra contacts for that, but most that I saw didn’t.

It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

Since I don’t have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

It can be a one-time setup.

Right up until your laptop gets its motherboard replaced and won’t boot due to a MOK-signed module (in my case it was ZFS, which I needed for the machine to actually function).

At which point you

• Switch secure boot from enforcing to permissive mode (note you can’t turn it off entirely, or the enrollment will fail with an error that your system doesn’t support secure boot).
• Boot into your OS.
• Find the arcane command to re-enroll the MOK. That’s sudo mokutil --import /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der (for Ubuntu derivatives and probably others), in case someone finds this post in the future.
• Reboot again, accept enrolling the key.
• Reboot again, and switch back to enforcing.

If you have a BIOS password, encrypted filesystem, and all the other moving parts that make having secure boot enabled actually a meaningful exercise, this is neither a fun, nor particularly quick process.

As for modules being signed automatically when built by DKMS, I’ve never had an issue with that.

Since the realistic competitor here is probably magnetic tape, current-generation (LTO9) media can transfer at around 400MB/s, taking 12 hours and change to fill an 18TB tape.

Earlier archival optical disk formats (https://news.panasonic.com/global/stories/798) claimed 360MB/s, but I believe that is six, double-sided discs writing both sides simultaneously, so 30MB/s per stream. Filling the same six (300GB) discs would take about an hour and a half.

Building the library to handle and read/write in bulk is always the issue though. The above optical system fit 1.9PB in the space of a server rack (and I didn’t see any options to expand further when that was current technology), and by the looks is 7 units that each can be writing a set of discs (call that 2.5GB/s total).

In the same single rack you’d fit 560 LTO tapes (10.1PB for LTO9) and 21 drives (8.4GB/s).

So they have a bit of catching up to do, especially with LTO10 (due in the next year or so) doubling the capacity and further increasing the throughput.

There’s also the small matter that every one of these massive increases in optical disc capacity in recent years has turned out to be vapourware. I mean I don’t doubt that they will achieve it someday, but they always seem to go nowhere.

From the video description:

I have been a Samsung product user for many years, and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon

And all sympathy I had for this person just vanished. If you don’t demand better, they will keep doing - and getting away with - shit like this.

Voting with your wallet might be the one voice you have left in this world, what a way to squander it by continuing to buy products from companies whose representatives behave in this manner.

I was going to say out of Half Life (as in the 1998 original), so we’re clearly thinking about much the same era :)

I think it’s the slightly crispy edges where the blurred background starts, combined with the overall… flat… appearance.

Cute cat though.

The estimated training time for GPT-4 is 90 days though.

Assuming you could scale that linearly with the amount of hardware, you’d get it down to about 3.5 days. From four times a year to twice a week.

If you’re scrambling to get ahead of the competition, being able to iterate that quickly could very much be worth the money.

And spatulas. Don’t forget the spatulas.

Fortunately, there’s an extension that solves that: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ajgodcbbfnpdbopgmfcgdbfhabbnilbp

I’d be curious to see how much cooling a SAS HBA would get in there. Looking at Broadcom’s 8 external port offerings, the 9300-8e reports 14.5W typical power consumption, 9400-8e 9.5W, and 9500-8e only 6.1W. If you were considering one of these, definitely seems it’d be worth dropping the money on the newest model of HBA.

I’m definitely curious, would only personally need it to be NAS + Plex server for which either of the CPUs they’re offering is a bit overkill, but it’s nice that it fits a decent amount of RAM, and you’re not forced to choose between adding storage or networking.

Single-sided drives can be up to 4TB though, no?

It was linked a little up thread, but since you’re (probably) referring to the “Space-cadet” keyboard, it was seven.

Technically, they drew a distinction between the “shift” keys (of which there were three), and the other modifiers (four).

In modern times (or for Linux at least), Meta has essentially coalesced with Alt, so the modifiers we’ve retained are Control, Alt, and Super (Windows), with only “Hyper” having been lost along the way.

The remaining two shifts (also lost to time) were “Top” (symbols) and “Front” (Greek), with the Greek supporting combining with shift (there’s a table on that Wiki page).

I bought one of the really sturdy kind (weighs about 40kg / 88lb). Uprights are solid 100mm/4" rounds of pine, none of that hollow cardboard tube nonsense.

My XL-sized void loves to haul arse into the room and leap right from the ground to the top level (around 1.6m / 5’3" from the floor), which makes the thing rock side to side fairly precariously. He hasn’t knocked it over yet, but some day I’m sure he’ll come in too hot.

I was going to write a rebuttal. And then I decided that the “zero points” speech from Billy Madison will suffice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c