+1 to submarine. :)

They are going to have less m.2 slots as they require a ton more data lanes. If you do need another m.2 slot, a PCIe adapter card or a SATA adapter are both good options.

I’m very excited for the day I can replace my spinners with SSDs. That day is coming, but it is not today.

It would have to be a voluntary thing, not just handed to everyone. “Put your name on this sheet if you want one.”

That sucks. They probably could give them out to employees as a little bonus thing. Build a bit of goodwill. Rather than have them sit on a shelf.

Everyone is going to buy M.2 SSDs first, and only buy SATA if they don’t have enough M.2 slots. I really doubt SATA SSDs are selling well.

With that said, I don’t see SATA going anywhere. It’s (comparatively low) bandwidth means you can throw a few ports on your board and not sacrifice much. For some quick math: a M.2 port back-hauled by PCIe 4.0 x4 has 7.8 GB/s of data lines going to it. While SATA 6.0 has only 0.75 GB/s of data lines going to it.

It’s very weird that Linux is broken up into Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Linux (non-WSL), Fedora, etc, etc. but none of the other OSes are. Example: Windows isn’t broken into Server 2022, Server 2025, Windows 10 home, Windows 10 iot, Windows 10 S, etc, etc.

It’s very hard to tell what the total numbers are as you can’t just add these together, since an indivdual might use several.

O, neat. Looks like it is a Rasperry Pi Compute Module 4 doing the work. Good news with that means it’s a generalized solution that will work on lots of similar devices if there are supply constraints on this particular one.

previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing

This is particularly stupid. Soldiers need the ability to fix their gear in the field with or without a contractor’s blessing.

I think it may be time to install CoD4 again. Damn was that campaign good.

Damn, 20 seasons just since Aug 2023.

Honestly, I had forgotten Overwatch 2 was a game that existed. Whole thing was a shitshow on launch and have yet to feel the desire to play it.

MacOS getting a little side action, too.

OpenAI put in an order for 40% of RAM supply at two of the three companies that make RAM.

This is most certainly a supply/demand issue. See linked article for more details.

Shows from Korea have mostly Koreans. Shows from China have mostly Chinese. Shows from Brazil have mostly Brazilians. Shows from India have mostly Indians.

I’m really confused on what you are talking about. Maybe you just need to consume a wider variety of media.

Pretty much. Gold is a time-tested store of value. But it is not a solid investment. (stores of value and investments are not the same thing)

Gold is a solid store of value. That’s about it. It isn’t a terribly good investment as it just doesn’t gain value very fast compared to inflation. But, as I said, it is a solid store of value, so if that is what you are looking for, it isn’t a bad option.

If you want to invest, you are better off with index funds held over the long term.

invested a lot in gold under the belief that in the event of like complete societal collapse

If that happens, a better investment is to make yourself as self-sufficient as possible. Have a way to generate power (solar + batteries), acquire water (well water), sewage (leech field), stored food (just extra cans of food you normally eat), acquire food (a rifle and somewhere deer exist), security (that same rifle).

None of that is unreasonably expensive or hard to get. But all of those are what you would want if you are worried about societal collapse.

These are a pretty big deal. Means you are able to take out drones in a very cost effective way, and don’t have to get so close as to gun things, which could damage the aircraft when the target explodes.

There are potential countermeasures for this (evading when being chased), but this involves the Russian drones getting much more sophisticated (read: expensive) which is also a win.

It’s a pretty damn accurate depiction of Pearl Harbor. Complete with the Japanese reasoning for the attack.

It’s certainly a December movie, but I wouldn’t call it a Christmas movie.

Smarter Every Day actually made an in-person presentation to NASA stating the same thing with a crapload more detail.

Damn does that video escalate! 🔥