Looking into this deeper, I’m having trouble finding a law that would apply here. I could find a clear requirement on emissions parts from CARB (which is what I remembered), and a bunch of unreliable sources saying such a law doesn’t exist anywhere. I also found a number stating it only applies during the warranty period, no sources cited.
My original point still stands, based on the PlayStation 3 “Other OS” class action. It was sold as a feature, and later removed by Sony.
I feel like this is going to have a bunch of lawsuits filed. Both from individual consumers/class action, and by attorneys general. Car manufacturers are required to make replacement parts for at least 10 years (longer in some areas/situations), and this was absolutely sold as a feature.
Given that some of these are just 4 years old, that sounds like a fairly easy win.
Most ads aren’t directly tied to a sales goal. Instead they work on brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads. And when you’re looking for a new car, Ford’s marketing is constantly in the back of your mind.
Combined with the tsunami of marketing everyone faces every single day, few of these ads stand out. You likely don’t turn down buying Coke because of how invasive their ads are.
Disobeying an illegal order is not a simple and easy process. It usually involves being immediately arrested and facing a military trial, run by the same pricks that issued the order.
This has to be weighed against a future Nuremberg, and the pain of the war crime itself.
On top of that, due to the strategic division of labor, only a handful of people in the chain can directly link their actions to the crime.
There is a lesson here. Have these conversations today with your loved ones about final arrangements. I promise you that many of them would rather be buried in a casket from Costco and have the money spent on literally anything else.
This is especially true if they’re going to be cremated.
Roberto?
Generally, off-peak prices are about demand rather than supply. They are lowest at night due to the lowest demand being at night, while supply (from e.g. nuclear) remains constant.
There are industrial-scale versions of this already. Not as a solution for excess solar power storage, but to take advantage of off-peak electricity costs.
Level 1 charging can work for a lot of people, but it ends up needing a lot more mental energy. You have to more carefully calculate capacity/range, daily needs, charging speeds, variances, and unexpected needs. The end result being that it’s not a great experience.
Level 2, even at the slowest speeds, are enough that you can fully recharge most vehicles overnight. And you have enough capacity to last through the day unless you are a super commuter or drive professionally.
Used EVs are remarkably cheap. The problem is that it still effectively requires you to be able to charge at home, which is not common on cheaper housing.
It will become a more specialized, niche knowledge. It’s similar to cars. In the 1950s, it was extremely common for regular people to know how to fix their own car. But as cars became more reliable and complex, fewer and fewer now know how. There’s still a definite market for mechanics and mechanical engineers, but it’s a specialty line. You go to college, or generally go through a manufacturer’s training program.
What’s going to change are the expectations and expertise going in. When Microslop wants new developers, or support staff, or whatever else, the candidates aren’t going to be (as) familiar with it going in. They won’t be able to meaningfully apply their knowledge of similar systems and products.
They’ll have to bring back extensive company-led training programs.
This will apply to every large tech company, regardless of field. In your networking example, it would probably be run by Cisco, which isn’t too different from how it is today.
I presume you are referring to the SuperFish scandal in 2015.
First, you have to define “comparable”. These are Enterprise-grade laptops. Their class includes the Dell Latitude and HP Elitebook. It doesn’t include anything you will ever find at Best Buy. It might be tempting to do so, since your visible specs like CPU and RAM are the same. But they really aren’t the same.
Within their class, Lenovo has (for over a decade) been noticeably more expensive than their counterparts. Roughly $100-150 more per unit for the T4x0/T14 vs a Latitude 74x0 (now Dell Pro) or an Elitebook 840.
Current prices are: HP Elitebook 8 G1i 14 - Core Ultra 5 236v, 16GB/512GB, $1249
Dell Pro 14 - Core Ultra 5 236v, 16GB/512GB, $1659
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 - Core Ultra 235u, 16GB/512GB, $1809.
All have integrated graphics.
I don’t think the detailed specs/pricing for Gen7 (what the article is about) has been announced yet. I would expect it to be in line with previous generations, since their 9/10 repairability score was.
Now is probably a good time to remember what a VPN can and cannot do. It can block your ISP from knowing which sites you’re going to. It can bypass ISP-level blocks, including geo-blocks.
It cannot stop the endpoints (WhatsApp, both the client and server) from harvesting whatever data they want from there.
Meta is clearly concerned about bans on WhatsApp. This is nothing more than their own self-interests.
In the US, most protection comes from the breaker. It’s not common (or at least, not standard) to have overcurrent protection on extension cords, power strips, or even the outlet itself. And for typical wiring and uses, it usually works well enough. But it is possible to connect a space heater or hairdryer (1500w and 1800w respectively, due to the 80% rule for continuous draw) to that standard 16-gauge extension cord, or connect multiple space heaters to one circuit. Some homes are wired… Creatively… Making it easy to do. In these cases, you’re relying on the 15-amp breaker to trip, which would happen quickly. Not quite as quick, but still happens on a 20-amp. But it might melt a 15-amp receptacle first
If it’s a 30-amp circuit, it won’t trip at all, unless the outlet melts to a short. And this is all assuming the wiring in the wall is rated for that amperage, which is implied but not stated. There are certainly a number of stories where someone upgraded the breaker to keep it from tripping, but didn’t upgrade the wiring.
If we assume he’s talking about the wiring in the wall, this gets very simple. I once lived in a place where the upstairs bedroom and downstairs living room were on the same circuit. I currently live somewhere where a single circuit controls ALL of the bathroom outlets (multiple bathrooms), the garage, as well as outside outlets. Apparently GFCI outlets were more expensive than the entire mess of running copper all over the place.
This is highly dependent on what your needs are and how you plan to solve it. SATA-3 maxes at 6gbit, which SAS-2 had in 2009. Most cards are x8, and have at least 4 full speed SAS lanes (of whatever generation). That means 24 Gbit. PCIe x8 2.0 (from 2007) had 4 GB (32 Gbit). So if that meets your needs, you can run it on an ancient board.
However, if you need something more advanced, such as SAS-3, a SAS expander, or a card with more native lanes, then you would need to plan accordingly.
I’ve been running on an LSI 9211-4i4e, which is only a PCIe 2.0 card, for many years. I did notice my speeds dropped when I expanded the 4e to a 15-bay DAS (plus the 4 internal SATA drives), but it’s still enough to meet my needs.
It’s not really about 24/7, but it is about quality of components. Enterprise gear is made using slightly better parts and tighter tolerances. Things like more expensive capacitors rated for more hours/cycles, better power filters, things like that.
The end result (and this is easily verified) is the failure rate is much, much lower than comparable consumer-grade equipment.
There is sometimes a blurry line between what counts as enterprise vs pro-sumer vs consumer gear, though.
If you can use SAS (you’ll need a SAS PCIe card, roughly $50 used), get SAS drives. They are enterprise-grade exclusively, there is a massive supply of used drives as servers get refreshed, and a very limited secondhand market because most people can’t use SAS drives.
You won’t get the latest or largest drives, but you’ll get something that works perfectly fine for home use.
I recommend against Go Hard Drives. They get drives that previously failed but currently test ok, then wipe the SMART data. I had a whopping 133% failure rate (all 3 original, plus 1 replacement) before I returned the whole thing.
If you insist on using them, do the most extensive burn-in testing you possibly can. I would use at least a full week, to make sure it’s actually (semi-) reliable.
I’m curious and afraid to know what happens if you give him a dollar.