I have mixed views on this.

On one hand I agree with you, especially when it comes to dealing with Palantir or really any company that can be influenced by the US, but on the other hand there are legitimate uses for such technologies in the sphere of national security and even public security.

I would argue it’s the citizens’ responsibility to make sure that the usage of such technologies is done in a framework of checks and balances (i.e. in a responsible manner).

I don’t believe in rhetoric about “the state infinitely expands surveillance capabilities”. The state is a reflection of the voters and there is no laws of physics or chemistry that guarantees such expansion via Brownian motion or what have you. If you do have institutions going overboard (be it the state or corporations), the root cause are the citizens (examples like NK or Eritrea notwithstanding).

Incredible that they’re still contracting an American company (one that is known to be controlled by particularly corrupt oligarchs) instead of building out their own capabilities.

In the fall of 2024, the first samples of the equipment were sent to Intel for evaluation. Later, Samsung, TSMC, and other major market players also showed interest in the technology. DNP plans to start mass production of the necessary materials for 1.4nm chips in 2027. However, the established industry, entirely built around photolithography, could slow the adoption of the new technology. Switching to it would require manufacturers to significantly retool their existing production lines.

Sounds like ecosystem/industry inertia will limit the adoption. Perhaps Japan’s Rapidus will try and leverage this tech as sort of high risk / high reward strategy to compete against TSMC.

That being said, throughout the video, Crisler commended PC gamers as a whole for being resilient, having weathered several shortages and emerging victorious on the other end. He advises the community to: “Put your money away. Relax. Play some games. Enjoy the system you’ve got right now.” PC gaming is not going anywhere, and even this crisis will eventually sort itself out.

It feels like prices for components have been elevated for 5-7 years. First GPU crypto mining, then the COVID shortages and now the AI bubble. I am not sure what “emerging victorious” refers to. That being said, PC gaming is not going anywhere, there are so many good games that work fine on even older hardware.

The question is how soon.

The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.

It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.

Is this a Linux distro for strip club employees?

The best you can do is help them install uBlock Origin and FB/Insta Lite (not great options, but better than the mainline apps).

I can’t stand Android WebView apps, especially in retail. The whole point of installing a mobile app is to get a smoother experience than using the mobile webUI.

I understand that and I don’t have any illusions about things changing (short of major policy break in the EU that emphasizes that you can’t beat the Americans at their own game and you need to develop a novel approach that the Americans can’t compete with).

My counter argument is an application like QBittorrent. It’s an open source app with no budget, it’s cross-platform (including CLI and webUI, albeit MacOS support seems to be subpar due to lack of developers) and it is very efficient.

In the non-open source and/or Windows-only sphere, there is Mp3Tag, Notepad++, FastStone Image Viewer, Media Player Classic BE.

All very snappy applications, with a huge range of features/options (by the standard of consumer software) and they have the ability to handle large throughput.

I am not a developer, so this is just speculation, but I think the current development community (outside of individuals with a personal interest in the topic) is largely incapable of developing efficient, well-optimized applications. Not that they don’t have the capability, but the broader industry ecosystem (on the consumer side) doesn’t exist in terms of efficient application development.

That’s a reasonable use case for SATA SSDs.

Depends on the the type office work.

If you use excel heavily with large datasets or say data vizualization software like PowerBI and Tableau, 8GB is definitely not going to be enough.

That being said, my grandma has an a 6GB RAM Windows 10 machine and it works fine for her relatively resource-lite use cases.

Was just going to say this.

Do you really need SATA SSDs for a NAS though?

From my understanding SATA SSDs would work better for smaller files, but for bigger files (e.g. media) the benefits seem to be minimal (much more so if you don’t have a 10 GB network connection)

HBO Max isn’t really a thing in my country. Although I was surprised to find out that they do allow you to sign up; Shudder which I would be willing to pay money for gives me a page with following text:

Sorry, we are not available in your country

That’s the whole page. Well, I will continue to use alternative sources for procuring your 1st party content if you don’t want to take my money.

While I am on a desktop, I am also happy that that I bought 64 GB of relatively high performance DDR4.

It looks like I will have to stay with my AM4 system for at least another 2-3 years. It works very well, the only thing that I am missing is an update to 5800X3D, which unfortunately is impossible to get for a fair price since it was a one-time run only it seems.

And DIY components is a relatively small segment of the market compared to laptops and pre-builts. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in the 10-15% range of total revenues even for companies like AMD that have strong market momentum in the space.

For a second I thought Samsung was ending production of all consumer SSDs, including NVMe.

SATA SSDs are IMO a niche use case. If you don’t have any free M.2 slots, you can always get a PCIe adapter card and deploy multiple NVMe drives.

From what I remember, downloading, installing and logging in worked, but we couldn’t play any videos. Logging in worked on the WebUI too. That’s why initially thought this was some sort of technical issue specific to my setup or perhaps even a bunk unit (even though it could play multiple containers/codecs from the NAS).

I was honestly shocked to discover that Netflix requires per device licensing. I can sort of understanding quality restrictions on some devices, even though the DRM is broken albeit the crack is not fully public (you can easily find even 4K WEB-DL copies on the internet), but per device licensing for playback is ridiculous. They don’t even allow WebUI usage!

Who do they think they are? This is clearly an example of oligopoly corruption, on par with the russian oligarchy that de facto operates in the technology services sphere with state management (even though from my experience, the US commoner would strongly disagree with such a characterization).

The piece about ~14 billion years is clearly a marketing deception.

That being said, this looks like a completely different technology to CD/DVDs, one that will be deployed in an enterprise environment and likely have certain mandatory performance requirements.