Note that while you’re statement is generally true, this particular case is about Hungary. Their current political party relies heavily on anti-EU rhetorics. So while for other countries, the issue is that they didn’t act sooner, Hungary has officially embraced Russian and US politics under Trump. But you cannot serve two masters…
I’m suddenly reminded of a certain South Park episode
Motherboards have risen in price over the years as well, you could have a very decent board at 150€ five years ago but today it feels like you need to pay at least 200 to get anything mid tier. I remember when I checked the price of my board that I bought early 2020 around 2023 or so, the price had gone up. But yeah, if you can’t put memory in your already expensive board, maybe you don’t need to buy a board on the first place.
I’m in the lucky position that my machine is still adequate (3900X / 32GB RAM / 1TB SSD) with only the GPU being weak (5500XT 8GB), but it doesn’t matter for the games I play. So I can sit out another two or three years.
We’ll see how it turns out - I don’t expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.
Good rant, though it could use some more caps lock. 7/10
Not really. SATA SSDs make little sense compared to alternatives because SATA isn’t fast enough to saturate the drives’ throughout. SATA’s strength from my point of view comes in when you want to attach lots of storage for cheap, but that’s better served with HDDs. Sure, there are cases where you might want the fast access times of SSDs but don’t need its bandwidth, and SATA is me ubiquitous than other connectors, but that’s an edge case that seems to be no longer economically viable for Samsung.
Btw, casings that convert M.2 to SATA 3 exist for cheap.
That’s the power of AI.
Without having tried it, I think Bazzite fits a certain user group very well, but is less suited for other users. Which is fine.
I don’t really see how it’s particularly good for homelabbing, but use whatever works for you.
My niche distribution is cooler than your niche distribution.
Well I mean they didn’t pay for most of the stuff in there in the first place
Yeah Rust is super toxic indeed, bit I think that’s part of the appeal
Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn’t cheap but it came with several advantages:
Very powerful machine for the power usage, I ran a really old Athlon before though (from 2010 or so that I retrofitted with 16GB RAM) that did most stuff just fine. But I wanted some transcoding and also possibly a smaller case.
I run everything bare metal though.
Luckily, it’s only the entire Internet, just the unfun part.
Repo means repossessed, which is only applicable to items purchased under a credit (e.g. you take out a credit to but a car, can’t pay it, the car gets repo’d); also they only happen on unsecured loans, it’d be the security that would be transferred to the lender, which in this case is Russian, not Ukrainian.
The beauty of a loan secured against someone else’s assets is that it doesn’t harm you if you default. Russia could still leave Ukraine and propose how they repay Ukraine for damages, which would also cover these loans; in return, they’d receive their assets back.
The money in the end will most likely go to Europe, as in is given to Ukraine who use it to buy European weapons is my guess. At least until the war is over
The way the article is written is that Europe gives Ukraine a loan that is secured by Russian assets, meaning of Ukraine defaults, Russian assets are transferred to the EU.
Renting is quite cheap in China because property investors traditionally don’t expect a ROI from rent, but from sale.
Absolute numbers I could find from last year:
As of August 2024, prices for new homes across 100 cities in China averaged 16,461 RMB per square meter, or about $2,318.50.
In the United States, the average price per square foot is around $233, according to May 2024 data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This equates to $2,508.01 per square meter.
This with a lower average income in China; it’s usually less than 1500 USD/month after conversion.
Just that what a lot of people here would consider a home isn’t what a lot of Chinese people have. And the middle class is sometimes in way over their head for housing, with apartments going for insane prices even for Western standards.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/fotoserie-ueber-hab-und-gut-von-familien-china-wie-es-wirklich-lebt-1.2513551 for photos how a large part of the Chinese live, the photographer is Chinese himself.
The issue for China isn’t that nobody owns a home, but rather that the young and bright can’t afford one that’s up to modern standards, an issue shared with the West.
I didn’t write it’s impossible to make portable CD players, I too owned one with similar buffer size, just that they make little sense nowadays, with the reasons being the following:
All these limitations lead to portable CD players vanishing from shelves because portable MP3 beat them in all of the above over 20 years ago. Today, you can just use your phone , which most people have with them most of the time, and if you’re using a lossless format, you’re not losing a single feature.
Anything but EU dictatorship /s