Yeah Rust is super toxic indeed, bit I think that’s part of the appeal

Remember ndiswrapper?

Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn’t cheap but it came with several advantages:

• 4 SATA ports on addition to the M2 slot
• Intel QSV
• 2 x 2.5 Gbit Ethernet (I only have gigabit at home though)

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:

• mechanical parts that have to move with high precision
• limited amount of music per medium (typically up to 80 minutes)
• lack of metadata apart from CD-TEXT which isn’t universally supported
• flat structure only (tracks 1-99, not a real problem with the limited amount of space)
• not the greatest battery efficiency

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.

While I’m a total sucker for audio CDs, portable devices make little sense. They’re always somewhat big due to media size and they’re susceptible to shock, which is very common when carrying something… Though if you just carry it to use somewhere else, it’s probably fine. But what I got from the article is that it’s actually to be used on the go.

Anyhow, I welcome everything that helps CDs coming back into the mainstream…

Well, at least the people behind Commodore are passionate (in fact they acquired the trademark just four months ago…) and the distribution can be downloaded free of charge. They mostly sell merch, but they also have the Commodore 64 Ultimate which is basically a C64 implemented via FPGA. Their distribution also comes with its own BASIC.

I have no connection to the C64, but this seems a lot more friendly than a lot of other companies that just try to cash in on Nostalgia.

I was just at it-sa where Synology had a booth and they put the news that certified drives are no longer required on a screen next to certified drives. I was somewhat surprised this requirement ever existed. I guess that happens when you think you’re more important than you actually are.

God I hope they go bankrupt from this stupid greed. Certified drives for an expensive consumer grade stack. When I wanted a NAS and liked at their options, I always found them to be either overpriced or functionally lacking compared to an old PC of mine. Finally switched to an Odroid H4 Plus in the end. Not paying premium for a fancy case where the manufacturer decides which drives you can put into…

Besides. Taiwan is an open supporter of israel. Which now that I say it out loud sounds exactly lile the “Iran threats” said as the reason both Israel and the US bombed Iran.

Without having looked into it, I’m pretty sure Taiwan supports whomever the US supports.

How do you schedule meetings for dates in the past?

Oh, this looks really interesting. You only need dedicated CPU cores, but the rest of the hardware can be shared? Better performance than VMs, including Xen? Still some security benefits due to the isolation between kernels? “zero-down kernel update”?

This reads phenomenal, even though I understand it’s just RFC at this point. Let’s see what comes out of it…

Fortunately, it was the imaginary half, dislocated from the real one

Every other doctor agreed

The difference is that tourists are not a somehow disadvantaged group. My livelihood isn’t endangered because I can’t go to a tourist spot in Spain somewhere without being heckled (though, when I actually was in Spain, everyone was nice, but Madrid isn’t that much of a tourist spot compared to others).

Also, in some cases, it isn’t “the rich” – I too love to point out the issues they cause – but sometimes, it’s just ordinary people hoping to make a quick buck buying up property to rent it out on AirBNB. Yes, it’s also rich foreigners getting property everywhere for themselves, which is a problem. But “the rich” don’t bother with AirBNB, they just build hotels, and these normally don’t compete with normal housing.

Raceism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western.

If I may take a guess, it’s also because up until historically recently, larger groups of ethnicities didn’t know that other such groups existed. To be racist, you need to be aware of people you’d clarify as another race