400/150 Mbps - $55/month

I pay the equivalent of $10 USD per month (we don’t do list prices, it’s the actual price) for 1 Gbit fibre.

And I am willing to bet that the “five-year price lock” advertising is fraud. There has to be a clause in their TOS that as per the company “price lock” means the ability to change prices.

I thought the unlock request feature was removed a few years ago? Guess not…

Seems like a very good display for the price.

Although HyperOS and adware infested apps are a massive let down. And since this is Xiaomi, you can’t install custom ROMs from what I remember.

Trump is a bigger national security concern than fucking TP-Link and no one in power is seriously talking about removing him.

There is an abstract ironic beauty to this.

Couple of days, or even a week or two is fine, it’s when they are months behind it can become a problem.

I like F-Droid, but does anyone else find that the versions in their repos often lag behind the current release (sometimes significantly so)?

I was referring to PC components in general.

I don’t have any stats to back this up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if failure rates were higher back in the 90s and 2000s.

We have much more sophisticated validation technologies and the benefit of industry, process and operational maturity.

Would be interesting to actually analyze the real world dynamics around this.

The physical market is basically in terminal decline. It would make much more sense for Sony to go with a separate drive addon if they are even willing to consider support discs for the PS6.

While I agree with your message at a high level (I quit FB several years ago), I don’t think it’s productive to be so abrasive.

It’s generally better to be respectful and convincing if you want to change minds.

I think you can effectively compete with China but you would need a giant coalition of democratic countries that would move fast and stay focused.

With oligarchs completely taking over the US, this is unlikely to happen. But that’s hardly the sole roadblock to such a coalition.

The enclosure and the ports of your laptop are the bigger factor.

You most definitely want to do extensive reviews before spending money as there tend to be lots of edge cases and issues with eGPUs.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this investigation on Honey (20 minutes, Part 1):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

It’s fascinating stuff. Open fraud.

I can’t speak for formal legal matters (I am assuming such scams are nominally legal in the US), but it goes to show that senior PayPal executives are basically criminals. There is no way they didn’t know about this.

I think they will be fine in the iGPU space.

Value is somewhat subjective for non-commodity products.

I could see a lot of LOTRO fans (even ones not into mechanical keyboards) buying such a product.

Cook is an oligarch and he has long lost the ability to tell right from wrong (personal matters notwithstanding, but that’s a very very low reference point).

Don’t think it bothers him in the least.

The whole thing reads like a propaganda piece that makes it difficult to take their arguement seriously.

They will use still use bot farms, but they become much more automated and effective . Doubt PR firms and influence peddlers are going anywhere.

I use DietPi with Kodi for an HTPC, it works well. I like the tools provided by DietPi, they make headless administration very easy. You don’t need to remember details, just load up the right DietPi tool.

I haven’t tried linreelc.

DietPi is a lightweight and optimized operating system based on Linux, tailored for single-board computers and small-scale devices. Its primary goal is to provide a minimal yet efficient environment for running various applications and services with minimal resource consumption.