They did that when the TPP was scraped too.

Cheap USBs mean cheap read/writes.

Happy to help! Oh one more thing: Microcenter price matches, so look at competing sites the day before you go.

Here’s some general thoughts in no particular order:

• PC Part Picker is your friend for compatibility and sorting through all the options.

• I have a Fractal North XL. It’s a solid case. If you don’t need a top of the line GPU, the regular North will do just fine.

• Add some head room for your power supply. Get a gold or better rated one from a reputable brand.

• Try to buy in-person from a Microcenter if you can. I brought a tablet with my list and they actually recommended some better in-house deals after reviewing my build concept. I saved money and ended up getting some backup parts.

• From what I understand right now is that AMD is a better choice than Intel for CPUs.

• Having one SSD as your primary drive and a secondary drive for data storage can be useful, especially if you need to reinstall the OS.

• If you want to get into video/photo editing you’ll want to consider getting more memory/RAM.

• Take pictures while you build. Have some small containers ready for all the screws you’ll be managing.

• Build with a friend that has done this before if you can.

• Jays2Cents has a lot of good consumer-focused videos without going too far into the technicals like GamersNexus.

• You may find an entry level GPU useful for basic photo and video editing, but I’d read up on what’s available on Linux and what’s really needed.

Been using a set of wool dryer balls from Trader Joe’s for years. Haven’t had to use fabric softener at all.

Makes me think of the episode of Batman Beyond called “Shriek.”

If you’re going on a long road trip, yes.

Yeah for the same price as the color option you could get a Garmin Vivoactive​ on a sale.

“I’m telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Anytime I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.” - Jason Mendoza

Isn’t that the FCC?

I figured it was related to the hardware architecture, but I’m curious if this is for security reasons (potential exploits that the OS can’t resolve) and/or just a support bandwidth concerns managing 2 OS code bases (on top of the obvious revenue from new licenses).

If the hardware security isn’t the issue, then switching to Linux is a good money saving choice for those that are tech savvy.

Gotta take mandatory breaks at least every 4 hours.

Definitely the best of the bunch.

Classic Detroit Lions meme.

Or Rapture

As much as I love Sync, it has been almost a year since the last update.

It’s usually to promote business investments in their state as opposed to general trade. There are plenty of governors that do that from both political parties.

The governor of my state just went to the UAE recently to do that, and has done several other trips as well over the years. https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2024/11/25/gov-whitmer-to-meet-with-business-leaders-and-foreign-officials-in-spain

Definitely related. EVs are relatively new technology and internal knowledge for engineering R&D, materials, and manufacturing infrastructure all have to be spun up. All this, and you need marketing/planning folks to decide on what sort of vehicle will sell the best against their engineering capabilities.

With a sign like that, they definitely need a cashier that knows their math.

The freakout definitely feels overblown. Having to account for California law seems like a perfectly legitimate reason. I’m actually surprised they originally had a separate link to clarify their privacy policy as the video pointed out.

Seem like the whole thing revolves around Mozilla’s poor messaging to correct for poor messaging (…to correct for poor messaging) and the internet’s knee-jerk, algorithmic-fueled rage to anything with nuance. Then again, FOSS with good PR/messaging sounds like a unicorn situation.