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Most provinces and territories have a minimum wage above $16/hr, so this cannot be true.

NetBSD supposedly supports 486, I don't think you're going to have much luck with USB there.

You've seen RAM slots go bad? DIMMs can also fail! I'd much rather replace a bad stick than a whole motherboard/device.

The linked article on the same blog on building a tower of optical drives is also quite interesting: https://goughlui.com/2026/03/15/project-building-an-optical-...

They don't document the hardware, but it is possible to run unsigned code on the SoC - that's how the Asahi Linux project is able to exist.

Is there evidence that it is actually a better agent though?

I guess you can try Windows next - https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs

If you run ZFS with an LTS kernel you're pretty much fine. Yes new Linux releases will break existing ZFS releases - but the LTS tree is in support for long enough that this is nev…

I'm still running an old Gen 8 MicroServer. Modern drives can actually saturate the SATA controller, and because it only has a single PCIe slot I can't add both a 10Gb NIC and a st…

> and while this made sense when drives were expensive I don't have the answer to the latency question, but HDDs have shot up in $/TB over the last couple years too. They are once …

Pipewire will quite happily pipe through audio without resampling if it is the only source on a system. You can see this by running pw-top and using speaker-test with various sampl…

When I looked at this before I found https://github.com/kuruczgy/x1e-nixos-config - reasonable though not 100% support. I believe Ubuntu also has semi official X1 elite support, no…

ACPI does exist for Aarch64, but is only really used for Windows client devices, and server hardware - though I think the Ampere hardware in the article would use ACPI not DT. If y…

> The maths there is pretty undeniable, but it is not where I'd make the split. Having a machine that can run some modest local LLMs, like the Gemma 4 12B, is really worth it. Seem…

Will they..? It seems equally (or perhaps more) likely that we'll increasingly see vibe coded browser or Electron based applications as the bar is now lower to build such a thing.

That's just the SDK - which does include the game code but not the engine. Xash3D is the reverse engineered engine alluded to above.

> and also recently broke and fixed setting manual speed on DDR5 memory with ECC enabled (basically any setting higher or lower than 5200mhz or something was ignored). Do you know …

My wired Etymotics work 100% of the time without issue. It still feels (to me) that in many cases Bluetooth earbuds are solving an issue that doesn't exist.

The EU referendum in the UK was non binding, did not force the use of Article 50, and did not mention leaving the single market or customs union.

If they do, Reform would almost certainly form government on a minority of the vote. Brexit was a yes/no question.

> Which is pretty much aligned with what more level-headed people predicted would happen, if my memory is correct. Of course this was painted as "project fear", and Michael Gove fa…

The Steam Deck price in Canada went up by something like 50% yesterday also - it's now over $1100 for the 512GB OLED, up from just under $700.

> The best camera is the one you have with you. This is why I ended up picking up an (admittedly quite expensive) Ricoh GR IV. It's tiny enough to take with me everywhere, has a mo…

Nothing says you have to use the same browser at work and outside of work? I use Edge for work, Firefox everywhere else.

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