Monkey Dust

I thought we all knew, by now, 2 things not to do.
 
1. Joke about blowing stuff up in and around airports and government buildings
2. Use public Wi-Fi
 
This muppet failed on both.

You need rgb if you want above 30fps in games

The first successful POST is accompanied by relief.

The first successful POST is accompanied by relief.

The first successful POST is accompanied by relief.

You can't install Windows 98 on newer CPUs without some interesting hacks and work-arounds.

Should both Intel and AMD update their design to support older software?

At some point, the disparity in age between software and hardware grows so far apart that compatibility can't be guaranteed to remain forever. 

Big companies don't disappear overnight. They all have time to adjust to the new market, but some choose not to. It takes inflexible management to kill a big company, not a changing market. 
 
Boeing will be fine, eventually. They are still profitable and the US government wouldn't let them collapse for various reasons. Also, their main competitor, Airbus, can't ramp up production fast enough to take all of Boeing's business. They have a pretty captive market as one half of a near duopoly.
 

Does money "work" at all? 🙃

Taking it back to the original topic. I enjoy Mac Address too. The chilled out presenting style and calling Apple out when necessary, being the main reasons.
 
I find a lot of other Apple focused channels just fawn over the products, making it hard to tell the good from the good, but overpriced, from the crap. There may even be some willing to defend 'that' mouse.
 
 

Taking it back to the original topic. I enjoy Mac Address too. The chilled out presenting style and calling Apple out when necessary, being the main reasons.
 
I find a lot of other Apple focused channels just fawn over the products, making it hard to tell the good from the good, but overpriced, from the crap. There may even be some willing to defend 'that' mouse.
 
 

Hear me out.. Disney princesses MOBA. 

A proper financial audit would have showed up a problem in a matter of days. The expected revenue that Horizon system was generating for the prosecuted post masters was so far in excess of the sales they were making. It would have been pretty obvious if anyone cared to look. It was a problem of culture in the Post Office, far more so than an IT problem.
 
Expecting all government software (not that the Post Office is owned by the government any more) to be open source, as noted above, isn't realistic, or necessary.
After Brexit, GBP was deemed 'too metric'. We now use non-metric UKP. There are 19⅔ ounces to the UKP and 14 furlongs to the shilling. 

Google canceled something?

Impossible.

Yeah, the rumours are mounting and MS are doing nothing to dispel them. Not going to be great for the industry if they bow out.

One of the best defences is not broadcasting that you have something worth stealing, particularly if you are into crypto. If you've found yourself in a situation where you are being threatened with serious injury, or death, no approach to cybersecurity is going to help you.
 
Agreed that a password manager covers almost all needs. But in the event of a big breach of the service, Lastpass style, you could lose everything. Probably a good idea not to put everything in there. Obviously, if you are being targeted specifically, it's probably not going to save you. But you are very unlikely to get individually targeted. The far more common risk is having usernames and passwords leaked in a big data breach, and using precautions, such 2FA, can limit damage. You don't need to be impenetrable in the event of a data breach, just more secure than most of the other victims of the leak.

There is a golden rule; Don't write down your crimes. Keeping evidence of your crimes on your PC or phone also falls under this rule. The police aren't kicking your door in for piracy (unless it's actual ship boarding piracy), or if they think you have a gram, or three, of something you shouldn't.
 
Passwords that you don't want to keep in your password manager, & seeds for 2FA apps, written on paper and stashed in a small document safe, isn't a bad option for all except those running a criminal enterprise. Passphrases are good, but human memory can be a fickle thing. A backup of some form is always a good idea.

I'm struggling to see a use case for these. They will have to get a lot smaller and lighter to be wearable all day, so not a monitor replacement. And even if you could wear it all day, you probably shouldn't. Not varying your focus for hours doesn't strike me as being good for your eyes.
 
My prediction is that this won't go anywhere, outside a few niches. It's definitely not the new iPhone.   

I think you're overestimating them. They failed to muscle into gaming with Stadia. Microsoft failed to muscle into phones. Meta have failed to make a commercial success of the Metaverse. And most pertinently to this topic, Apple, despite selling Macs for 30+ years, are still only a tiny part of the market. The big tech giants can, and do, make big bets that they lose.
 
If you need to choose a device, for a tech-phobic elderly relative, a tablet is probably the correct answer. If you want a cheap laptop, I'd still go Windows, just for the software compatibility. I don't get who the Chromebook is for?  

They may not be fake, though you may not get anywhere near the advertised capacity, the big problem is are they safe? E-scooters and cheap e-bikes have a reputation for catching fire. I wouldn't trust a random unbranded lithium-ion battery off Amazon.

I think it depends a lot on your browsing habits. 30 tabs open at all times (guilty)? You could run 8GB very close to the wire. If you're using an application that isn't well optimized for RAM usage, 8GB could easily prove to not be enough.
 
If you have old tech that you can't, or don't want to, upgrade, 8GB may not seem like an unreasonable limitation. But I wouldn't buy a new PC/Mac with less than 12GB.
 
My hot take. If you just need a laptop for browsing, word processing and note-taking, get a tablet with a keyboard case. Does everything you need with less size, weight and power consumption.

I'm struggling to see a use case for these. They will have to get a lot smaller and lighter to be wearable all day, so not a monitor replacement. And even if you could wear it all day, you probably shouldn't. Not varying your focus for hours doesn't strike me as being good for your eyes.
 
My prediction is that this won't go anywhere, outside a few niches. It's definitely not the new iPhone.   

people said the same thing about
Segway crypto/NFTs 3d VR AR (google glass)

For repairability, iPhone is probably one of the better ones as you can actually get them repaired. Should be ok with Samsung too, but for more niche Android phones, you're going to struggle for parts. Macs, and their non-replaceable SSDs, are terrible for repairability, I agree with you there. 
 
There is a feature in Windows that allows you to link your Android phone. That might give you the functionality you are looking for? I haven't tried it, being team iPhone, but someone in the thread might have done, and can comment?
 
 

I thought we all knew, by now, 2 things not to do.
 
1. Joke about blowing stuff up in and around airports and government buildings
2. Use public Wi-Fi
 
This muppet failed on both.

I thought we all knew, by now, 2 things not to do.
 
1. Joke about blowing stuff up in and around airports and government buildings
2. Use public Wi-Fi
 
This muppet failed on both.