There are plenty of hobbies where you can happily enjoy it and only ever spend little if anything.

On the other hand, I’ve found it’s pretty uncommon to find a hobby where you can’t optionally fall down an expensive rabbit-hole of some kind, usually around any kind of equipment or tools you might need as part of some hobby.

Thankfully for most hobbies that kind of thing is not required to enjoy it. You don’t need a fancy guitar to enjoy playing; you can read books from the library, you don’t need to collect your own; in most big enough cities (in Europe at least) you don’t even need to own a bike to go for a cycle (though regularly using bike rental schemes might be a sign to try and get a bike, doesn’t need to be fancy)

Isn’t this meme the wrong way round?

Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is the charlatan in the film

Well yes, technology improvements that mean humans can work less are only a good thing if you have an economic system that actually prioritises general wellbeing over enriching a tiny percentage of the population.

Americans are the most fucked because the majority of the public view socialism and adjacent philosophy as being bad, despite really being the only ideologies with any real answers for what happens to people that can’t work for a living, that isn’t just them dying.

Optical drives next I guess lol

What’s even going on anymore

… That’s awful, does it work?

Edit: I guess it would need a semicolon or another pipe in the alias

Cat into grep lets you insert something between the file read and grep if you need to without having to reorder anything

The SSD part was predominantly for hosting music production sample libraries and instrument data (so, lots of random small files), where quick random access over TBs of data is desirable. I’ve also got a few other use cases where having a lot of networked SSD storage is beneficial if not perhaps necessary (my RAW photo library in lightroom is another one fairly significant one that pops to mind).

For consumption media, that’s 100% going on a slower pool of spinning disks, my plan is/was a mixed media setup

I think my phone has 16GB

Are we going to enter a world where Apple’s memory upgrade pricing is not completely detached from reality?

…Nah I’m sure they want to keep their margin

More and more I’m simultaneously glad I did some upgrades at the start of the year and dreading my next component failure

Who even makes decent SATA SSDs now Crucial & Samsung are out? I’ve got a NAS I was planning to build in the next year or so that made heavy use of SATA SSDs. Looks like Western Digital seem to be the one big company still going for now (and frankly I’d have never picked them over Crucial or Samsung)

Looks like Kioxia make some too (I thought they only did server stuff) but not in big capacities

Might be back to the drawing board…

That’s a bit sad

They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time

I’m not recommending it, I’m describing why saying it adds no security is silly.

The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn’t mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user

If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it’s still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.

Well boot sector viruses used to be all the rage in the 90s, they’re entirely impossible under secure boot

Malware rootkits were a pretty big problem about a decade ago, I understand the techniques those mostly used are more or less impossible under secure boot now too

Then we could go into all the government and adjacent industry use cases where state-sponsored targeted attacks are a real concern. Measures like filling USB ports with super glue and desoldering microphones on company laptops is not unheard of in those circles, so blocking unknown bootloaders from executing is an absolute no brainer.

Saying it provides no security is just not true. Your front door isn’t only secure if someone has failed to break in

You don’t have to

If you only need it for 90 days before it expires, Microsoft will give you the VM for free (and if you’re particularly industrious, you might write a script that then installs a load of your shit for you to run after you fire up a fresh one)

If you don’t care about potentially breaking the law you can run it forever with a couple of scripts you can find on GitHub

If you don’t want to break the law but also don’t want to pay full price you can get a dubious but working key from sites like G2A and cdkeys

If that’s still too sketchy there’s the OEM licenses (honestly not worth it since they can only activate on a single machine ever)

Or finally you might feel sorry for Microsoft for some strange reason and want to go full retail price.

Basically the same experience with all options for a lot of cases, they’re just happy to have users it seems

It technically does add security in that it prevents a load of attack vectors that would dodge most anti malware tools (i.e. the ones before the anti malware tool can start)

But you’re right in that the execution of the idea is unnecessarily painful for Linux

PIF same as everything else

The ram cartel produces exactly enough ram to keep prices stable, increased demand means the produced supply is not sufficient so prices rise

This is not a capacity issue, it’s forced scarcity and collusion laid bare

Briefly saddened as I thought for a second there was somehow a game involving the YouTuber with the same name (is he still going?)

This looks cool regardless though, will give it a look

Kinda funny how much media is out there warning about the folly of allowing this kind of mega conglomeration, yet we’re still gonna just do it anyway

Lol what even is 2025