We take on the dark contract with the old gods, gaining not only their power, but their damnation.

For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.

They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me).

There’s an irony that the most valuable laptops for resale right now are the ones with soldered RAM. Why? Because the socketed units have their RAM stripped for resale separately from the unit. Even corporate fleets are doing this now and the bulk resale laptops are arriving without SSDs and RAM. Which units still have both? Units where both are soldered and not removable.

Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.

Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS.

These sell for $149 USD brand new. A general user would not spend a second of time troubleshooting a failed one. They’d just buy whatever the current model is for $149 which would probably be 4x as fast and with more storage anyway, then pitch the old one in ewaste.

Fair enough. Although Asus sells at least one laptop with 8 GB of soldered RAM, too.

Granted, it’s “only” a Chromebook, but still.

Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.

Soldered RAM is almost always a bad thing, no matter the size. Maybe when it’s the most the mainboard can support it’s not too bad but even then you’re out of luck if it ends up dying.

I used to think that too, but then I realized that the way I use computers (and it sounds like you do too) is to keep a unit a long time, take care of it, and use it to its limits (and perhaps beyond). There are millions of users that don’t do what we do. They may be young kids that end up breaking the unit before 2 years pass. They may be a fashionista that has to change out their unit when the new fall color comes out (so they may not even own it a year). They may be an older person that only uses it to check facebook to keep up with their kids.

In all of these cases soldered RAM is just fine because the user will never reach the point they need to upgrade it. What they get in return for this is cost savings and likely a smaller (thinner?) unit, that is probably a bit more structurally sound (because it doesn’t have to have a door or clips to have the RAM sockets accessible.

For users like you and me, soldered RAM is a bad thing. For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.

I’m agreeing with you.

The trump administration got high on its own supply and believed their own bullshit about a war with Iran being a cakewalk. The US military is not the effective military it was with Hegseth and trump in command of it.

All the charges against all of these folks seem to stem from this one act by one person:

One of the protesters was standing in the woods with an AR-15 and hit [a police officer] in the shoulder. The officer would survive.

I daily drive my personal Macbook air M2 running Asahi (only booted into OSX twice in the time I’ve owned it). I really like the experience of Linux (Fedora) on Apple hardware.

However, its still got some growing pains before most folks would be happy with it as their primary. One of those limitations abslutely applies to the Neo. Asahi Linux on 8GB of RAM is VERY cramped. I’ve got 24GB of RAM and even I run into limitations sometimes. The other issue is the current maturity level of power management. Asahi does not have full use of the low standby power states. This means that even with “sleep” your battery will exhaust itself in less than a day if its not plugged in. The alternative is to power down the unit entirely, which works fine to save the battery, but means having to open all your applications back up when you power it back up. Since Mac hardware doesn’t use ACPI, hibernation is also not available, which would also be a fine way to address this.

None of this is criticism agianst the Asahi team. They’ve done AMAZING things so far and what exists today is fully usable to me. Improvements also come early and often. The team is amazing!

However, Macbook Neo probably won’t be a good use case for Asahi Linux for the forseeable future.

EEEs were amazing! Not because of their performance or specs, but because they were a fully working compute for dirt cheap at only $199! Remember, these were released 5 years before the first Raspberry Pi. The original model of EEE with its 7" screen 512MB RAM and 4GB of slow SSD storage were plenty of compute for small tasks or portable applications. The cheapest fully functional laptop you could buy at retail those days would still cost you $800-$900 for a pretty horrible machine.

Linux was part of the secret sauce that made them successful because it meant they didn’t have to pay for an OEM Windows XP license.

Yes, because Asus laptops all have non-soldered RAM…

I think what that poster was communicating is that shipping a laptop with 8GB of RAM would be okay if it was socketed (allowing for an upgrade by the user) or if the shipped unit with soldered RAM was greater than 8GB (16GB?, 32GB?,64GB? soldered).

This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime.

These days an annual salary of $100k is at the very low end for most IT jobs in the USA (beyond the junior level). Even in my MCOL area $125k-$200k is more common.

You burn 16 tokens and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in tech debt.

It’s worth noting that this is talking about plug in solar, so would be at standard mains voltage.

Thats fair.

At least in the UK, they tend to run 3 phase to a road, but only a single phase goes into a given house. You need to get a special hook up to get 3 phase to a domestic premise, and they don’t like doing it.

TIL about the UK electrical system. Thanks!

I’m at the edge of my knowledge but that sounds like it matches the USA system (for the number of phases).

You also use 120VAC which makes the current overload issue a lot worse.

Voltage inside of residences is 120v AC, but its 240v thats delivered to each house. I think a bigger difference is that in the USA that 240v AC is single phase where I believe (Germany included) many nations in the EU are 3 phase.

The USA does have 3 phase power for most commercial applications though.

If power generation becomes so cheap that it can’t sustain the company then don’t rely on that for revenue.

I’m not aware of anywhere power generation is that cheap yet. That may be a problem for the future when commercial fusion is viable, but thats likely a lifetime away.

I’d rather pay a flat rate for the infrastructure and operating costs than a fluctuating generation charge.

I think everyone would, but the cost for generation is always fluctuating because the variation in the market for the fuels that generate electricity, supply, and demand of electricity on the market. If its a flat rate, and that rate is below the cost of generating the electricity, who pays?

I noted there were age ranges.

And I gave those age ranges filling out your example, for those reading your mostly good post that care for the additional details. If you don’t care feel free to ignore them, they’re not for you, they’re for the person you’re responding to where I felt your answer was a bit incomplete, but not wrong.

$1,500 a month is poverty, federal definitions be damned.

And I said I agree with you in spirit.

I appreciate the tuneup, but in no way was anything I said incorrect and pedantry was unwarranted.

Calm down, I’m not attacking you or saying you’re wrong. I’m adding additional context and details mostly supporting your argument.

Unless everyone has YOLO’d their entire retirement into NVIDA the AI bubble burst isn’t going to wipe out retirement savings to zero. Even the worst drop in the US stock market in history (which triggered the great depression) eventually dropping 90% at its worst recovered nearly half loss in 2 years. Even that drop wasn’t in one day, it happened over months.

if you earned $200,000/yr

Note, the max you need to earn to receive the top SS benefit is $176,100 in 2025 (it increases a bit in 2026). So the person earning $176,100 and the person receiving $200,000 get the same social security benefit.

you’ll get ~$4000/mo

That’s true if you retire at Full Retirement age (which is 67 years old for nearly all of us on Lemmy). If you delay taking your SS benefit until 70 years old the benefit would be $5100/month. If you take the SS benefit before Full Retirement age at 62 you would only get about $2800/month. To your point, all of these numbers are for that top earner of $176,100. Benefits are reduced for lower working year incomes.

$1500 month is poverty. Period.

$1500/month doesn’t meet the federal definition of poverty for an individual, but I agree with you in spirit. However, for a married couple thats $3k/month, thats $36,000/year. Social Security benefits are taxed, but that income would have them in the low 12% tax bracket. Rent/mortgage (largest portion of spending) doesn’t double for two people. That could provide an okay modest retirement in a LCOL area.

Social Security was never designed to be the only income in retirement. It was one of the legs of the “3 legged stool” meaning Social Security, pension, and savings. Few jobs these days have a traditional pension, but that leg is replace with the 401k/403b/IRA/TSP. Those going into retirement with just Social Security won’t die from exposure to the elements, but it will be a very basic and minimal lifestyle.

He’s likely be followed 24/7/365 by multiple private investigators for years. The $50m his investors believe they are owed can likely fund few folks full time to see if he ever magically “comes into some money”.

My insurance wouldn’t pay for my colonoscopy (colon cancer runs in the family) due to me being under 49.

How long ago did you ask? The old guidance was at 50 years old, but with the guidance changing to 45 years old insurance should cover it if you’re at least 45. I went through a similar you did under the old guidance. I can confirm that my insurance paid and I’m under 50. Note, the one you want is a “screening colonoscopy”. These are covered under the ACA, I believe. If it is a “diagnostic colonoscopy” those cost more money. Its the exact same procedure for both.

I saw the first few words of this headline and thought it was talking about today’s shooting (no victims it sounds like, thankfully) at a synagogue in Detroit. Nope, this a different shooting today apparently.