This kind of thing used to stress me out. It took me awhile to finally find peace but it comes down to this:

We all know what Uncle Ben told us that ‘With great power comes great responsibility’, and while that’s true it also must follow that ‘With little (or no) power come little (or no) responsibility.’

The systems in place have taken nearly all power out of your hands to fix the situation yourself. If you had (even temporary) admin access available to you, you would have fixed the situation yourself in a few minutes and completed the task. However, the systems around you are designed to limit your abilities, and channel you through narrow support paths that they themselves are limited in what they can do.

You responsibilities are to properly identify the need for support and follow the path (no matter how inefficient), and notify your direct boss of the situation that is causing the delay for the deliverable. You did 100% of your job here. No, it shouldn’t be this hard to get this thing done, but it is, and its entirely out of your control. Because you have little to no power to fix the system, you have little to no responsibility for the problems it produces.

I’ve known 6 year olds with more bowel control than trump too.

He’s a Jan 6 participant. Apparently he likes his terrorism home grown and “Made in the USA™”.

See, no sane person would smile while exposing a person death sentence to the whole world.

In that interview trump looked like a six year old that had been told a secret and couldn’t wait to tell everyone else what it was.

First, thank you for the context on his history. That is helpful. He’s clearly a MAGA piece of shit.

What is interesting is that it appears that even MAGA pieces of shit have limits. For this guy, destroying our own nation is apparently a-okay, but he’s not onboard with destroying another nation. I wish he was more principled than he is, but I suppose I should be content he’s not chanting war hawk invasion like trump is.

In reality, it means having to show a valid passport (which is a massive pain in the ass to obtain) or having a copy of your birth certificate (also a huge pain in the butt to get).

And for people that have changed their name since birth (either marriage or other reasons), the birth certificate isn’t valid under this proposed bill. So passport book ($130+$10 for a photo), or passport card only ($30+$10 for a photo). And since passport book/card requirement doesn’t apply to every American, this is effectively a selective tax targeting largely married women.

How is this anything else besides a violation of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution:

Twenty-Fourth Amendment:

Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Secondly, it’s actually not bad. It does have that faint “cheap coffee” taste, but after a few cups I barely notice it anymore.

College students frequently buy decent beer for the first drink, then loads of cheap horrible beer for consumption afterwards during that same sitting.

If you’re drinking multiple cups of coffee, maybe buy both the good and the bad simply limit your consumption of the good stuff to one cup a day giving yourself a pass to drink as much of the cheap stuff afterward as you want.

It eludes to it here:

In one script, victims in India are told they are being contacted regarding claims of “illegal advertising” and “harassing text messages” sent from their mobile number. Another script, on the desk in a fake Australian police office, instructs scam workers to call restaurant owners claiming they are from a police department and need to order boxed meals for an event. At a fake Singaporean police office, a fraudulent letter stamped “notary public” accuses an individual of money-laundering.

Putting myself in the place of a victim, if someone calls or txts me randomly claiming to be a bank office that is investigating a problem with my account, I’ll probably dismiss it, or at most make a phone call to my bank (to a phone number I know is the bank, not one they give me).

If instead its a video call where I could clearly see they were in a very convincing bank, I might give it more legitimacy. I probably helps the scammer actors to be in the set to maintain the mindset. They could probably work together with other scammers in the same building something like: “Sir, I’m contacting you from [your bank]. [Police department from another country] has reached out to us because your account flagged for attempting to pay for [illegally imported goods]. I’m sure this is a mistake, but can you jump on this Zoom call I’m in with the officer so we together can make it clear to the officer this is not your doing?”

A large part of the benefit of being an American taxpayer when living or working abroad was that the USA would absolutely have your back diplomatically and use the power of the government to extricated you back to the USA if there were difficult diplomatic situations or in times of violence/war.

If trump is just giving those Americans the finger when they need this help, that would be a severe reduction in the benefit of continuing to be a US citizen outside of the USA.

Carlson missed his chance to take his Fox News derived fortune and disappear from the lime light so he could spend his day getting high of snorting orphan blood or whatever it is these assholes do. Instead he got greedy and doubled down on the fascism. Now he is getting eaten by a monster he helped create.

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.