I’ve still got a pile of DDR2 around, mostly 512MB-1GB sticks in the slower speeds. The better stuff got used, some of it is still in use.
The real money is the 2x16GB 2400MHz DDR4 sticks I have sitting on a shelf. Not long ago I figured it wasn’t worth trying to sell some old, slower DDR4 memory but now it’s apparently worth something. On the other hand, I might need it myself if one of the old DDR2/DDR3 era systems kicks the can.
As someone who is lazy, I find running Linux to be less work than fighting with Windows.
The Windows GUI (Explorer) has been using the word “folder” since Windows 95. DOS and Windows before that uses the word “directory”.
That’s some vintage hardware there too.
The so-called “Greatest Generation” also built a lot of this shit.
I think the pedals are even more hilarious. It’s not like the driver is going to be providing any useful motive power with them, or is going to be able to move that thing with the electronics not operating. At least the helmet has a chance of being useful by preventing the driver’s head from smacking the plexiglass windscreen in an accident.
Librewolf by default deletes all cookies when you close it. So that will log you out of every website, but that also makes sure things like tracking cookies don’t hang around.
You can tweak those settings if you want.
The surprise is that while Microsoft did announce how they were changing how Copilot usage is billed, they didn’t really give users a good way to gauge how expensive their current usage would be under the new billing system. Turns out it’s a lot more expensive than most people were expecting.
It felt like there was supposed to be big plans for the Snoke character in the later movies, but he ended up being a complete throwaway.
Perhaps not the absolute worst but certainly one of the most forgettable villains.
There was actually four different standard designs. You had the rectangular lights which came as either a 4x6" quad configuration, or the larger 5x7"design with one light on each side. Then there was the 5 3/4" round lights which were also a quad configuration, and the 7" round lights with one on each side. Prior to 1975 there was only the round designs and prior to 1958 when the quad 5 3/4" round light configuration were allowed, the only legal headlight was the 7" round design, which itself dated back to 1939.
The reason for the standardization in 1939 was that similar to today, every car had different designs in different configurations, though the main problem then was finding replacement lights when they inevitably burned out or got damaged.
The first car with composite headlights (in the US) was actually the Ford Thunderbird, but the Taurus is one everyone noticed.
A number of e-bikes now come with built-in lights that are just on all the time, hence the reason why bikes that are all lit up in the middle of the day are starting to become common.
A lot of these lights have little or no adjustments either.
I point mine down so it illuminates the road in front of me, and slightly in the direction facing away from oncoming traffic. I also use the dimmest setting, and don’t have it in blink mode unless it’s foggy out.
There’s also the projects that people think are dead because they haven’t seen any significant updates in some time. But in actuality there just hasn’t been any need to make changes. The code works, is mature, and feature complete. Unlike proprietary software there isn’t any pressure make changes for the sake of change to convince everyone they need to buy it over again, so once the code becomes stable development naturally will slow down.
That’s one of things that bothers me about how AI is being pushed in the workplace. Assuming AI actually does manage to help me get my work done faster, it’s not like I get to home earlier or work less days. I’m just going to get more work piled on me.
USB2.0 is considerably slower than an internal IDE drive. USB 2.0 is 480 megabit/s, and the final generation ATA 133 spec is 133 megabyte/s, which is around 1065 megabit/s, so over twice as fast. Ditto for things like latency. While the hard drives of the time physically couldn’t saturate a PATA connection, the difference in speed was still easily noticed.
At the time, if you wanted a fast external drive you used Firewire, which I actually did. I had several drives that were Firewire 800 but also included USB2.0 to connect to computers that lacked Firewire. I don’t recall if any of my motherboards that have Firewire built in can boot off of it but I kind of doubt it.
Later we had eSata for a brief period of time. I still miss it as it’s not as fast as USB3.0 which is the only option even today on many new external drives.
Not really, the smarts are integrated into the control circuitry. You can’t bypass them and turn them into simple, dumb displays.
Depending on the model, you can block the TV from the internet and leave it on set to one of the inputs and the smarts bits won’t bother you again. Other ones are more intrusive and pushy about it.
I remember seeing IDE drives all the way up to 1TB. Anything over 80GB was pretty uncommon though.
I had some 320GB IDE drives in my nForce2 chipset Socket A system, which thanks to the southbridge used on the motherboard, I had USB2.0 but no SATA support.
My personal experience with hard drives that have been sitting around for a long time and then pushed back into regular use is that they’ll work for a bit then suddenly just quit.
So I wouldn’t trust it for anything important, like being your only backup. As an additional backup (you can never have too many backups) it’ll be fine.
The indie game scene is thriving and while there’s a lot of crap out there, it’s not really what I’d consider enshitified.
On the other hand, AAA games and anything mobile is absolutely enshitified.
Maybe? The article says he has trouble urinating and has to wear diapers. One of the goals of the surgery is so he can urinate properly and presumably not have wear diapers any longer. So I can sympathize with him. On the other hand, it doesn’t appear that the surgery is strictly medically necessary either.