tony

At least part of the reason is software updates are so easy.. Tesla can do dozens of them without incurring any cost outside their normal development processes, so they do.

Another manufactuer may wait until there are several or just not issue some of the more minor ones at all, because each one is a dealer visit.

It's even worse for developers.. sometimes you push out an app for internal or extenal test and it just.. sits there.. the users continue to see the old one. Or half of them get the new one and half get the old one, which makes no sense. This has been an issue for years with nothing but shrugs from google when you ask them about it.

OTOH with testflight you push out a build and 20 minutes later all testers get it, automatically, every time (I hate iOS development generally but that bit they got right).

It really depends on your priorities. Single drive is good for a home system with nothing really important on it.. once you get to wanting to keep it and where recovery from backups is too much downtime, you want at least a drive mirror.. nothing wrong with exr4+mdraid for that, although you don't get the checksumming that zfs gives it will be pretty fast & if a drive fails you can run degraded on one drive until you get the new drive in.

I've been running zfs for 10 years and not lost a single byte of data even after doing stupid shit like tripping over the sata cables and disconnecting half the drives. It's survived multiple drive failures (as long as the failures are on different bits of the disk, it recover get a clean copy onto a third drive, but it's a brown trousers moment when stuff like that happens).

Downsides, it aint fast, and it does tend to like lots of memory. You want it on your fileserver, not your gaming system.

IMO there's no point in a single drive zfs.. it'll warn you faster that the drive is f*cked but what do you do then?

Someone asked it to list the even prime numbers.. it then went on a long rant about how to calculate even primes, listing hundreds of them..

ChatGPT knows nothing about what it's saying, only how to put likely sounding words together. I'd use it for a cover letter, or something like that.. but for maths.. no.

I'm not really sure that headline is warranted.. if there are 30,000 grants available, setting a target of installing 60,000 heat pumps seems a little silly.

Really the government needs to get its arse out of its anus and realise that without grants they're utterly unaffordable.. and they barely are with.

The base £1700 price (and that's with no ports or hard drive! So more like 2k) is about £800 from HP.

You're paying for upgradeability. If you can't upgrade, you're wasting the money.

I really like the idea but two things stop me.. one is cost. They're considerably more expensive than laptops elsewhere. The seconf is the unproven long term uogtwdeability. In 5 years time when I'm looking to upgrade will framewotk be selling parts that let me do that? A new CPU board and I'm sorted.. Ot is it a whole new laptop. I suspect the latter.

I saw a post once about how discrimination law doesn't recognise combinations.. so a company was found not guilty of discrimination against a black woman because they employ lots of white women as secretaries and black men as labourers, and were therefore 'diverse'.

Now that's a USB C hub.

I hate the way when you search for USB C hub on amazon you get a list of USB C dongles with ethernet and HDMI, a couple of A ports and 1 or maybe 2 C ports.

Its requirements are insane.. My little minipc which easily hosts my lemmy (multiple channels) and mastodon server (follow about 100 people plus retoots) without breaking a sweat couldn't manage it. Installed matrix and subscribed to one channel and it simply buried the machine.. I had trouble getting control back to shut it down.

sheeet.. just switched it back on for a test.. 2 minutes in and the load average is >60 & it's already consumed 14 gigabytes. Idle.

The car is effectively a live service.. they've completely changed the UI multiple times.. they can lock out features.. they'll likely disable ultrasonic sensors once they think their camera based version is working..

The only thing they can't do is add hardware.

Next will be the inability to switch it off..

Musk wants everyone to pay for twitter. He's insane, but is consistent.