It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I’m pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don’t think I even used LXDE. Didn’t need to do much.
I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.
I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.
It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.
I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.
Essentially no processors follow a standard. There are some that have become a de facto standard and had both backwards compatibility and clones produced like x86. But it is certainly not an open standard, and many lawsuits have been filed to limit the ability of other companies to produce compatible replacement chips.
RISC-V is an attempt to make an open instruction set that any manufacturer can make a compatible chip for, and any software developer can code for.
Kinda yes, kinda no. There have certainly been times, particularly after 9/11 and various crises, when demand dropped significantly.
There’s also airliners that just haven’t sold well. A340NG, A380, 747-8, 767-400, the MD-11, until recently the Cseries/A220. The A330neo has also not sold particularly well and you could probably get a slot within a year easily.
I’ll take ‘Violations of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act’.
Turning that instinct off when going through security screening, customs, or biosecurity is usually a good idea.
Indeed, the US has a major lack of fixed-line competition and lack of regulation. Starlink doesn’t really help with that, at least in urban areas.
I’m not familiar with the wireless situation. You’re saying that there are significant coverage discrepancies to the point where many if not most consumers are choosing a carrier based on coverage, not pricing/plans? There’s always areas with unequal coverage but I didn’t think they were that common.
Here in NZ, the state funding for very rural 4G broadband (Rural Broadband Initiative 2 / RBI-2) went to the Rural Connectivity Group, setting up sites used and owned equally by all three providers, to reduce costs where capacity isn’t the constraint.
Starlink plugs the rural coverage gaps, but in urban areas it’s still more expensive than either conventional fixed-line connections or wireless (4G/5G) broadband. Even in rural areas, while it’s the best option, it’s rarely the cheapest, at least in the NZ market I’m familiar with.
It also doesn’t have the bandwidth per square kilometre/mile to serve urban areas well, and it’s probably never going to work in apartment buildings.
This is a funding/subsidisation issue, not so much a technical one. I imagine Starlink connections are eligible for the current subsidy, but in most cases it’s probably going to conventional DSL/cable/fibre/4G connections.
I expect they are talking about the ‘irrevocably’ part, as one of the core tenets of GDPR is that consent can be withdrawn.
I couldn’t say whether or not that applies here.
Aggregate bandwidth now rivals or slightly exceeds gigabit wired connections.
Where that aggregate bandwidth is shared amongst large numbers of users, bandwidth per user can suffer dramatically.
Low density areas may be fine, but cube farms are an issue especially when staff are doing data intensive or latency sensitive tasks.
If you’re giving employees docking stations for their laptops, running ethernet to those docking stations is a no-brainer.
Moving most of the traffic to wired connections frees up spectrum/bandwidth for situations that do need to be wireless.
Swifts and Mirages can be under 900kg.
The actual eruption happened in 2019. It was big news locally when it happened, and there has been a slow trickle of further reports like this one.
It wasn’t a particularly big eruption; the fact that people were on the rather small volcanic island when it erupted is what led to the deaths.
The efforts towards a prosecution have been long and slow because it’s probably going to be a real mess:
Adventure tourism including visiting active volcanoes is inherently dangerous.
Did the scientists get the volcano risk levels wrong?
Which entities should get criminal blame? Island owner, tour providers, tour transport providers (boats), and/or the various regulators?
It sounds like that’s all sorted and they’re into sentencing on those that were found guilty.
Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.
No, it’s just a CPU with very good integrated graphics, sufficient to beat many cheaper GPUs.
Assuming you’re serious, no.
Most modern laptops have soldered down CPUs. Even with older or higher power models that are socketed, it’s been a few decades since they were physically interchangeable between brands, and laptops generally used different sockets to desktops. Sockets also only last a couple of generations.
You can probably buy a ThinkPad with the (lower power/performance) laptop version of this chip, though
Yeah, you can’t really say “we started the engines but #2 wouldn’t start, so we’re continuing to the destination on one engine”. Delaying/cancelling the flight due to a safety/maintenance issue is perfectly legitimate.
The issue is that after that, a) passengers are entitled to compensation depending on the delay, and b) you need to provide food/water/aircon or take the passengers back to the terminal.
Boeing and Microsoft: same shit, different cloud.
Bear in mind many models also have voice recognition, and the Bluetooth can potentially pick up the MAC on every phone in the car.
Biggest question to me is why you need an IP in the first place?
I didn’t realise it was possible to hate every side of an argument this strongly.