Used to be now we have chiplets. The defective chips ship as some weird OEM part usually now with parts disabled. Example: Ryzen 5 3500
I don't know what Intel is doing as I quit keeping up with them. I do miss the core unlocked boards that you'd put a 2 core cpu and maybe win the lottery on and get all 4 cores.
ATT split itself so it wouldn't be bound by the government - they had a lot tech they wanted to put into use they weren't allowed to and they could pick and choose what to shed (like pots lines) that wasn't making as much money.
Pretty sure this or part of this just burned me. Icing on the cake is Nintendo will also ban hammer your email if it rejects some or all of their emails - including their dumptruck of marketing junk. The only and I mean only resolution to this is to basically move your Nintendo account to a different email completely. Absolutely unreal on both sides.
Yes, no one should not have DKIM or DMARC but holy yikes when neither side wants to actually give in to help the customer.
I forget if it was NSFU2 or what but they had this in actual arcade games. For like $2 you could get a smart card to store your account, car, customizations, stats etc. Pop it in and load your ride up and my wife and I put in so many hours in the arcade playing this damn thing.
Arcade racing games in Japan are still like this. The current peak IMHO is Initial D The Arcade. You can advance in single player, race locally or online for points, and there are monthly challenges to compete in (for example time trial on a specific track), and there are seasons with new tracks and races added. Of course you can collect and upgrade cars over time, and keep them in a garage. The racing has severe rubber banding, but it's upfront about it (there's an on-screen indicator for it), and it is turned off for the last part of a race. So it's still fun for both beginners and experts.
It costs about ¥1500/hour to play, or much less if you spend most of your time in local races and are above average. Not exactly cheap but certainly cheaper than playing multiple different games in the same arcade. However, It's really easy to sit down and realise you've been playing for 2+ hours.
I love looking back 10+ years for the cheapest Linux thing you could buy. People were buying devices that were for kids or a router or something and repurposing it because it was open enough to get a shell on / flash Linux to it and start doing projects with.
In the 2020s or somewhere before that we got a bunch of dedicated cheap MCUs that were good enough and I think stole the thunder from full Linux but there are still projects to run it on things like the ESP32 family.
Either way, hardware hacking is still my favorite hobby to watch.
For a while, and I think even still today, the cheapest linux thing you can buy that has USB ports, wifi, and a power adapter are those Rockchip CPU powered Android TV boxes that are super popular from aliexpress and the like. There were people getting pretty mainline Linux distros on them. They have all moved on to be more expensive now (with 8GB RAM and way more cores than needed), but if you look back at ones from a few years ago you can find ones that were 1GB or 2GB of ram with a bit of eMMC storage and a quad core arm CPU roughly equivalent to a Raspberry Pi 3 in performance. Unlike a lot of these linux microcontroller-sized boards, you got barrel jack power in, HDMI video out, wifi, usb ports, an audio out, and a nice case for it. What you lack is exposed GPIO usually. At one point you could find them for around $24. FOr people who don't need the GPIO and instead want to use a keyboard/mouse/monitor with one, I think those are often better options than the SBC market embedded-style dev boards. I think you still can if you look hard enough.
MSM8916 USB modems are very cheap, too – I got two for <$10 each. Has USB, Wi-Fi, 4G and three blinkenlights (red, green and blue). No video out though (but some slightly more expensive models of “portable Wi-Fi router” variety have a display and a battery).
One of these days, I will do a project with linux on a cheap Rockchip handheld game console. Many already have builds of rocknix which is a retro game focused OS with mainline latest kernels. Many of these can be had for < $50 and boot from sdcard, and have wifi and bluetooth.
> They have all moved on to be more expensive now (with 8GB RAM and way more cores than needed)
even the exact same model that I use for, ahem, iptv purposes has ballooned in price by 50% over the past few years, despite no design upgrades/changes :(
Milk-V Duo has been a pretty popular RISC-V board, one of the more mainstream affordable RISC-V boards. We did a reading group on RISC-V machine code where we used this as the initial board. It even has it's own fcked up vector instructions that are based an RVV draft with some extensions. gcc has its own arch specifier for it (xtheadvector*, e.g. -march=rv64gc_xtheadvector).
I wonder if AI could port more modern kernel versions/fixes back to old kernels for vintage Android phones. You have wifi + modem, good screens, battery, fast CPUs, the hw package is unbeatable, so it's sad to see all those phones relegated to the dumpster.
Bought some RP2040-zero for less than a dollar last year including shipping. They can run Fuzix.
If you want Linux for very little money, there are still options. There's the MilkV Duo which is probably the cheapest at less than $10. Kind of like the Raspberry Pi Zero, but worse.
Hey, why not check your old conference badges, chances are one of them can run Linux!
Its worth noting that the Pixel 11 was considered a downgrade - the CPU has features removed that may make it harder to run things in the future (GrapheneOS included)
Crazy that in this market especially, Apple wouldnt release a Mac Mini Neo with the Neo boards and make it minier. Its enough of a machine to do most work including app dev and I've only run into memory problems after really pushing it and having a program that had some insane memory leaks. Note: I dont do photoshop or video editing, I'm sure its not awesome at those, even though it can do it.
Why would banks be motivated to care? People just give them money as a business model. Up until recently, Wells Fargo didnt have case sensitive passwords even, because no pressure to do anything about that.
To bring it around - the Non-Google android user base is small enough right now that there is no motivation for them to spend money to make their verification/validation stuff work on any non-mainstream platforms.
Unfortunately, banks can be held liable for customers getting scammed. Even if they win in the end, they have to make the customer whole first no matter what [1].
>> People just give them money as a business model.
You dont actually give them money...you loan them money when you do a deposit. That is why they pay you interest, and that comes with the risk of loans to another party.
A little detail they are happy to omit and they are happy to let people talk about: "I have money in the bank", that you of course ...dont have.
Incorrect-ish. 12 U.S.C. § 1821(f)(1) states that payment shall be made by the FDIC "as soon as possible," but as my sister-the-lawyer has always been at pains to point out to me, the most up-to-date specific language is from 2016's 81 Federal Register 87734, 87735, section B, which explicitly states that they "[do] not specify a time period for paying insured depositors." In other words, if it's a tiny bank failure you might get lucky and get made whole in a few business days, but if it's something larger, they can choose to meet their regulatory obligations over the course of decades - which is very much real risk.
Most banks also don't have cash on hand if you want to go in and walk back out the door with a large life savings. The fact that large sums are not instantly liquid isn't especially worrysome.
It'll be a hardship if a bank does liquidate and the FDIC takes some time to reimburse everyone involved, but that's better than not getting anything at all.
This particular insurer is unlike others because it can ultimately edit entries in a database whenever it wants. As long as you are part of the group that is considered worth editing the database for, such as a depositor at one of the too-big-to-fail banks, then you have nothing to worry about.
Yes, and alternatively you could invest your money in whatever they'd invest it in, and capture more of your money's value. You could even invest in risky things like stocks with your money, whereas they can't (with your money).
This is a thread about a EU bank, and banks in the EU both have some standard interest rate on savings accounts, and moreover might offer time-restricted savings accounts with an even higher rate. That said, they track poorly with inflation compared to actual investment.
Zero is also a number, although not all Mathematicians accept that. 0% interest does not change the essence of the monetary relationship with your bank, or the risk profile.
Technically true I suppose. But go ask the average person on the street where the bank gets the money they lend people for mortgages and cars and such and I guarantee you the number of people that make that connection is going to be much much smaller than you seem to want to suggest.
It doesn't actually work the way it's portrayed in It's a Wonderful Life. The banks don't use depositor money to make loans. I suspect you will think what they actually do is even worse. Look into fractional reserve banking.
Never seen that movie but did watch a documentary ages ago about fractional reserve banking yes.
The bank still uses the deposit money in that system. You are right to point out those same people on the street I mentioned would freak out even more if they knew that banks essentially lend out more than we deposited and also that they might sell your debt and all that jazz (I bet most people either never understood what happened in 2008 or forgot already other than a vague "yeah mortgage crisis")
I don't know what Intel is doing as I quit keeping up with them. I do miss the core unlocked boards that you'd put a 2 core cpu and maybe win the lottery on and get all 4 cores.
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