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.
Turning that instinct off when going through security screening, customs, or biosecurity is usually a good idea.
With software that misuses /tmp, I’m more worried about burning out my SSD endurance than running out of RAM.
‘Changing gender’ to become a queen implies a non-female initial gender.
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.
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.
The passenger volume, cost, and build-it-today claims are I think in line with theirs. The only outlier is the energy claim, which is so absurdly false that it falls into puffery (think ‘red bull gives you wings’) and is again believable.
It’s clear HSR costs, and infrastructure in general, are getting out of control in the English-speaking world. It’s not clear how to fix this, but moving from proven and understood technology to Muppet technology doesn’t seem to be a good option.
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Not sure if sarcastic…
Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”
Isn’t he the world’s richest person currently?
Many of these are defaults dating back to the Unix days, particularly tar (tape archive) and gzip.
Krita (KRA), GIMP (XCF), and Photoshop (PSD) save files in a lossless internal format that preserves layers etc. Every time you open and save a jpg, it gets worse, and that’s not acceptable for professional use. If all you want is to crop/draw on images, something like KolourPaint is probably a better choice.
MP4 is/was patent encumbered depending on jurisdiction.
I didn’t realise it was possible to hate every side of an argument this strongly.