So Sony wants to punish ISPs for continuing to “allow” illegal things to happen? Hmm remind me again which company it is that has had so many data breaches that users have come to just expect it? Sounds to me like if they are allowed to pursue attacking internet providers then they themselves should start seeing lawsuits for continuing damages until such time as Sony is able to successfully recover all stolen personal data and other parties can no longer use it for profit.

If you’re curious enough to get one, I’ve seen them on ebay as well. Might even be available on Amazon. I think they’ve been around for a couple years, I just got mine in April but still haven’t had time to fire it up and play with it.

Hmm I’m seeing a sale price right now, might be based off my order history though. I found another that has a standard price of $10.39, but all the ones I looked at are now also including a shipping cost around $4.50 so that jacks the price up even more.

All these taxes and tarrifs and what-not are really hurting people’s ability to get access to affordable items. I was looking at some solar panels right before the US added a tarrif to those items, so now I’ll wait to see what happens.

The board costs about $10, I have one on hand. Besides VGA and PS/2 ports, it also has an audio-out jack and a slot for SD cards. And if you want to compare specs, the ESP32 blows this away. Sure $1 sounds impressive, until you realize just how little you can do with it.

[Edit] Looks like the price has come down under $10 for this board now, here’s a link to get them from China.

So basically something like this only a whole lot LESS capable? Although if you specifically want to do RiscV coding then it does limit your options.

Hard to say for sure. They may have legitimately found something, but my experience with McAfee products has been abysmal. The last time I dealt with it, someone had the full paid version of their virus scanner which was up to date but wasn’t finding anything. I ran the free version of AVG and found over 200 items (mostly trojans and other malware). Their research may be valid, but I certainly wouldn’t trust any of their software to find even widely-known issues.

security firm McAfee

Now there’s an oxymoron. Let me know when they can write a virus scanner that works.

Yeah but does that really compare to a single man destroying a $44 Billion dollar company?

Seriously, why hasn’t there been an investigation since he’s meddling directly with government affairs and working for a foreign enemy?

Don’t forget that Musk is also the one who intentionally blocked paid service from Ukraine during a critical moment in the early days of Russia’s current genocide, because Musk sucks up to Putin. Dude needs to answer for his actions.

I remember when me and a friend both had C64s and he got a 20MB HDD for it. He said “bring your floppies over and we’ll swap software, I have tons of space now!” Big surprise, I had way more floppies than he had drive space. 😆 These days I don’t mess around, I have around 105TB of storage with room for expansion as drives get cheaper.

Put me down for one Amiga 1000 (which I still have with the 2MB expansion), I found a used one for sale and snagged it for $300 (before the A500 or any other models were released). I thought it was a great deal.

After the string of bad decisions he’s already made with this company, what makes you think he’s able to make good choices now? He has an echo-chamber where nobody can tell him to GTFO and that’s literally the only thing he’s ever getting out of it. It’s kinda like if someone paid an obscene amount of money for a junker car, then paid 10x that amount to put vanity plates on it.

There’s definitely been a lot of talk about the whole “pay us and we can make that bad review from someone who wasn’t your customer just go away.” Some say that never actually happened, and yet I was IT support for a small business who contacted Yelp to find out why non-customers were allowed to leave bad reviews and they were directly told that for a fee those reviews would be removed.

Sorry, I just realized I crossed up my evil businesses. Yelp did the whole protection-racket thing, it was LinkedIn that hacked people’s computers and keep sending out emails in their customer’s names (“I heard about this great company, you should check them out…”).

Yelp, another major tech company

That’s a curious way to spin “a bunch of con artists who built a business by hacking people’s computers and sending out emails in those people’s names”.

That’s fine, we’re happy to keep the better choice to ourselves. 😆

I hope nobody lets them know that Firefox on Linux has never shown ads for any of their content.

I would only point out that most hardware problems are due to vendors refusing support of any OS except Windows. If they didn’t support Windows you would see equal problems there. I know there has been a lot of contention with nVidia over the years, not so sure about others.

Also, linux does take direct control of all hardware and runs it hard. If a vendor claims their devices can run under certain conditions then Linux expects it to actually perform that way. Many vendors exaggerate their claims though and it’s quickly discovered that their devices cannot actually perform as expected on the general hardware sold to the public. Nobody is surprised, and the linux driver admins eventually make those features optional so you can test the specific device to see if it lives up to the vendor’s claims. My nVidia GTX 1050 has been running well for me though.

Otherwise I agree that yeah, a lot of faults come down failing hardware. In my case the same machine that constantly blue-screened under Windows worked fine for many years under Linux, and I’m one of those who really push the hell out of my computers. Coding in Visual Studio while also having a bunch of other windows open for reference on my current project, on a machine that only had a gig of memory? Yeah I expected a lot. And moving forward to today, I have dozens of windows open to browsers, spreadsheets, terminals, image editors, and 3D modeling software. Surprisingly I currently have over a gig of free ram right now (on a machine with 16GB) but I’m usually closer to a half or quarter gig free. My machine is pretty clean right now because it rebooted a month ago from a power outage during a storm, so we’ll see how it looks in another couple months.

Don’t forget Win3.x. I remember working on that, trying my hand at OS/2 Warp with high hopes. I never used NT, just the home version of Windows 2k, however I was already trying to move away from Microsoft at the time. I was introduced to AT&T Unix in the late 90’s with our Audix voicemail system, and learned a lot while attempting to upgrade the hardware to a more current 486 computer. I got hooked but Unix was expensive as hell, then the internet led me to Linux. My first attempts were with a version of Slackware that ran from a folder on the Windows desktop and by '99 I had my first dedicated server up and running. It wasn’t until 2006 that I finally dumped my dual-boot desktop and permanently dropped Windows.

I haven’t either. 😆 Switching to Linux solved all of those problems allowing me to run for months at a time between reboots. Of course back then things didn’t work so smoothly, and I did have some struggle getting my sound card working. These days it pretty much all just works.