A user configurable “hardware” privacy switch is a contradiction in itself. If it can be controlled by software it can’t do what the marketing claims 🤦

One reason to have hardware switches is because the manufacturer doesn’t want malware that has compromised the OS to be able to bypass it, and from this standpoint — which is a very legitimate position — then that’s very much a real objection.

But another reason is because people don’t want to rely on using an app on a touchscreen, but to have a convenient way to twiddle the thing without dicking around with the touchscreen, similar to why people complain about some modern cars lacking physical controls. Lets you flip it off in your pocket or whatnot. From that standpoint, it might be a reasonable design. That is, there it isn’t “I’m worried about the OS being compromised”, but “I just want a convenient way to kill access to software running at an application level to various sources of data”.

I do think that it’s important to make sure that consumers are not misled as to what guarantees the physical switch provides, though.

I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.

While I wasn’t enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn’t enough to cause me to leave.

What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they’d make some changes that I wouldn’t like, but I didn’t expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.

There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.

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It could be a backronym, where the meaning of something is changed after the name is selected to fit the name. I mean, the company is Chinese. I doubt that they initially chose an English-based name, but they sure could have adopted it later.

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And yes, at least according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company

“BYD” is the pinyin initials of the company’s Chinese name Biyadi. The company was originally known as Yadi Electronics (亚迪电子), named after the Yadi Road in Dapeng New District, where the company was once based.[23] According to Wang Chuanfu, when the company was registered, the character “Bi” (比) was added to the name to prevent duplication, and to provide the company with an alphabetical advantage in trade shows.[24] As the name “BYD” had no particular meaning, BYD started adopting a backronymic slogan “Build Your Dreams” when it participated at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in the US.[25][26][27]

EDIT: Ah, @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml already pointed this out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations

Aryan Nations was a North American neo-Nazi[1] and white supremacist[2] hate group that was originally based in Kootenai County, Idaho, about 2+3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) north of the city of Hayden Lake.

Probably some lasting effect from that.

Starting in 1981, Butler organized yearly gatherings of white supremacists at his compound in Idaho which he termed the “Aryan Nations World Congress.” At his first conference, Butler called for the division of the United States into racial mini-states, including a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. He said that he had a black ally in the plan, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.[3] At the 1983 Aryan Nations World Congress, Louis Beam and other leaders in the white power movement declared war on the U.S. government.[4]

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/607519/why-represent-percent-with-pc-rather-than#607950

It sounds like it’s mostly The Telegraph’s style guide that specifies it.

They look like USB A ports to me with an unusual housing around them.

If you’re wanting something that makes for a neat, mesmerising visual effect, maybe a plasma ball?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_globe

It looks like they’re available on Amazon for the mid-to-low end of that price range.

From my /etc/resolv.conf on Debian trixie, which isn’t using openresolv:

# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only
# through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a
# different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.

I mean, if you want to just write a static resolv.conf, I don’t think that you normally need to have it flagged immutable. You just put the text file you want in place of the symlink.

Also, when you talk about fsck, what could be good options for this to check the drive?

I’ve never used proxmox, so I can’t advise how to do so via the UI it provides. As a general Linux approach, though, if you’re copying from a source Linux filesystem, it should be possible to unmount it — or boot from a live boot Linux CD, if that filesystem is required to run the system — and then just run fsck /dev/sda1 or whatever the filesystem device is.

I’d suspect that too. Try just reading from the source drive or just writing to the destination drive and see which causes the problems. Could also be a corrupt filesystem; probably not a bad idea to try to fsck it.

IME, on a failing disk, you can get I/O blocking as the system retries, but it usually won’t freeze the system unless your swap partition/file is on that drive. Then, as soon as the kernel goes to pull something from swap on the failing drive, everything blocks. If you have a way to view the kernel log (e.g. you’re looking at a Linux console or have serial access or something else that keeps working), you’ll probably see kernel log messages. Might try swapoff -a before doing the rsync to disable swap.

At first I was under suspicion was temperature.

I’ve never had it happen, but it is possible for heat to cause issues for hard drives; I’m assuming that OP is checking CPU temperature. If you’ve ever copied the contents of a full disk, the case will tend to get pretty toasty. I don’t know if the firmware will slow down operation to keep temperature sane — rotational drives do normally have temperature sensors, so I’d think that it would. Could try aiming a fan at the things. I doubt that that’s it, though.

GPU prices are coming to earth

https://lemmy.today/post/42588975

Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own

If that’s true, I doubt that they’re going to be coming to earth for long.

Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

Prices on memory have virtually always gone down, and at a rapid pace.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage

Do you feel sad about the fact that you’ll probably die within 100 years (or less)

A quote from Richard Dawkins:

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?

The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it’s too late to formally change his name.

“It’s in all official documents. It’s too late for that,” he told German newspaper Bild in 2020.

For context for folks in the US, the US makes it pretty easy to change your name. Ditto for a number of other countries that derive from the British legal tradition. A number of countries have considerably more restrictive law on this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change

If consumers aren’t going to or are much less likely to upgrade, then that affects demand from them, and one would expect manufacturers to follow what consumers demand.

I remember when it wasn’t uncommon to buy a prebuilt system and then immediately upgrade its memory with third party DIMMs to avoid paying the PC manufacturer’s premium on memory. Seeing that price relationship becoming inverted is a little bonkers. Though IIRC Framework’s memory-on-prebuilt-systems didn’t have much of a premium.

I also wonder if it will push the market further towards systems with soldered memory or on-core memory.

You can have applications where wall clock tine time is not all that critical but large model size is valuable, or where a model is very sparse, so does little computation relative to the size of the model, but for the major applications, like today’s generative AI chatbots, I think that that’s correct.

Last I looked, a few days ago on Google Shopping, you could still find some retailers that had stock of DDR5 (I was looking at 2x16GB, and you may want more than that) and hadn’t jacked their prices up, but if you’re going to buy, I would not wait longer, because if they haven’t been cleaned out by now, I expect that they will be soon.

Not if the pool is all of the colors. I haven’t even had all of them before.

https://gatorade.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Gatorade_Thirst_Quencher_Flavors

There are some that I could distinguish from the others.