No them cuddling up to Trump was an extinction level event, it just took a decade for the blow back to become loud enough.

Time to hand it to the bourgeoisie elite with a blue shell.

That is when those at the bottom get a blue shell to take those out at the front.

Oh yes, that moment when you realize you know better than the teacher. That is a valuable lesson but also one that shouldn’t go to ones head.

To be fair to the 1980’s, a Hercules video card in 1982 adjusted for inflation would only be about $1700. We are way beyond that point.

An original Macintosh 128K would set you back $8100 in today’s money, so I guess in that regard Apple hasn’t changed. ;)

I read this meme, FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

At least the Macbook Neo comes with a lot more flashy stuff.

It is starting to feel like it. Might not see price decline for a while yet, but the upswing on pricing is nearing breaking point.

I suspect if anyone is buying these is because of them needing to meet an existing strict spec. Not sure what that would be but it is a possibility.

I hadn’t been keeping a close eye on pricing but was blown away the other day. The Nvidia RTX 5090 launched at $4090 here in Australia, that was already obscene. Nowadays almost 2 years later, you are lucky if you find one under $12,000!

For a while there, second hand mini desktops like the Lenovo/Optiplex’s could be picked up for about half the price of a new Pi5. Typically had equal RAM, loads of SSD storage and desktop class(ish) CPU perfomance, plus all the other benefits (Secureboot, x86 compatibility so you could run Windows if you wished). Only major thing missing was the GPIO connection.

But looking now the prices are increasing rapidly as they have been discovered. The cheap ones are typically striped of RAM and storage.

I was starting to think ole Donny T was going to get away with it via the grave while everyone below him that propped up his nonsense got the brunt of it. Maybe I should have been a little more optimistic for once.

He has been especially down trodden and looking a little scared the last few days.

For the love of money is the root of all evil - St Timothy verse something:whatever

I think the first whiff I had off him was when he started talking hyperloop back in 2013. I figured it was just sort of mis-step in his judgment but that was the first scratch in his teflon coating.

I will not have Jimmothy the Raccoon put down like this! Musk is more like a sort of demonic amoeba that has used his animorphs like abilities to resemble a spinless person.

Debian the foundation of the modern world. Or at least we wish it was.

That is because to be the most efficient they have to constantly adjust the deadzone temperature. Its not just monitoring but active control. This is based on local air temperature, humidity and stock levels. To be even more efficient they put a thousand fridges online so that a small team can do the work of a much larger local team.

So the real reason is that to increase profit margins, they consolidated lots of workers behind a few and did this via the internet. A common story the world over.

It is odd seeing someone do political self immolation for no reason at all. I’m starting to think Haley isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack.

A situations like this makes me use a form of Malapropism one would expect of a Dickensian society to bring about almost Orwellian situation. Makes you wonder when someone will use Chekhov’s Gun before it all gets Bowdlerized. Alas this Machiavellian paragraph is reminiscent of a Lovecraftian creature.

But seriously, that paragraph above reads like the scene in Blackadder when they meet the writer of the Dictionary.

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.

Only works if local models cannot do it.