Okay, so changes to the oval office are prohibited, but blowing up the east wing for a glorified dance warehouse isn’t? Cool 🤔

Don’t put the cheesecake factory down like that. It is a much classier establishment. Cheesecake factory wasn’t in the Epstein files.

Key reason is here and exactly as you suspect. Funding models are changing as we continue the race to the bottom.

The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable.

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. ;)

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.

Congratulations to Mr Brand and his future position in the Trump administration.

Oh no, him trying to find his favorite Bible verse with Piers Morgan was a kind of fresh hell I didn’t know existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuE2WTFR020

But then the innocent knife will get Gonorrhea.

That was such a cautious click but I am so glad I did.

I suspected this would drag on for ages, having such a quick verdict was a big relief.

Oh beat me to it!

But yeah Brand always had these weird, creepy vibes and my wife was particularly switched on to that as well. She never trusted him from day one.

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

Maybe a bit of both. Could be an intellectual form of Hanlon’s razor. Don’t mistake obscurity for intelligence.

Folks in the US are both comfortable enough and unsteady enough that they will not move. It was Zizek about a week back who said it, people are not desperate enough yet to get to this stage. *** sniff! ***

The thing that saddens me isn’t a headline like that, it is that there will be more like him afterwards. :(

Turns out I just posted this further up the page with different wording. 🙃