Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.

We will develope a new API in partnership with AI providers that allows for tighter integration with our browser. To the point, a user can easily make it agentic if they want to. Or they can opt into the parts they want.
We are starting a new team that will work with such AI developers to ensure that the plugins they deploy both properly notify/request user permissions and only send the data they say they will.

That's the "Let's go AI!" while also being "We aren't sheep!" message.

Firefox should be the "user choice" browser

I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.

I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: "We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained".
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.

I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.

Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.

But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can't do on unifi (but I don't do bgp, mlag, etc at home).

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

Lithium ion batteries cannot go in the hold.
They are a huge amount of stored chemical energy that wants to turn into a fire, and fires on airplanes are one of the most dangerous things. Fires in the hold even more so.

Lithium ion batteries need to be carry on, so if they do try and start a fire they can be quickly spotted and dealt with

I did this on an embedded project a few years back.
Put a header for the rPi to mount on, and the motherboard powered the rPi (as well as everything controlled by the rPi).
Worked a treat.

sudo is a command that "does" something as "super user"

Fun fact, it originally stood for "superuser do", however it now stands for "substitute user do" as it can "do" as any user - it's just that the default user argument is root (IE super user)

Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.
It's the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).
So, I don't see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends.

It must take so much R&D to achieve anything remotely comparable to what Samsung, Micron (/Crucial... RIP) and SK Hynix can produce.

Fingers crossed they can either undercut the 3(now 2) big producers, which is doubtful. But hopefully they can help reduce the maximum price that decent memory can inflate to. Because at some point a medium sized customer is gonna get fed up of the Samsung/micron/skHynix bullshit, and custom order the ram they need, and such a smaller producer will provide a much better service for a similar price

Only for multi CPU mobos (and that would be pinning a thread to a CPU/core with NUMA enabled where a task accessed local ram instead of all system ram). Even then, I think all ram would run at the lowest frequency.
I've never mixed CPUs and RAM speeds. I've only ever worked on systems with matching CPUs and ram modules.

I think the hardware cost and software complexity to achieve this is beyond the cost of "more ram" or "faster storage (for faster swap)"

Windows defender uses Blockchain? Why?

Edit:
Oh, I get it. The virus mines crypto. Antivirus stops the virus. Hence I have a good antivirus.
Went way over my head