Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.

Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I'm pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.

So there's three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they're now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.

They've also done price fixing in the past.

I don't think much math needs to be done.

Cuomo probably.

These tankies are either controlled opposition or useful idiots. They fight against progressive candidates for not being far enough left, so that the right can take the easy W.

Oh no, how will we play it on modern hardware if we can’t put it in the boot sector of a floppy disk

I don't think you can really upsell anything at an MOT place, they just have to tell you what you need to fix and you do it on your own time. At least that's how it is with TÜV in my country, which is the equivalent

It sounds way too goopy tbh

Is coyote meat any good?

The entire world is electing right wing populists right now, little to do with the Nordic model.

When people complain about software being monetized and closed instead of everything being FOSS and I say people want to put food on their tables... This is exactly why. Most of the projects that have a good deal of recurring donations are some form of productivity software. Companies or freelancers use them to make money on a daily basis and decide to give back a bit, to ensure that their software continues being developed (large corporate donors sometimes also get a say in what features are prioritized).

Nobody sets up a recurring donation for a neat bit of software that makes life easier, but isn't making the user any money.

It's GPL, just like the Fediverse prefers it. Single most recommended launcher in the Linux gaming community in recent years. And the owner makes €100 a month off it. AND there are people in this very thread saying people shouldn't donate to it because you could instead fund Wine development by buying a Crossover license (yay, proprietary software). Then another unrelated comment pointing out you can donate directly to Wine too. Then another comment saying they don't like how FOSS projects often don't disclose where the money's going.

Well guess what, open source devs want money so they'd no longer be dependent on their soul-sucking corporate day jobs and have more time to develop neat open source software. Open source devs are often overworked and some receive a lot of abuse for not spending more time on their open source projects. Orchestrated abuse for not spending enough time on his open source project is how the author of xz was pressured to give maintainer status to what turned out to be a nation state level actor trying to integrate a backdoor into everyone's Linux systems.

The open source community is abusive towards open source maintainers, really. I'm honestly glad I only have some small contributions to my name, and no large projects to maintain.

To be clear: No, I'm not any better when it comes to donations. I'm more likely to pay for proprietary software than to donate to an open source project I use. Same goes for most people I reckon. That's why, while open source is awesome, actually being an open source dev sucks.

Java 8 to 21 + spring boot 2 to 3 brought the need to change a lot of dependencies, but often they were drop-in replacements. That was mostly Jakarta stuff. On the Spring side, a lot of things we used were deprecated, but that was not related to the Java version.

Did not take a huge amount of time to upgrade anyway. But maybe our systems weren't the most complex in the first place, a lot of our applications were pretty small.

Oh we have an appropriate joke for this too. A few decades old now, looking at the names.

After their deaths, Bush and Putin are frozen. 50 years later, technology has advanced and both are revived.

Putin opens a newspaper and starts laughing. "What's so funny?", Bush inquires. Putin shows him the headline: "America is communist"

Bush opens another newspaper, starts laughing even harder, literally jumping around the room. Putin, unable to believe that anything could be funnier than communism in the US, grabs the paper and nearly faints after seeing the headline: "Unrest on Estonian-Chinese border"

In fact, everyone is fake and gay.