I wish they weren't privacy invading, and abusing open source, but I love how good the printers are. I want to print practical things, not continually fix design flaws in the printer (as was the case with the Creality Ender).

"Luis" Vuitton is the knockoff brand, but point taken.

Sorry, it was a typo; fixed. (French and Spanish orthographies differ here, but both names were accepted by the spellchecker.)

It's been a long time since I was in school. What does this software do?

It is how classes (even in person ones) are organized. Assignments, quizzes, links to online textbooks, discussion boards, student/teacher messaging, student group messaging, etc. From the teacher side, I'm not sure if there is a backup copy for things like grades outside of Canvas. It's that pervasive.

Everything from middle school up to grad school.

It's a particularly interesting time to have this happen too -- many finals going on now.

It’s a “learning management system.” It replaces a course website in most instances. It’s also used for course grades and you can submit assignments or take quizzes.

Grades, lessons, quizzes, exams, homework submission, rosters, messaging platform. Lots of things.

For my uni: mostly only lecture notes and materials.

"The RSA algorithm was publicly described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT"

$30 devices don't have apple screens.

There was a lot of open dissent on workplace from what I recall.

I guess this is a new word basically meaning conscription by force.

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

> conscription by force

Is there any unforced conscription? By definition conscription is compulsory.

its a question of degree. going to the barracks when you get called up by mail vs getting grabbed off the street, punched in the face and shoved into a bus headed for the training center.

But if you don't do #1, then #2 will happen involuntarily, right? So conscription ultimately = physically forced.

They will probably go to prison instead, like some of my friends did. Giving military training to people who definitely don't want it can be a bad idea for many reasons.

Unmotivated draftees are mostly used as a workforce. Especially in modern warfare, soldiers without significant training are worse than useless, as the wrong action at the wrong time can compromise the stealth and mission of their unit.

Make someone a slave and give them a loaded gun, what could go wrong?

You need a license for most frequencies.

I wonder if there’s an argument to made regarding the second amendment

Don't think the second amendment covers firing

That’s why we’ve got the tenth.

You eventually run out of caches to evict.

That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.

At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME.

Doesn’t Apple use pretty damn quick NVME? I wonder how much of a performance drop it actually is. Certainly not as bad as running a swap file on a 5400 rpm HDD…

Isn't that NVME also very expensive to replace because it's tied to hardware identifiers? If you keep swapping all the time, surely NVME would be the first part to fail

This was heavily debated in the 11.4 timeframe because there was risk that this version of the OS could excessively wear NVME.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1...

The issue was subsequently resolved but the consensus was with modern wear leveling this isn't so much a thing.

I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with the original drive. I use it heavily for development practically every day and just dumped the SMART data.

Model Number: APPLE SSD AP1024R

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

As always, YMMV

JD vance whined that we shouldn't protect middle east shipping lanes because he believes it helps Europe more than the US.

Why focus on the consumer side, especially when so many of the current administration are brazenly in bed with the regimes that benefit from free oil flow in the region? (Kushner & MBS)

You’re not forced to repeat his rhetoric, maybe think critically about it.

How much of the destabilization of North Africa and the Middle East is America's responsibility, and how much did Europe pay in absorbing refugees from it?

Should Germany be sending DC a bill?

If I recall correctly, America didn't even say 'Thank you'...