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  • There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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  • And on 500MBit it’s two minutes, so doubling the bandwidth only saves one minute.

    This is simply not true, of course it isn't entirely linear, but for big downloads you actually get pretty close to the full benefit of the speed, when the servers can handle it.When the speed goes up, latency also goes down, making response times faster too.

    Sounds a lot like your Fedora update is single threaded, which is a huge limitation. I start updates manually and monitor the whole process, and the whole process is finished in a couple of minutes for a big update. A single package can be literally less than 5 seconds for download, integrity check and installation. Firefox is among the most frequent single package updates, and that generally takes 5-6 seconds.

  • Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

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  • Maybe injecting the infections made it look like they were maintained? 😋

  • There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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  • i’d love to pay 10 percent of my bill for 10 percent

    That's not how it works, you generally pay 20% less for half the speed. Because speed is not the main price factor anymore. The logistics and cabling are.I we didn't have 500 Mbit and above, you'd probably have to pay the same for 100 Mbit as we do for 1 Gbit today.

    The price is in the cabling, maintenance and support. And none of those change much from having higher speeds.

  • Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

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  • Yes that would be nice, but I'm not sure that is possible.

  • DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body

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  • Not as much as lack of space!

  • Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

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  • I've seen AUR warned against often, also by Arch team members.I never thought it was a huge deal, but apparently anything that can be attacked will be attacked nowadays.

  • There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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  • they compare Gigabit with 500MBit. That’s not nearly that much of a difference

    Not much of a difference in price either in most places. usually it's like 10-20% extra to double the speed.

    The main point of the post is to show whether a regular user really benefits from Gigabit, and no, they don’t.

    This is true, but to claim there is no point is false, saying that for most 500 Mbit/s is better value would be a way better headline IMO, heck most people will do fine with 100 Mbit/s.We pay €58 for 1 Gigabit, and I think 500 Mbit is €49 if I recall correctly, so the difference is not a lot.Of course it also matters if you are just a single person or a family of more people.

    PS:There was a use I forgot to mention, and that is when upgrading my OS, I use a rolling release distro of Linux, and I have quite frequent updates, most are small and finish in a matter of seconds, and even the biggest updates can usually finish within a couple of minutes. This is quite nice too.

    Anyways of course lower speeds can be better value depending on the use case, but for us the cost of higher speed is negligible, and it's nice for families not to be slowed down just because someone is using a bit of bandwidth.

  • There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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  • This whole blog post is moronic, if you don't need it, buy a smaller package.For me the extra price is peanuts, and it's absolutely amazing to be able to play a new game minutes after I bought it instead of hours.

    Before we moved we didn't have fiber, and downloading a game could take so long that I would have to wait until the next day to play it after starting to install it.

    This also means that I can uninstall games I don't use without worrying if I might want to play it later, this spares me from needing massive storage.

    I also prefer to preload media to watch on our media center/TV, and it's nice to be able to have a movie ready in a matter of a couple of minutes.

  • Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court

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  • Their terms were written to allow them to refund less than the purchase price

    OK that would be clearly illegal here (Denmark). They can replace the product, but they can't make a refund that i smaller than the purchase price.It is also illegal to change conditions so they are worse for the customer than what the law states.I think this goes for all of EU, but USA is an absolute shit country also regarding consumer rights.

  • Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court

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  • I experienced something similar with a GPU when coin mining made the prices explode.But I knew they would do that, because the law here is not designed for prices to suddenly explode out of proportion.So you are only refunded the original price of purchase, which would normally be fine.

    This resulted in me using a low end GPU (unsuitable for mining) for almost a year, because I refused to pay the inflated prices for a proper GPU.

    I'm sorry to say, but I doubt Louis Rossmann can win this case, because it is not generally feasible to make the law so the customer can demand a replacement, because a replacement isn't always possible, which is why the seller can fulfill obligations with a refund of the price paid.

    If new products had come out at lower prices, a refund is normally a great deal for the customer. But currently in this case it is not.

  • Teatime

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  • Yes batteries are getting real cheap now, they are less than half the price they were when we bought our system 2½ years ago.With sodium battery production scaling up, those will probably be both even cheaper more durable and safer.So a couple of years down the road, the value of buying batteries will probably be insane.

  • Live updates: Trump says Iran will ‘pay the price’ for taking too long to negotiate | CNN

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  • it would be seen as an attack against the nation as a whole.

    So? USA is also absolutely attacking Iran as a nation as a whole. USA has set the precedence that Iran is absolutely allowed and even justified in doing this. And I for one would not lift a finger to help USA, but will continue to boycott American products.USA created this mess together with Israel, and USA shouldn't come fucking crying to Europe if the White House is bombed!!Like USA did when Iran closed the Hormuz Strait. 😡Iran is clearly the victim here. Iran may be a shitty country, but on the international scene USA is worse.

  • Live updates: Trump says Iran will ‘pay the price’ for taking too long to negotiate | CNN

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  • I'm guessing you are thinking about operation spiderweb, where Ukraine released drones deep inside Russia from Russian registered trucks, and took out several fighter jets and very valuable AWACS.Yes such an attack on white house taking out Trump would be hilarious, and absolutely justified karma as deserved, considering USA did the same to Iranian politicians.I would worry however what the response to such an action would be?

  • Live updates: Trump says Iran will ‘pay the price’ for taking too long to negotiate | CNN

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  • Trump won’t follow through on his threats.

    He "won't" because he can't, but I bet Trump wants to nuke Iran if necessary, he has no moral boundaries and doesn't give a shit about the human suffering he is causing.His only fear is about the possible consequences to himself, and maybe he has even been actively prevented from doing it?

    My guess is that Trump absolutely wants to follow through, but he can't. Partly because congress won't allow it, but there may be other reasons, like the military may have finally refused an illegal order?

    Trump is mentally a toddler, and he will go as far as he can, until someone stops him.

  • Residents of French village say US defense chief Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit

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  • The double standard of the US administration wanting to commemorate WW2 but not helping Ukraine is insane.

    USA is a worthless ally, that only agrees to supply weapons to Ukraine at a 10% extra profit!That's not being an actual ally, but simply profiteering on demand.And then Trump is getting angry that Europe is building a stronger defense with minimal use of American weapons!

    Congratulation to the French village for expressing how most Europeans feel towards USA now.USA is a backstabbing rogue country working for Russia, and creating chaos in the world, with zero signs of attempting anything good.

  • Home Cooked Meal [Teddy]

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  • most people are deluding themselves if they think their cooking is better than any restaurant that isn’t totally terrible.

    Absolutely true.

  • Home Cooked Meal [Teddy]

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  • It does not take very many tries to start cooking better than a restaurant.

    Goddam it must be some lousy restaurants in your area.My wife cooks really good food, and I love her food. But a proper restaurant with a proper chef, they are better than good, they are professionals and also professionals at picking fresh produce and good cuts to use.

    But I agree, it's pretty easy to learn to cook a decent meal.

    And the best part is you can make sure that only your favorite ingredients get in there.

    It also means the food will have less variation. To appreciate good cooking properly, you need variation.

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    SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says

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  • Which is weird, since I've also seen claims that XAI services are not selling very well, because other services are superior.As you write, it's yet another scam by Musk.

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    SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says

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  • I think worth less should be worthless, then comparing it to the IPO target isn't really necessary.Joke aside, it's impressive if it's actually worth half what the price target is set at. Considering the actually realistic value of Tesla is less than a tenth the stock value.

    My guess is that SpaceX is also closer to a tenth.And X is literally financially worthless, it worth to Musk and friends is just as a propaganda outlet for Nazis.

    By more realistic values, Musk isn't anywhere near the richest man in the world. It's just that his assets are pumped up sky high based on lies and false promises.