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  • Low Cost Mini PCs

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  • Beelink and Minisforum are legit

    I wish I knew a lot of this when I first started shopping for a mini PC. I ended up with a Beelink model that I'm quite happy with, but it seems almost luck that I didn't pick another one, and I would have liked a "reputable brand" search function.

  • Pockets 👀

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  • Charlie and the Marvelous Turnip Factory [Hark A Vagrant]

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  • "What baby" 😆

  • Charlie and the Marvelous Turnip Factory [Hark A Vagrant]

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  • Love love Hark! A Vagrant. And a lot of the other comics are way funnier, especially the historical ones. The comics about "marauding women on bicycles" (like this one) crack me up. I still think the "strong female characters" series is one of the funniest things ever.

    I wish Beaton would keep doing Hark! A Vagrant, but given what her family went through and her sister's misdiagnosis and death from cancer, I understand why she finished it up. Her graphic novel/memoir, Ducks, was one of the best books I read last year.

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  • Not a surprise, but still somehow crushing. It's a loss for us all.

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • I think US military operations moved away from counter-insurgency to preparedness with conflicts with mechanized military forces that have actual air power, so a low-and-slow airframe wasn't considered as necessary. That, and drones are filling a lot of the air coverage and surveillance gap (though no one on the ground will tell you there could ever be a complete replacement for the BRRRRRRRR of an A-10.)

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • As I understand it, the Armed Overwatch pick that would at least sometimes replace the A-10 for close air support is the OA-1K Sky Warden, which has 10 hard points, and a 7,257kg gross weight. I don't know how to accurately calculate the Sky Warden's weight budget, but it's a little more than half of the gross weight of the A-10, so I'd guess it's roughly half, or 3,500kg or so. Which is definitely a step down in terms of weight and ability, but I guess the hope is that it will be cheaper to fly and maintain, particularly since it's based off the long-running Air Tractor AT-802 airframe. I think the other two planes in consideration, the EMB-314 Super Tucano and the AT-6B Wolverine, have fewer hard points (5 each) and lower maximum take-off weights (5,400kg and 2,948kg, respectively).

  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • TIL Cessna made a budget Fighter Jet using Cessna jet engines and other Cessna parts.

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  • It looks like the Scorpion was not selected by the USAF for the light-strike or patrolling craft role, in favor of pursuing turboprop options (Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine and Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano).

  • X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum

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  • Extremely hardcore.

  • On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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  • Both are risking the lives and safety of the non-consenting public as they beta test 2-ton vehicles on public streets. Damn them both.

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Amazon Music

    I invested heavily in the Amazon Music ecosystem, I bought hundreds of albums on there, and the platform is now very nearly unusuable. I cannot even listen to the songs that I paid for without also having to listen to ads. And the Android app now hides the downloads in some hidden folder so I can't even download them and listen to them on another player. It makes me furious.

    I've actually gone back to CDs, if you can believe it. It's kind of nice sometimes, especially for full album plays, but I do miss a nice big playlist of my favorite songs from all artists.

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • I really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I'm not sure about the platform long-term.