• Don't be fooled, the BOXX APEX W4X only supports a maximum of 28 cores.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's barely a U these days, never mind an X.
  
  
• Huawei's P-is-for-Puma P30 and P30 Pro take pretty pictures but are punishingly priced.  (AnandTech)
  
  
• If you peel the screen off your Samsung Galaxy Fold it may cease to function.  (PC Perspective)
  
  Do not peel the screen off your brand new $2000 device.  You idiots.  (Android Police)  
  
  (Samsung managed to restrain themselves from actually saying that to reviewers and just sent them out replacements, but you can see the words bubbling up out of the press release.)
  
  
• ASRock has a new don't-call-it-a-NUC based on the AMD R1000 (a low-power dual-core Ryzen APU).  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  All depends on the price.  The graphics on the R1000 are somewhat lacking - just 192 shaders vs 640 on the high-end mobile parts - but the CPU is a fair bit faster than even the recent Atom parts.  So if it's priced in that range it will be interesting at least.
  
  
• Facebook Facebooked 1.5 million Facebook users.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oops.
  
  
• James Comey apologises for being himself.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• Google forgot the rules about forgetting.  (TechDirt)
  
  Proust in his first book, he wrote about...
  
  
• The EU predicatably just voted their new garbage internet legislation into law.  (TechDirt)
  
  Someone needs to put them into time-out until they learn to play with the other children.
  
  
• Ubuntu 19.04 is out.  (Phoronix)
  
  Ubuntu 18.04 is now a decent stable server platform, though that took about six months after it was released.  I might try out 19.04 for development.
  
  
• Pyodide is a Python environment for scientific computing that runs in your web browser because.

• Science fiction and fantasy grand master Gene Wolfe has passed away, aged 87.  (The Guardian)
  
  The Book of the New Sun is probably his most noted work, but his stories range from the relatively whimsical Free Live Free and There Are Doors to the deeply introspective Soldier in the Mist.  Almost all of them are worth reading.  (I didn't care for The Land Across, but that's a rare exception).

• I have watched and enjoyed several anime series recently: The first half of Re:Slime (it loses steam after that point), My Roommate is a Cat, Hinamatsuri, Bunny Girl Senpai, Endro!, Iroduku, and Sakura Quest, which is an example of how quality writing, direction, and art outweighs a flimsy premise.
  
  Sakurada Reset is an example of how the lack of quality writing, direction, and art can sink an interesting premise.  Also, I don't think they had a budget.  I mean, literally zero.  Shame.

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