• The Brave browser has introduced a new feature to bypass Google's AMP.  (ZDNet)
  
  AMP was an effort by Google to improve search results and speed up page load times by, um, forcing you to host your content on Google's servers using Google's own proprietary platform.
  
  Since this wasn't universally supported you also had to host your content on your own severs using standards-based software.  Brave deliberately bypasses the Google version of content and always takes you straight to the standard version.

• 100 models of Lenovo PCs have firmware bugs that let hackers install undetectable malware.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Once in place, it would be invisible and immune to normal virus scanners.  This type of malware is rare and only really deployed by intelligence agencies - it's too specific and too much trouble for hacker gangs just seeking a quick buck.
  
  
  
• Upgrading a 4TB PostgreSQL database from version 9.6 to 13 with 15 minutes of downtime.  (Retool)
  
  Using replication, and a fair bit of manual fussing around.
  
  I'm about to deploy something like 20TB of PostgreSQL databases at my day job, so I've been looking for articles like this.
  
  
  
• If you're using a QNAP NAS together with a QNAP router both with default settings you might want to not do that.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Like, not do that right now.
  
  
  
• Google Cloud is making a big focus on security.  (The Register)
  
  Google Cloud is third in a field of three, but given Amazons notable outages and Azure's security disasters over the last year, it's not necessarily the worst option.
  
  Just have all your data and apps backed up to an entirely different platform because while Google Cloud retains significant engineering talent, the company as a whole is rotting from within.

• Web scraping is legal says the Ninth Circuit.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  If you put the data out there in public, it's out there in public.  You can mess around making it difficult to scrape (Instagram) but if the data is public, it's public.

  "We’re disappointed in the court’s decision. This is a preliminary ruling - stop laughing - and the case is far from over - I said, stop laughing," said LinkedIn spokesperson Greg Snapper in a statement. "We will continue to fight to protect our members’ ability to control the information they make publicly available on LinkedIn.  On LinkedIn, our members trust us with their information, though we don't know why, which is why we prohibit entirely legal scraping of public data."

  Well, he almost said that.  Close enough.
  
  
  

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• Never back up anything.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  In fact, the more important the file is, the more important it is not to back it up.  In this case, a MetaMask seed file couple with a weak password, an iCloud backup, and a bit of social engineering enabled the theft of $665,000.
  
  
  
• Need a 4 port 100GbE / 16 port 25GbE web-managed switch but  only have $800?  MicroTik has you covered.  (Serve the Home)
  
  SFP of course; I haven't seen any switches supporting 25GBASE-T just yet.
  
  
  
• Which universe do we live in?  (Quanta)
  
  This matters, because if we live in an Algorithmica universe then there's an easy way to break all forms of encryption and we just haven't found it yet, and if we live in a Pessiland universe then many mathematical problems are effectively insoluble but cryptography is not reliable.
  
  They only problem is the labels all peeled off and we can't tell which one is us.
  
  
  
• The four day work week is coming.  (ZDNet)
  
  Not sure how you fit 100 hours of work into four days, but okay.
  
  
  
• Benchmarks have already leaked for Intel's Sapphire Rapids server CPUs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  How do Intel's new 56 core CPUs compare to AMD's existing 64 core processors?  Not all that well, to be honest.

• Employees at Apple's flagship New York store are working towards unionisation.  (9to5Mac)
  
  That's not the good part.  The good part is the comments.  Pro-union liberals and anti-Apple conservatives fighting pro-Apple liberals and anti-union conservatives.
  
  I need popcorn.
  
  
  

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• Dell has implemented proprietary DDR5 memory modules in its new Precision laptop range.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The single "CAMM" module supports up to 128GB of RAM - which would otherwise require four 32GB SODIMMs.  Four memory slots are rare but not unknown in workstation-class laptops.
  
  It's still a little better than soldered RAM, just not much.
  
  
  
• Samsung's main semiconductor division is, reportedly, a mess.  (SemiAnalysis)
  
  The problem is corporate culture delaying necessary changes to fundamental processes - not unlike what was happening with Intel for nearly a decade.
  
  A lot of the article is speculative, but there are definitely delays and yield issues at Samsung's fabs, not to mention a distinct lack of progress at developing their own mobile processors.
  
  
  
• Speaking of Intel its new 56 core Sapphire Rapids server chips hit 3.3GHz at just 420W.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you're thinking that's rather a lot, that's because it is.
  
  This should be a pretty fast chip and provide much-needed competition to AMD's 64 core Epyc range, except that AMD is expected to ship 96 core Epyc CPUs this year and 128 core models early next year.
  
  
  
• I for one embrace our new robot chef overlords.  (ZDNet)
  
  Where's the obligatory dig at the Chick-fil-A owners' religion - oh, there it is.  Still:

  it's renowned for good food, staff who say "my pleasure" -- and sound like they mean it -- and traffic jams at its drive-thrus.

  Which is more than most journalists are prepared to concede.

• Why the past ten years of American life have been uniquely stupid.  (The Atlantic)
  
  Commies.

  The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.

  Commies.

  Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people. How did this happen? And what does it portend for American life?

  Commies.

  There is a direction to history and it is toward cooperation at larger scales.

  Commies.

  Historically, civilizations have relied on shared blood, gods, and enemies to counteract the tendency to split apart as they grow. But what is it that holds together large and diverse secular democracies such as the United States and India, or, for that matter, modern Britain and France?

  Commies.   A universally shared loathing of journalists.

• The average lead time for semiconductors now exceeds six months.  (The Register)
  
  Almost double what it was in 2020.  And it's not the most advanced chips with billions of transistors that fare the worst, but much simpler analog devices.  
  
  I've noticed that some computer models and Thunderbolt docks no longer come with headphone jacks, and that's because they can't get the fifty-cent chip to drive the analog audio output on a $300 device.
  
  
  
• Twitter's edit button will have an audit trail.  (The Verge)
  
  No shit.  With the amount of craziness over there it's the only way it could possible work.
  
  
  
• Russian soldiers appear to have taken home souvenirs from Chernobyl.  (VOA)
  
  Hey, I've seen this one.  It's a classic.
  
  
  
• GitHub is suspending the accounts of developers working for sanction companies.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Reason #8675309 not to trust critical data to Big Tech.
  
  
  

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• Twitter's board unanimously adopted a poison pill measure against the takeover bid that could save the company.  (WCCFTech)
  
  We had to destroy Twitter in order to destroy it.
  
  
  
• Twitter will never be a platform for "Free Speech".  (ZDNet)
  
  I was about to discard this item as trash, but then read a little further, and it is a fairly sound libertarian tirade against centralised social media in general:

  As with all other social media platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Tik Tok, the structure of Twitter prohibits free speech.
  
  ...
  
  Like all who participate in social media, Elon Musk participates in the illusion that he has an identity online. For all intents and purposes, "Elon Musk" does not exist any more than any other entity. It is a name attached to a series of text snippets residing in a database constantly sorted and sifted by a platform owner at their sole discretion.
  
  People who have no identity have no "speech" because they are merely fulfilling the will of the platform. Because they have no speech, the notion of "free" speech is irrelevant.

  The error here is the notion that because the war cannot be won, that the battle is not worth fighting.
  
  Why would you turn down $43 billion in cash?
  
  Because it's not about the money.  It's about control.
  
  

• What happened at Atlassian?  Two things, neither one good.  (The Register)
  
  Intending to deactivate a single app, they deactivated the entire cluster.
  And intending merely to deactivate that app, they instead ran a secure erase procedure for regulatory compliance.
  
  And that scrubbed clean large parts of the data for 400 customers.
  
  They have backups, but the backups are designed to restore server nodes, or entire customer databases, not parts of the data into an otherwise operational platform.  So they're restoring the databases onto recovery nodes and then gluing the pieces back into the production nodes manually.
  
  I've done this kind of restore process before.  It's not fun.
  
  
  
• TSMC is expecting 2nm chips to arrive in 2026.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  With manufacturing beginning late 2025 - a year behind Intel's planned rollout of 18A.  Though TSMC has been rather better at sticking to its schedules than Intel this past decade or so.
  
  
  
• Russia plans to be producing chips at 28nm by 2030.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's not quite 20 years behind the rest of the world.
  
  
  
• The latest Linux kernels aren't just an improvement for Intel's Alder Lake.  (Phoronix)
  
  AMD's Milan-X chips - which have 3D cache just like the 5800X3D - can also see performance gains of as much as 30% depending on the benchmark.
  
  
  
• Vtuber Kaneko Lumi announced her "graduation" - retirement - from CyberLive a few weeks ago.  I was sorry to see her go; although there are too many vtubers for me to follow all the ones I find entertaining she seemed smart and talented.
  
  She also kept on streaming.
  
  Took me a while to figure out it wasn't just a delayed graduation; she'd gone independent while retaining the character.  That's unusual.  Coco and Aloe from Hololive both went independent but left their characters behind.  Suisei brought her character to Hololive, but was independent beforehand so she was free to do so.
  
  Now she and former teammate Amaris Yuri have joined Phase Connect, the same agency as Pipkin Pippa.  I hope they do well there, and without knowing the reasons behind this move I have great respect for CyberLive for allowing this to happen.  Until recently it was common not only for the character to remain the property of the original agency, but for all content to be erased upon graduation.
  
  
  
• That new dinner set I ordered arrived today. It's rather more substantial than I had expected for a hundred bucks.
  

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• Slept in this morning.  My year started with a blockchain meltdown requiring me to come back from a long-awaited holiday, and that delayed other work so that I've ended up working night and day ever since up to and including having to find a new place to live.
  
  Today I got to sleep a little.  After this things get really busy.
  
  Should return to normal in July.  I might be sleeping on the floor and working at the kitchen counter for a week or three in between.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk has launched a $43 billion all-cash hostile* takeover bid for Twitter.  (Ace of Spades HQ)
  
  Twitter isn't worth that much.  Under current management it's not worth 10% of that.  But under new management that is not completely insane it could be.
  
  * It's not Musk that's hostile here.  The current board and management team view Twitter as their private political playground, and the shareholders - never mind the users - can die in a fire if they don't like it.
  
  
  
• Buying Twitter is not a way to make money, says Elon Musk.  (The Verge)
  
  Yeah, no shit Elon.  Still glad you put the honey badger among the pigeons.
  
  
  
• The corrupt US government is trying to find a way to intervene to preserve its corrupt defender, by which I of course mean Twitter again.  (Ace of Spades HQ)
  
  Fortunately for Elon Musk, both Twitter and the US federal government are as incompetent as they are corrupt.
  
  And of course all this kicked off half an hour after I posted yesterday's update.

• AMD's new Ryzen 7 5800X3D may in fact be the fastest gaming CPU around.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And that's a $449 CPU that drops into existing motherboards, competing with Intel's new factory-overclocked $739 Core i9-12900KS.
  
  Outside of games - which don't use more than 8 cores because that's what consoles have - chips like the 12 core Ryzen 9 5900X (currently as low as $379) and the 8+8 core 12900K soundly beat the 8 core 5800X3D on heavy multi-threaded workloads.
  
  It's a bit of a niche chip but it's not bad at general purpose stuff and it's not overpriced.
  
  
  
• Renesas - which if you're not familiar is a Japanese electronics giant formed after divisions of Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and NEC were spun off and merged -has introduced the first PCIe 6 chips.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Given how long the industry was stuck at PCIe 3, it's amazing how quickly these new generation shave been adopted.  I don't know if PCIe 6 will actually hit the desktop market any time soon, but I didn't think PCIe 5 would be here already and it is...  Sort of.
  
  
  
• If you want to run the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 on an Alder Lake CPU, you probably want to manually upgrade the kernel.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is a bit of a nuisance, but upgrading from 5.15 to 5.16 brings on average a 14% performance improvement specifically on Alder Lake.
  
  
  
• An ounce of undo is equal to a pound of are you sure.  (HTTPie)
  
  Particularly when all your are you sure prompts look exactly alike, whether you are deleting a single file or an entire disk drive.
  
  
  
• There was an incident with GitHub actions.  (GitHub Status)
  
  Some people were just slightly concerned.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A free Windows 11 Toolbox script did bad things.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Very bad things.
  
  I thought I might have mentioned this one here, but now I don't think I did.  I did mention a toolbox app for the Kindle Fire, but that's completely different.
  
  
  
• The Asus Zenbbook 14X OLED Space Edition is now available for pre-order.  (Liliputing)
  
  It's close to the perfect small laptop: Core i9 12900H CPU, 32GB LPDDR5, a 1TB SSD, a 14" 2880x1600 90Hz touchscreen OLED display, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI, USB-A, headphone jack, and microSD card, a physical privacy shutter over the webcam, and a pressure-sensitive pen.  Oh, and a MIL-STD-810H chassis so you can just hose it out.
  
  All that and the Four Essential Keys.
  
  Around $2000.  Perfection doesn't come cheap.
  
  
  

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• Contracts exchanged today.  I also bought a new dinner set that matches the colour scheme of the new house.  (Gibson Elite Casa Gris in case you're wondering.)
  
  I'm going to need to stay up to 3am playing Minecraft until I recover.
  
  
  
• My current ISP doesn't offer adequate business broadband plans.  They offer cheap 100/40 plans, and expensive plans at 250Mb symmetric and up, but not the common 250/100 plan.  So I'm probably going to finally switch providers.
  
  I'm currently on a 100/40 plan - but that's the best I can get here.  At the new house that's almost the starting point.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's RTX 3090 Ti is here and it's, well, expensive.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not bad, just expensive.  Not much more expensive than the regular 3090 but that is already very very expensive - close to $2000 if you can even find one.
  
  AMD's own overpriced minor upgrade is also on its way.
  
  The 6950 XT appears to be even worse value for money.  The model they spotted is water-cooled, yes, but it's over A$3000, when a regular 6900 XT can be easily found for A$1700.

• Zero Nines Uptime, or, Atlassian and the terrible horrible no good very bad #TwoWeeks.  (Pragmatic Engineer)
  
  How a major cloud services provider achieved worse uptime than some random guy running 100,000 websites on a broken $50 server.
  
  
  
• The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy if the events are not independent.  (Stranger Apologies)
  
  There, saved you from reading 90,000 words looking for the part where he bothers to explain why he's not obviously wrong.
  
  
  
• I've described Docker before as the world's least efficient package manager but it doesn't have to be.  (Florin Lipan)
  
  You can create a 186k Docker container that provides a working web server.  It's just that no-one does.
  
  
  
• Intel's 13th generation Raptor Lake parts could hit 5.8GHz.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's on the high-performance P cores, with the low-power E cores hitting 4.5GHz.
  
  Ryzen 7000, also due later this year, is expected to have all-core clocks over 5GHz.
  
  The current models from both companies are already extremely fast, and these improvements should be pretty substantial.  AMD could improve by more than 30%, and while Intel will have a smaller single-core speed boost, they will double the number of E cores from 8 to 16 to provide a significant increase in multi-threaded performance.
  
  
  
• Constant notifications are ruining your produc - hang on, I have to take this - tivity.  (ZDNet)
  
  It's not like I have 164,033 unread emails in my main inbox either.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Legion Y700 is now available... In China.  (Liliputing)
  
  $499 for an 8GB/128GB model configured with the English language and the Google Play store.  $599 for 12GB/256GB.
  
  This is a high end small Android tablet, with a pretty recent Snapdragon 870 CPU and an 8.8" 2560x1600 screen.  And a headphone jack and a microSD slot.
  
  It's not cheap but there just plain aren't any real alternatives right now, unless you can find stock of Huawei's MediaPad M6 somewhere
  
  .
• One of my nuggies tasted funny at lunch.  Not bad, but as if the coating was a different mix.  Just waiting to see if I accidentally got glutenated, which I have successfully avoided for more than two years.
  
  Update: Didn't get sick.  Was that a nugget-sized chicken tender?  The same company produces gluten free chicken tenders as well and they do have a different coating.

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• Contract: As is, subject to all wear and dilapidation, blah blah blah.
  
  Reality: We're getting the builders back in to touch up the paintwork for you and make sure everything is perfect.  Oh, and there's spare paint and tiles left in the storeroom should you need them.
  
  Inspection report found a few minor issues - like a partial blockage in that $2000 digital shower head - and they're getting them fixed prior to settlement.  And if the inspection noticed little things like that, I'm pretty comfortable that there aren't any big things.  I would have said This fancy shower head kind of sucks and probably just used the other shower.
  
  Which is very different from when I was looking at the heritage-listed house a couple of weeks ago, where it was more It's 145 years old.  Comes with the territory, kid.  This place even has a warranty.
  
  Also, there's a storeroom?  I know exactly where that would be, but I thought that door was just for access under the house.  We don't really do basements in Australia.
  
  
  
• The Atlassian outage that started a week ago is expected to be over in no more than another couple of weeks.  (The Register)
  
  The outage affects specific customers rather than the entire platform, but hundreds of them.  I'm sure that knowing their project management platform will only be down another two weeks will bring them comfort in these trying times.
  
  Atlassian used to have a "free candy" offering where you could get any of their products for a small team - 3 to 10 users depending on the product - for $10 per year, and run it yourself.  
  
  Now all of that is going away because The Cloud is the Future which means that when the cloud gets screwed up there is Absolutely Nothing You Can Do.
  
  With even a minimally competent IT team, an on-premises install would limit the recovery effort to restoring last night's backup and re-entering the most recent details.  With a cloud service, you have nothing.

  "We know this outage is unacceptable and we are fully committed to resolving this," Atlassian's spokesperson said. "Our global engineering teams are working around the clock to achieve full and safe restoration for our approximately 400 impacted customers and they are continuing to make progress on this incident.  Two weeks."

• DuckDuckGo browser is here - beta version available now for Mac, Windows version coming soon.  (Liliputing)
  
  This isn't another fork of Chromium, or not quite.  HTML is rendered by whatever is native to your operating system: WebKit on MacOS and the Edge library on Windows.  The rest of the browser - the UI and networking code - is new and created by DuckDuckGo.
  
  It's intended to provide a simple browsing experience where privacy settings are always on by default, rather than giving you 20 screens full of options to hang yourself with.  Doesn't appear to be open source though.
  
  
  
• Update your Git, you git.  (GitHub)
  
  There's a security vulnerability not in GitHub or GitLab but in the Git command line client, though you're really only at risk if you're working on a Windows PC you share with untrusted users in which case you are screwed so many ways already that this doesn't much matter.
  
  
  
• You can simply hose out your Honda Element if the interior gets dirty and you're planning to junk the car within a year because this is a really bad idea and will destroy the vehicle so actually yeah don't do that thanks.  (Fifth Element Camping)

  We've all heard it before..."I love the Element, you can hose it out".
  
  While this statement is true, one could also drive it off a cliff. Doing either of these will destroy your Element, one will just do it faster than the other.

  Now with pictures.
  
  
  
• How to add an external GPU to your Steam Deck.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Step One: Be extremely determined and not a little crazy.
  Step Two: Use the M.2 slot with an adaptor cable.
  
  It has an M.2 slot - small but standard - and M.2 is PCIe, so with the right adaptor and cable you can hook it up to a graphics card.
  
  And if it gets dirty you can just hose it out.
  
  
  

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• There are curtains in the bedrooms.  Not in the media room or the main living / dining area though.  The listing photos didn't show any curtains at all, but they were there by the time of the video walkthrough.  (Brand new house.)
  
  I don't mind installing matching curtains in the other two rooms, even if that accounts for half of all the windows in the house.  I get to see just how they fit in with carpet and paint colours rather than having to guess.
  
  And I was leaning towards curtains rather than blinds anyway because as a modern design there's not a lot of warmth or soft edges and also blinds suck.
  
  
  
• Pinterest plans to block all climate misinformation.  (The Guardian)
  
  Wait, there's information on Pinterest?

  Pinterest is defining misinformation broadly: the company will take down content that denies the existence or effects of climate change or its human causes, as well as content that "misrepresents scientific data” in order to erode trust in climate science and harmful, false or misleading content about natural disasters and extreme weather events.

  Awesome!
  
  So the idiots who blamed the Tongan volcanic eruption on global warming?  Banned.
  
  People who claim to be fighting global warming but also oppose nuclear power?  Banned.
  
  Michael Mann?  Banned.
  
  NPR?  BANNED!
  
  Wait, they're not actually going to enforce their rules?  Well, that sucks.
  
  
  

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• Intel has moved up the start of its 18A manufacturing to the second half of 2024.  (AnandTech)
  
  18A is 18 angstroms, or 1.8nm.  Marketing numbers, but supposed to be comparable to TSMC and Samsung's marketing numbers.
  
  It's a pretty tight schedule.  4nm in the second half of 2022, 3nm in the second half of 2023, 2nm in the first half of 2024, and 1.8nm in the second half.
  
  TSMC and Samsung are currently shipping 4nm parts, and with TSMC expecting 3nm in the first half of 2023, and Samsung in the second half.  So if Intel meets this aggressive schedule, the three companies will essentially be at parity on their leading edge tech.
  
  Which is great, because these newer nodes back far more transistors onto a chip and so can produce more chips per wafer.
  
  
  
• Poopocalypse no more: The new Roborock S7 MaxV has 3D poop detection to prevent turning pet accidents into pet catastrophes.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Because by the time the poop is 2D it's a bit too late to do anything about it.
  
  
  
• Apple has started manufacturing iPhones in India.  (Reuters)
  
  Good.
  
  Still not getting one.
  
  
  
• Dell is running trials of a four-day work week in the UK and the Netherlands.  (The Registe)
  
  But what are people going to do with the other four days?
  
  
  
• The Vivo X Fold is an 8" Android tablet that folds in two to become a 6.5" phone.  (Liliputing)
  
  This is another of those devices that would be amazing at $400 but is priced at $1400.

• Contract for the house came through at around 5pm.  Have a call with my lawyer scheduled for noon tomorrow to go over a couple of details.
  
  
  
• Silicon Valley billionaires plan to turn Twitter HQ into a homeless shelter.*  (Bloomberg / MSN)
  
  Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Marc Andreeson are backing the plan, as are 91% of Twitter users.
  
  * You mean it wasn't already?

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 had a $71 million opening weekend - the best ever for a film adapted from a video gam.  (MSN)
  
  Why should you care?
  
  Because the initial cut of the first movie was a train wreck - and they listened to fans, fixed it, and now have a hit sequel.
  
  Also, it probably took in more at the box office in that one weekend than all the recent Oscar nominees combined.
  
  
  
• Here are all he annoying changes you can avoid this year by remaining on Windows 10.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Neat.
  
  
  
• TVs suck.  (ZDNet)

  "Jump ads give participating programmers and brands the ability to present an interactive overlay at the conclusion of linear TV programs, directing viewers into a supporting app on Vizio's operating system to continue their viewing experience," Vizio said.

  They're one step away from blipverts.
  
  And if you think a premier brand like Samsung might be better you're going to have a really bad time with your new $3000 in-home billboard.
  
  I'm looking at a 48" OLED monitor for the new place.  It has plenty of room for something bigger, but there aren't many monitors larger than that.

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