• So, I got a new combination washer/dryer.  And noting that two brands of laundry capsules were half price this week - and I have three weeks of laundry to catch up on - I bought plenty.
  
  Fine print says on both: Do not use in combination washer dryers.
  
  Fuck you, fine print.
  
  Apparently this is because they contain more detergent than you need in the average combination washer/dryer, and not because they catch fire.  Don't care.  I'm not going back to powder.
  
  
  
• Razer has a NUC.  (AnandTech)
  
  It weighs sixteen pounds.
  
  At some point - perhaps when you could store a week's worth of groceries in them - we have to stop calling these things NUCs.
  
  
  
• Leftists shocked when Big Tech outsources all technical work to Bangalore.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Wait, that's next month.
  
  Work hard enough to make yourself useless, and even the idiots running Google will notice.
  
  
  
• Ben Bova has passed away following COVID-related pneuomina and a stroke. He was 88.
  
  
  
• The ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB840M2P-B is an M.2 drive caddy that slides into a drive caddy caddy that slides into an adaptor mounted onto a HHHL PCIe card.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Useful, but seems just slightly over-complicated.
  
  
  
• Dust from asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese probe Hayabusa-2 has been safely returned to Earth.  (International Business Times)
  
  Though I'm not sure exactly what mishaps can befall dust, short of nuclear fusion.  I suppose it could be annoying if it travelled half a billion kilometres only to get lost in customs.
  
  
  
• Near-Earth Object 2020 SO is actually Surveyor 2 Booster 1966.  (NASA)
  
  Which means if it does intersect with the Earth's orbit - which it won't this year - it will safely burn up in the atmosphere.
  
  

Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, December 06 2020 07:06 PM (Bkp4m)

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