Tuesday, January 19
Daily News Stuff 19 January 2021
If You Wanna Be The Top Banana Edition
If You Wanna Be The Top Banana Edition
Tech News
- My air fryer arrived. Like the other cooking appliances I've bought recently - the mini convection oven and the electric frypan - it was cheap, seems well made, entirely eschews electronics of any sort, shipped free to my door, and is considerably larger than I was expecting.
Have to work out where it can go when not in use. The other two are short enough to stash away above the kitchen cupboards, but this is fairly tall.
Also ordered some chicken tenders and frozen chips (as in french fries) to try it out. As usual, they forgot to deliver those. If I have more than one bag of frozen items in my order, there's always one bag missing.
They seem to go through patches. For months they'll be perfectly reliable, then they'll mess up five deliveries in a row.
- Also got purged by Twitter. My account is still there, but I've been unfollowed from everyone, and if I follow them again, it disappears after fifteen or twenty minutes.
I already downloaded my data because I fully expected something like this. Twitter is on the warpath and won't stop until their share price has gone negative.
- The CEO of Epik is named Rob Monster. Not joking.
No, I'm not looking at server options located in Switzerland. Why do you ask?
- With a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard: Intel has announced its new Panther Canyon NUCs. (AnandTech)
These are legitimately a step forward for NUCville, with the new improved Xe graphics, dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, and 2.5 GbE standard on all models, and the M.2 slot upgraded to PCIe 4.0.
As usual, prices were not mentioned.
- The Liva Q1 does have a price - it's $188 fully configured. (PC Perspective)
The problem is that it is fully configured. There's no room for expansion except for a microSD slot. There are however two models - the Q1L has two LAN ports plus HDMI, and the Q1D has one LAN port, HDMI, and DisplayPort.
Since the device measures just three inches square and half that in height, no, there was not room for anything more.
CPU is an quad-core Atom-based Pentium N4200, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of eMMC storage, with neither one upgradable. But with dual LAN ports and built-in 802.11ac WiFi, it's a useful little device. Whack a 400GB microSD card in there and you've got enough storage for basic needs.
- More details and pricing for that 5.25" Shuttle barebone system. (Tom's Hardware)
This is the one that takes a Ryzen desktop APU (hen's teeth, I know) and fits entirely within a half-height 5.25" drive bay.
- The Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI motherboard is the third member of the no-compromise triumvirate. (Serve the Home)
Another Threadripper Pro motherboard, and very similar to the models from SuperMicro and Gigabyte. This one has seven PCIe 4.0 x16 slots, three M.2 slots, two U.2 ports, eight SATA ports, the usual set of audio jacks, dual 10GbE, seven 10Gbps USB, and one 20GBps USB. It may also ship with Asus' PCIe to NVMe expansion card that provides four more M.2 slots with active cooling.
It doesn't have VGA or serial ports, but it has IPMI over one of the 10GbE ports. Shared IPMI ports aren't perfect but this is a workstation board rather than primarily a server board, so I'll give it a pass on that.
- Facebook and Google made a secret deal to divvy up the online advertising market. (New York Times)
This has come to light as part of the ongoing antitrust suit.
Google and Facebook's respective responses sound exactly like every other corporation caught with its hand in the cookie jar.
Disclaimer: And definitely not Poland or Hungary.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
06:35 PM
| Comments (8)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 637 words, total size 5 kb.
1
Check your air fryer for stealth cardboard.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tuesday, January 19 2021 07:46 PM (5iiQK)
2
There's a wrinkle to this obviously active information war that has not become clear to everyone.
Google and Apple are clearly collaborating in pushing narrative in this information war. They also, between them, supply OS for a majority of smartphone users.
Remember Krugman's claim that he only had child porn on his smartphone because he 'was hacked'?
Remember how Apple was publicly reluctant to cooperate with American federal LEOs?
Comes to mind that if Apple and Google were part of an operation to wage information war against Americans, they would be in a position to blackmail people if those people believed that the information secretly gathered was not automatically shipped to the feds.
So, basically, people who want to be trusted as impartial when happening to decide something for the side that Google and Apple support probably cannot have used smartphones.
Google and Apple are clearly collaborating in pushing narrative in this information war. They also, between them, supply OS for a majority of smartphone users.
Remember Krugman's claim that he only had child porn on his smartphone because he 'was hacked'?
Remember how Apple was publicly reluctant to cooperate with American federal LEOs?
Comes to mind that if Apple and Google were part of an operation to wage information war against Americans, they would be in a position to blackmail people if those people believed that the information secretly gathered was not automatically shipped to the feds.
So, basically, people who want to be trusted as impartial when happening to decide something for the side that Google and Apple support probably cannot have used smartphones.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, January 19 2021 10:31 PM (6y7dz)
3
I'm looking into LineageOS while we wait for a workable Linux phone. I'm too boring to be subject to blackmail, I just don't trust those fuckers with anything.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, January 19 2021 10:37 PM (PiXy!)
4
"I'm too boring" In these days of big data and creepy AI, there simply is no such thing. To build a working social credit scheme you really need to know everything about everyone all the time. That way if you ever mentioned somewhere (perhaps under an alias) that you think Boe Jiden is a creepy child-toucher, they can get your bank account(s) closed and harass your landlord into evicting you. This is after they've gotten you fired from your job and had your driving license rescinded. Good thing you've never posted anywhere using your smartphone about maybe owning weapons.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, January 20 2021 12:49 AM (LADmw)
5
LineageOS is nice but if you want to move to that, you might be best served by looking at their compatibility list and then buying a phone known to work. I used to use it until I had a couple of phones in a row that never got releases.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 20 2021 01:43 AM (eqaFC)
6
A working Linux phone is pretty close, well for certain values of "close", anyway ... I bought the original "Braveheart" offering of the PinePhone in late 2019, and since about August '20 with the Mobian OS (Debian+phosh) it has met my minimal requirements: make / receive calls, texts & email + a more-or-less working camera. It's currently my daily driver, in parallel with my vintage Motorola flip-phone which still carries the number that everyone knows they can reach me at.
Still kind of beta-ish; f'rinstance an upgrade broke the camera for a couple of weeks, but I have enough redundant electronics to make that kind of thing survivable.
Still kind of beta-ish; f'rinstance an upgrade broke the camera for a couple of weeks, but I have enough redundant electronics to make that kind of thing survivable.
Posted by: quux_garply at Wednesday, January 20 2021 04:44 AM (pmEbq)
7
Pixy, not to be a pest, but I'm still getting a "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" message when I try to open my website. If I try to submit a new post or rebuild the site, I get an error message. Probably a permissions problem, but one which I cannot solve on my end.
Posted by: Physics Geek at Wednesday, January 20 2021 06:56 AM (huQJB)
8
You're not a pest, this is entirely my fault. Will try to to finish fixing that today.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 20 2021 07:20 AM (PiXy!)
56kb generated in CPU 0.0351, elapsed 0.1608 seconds.
58 queries taking 0.1382 seconds, 347 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
58 queries taking 0.1382 seconds, 347 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
