• HP has turned over a new leaf: Its latest firmware update bricks printers and makes them unable to use genuine original HP ink and toner cartridges.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Sell printers at a loss and make sure nobody ever buys the overpriced supplies for them.  Genius!

• There's a new RISC-V motherboard available for Framework's Laptop 13.  (Liliputing)
  
  Where the previous model offered just four cores running at 1.5GHz, this model offers eight cores running at 2GHz.  Which is taking things in the right direction, at least.
  
  Memory is still soldered, but at least now you can specify up to 64GB of it instead of the 8GB included with the current model.
  
  
  
• How to think like a senior developer.  (Qntm)
  
  Go without coffee for a week, sleep on a rock, and deliberately stub your toe as you enter the office every morning.
  
  I mean, I don't do any of that.  It just feels like it.
  
  
  
• Volkswagen says it was a mistake to remove physical buttons from cars.  (PC Magazine)
  
  Yes.  We know.
  
  
  
• Quick Minecraft update: The modpack exploded.
  
  Turns out to be due to the latest version of Create, which breaks everyone's modpack.  The situation is a mess at the moment, but if I leave create at the previous version (0.5.1 rather than 0.6) and also leave some other mods at the previous version (Supplementaries, Another Furniture) it works again.
  
  I've also been playing a bit of vanilla Minecraft on a community server, and...  Modded all the way.
  
  
  

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