RamRabbit

I always have at least three laptops, one that I’m using, one I’m working on setting up, and the old one I can’t let go of. You sound like you need some VMs. Particularly for whatever is on that old laptop.

Understanding the intricacies of someone else's code takes longer than writing code yourself. Good luck to this company!

They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability. This is the justification for phasing them out and not renewing the contract. Happens all the time, usually with less Tweets and more quiet paper pushing.

These are a massive liability *every* storm. You have to winch them down and get them into a blisteringly massive hangar that can hold them. Then get them set back up after. Every. Single. Storm. Furthermore, you don't save on land use, as you need the massive, expensive hangar for each right at their base. Ground-based wind-turbines just feather their blades and lock their gearbox. Very simple.

Three-week-old fuel is brand new. I don't even fill up my car that often. No issue here.

The neat part about that is it also ties fuel and food together as (partly) interchangeable items. During fuel shortages, ramp up corn -> fuel production. During food shortages, reduce/cease corn -> fuel production.

Semi-related: You may enjoy Steins;Gate.

Yeah, uBlock Origin continues to work great.

They are going to have less m.2 slots as they require a ton more data lanes. If you do need another m.2 slot, a PCIe adapter card or a SATA adapter are both good options.

I’m very excited for the day I can replace my spinners with SSDs. That day is coming, but it is not today.

It would have to be a voluntary thing, not just handed to everyone. “Put your name on this sheet if you want one.”

That sucks. They probably could give them out to employees as a little bonus thing. Build a bit of goodwill. Rather than have them sit on a shelf.

Everyone is going to buy M.2 SSDs first, and only buy SATA if they don’t have enough M.2 slots. I really doubt SATA SSDs are selling well. With that said, I don’t see SATA going anywhere. It’s (comparatively low) bandwidth means you can throw a few ports on your board and not sacrifice much. For some quick math: a M.2 port back-hauled by PCIe 4.0 x4 has 7.8 GB/s of data lines going to it. While SATA 6.0 has only 0.75GB/s of data lines going to it.