The real hardware needed for artificial intelligence wasn't NVIDIA, it was a CRAY XMP from 1982 all along

WHen I was with Mirantis, I flew to Austin TX to meet a client in a non-descript multi-tenant office building...

we walked in and getting our bearings, we come upon CRAY office. WTF?!

I tried the doors, locked - and it was clearly empty... but damn did I want to steal their office door signage.

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a physical tv that big. I decided to get a projector. Huge surface area. Goes away/out of my sight for the 98% of the time I'm not using/watching it.

Mine is in a dedicated home theatre room so it absolutely could be a projector, but modern OLEDs are pretty insane for contrast; I think it’s worth it.

As a owner of both slot load and tray load G3's, I strongly prefer the tray loaders. The drives still work, while I have to jam a credit card with double-sided tape into the drive to get a disc out of the slot load drive.

The really should have kept that design around longer, iterated on it.

Maybe it just wasn't possible to put a G5 on that small of a logic board, but it's still an absolutely stunning computer. I have one sitting on my kitchen counter right now!

There's a cache of them in a storage unit east of Atlanta. You can still find the listing on Facebook marketplace.

I bought a B&W machine from the guy for $50 or $60.

Also grabbed a G4 Digital Audio tower. To my surprise, it was a top-end 733 MHz model.

Oh damn, nice! thanks for the tip. I'm up in Vancouver BC though so kind of a stretch unfortunately

In an alternate universe, Apple had built out a networked media library system and integrated it directly into their Time Capsule router hw.

The military does produce innovations that benefit civilians though. Food products would be one thing. GPS is another.

As if any chrome product doesn't have telemetry, tracking and AI features built into it.

I don't advocate for any of this stuff, but I guess it's only bad when Windows does all the same stuff, but not ChromeOS.

As for Apple, at least they make an attempt.

Someone introduce them to IPv6

What, the $10 gift certificate for customers isn't enough?

Virtual gift cards offered by Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to those who aided customers through the global IT outage have been blocked and flagged for potential fraud by Uber.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/crowdstrike-gift-card...

I almost feel sorry for CrowdStrike.