Daily Tech News 18 March 2025

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The top broadband official at the Commerce Department has stormed off in a minute and a huff. (Politico)

Evan Feinman resigned and fled the building in the middle of a spittle-flecked rant about the horrors of Elon Musk and the damage cheap, fast, reliable internet will cause to rural communities.

Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

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Qualcomm has announced a range of new chips to power portable gaming devices. (Tom's Hardware)

The new top of the line G3 Gen 3 - no, that's not redundant, that's actually what it's called - has one Kryo core, five Kryo cores, and two low-power Kryo cores.

That's what Qualcomm calls all its CPU cores to make it impossible for buyers to have any idea of their performance.

There's also the G2 Gen 2 and the G1 Gen 2, which have less stuff in them.

The G1 Gen 2 is featured in the new Retroid Pocket Classic, which looks like a grown-up Game Boy, has a 1240x1080 screen, and starts at $119.
Ayaneo announced the Gaming Pad based on the G3 Gen 3, an 8.3" Android gaming tablet with detachable controllers. (Ayaneo)

Full specs are not available yet, but the 2160x1440 screen is pretty good, and the photos suggest that with the controllers detached it's not the best part of an inch thick like some competing gaming devices.

Which means it might be useful for non-gaming tasks.
After 47 years, OpenVMS now has a package manager. (Raymii)

It's all downhill from here.
Testing the new Acemagic F3A with 128GB of RAM. (Serve the Home)

This is one of the crop of new Ryzen 370 mini-PCs with socketed rather than soldered RAM.

The extra sauce here is that Micron has started producing 64GB DIMMs for desktop and laptop systems just recently. They're not plentiful yet - I ordered the desktop version from Amazon today and left only one in stock - but the exist and they work and they're no more expensive per gigabyte than 32GB or 48GB modules.

And they put them in this mini-PC, which is a lot of memory for a mini-PC.

Anyway, short story shorter is that most people don't need 128GB of RAM in a mini-PC; 32GB is probably enough and a model with soldered RAM will run 10% faster.

But if you do need 128GB of RAM in a mini-PC, you get get it, and it works.

Except for the DisplayPort output during boot on this particular model.
Monoculture is bad: 23,000 GitHub projects were all compromised at once because all of them were using the same third-party GitHub Actions project and that in turn was compromised. (The Register)

Joy.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Hey, my block faces west.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

2 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 18, 2025 04:01 AM (omVj0)

3 Poke.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 18, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 Closest job I been to in some time, shame just for today

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

5 A good Tiu's Day evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers! 'Tis 58 F. here, low wind and humidity, so I need to change, stretch, and hit the street for my workout. Gonna be a long day, but aren't they all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 18, 2025 04:03 AM (omVj0)

6 Oh but outside and on a roof.

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 04:09 AM (fwDg9)

7 Mornin' everyone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 18, 2025 04:10 AM (O7YUW)

8 "Evan Feinman resigned an fled the building in the middle of a spittle-flecked rant about the horrors of Elon Musk and the damage cheap, fast, reliable internet will cause to rural communities.

Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people."

At this point, my 'wtf' is getting overused. I have wtf fatigue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2025 04:11 AM (bss/y)

9 How can it be 35 right now, but the weather say it is only going to be a low of 54?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2025 04:13 AM (bss/y)

10 Howdy!

Couldn't sleep so I picked up my phone to see how long someone would last in outer space if their space suit was compromised (still haven't looked that up yet!) about an hour ago, and found this link, which i thought fit here.....

Anyway, here you go... (link to Tom's Hardware)

https://tinyurl.com/5erjr8wd

Have a great day!! 😃

Posted by: Shred21 at March 18, 2025 04:15 AM (VdLpC)

11 In charge of billions of dollars and crumbles under.
Wonder how he actually managed money

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 04:16 AM (fwDg9)

12 BOING!

Somewhat willowed from ONT:

A link to this video was made regarding BCG vaccine's use against melanoma and other cancers:

https://youtu.be/FCIJmacFaqs

I asked Grok a few questions after my initial one:

https://tinyurl.com/4py9znjd

And now, out for my neighborhood walk on a glorious Jerusalem morning with spring-like weather a little too soon.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 18, 2025 04:25 AM (uK1dA)

13 From The Register's article:

"The GitHub Action was tampered with to inject a Node.js function containing base64-encoded instructions to run a Python script that leaked a project's continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) secrets from the Runner Worker process, according to Sysdig."

Node.js. Again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 18, 2025 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

14 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2025 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

15 @10/Shred21: Your underlying link at Tom's Hardware was truncated and thus didn't work. I've fixed it for you:

https://tinyurl.com/2dvcj5ru

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 18, 2025 04:41 AM (O7YUW)

16 High of 82 today, blizzard warning tomorrow.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 05:10 AM (7PR43)

17 >>High of 82 today, blizzard warning tomorrow.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 05:10 AM (7PR43)

Ha! Sort of what happened here - highs in the 60s-70s last week, Sunday morning 4 inches of heavy, wet snow!

Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:13 AM (6LQxt)

18 It's supposed to set in at 1 tomorrow morning. Last week, we had blowing dust kill visiblity on the major freeway and cause a multi car pileup. Eight people killed. It's been a strange spring.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 05:20 AM (7PR43)

19 No blizzards coming here, 60s today and tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 05:23 AM (fwDg9)

20 We've really had such an easy winter here. Maybe 3 or 4 snow events that were not very extreme. No complaints about that!

Notsothoreau, the dust storm would be scary. We get fog. That's bad enough.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:24 AM (6LQxt)

21 Hi Skip!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:25 AM (6LQxt)

22 Off work today, (1st day off since Christmas day!)

Taking a dear friend in for hip replacement surgery this morning.

🙏 that it all goes well for him would be much appreciated.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:28 AM (6LQxt)

23 I am thinking it's way past time to swap tractor to front and snow blower to back of garage.
Only used snow blower once

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 05:29 AM (fwDg9)

24 I used to live in a place that got tule fog. It would freeze to your windshield in the winter. To make it really fun, I was driving an old VW bug. I'd put salt on the windshield to clear it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 05:32 AM (7PR43)

25 Hello horde,

Sleep is eluding me once again. I’d appreciate your help in making insomnia productive or at least mildly enjoyable.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 18, 2025 05:32 AM (kLgmk)

26 GANGgajang was named 'World's Best Band' two years in a row by the Association of Surfing Professionals.

Thanks Pixy. I'm having a party with these guys. Hardi Flex for the win!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 18, 2025 05:33 AM (hjWnr)

27 Only used snow blower once

When we brought ours out, we discovered that it no longer worked. Got it fixed and some maintenance done just in time to not use it for the rest of the season.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 18, 2025 05:34 AM (RjOoY)

28 Calling out the stats: Sunni and Butch completed 4576 orbits, for 121 million miles travelled.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 18, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

Wait til they try to book a travel award for all those miles. Very limited availability.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 18, 2025 05:37 AM (kLgmk)

29 Just above freezing now
Running late, Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 05:37 AM (fwDg9)

30
blowing dust kill visiblity on the major freeway and cause a multi car pileup. Eight people killed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

===

What! Where is this? That's awful.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 18, 2025 05:38 AM (lCaJd)

31 I used to live in a place that got tule fog. It would freeze to your windshield in the winter. To make it really fun, I was driving an old VW bug. I'd put salt on the windshield to clear it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Now try Northern Minnesota in winter. I had to carry and use spray deicer for the inside of the windshield.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 18, 2025 05:38 AM (hjWnr)

32 Good morning! Well, it's a very temperate 64 on the patio here in Cowtown with some wind and a high in the mid 80's on tap for later this afternoon. I haven't had to shovel snow since we left Colorado a couple of years ago and I don't miss that. At. All.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 18, 2025 05:39 AM (3Ope8)

33 Good morning, good people, from the nicely chilled Adirondacks, this will change later today to the mid fifties from the current 25. More yard work.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 18, 2025 05:39 AM (hKoQL)

34 My Life is Insanity, good to see you again! Have you been visiting the ONT earlier in the night? I hadn't seen your name in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 18, 2025 05:42 AM (omVj0)

35 "Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people."

I'm using StarLink right now at ~$120 a month. Works great most of the time (rain storms interfere with the sat link after all) and absolutely superior to ViaSat by any positive metric you could think of. StarLink speeds are similar to what I had when I lived in a place that had Fios internet. The location where I am will get fiber optic broadband by July-August this year. Monthly cost for 1G internet will be ~$100 a month.

StarLink provides IPV6 support as well as IPV4; the fiber optic broadband provider won't provide IPV6 for a while.

I've been happy with StarLink reliability and speeds. Fuck Feinman.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 18, 2025 05:43 AM (8mudf)

36 I apologize, completely disregarded my well wishing post to all.

So, may all effort today and ALL days result in maximal benefit to you and commensurate anguish to the leftwit fungi everywhere.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 18, 2025 05:44 AM (hKoQL)

37 I'm heading out, too.

Have a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:44 AM (6LQxt)

38 Disclaimer: Hey, my block faces west.

Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before. . .

***

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 40 damp degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, supposedly going up to 50. We will see.

Got a couple of hours' work ahead of me, so will see you all later. I sometimes feel I should be on other threads than Tuesday and Wednesday, but when I'm not working, I'm not online.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 18, 2025 05:44 AM (Q0kLU)

39 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Power Outage Update Day 4 --

Power has been restored! It came on last night a little before 8 p.m. local time. It was a bit unstable for about an hour, but now it's been stable all night and things seem to be moving in the right direction.

I salute all of the hard working people who made it happen. They have a tough job.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2025 05:45 AM (cweKM)

40 The rest of the week here in Las Cruces is going to be one long high wind dust storm which will probably shut down I-10 from here to Arizona in various places at times. Somehow the shingles on my roof haven't gone AWOL one by one. There is still time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 18, 2025 05:45 AM (hjWnr)

41 Hi Wolfus,
It's been a while. Too much work, not enough free-time.

Hopefully that will change soon.

Miss you all!
Hope all is well with you. But now I really have to leave. Might be able to check in during my wait for friend's surgery to be done.

Later, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:46 AM (6LQxt)

42 Good to see you, MliI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 18, 2025 05:50 AM (/x6eu)

43 Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

He says he could have doubled that with twice that amount of money.

Posted by: Bruce at March 18, 2025 05:52 AM (B32Is)

44 Disclaimer: Hey, my block faces west.

Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before. . .

Pixy is referencing a line from the GANGgajang song Sounds of Then.

https://is.gd/BwNfuG

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 18, 2025 05:52 AM (hjWnr)

45 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 18, 2025 05:52 AM (hoCmQ)

46 Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

He says he could have doubled that with twice that amount of money.
Posted by: Bruce at March 18, 2025 05:52 AM (B32Is)
---
It's a steal (literally) at twice the price!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2025 05:53 AM (cweKM)

47 Currently 51. High today 75. 20 degree temp swing from yesterday.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 18, 2025 05:54 AM (hoCmQ)

48 I sometimes feel I should be on other threads than Tuesday and Wednesday...
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 18, 2025 05:44 AM (Q0kLU)

No, no, no, don't think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself. -- Boon

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

49 But if you do need 128GB of RAM in a mini-PC, you get get it, and it works.

Except for the DisplayPort output during boot on this particular model.

Well, you can’t win ‘em all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2025 05:59 AM (6ydKt)

50 “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

We, the government, shall provide rural America with broadband, sometime after your grandchildren have died of old age, equivalent to what major suburbs saw in early 2010 at enormously greater cost. All hail our precious democracy! -- Evan Feinman (before he quit)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2025 06:00 AM (ExV1e)

51
Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

It sounds like he was the prototypical IT security person. Such believe that the way to attain perfect IT security is by never hooking anyone up with the internet or even an email system.

Did his spittle flecked rant include, "I'm a people person! What is wrong with you people?"

Look for the boffo new game "Jump to Conclusions" in stores everywhere this coming holiday season!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:00 AM (xG4kz)

52 Such believe that the way to attain perfect IT security is by never hooking anyone up with the internet or even an email system.

My dad once asked me about making his system more secure. I told him the best way was turn off the computer, fill it with cement and drop it off in the Marianas Trench and even then I couldn't guarantee anything.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 18, 2025 06:03 AM (RjOoY)

53 Good morning all !!
67 now, 81 for the high today.
Think I'll ride the bike into work today.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 18, 2025 06:04 AM (NC/it)

54 Ha! Sort of what happened here - highs in the 60s-70s last week, Sunday morning 4 inches of heavy, wet snow!
Mornin', all
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 18, 2025 05:13

Similar here south of you, just less snow, maybe 2". Today it's supposed to get to 69 and then they are calling for snow again in a couple of days. Crazy!

Must be that there climate change and Trump will destroy the planet or something./s

It's so good to see Trump in charge and some of this idiocy reversed, to a bit.

Posted by: Farmer at March 18, 2025 06:05 AM (55Qr6)

55 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 18, 2025 06:06 AM (AN2gy)

56
In charge of billions of dollars and crumbles under.
Wonder how he actually managed money
Posted by: Skip

He build little forts by stacking bundled bills and fought off imaginary marauders from the ramparts. A regular Beau Geste recreator he was..

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:09 AM (xG4kz)

57 >>> In charge of billions of dollars and crumbles under. Wonder how he actually managed money

A quick internet search found only recent news. I'm sure the guy was a connected Dem.

Posted by: fluffy at March 18, 2025 06:13 AM (AN2gy)

58 These left wing nitwits are always trying to reinvent FDRs various agencies set up during the depression. From what I can tell, the broadband act was modeled on the 1936 Rural Electrification Act which transformed rural America permanently.

The sad news is the successor to the REA lives on to this day and was part of the Biden grift receiving $11 billion for hookers and blow.

The broadband act, unlike the REA, was run by grifters who had no intention of ever actually doing any meaningful work. We were once a nation that built things until the Democrats eroded that until everything became a project to loot the nation's wealth.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 18, 2025 06:16 AM (hjWnr)

59 52 My dad once asked me about making his system more secure. I told him the best way was turn off the computer, fill it with cement and drop it off in the Marianas Trench and even then I couldn't guarantee anything.
Posted by: NR Pax

Thermite has never failed me yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 18, 2025 06:16 AM (BLOW1)

60 Best internet security? Never being born.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 18, 2025 06:18 AM (/x6eu)

61 Once upon a time, my company had a home-built solution for pulling in pre-built software components into builds and it worked 100% of the time. Then we decided to do something better.

So we had an "industry standard" solution for pulling in pre-built software components into builds and it worked ~80% of the time. Then we decided to do something better.

So we have a third party, industry standard, solution for pulling in pre-built software components into builds and it works ~50% of the time.

Thankfully, I should be retired before we improve things again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2025 06:21 AM (ExV1e)

62 I hope to hear more from this ex gubbermint worker when he's called in to testify as to where those billions went.

Posted by: Strelnikov at March 18, 2025 06:23 AM (LrEPG)

63 I hope to hear more from this ex gubbermint worker when he's called in to testify as to where those billions went.
Posted by: Strelnikov at March 18, 2025 06:23 AM (LrEPG)

Studies, baybee! I got lot of friends and relatives who're totally experts in this area. We sit around, spark up a few fatties, and brainstorm ideas about how to solve all the things. That costs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2025 06:26 AM (ExV1e)

64 Off and into the world!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 18, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

65
Studies, baybee! I got lot of friends and relatives who're totally experts in this area. We sit around, spark up a few fatties, and brainstorm ideas about how to solve all the things. That costs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'd bet that sooner or later one of you began to marvel about "What if each one of our cells was like, you know, home to an entirely different universe and we could, you know, communicate with them?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

66 I'd bet that sooner or later one of you began to marvel about "What if each one of our cells was like, you know, home to an entirely different universe and we could, you know, communicate with them?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

My cousin Jeff came up with the every cell is different universe thing. He said he thinks about that when he trims his nails. He burns the clippings and just laughs. We worry about him sometimes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2025 06:35 AM (ExV1e)

67 Hey Pixy,

If you are still around, I have a processing question.

Why does my laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U with Radeon Graphics (2.30 GHz), process Zoom audio files about 10x faster than my desktop running an i7 with a 3060ti GPU?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 18, 2025 06:35 AM (L5An7)

68 Good Morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2025 06:36 AM (gbOdA)

69
Monoculture is bad: 23,000 GitHub projects were all compromised at once because all of them were using the same third-party GitHub Actions project and that in turn was compromised.

Why would you expect anything else when you catered to "stupid gits"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

70
My cousin Jeff came up with the every cell is different universe thing. He said he thinks about that when he trims his nails. He burns the clippings and just laughs. We worry about him sometimes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

"It's an agonizing heat death for your worlds, suckers! Ahhahahahahaha!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:42 AM (xG4kz)

71 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

72 59 Thermite has never failed me yet.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

He lives in California so I have doubts about being able to get my hands on any. Good idea though.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 18, 2025 06:45 AM (RjOoY)

73
What is each carbon dioxide molecule is a sentient being and they all have a nefarious plan to take over our world one part per billion at a time?

The horror! The horror!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 06:46 AM (xG4kz)

74 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

To save the world, we must kill every plant, and ban the atom Magnesium. Oh, wait ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

75 Did the astronauts undock safely?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2025 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

76 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Got it backwards, Plant more plants, and let the oxygen come forth.

Algae farms are the killer app.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2025 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

77 67 Why does my laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U with Radeon Graphics (2.30 GHz), process Zoom audio files about 10x faster than my desktop running an i7 with a 3060ti GPU?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 18, 2025 06:35 AM (L5An7)

— —

How old is your i7?
Does it have 4 cores?
Because I believe the 5625U is a 6 core part.

It could also have to do with AMD supporting faster AVX512 processing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

78 Did the astronauts undock safely?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

They are due to splash down in about 11 hours.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 18, 2025 06:58 AM (hjWnr)

79 I remember hearing about the Biden Billions that was coming to NC for internet right after he was elected, and it was "going to help connect millions of rural and low-income users" or something similar. They went on tour and talked in front of crowds about how the billions of dollars would help connect communities without internet access.

And then, when you dug into it, what it MEANT was that people on welfare would see a $10 or so credit on their account paid directly to the ISP each month.

All laundering, all the time.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Was it the moms or dads that encouraged daughters to be whores? at March 18, 2025 06:59 AM (kYxVy)

80 G'mornin' everyone!

58, bingo!

is any of the 42.5 billion left? (LOL)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 18, 2025 06:59 AM (KGHic)

81 How old is your i7?
Does it have 4 cores?
Because I believe the 5625U is a 6 core part.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

12 core. less than two years old!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 18, 2025 06:59 AM (L5An7)

82

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 18, 2025 06:59 AM (5hfjS)

83 It could also have to do with AMD supporting faster AVX512 processing.

-

Also update all them drivers.

Nvidia especially seems to be susceptible to wonkery if it's not kept bleeding edge.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Was it the moms or dads that encouraged daughters to be whores? at March 18, 2025 07:00 AM (kYxVy)

84 JJ IS UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2025 07:01 AM (WC22W)

85 Hillary Clinton

You will never be president. Or respected as a caring human.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

86 81 How old is your i7?
Does it have 4 cores?
Because I believe the 5625U is a 6 core part.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

12 core. less than two years old!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 18, 2025 06:59 AM (L5An7)

—

Yeah, that is funky,
The i7 should smoke the R5 then, especially considering it’s a low-power U laptop chip.

I got a laptop on sale a few months back with an i9 14900HX and it will do full-length h.264 video encoding in half the time my desktop Ryzen 9 5900X will.

You should be getting the opposite of my experience.

I’m assuming your laptop has soldered RAM since it’s U processor which would be faster but it shouldn’t be 10x performance difference.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 18, 2025 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

87
Evan Feinman did not want to play DOGE ball?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2025 07:11 AM (xG4kz)

88 15 @10/Shred21: Your underlying link at Tom's Hardware was truncated and thus didn't work. I've fixed it for you:

https://tinyurl.com/2dvcj5ru

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 18, 2025 04:41 AM (O7YUW)

Much appreciated! It was early and dark ... :-)

Posted by: shred21 at March 18, 2025 07:14 AM (VdLpC)

89 w00t late

Posted by: m at March 18, 2025 07:18 AM (CQE5S)

90 43 Under the Biden administration, Feinman was the senior official in charge of a $42.5 billion nationwide rural broadband fund that connected - I am not making this up - precisely zero people.

He says he could have doubled that with twice that amount of money.
Posted by: Bruce at March 18, 2025 05:52 AM (B32Is)

heh

Posted by: m at March 18, 2025 07:40 AM (CQE5S)

91 Sorry, it was in Kansas on I-70, which runs across the state. Took awhile to get the freeway cleaned up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 07:53 AM (7PR43)

92 Link to the story: https://tinyurl.com/bdzfum5j

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2025 07:55 AM (7PR43)

93 nic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 18, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)

94 socket off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 18, 2025 09:29 AM (w9Wax)

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