Daily Tech News 8 August 2025

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The Framework Desktop is here and it is the perfect machine for a very specific subset of users. (Tom's Hardware)

The 16 core CPU is as fast as you'd expect, and the 40 core integrated graphics are quite capable of playing your games at 2560x1440.

But where it really excels is when you need 96GB of memory on your GPU. That would cost you $10,000 or more on a dedicated graphics card, while this entire PC is just $2000.

If you don't need 96GB of memory on your GPU, it's still nice, but you're probably be better off with a system with dedicated graphics.

Tech News

Silicon Motion offered a sneak peek of is PCIe 6.0 consumer SSD controller. (Tom's Hardware)

But Pixy, didn't you say that PCIe 6 wouldn't be coming to the consumer market for at least three years?

Yes. It won't. Expected in 2028.
The Radeon Pro W7400 is AMD's latest graphics card, sort of. (Notebook Check)

It's not super fast, but it's a half-height, half-length, single-slot card with 8GB of RAM four mini-DisplayPort outputs, and it uses on 55W of power so it can draw all its needs from a standard PCIe slot.
The CWWK X86-P6 NAS is an N355 eight-core mini-PC designed for NAS duties. (Serve the Home)

With four M.2 slots and... An external fan.
The Xyber Hydra is a GMK Nucbox G9 - a tiny four-bay NAS - but with better cooling. Which is to say, any cooling. Liliputing)

That being the Achilles heel of the Nucbox. The Achilles everything, really.

Does it solve the problems?

Mostly, yes. The Nucbox has serious thermal throttling problems, while this model only shows throttling at the end of a long test, with default fan settings, and the CPU running at 100%.

The current model Hydra offers a four-core Intel N150 and 16GB of RAM. A model with an eight-core N305 and 32GB of RAM will follow. The reviewer does offer a word of caution if you hope to run all eight cores at 100% with the current cooling solution though.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Oops.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)

2 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 08, 2025 04:32 AM (XQo4F)

3 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 08, 2025 04:33 AM (PzBTm)

4 How can it only be 1:35?

Wait, someone's said that already.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 04:35 AM (0eaVi)

5 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wonderingi

Damp.

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 08, 2025 04:35 AM (PzBTm)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 04:37 AM (Wg6v7)

7 BOING!

Asparagus peeled and baking.

Maple ginger salmon done.

Crisp baked potatoes in their jackets up next in the oven.

Slabs of shoulder steak cold smoking in the grill.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 04:39 AM (lkmGL)

8 Biden's Dog, do you put anything on the asparagus?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 04:40 AM (HFcKg)

9 G'mornin all y'all
Waking up is hard to do 🎶

Posted by: OkJohn at August 08, 2025 04:41 AM (NC/it)

10 7 BOING!

Asparagus peeled and baking.

Maple ginger salmon done.

Crisp baked potatoes in their jackets up next in the oven.

Slabs of shoulder steak cold smoking in the grill.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 04:39 AM (lkmGL)

Crisped with olive oil?

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 04:42 AM (aURVT)

11 m, I crisp mine with spray on duck fat.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 04:43 AM (HFcKg)

12 Faster SSD's are going to be of much value to mainstream users until Microsoft and AMD what is branded Velocity Architecture to the PC. This is current gen Xbox models. It's PCIe connected SSD inline to dedicated decompression blocks in the processor supported by an OS storage stack that is modernized to properly use it rather than still accommodating storage devices that haven't shipped in new PCs for almost two decades.

Currently PC game developers porting games from PS5 and Xbox Series X/S that really utilize the storage functionality are using DirectStorage, a Microsoft API to utilize part of your GPU to do the decompression task. Typical PC CPUs already have a media engine that would serve but it doesn't have the needed inline connection to the storage. Having to get stuff into main RAM before anything can be done to it is a big delay, when you're trying to create big elaborate game environment that doesn't use tricks to make you not notice the delay when data is loading.

Having a lot more RAM than a consoles helps a bit but only so much. It isn't a 1:1 substitute.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 08, 2025 04:46 AM (/0z9K)

13 11 m, I crisp mine with spray on duck fat.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 04:43 AM (HFcKg)

YUM!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)

14 Argh. First sentence should read:
Faster SSD's aren't going to be of much value to mainstream users until Microsoft and AMD bring what is branded Velocity Architecture to the PC.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 08, 2025 04:47 AM (/0z9K)

15 Disclaimer: Oops.

'Cuz wut.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 04:48 AM (aURVT)

16 Biden's Dog, do you put anything on the asparagus?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 04:40 AM (HFcKg)
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Served chilled with a simple oil/vinegar/Spanish onion vinegrette:

- 200 g asparagus
- 29.58 ml butter (or olive oil)
- 0.25 ml salt

#### DIRECTIONS

- Preheat oven to 180 C (360 F).
- Prepare asparagus by snapping the lower "woody" part of the stem off (if it snaps cleanly you've got the right place; if it is difficult to break try higher up!), and peel the lower section if they're a bit old or thick.
- Tear off a large enough piece of aluminium foil to wrap around the bunch of asparagus securely, and place asparagus in foil.
- Dot with butter and sprinkle lightly with salt.
- Wrap securely, and then wrap an extra strip of foil around the tip end to protect it.
- Bake in oven for 25-35 mins, depending on the thickness and age of the asparagus (Mine were done in 30 and I'd say they were fairly average sized).
- Try to wait until you're ready to serve before you unwrap them, or better still, serve them still wrapped in the foil.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 04:54 AM (lkmGL)

17 BD must be experiencing climate change. It's August in the middle east and yet the potatoes are wearing jackets!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 04:56 AM (XQo4F)

18 Potatoes: I rub a drop of oil or avocado oil on spuds which were pre-cooked in the microwave.

Oven on 450. Middle shelf. Back until the tops get silver/black in color. Turn over and the same for the other side.

After they're on the plate split open, we put the fat on them like butter and sprinkle on a bit of coarse salt.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 04:58 AM (lkmGL)

19 17 BD must be experiencing climate change. It's August in the middle east and yet the potatoes are wearing jackets!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 04:56 AM (XQo4F)

Ha ha!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

20 BD must be experiencing climate change. It's August in the middle east and yet the potatoes are wearing jackets!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 04:56 AM (XQo4F)
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It's boiling hot here, reaching 97 and more over the coming week.

Mrs BD and new DIL by the pool. I'm minding the grill from indoors. Just me and the A/C.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:00 AM (lkmGL)

21 G'Day everyone
TGIF hopefully

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:01 AM (+qU29)

22 18 Potatoes: I rub a drop of oil or avocado oil on spuds which were pre-cooked in the microwave.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 04:58 AM (lkmGL)

This is all sounding very heavenly.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:02 AM (aURVT)

23 Back story on the music selection, from Lyrics Genius:

“Le Freak” enjoyed #1 status atop the disco charts for seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 1978, as well as being the first song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 three separate times.

On New Year’s Eve 1977, disco star Grace Jones had invited Rodgers and Edwards to the exclusive widely popular New York City nightclub Studio 54 but hadn’t put them on the guest list.

After being denied access by an ignorant rude doorman and despite the fact that Chic’s music was regularly played in the club, the pair angrily left and ending up creating what would become one of the era’s most enduring classic dance-funk songs.
1 of 2

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:05 AM (XQo4F)

24 Continued

As Nile Rodgers told Sound On Sound:

We were so pissed off at what had happened. I mean, it was Studio 54, it was New Year’s Eve, it was Grace Jones, and we were wearing the most expensive outfits that we had… We grabbed a couple of bottles of champagne from the corner liquor store and then went back to my place, plugged in our instruments and started jamming.

Originally the song featured the lyrics “Fuck off!“ but by the end of the night Rodgers had lightened it up a bit:

That night we actually converted ‘fuck off’ to ‘freak out’. First, we changed it from ‘fuck off’ to ‘freak off’ and that was pretty hideous. Then, all of a sudden, it just hit me. For one second, the light bulb went on and I sang ‘Aaaaahh, freak out!’
2 of 2

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:07 AM (XQo4F)

25 In my best Paul Harvey voice:

"And now you know...the REST of the story."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:08 AM (XQo4F)

26 25 In my best Paul Harvey voice:

"And now you know...the REST of the story."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:08 AM (XQo4F)

That makes it even better!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:10 AM (aURVT)

27 This is all sounding very heavenly.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:02 AM (aURVT)
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Just checked on the potatoes. Starting to brown. Oil sizzling. Will turn over in 10-15 minutes.

Had a wine and cheese lunch yesterday at one of the local wineries. Even though I'm very much a carnivore, it's one of my favorite meals.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:13 AM (lkmGL)

28 The lyrics aren't much.

https://archive.is/odJTO

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:15 AM (aURVT)

29 Biden's Dog, have you been to Kabir Winery?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:17 AM (HFcKg)

30 oops wrong lyrics

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:17 AM (aURVT)

31 G'morning, all!

Pixy, thank you for the stuff on NUC's, and NAS.

Now to go read them

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2025 05:18 AM (a1415)

32 Biden's Dog, have you been to Kabir Winery?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:17 AM (HFcKg)
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No. Had to look them up:

https://www.kabirwinery.co.il/en

There are so many!

Haven't been to Elon Moreh in quite a while.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:20 AM (lkmGL)

33
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2025 05:20 AM (tljrc)

34 Chic, Le Freak lyrics

https://archive.is/JbGsd

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:20 AM (aURVT)

35 Sounds much better as "Freak Out" and it has probably lasted must longer than it probably would have as "F off" , because it was a novel phrase Almost everybody gets irritated and uses the f word at least occasionally but it's now ubiquitous from everything from " I got up late" to loathing for politicians. And so, IMO , is boringly redundant.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:21 AM (2GCMq)

36 haha

Come on along and have a real good time
Like the days of "Stompin' at the Savoy"
Now we freak, oh what a joy
Just come on down to the 54
And find a spot out on the floor

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:21 AM (aURVT)

37 *28 The lyrics aren't much.*

They'll make up for it in volume.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:23 AM (XQo4F)

38 Almost everybody gets irritated and uses the f word at least occasionally

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:21 AM (2GCMq)
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I think that's around 2 times a year for me. It would have to be something super maddening.

And I'd like it to be zero.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:24 AM (lkmGL)

39 This made me laugh. Novel ways to say "F off" instead of using that phrase :

https://tinyurl.com/2e2d5dtr

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:24 AM (2GCMq)

40 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:24 AM (lkmGL

Good!

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:25 AM (2GCMq)

41 In my best Johnny Carson voice:

"I did not know that."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

42 I very rarely say "eff off" to people....

But i say it to inanimate objects at least once an hour, on average.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 05:27 AM (pERWT)

43 Sounds much better as "Freak Out" and it has probably lasted must longer than it probably would have as "F off"

>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:21 AM (2GCMq)

What is this nonsense? The Freak is a dance. Stop shoving your prudish sensibilities down everyone's throats.

Posted by: Test Pattern at August 08, 2025 05:29 AM (ME+3a)

44
Posted by: Test Pattern at August 08, 2025 05:29 AM (ME+3a)

Maybe listen to the conversation for a second before being a shitbag, shitbag.

Also fuck off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 05:31 AM (pERWT)

45 Seems like someone might have woken up with an enflamed anal fizzier.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2025 05:31 AM (a1415)

46 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

47 And with that...

time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

48 >>> I crisp mine with spray on duck fat.

Oooo, fancy!

Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)

49 Duck fat makes everything better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 05:35 AM (5+Y60)

50 I made a quesadilla in bacon fat the other day.

Tortillas do magical things in hot animal-based lipids.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 05:36 AM (pERWT)

51 Mr. Aspirin Factory, and spray duck fat is the best of all worlds.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:36 AM (HFcKg)

52 I've been running a Slackware (that's a linux distro) server as my mail server (dovecot) and NAS (Samba) for ~30 years (JFC!) now. It used to handle DNS (caching and local network authority) as well as a DHCPD server (give IP address and tell the DNS server what that address is), but those functions were passed off to a smaller machine which can easily handle that work.

I've been working in either telecom or telematics since 1995, so a lot of my setup was to figure out how things actually should work in my work environment(s). I would be the last to claim that it's energy efficient or trivial to manage.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 08, 2025 05:37 AM (+OrhI)

53 Evening to the late Freya's Day toilers, and morning to us early risers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Chic's "Le Freak" still has a smooth and irresistible sound, doesn't it? And the performers themselves are accomplished and well-dressed. The use of the violins makes for a sophisticated package. Compare to today's "rap" or "soul" artists, and "you too will be sold."

I still think Sister Sledge's best song is not that "We Are Family" drek, but the dark and smooth-running "Greatest Dancer." Both "Le Freak" and "Greatest Dancer" helped make 1979 into the last truly great year for pop music (again, to me).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:37 AM (omVj0)

54 3 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 08, 2025 04:33 AM (PzBTm)

Look at her go!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:38 AM (aURVT)

55 Off to salt mines
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:38 AM (+qU29)

56 53 Chic's "Le Freak" still has a smooth and irresistible sound, doesn't it? And the performers themselves are accomplished and well-dressed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:37 AM (omVj0)

I was thinking, when I watched it, that Piper could talk to us about those outfits.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:40 AM (aURVT)

57 I was a teen in the 1970s.

Nobody then talked about the songs of the 1920s in the way we in the 2020s talk about 1970s songs.

Well, the Shaving Cream song would almost be applicable. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ffkDf0ol4)

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 08, 2025 05:41 AM (+OrhI)

58 I was thinking, when I watched it, that Piper could talk to us about those outfits.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:40 AM (aURVT)

A historical deep dive into the origins of the sequined jumpsuit...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 05:41 AM (pERWT)

59 Evening to the late Freya's Day toilers, and morning to us early risers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:37 AM (omVj0)

Friday's just another day to the retired.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 05:41 AM (0eaVi)

60 I went to visit a dear lady who's part of the bible study at the assisted living. She has neuropathy and arthritis and some other issues and is in a wheelchair .but her mind is really sharp . Apparently so is that of her dad who is 103 (!) and lives in assisted living in the PNW. Anyway, we were discussing ages and she said "I'm 80." I said, "Well, you don't look 80." And she said it was the hair coloring. I said " Well, maybe but you don't have any wrinkles" Her response: "It's the fat". She laughed and I did as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:42 AM (2GCMq)

61 Orange Ent, the self employed too.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:42 AM (HFcKg)

62 Mr. Aspirin Factory, and spray duck fat is the best of all worlds.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:36 AM (HFcKg)

This is true.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 05:44 AM (5+Y60)

63 Didn't Intel use "Le Freak" as music for one of their 1990s TV commercials? I recall it was something like a Hollywood premiere scene, except it was not for a movie but for their new computer chips, and featured jumpsuited and spacesuited figures dancing to the song.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:44 AM (omVj0)

64 I feel like it was just yesterday i was saying "criminelly, tomorrow's Friday already".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 05:45 AM (pERWT)

65 Besides, it wouldn't have been played on the radio if they had kept the lyrics, "F off."

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)

66 Orange Ent, the self employed too.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 05:42 AM (HFcKg)

Yeah. Every day's the same. You only notice Sundays.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 05:46 AM (0eaVi)

67 Evening to the late Freya's Day toilers, and morning to us early risers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025
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Friday's just another day to the retired.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025

***
I know, but not all of us are. And I spent so many years in the working world that I still have ghost memories of how I felt slogging through each day as the weekend approached.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:46 AM (omVj0)

68 nd I spent so many years in the working world that I still have ghost memories of how I felt slogging through each day as the weekend approached.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025

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And similar memories of school, when each week seemed like a month, and Saturday morning was glorious.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:49 AM (omVj0)

69
54 3 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 08, 2025 04:33 AM (PzBTm)

Look at her go!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:38 AM
###

https://youtu.be/uc6-QHy5ogo

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:49 AM (XQo4F)

70 Twirling time! Better than "twilight time" for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:50 AM (omVj0)

71 Just had some leftover fish-roe dip on whole wheat toast. Different!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 05:51 AM (aURVT)

72 I've noticed a disturbing use this tech thread of the phrase, "duck fat."

This is not the approved AoS term, according to the manual.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 05:52 AM (0eaVi)

73 I didn't see if Skip posted the Bad Blue Top 20 from yesterday:

https://tinyurl.com/mwdr5sh6

Lots of evil still lurking about in every direction.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 05:52 AM (lkmGL)

74 Well, I intend to work until my 3 score and 10. 4 years to go.

I could, of course, kick the bucket at 3 score and 10 plus 10 seconds. So it goes, as the Tralfamadorians would say.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at August 08, 2025 05:52 AM (+OrhI)

75 I first heard the Shaving Cream song on Doctor Demento during a decade that begins with seven.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2025 05:56 AM (XQo4F)

76 Today marks six years since I purchased the big red Buick LaCrosse after the death in a flood of the BMW 3 Series I'd had for only three months. I'd have bought another, but there were none to be had with the interior color I wanted (no black, thanks). So I looked beyond Bavarian Money Wasters, and saw this handsome Buick on the used car lot of a Subaru dealer. I test drove it and liked it a lot. The salesman offered me an overnight test drive. And even before I got it home that evening I knew I was going to buy it.

I could have had a 2017, the next generation, for about the same $$ . . . but the 2017-2019s have that auto stop-start feature, and apparently, on that car, you can't turn it off. Uh, no.

The 2016 has been a superb and reliable car -- 75% of the Mercedes or BMW driving experience for less than 50% of the money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

77 Being self employed makes every day Tuesday except Sunday.

Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2025 05:59 AM (+sNap)

78 'Tis time I changed, stretched, and went for my own walk. later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)

79 The 2016 has been a superb and reliable car -- 75% of the Mercedes or BMW driving experience for less than 50% of the money.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

Seems to be a good purchase for you. Must have been a good day at the assembly line. You got a GM vehicle that wasn't crap.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:00 AM (0eaVi)

80 My son has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. The place wants him to download his license and medical insurance in advance.- todayI think that's odd. Had anyone had a medical practitioner do that?

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

81 My mom has a Trailblazer. She loathes that car. They now have a rear differential lock actuator problem that is working towards recall level.
I got 110k out of one the rotten Kia engines. Replaced under warranty. I give thanks to God for the Kia engineers and assemblers.

Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2025 06:02 AM (+sNap)

82 My son has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. The place wants him to download his license and medical insurance in advance.- todayI think that's odd. Had anyone had a medical practitioner do that?

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

Wife gets that request all the time. We don't do it. We show the cards at the office. They haven't complained.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:07 AM (0eaVi)

83 Anybody need earworm relief? I'm here for you!

Posted by: Rick Astley at August 08, 2025 06:08 AM (PiwSw)

84
Seems to be a good purchase for you. Must have been a good day at the assembly line. You got a GM vehicle that wasn't crap.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025

***
I've been lucky, I guess. All my GMs -- two Olds Cutlass coupes and three Buicks -- have been very good cars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

85 Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:07 AM (0eaVi)

Thanks. That's good to know.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 06:09 AM (2GCMq)

86 83 Anybody need earworm relief? I'm here for you!
Posted by: Rick Astley at August 08, 2025 06:08 AM (PiwSw)

What, no link?

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

87 @79

>>Seems to be a good purchase for you. Must have been a good day at the assembly line. You got a GM vehicle that wasn't crap.

Buick is not my cup o tea, but the Lacrosse get high reliability scores and the owners seem to love them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:09 AM (IM1cI)

88 It's funny. There is a lot about disco that deserves criticism. But the talent behind the musicians in that song is incredible.

With that being said: Good morning one and all. In my desperate attempts to get some sleep despite the pain in the knee, I finally elevated the leg with a pillow. The result? A near cessation of pain and I was unconscious within a few minutes.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 06:10 AM (NR6c1)

89 wolfus, the other day you asked this:

I need to walk this morning, since I took yesterday off. Dreading it -- but I also look forward to feeling good after, and to having it over with. Is there a German word for that complex emotion?

I asked my son who teaches German, and this was his reply:
"
Lasterledigungsvorfreude

"The joy felt in the anticipation of a burden being completed."

So there you go.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 06:11 AM (mZ/55)

90 The only music I don't like is country music past 1990 and Cookie Monster metal. Other than that it's all good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:13 AM (IM1cI)

91 Buick is not my cup o tea, but the Lacrosse get high reliability scores and the owners seem to love them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025

***
The LaCrosse is big, powerful, and comfortable without driving like a pillow on wheels. That would be a good thing over these horrible roads, but the Buick handles them well. GM offered a sporty-ish package on the car, with stiffer suspension. I'm glad mine does not have that, or a sunroof.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

92 89 Lasterledigungsvorfreude

"The joy felt in the anticipation of a burden being completed."

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 06:11 AM (mZ/55)

; )

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 06:14 AM (aURVT)

93 The place wants him to download his license and medical insurance in advance.- todayI think that's odd. Had anyone had a medical practitioner do that?

Yep. The annoying part is that even if you do it, they still ask for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 06:14 AM (NR6c1)

94 Cookie Monster metal.

That was hilarious. Thank you.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 06:14 AM (NR6c1)

95 It took me a second to realize what you meant by Cookie Monster metal and now i can't stop laughing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 06:16 AM (pERWT)

96 Anyone ever get to the point they feel like they should be doing something worthwhile if you can't sleep?

I should spend more time writing now that the kid went back to school yesterday, but I don't feel like it. Sad thing, if you don't write, you can't sell.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:17 AM (0eaVi)

97 Infant Annihilatior screaming "C IS FOR COOKIE!!!!" like a stuck pig....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 06:18 AM (pERWT)

98 @94

>>That was hilarious. Thank you.

It's pretty much ridiculous sounding with no discernible redeeming quality other than keeping terrorists disoriented at Guantanamo Bay.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:19 AM (IM1cI)

99 Wife gets that request all the time. We don't do it. We show the cards at the office. They haven't complained.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

It's a waste of time anyway.
Once I did it in advance and they still asked me for the physical cards at the visit to scan themselves.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 06:19 AM (GIcqz)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 06:20 AM (aURVT)

101 It's a waste of time anyway.
Once I did it in advance and they still asked me for the physical cards at the visit to scan themselves.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 06:19 AM (GIcqz)

"Wait.... why is your clinic funded in part through an NSA grant?"

"Don't worry about it. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 06:20 AM (pERWT)

102 It's a waste of time anyway.
Once I did it in advance and they still asked me for the physical cards at the visit to scan themselves.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 06:19 AM (GIcqz)

I figured, so we never do it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:21 AM (0eaVi)

103 Interesting article reports on the Swedish PM admitting to using ChatGPT to run the government.

We are getting closer to fulfilling my prophecy on the true end goal of AI - to replace voters and to replace elected officials making policy.

The entity that builds the contract winning AI for government wins the ultimate Grand Slam Sweepstakes.

Short Dominion

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 06:22 AM (a4flb)

104 DataRepublican tells me something that, for once, I knew for decades:

https://tinyurl.com/2eszj2zm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:22 AM (lkmGL)

105 If the options are "be governed by a mouthbreathing imbecile" or "be governed by a mouthbreathing imbecile using chatgpt", i guess the latter is probably slightly better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 06:23 AM (pERWT)

106 Make big cash fast!

https://tinyurl.com/5dtdn48p

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:28 AM (lkmGL)

107 Why the Muslim Brotherhood isn't designated as a terror organization is easy: It is openly affiliated with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:30 AM (TXKq5)

108 I would love to get a Buick La Crosse. Sadly, Buick doesn't make them anymore.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:32 AM (ZmEVT)

109 So I just learned from the NY Post that Travis Kelce and his girlfriend pop star are supposedly thinking about buying a house in suburban Cleveland and I sent story links to my kids and siblings and all of them, every one, say they knew this a week ago. I am so completely a dinosaur on pop star news it is pretty sad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:33 AM (TXKq5)

110 ChapGPT assures me the Science Is Settled on the causes of global warming, and it isn't good news either.

Further proof that horseshit human wackiness infects LLM's

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:36 AM (TXKq5)

111 Why the Muslim Brotherhood isn't designated as a terror organization is easy: It is openly affiliated with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:30 AM (TXKq5)
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That's not what I voted for in last year's election.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:40 AM (lkmGL)

112 If the options are "be governed by a mouthbreathing imbecile" or "be governed by a mouthbreathing imbecile using chatgpt", i guess the latter is probably slightly better.

The latter is really a proxy for the entity that designed and trained the LLM.

If your AI engine won the right government contracts, it would likely have to involve an incredible amount of bribes and promises to break, but you would be in virtual control of the entire government and the myriad of people and other groups who would attach themselves to the same LLM that has been endorsed.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 06:42 AM (a4flb)

113 111 Why the Muslim Brotherhood isn't designated as a terror organization is easy: It is openly affiliated with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:30 AM (TXKq5)
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That's not what I voted for in last year's election.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:40 AM (lkmGL
‘Yeah, about that election…..’
- gOpe rinos everywhere.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:43 AM (jgmnb)

114 G'mornin' everyone!

Sad? Be proud, Huck!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 06:44 AM (dKEEs)

115 Seems to be a good purchase for you. Must have been a good day at the assembly line. You got a GM vehicle that wasn't crap.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 06:00 AM (0eaVi

Yet.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 08, 2025 06:46 AM (g8Ew8)

116 Buick is not my cup o tea, but the Lacrosse get high reliability scores and the owners seem to love them.

What generation are we talking about? First generation was built in Canada, then two succeeding generations were built largely in Kansas.

China has been building them since 2006 and since 2019 all Buick LaCrosse cars are made by SAIC and are currently made and sold exclusively there.

Buick is a Chinese company now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 06:47 AM (a4flb)

117 - @110 Huck

Still can't get copied links to show up on my clipboard.
Utube- search answers in Genesis grok Biblical flood.
Not very long and the last couple of minutes is likely the reason chat gpt does that.
Remember, "97%, uh, of the scientists that we talk to... ?

Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 06:47 AM (oCJg8)

118 That's not what I voted for in last year's election.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:40 AM (lkmGL)
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Which is why Carville thinks your vote needs to be made meaningless!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:48 AM (cqbaT)

119 Kindly police officer on hot Texas day mows someone else's lawn:

https://tinyurl.com/5786frd2

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 06:49 AM (2GCMq)

120 ‘Yeah, about that election…..’
- gOpe rinos everywhere.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:43 AM (jgmnb)
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"Welcome back, Qatar!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 06:51 AM (lkmGL)

121 I thought that this was cool. RC shrine built inside a tree in GA:

https://tinyurl.com/4nepja6y

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 06:53 AM (2GCMq)

122 More news I just learned that probably everyone else already knows, but JD Vance has a half-brother and he's running for mayor of Cincinnati against the Soros machine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:57 AM (yHBjT)

123 Good morning Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2025 06:58 AM (QMAsf)

124

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 08, 2025 06:58 AM (5hfjS)

125 mornin yall

"OpenAI launches ChatGPT-5, promises ‘PhD level expert’ for all users"

A PhD level expert? Those are the worst kind.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

126 - He can come mow mine.
Supposed to hit 95 today. Takes me about three hours. Walk behind mower. Lots of trees and such.
I normally do it in two days. May take 3 this time.
And have a bit of tree roots yet to get chopped below ground for the widow. And zukes to pick. And grass/weeds that need wackin'.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 06:58 AM (oCJg8)

127 Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 06:58 AM (oCJg

I am glad that you don't try to do it all at once, TeeJ, and nice to see you again!

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 07:00 AM (2GCMq)

128 I asked AI to write an AI program and it gave me a picture of a navel.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

129 Morning peeps.

Crew was motivated this morning to finish rebuilding our decks. Started work before 7AM. Don't blame them. Supposed to be 90 degrees today and there's no shade.

And the pool's covered to keep dust/debris out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 07:01 AM (Q4IgG)

130 You gotta start in the morning if you're gonna drink all day.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 08, 2025 07:04 AM (Dso5d)

131 - Fen, if I tried to do it in one they could just dig a hole in my yard and roll me into it.
At 50, wasn't a big deal. At 70...

Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 07:04 AM (oCJg8)

132 I asked AI to write an AI program and it gave me a picture of a navel.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)
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DON'T TOUCH THAT BUTTON!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 07:04 AM (lkmGL)

133 Can't recall if I already posted this devotional earlier this week or not. If I did, I apologize:

Philippians 4:4-11

"Peace in the release "

https://tinyurl.com/42d5mf96

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 07:05 AM (2GCMq)

134 Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 07:04 AM (oCJg

I'm not 70, but I certainly can relate not being able to do things we could do more easily years before. You take care of yourself, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at August 08, 2025 07:07 AM (2GCMq)

135 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2025 07:07 AM (X7zFE)

136 Washington Post employees are getting fat from all the cake parties for departing employees.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

137 Fen, you need to fix nic before San Franpsycho shows up. Misspelled nics disturbs him.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2025 07:10 AM (X7zFE)

138 Fen, your nic has a typo

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 07:10 AM (AOsQT)

139 Corny tech joke:

Why did the coder quit his job?

He didn't get arrays!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 07:11 AM (2GCMq)

140 - And guess who puts me to shame.
The widow,,, at 83.
The work she gets out and does in her yard...
And always doing stuff for others...
Her prayers for me I value above anything and everything!!

Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 07:12 AM (oCJg8)

141 Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 07:10 AM

Thanks. I inadvertently did a weird thing and now my phone is in private mode and I have to retype my handle every time. Bah! I'll have to fix that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 07:12 AM (2GCMq)

142 PDJT's litigiousness is bearing fruit. James Carville opened his podcast two fays ago with an apology to Melania and a retraction of comments he made trying to tie her to Epstein. Next up, the Daily Beast similarly retracted an article smearing her for something, and they apologized.

Trump sues. They know it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 07:13 AM (A82sV)

143 Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 07:12 AM (oCJg

Praise the Lord for your caring neighbor and that she prays for you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 07:13 AM (2GCMq)

144 Getting ready to do some grocery shopping before the sun comes up. I'll be transporting some ice cream today. Supposed to get to 101 degrees. 102 tomorrow.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 08, 2025 07:15 AM (g8Ew8)

145 Trump sues. They know it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

About damn time we got people in charge that fight.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 07:16 AM (NR6c1)

146 122 More news I just learned that probably everyone else already knows, but JD Vance has a half-brother and he's running for mayor of Cincinnati against the Soros machine.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 06:57 AM (yHBjT)

News to me.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 07:17 AM (aURVT)

147 More news I just learned that probably everyone else already knows, but JD Vance has a half-brother and he's running for mayor of Cincinnati against the Soros machine.

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The city itself is pretty blue. I'd love to see it happen, but it will be an uphill battle.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 07:21 AM (qBdHI)

148 “ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. “

John 3:17-18

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is Lord at August 08, 2025 07:26 AM (sfdXl)

149 Wolfus, where did you go?
I left you a message earlier in the comments.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 07:27 AM (mZ/55)

150 Tecumseh Tea, so glad to see that you.are feeling much better.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 07:28 AM (HFcKg)

151 149 Wolfus, where did you go?
I left you a message earlier in the comments.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 07:27 AM (mZ/55)

He went on a walk. It was a great message that you left!

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)

152 Thanks M.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 07:31 AM (mZ/55)

153 We'll send him back here for if he doesn't arrive before the threads change.

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 07:31 AM (aURVT)

154 I get here and everybody leaves.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 07:32 AM (mZ/55)

155 *for it if*

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 07:32 AM (aURVT)

156 Videos are beginning to surface of SNAP participants trying to buy junk food, candy and sodas... and the newly programmed registers balking.

And the customers going bananas.

It's being called "the Trump diet."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

157 Videos are beginning to surface of SNAP participants trying to buy junk food, candy and sodas... and the newly programmed registers balking.

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It's not the Supplemental Junk Food Program. That should be shoved at them 24/7. Nutritional is in the acronym, for pete's sake.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 07:34 AM (qBdHI)

158 Trump sues AND WINS. They know it.

fify

Posted by: clarence at August 08, 2025 07:34 AM (hdoQS)

159 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

160 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

161 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi . *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

162 About damn time we got people in charge that fight.

It only took about 40 years of the "don't stoop to their level" crowd losing - daily - to finally prove them wrong.

Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (dXEEh)

163 156 Videos are beginning to surface of SNAP participants trying to buy junk food, candy and sodas... and the newly programmed registers balking.

And the customers going bananas.

It's being called "the Trump diet."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

That's awesome and has been sorely needed for decades. People would buy junk food/soda with SNAP/food stamps and resell it for profit. I doubt you can resell broccoli for a profit.

Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (znbnV)

164 {{{TecumsehTea }}}

Blessings to you for a quick recovery.

There are easier ways to meet cute3 doctors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

165 Hunh.

AI does not help my typing skills. Disappointed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

166 Farquad

Broccoli, maybe, but not succotash. Avoid it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

167 Thanks, Salty.
I'm kinda 29 for cute doctors.
But I was thankful for all the care.
And I'm thankful for all the prayers from here.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 07:47 AM (mZ/55)

168 The city itself is pretty blue
_-_-_
I always hear that in Leon Redbone's voice singing a Jimmie Rodgers song. (Well, that's maybe one guy who was talking about music of the 20's in the 70's.)

I think I would feel pretty blue with politicians like that, too.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 08:01 AM (vd6bO)

169 It's being called "the Trump diet."
_-_-_-_-_
Oh, man. Wait til the wife hears about that. I remember her ranting just yesterday about somebody in front of her in the checkout line buying a bunch of crap, paying with ebt, thinking, "I am paying for that!"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 08:07 AM (vd6bO)

170 from the JJ thread:

29 Tecumseh Tea, I saw your German info. I can't pronounce it, but I appreciate knowing it exists!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 07:53 AM (omVj0)

Posted by: m at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (aURVT)

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