Daily Tech News 25 July 2025

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Intel plans to lay off up to 30% of its employees. (WCCFTech)

Things are bad.
And to cancel processes beyond 18A (1.8nm) unless it can find a major external customer. (Tom's Hardware)

Very bad.

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AMD reports that equivalent chips made in TSMC's US factories are between 5% and 20% more expensive than those made in Taiwan. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

Which they state is worth it for not relying on a single overseas source, even if it is nominally the same company.
Guess it's finally tech news: VShojo is gone. (The Verge)

All those "allegedly" claims I mentioned in the first announcement a couple of days ago now seem to have been confirmed by the company officially - including misappropriating half a million dollars of funds raised for a charity drive.

Which is a big no no.
Indiegogo is being acquired by board game funding platform Gamefound. (The Verge)

Which is one of those acquisitions which just seems backwards.
The Honor Pad X7 is cheap junk. (Notebook Check)

It's a small Android tablet with a crappy low-resolution screen, which is not something in short supply.
The GPD Win 5 is a handheld gaming device... With a Ryzen AI Max 395+. (Liliputing)

What.

That chip uses 80W in low power mode.

Does it come with oven mitts?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Run, don't walk.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Oops.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 04:46 AM (BLOW1)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 04:46 AM (aURVT)

3 Well, that's odd.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

4 And we're back.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

5 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 04:52 AM (NXz8h)

6 BOING!

Cooking.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 25, 2025 04:53 AM (DIXP3)

7 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 04:53 AM (a1415)

8 Gotta try to walk this morning.

Going into a three day heat wave later that may be record setting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 04:54 AM (a1415)

9 Like American farmland Intel is looking pretty good to the Chicoms.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 04:54 AM (NXz8h)

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

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 25, 2025 04:56 AM (PzBTm)

11 In further tech news, while I am still very limited on my understanding of all the issues, I do believe I will build the home media server dogpile using an as yet unidentified NUC, and probably go with Green for the NAS.

Not yet....but probably by Christmas.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 04:58 AM (a1415)

12 It would be nice in spam callers or those than program them could figure out time zones and not call at 2:00 in the morning to wake people out of sleep. Uggh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)

13 Green=UGreen

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 04:59 AM (a1415)

14
Pixeeeeeeeee!

If China gobbles Taiwan, who's going to make chips?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 05:00 AM (lCaJd)

15 Long, hot summer. Devotional on Mark 4:3-8

https://tinyurl.com/5n7tknpd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)

16 14 If China gobbles Taiwan, who's going to make chips?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

South Korea?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 05:03 AM (BLOW1)

17 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 04:58 AM (a1415)

You're not as limited in your understanding as I am, because I didn't understand most of what you wrote 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:06 AM (2GCMq)

18 Sleventeenth

Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 05:06 AM (fV+MH)

19 VIA, good morning to you and the lovely Mrs.VIA.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:09 AM (HFcKg)

20
South Korea?
Posted by: Pixy Misa

===============

I'll look into it.
Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 05:12 AM (lCaJd)

21 Cat walks boy to school and back home again:

https://tinyurl.com/2c4sjzd3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:14 AM (2GCMq)

22 Fen,

I know just enough to be dangerous.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 05:15 AM (a1415)

23 Ben Had

Still working the details for Corsicana, as there is a follow-on up to DFW area during the trip.

But getting close to resolving all of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 05:17 AM (a1415)

24 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2025 05:17 AM (AN2gy)

25 From the " unintended consequences" dept. The more Macron opens his mouth about recognizing a failestinian state the faster Judea and Samaria are moving to sovereignty.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:19 AM (HFcKg)

26 VIA, I so hope all your plans come to fruition.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:21 AM (HFcKg)

27 Alteria I watched that Pink Floyd video.

I wasn't as moved as you were, but it was excellent guitar work.

Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2025 05:21 AM (AN2gy)

28 Frito-Lay has the extensive experience and skilled work force necessary to take care of our Chip needs for both industry and military requirements

Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2025 05:22 AM (gptA6)

29 Happy Friday, one and all. I'm bracing for the massive heatwave over the next few days that will have us indoors and enjoying AC.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 05:22 AM (jjoN6)

30 More 1960s instrumental music.

Tabu - The Jokers
https://youtu.be/h6aIXf-yupQ

Apache -The Shadows
https://youtu.be/7TwULx_wDiI

Wipeout - The Ventures
https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 05:24 AM (NXz8h)

31 I watched the ISS flyover last night. Even managed to get Mrs fluffy to brave the mosquitos.

Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2025 05:24 AM (AN2gy)

32 It is to laugh that the weather page has an excessive heat warning for 93 degrees in Texas. Get a grip.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:26 AM (HFcKg)

33 This looks like the lovely butterfly I saw yesterday on walk with FenSpouse:

https://tinyurl.com/mkzvbstr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)

34 I think these excessive heat warnings are yet another attempt to scare people about global warming , and keep them inside as a means of control by globalists. Yesterday, people were talking about older rockers and people like Hulk Hogan dying. I will not feel bad when sociopaths like Bill Gates go to meet God, if I'm around when that happens.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:32 AM (2GCMq)

35 Time to beat the heat and get ready for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2025 05:33 AM (hoCmQ)

37 olddog, Good morning to you and your family. How's the pup?-

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:34 AM (HFcKg)

38 Natl Wx Srvc issued a Heat advisory here, Ben Had. High of 92? But they have Heat Index values up to 109.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2025 05:35 AM (hoCmQ)

39 I had some fun tech adventures yesterday at work. Apparently my Microsoft Azure account "disappeared." which meant I couldn't login to any of the Microsoft Office 365 apps.

Including Outlook, which is about 30% of what I do.

Seems like it affected a fair number of users throughout the university system I work for.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:36 AM (IBQGV)

40 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2025 05:37 AM (Wnv9h)

41 Pup got fixed yesterday, Ben Had. Also had 4 baby teeth pulled She was kind of out of it last nite.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2025 05:38 AM (hoCmQ)

42 How did we ever survive before there was an heat index?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:38 AM (HFcKg)

43 30 More 1960s instrumental music.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Spoilers!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 05:39 AM (BLOW1)

44 olddog, moving closer to not needing the welding gloves!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:41 AM (HFcKg)

45 RMBS, Good morning. Range trip this weekend?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:43 AM (HFcKg)

46 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 05:46 AM (+qU29)

47 >>> How did we ever survive before there was an heat index?

That's been around for quite some time.

When I started basic at Ft Benning back in August 19 *mumble* they paid close attention to the wet bulb index.

That seemed to have a short duration. It may have been something for training companies early in their cycle and thus not acclimated, or maybe we got hit by global cooling in mid September.

Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2025 05:47 AM (AN2gy)

48 Alteria I watched that Pink Floyd video. I wasn't as moved as you were, but it was excellent guitar work.
Posted by: fluffy

In our last round, you expressed a pathological hatred for Comfortably Numb. I will take your response to the live version as a complete capitulation. There is hope for you yet.

Try this one.

Jump, Jive, and Wail
Brian Setzer Orchestra
https://youtu.be/EwvNrLaOmTI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 05:47 AM (NXz8h)

49 Apparently my Microsoft Azure account "disappeared." which meant I couldn't login to any of the Microsoft Office 365 apps.

Damn. China's influence is everywhere.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 05:47 AM (jjoN6)

50 Can't sleep due to chest congestion

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 05:48 AM (+qU29)

51 Evening! Morning! (Depending where in the vast AoSHQ empire you are. 'Tis Friday once again, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

A rain shower is currently in my area, reducing the temps to . . . well, not really reducing them at all. Stepping outside feels as though you are wearing a warm wet sweater and ski pants in the tropical room at the zoo. I was thinking I'm up to putting twenty minutes' walk once it gets light, but now I dunno.

So, whassup?

Posted by: Chris De Burgh, ca. 1983 at July 25, 2025 05:49 AM (omVj0)

52 10 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 25, 2025 04:56 AM (PzBTm)

You were missed yesterday! When Pixy's music video was extremely danceable.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

53 fluffy, the weather dictates my life. When the temp and humidity combined goes over 170 that is very hard on a horse in training. I have a summer and winter schedule for both feeding and riding.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:50 AM (HFcKg)

54 Heh. I may keep the welding gloves around, Ben Had. Pup goes wild when she sees me put them on. 10-20 minutes solid rough housing.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 25, 2025 05:52 AM (hoCmQ)

55 Posted by: Common Tater at July 25, 2025 05:22 AM (gptA6)

Be sure you check out the photo at the top of the ONT!

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 05:53 AM (aURVT)

56 What I always find stunning about AoS HQ is it publishes 24x7 and there's always a mob in the comments. I don't think there's anything else on the Internet quite like this.

Rating: Triple Plus Good.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 05:53 AM (NXz8h)

57 Rosasharn is twirling! All is right with the world.

Pixy, I love the Ventures video. The song is from 1960, and the car in the first half of the video looks to be a Buick from around that vintage. Ah, to have well-dressed, good-looking people, male and female, around us again -- even if only in movies and TV and not in real life.

Posted by: Chris De Burgh, ca. 1983 at July 25, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

58 olddog, what a good dad. Pups need that rough and tumble time.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:55 AM (HFcKg)

59 A friend of mine is a zoo volunteer and they recently got a porcupine from a "rescue" out in AK. In recognition of current events, he has been named Ozzy, the Prince of Sharpness.

I approve.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 05:55 AM (jjoN6)

60 Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 05:55 AM (jjoN6

That is funny . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:57 AM (2GCMq)

61 Oops. Thought I discarded that sock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:57 AM (omVj0)

62
Good morning, Hordians. Diana to the doggie chiropractor this morning, then shopping.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 05:58 AM (HZi96)

63 59 A friend of mine is a zoo volunteer and they recently got a porcupine from a "rescue" out in AK. In recognition of current events, he has been named Ozzy, the Prince of Sharpness.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 05:55 AM (jjoN6)

Hahahahahaha!

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 05:58 AM (aURVT)

64 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 25, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)

65 The guy in the video appears to have on his letter sweater.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

66 Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 05:48 AM (+qU29)

Sorry, Skip. I hope you don't have to work this weekend and can rest up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:00 AM (2GCMq)

67 Hadrian, any relief from the gabapentin?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:00 AM (HFcKg)

68 39 I had some fun tech adventures yesterday at work. Apparently my Microsoft Azure account "disappeared." which meant I couldn't login to any of the Microsoft Office 365 apps.

Including Outlook, which is about 30% of what I do.

Seems like it affected a fair number of users throughout the university system I work for.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:36 AM (IBQGV)

And now you can?

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:01 AM (aURVT)

69 What I always find stunning about AoS HQ is it publishes 24x7 and there's always a mob in the comments. I don't think there's anything else on the Internet quite like this.

Rating: Triple Plus Good.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025

***
It's a community as well as a news blog. (Also a floor wax and a dessert topping, but that's not important right now.) I've been reading since 2010 and posting since 2011, and credit the posters here with keeping me sane during the Sniffle Scare, Face Diaper Hoax, and Clot Shot Eras.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:01 AM (omVj0)

70 Scattered storms expected today with a high of only (only!!!) 88. There's a "tropical disturbance" in the Gulf of America, not far off the Lousy-ana coast, sending us the moisture.

I'll be so glad when I can live Elsewhere and never have to hear about "tropical" anything every day between June and November.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

71 I'm just reading now that Thailand and Cambodia are attacking one another.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 25, 2025 06:03 AM (DIXP3)

72 71 I'm just reading now that Thailand and Cambodia are attacking one another.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 25, 2025 06:03 AM (DIXP3)

Do you have a good source to link? This is news to me.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:04 AM (aURVT)

73 Google gives a million hits, I see.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:05 AM (aURVT)

74 That's very sad.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

75 Special Medley 2009
The Ventures
50th Anniversary Concert

https://youtu.be/Fu2PL04Ylbs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:07 AM (NXz8h)

76 It's a community as well as a news blog.

I was a poster on LGF and started seeing references to this place. I applied for asylum and it was quickly granted. Ace even let me keep this username.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025 06:08 AM (jjoN6)

77 BBC

Thailand warns clashes with Cambodia could 'move towards war'

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c98j77zde86t

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:08 AM (aURVT)

78 BBC

Fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops over a disputed border has entered a second day, with Bangkok warning that the conflict could "move towards war"

Sixteen people have so far been killed while tens of thousands have been moved to evacuation centres on both sides of the border

The fighting that started Thursday marks a dramatic escalation of a conflict that dates back more than a century

A fractured relationship between the two dynasties that rule the South East Asian nations underpins the deadly turn of events, explains our correspondent Jonathan Head

The US, China, Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have all called for the fighting to stop

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:10 AM (aURVT)

79 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 05:36 AM (IBQGV)

I have a question for you, Perfesser, and anyone else who reads, but I'm usually not around to ask things on Sunday. My friend, the academic librarian, is lamenting that more than 60 percent of young people don't take out actual books. Can you think of anything to encourage this? I suggested an intro to the library and a college version of a scavenger hunt coordinated through the student activities office. with some prizes awarded. Does the library at your school do anything like this?

I have too many books , but I would go out of my mind if I had to only read books online

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:10 AM (2GCMq)

80 Watched a neat little Western thriller last night on Grit: The Tall T from '57, with Randolph Scott. The rest of the cast was just as stellar: Maureen O'Sullivan, with Richard Boone, Skip Homeier, and Henry Silva as a nasty bunch of criminal gunmen. What caught my attention was that it was Elmore Leonard's first movie script, an original from the days when he was writing his excellent Westerns. Boone and his cohorts take over a stage station in the AZ desert, expecting to rob a mail coach, and get Scott, O'Sullivan, and her spineless new husband instead.

The setup and the dialog feel very much like an EL novel, and it builds to a satisfying climax. Good stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

81 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Run run run run run runaway.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:13 AM (XZ5S6)

82 I have a question for you, Perfesser, and anyone else who reads, but I'm usually not around to ask things on Sunday. My friend, the academic librarian, is lamenting that more than 60 percent of young people don't take out actual books. Can you think of anything to encourage this? I suggested an intro to the library and a college version of a scavenger hunt coordinated through the student activities office. with some prizes awarded. Does the library at your school do anything like this?

I have too many books , but I would go out of my mind if I had to only read books online

Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:10 AM (2GCMq)
----
The sad truth is that if students are not avid book readers by the time they get to college, they probably never will be. They've grown up in a digital age, so digital content is almost all they've known their entire lives. And their K-12 experience has probably damaged their ability to appreciate books the way you and I do. I don't think there is much we can do to fix that.

I try to encourage my students to read, but only a few of them will ever become lifelong readers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 06:14 AM (IBQGV)

83 It's a community as well as a news blog.

I was a poster on LGF and started seeing references to this place. I applied for asylum and it was quickly granted. Ace even let me keep this username.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2025

***
Stoaty Weasel, sweasel.com, mentioned Ace, and I drifted over to see. I've been here ever since, though I admit with some shame that I have not been back to Stoaty's blog, if it even still exists, since the Sniffle Scare. By 2010 she had gone to live in England. If she's still there, still online, and can post, I expect she has some on-the-ground observations about how the mother country has fallen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:15 AM (omVj0)

84 RANDOLPH SCOTT!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:15 AM (XZ5S6)

85 Stoaty's blog is still there and is current -- she has a post mourning Ozzy Osbourne!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

86
Hadrian, any relief from the gabapentin?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:00 AM (HFcKg)

__________

She seems chipper, but she's always chipper. She's eating a bit better as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:18 AM (HZi96)

87 The GPD Win 5 is a handheld gaming device... With a Ryzen AI Max 395+. (Liliputing)

What.

That chip uses 80W in low power mode.

Does it come with oven mitts?

It will make a good hand dryer with all the fans it’s going to need.

The other problem is battery life.

The biggest battery they could fit in the thing has to be around 55Whr.

So even if they can get the TDP down to 55 watts in low power mode the thing will suck all the juice out of it in about 45 minutes.

Even if they could fit the FAA limit for batteries at 99Whr in there (which I doubt), you might get an 90 minutes on battery.

It will be interesting to see how GPD gets around all of that when this handheld in released.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:18 AM (6ydKt)

88 Last Ventures thing for me today.

This guy goes into a breakfast place in the Tacoma Washington area and orders breakfast. The waitress asks him how his day is going and the guy responds. It's a great day. I've been listening to the greatest guitar music on the planet, The Ventures.

When he goes to pay his bill he finds out it was taken care of. From the perplexed look on his face the waitress understood she needed to clear up the matter by telling him that the guy sitting at the bar paid it. She then casually dropped who that guy was.

That guy was Don Wilson a founding member and guitarist for the Ventures. Mr. Wilson passed in 2022 in his hometown, Tacoma Washington.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:18 AM (NXz8h)

89 RANDOLPH SCOTT!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025

***
Yeah, I could have included that, but didn't feel even energetic enough for copy and paste.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

90 81 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Run run run run run runaway.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:13 AM (XZ5S6)

run-run-run-run runaway?

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:20 AM (aURVT)

91 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 05:47 AM

Your words, not mine. I saiid I loathe The Wall, I believe.

Never been a Brian Setzer fan, but I'll give that a listen.

Here's a got take for you: The Flying Frog Brigade's cover of Sheep is superior to the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4gLQYYiec

Posted by: fluffy at July 25, 2025 06:22 AM (AN2gy)

92 G'mornin all y'all
This is a spayshul place, indeed !
Many moons ago I believe NEO had a reference to AOS.
Quickly added to bookmarks.
What a gem.
Thanks all!!!

Posted by: OkJohn at July 25, 2025 06:24 AM (NC/it)

93 RMBS, Good morning. Range trip this weekend?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:43 AM

That's the plan. I'll be shooting with the RMBS Mom, and hopefully MP4 if his schedule's clear. TxMoMeX is only 3 months away.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2025 06:24 AM (Wnv9h)

94 run-run-run-run runaway?
Posted by: m

Run Away
Del Shannon
https://youtu.be/0S13mP_pfEc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:24 AM (NXz8h)

95 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 06:14 AM (IBQGV)

That is really a shame. I am thankful I grew up before the internet age and had parents who stressed reading, and his dad and I encouraged our son to read as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:26 AM (2GCMq)

96 @80 All of the films in the Ranown Cycle by Boetticher are excellent. My favorite is Ride Lonesome.

Posted by: lizabth at July 25, 2025 06:26 AM (Jfw7U)

97 BBC

Female exec captured in viral Coldplay concert clip resigns

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)

98 Watched a neat little Western thriller last night on Grit: The Tall T from '57, with Randolph Scott.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

—-

They were playing that one a lot last year on Starz Westerns.

It grew on me, as I wasn’t really impressed with it at first.

Thanks for the background on the writer as it’s a dialogue-heavy film. There are some good action scenes, but a lot of it is Scott’s character mind-gaming the bandits into killing each other.

The young Henry Silva as one of the baddies was good in his role as Chink.

Richard Boone was excellent in his part as the head bad guy.

I watched it a few times last year I liked it so much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

99 Thanks for the background on the writer as it’s a dialogue-heavy film. There are some good action scenes, but a lot of it is Scott’s character mind-gaming the bandits into killing each other.

The young Henry Silva as one of the baddies was good in his role as Chink.

Richard Boone was excellent in his part as the head bad guy.

I watched it a few times last year I liked it so much.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025

***
This was about the time Boone got his big TV break playing Paladin. It amazes me to this day how good he was both as a hero (though Paladin had a dark edge) and as a villain. See his role in Big Jake w/ John Wayne.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:32 AM (aURVT)

101 94 run-run-run-run runaway?
Posted by: m

Run Away
Del Shannon
https://youtu.be/0S13mP_pfEc
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:24 AM (NXz8h)

Oh, I know! I was questioning the number of "runs."

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:33 AM (aURVT)

102 There's a small moth in here, and Dagny La Siberienne is studying on how she can kill it. Big black Stirling is post-breakfast relaxing, and hasn't realized there is potential prey on the wing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

103 Richard Boone was one of the few saving graces of the Rankin-Bass version of "The Hobbit." He voiced Smaug. The other was the inimitable Hans Conried portraying Thorin Oakenshield.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:36 AM (XZ5S6)

104
Coffee. Good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:37 AM (HZi96)

105 Oh, I know! I was questioning the number of "runs."
Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:33 AM (aURVT)
------------
Couldn't remember if there were four or five. Decided to play it safe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:37 AM (XZ5S6)

106 Mornin'

Gonna golf and dodge thunderstorms today!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 06:38 AM (uGaBv)

107 Here's a got take for you: The Flying Frog Brigade's cover of Sheep is superior to the original

Dope. Much of this music elevates when it gets performed live and this is a prime example of that. I saw Roger Waters. It's not a drill tour and they performed this song. Once again, that performance blew away the record.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:39 AM (NXz8h)

108 BBC

Starmer under pressure to recognise Palestinian statehood

Sir Keir Starmer is facing pressure to immediately recognise Palestinian statehood after France made a commitment to do so within months and a group of MPs called on the prime minister to do the same.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:39 AM (aURVT)

109 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:40 AM (XZ5S6)

110 That chip uses 80W in low power mode.

Does it come with oven mitts?

Sheesh, if people want a space heater just buy one.

If you think that's bad, I used to have an MSI laptop that sported an actual Pentium 4 and a 7200 rpm hard drive. That thing ran so hot it would sometimes burn my left palm whenever I used it. Also melted the paint off the stickers on that side of the laptop, lol. I put up with it for a while because I didn't want to fork over even more money for another laptop for a few years.

Posted by: Farquad at July 25, 2025 06:41 AM (znbnV)

111 From the genius lyrics website

My little runaway, a-run-run, run, run, runaway

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:41 AM (NXz8h)

112 Here’s a version of Wipeout with The Ventures:

https://youtu.be/XjiOtouyBOg

With an extra set of drums played by Max Weinberg.

Two drummers for this song might be considered overkill, but it works.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

113 BBC

Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape

Ward, a sitting member of New South Wales parliament, assaulted two young men, a jury found.

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)

114 Get up, get dressed, go to work, eat your breakfast. Don’t forget your hearing aids. Or your teeth.

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 06:44 AM (jgmnb)

115 From Musixmatch

I run-run-run-run runaway

!!!

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 06:45 AM (aURVT)

116 Speaking of Richard Boone and Paladin, the Christmas episode of Have Gun -- Will Travel from 1962 is on Heroes & Icons at 8:30 am ET/7:30 Central.

Next Thursday one of the exceptional episodes from its last year, "The Burning Tree," is on Thursday 7/31 at 8 am/7 am. It features long-time affable character actor Whit Bissell (the general in Time Tunnel) as a charming serial wife-murderer whom Paladin is bringing to justice, and Elinor Donahue as the naive country girl he starts charming as soon as he meets her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:48 AM (omVj0)

117 This was about the time Boone got his big TV break playing Paladin. It amazes me to this day how good he was both as a hero (though Paladin had a dark edge) and as a villain. See his role in Big Jake w/ John Wayne.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

Boone was good at playing good or bad, one of those rare stars who could do both.

You know who else I noticed could play good or bad well after watching Texas Rangers (1936)?

Fred MacMurray.

He could play the nicest husband and father or the most crooked and evil character without missing a beat.

Sometimes he even played the bad guy who went good, like in Texas Rangers.

Arthur Kennedy and Charles Drake also had that same talent.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

118 "If we [Intel] are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect that it will not be economical to develop and manufacture Intel 14A and successor leading-edge nodes on a go-forward basis," - from the Tom's Hardware article.

I would love to know what they mean by significant external customer. Does this mean companies like Dell are telling them to pack sand? This sounds like Intel is going to be liquidating the office and selling it off the real estate. Anybody here want to go in together and buy a Fab?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:50 AM (NXz8h)

119 Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape

Ward, a sitting member of New South Wales parliament, assaulted two young men, a jury found.
Posted by: m at July 25, 2025

***
When Western society was sane, even an accusation like that would have been a career-ender. Now he can probably get a book out of it, written from prison.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:50 AM (omVj0)

120 116 Speaking of Richard Boone and Paladin, the Christmas episode of Have Gun -- Will Travel from 1962 is on Heroes & Icons at 8:30 am ET/7:30 Central.

Next Thursday one of the exceptional episodes from its last year, "The Burning Tree," is on Thursday 7/31 at 8 am/7 am. It features long-time affable character actor Whit Bissell (the general in Time Tunnel) as a charming serial wife-murderer whom Paladin is bringing to justice, and Elinor Donahue as the naive country girl he starts charming as soon as he meets her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:48 AM (omVj0
So, the Henry Eighth method.

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 06:51 AM (jgmnb)

121 mornin yall. In local news, Is’Real Kiven-Nicholas Saunders got picked up by the cops again. His mama say he a good boy and was turning his life around again.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

122 You know who else I noticed could play good or bad well after watching Texas Rangers (1936)?

Fred MacMurray.

He could play the nicest husband and father or the most crooked and evil character without missing a beat.

Sometimes he even played the bad guy who went good, like in Texas Rangers.

Arthur Kennedy and Charles Drake also had that same talent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025

***
MacMurray could indeed. See his rat of an officer in Caine Mutiny and his slimy personnel manager in The Apartment. And as for bad to good, there's a little Western from the late Fifties, Face of a Fugitive, which has the built-in ticking clock that all good thrillers need, and showcases Fred's skill.

Kennedy could do it too, as you say. Drake I know mostly from his appearance as a deskbound commodore on Trek.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:54 AM (omVj0)

123 Oh no! Netflix cancelled Megan and The Spare's $100 million part time vanity project. Can we have a moment of silence them? No snickering. Bite the side of your mouth if you have to.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 06:56 AM (NXz8h)

124 Next Thursday one of the exceptional episodes from its last year, "The Burning Tree," is on Thursday 7/31 at 8 am/7 am. It features long-time affable character actor Whit Bissell (the general in Time Tunnel) as a charming serial wife-murderer whom Paladin is bringing to justice, and Elinor Donahue as the naive country girl he starts charming as soon as he meets her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:48 AM (omVj0
So, the Henry Eighth method.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025

***
We don't get to see his technique with the wives -- more of a Bluebeard style, I imagine. Quite a change for Bissell. He usually played bank managers, attorneys, doctors, everyday things like that. He must have loved the change of pace here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:56 AM (omVj0)

125 Psychokiller bom-bom-bombom-bom-bom
I run away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:56 AM (6ydKt)

126
Run, Don't Walk to See Walk Don't Run!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hkIWY0DobM

Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2025 06:59 AM (iJfKG)

127

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 25, 2025 07:00 AM (EFZgU)

128 MacMurray could indeed. See his rat of an officer in Caine Mutiny and his slimy personnel manager in The Apartment. And as for bad to good, there's a little Western from the late Fifties, Face of a Fugitive, which has the built-in ticking clock that all good thrillers need, and showcases Fred's skill.

Kennedy could do it too, as you say. Drake I know mostly from his appearance as a deskbound commodore on Trek.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:54 AM (omVj0)

MacMurray also had that little role in Double Indemnity that he was quite famous for.

Drake appears in a lot of westerns in the 50s.

He’s in Winchester ‘73 as Shelly Winters soon to be ex-boyfriend who’s not bad but yellow.

He’s in several others I’ve seen lately, too.
He’s a good guy in some, bad in others.

He and Audie Murphy were in a few westerns together, including Walk the Proud Land, where Murphy plays an Indian Agent at an Apache Reservation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

129 Psycho Killer
David Byrne
Stop Making Sense concerts 1984

https://youtu.be/6Q75BUg1epU

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:02 AM (NXz8h)

130 When Western society was sane, even an accusation like that would have been a career-ender. Now he can probably get a book out of it, written from prison.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 06:50 AM (omVj0)

Recall Allen Drury's "Advice and Consent" (book, then movie) in which just the rumor of homosexuality would destroy a career and a life.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 07:03 AM (h/ffs)

131 Bonnie Raitt did a jamb up version of Runaway back in the day.

The recording on the album is a lot more driving than this live performance. Check out her voice, so distinctive:

https://youtu.be/HPzcZNgVfpA

Damn, the 70-80s was a great time for the Blues or most American music in general.

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2025 07:03 AM (QB+5g)

132 The media is not going to let go of Epstein. They think this will be the thing that takes PDT down. Boy, are they dumb.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

133 "Advise and Consent."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (h/ffs)

134 Watch MacMurray in Double Indemnity

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (AOsQT)

135 They think this will be the thing that takes PDT down.
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

It's like a drug with them. Each time, completely addicted.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 07:06 AM (h/ffs)

136 Ventures video. The song is from 1960, and the car in the first half of the video looks to be a Buick.
I believe I have watched that movie a dozen times, probably on MST3K. A typical early 1960's movie which I love for laughs. If I remember the plot the boyfriend is taking the girl somewhere to a sporting event, probably a giant grasshopper is going to attack them? Or something like that.

Posted by: colin at July 25, 2025 07:06 AM (wlQdF)

137 Mornin' Horde.

Hey Intel: Remember all those post-sale CPU microcode updates that were released that attempted to fix security design problems in your processors, but when implemented also seriously reduced their performance?

Remember when you (for a time) went from properly soldering the CPU die to the IHS (integrated heat spreader) and instead used thermal paste resulting in serious thermal management problems that showed up years later for the end users?

Your customers remember.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 07:07 AM (O7YUW)

138 The media is not going to let go of Epstein. They think this will be the thing that takes PDT down. Boy, are they dumb.
Posted by: fd

THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:08 AM (NXz8h)

139
"Advise and Consent."
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (h/ffs)

____________

Great book. Very much recommend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:09 AM (HZi96)

140
They think this will be the thing that takes PDT down.
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

They seem to imagine there's a log with an entry, "May 28, 2002. Donald J. Trump, Room 14 with Juanita, age 14."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:12 AM (HZi96)

141 Thx Alteria, I really enjoy those few minutes of the film!

& g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 07:12 AM (dKEEs)

142 THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN supercut

https://youtu.be/rLEchPZm318

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 07:13 AM (AOsQT)

143 @142/Don Black: None of us hate the media enough.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

144 Bonnie Raitt did a jamb up version of Runaway back in the day.
Posted by: pawn

If you're not already familiar with it, check out her 1995 live album Road Tested.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:15 AM (NXz8h)

145 @m: Congrats on the 1 and 100. Hope your Friday goes well.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

146 Dew point index here in Maine goes to 70 and fluctuates. The one in Virginia Beach index goes to 80 and stays there for 6 weeks.

Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:15 AM (HaTLf)

147 Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape
When Western society was sane, even an accusation like that would have been a career-ender. Now he can probably get a book out of it, written from prison.

I thought being a homosexual rapist was a requirement to being a member of NSW parliament.

Posted by: Dumb Australian Voter at July 25, 2025 07:19 AM (R/m4+)

148 There are a lot of similar videos on youtube

there's 'tipping point'
'beginning of the end'
'bombshell'
and of course, everybody in media predicting Trump won't survive
'because tonight's bombshell could be the tipping point that means it's the beginning of the end'

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 07:20 AM (AOsQT)

149 125 Psychokiller bom-bom-bombom-bom-bom
I run away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 06:56 AM (6ydKt)

From Genius lyrics

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 07:22 AM (aURVT)

150 Pixy, Dick Dale. Surf Rock.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:24 AM (NXz8h)

151 Dew point index here in Maine goes to 70 and fluctuates. The one in Virginia Beach index goes to 80 and stays there for 6 weeks.
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:15 AM (HaTLf)

It’s 76 here right now, but close to 80 isn’t unusual during the summer mornings here in SC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

152 I believe I have watched that movie a dozen times, probably on MST3K. A typical early 1960's movie which I love for laughs. If I remember the plot the boyfriend is taking the girl somewhere to a sporting event, probably a giant grasshopper is going to attack them? Or something like that.
Posted by: colin at July 25, 2025

***
Giant grasshopper? The Beginning of the End w/ Peter Graves? That was late Fifties, I think. Not sure without checking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

153 Is an Acer Nitro laptop with:
Intel Core i7-13620H Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
15.6" FHD IPS 144Hz Display
16GB DDR5
512GB Gen 4 SSD

a good laptop for not-top-of-the-line gaming?

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 07:27 AM (yDIvu)

154 Watch MacMurray in Double Indemnity
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025

***
The role he deservedly is best remembered for.

The film version, partly written by Raymond Chandler, has a better end scene than does the James M. Cain novel (which has a shivery ending of its own). Amazing that a film can occasionally be even better than its source novel.

If there was nothing else, the scene where Edward G. Robinson's Keyes, MacMurray's boss at the insurance company, lectures the company's owner about all the ways people have committed suicide, is a gem, and a master class on how you dominate the screen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

155 From Genius lyrics

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 07:22 AM (aURVT)

I swear I heard some bom-bom-bombom-boms in there somewhere.

Maybe I’m getting my boms mixed up with the fas.

Or I could’ve been humming the bass & drum beats?

It’s all French to me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

156 Chuck E. Cheese got arrested in front of a bunch of kids at a birthday party for credit card fraud.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

157 129 Psycho Killer
David Byrne
Stop Making Sense concerts 1984

https://youtu.be/6Q75BUg1epU
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:02 AM (NXz8h)

... where he certainly looks the part!

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)

158 153 Is an Acer Nitro laptop with:
Intel Core i7-13620H Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
15.6" FHD IPS 144Hz Display
16GB DDR5
512GB Gen 4 SSD

a good laptop for not-top-of-the-line gaming?
Posted by: GWB

Should be reasonably capable, yes. Definitely better than integrated graphics, even good integrated graphics.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)

159 If there was nothing else, the scene where Edward G. Robinson's Keyes, MacMurray's boss at the insurance company, lectures the company's owner about all the ways people have committed suicide, is a gem, and a master class on how you dominate the screen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

Edward G. Robinson.
Another actor who could be good or bad.

You don’t see many modern actors who can pull off both sides of humanity anymore.

Anthony Hopkins comes to mind, immediately.

But most actors are pigeonholed these days it seems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

160 145 @m: Congrats on the 1 and 100. Hope your Friday goes well.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

; )

Posted by: m at July 25, 2025 07:32 AM (aURVT)

161 I dig surf. It's twangy.

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 07:33 AM (AOsQT)

162 Gotta include Denzel in the good/bad character group.

Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2025 07:33 AM (i0F8b)

163 What bothers physicist about black holes
An interview with Brian Cox
Are we in one?

That's a pretty good YouTube video title.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 25, 2025 07:33 AM (NXz8h)

164 It is to laugh that the weather page has an excessive heat warning for 93 degrees in Texas. Get a grip.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 05:26 AM (HFcKg)

It's been pretty mild, temperature wise, this year in Austin. I don't think we've hit 100 yet... knock wood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

165 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 07:35 AM (cYBz/)

166 163 What bothers physicist about black holes
An interview with Brian Cox

###

There's a plane in there somewhere.

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 25, 2025 07:35 AM (XQo4F)

167 Should be reasonably capable, yes. Definitely better than integrated graphics, even good integrated graphics.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)

Thanks. This is a lot harder than in the old days where there were like 4 versions of graphics, and you knew which ones were better than the others. That laptop is almost $1,000.

Oh, and great hash.

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 07:35 AM (yDIvu)

168 158 153 Is an Acer Nitro laptop with:
Intel Core i7-13620H Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
15.6" FHD IPS 144Hz Display
16GB DDR5
512GB Gen 4 SSD

a good laptop for not-top-of-the-line gaming?
Posted by: GWB

Should be reasonably capable, yes. Definitely better than integrated graphics, even good integrated graphics.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 25, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)

I’d go for the 4060 GPU if it’s available and isn’t a lot more expensive, though.

The rest of the specs are fine for a little gaming laptop. At 512GB, you might need an extra external SSD with the size of games these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:35 AM (6ydKt)

169 If there was nothing else, the scene where Edward G. Robinson's Keyes, MacMurray's boss at the insurance company, lectures the company's owner about all the ways people have committed suicide, is a gem, and a master class on how you dominate the screen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

Edward G. Robinson.
Another actor who could be good or bad.

You don’t see many modern actors who can pull off both sides of humanity anymore.

Anthony Hopkins comes to mind, immediately.

But most actors are pigeonholed these days it seems.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 25, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

I think Anthony Perkins (Psycho, On The Beach) also could do the both sides thing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 25, 2025 07:35 AM (wVcYX)

170
JJ

Posted by: hennigantx at July 25, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

171 MacMurray does this thing in Double Indemnity where he strikes wooden matches with his thumbnail

he lights his cigarette like that maybe a dozen times in the movie

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 07:36 AM (AOsQT)

172
*runs in waving arms excitedly*

JJ!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:37 AM (HZi96)

173 Buick LeSabre I'd venture.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 08:08 AM (n4GiU)

174 >Which is one of those acquisitions which just seems backwards

You'd think, but the adult board game market is insanely huge and attracts a lot of money. And I do mean "insane"; people who absolutely do not have that kind of disposable income are spending $200+ per month on "all-in" crowdfunding projects that will take 2 years to complete.

It's cooling off, though. I'm in several board game buy & sell social media groups and the number of people liquidating their entire collections because they need money or have to move to a smaller home has skyrocketed. People went a bit nuts buying board games during the lockdowns and those decisions are coming back to haunt them.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 25, 2025 10:12 AM (LgYtf)

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