Windows file search has been useless as far back as I can remember. Especially file indexing and the load it puts on the CPU. I usually just disable file indexing on a new windows install.

The 1990s depiction of a filesystems in movies like Hacker or Disclosure was just weird. Then you had products like Microsoft Bob.

>GenX? Yeah, it's not just the Boomers despite the memes.

No its not. This is pure ageism on your part. You either don't know much about GenX or are just making it up. Both generations are vastly different. GenX being the smallest generation has very little influence on the economy , politics or culture.

Physics is ageist. Our financially engineered economy GenX is currently benefiting from is ageism against youth.

GenX is the only generation that has not soured on Trump since he started his second term. They're absorbing the economic shocks just fine.

I am an older Millennial who has worked with GenX for two decades.

They have been the worst colleagues. More often sexist, racist, classist, nihilistic than Boomer colleagues who kept it polite.

I can't recall a Millennial or GenZ coworker ever acting like any of those things.

GenX make up a huge chunk of the anti-woke crowd. Hop on TikTok and witness all the 50+ Kid Rock Stan's complain about blue haired lesbian GenZ women and trans people.

Millennials and GenZ aren't pushing those memes with the same numbers.

I have been paying attention.

Dave Chappelle, Foo Fighters, Will Smith, Brad Pitt; the backbone of the entertainment industry the last 25-30 years have little influence on our culture?

Feels like you're projecting your own out of touch with reality as mine

My son, an 18 year college student with no legal issues ever (except a speeding ticket) - had his Global Entry revoked last year. For no apparent reason. We filed an appeal and are waiting for a response. From everything I've read on it, it seems it could take upwards of 18 months to get a response. But per the article you linked, it seems that less than half are able to get it reinstated. So I'm not really hopeful.

>"Computer says no" is a saying for a reason.

Current LLMs rarely or seldom say no. Unless, they're specifically configured to block out certain types of requests.

You should lookup 'Supply-side Jesus' to get a better understanding of American Christianity.

What did Belize do? Lot of Americans have no problems moving/retiring to Belize.

I read somewhere that Google has largely abandoned support for their Coral TPUs? I still use a Coral TPU for Frigate NVR. But not sure how long they'll be supported.

The Coral isn't recommended by it anymore for most use cases. They're going to support it, but it shows it's age by never being updated for years

>the NUC segment has a gaping hole post 2023

There are dozens and dozens of NUC style / form factor machines available these days. Especially cheap ones from China. Not sure what you mean by gaping hole post 2023. I'm running 3 of them with N97 and N150 Cpus. All bought within the last 18 months.

There are very few which are suitable for integration into other products - I currently build a scientific instrument that needs a fairly powerful SBC to run. Intel NUCs were well supported and documented: all of their firmware was updatable on linux without any issues, they had data sheets with power specs so you could run them off DC predictably, and you could buy boards without a case. There are plenty of small NUC shaped mini-PCs but few that are suitable for integration (at the price point intel was at).

Cheap Chinese mini PCs just aren't well documented and don't have predictable supply.

PC gaming is a small single digit percentage of the total volatile memory market. Neither Samsung or micron or Hynix currently have any incentives to increase production to address the shortage and lowering prices for that segment of the market. It’s just not a money maker for them.

That doesn't mean that the price will never return to "normal". All three companies have new fabs being built in America and Europe right now, but they won't be online for a couple of years.

Also, if demand for AI chips continues to be sky high for years and year, the memory that is being developed now will eventually be phased out for new standards (DDR6/7/8???) and the DDR5 from existing products will be stripped and resold by other companies.

Also, if demand continues to stay high, then new companies will enter the market to cut off a slice of that monopoly pie and drive down prices. Supply and demand dictate that prices must go down if supply increases.

Personally, I think the demand will drop off a cliff if/when the AI bubble pops, but we don't know when that will happen. Until then, everyone can enjoy their Steam backlog and wait it out :)