I hate to be the one to point it out, but not all comics are jokes. They’re often used to summarize an absurdity, observation or viewpoint in a concise graphical format that’s easy to digest and share.

It’s now been fixed and they’re back to normal operations.

Also, ship the guys some flex seal!

I’d assume the density is much lower here. They don’t have to resort to cramming as much together since they can just throw up another tent. They’re also likely putting them right on the ground instead of worrying about the Nice raised floors for permanent cabling and other niceties.

I’m just wondering how they deal with cooling.

Having grown up in Chicago, i was always told Chicago was “The Windy City” Not because of weather/breeze, but because the politicians were known for blowing hot air.

Yes… and the ability to deal with super densely packed rack weight.

Like seriously, they can’t use existing empty data center space because the floors aren’t built to deal with ones that tightly packed of equipment.

'Eh, I stopped about 8yrs ago. Wasn’t that hard. Highly recommended, btw.

All you have to do is make sure MFA is on, log off and never go back. Then delete the apps, of course.

As a manager, I don’t give a rats ass if you use AI. If you’re performing on par with your peers and you know and own your stuff, you’re safe.

Honestly, that last part is crucial and I’ve hd to remind some of my employees that using Claude is cool and all, but at the end of the day, you own it and I’m going to ask and assume you know it or we’re going to have a serious performance discussion. I can hire anyone to prompt Claude for me, what you bring to the table is what sets you apart.

I see it this way: xAI is selling badly enough that they are leasing their compute to Anthropic because they know they bought enough of it for the traffic they thought they would get and it’s no where close to that… And not just by a little, so much so that they know it won’t be anytime soon and they might as well make something back for the capital they spent.

I always figured they could just charge the card for a “gift card” for that amount… Which then immediately gets used for the “adult themed” game. Or at least allow the games to be sold on the store only with gift cards.

But this time there’s AI involved… so we can also boil the oceans!

I don’t think they’re moving from GitHub, just GitHub CoPilot.

As an Apple user, I laughed at this… the one thing we all want is NOT to have Gemini or AI on our phones. I mean, if we wanted Gemini, we could just use Google & Android.

I’d argue that they can still learn typing, researching, google docs (which, lets be honest, are close enough to microsoft, open or libre office to count), navigating the web, learning how to detect scams, AI and things like that… even on a Chromebook.

That said, my kid is about to go to college and hasn’t used a chromebook since 6th grade. I don’t currently know anyone whose kid has either. They’re just not used for schools much anymore. Their huge selling point was simplifying the OS support and battery life, but her current Lenovo lasts all day already as do most normal laptops at this point and GPO’s and AD are a things.

Nah, her kind of deep seated hatred comes from required usage over time, not from a weekend. Short term exposure just doesn’t do it.

Not sure if joking/trolling, but school computers don’t generally ALLOW social media or chat apps like Discord and such, as well as harshly limit internet usage with guardrails. They’re pretty locked down and even when at home monitor network usage.

I don’t like laptops and such in schools, but kids ARE going to need to know how to use them to be successful and that’s something a lot of parents can’t teach.

When I was growing up, we had to learn how to type, how to use the Dewey Decimal System and library terminals to look up where books were for research and such. Later, we had Computer Labs to do this work and write reports and such… This is no different. Don’t confuse a smartphone internet experience and its constant advertising and social aspects with what kids get on these laptops.

There’s some benefit… my daughter was assigned a Window 11 Lenovo the last two tears and now hates Microsoft AND Windows.

Her personal laptop runs linux.

They were just layoffs in disguise, so they wont be back for a while.

It was definitely worth it for the $40 I paid a long time ago. I used it a little longer than desired because Jellyfin’s DVR support wasn’t always there. It is now and i haven’t used Plex in over a year.

IMHO, Jellyfin needs a bit better UI, but Plex is actively making theirs worse, so…

At the moment it’s in a box, but still functional last I checked. Did pretty well for itself, especially since I had it overclocked most of its life.

I was building them about every 18mo to 2yrs and then stopped noticing any good reason to built my C2D in 2006 upgraded to an i5 6600K when I needed the C2D for a server in 2015 and finally built my current 7950X3D in 2023 so I could use the 6600K as a HTPC/couch gaming rig. I’ll be good for a while now. I guess I’ll start thinking about it in 2030.