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Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

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Pint

Clay

For those not familiar with New York geography: Clay is just north of Syracuse, near the center of the state. It takes 5 hours to drive there from where most people consider "New York". The Micron site is next to a power distribution site from the two nuclear reactors 30 miles away of Lake Ontario. It s 5 miles away from Oneida Lake, which has a third cubic mile of water (and a lot of ice, currently).

Don't feel bad for the bats. They have several large swampy areas nearby. Five miles to the southeast is The Great Cicero Swamp, which by personal observation contains half the world's population of mosquitoes. The Micron site can be seen on a map as a large barren area on the north side of NY Route 31, between I-81 and the big power switchyard. My daughter just closed her microbrewery in Liverpool, which was several years too early to serve thirsty Micron workers. The bats weren't interested.

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

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Because if we start in about American politicians/con men, we'd never get anything done.

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Re: People will buy Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity stickers?

In the new USSA, the law Trumps YOU!

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

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Re: Ancient hardware

Microsoft is in the business of selling new computers with new operating systems, and turning their noses up at our "antiques". Don't expect them to take notice.

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I also ran Mint on a 2013 Chromebook Pixel, after trying a couple other distros. The others had problems with the audio not working, or the functions buttons mixed up, or the screen resolution unsupported, on and on.

Mint Just Works.

I ran version 9 (?) on a Win2K laptop with 512 MB RAM, and an Atom desktop (shoebox) with 2 GB.

To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived

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It creeps up on you, like when you confuse Iceland with Greenland.

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

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Re: It's great to see...

I keep coming back to Mint since ... 9? I dunno. It Just Works.

If it had KDE it would be perfect. Now I just bounce back and forth between Neon, MX, and Mint. My wife runs Mint, but thinks it's just an upgraded Windows 7.

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Mushroom

Re: LDME

In case Ubuntu, say, gets bought out by that other crazy guy from South Africa., and goes downhill like Cybertruck sales.

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Torrent = trickle

I'd torrent Mint to do my part, but my cable upload speeds are slower than 10 WPM Morse Code.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

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Re: All These Boats Sailed Thirty Or Forty Years Ago!!!!

There's your problem right there: your garages are too small. We keep our junk, toys and startups in ours, and park our cars outside.

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I'm not an IT professional, so could you explain the difference between a stack, an ecosystem, and a quagmire?

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

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Re: 20 years too late

The feed from Donald Trump's late night "Truth" social feeds will hasten the demise of AI.

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

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Driving an ex-lease Mazda now, plus a 2015 Focus that we bought from Hertz.highly recommend the concept vs. new cars.

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

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Re: Hey Trump

We went through Atlanta, same deal, but it was crazy quick. We had a Nexus pass, which is half the price of Global Entry (don't know why) and facial recognition, so breezed through. Of course, we're white.

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Re: Hey Trump

Maybe he can get his pal Putin for a cellmate.

Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall

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Linux

I, for one, welcome your Microsoft OVerlords ...

... increasing the supply of Linux-ready machines at low prices.

In other new, ZorinOS announced 800 thousand downloads. And it's one of dozens of distros.

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap

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Re: Test stand

Musk should have explained that to hos buddy Trompe.

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

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"upgrading" Windows makes things worse. Switching to Linux, makes it cleaner and easier to use. Keep the same icons and wallpaper,and people might not notice.

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Re: Windows 7 laptops??

No, I didn't get the memo. I'm typing on an HP Elitebook that I got dirt cheap. It came with Windows 11, which I ran for an hour until trying a few distros, finally installing KDE Neon for fun. It replaced a 2013 Chromebook Pixel with a dead video driver. Our desktops average 9 years. No Windows in this house.

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

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Mushroom

Re: @IGotOut - Meanwhile, here in Blighty...

Mar-A Lago East: Coming soon! First stage demolition is almost complete.

Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it

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Linux

Re: Popular? Operating System?

By that criteria, my OS is popular.

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

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Re: All that money

I don't see that happening for the next 3-1/2 years or so.

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

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Re: Work visas, really? Where are they?

Well, they voted for him, enthusiastically.

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

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Re: Why is this even a thing?

Imagine buying an Agilent (HP) millimeter wave network analyzer for $140,000 that runs Windows 7. True story.

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

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Windows

Nobody will ever want to invade Alabama.

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

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Re: Fantasy Linux

Nuke, pave, reinstall. Enjoy.

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Re: Fantasy Linux

I started with Mint 9 (or 7?) and tried other distros over the years but usually come back to Mint because It Always Works. Ten years ago I didn't recommend it to Noobs; today I do. I keep 4 different ISOs on a flash drive (using Ventoy) on my keyring just in case I happen upon a Windows sufferer.

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Linux

Re: I may be old and set in my ways ...

I'm old (77) and set in my ways (retired vacuum tube engineer), but I'm not taking any more of MS's crap, or trashing my 11 year old PC.

BTW, I run Linux Mint.

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

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Re: A step above a “useful idiot”

“Adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” Mark 7:22-23

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

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Can't wait

Expecting a flood of "old, obsolete" PCs cheap, that I can install Linux on.

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

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Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

Zorin has a "windows 7" desktop option. Whatever.

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

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Re: Which Distro indeed?

So, it was a customer problem, not a Linux problem.

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Linux

Zorin appeals to noobs who want that Windows look. Not judging.

Me, I install Mint if I just want everything to work, without fooling around.

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

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Linux

I have four generously sized Linux partitions on my 256 GB SSD, and the other half of it is data space.

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

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Re: Electric cars don’t add much to load

EVs can be timed to start charging in the middle of the night when most of the world sleeps. even better if you get a reduced rate.

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

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Re: If you'd look outside the US

The Inflation Reductiom Act.

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"Unborn Black Lives Matter" makes liberal heads explode.

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When has Trump ever seen the error of his ways?

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Unhappy

Re: checks and balances of government

An innocent bystander died instead of Trump. SAD!

After 3 years, Windows 11 has more than half Windows 10's market share

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Re: Why Upgrade?

That's when I buy them, at big discounts, and put Linux on them. Go, Microsoft!

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Re: The Last OS

Linux Mint is the third party app I use. Makes Windows a joy to use.

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

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Re: "The Biden administration"?

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. --Malachi 3:5

OK, not a Christian, and Trump hasn't been accused of sorcery (yet), but Jesus had plenty to say about false prophets, hypocrites, etc.

Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism

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Re: Baby you can drive my car

Well, you can set the charge and discharge percentages to whatever.

Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes

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Re: Hmm

I've come to respect maturity. Up until Joe Biden.

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

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FAIL

Re: CO2 is NOT a problem

We found the Luddite/Denier/Petroshill.

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Re: Lies, damn lies and statistcs

In the USA, there's terrible selection. The best cheap EV is ... WAS, the Bolt.

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Re: The infrastructure plan is a clusterfscked boondoggle

The real problem with the grid is peak load, when everybody is running their air conditioner or taking showers in the evening when the sun is too low to generate solar power.

The real answer is that almost everybody is charging at night when rates are cheap because everything else shuts down yet base load generators are still turning. Evening out the load is a huge benefit for the grid that EVs provide, If we ever get them.

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050

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Re: So tell us something we didnt know

Recycling batteries is doable and being done. They don't get thrown in a dump and leach poison like the oil industry tells you.

Another business is retrofitting old EVs like Leafs with modern batteries.

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Re: 8 mins

You'll get old some day.

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I live above an ancient sea near Syracuse, The Salt City. They spread the roads with a constant layer of it from November to April.

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