And in typical Aussie fashion, we ripped that off for ourselves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfBxs53vBo&t=149s

No that is a conspiracy I can get behind.

In an economic system that has striped people of self value, some will find their own in value that attacks said system. However in a really weird way. One that has them telling you Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced with someone who just happened to be as good if not better than the original McCartney?!

Now how on earth could that create any kind of performance anxiety?

To quote Adam ruins everything from 10 years back! THE HYMEN DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikXim4wevc

Because LOL that’s why.

You haven’t lived until you have experienced the warm salty velvety experience of pure analog olfactory organ soup.

To be fair to the 1980’s, a Hercules video card in 1982 adjusted for inflation would only be about $1700. We are way beyond that point.

An original Macintosh 128K would set you back $8100 in today’s money, so I guess in that regard Apple hasn’t changed. ;)

And this is totally not a story from your past, you are just a creative individual.

At least the Macbook Neo comes with a lot more flashy stuff.

It is starting to feel like it. Might not see price decline for a while yet, but the upswing on pricing is nearing breaking point.

I suspect if anyone is buying these is because of them needing to meet an existing strict spec. Not sure what that would be but it is a possibility.

I hadn’t been keeping a close eye on pricing but was blown away the other day. The Nvidia RTX 5090 launched at $4090 here in Australia, that was already obscene. Nowadays almost 2 years later, you are lucky if you find one under $12,000!

For a while there, second hand mini desktops like the Lenovo/Optiplex’s could be picked up for about half the price of a new Pi5. Typically had equal RAM, loads of SSD storage and desktop class(ish) CPU perfomance, plus all the other benefits (Secureboot, x86 compatibility so you could run Windows if you wished). Only major thing missing was the GPIO connection.

But looking now the prices are increasing rapidly as they have been discovered. The cheap ones are typically striped of RAM and storage.

Yes! It feels like every second restaurant in my area has suddenly gone with this font and AI slop images for their menus. Lets call it Tragic Sans or something like that.

I see that, I go elsewhere.

Debian the foundation of the modern world. Or at least we wish it was.

Yes, we know it was called the The South American Blackout of 2019.

Maybe a bit of both. Could be an intellectual form of Hanlon’s razor. Don’t mistake obscurity for intelligence.

Folks in the US are both comfortable enough and unsteady enough that they will not move. It was Zizek about a week back who said it, people are not desperate enough yet to get to this stage. *** sniff! ***

The thing that saddens me isn’t a headline like that, it is that there will be more like him afterwards. :(