Almost as important is the fact that updates do not overwrite the original packages, because those are in a read-only partition. Updates are written to an overlay file system, so every updated package uses twice as much flash space. Installing updates weekly would quickly fill the flash.

But as far as vulnerabilities go, what’s the actual exposure? From the outside there’s no ports open, and on the inside only a few for device management, and basic services like dhcp, etc. Those have been around for decades and are pretty well hardened by now.

If a business raised prices because of tariffs, and consumers paid the higher price, that was a successful test that consumers are willing to pay that higher price for the item. Once that’s been established, the business has little incentive to lower prices once the tariffs go away. Prices only go down if competition with other companies pushes them down, but every player in a market has little reason to do so when they’re enjoying the higher profits.

There simply was no other option at the time than Zip drives. Others did not strike the right balance of price, capacity, responsiveness, etc. Maybe Iomega paid to get them installed, I don’t know, but there really was no other option so I can easily see schools buying them just because they needed a solution.

USB thumb drives started appearing not long after, and they didn’t suffer from the click of death, so those became the preferred media by the time those people graduated school.

Even if you feel like it’s not really doing anything, something is better than nothing. The rule of thumb for a lot of basic cardio is that you should be able to hold a conversation while doing it without pausing because you’re out of breath.

It’s pretty clear that most modern standards (HDMI, DisplayPort, thunderbolt, etc) are so close to their physical limits that there’s no more room for errors.

This myopia in tech is so baffling to me. Windows has been around over 40 years and tech people still act like it will go away “any day now” just because they don’t like it.

I don’t think the final conclusion necessarily follows, not with this example. Solar panels are big and obvious on top of the house. It’s not the same thing as other types of values spreading through a community. The house of a healthy person isn’t any different than that of an unhealthy one.

It could be simply that the door to door solar panel salesperson was covering that 1 km area.

I’m no expert but it sounds plausible to me. From a manufacturing perspective, it makes sense that they’d want modular RAM so they can configure them at point of sale instead of having to manufacture multiple motherboards with only RAM sizes being different.