Readit NewsEither way, it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5. I can go on AliExpress right now and buy a mini itx board with a Ryzen 9 7845HX for the same price.
Hailing from an outsourcing destination I need to ask: to where specifically? We've been laid off all the same. Me and my team spent the second half of 2025 working half time because that's the proposition we were given.
What is this fabled place with an apparent abundance of highly skilled developers? India? They don't make on average much less than we do here - the good ones make more.
My belief is that spending on staff just went down across the board because every company noticed that all the others were doing layoffs, so pressure to compete in the software space is lower. Also all the investor money was spent on datacentres so in a way AI is taking jobs.
India based folks cost 50-75% less. I realize that quality India hires would be closer to US rates, but management is ignoring that aspect.
It's been a couple of years now so they must have set better reminders for themselves.
I have tried several times to convince them of the joys of ACME, but they're insistent that a Let's Encrypt certificate "looks unprofessional". More professional than a down application in my opinion at least. It's not the early 2000s anymore, no one's looking at your certificate.
Good news for your manual renewal friends, renewals drop to 197 days in February, halving again the year after, halving again until it reaches 47. So they will soon adopt automation, or suffer endless renewal pain.
It does work well as a travel router, and can pull north of 400Mbps over WireGuard.
Runs openwrt, but not upstream, so installing some packages can be a pain.
I’m finding this more and more. Uber does it, and even Walgreens does it when I’m in the US and tap my card it suggests that I pay in my home currency. This seems to be a new vector companies have found for ripping off their customers.
Ryanair is cheap, they charge extra for everything. But the tradeoff is you get where you are going for cheap if you avoid all the extras, including bottled water.
It took me a long time to diagnose why it seemingly wouldn't work with my Nintendo Switch 2.
I ended up disabling it on my PS5 because I never use the darn thing, but it kind of stinks since most TV's have 4 HDMI inputs.
> Now Assist offers real-time guidance and support for users seeking help with Virtual Agent. This feature’s generative AI skills blah blah blah
Ok...? There is no input box to interact with "Now Assist" or the "Virtual Agent", it's just like a marketing blurb for some other feature.
Windows XP largely made that irrelevant, and Windows 7 made it almost completely irrelevant.
You know what's even harder to cool?
> Orbital Data Centers
I thought this was a troll by Elon, now I'm leaning towards not. I don't see how whatever you build being dramatically faster and cheaper to do on land, even 100% grid independent with solar and battery. Even if the launch cost was just fuel, everything else that goes into putting data centers in space dwarfs the cost of 4x solar plus battery.