Doesn't take long until someone has the bright idea to pipe customer tickets directly into the poorly written internal tool

Slate are trying to cut cost everywhere they can to provide the cheapest barebones EV truck possible. My Volvo EX30 also lacks door speakers and while it's not top tier it's fine tbh. Volvo just put a giant speaker bar across the base of the windshield.

So the equivalent of replacing a 5.1 surround with a beefy soundbar?

Essentially yes. I'm not gonna pretend it's better or even equivalent but it's not terrible. If you want a car with incredible audio there's plenty of options, but some people don't care and just want the cheapest car possible and they'll listen to music through a bluetooth speaker during their commute.

Can't let pilots have all the fun

Regardless of whatever other things may be better or worse about ipv6, it's still a reality that as we continue connecting more and more devices to the internet eventually ipv4 addresses will become so scarce and valuable that a not-insignificant minority of residential customers will be behind such aggressive CGNAT that the internet will become nearly unusable unless a majority of the services they are using support ipv6.

Yep the cap was $176,100 for 2025

For me last year was the tipping point, with Windows 10 hitting EOL I refused to move to the buggy mess of 11. All the games I regularly play are now nearly flawless in proton and games that refuse to run on Linux just don't exist for me anymore. Admittedly I already didn't play the kinds of highly competitive online games that like to use KLAC, so might be a tougher sell if that's your jam. Most of my game time goes to FF14 and GW2.

It would be funny as a project but there's better low speed backup options like a starlink dish on standby mode (500kbps)

A fork bomb can refer to any process that spawns multiple recursive child processes. You don't need fork to spawn more copies of yourself, that is merely the classic Unix implementation.

Year of the Linux Desktop began for me last year. All the games I play work, and that's mostly what I do at home. Work is also a Linux desktop, because our build system runs there anyways so may as well use it directly (though some still work primarily from windows/mac laptops and ssh into their desktop). Only windows machine I have left is my work laptop because IT doesn't offer Linux laptops, but it's basically just a thin client to access my desktop away from the office.

Not hidden from nation states with access to real-time satellite imagery, but more rustic guerilla operations usually don't have such sophisticated access

Just poor ones - how much could it cost to get a scan of the oceans once weekly or daily? 10 million dollars?

Actually probably even cheaper, a generic scan to spot all the ships, and when it's done, just need to get images around the last location. Probably can use something like the Planet API