I don’t think I’ve upgraded a desktop machine for about 10 years. I usually buy a 1-3 year old corporate desktop and use it for 2-4 years, buy another one and throw the old one on eBay.

I’m on a 10500 based Lenovo thing at the moment.

My needs are not immense though.

Still use my original 42S and 15C here all the time.

I carry Free42 on my phone for day-to-day use, and the physical 42S is safely on a shelf because I love it too much to use it. And I think the keyboard finally succumbed to the rot and needs fixing.

I bought a (new) 15C recently. I have a fair few calculators, but it's the 15C that I reach for normally.

Yeah the 15CE is nice.

I own, err, three. Use one, hedge the others on going up in value one day :)

The 15C is a true classic. I used to be a land surveyor, so the 48GX with the COGO card was my fave.

You need the historical context of the desktop calculator to really understand the pocket calculator.

Short summary: "I want that in my pocket"

Yep. Investors are shifting capital out of the market. Always happens. The little guys end up paying for the losses.

Cynical take here, but I think realistic.

There's a lot of noise I can see behind the scenes on investor confidence. Noise as in "everything is fucked" sort of level of noise. Thus I expect this is being said to try and stop the AAPL stock collapsing in the upcoming recession that the analysts are predicting more than a tangible expansion and recruitment goal.

I also take issue with their being 20,000 people on the market who are still able to contribute something useful. They will be culled quickly and quietly down the line in the annual corporate lay offs.

It is not the time to make grand gestures unless you're trying to gain political favour, at which point any respect I have at least is gone.

Market opening today should be interesting...

I get locked out occasionally when travelling outside EU as well. I've got to the point I will just avoid using services with CloudFlare in front of them.

Also the one time I reported abuse which was online banking phishing they just replied that they'd informed the upstream provider and nothing happened.

Relying on nuances of the abstraction and undefined or variable characteristics sounds like a very very bad idea to me.

The one thing you generally want for circuits is reproducibility.

Yeah also given that I don't know any further attempts to do this, looks like it remains just an intellectual curiosity.

I am part of a small specialist online technical community. We just moved it over to a Hetzner box in Germany and someone there is paying for it instead of it being hosted in the UK.

What are you going to do Ofcom?

If you live in the UK and can still be linked as an operator/organizer of the site (or if it's not you, other UK residents), can't they still come after you directly? I don't know about you, but I don't think running an online community would be worth huge fines to me.

There are no UK residents involved in the organisation or operation of it now even though we came up with it.

Elegantly put.

The biggest lie that is told about crypto is that writing off a few thousand years of experience with money will make problems go away.

I think the impact is going to be far greater than that.

I have seen, at least here in the UK, some people speaking about moving entirely back to hardware that is controlled by the organisation. The case is there on a cost basis already but people are reluctant to admit this. If another magical guarantee expires such as a security one, then the reason can be shifted to that and the cost justification is collateral.

Getting out of PaaS systems is going to be horrible and expensive though. We never should have gone further than IaaS.

I suspect the idea of the cloud as it stands today may die fairly quickly.