Negative equity just means you owe more on something than it's worth. So whether you have negative equity on a car loan is a "it depends". On a new car, probably yes because of the big deprecation hit as soon as the car is driven off the lot, but on a car where the loan is almost paid off probably not.

Well, even if there's no update for your shit, it's still possible to go into the certificate store your browser/OS/whatever uses and delete the compromised certificates.

Not much you can do about everyone else not updating their shit though.

As someone who is lazy, I find running Linux to be less work than fighting with Windows.

These are only "new" chips in a marketing sense.

From a tech standpoint, they're more or less the same chips that Intel was making for LGA1700 3-4 years ago refreshed with a new name and model number. They may have slight tweaks to the clocks and the core configs, but other than that there's really nothing new about them. It's the same silicon that Intel launched back in 2022.

The only reason Intel is doing this is because LGA1700 supports DDR4 and that's kept the demand for it alive with how expensive DDR5 is now.

Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.

My favorite geography one: You get on a plane at Tampa Bay, Florida and fly due south. Which South American countries do you fly over?

Answer is none of them. You miss the entire continent because you are too far west.

My favorite is when they they say something like "it starts getting good in season 3". Like I'm going to watch tens of hours of a show that kind of sucks just to see if it actually starts getting good or not?

Of course, the reality is that they aren't really watching the show like I would - as in, they aren't sitting down and giving it their undivided attention. The show is on, but they're also on their phones the entire time, or it's on in the background and they are doing something else, or whatever. Probably one of the reasons why the show feels like it's full of filler - they need to make sure that someone that's only sort of paying attention can still follow what's going on.

Pro.... you're transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con... it's still year 2025.

My understanding is that this isn't what happened.

Meta laid off a bunch of employees. Meta claims they used an AI to gauge employees' productivity as a basis for who they laid off. The employees are accusing Meta of laying off employees who took too much medical leave.

It'll probably end up worse than that. Turn off secure boot and Windows may still run, but it will no longer verify and all these sites will now refuse to work on your computer. So if you like to run Linux, even dual booting or running Windows in a VM for those things that absolutely require Windows won't be good enough anymore.

Despite plants being associated with the color green, chlorophyll is actually a poor absorber of green wavelengths of light.

Hence the reason plants are green, because they absorb the blue and red wavelengths of light, but reflect the green.

That's one of things that bothers me about how AI is being pushed in the workplace. Assuming AI actually does manage to help me get my work done faster, it's not like I get to home earlier or work less days. I'm just going to get more work piled on me.

Summer is ending up here in the Northern hemisphere, so I'm going with this being in New Zealand, which makes it about $4600 US.

Not that I disagree, but 90 would be silent generation.

As I say, when you're hunting around for something in Windows and you come across a dialog box that came straight from Windows XP.... you're getting close.

My assumption would be that they drove the car into the mine to see what would (or wouldn't) work if the vehicle was cut off from the mothership. My hunch is they didn't really find anything of interest so this is what gets reported.

It's the explanation for why the Allies could spot their planes in situations where they would otherwise not be easily visible. If it happens a few times you might write it off as luck, but if it keeps happening over and over you might get suspicious.

With that said, I don't think they really bought the carrots thing. Both the Allied and Axis powers knew about radar and how it worked. It's just the Allies figured out how to build and deploy their systems first.

The only two games I have that I've put more than 1000 hours in are Factorio and Rimworld. I'd highly recommend both.

My main problem with the current crop of Linux phones is, or at least it's my impression - is that they still struggle with the basic phone part. As in network connectivity (at least in the US), making and receiving calls, SMS & MMS, and VoLTE support. If there's a Linux phone where that stuff is solid and works, I'd buy one. I don't really care about the whole app ecosystem - I barely have any apps on my Android phone now.

Boiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don't recommend) it's going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.