#Drones operated SBU struck plant in Russia’s #Nizhny #Novgorod Oblast producing components for #CruiseMissiles

According to the #SBU source, the targeted facility produces #gyroscopic #instruments, control systems, onboard #computers, and #component systems for #Russian Kh-32 and Kh-101 #missiles, #weapons regularly used in attacks against Ukraine.

https://kyivindependent.com/1-killed-2-injured-as-drones-strike-aerospace-plant-in-russias-nizhny-novgorod-oblast/

Personal computers have existed for more than 40 years by now. I expect people that work with them in their everyday jobs to be at least a little bit capable of using them properly. If I get a pdf from the local town administration asking me to add my personal details and send it back to them, I want that to be a fillable form. I don't want to have to print it, fill in their questions and then scan it (which they probably expect people to do).

Fortunately I'm computer literate enough to add some text with inkscape and export back to pdf.

"She was one of thousands of Jewish children fleeing the Nazis and came to Britain aged five as part of the Kindertransport - a British rescue effort in the months preceding World War 2 which brought 10,000 children to the UK - where she was brought up by loving foster parents.

"She went on to become a computer industry and women's rights pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzzlp7p3po

Call me crazy, but I am just gonna put this out there;
THE PRICE OR GPUS IS STUPID and GPU PRICES MUST COME DOWN IMMEDIATELY!
damnit

#Boomers have a special relationship with #technology. We saw the birth and development of #TV, personal #computers and #smartphones. Having lived with and without all of these we can judge what is really useful and necessary and what we have been #marketed to believe we can’t live without, like #Facebook or #apps for everything.

How to properly (and safely) clean your laptop.

From @popsci: "It's a job that's more important than you might think — so don't put it off."

https://flip.it/YoP-Fn

XYZ, Polish computer from 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_(computer)

My university #IT staff are re-imaging our #computers with #Windows11 (not upgrading, re-imaging). We have to make sure our files are backed up before they take the computer. Which I did. Except I have two hard drives--an SSD with Windows 10 installed and a HDD for backups and extra storage. I didn't think about the HDD. Not until the IT guy brought the computer back, booted it up, and said...of, did you have two drives? He had pulled the SSD and wiped the HDD with the Windows 11 re-image. WTF?

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retro tech is beautiful not just because of the chunky connectors and funny colors. like, that IS beautiful, but also: it's yearning for tech that doesn't break down. tech that you can keep repairing for generations.

"this was my grandmother's laptop", we'll say. "over the years I've replaced the keyboard, the motherboard, the ram, and the screen."

it still sends and receives emails, in plain or rich text. it still plays video games. not all of them, sure, but it plays five or six really good timeless ones. tetris, minecraft, balatro maybe. you can use it to edit photos for your digital scrapbook, or to write wedding invitations. you can use it to paint digital paintings or play digital concerts.

that's the goal. that's what we're all here for.

the hardware already exists. Framework is a good step in this direction but people have been converting Thinkpads into linux boxes since the early 2000s. this isn't a problem that requires an expensive new gizmo.

no, the thing between here and now is low-spec software. all the good apps use 10 times the ram they need, because the companies that develop good software are addicted to growth.

open source offers the dream of backwards compatibility forever, but open source software takes time and money too.

but hey, CSP runs on linux now. so don't stop dreaming. someday you'll have a computer you can give to your kids.

It's insane that #computers are as powerful as they are, yet are almost entirely wasted servicing #scams, filling the pockets of the worst people alive.

Commodore is back. I'm a little bit excited!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J-GZBvIneQU

Commodore has been officially acquired now. The guy on the left side in the back (with the green print on his shirt) is a real-life Dutch friend of mine: Marvin Droogsma. Kind guy. I once sold my Amiga 1000 to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GZBvIneQU

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/