Unlikely, as it isn’t being measured from the outlet. That being said, an idle server technically could be that low, but literally every part would have to be the most efficient version of what it is, and almost nothing happening on the server.

There are USB chargers that use more than that sitting at idle.

I can’t believe I’m the lowest power draw at 50w. I thought that was pretty high.

That includes all my network hardware, my NAS, and my server. Basically everything that is “always on”

Can’t decompile an app that does all the real work in the cloud.

It might be clearer to say it’s more like your house wiring, instead of a power strip.

This is almost exactly how outlets are Daisy chained through a run.

Basically you have a homelab where every device is plugged into the next outlet along a wall, with each outlet being really close together.

His design is parallel, you’re just seeing it from the wrong perspective.

A homelab can accept a lot more downtime than a company that runs business off of a rack of servers.

A tradeoff between a sweet rack design for having to disassemble a little extra when replacing parts is a perfectly valid tradeoff for me.

Hell, most of us only run a single UPS, if any at all, which would have the same limitation.

It is pretty awesome, only real problem is that if you have to replace anything in the middle, you have to shutdown everything above it too.

That being said, it’s pretty fucking rad.

Just to add a little more context here, it’s not just that people are using AI to make fake pictures, it’s that AI tools in photography apps are making enough adjustments in the photo that one bird might get turned into a different bird by the enhancement tools.

It’s especially problematic, because a bird that’s native to a very small area in a less developed part of the world might not have many examples of it online.

One example: Someone might take a picture of a bird in the Amazon, and photoshop takes the picture and uses AI to clean it up, and the result is that it turns into a picture of a common north american bird. Which then becomes a “documented” case of a common north american bird being sighted in an uncommon location.

Making it even worse — the photographer might not even understand what happened. They might truly believe that they found this unique scenario.

The point of the comic is that people expect a firewall to protect them from attacks, but then the attack comes in as a path traversal and the firewall does nothing.

It’s called a Path Traversal attack.

Basically, if you add a …/ in a query, you can start to work backwards in the directory tree to root, then go up again to someplace you shouldn’t go. The firewall doesn’t block this attack, cause it’s just doing a regular HTTP(s) request.

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal

Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so… They kinda already do that.

Would it? I turned off the AI answers from Google and most of the people I know also ask how to turn it off.

In my circle, most of the people I know are more annoyed by it than helped by it.

Also, they’re getting sued in the EU by giving incorrect answers in the AI summary, cause that’s actual info FROM Google instead of answers Google is pointing to.

Sure, there’s Gemini that people are actively reaching out to for answers, but cramming it into their main product is way more of a miss for me and the people I know in real life.

Feels like this article got too excited about the headline and the actual meat of the text is lacking in context.

First negative quarter since when? Obviously Google didn’t spawn wholesale making money. Had to look around and it’s their first negative cash quarter since 2004 when it went public. (I assume there’s no real public data before then)

The ars article says

To be clear, Google is still profitable—wildly so.

How can something be profitable, but also have negative cash flow?

Legitimately confused here. Is “cash flow” some hyper specific business term for a very narrow type of money exchange, while profit comes from a different line item?

This is a rare miss from ars, but a HUGE miss.

Well, if you order today, it’s not getting delivered this year.

They are selling every single one they can get in stock. Which means the demand is there.

If you could already get one shipped next day, then the sales numbers would matter.

It’s not “right now” it’s always been that way.

Believing this is a new or temporary thing is wishful thinking.

Did a little more digging, and they’re actually really active on the frame.work forums. Their last post was only a week ago.

Progress looks very promising.

https://community.frame.work/t/dockframe-modular-usb-c-hub-with-framework-compatible-expansion-cards/78648/34

I’m a little concerned about the lack of updates. I’m not sure about what their planned timeline is.

Realistically, an actual laptop form factor is really important for some folks (including me).

They also have a 12" laptop for the lower end market.

When friends or family ask my opinion on what computer to buy, I have two recommendations.
1 - Frame.work with Linux on it
2 - Macbook

Unless you’re tight on cash, those are the two best options. Heck, even if you are tight on cash, get a used version of either of the above, you’ll probably do just fine.

Unless you’re REALLY tight on cash, then get an ebay thinkpad and load linux.

Here’s the third party mainboard that’s available today. Nice thing is they don’t have to design a whole laptop to experiment with a new architecture, cause they can just build off Frame.Work’s… framework.
https://deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-iii/

This crowdfunded solution has new expansion cards (like a double type-c) and also a laptop dock that uses expansion cards so you can customize your own dock.
https://dockframe.com/

A little over a year ago, Prusa partnered with them to make a framework 3d printing contest. The winner was an open source project to use a frame.work mainboard to build a SteamDeck clone.
https://www.printables.com/contest/449-framework-computer-mainboard-case