Not sure if you can equate their governments to modern right wing movements. I think they would be more centrist economically and leftest socially on the modern scale, while being more right with politically until much later.
Its also worth noting they had massive US aid assistance to drive infrastructure investment and social programs for the first few decades.
In addition to other advice, with only hardware, have 1 cold spare drive for every 2 years of remaining life of the hardware. It gets difficult to find similar spec drives the older they get. So if you want to use the drives in the NAS for another 4 years, get 2 spares. After that you start getting into the territory of replacing the drives anyway.
My rule for older hardware, before trusting the ZFS fault reporting, I would follow the following steps.
(Note these are homelabber steps and not what I would do in the enterprise, where risk and time is a lot more expensive than replacing hardware)
Check the Smart data of the drive. If it reports the drive as faulty, replace it.
Zpool clear the error and see if it comes back. Sometimes drive errors are not cause by the drive itself
Reseat the drive and the cables between the motherboard and the drive. Clear errors after this step. Especially with older hardware and it having travelled from its previous owner to you, something might not be seated properly.
Move the drive to another drive bay, or swap it with another drive. If the errors move with the drive, the drive is faulty. If the errors move to the bay, you probably have a good drive, but a faulty drive bay/cable.
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So you are saying you have a future in goverment.
Only if corporations lose all rights as individuals in Law.
This is the way.
Its not just GM, but their are certainly a good example of Enshitification.
Its certainly apparrent in how much our brains are struggeling to process the level of information we have access to.
You can see that in many areas of society, people have given up on facts based reasoning and are simply following “vibes” in their decision making that is a lot “cheaper” on the brain.
Thank you for raising these points. Progress has certainly been made and in specific applications, AI tools has resulted in breakthoughs.
The question is wheither it was transformative, or just incremental improvements, i.e. a faster horse.
I would also argue that there is a significant distinction between predictive AI systems in the application of analysis and the use of LLM. The former has been responsible for the majority of the breakthroughs in the application of AI, yet the latter is getting all the recent attention and investment.
Its part of the reason why I think the current AI bubble is holding back AI development. So much investment is being made for the sake of extracting wealth from individials and investment vehicles, rather than in something that will be beneficial in the long term.
Predictive AI (old AI) overall is certainly going to be a transformative technology as it has already proven over the last 40 years.
I would argue what most people call AIs today, LLMs are not going to be transformative. It does a very good imitation of human language, but it completely lacks the ability to reason beyond the information it is trained on. There has been some progress with building specific modules for completing certain analytical tasks, like mathematics and statistical analysis, but not in the ability to reason.
It might be possible to do that through brute force in a sufficiently large LLM, but I strongly suspect we lack the global computing power by a few orders of magnatude before we get to a mammilian brain and the number of connections it can make.
But even if you could, we also need to improve power generation and efficiency by a few orders of magnatude as well.
I would love to see the AI bubble pop, so that the truely transformative work can progress, rather than the current “how do we extract wealth” focus of AI. So much of what is happening now is the same as the dot com bubble, but at a much larger scale.
People forget that a very short time ago, there was no internet and knowlege and fast communication was rare and slow.
Nothing in the last 500 years has changed our society so much, in such a short time.
AI has been around for decades now. The main recent breakthrough has been in its ability to immitate a human conversation. Untill a similar breakthough happens in its ability to reason and understand, it will continue to stagnate.
Right now AI development needs the current bubble to pop before significant progress can be made.
But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.
Yes the debt trap is a myth. The rest of it is true.
Damn, I keep forgetting that the iphone X was already 5 years ago. 10 years ago then. There has been so little improvements in phones in the ladt 5 years, it all just blurs together.
I think the point is, we used to have phones that were 9mm+ thick. Iphone 4s and iphone 5c from Apple and Samsung Galaxy S3 and motorola G phones were all that thickness. They even had replacable batteries and expandable storage. Some of those were even waterproof despite all of that.
I think the main driver of impractical thinness has been marketing, planned obselecence and cost savings.
You are probably correct that the Trump government is returning to the “good old days”, so I concede that point around their current policies.
The predominant strategy from the US and China has been to leverage corruption in regional governments to obtain control of strategic assest like ports, transport hubs, mineral resouces etc, and then place those assets under the control of a few party adjacent corporations. Thus they extract those resources over local companies in the region. After making sure that the local politcal elite gets their miniscule cut of course.
Economic neocolonialism. Far less shooting and a lot more wealth extraction from a country.
But their thickness can accomidate todays cameras.
I was referring to this villiage location being a target. Not the strikes in general.
How certain are we this was a US strike. Based on photos of strikes in Ukraine and Gaza, you would expect to see more fragments, charring or even a crater on the ground.
If I had to guess this might have been an aborted strike on route to another localtion, where the cruise missle was remotely detonated in the air. Scaring the locals sure, but not targeting them. 500m away from the town in a field also seems like a reasonable safety distance.
It would explain both the confusion of the locals as well as the lack of casualties and a obvious target.
Barons is a reference to the robber barons of the 1890’s. Who controlled almost all industires and made life for the average worker hell.
They only got properly taken out by the new deal reforms after the great depression.
Basic documentation does not equal open source.
Toaster ovens from 40 years ago did better. They came with a technical diagram.