So I have a question for YouTube Premium haters:

How is this any different than what most people pay for both another music service and another video service? It’s about half the cost of other music + video services (when combined), even with the increased pricing over the years. I’ve been paying for YouTube Premium since the awkward Google Play Music transition and it’s a bargain, especially when I had my student discount at like $4.99 a month.

If only we had invented a device that could scroll the web page… Some kind of wheel maybe? It could even go directly on the mouse.

Guess we’ll just have to suffer until then.

See also: AT&T marketing HSPA+ as 4G LTE.

People are gonna hate on this comment but it’s true. I can replace the battery in my iPhone in an hour if I want to, even if it’s not as easy as it used to be with removable plastic covers on the back of phones.

It depends on how “friendly” they decide it has to be to replace the battery.

The battery in my iPhone 13 Pro is certainly end-user replaceable, but it’s significantly more difficult than it was for me to pop the battery out of my Galaxy S2 and put a new one in.

I’m excited to see what the outcome of SUSE forking RHEL will be.

• Will IBM backtrack?
• Will the SUSE RHEL fork stay separate from SLES?
• Will SLES move directly upstream or downstream from the RHEL fork?
• Will this inspire other big wigs (Microsoft?) to start work on their own RHEL equivalent distributions?

The gotcha for this is that you have to actually use the resources on your free instance or they will reclaim it. I use my instance as a Minecraft server so it utilizes about half of the 24GB RAM you get. For a very light compute task like a chat bot, it might be difficult to keep the instance from being reclaimed.

From this page:

Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:

CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15% Network utilization is less than 15% Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)

It sounds like that’s just part of the game if you want to be considered “official”.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors

Maybe it’s just because I’m an American that remembers 9/11 and the anthrax scares that came soon after, but I completely understood the evacuation because of a “mysterious white powder”.

I got about halfway through this and it started sounding too much like a conspiracy theory for me to finish.

I got about halfway through this and it started sounding too much like a conspiracy theory for me to finish.

I think it’s OK for them to try and sell extras, but I do agree that it shouldn’t be the first thing on the downloads page. At least put the paid and free options side by side, then have the lite version down below that.

Note that these are just quotes from the disastrous AMA he held last week, not new comments that have been made.