If their response is to put aside money to pay the fine instead of actually stopping doing the illegal thing, the billion dollar fines are obviously still not big enough.

It’s been 30 years and jokes about Windows expanding to fill available space still work.

Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it’s chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.

They know who signs their paycheques.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don’t.

So we’re getting the arms race either way.

Ugh, hydrogen.

Hydrogen vehicles are the magical combination of expensive to buy and expensive to run. They just get mothballed when trials are over and the funding runs out making the whole thing a waste of time and money.

Battery electric vehicles are cheap to run so they get used for whatever workload they can do, even if they can’t do the most demanding jobs yet. BEV bus can’t do the longest route all day? Put it on a shorter one. It’ll get used for something.

Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.

QC 2.0 is proprietary but it would probably still be identified as a device on a standard USB port. For $2 it’s probably worth giving one a try, anyway.

Looking at the PD spec I got the impression devices are supposed to pull the D+ pin up to a certain voltage, but I got lost partway through.

OP asked for the easiest way and deciphering the spec docs probably isn’t it.

One of the QC 2.0 type-A trigger boards?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006449224730.html

So they’re YouTube, but with no video controls. Awesome.

I’m not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

It’s just another attempt to slow down renewables by taking up all the funding doing something else. It doesn’t need to be useful or practical, so long as it drains the carbon reduction budget.

See also: the coalition’s nuclear energy policy

at least, not with my 1080p monitors, which I prefer over higher-res ones

Blasphemy!

4k monitors are beautiful for normal desktop usage, making text crisp and clean with smooth curves and none of that blockiness that comes from low resolution, and with modern scaling settings you can even have 4K text and 1080p graphics at the same time with the same performance as native 1080p.

Born too late to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born too early to watch the collapse of the Russian empire, born just in time to watch the collapse of the Russian empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect

Nobody went and flipped the breaker for the jacuzzi? People like that obviously need practice dealing with inconveniences.

Mint 22 would be straightforward, at least: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-22.html

Mint 21.3 might be a bit too ‘stable’ for your new GPU.

Linux graphics move fast. You generally won’t have a good experience with an older distro and a brand new GPU.

IIRC, pumping hydrogen is only fast if the pump has a substantial rest between vehicles. Get a line of FCEVs wanting filled and you’re looking at filling times not much faster than charging a battery EV.