Same here in a Synology DS918+. It seems like the official Intel support numbers can be a bit pessimistic (maybe the higher density sticks/chips just didn't exist back when the chip was certified?)
Yeah it feels like even Apple is half-heartedly invested in it. Lots of the first-party Apple apps are basically just iPad apps, a year after launch. And there's no real video content, just a bunch of short 7-minute teasers.
Apple should be subsidizing the shit out of developers to get some killer apps on there to prove what it can do. They seem to have assumed if they built it, they would come. But nobody showed up to the party. Developers who DID build apps, that even got featured by Apple, say their sales basically paid for the developer adapter, not even the headset itself.
Same here, both the X and the Reddit things came at a time when I was trying to cut down on social media usage as it was definitely having an effect on me. Having social media that runs out and doesn't just go on for infinity is so much healthier.
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
I didn't even use a third party app so it didn't affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.
On the flip side, we've seen with inflation that just amazing amounts of debt have been created, with consumers massively underwater spending way beyond their means, leading to things like house values blowing up completely unsustainably.
So inflation is not automatically better, it's just a different kind of bad.
I bet they need the technology for folding phones/tablets (instead of a crease, have two screens that but up against each other with no bezel) and this is how they get the volume in manufacturing to make those doable.
You have the Americas model, the Japan model, the China model, the Russia model, and then the model for any other country. So the EU ones could be sold in a large part of the world. They don't even come with power bricks any more so you don't need to swap out the plug or anything. Maybe some warranty paperwork?
When I went to university in 2003. The telephone exchange in the village my parents lived in finally got upgraded to ADSL in 2004 or 2005 I think after a grassroots ISP collected enough subscribers to pay for it (after which the national telco was happy to start offering service, screwing over the grassroots ISP)
University internet was 10 Mbps, but the year after they kicked the dorms off the school network and put us on the consumer city fiber network which was 100 Mbps. About a decade later I moved in somewhere with 1 Gbps.
And I now have 10 Gbps at home. How times have changed...
There were some extreme examples, one with a MASSIVE dragon head and legs coming out of every single window. There's a bot on mastodon that posts a random one every couple hours.
It's MacOS 9 running on a PowerBook G3, with Holiday Lights running and a Kaleidoscope Scheme from Xmas 1999 applied! Although the same screenshot could be taken on any color Mac back to System 7.5 I think
I recently got upgraded to 10 Gbit fiber at home so I've been through researching this stuff.
With a 3G WAN, I'd go with a 2.5 Gbit LAN - 2.5G equipment is quite affordable now. The next step is 5G but that equipment is rare, and 10G starts getting expensive.
Do you know what router they're giving you? What LAN ports does it have? Does it even have a 2.5 or 10G LAN port or only 1G ports?
USB 2.5G adapters are available new for cheap and I've had good luck with them, even using one on a Synology NAS with an open source driver.
The wiring is probably fine as long as you don't have any very long runs. I'd keep it and only replace it if the links randomly drop down in speed to 1G.
2.5G switches also aren't too expensive. You can get one with only a few ports for the devices that can make use a lot of bandwidth (PC/NAS/Server) and plug your current switch into it for all the 1G devices like TVs, game consoles etc. The PiHole definitely doesn't need a fast connection.
It's also kind of a protection racket against shops. "Partner with us or we'll cut into your profits by spreading cheap coupon codes, but partner with us and we'll protect you"
Same here in a Synology DS918+. It seems like the official Intel support numbers can be a bit pessimistic (maybe the higher density sticks/chips just didn't exist back when the chip was certified?)