This is v2 of the CAMM spec and it's awesome. They've solved all of the major issues that were causing laptop mfgrs to solder ram directly to the motherboard and they've nailed the biggest problem with v1 which was the ease of damaging the CAMM connector pins. Apparently you could wreck the v1 connector with compressed air if you weren't paying attention, which makes tool-free connector replacement in v2 a great addition.
Rural communities across the entire country are struggling to hire doctors. It turns out that smart young people just don't want to work in Jesusland for some strange reason.
I'm actually in favor of this one, it solves a bunch of the problems that have been leading mfgrs to solder memory directly to mainboards.
Edit: the removable CAMM connector is awesome too, the biggest problem with the v1 spec was the fragility of the pins. Anecdotally you could wreck a v1 connector with canned air so a replaceable connector is great news.
Does edge still provide the best streaming experience on Linux? I haven't streamed anything from my Linux machines in a while but that used to work well for most streaming providers. It coaxed 1080p out of a couple that would only serve 720p to Chrome IIRC.
Check out You.com too, their search is far better than Google on a lot of the technical topics I've searched for.
Edit: ugh, it was good. Now they're shovelling LLM interaction front and center and the original search functionality is completely buried. If you can find their original search interface it might still be worth a look.
Climate change, rampant (and increasing) income inequality, treating employees like disposable parts, govt handouts to the wealthy in the trillions over the last decade, healthcare costs, rent?
HDR support is still very much incomplete, Valve is driving that effort and something should be available Soon(tm) maybe later this year or next.
You'll want a rolling release distro of some sort to take advantage of the most recent work on display tech. Check out Arch, Fedora, Nobara, Bazzite, etc - they're all much more current than Pop (which is based on Ubuntu and cuts stable releases every couple of years.) Use Wayland and pipewire to take advantage of the modern display and audio stack and more modern features (VRR, HDR) should "just work" when they're implemented and released.
Board positions exist as a way to funnel wealth to the children, relatives and friends of the people startups are going to for their initial investment.
Privatization of retirement did exactly what it was designed to do: it tied retirement savings directly to the stock market so any attempt to rein in Wall St has a built in poison pill for everyone over 30.
The tiny excerpt from VLC you've included doesn't give us enough info to see what's broken but taking a wild stab at it I'd guess it's libva, mesa or a regression in amdgpu. Take a look at the system journal (and user journal) as well as the VLC log, something in the library stack is probably throwing a more useful error than we've seen yet.
I haven't run anything older than Skylake since 2020. I imagine anyone planning to run these either hasn't done the math on energy costs or lives somewhere where electricity is dirt cheap.
I'm hopeful this is further developed and licensed out. I'd love to have one of these setup at home as part of a VR rig