He’s talking about diesel prices in the US. Which is true in absolute, but not in magnitude. Impressive way to distract from the US-Israel war on Iran that created the bulk of the global shortage. :D

Really well written and worth the read for anyone not too familiar with neoliberalism.

It’s worth noting that the disease did not originate with Milton Friedman. For the purposes of the article, his name is used appropriately to set the context. For purposes of gaining better understanding of the disease it’s good to know a bit about its historical context. Neoliberal economics has been pushed by others before him, most notably Hayek. Further back, classical liberal economics was the standard practice in capitalist economies until the Great Depression when it collapsed. Neoliberalism is just a newer, more polished version of it. The Keynesian period in-between, was deviation from the normal. Prior to it, there were virtually no welfare systems. As for housing, you can look up what it looked like for the avg urban worker prior to the Great Depression. In UK, Canada, rooming houses, small, decrepit, overcrowded rental accommodations were the norm. Detective William Murdoch didn’t live in a house till he married into wealth. Neither did constable Higgins.

One more thing to note is that neoliberalism was funded and pushed by the oligarch class that took a haircut during the New Deal through massive taxes. They saw it as a vehicle to restore their pre-Keynesian ability to accumulate wealth and therefore power. Milton Friedman was just the latest and best sales face of neoliberalism and the 70s crisis was the opportunity when the sale worked. Behind him there was a network of think tanks developing and trying the sales pitch going back to the 40s.

So expensive data recovery solder op if something critical was on it.

LMAO, this SSD was purchased many years ago and was in active use. The previous ASRock board it was used in had the same toolless M2 mechanism but did not have a backplate which made the bottom heatsink easily removable, which I had done and this exact SSD was installed in it. The new board’s product page doesn’t say anything about a backplate blocking M2 heatsink removal, or a backplate at all. Given the information available I bought the right product.

Now kindly fuck off.

What the actual mother of… wow. Now that’s some original setup. 👏

Goddamn that’s a fully featured prebuilt kit, and not too expensive. Impressive. I’m using an old Silvia with PID and unlikely to change it but I’d probably get this if I had a Gaggia.

Not the heatsink in the picture. The motherboard’s M2 heatsinks:

Especially the bottom one. It leaves no space for installing an NVMe with a stock heatsink. To remove it, it requires access to the rear of the board, which now has this big ass metal backplate covering it. So one has to remove the whole backplate to access the screws holding the bottom M2 heatsinks. Only then they can be removed and a factory-heatsinked SSD installed. I thought that would’ve been more work, and I didn’t want to modify a board I have not tested yet that could need to be RMAd if defective.

The lessons for me are:

• Always keep a recent system backup
• Don’t remove stock NVMe heatsinks I did not install myself - they could be glued
• If stuck with such SSDs, mod the motherboard after testing it

The motherboard has big, built-in heatsinks on its M2 slots. You install a naked NVMe drive in the M2 slots and the motherboard heatsinks (with thermal pads) hug it from both sides.

Yup.

Would’ve been transferred to the big redundant storage. Whe using ZFS in particular, local snapshots are essentially instant, then ZFS transfers only the missing snapshot delta to the other ZFS storage, delta tends to be very small and therefore fast. Put those thigs together and hourly live full system backups become very practical. I already have this setup for my laptop. Restoring a complete system from backup becomes - ZFS sync from the backup to the new drive, restore the EFI partition, boot from it.

Don’t know abt Aus but Americans can’t just resettle in Canada. They need to immigrate like every other poor world sod if they want to stay here and work / get benefits permanently.

Root on Btrfs/ZFS would have ensured I have a root backup from an hour ago. Ext4 (without LVM) means I can only make a backup every now and then when I turn off the machine, boot into alt OS and take an offline copy.

Did you put Gagguino on that lady?

My bet is the EU is going to suffer further disintegration before the need for a real, democratic federation, not merely an economic union, becomes evident to most on the continent. There’s too many problems that can’t be solved within the current formation.

Has China started buying again? I wonder whether they’ll go back to pre-war levels. I think they’ll go to as low as they can in an attempt to save as much of the import economies their exports depend on.

There’s prolly gonna be European slapdown on Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refinery capacity. Societies gonna split open over the contradiction between supporting Ukraine against Russia and surviving oil-driven inflation…

Shit’s gonna be brilliant. 🥹

Supply managed?

U know, in my panic before remembering I have a backup, I actually considered trying to power it on like that. Maybe the controller could run DRAMless, I thought. Then I came to my senses that running an SSD with potentially shorted traces in a new board is prolly gonna make a bad situation worse.

I wish I had the skill to solder BGA. 😅

I did uh… very carefully… separate it… WD used fucking adhesive pads. I thought it was just a bit stuck thin thermal tape.

Because on the latest ASRock boards it’s damn near impossible to remove their metal heatsink bullshit for installing M2 drives. It’s easier to strip naked the drive and use their bullshit. Except when it isn’t. 🥹