If you do buy refurbished drives, ideally get manufacturer refurbished ones that come with a manufacturer warranty. If you’re in the USA, ServerPartDeals is a great store for it.

Manufacturer refurbished drives tend to be pretty reliable because they’ve been tested to meet the manufacturer’s specs, usually including a deep stress test, and come with a warranty from the manufacturer.

The thing that sucks at the moment is that refurbished drives cost more than the new ones used to cost.

You could try a Samsung Galaxy Watch. I know it supports using an eSIM, can make and receive calls, and can run the Home Assistant WearOS app. I don’t know anything about tracking though, and it might also cost more than what you’re willing to spend for a device for a child.

There’s definitely some negatives about data centers.

However, there’s also a lot of misinformation. All the data centers in the entire USA use less than 1/20 of the water consumed by golf courses, and modern designs use closed-loop water cooling rather than the older evaporative cooling. Evaporative cooling is the type that uses a lot of water.

I live in Silicon Valley, and most of the data centers here are in Santa Clara County. 65% of the water usage by data centers is recycled water.

Looks like the subscription is for an optional phone plan. The site says it’s coming soon in the US. You should be able to use any phone plan, just check that it’s compatible with the 4G/5G bands in your country.

Most mainstream smartwatches do let you use an eSIM for data and phone calls. I’m not sure about the tracking aspect though. I don’t know if the Home Assistant WearOS app transmits location data or not.

There’s a lot of regular RAM in the servers too though, since the servers can’t operate entirely from VRAM.

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I agree that more supply would be great and building factories can pay off. It’s still very expensive though, and some banks are growing skeptical of the ballooning costs of AI-related projects.

tl;dr it’s a relatively sophisticated approach to make it look real. The fake site reverse proxies the real online ordering site so that it looks and behaves exactly like the real one, blocks some scripts like trackers or anything that’d redirect back to the real site, and swaps out the payment form for a fake one.

The payment details entered into the fake form go to a live operator that immediately tries to use the credit card elsewhere online. They get through 3-D Secure (where the bank requires verification of suspicious-looking online transactions) by asking the user to confirm the transaction, e.g. by providing an SMS confirmation code or confirming the transaction in their bank app.

If you didn’t see the incorrect domain name, I think this would be very hard to notice, since the site functions normally. Very different to a regular phishing page where the site looks out of place and is often full of broken links (since they don’t want you navigating away from the fake login page)

I bought a new Nokia E63 for AU$199 in 2009 (around US$160 at the time). I liked that phone! It had a QWERTY keyboard. Replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy S3 in 2013.

$100 or even $200 is likely not doable for a modern touchscreen phone, unfortunately.

and the reason manufacturers aren’t building many more factories is because they’re extremely expensive and there’s no guarantee the same demand will still exist in 5 or 10 years. What if the AI bubble bursts, the market is flooded with second-hand supply, and all the new factories aren’t needed?

Micron is building new factories in New York, and they expect the first factory there to be online by 2030 at a cost of $50 billion (which is more than their entire 2025 revenue).

There’s Dropbear SSH, which is the most common choice for a minimal SSH server and client, but even that is around 50,000 lines of code.

Technically they’re correct though, in a way. If every account has a password, the system isn’t vulnerable.

You’re also not vulnerable if you use two factor auth, because all 2FA modules require PAM, whereas this vulnerability only exists when PAM is disabled or not installed.

Not just rootless and read-only, but distroless/chiseled too. There’s no reason to have unneeded parts of an OS in your Docker containers. It should just be one app along with any libraries it needs (or just statically compile the app)

“passwordless” here means that the account doesn’t have a password. What the person you’re replying to means is that password authentication should be completely disabled in the SSH config, as that’s the only way to exploit this issue.

Wireguard and apps based on it (like Tailscale) don’t respond at all unless the data is signed with the key of a configured peer (or with Tailscale, a system on your tailnet that passes the ACL). It’s literally impossible for an outsider/attacker to detect with a port scan since it just ignores unauthenticated packets.

The Wireguard codebase is also extremely small. The core Wireguard implementation (the version in the Linux kernel) is around 5,000 lines long, so an experienced developer can read through all the code if they dedicate a day or two to it, and understand how it works.

For comparison, OpenVPN is around 70,000 lines of code and OpenSSH is around 150,000 lines of code. There’s a huge number of features in SSH!

It’s a bigger issue in the US than other countries though. Not all countries value companies based on ridiculous amounts of speculation.

It’s estimated that Anthropic’s IPO will value them around $1.5 to 2 trillion even though their S-1 has 93 pages of risk factors, including that 20% of their revenue comes from their top 2 customers (and I guarantee that both would be looking into moving AI inference in-house), and they literally say that they may never be profitable:

We have a history of net losses and may not generate sufficient revenue to achieve or sustain profitability in the future

They also don’t own any infrastructure like servers or racks - it’s all rented.

Yet they’re still going to have a large amount of people purchasing stock, based purely on vibes rather than actual data.

At least the S&P 500 still has some sense. Companies can only be added to the index if they’ve been trading for at least a year, and if they’re profitable. They refused to change the rules for SpaceX, unlike Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000.

Don’t even get me started on Nvidia. There’s no reason that a company that makes GPUs should be the most valuable company in the whole world. Actually they don’t even make the GPUs - TSMC does.

Well… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

ctOS from Watch Dogs was supposed to be a warning… It wasn’t supposed to become a real system.

How’s it a whoosh? I thought their question was genuine.