Did it though? EFF says that the number of impressions their content received is why they left:

Those [2018] tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month.

Then

Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

But, I wonder what the real numbers actually are. Do we think Elon is honestly reporting real numbers to people? And, of the “impressions” that are real, how many of those are actually from bots rather than actual human users?

IMO, one of the biggest tricks Elon has managed to pull with Twitter is to convince celebrities and brands that it’s still a thriving site full of other people, leading to them sticking around because supposedly no other site gets as much traffic.

This is good for bitcoin.

Probably the only one who trained for it.

Sucks especially hard for the Canadian on board.

The models that cost 3x as much now suck. At least it used to be possible to get one that didn’t suck.

It’s more the printer companies that are evil.

Printers from the 90s and early 2000s were still pretty good. They had problems with paper jams, but that’s not really surprising when you’re moving a physical object around like that. The models designed for office use were really sturdy and built to handle a work environment that was still mostly based around paper. So, they expected to be used heavily.

Since then, they’ve cheaped out on a lot of the components because printing is much less common so they’re not expected to handle as much heavy work. But, more importantly, the DMCA has allowed manufacturers to load them up with DRM that refuses to use any ink that isn’t sold by the printer manufacturer.

Musk is much more of an Edison than a Tesla. If he’d been honest he would have named his cars Edison. Then, the cool rebadge could have been Tesla. But, even he was smart enough to realize what an asshole Edison was, even if he didn’t recognize the Edison in himself.

The coastal part, sure. The mountain area of Washington is pretty conservative.

It seems like there’s a market for a company that will buy Teslas ultra cheap, modifies them heavily, then rebadges them like Alpine does for Renault, AMG does / did for Mercedes, Abarth for Fiat, etc.

These days those are all subsidiaries of the main brand, and even before that they had a cooperative relationship with the main brand. But, I can imagine a setup where the main brand doesn’t support or approve of what the modifier company does.

There was no Game Genie for the Atari.

Cloth maps are the thing I miss the most.

Or the “DRM” of the time, copy protection where the game would either stop and ask you for the Xth word of the Yth paragraph on page Z of the manual. Or the code wheels.

I wish I’d done that more. It was so much fun the few times I did it.

It doesn’t have to be your last.

There are pros and cons, obviously. Getting a game that was extremely well tested and nearly bug free on day 1 was great. But, not all games were that well tested, and many had gameplay-breaking bugs that you just had to live with because there was no way to update them.

Wonderful. DRAM and NAND flash companies are a cartel and are able to make their prices absurd by cutting supply when demand is high.

they’re reducing production in places.

Really? Where have you seen that reported?

So, maybe this will result in the companies that make SSDs ramping up production. Maybe once the bubble bursts there will be a huge glut of SSDs and so they’ll be cheap.

C’mon bubble, do your popping thing.

I hope datacenters are ordering pallets of 8 TB SSDs and are instead getting pallets with bricks on them.

They don’t support sending messages over a serial / USB / network connection to say “battery is almost dead, shut down cleanly while you can” right? As far as I can tell, that’s the one key feature that a UPS has that a portable battery doesn’t.

I took a look the other day and was amazed at how little UPSes have improved in the last few decades vs. everything else battery-related.

At this point, I’d expect a consumer-grade UPS to have something like a Raspberry PI attached, and run a web server. I’d expect it to not just have a serial port for signaling, but to be able to run custom BASH scripts to send messages out to any attached device warning it about being on battery and keeping it up to date on the battery status.