Daily Tech News 27 April 2023

• Laptop is here, memory and SSD on the way. I already have memory and an SSD, but I want to specifically try out the Team MP34 and see how it performs.
  
  
  
• Forbes "30 Under 30", the magazine's list of the most notable young tech entrepreneurs, has so far been charged (and in some cases convicted) with fraud totaling $18.5 billion dollars. (New York Post)
  
  To be fair, Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) and Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX) account for 80% of that amount.
  
  
  

• Amazon has shut down its Halo health product division and is laying off more staff. (The Verge)
  
  Another sign of the Biden economic boom.
  
  
  
• Meta's - that is, Facebook's - Reality Labs division, in charge of the company's Metaverse project, lost $4 billion in the first quarter of 2023. (CNBC)
  
  Can't really blame this one on Biden. They didn't have a good but expensive product that people liked but are now reluctant to buy in the global recession. The Metaverse is a bad idea, poorly executed.
  
  The only way they could make it worse is to add lootboxes full of NFTs.
  
  
  
• Don't give them ideas, Pixy.
  
  
  
• An 8" Linux tablet! (Liliputing)
  
  With an e-ink display, albeit a colour one. Looks pretty good as a pure reading device though.
  
  
  
• As I mentioned yesterday, between pekora and polka my containers stop starting. I've run into a limit with the number of LXC containers on one server and don't know what it is. The documentation is... Lacking.
  
  I'm going to move all of these onto my laptop once the SSD and memory are installed, and I can run the containers across two Linux virtual machines if need be. 85 containers should be more than I need - but not a lot more.
  
  
  
• LG's 1kg 15" Gram Superslim is available in a 32GB model. (Liliputing)
  
  Yay!
  
  At a price of $2000.
  
  Boo.
  
  Also it's only 1080p, where most of the other Gram models have 2560x1600 screens.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:34 AM

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