Daily Tech News 6 March 2024

• To nobody's surprise the FCC has declined to intervene on California's plans to implement net neutrality. (Ars Technica)
  
  The problem I always had with the FCC's push for net neutrality - which is back on the table for a vote later this month - is that the claim that the FCC even had the power to vote on such a rule is based on assumptions that would grant the agency massive control over all forms of communication in the US.
  
  If an individual state legislature wants to fuck up internet access for their own voters, on the other hand, they can do so, subject to the First Amendment.
  
  I'll have to read up on what California is proposing to do; it's probably bad, but probably legal.

• I've been trying to get the latest Hyte / Hololive limited edition PC cases for months without any luck. There's only one Hyte distributor in Australia and they can't get them.
  
  I even looked into freight forwarding, but that worked out to cost as much as the cases themselves, and these are expensive cases.
  
  Now Hyte offers freight forwarding itself, and if I order both of the cases it only adds 50% to the cost. Which is still insane, but so am I.
  
  Then the cases will sit there for months because having spent that much money I won't have much to spare for new parts to fill them with.
  
  I did want to buy the new Lenovo Legion Tab, but Lenovo is assisting me with my budget because that is still not available anywhere.
  
  
  
• NASA has found the exact problem with Voyager 1 and expects to have it fixed... Eventually. (Ars Technica)
  
  Yeah, I know that feeling, and I'm not even working with 46 year old hardware billions of miles away designed and built by people who have long since retired and aren't returning my emails.
  
  
  
• Do not buy the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360. (Hot Hardware)
  
  It has a very nice 120Hz 2880x1800 OLED display, but it costs $1900, and you can get an Asus Vivobook with an almost identical OLED display for half of that.
  
  And the Asus has upgradeable memory, while the Samsung has 16GB soldered in place.
  
  Which if you're running Windows 11 will be fully used by the time you've booted the system and started a browser.
  
  
  
• Speaking of the Asus Vivobook and it's beautiful OLED display... Yeah, it's still in its box.
  
  
  
• The Maven is a $2000 e-bike - (Ars Technica)
  
  Let me stop you there.
  
  First thought: $2000 for a bicycle? So your only question is not if it gets stolen, but if it gets stolen before you get crushed by an SUV.
  
  Second thought: I mean, if you happened to live in a quiet country town with little traffic and lots of hills, it might be kind of nice.
  
  Third thought: And, it turns out, illegal where I live. It has a 750W motor and the rules here set the limit at 500W.
  
  
  
• Apple is laying off 700 workers, including the entire team working on the Apple Car, which Apple still denies ever working on. (9to5Mac)
  
  What exactly do you put on you resume when you worked for a decade on a project that was never officially acknowledged and never produced any real-world results?
  
  
  

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