Solid point on the “single purpose” nature of some devices, but that’s also the legalese going to work here in that “Depends what the meaning of IS, is” sort of way 🤣

Making laws with vague definitions will get challenged, as you point out.

Tell me more

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING:https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/27/openais-sam-altman-weighs-in-on-pentagon-anthropic-dispute/

These links never work

Literally every political news feed site. Invest zero dollars in an Ad Blocker.

Not a lawyer, but deeply involved in the law from the tech side for many years at various deeper levels from the engineering side and bridge to product and so forth.

It doesn’t need to be unconstitutional to be struck down as the constitution doesn’t cover all laws, especially not state and local laws. All you need to do is prove that the language or intent of the law is either:

1. impossible to enforce (ex: software processes cannot be patented or controlled/patrolled)
2. the language is too broad (ex: What is an OS exactly?)
3. it violates a prexisting law or creates a verifiable conundrum (ex: this would violate California’s own data privacy laws)
4. it creates an undue tax or burden on existing technology (ex: devices out in the wild can’t be retrofitted to comply, which sort of fits with #1)
5. it DOES actually violate a constitutional right (ex: 4th amendment)

Being on my side of things, the legal team would most likely start a case with something like “So you say the OS needs to be locked with age verification. Does that mean every TV, router, public computer, tablet…blah blah blah”, so it’s very likely to get tossed on #1 quite easily because these folks have no idea what an OS actually is, and that every piece of technology you interact with on a daily basis has an OS. The lack of specificity alone would get this tossed in a heartbeat.

If that failed, they’d argue there is no way to police or enforce this law because sites who rely on this rule existing are putting themselves in legal jeopardy by simply allowing any traffic from California to access their services. What if someone from another state or country is in California and wants to watch porn in their hotel, or play a game with friends on Discord? Police have zero right to verify that any device entering California complies with the law, so the provider of the service would have to be on the hook to do the verification, which means they would just block any device from California that doesn’t meet whatever flag is sent to say it safe. THEN you have the infrastructure that is required to ensure those devices…blah blah blah.

It’s just a stupid idea by dumbass technically illiterate people. It won’t go anywhere.

As soon as these idiots figure out what an OS is, this is dead in the water because of the above.

This will immediately get struck down in court even if it passes, though everyone should make their voices heard in saying this is complete nonsense.

Yet another case of antiquated politicians not understanding technology whatsoever.

If you’re specifically asking because of memory use, there is no need. Memory management in Linux is extremely efficient, and since everything is a process, a properly killed process doesn’t block reclaim of that memory as you see a lot in Windows. You may see your “free” memory as being low, but that’s kind of a misnomer as you should be paying attention to claimed vs unclaimed/cached memory, which will be “recycled” into other processes that request it. If you run into memory issues on Linux or BSD, you’ll know it.

That being said, if your machine isn’t suspending or cleeping, then you’re just wearing your components out by leaving them on 24/7, so shutting down or suspending would be good practice to extend the general lifespan of your machine.

Didn’t Anthropic cave on this?

Edit: Nope. Seems they discussed it and put out some PR, but just said “No thanks” to the pressure.

Previously reported

That’s why I said “as much”. Since DDR5 went crazy, people started buying DDR4, which is driving the price up, but still only at a 2x increase vs 5x for DDR5.

Hence, the release of this motherboard.

Does this article also mention Rachel Good or Alex Pretti? No? This article wasn’t about that.

Because it’s assumed it was common knowledge. It’s not uncommon practice to refer to other referential pieces of information in a description.

But anyway: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-spending-small-arms-weapons-chemical-munitions-increased-700-percent-2025/

And as someone else in the thread pointed out, there may have been some clarification on this after the reporting: https://www.wired.com/story/no-ice-probably-didnt-buy-guided-missile-warheads/

Since younfamiliar with the slush funds: https://www.vox.com/politics/479821/trumps-slush-fund-venezuela-oil-gaza-board-of-peace-tariffs https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/trump-shutdown-tariffs-wic-farmers-analysis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/trump-federal-money-slush-fund.html https://newrepublic.com/post/206790/donald-trump-10-billion-dollars-board-peace-slush-fund

DDR4 isn’t as much a part of the memory shortage, though that seems to be shifting because DDR5 is jacked up. They’re pulling a solid for consumers by releasing a cheap motherboard where memory can be gotten, or giving a transition for users with older components.

Claims were made months ago: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-spending-small-arms-weapons-chemical-munitions-increased-700-percent-2025/

Corrections that info were made a bit after that which I was unaware of: https://www.wired.com/story/no-ice-probably-didnt-buy-guided-missile-warheads/

What are you even talking about?

It’s a report from Schiff’s office. How is that “Doomer”?

It was reported months ago, but as someone else pointed out, they’ve apparently address that as something else.

Your smarm and pedantry is noted, but:

1. It was widely reported that ICE was acquiring warheads months ago. As others here pointed out, that (might) not be exactly correct because of confusion about item numbers on invoices. I was unaware there had been updates to that news.

2. The article isn’t “making completely unsubstantiated claims” at all. They’re referencing Adam Schiff’s report on this activity.

3. It’s quite a LARGE story, actually. This is very clearly Trump’s Private army now, and he’s creating slush funds all over the place to keep them funded for a time in case official funding gets cut off. This new report details just how many weapons they have amassed, and it’s shocking. This is the largest deployed paramilitary force on US soil, they are controlled by Trump, and they have enough Guns and Ammo to take over a small country.

4. Just because YOU think it’s a “non-story” doesn’t mean anyway all. In fact, nobody asked you. I certainly don’t think we were waiting on baited breath for your personal opinion on it either. Your feelings on it are actually not needed.

Others may not have known, or probably should know this information, and that’s why it’s posted. Didn’t need your opinion or permission on that, champ. ✌️

Classic

Deer have been observed intentionally stomping on windfallen fruit and returning days later to eat it and get drunk. I think they know what they are doing, it’s just fun.