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Their low-end laptops are hot garbage too, either the hinge fails, or brittle plastic breaks loose in the case and jams up the cooling fan blades

A bit like most Inkjets when the unreplaceable waste ink pad dries up 😭

Sit through a whole turn on sequence, just for the screen to say the manufacturer's equivalent of "Bin me, I'm dead" with the only option being to power off

Alstom has been building manufacturing facilities in America specifically for this project, (and other projects popping up across the US, making it a financially viable endeavor) however there are lots of urbanist communities on the net that explain this arrangement in much more detail.

The trains are very much of a European design, just most of the materials are sourced in the US and they're manufactured in the US.

There is one truly domestic passenger train manufacturer in the US (sorry, can't recall their name), and AFAIK they were not chosen because they don't have both the experience or available capacity to make what Amtrak are after

Edit: also should mention some of the new trains have been parked in Amtrak's yards for several years now, fully assembled. Occasionally you'll hear a peep about them being used for testing but that's it

Nice. Bookmarked to check out later 🏆

While it is a shame the new trains are delayed, it's very informative and unfortunate to discover their most profitable train line is using hardware from the 90s... that they can barely keep running... because the manufacturer went out of business.

There should be some deal in place for these manufacturers to transfer essential documentation to customers in the instance that they collapse IMO, like schematics for electronics, source code for hardware etc.

Personally I would be very uncomfortable as a director, knowing that the only cash cow is literally in the hands of thankless engineers doing the impossible with technology that is three decades old, with no documentation... and if anything goes wrong there's no fallback plan apart from chopping up the old trains for more parts

Damn, that's neat. The torrent sites have been full of CAM copies for months

Available for rental? Nice, this means some HD goods must have spilled on the high seas 😁. Prepare for departure crew - anchor and sails up! 🚢🏴‍☠️

That's a really great start with the updates IMO, second only to Fairphone.

I'm personally a little bit skeptical, seeing how Google has a habit of inviting the grim reaper to dine with its products... but hopefully they follow through allowing Pixel owners to enjoy 7 years of OS and security upgrades 👌

TIL about cloudflared being a DoH proxy. Nice, will be looking into this later...

If pihole is still using dnsmasq then I have no idea if DoH will be supported tbh...

Their webserver is probably misconfigured I think?

Chrome does a bunch of stuff in the background (trying no www, with www, etc) to try and get you to the https website, which firefox doesn't. It's a reason I like firefox as a developer, makes it super obvious when you've messed something up

Username, instance and laptop checks out lol