I'm very happy to see Framework lead the USB power delivery pack by supporting 240W, 48V/5A charging on the Framework 16. As the first company to ship laptops using this spec, what problems or quirks, if any, have you seen from 48V charging in the field?
Since we designed both the power adapter and the product that is using it, it just works. There aren't a lot of other devices that support 240W USB-C for us to test against.
How thick must be the cable that delivers 48V @ 5A? I suppose not much thicker than normal, but still? Does this require a specialty cable to achieve that?
Increasing the voltage doesn't require a thicker cable, and 5A power starts with 100W USB-C PD. USB-C cables that support 5A aren't that thick, but they do need a special chip so that the devices know it's safe to send 5A.
I noticed today that a 9175F was in the $2000s down from a $4000s MSRP. I still can't justify buying one when a 9950x3d is more performant and <1/3rd price, even though the epyc has more PCIe lanes.
It's my first time contemplating getting a server CPU, so I assumed the insane markups were the same story as with Lenovo laptops, or Advance Auto parts or McDonald's meals--that nobody pays those prices, unless you're a sucker.
Creating a constitutional crisis by digitally memory-holing the existing constitution is an interesting approach. I don't recall any regimes attempting this in the past.
Just noting for posterity that on August 6 2025 people believed you could create a "constitutional crisis" by removing pages from the LOC's online annotated constitution. You all get that we have the original handwritten constitution, right?
If you were living in a country with a strong rule of law that wasn't currently in a constitutional crisis, I'd agree.
Yeah, this is likely an accident or mistake, but it's also one of the first steps that someone would take if they wanted to dismantle the existing structure.
If this were ten years ago I'd agree. Given today's climate, I'd say wait and see what happens.
The founder started that he was not interested in serving users who want anonymity. I see they've since added Privacy Pass using VOPRF tokens, which does provide anonymity by decoupling searches from user accounts. But by now LLM search tools are good and don't require an account.
That position seems to have changed, I think? They are supposedly allowing people to buy Privacy Pass tokens without a Kagi account in-the-future™:
"Yes, this makes sense. This is possible because technically the extension does not care if you have an account or not. It just needs to be ‘loaded’ with valid tokens. And you can imagine a mechanism where you could also anonymously purchase them, eg. with monero, without ever creating an account at Kagi. Let us know here if you are excited about this, as it will help prioritize it."
https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
They also provide a Tor hidden service which can be used with Privacy Pass (although you'd have to install their extension on Tor Browser for it to work)
People always joked that Incognito Mode is for porn, but I use it for search.
I don't want to be in a group of people, someone asks me to look up how old some celebrity is, and then information about that person gets pushed to me by algorithms from then on. It's a trite example, but a real one. I've found myself becoming aware of which topics the algorithms know I've looked into, and trying to groom that list.
In Europe, you can't presently use Gemini without being logged in - presumably having something to do with their recent tech laws. I don't know if there's a way to delete searches from Gemini either. I really don't like that.
I should be allowed to be curious about something without having that curiosity etched into my permanent record.
When SEO people began engineering their Google result's page excerpt to cut off one word before the answer, I would deliberately click on a site whose summary contained the answer, just to signal that I preferred that result, even though I didn't need to anymore.
Very well said, and true. However, the post the parent was replying to said, "Are there still adults stupid enough to think that watching porn will mess a kid up?", which represents an unreasonable absolute.
Sure, nobody is denying that. That does not contradict the argument (not mine) that perhaps people lived more secure lives under Soviet rule.
Note that I define "more secure" as in not living in fear of losing home and income. Not necessarily that their standard of living was as good as those in the West.
It depends: if you are part of the party and things are going good then yes. However, if you are from a group of people that you government has decided is trouble, then you tend to disappear in the night. Like my mother in law who says things where so safe when there was police on every corner in Spain during the dictatorship but my father in law was hiding "reds" under the floorboards as they where Jewish and being procecuted. One does not take away from the other, instead of criminals threatening you it's the government goons.
> if you are from a group of people that you government has decided is trouble, then you tend to disappear in the night.
So this really is a case of survivorship bias. Those that survived the Soviet times, remember it, not fondly, but as a more secure time. Those that didn't survive, we don't hear their accounts very much.
> my father in law was hiding "reds" under the floorboards as they where Jewish and being procecuted.
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