its the definition of a free market that RAM prices have increased. supply and demand.

If by free market you mean a guy that stands before the market's entry gate possibly with baseball bat, asking the providers to sell him all the goods so they can resell, then I disagree

the literal definition. if I sold RAM the prices would be 10,000% higher (they’d likely still be scooped up)

its all bullshit

sorry but I dont think a private company should dictate country policy as set by elected leaders.

who the hell do you think you are virtue signalling your opinion on the world

anything to do with the massive DDOS attacks that Krebs has been reporting against US carriers?

i swear the single best feature for me would be:

take my photo catalog stored in google photos, apple pictures, Onedrive, Amazon photos. collate into a single store, dedupe. Then build a proper timeline and geo/map view for all the photos.

Take a look at something like rclone and it immediately becomes clear that the photo app vendors you listed have no interest in allowing their users to easily access their data programmatically from their services in any meaningful way.

Example: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations

Glaring example:

> The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort

iPhoto used to do this. The Mac photos app that has replaced it since is nowhere near as good.

In fact I would go so far as to say my personal photo management never really recovered from the transition.

(and semantically index/search, face recognition... what else does AI get us these days?)

so wholesome. what a great day to have found this blog.

well done

With the increased caliber of software folks in Trumps orbit, my sense is we will have a much more informed decision from the Whitehouse on this topic and whether the US should weigh into the fray with the UK.

as a side note, its really baffling what this capability would actually provide for? Any serious criminal isn't using icloud backup or even an iPhone in the first place. So this is just a shit outcome for the general population.

If this goes through, I look forward to the news of the world expose on some cabinet members personal details

it's often a corporate's need for new revenue and security that causes the machine to march on. Just look at this TPM Win 10 upgrade issue.

My 2011 i5 desktop is still happily chugging away as a build server, home storage, and remote host. But oh yes, it will have to be nuked, thanks to MSFT policies.

Not just Microsoft: look at Google's policy for app developers to target newer and newer devices, keep updating apps with no material changes besides this obsolescence, just to be allowed to stay in the Play Store