ATMs all over are like this. Very annoying. I have to decline conversation all the time. The ATM conversation rate is usually 15-25% markup. No thanks, my bank charges nothing, just passes on the Visa 1% fee for fx.

*conversion

Although it is amusing to imagine an ATM that accosts you verbally with smalltalk when you use it.

Surely if the ATM were to taunt you it would use C, or maybe JavaScript.

Coming soon , LLM to an ATM near you

Great question. Let’s take a deep dive on money. Getting $100 at the right time can be a game-changer! It’s not only a store of value — it’s a means of exchange!

If you had ever purchased a RyanAir ticket you would understand. You get up charged for everything and have to deselect all the up charges at multiple screens. It is their operating model to sell basically free seats, and profit on upsells. Third parties eliminate a large portion of their upsell pipeline.

Ryanair is cheap, they charge extra for everything. But the tradeoff is you get where you are going for cheap if you avoid all the extras, including bottled water.

The funny part is how most OTAs are pretty awful with addons themselves. I know for a fact that certain OTAs will sell tickets at a loss hoping you trip up on one of their checkboxes, like the 15€ automatic checkin service many offer.

I just now booked a ticket on gotogate, paid 80 euro and received a receipt from ITA airways for 120 euro. They apparently lost 40 euro on this sale, I only had to click "no" on about 18 questions.

Go To Gate are on my ban list personally for awful behaviour when a flight was cancelled.

Most airports have water fountains, even in Europe where they're not as common.

Whenever I fly, I always take an empty water bottle through security and then fill it in the secure zone.

They can be hard to find! It took me about 15 minutes of searching in PMI one time recently…

> You get up charged for everything

No you don't. You can:

> deselect all the up charges

> Third parties eliminate a large portion of their upsell pipeline.

This is nonsense. Third parties cannot provide extra luggage space, priority boarding etc.

A large part of the pipeline consists of insurance, rental cars, hotels, etc.

I'd bet that's the smaller part not least because customers know there they have a choice.

This is my exact setup. Maybe I don't have many issues because I literally only have the NS2/PS5Pro turn on the TV/change input. I still use the AppleTV remote to adjust volume no matter the input.

F500, we have a pretty custom ServiceNow, but all I do is put the ticket or any other identifier in the search box and go. Takes 2 seconds to be in the ticket. Granted, that interface sucks too, but I suspect your main problem is internal to your org and the people that configured your ServiceNow.

Yes. With Windows 3.x there wasn’t a lot to go wrong that couldn’t be fixed in a single ini file. Windows 95 through ME was a complete shitshow where many many things could go wrong and the fastest path to fixing it was a fresh install.

Windows XP largely made that irrelevant, and Windows 7 made it almost completely irrelevant.

Hundreds, maybe even thousands.

I jest, but probably the $150 sales of the TouchID keyboard would tank as they are displaced by such a device.

Doesn't trigger keyboard popup on my iPhone in Safari. :(

This may be above my pay grade (does xterm support mobile input?) but I’ll take a look!

Yep! It does

Thanks for confirming! Made it work on my iPhone and opened a PR :-)

https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/pull/76

Taking a look now - thanks!

update: fixed, merged and deployed :-) cheers

That's only for ZFS deduplication which you should never enable unless you have very, very specific use cases.

For normal use, 2GB of RAM for that setup would be fine. But more RAM is more readily available cache, so more is better. It is certainly not even close to a requirement.

There is a lot of old, often repeated ZFS lore which has a kernel of truth but misleads people into thinking it's a requirement.

ECC is better, but not required. More RAM is better, not a requirement. L2ARC is better, not required.

There are a couple recent developments in ZFS dedup that help to partially mitigate the memory issue: fast dedup and the ability to use a special vdev to hold the dedup table if it spills out of RAM.

But yes, there's almost no instance where home users should enable it. Even the traditional 5gb/1tb rule can fall over completely on systems with a lot of small files.

Nice. I was hoping a vdev for the dedup table would come along. I've wanted to use optane for the dedup table and see how it performs.

I think the asterisk there is that the special vdev requires redundancy and becomes a mandatory part of your pool.

Some ZFS discussions suggest that an L2ARC vdev can cache the DDT. Do you know if this is correct?

Yes, that's the reason why a dedup vdev that has lower redundancy than your main pool will fail with "mismatched replication level" unless you use the -f (force) flag.

I'm not sure about whether an L2ARC vdev can offload the DDT, but my guess is no given the built-in logic warning against mismatched replication levels.

Well, the warning makes sense with respect to the dedup vdev since the DDT would actually be stored there. On the other hand, the L2ARC would simply serve as a read cache, similar to the DDT residing in RAM.

If you can't tolerate macOS, you can get a used M1/M2 which will run Linux really well.

That's a challenge this machine has, it has to compete with things like a used 64GB M1 Max Mac Studio for $900 when the equivalent config is $700. The M1 Max would be wildly faster in everything.

This is my concern as well. I suspect this will struggle versus a PS5 because even though the PS5 only has 16GB total, its unified, so it can be allocated more towards VRAM if needed.

If they are selling this for $300-400, it will be a hot item and I cant fault them at all. If it sells for $500+, its hard to recommend over a PS5 for most users.

1080p is already a struggle for some games with 8GB of VRAM in 2025, and this will probably be expected to have a service life of 5+ years.