The last couple times I got a new phone the price of the phone + plan without financing for 2 years was greater then plan with 2 years of financing. So yeah, I got the financing.
It's just a terrible article. The primary example doesn't even make sense, since the fee only applies to those aged 18+. Basically if your "family of four" is entirely adults, and none of you ever bothered to get Real ID, and your vacation is 11+ days long, then you have to pay the per-adult fee eight times instead of four... big deal.
I am assuming this is just AI slop, given that it is needlessly 1700 words, including redundancies like "who spoke on condition of anonymity—their name is therefore off the record". Plus this gem of a final sentence regurgitating the lede and entire point of the article: "The upcoming fee will likely shift that figure even higher by February next year, when travelers without a REAL ID or a passport will have to shell out $45 when passing through airport security."
A group of four friends typically will have four incomes
A family of four typically has one or two incomes
I have travelled domestically without even providing an ID at all for my underage children. Keeping current passport-level IDs for a large family is indeed a new burden that a group of adult friends does not have to account for
For example, how often does your child need a current realID? Not until they hit the TSA. Good luck tracking all the expiries of every child, and making sure it’s all updated before your next 1hr flight to visit grandma.
I know this is HN and demographically you largely skew younger without large families, but this is a real PITA for no actual security benefit
The fee doesn't apply to children. The article is nonsensical; it even mentions this 18+ aspect but then makes an increasingly-contrived example involving "grandparents, older siblings, or extended family" (all of whom inexplicably don't have Real ID either?)
Where do I cut the $10/month? No like seriously, I'd easily pay $10/month to never see another ad, cookie banner, dark pattern, or have my information resold again. As long as that $10 is promised to never increase, other than adjustments for inflation.
But I can't actually make that payment - except maybe by purchasing a paid adblocker - where ironically the best open source option (uBlock Origin) doesn't even accept donations.
Meta publishes some interesting data along these lines in their quarterly reports.
I think the most telling is the breakdown of Average Revenue Per User per region for Facebook specifically [1]. The average user brought in about $11 per quarter while the average US/CA user brought in about $57 per quarter during 2023.
Setting up Kagi is as big an improvement to search as an ad blocker is to your general internet experience. After about a week you forget how bad the bare experience is, and after a month you'll never go back.
I'm definitely behind some of my peers on adopting LLMs for general knowledge questions and web search, and I wonder if this is why. Kagi does have AI tools, but their search is ad free and good enough that I can usually find what I'm looking for with little fuss.
You're misunderstanding - the point is that current (supported) versions of KDE support hardware manufactured in 2015, and current (supproted) versions of Windows will stop doing that very soon.
I tried longhorn on my homelab cluster. I'll admit it's possible that I did something wrong, but I managed to somehow get it into a state where it seemed my volumes got permanently corrupted. At the very least I couldn't figure out how to get my volumes working again.
When restoring from backup I went with Rook (which is a wrapper on ceph) instead and it's been much more stable, even able to recover (albeit with some manual intervention needed) from a total node hardware failure.
It is interesting seeing this article come up since just yesterday I setup longhorn in my homelab cluster needing better performance for some tasks than NFS was providing so I setup a raid on my r630 and tried it out.
So far things are running well but I can't shake this fear that I am in for a rude awakening and I loose everything. I backups but the recovery will be painful if I have to do it.
I will have to take a look at rook since I am not quite committed enough yet (only moved over 2 things) to switch.
If the information is truly important push it off to a database or NAS. I use rook at home but really only for long lived app data (config files, etc). Anything truly important (media, files, etc) is served from an NFS attached to the cluster.
That is good to know then, I am really just using this for smaller volumes. My media is sitting at about the same size yours is and instead of using PVC's I just have it mounting a straight NFS share specifically for that to avoid any issues there.
I think I am likely keeping most of my storage just setup with a storage class that uses my NFS as storage. But longhorn will be used for the things that need to be faster like the databases. I moved jellyfin over to Longhorn and it went from being borderline unusable while metadata was grabbed to actually working well.
I can't imagine my biggest volume being more than 100gb, and even that is likely a major over estimation on my part.
This phone requires a subscription in perpetuity, on top of the full purchase price.
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