I've got an Ampere workstation (AVA) which from a firmware point works fine. They may even fix the PCIe bus on later versions.

I'm pretty sure it's still private charging. I know there are some kerbside charging solutions that are a public/private mix so discounted for residents but I don't think we need a lot of public charging infrastructure on normal streets. The only time I use public chargers is when doing long journeys and I stop off at motorway services which benefit from the 50kw+ CCS charging while I have a pee and grab a coffee.

I would hope in time that private charging gullys would become a standard part of street furniture when streets are renovated and redone. It's going to take awhile before the majority of cars on the road have transitioned to electric.

Not sure what to do about the insurance premium issue. I would hope some of the ADAS improvements in new cars will eventually reduce the number of battery integrity threatening prangs.

Your council will probably have words with you if you have a permanent over the pavement solution. Have proper permanent gullys for charging cables goes someway to improving access to cheap charging for EV owners that don't have driveways. That is by far the cheapest way to charge. My overnight charging is about 7p per kWh (~4-5 miles of range).

The road tax discounts are nice but not sustainable in the long term. EVs are still road users and need to contribute to the cost of upkeep. The fairest solution would be a usage based approach but their are privacy issues implementing such a solution.

I hadn't noticed a massive difference in insurance. Is the premium you mention down to a government tax or just differences from the insurers?

Battery recycling is certainly worthwhile. Even if you don't break then down a lot of EV batteries can have a good second life as domestic supply batteries.

Asahi is a powerful example of what a small well motivated team can achieve. However they are still face the sisyphean task of reverse engineering entirely undocumented hardware and getting that upstream.

If you love Apples hardware then great. Personally when I have Apple hardware I just tweak the keys to make it a little more like a Linux system and use brew for the tools I'm used to. If I need to I can always spin up a much more hackable VM.

Arm has been slowly pushing standardisation for the firmware which solves a lot of the problems. On the server side we are pretty much there. For workstations I'm still waiting for someone to ship hardware with non-broken PCIe. On laptops the remaining challenge is power usage parity with Windows and the insistance of some manufacturers to try and lock off EL2 which makes virtualization a pain.

They kinda left the biggest pitfall at the end of the article - the poor coordination between the two co-leaders. We shall see how they fare it their first electoral test.

My parents had one his albums on vinyl which we used to play all the time. They were funny even when i didn't know the people he satirised in some of the more political songs.

I guess they can't gate on access to the SPU memory region? QEMU's approach is just to mark all executable pages for the slow path so we can handle translation invalidation as it's written to.

Down 6.5% year on year. https://assets.simpleviewcms.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/lasvegas/ES_May2025_ed1142ef-9992-4a32-b44d-5404dba18b8e.pdf

I found it quite a charming show but I haven't watched that many shows with autistic leads to see the tropes. It did seem to be trying to present a sympathetic portrayal.

The kernel on GitHub is just a mirror - the primary source is on kernel.org

Don't be too hard on Collin. Looking back on the threads it's fairly clear he's been the victim of a social engineering attack on an overworked maintainer. People were pressuring him to hand over maintainership while expressing disappointment at the slow pace of development. The off-list contact by Jia must have seemed like a helpful enthusiastic solution to a burnt out developer.