The amp would only be working if it had repairs multiple times by now though. Capacitors don't last 75 years, and tubes last much shorter than capacitors.
A replacement set of tubes for a 1950s Fender amp costs $200-$400 today, just for parts. A lot more than a new Kindle. A Kindle might even be less e-waste than a set of tubes too.
I would point out that in 45 years ago, in 1981, the typewriter as a product was over 100 years old (first sold 1874). There was a lot of time to standardize by 1981. And there probably haven't been a lot of serviceable pre-1900s typewriters for quite a while.
The first Kindle came out in 2007. Who knows what an e-reader will be like in 2107?
SQLite has become my new go-to when starting any project that needs a DB. The performance is very fast, and if anything is ever successful enough to outgrow SQLite, it wouldn't be that hard to switch it out for Postgres. Not having to maintain/backup/manage a separate database server is cheaper and easier.
You remove a bit of complexity. Sure Postgres is not hard to set up sn to connect to, but Sqlite is just opening a file. It being a file makes it also very easy to test or debug you application.
It is simpler and removes failure points. You don’t need a separate database server process or network/socket connections. Everything happens in-process.
postgres is great and is also a good default choice. It needs a bit more setup than sqlite. Unless I need a capability that postgres provides, I go with sqlite. It just works.
Glad that they figured out the issue and fixed the links. When I first read this, I assumed it was actually the sketchy ads that are run on www.cpuid.com.
These are the real ads I just saw on a single download page for CPU-Z: "Continue to Download", "Install For windows 10, 11 32/64 bit Get Fast!", "Download", "Download now from PC APP STORE", or "Download Now For windows 10, 11 32/64 bit". Many of them appeared multiple times on the page.
The real download links don't even say they are download links.
I love the winget CLI in this situation. This is all you need: `winget install CPUID.CPU-Z`.
Personally I'm fine with the scammy ads. I feel most people who would use CPU-Z are pretty technical and should be able to tell the difference between an ad download button vs the real one.
That, and you should already be using an ad blocker.
I recently retired my Wordpress blog and replaced it with a static-site generator. My requirements were straight-forward and I ended up having Codex build it for me.
It was the last thing using MySQL, PHP, and Wordpress on my site. 3 big things to not have to keep up-to-date and secured. I can check in markdown to my repo, it builds the site, and Nginx serves it. So fast, and secure.
That has me quite tempted. In general, I stay under the Plus limits, but I do watch my consumption. I could use `/fast` mode all of the time, with extra high reasoning, and use gpt-5.4-pro for especially complex tasks. It wasn't worth 10x the price to me before, but 5x is approachable.
That is disappointing. I find myself mostly using Codex these days. ChatGPT still for one off questions/prompts, but usually complex problems require context, like files and tools I already have on my system, and Codex is way better for that.
MTR is a must have tool for any time you need tracert. I personally have used WinMTR for many years. An invaluable tool when you have connectivity issues to diagnose.
It'd be fun to explore creating a Gemma 4 LLM API server app so you could use your iPhone's processing for agentic coding on a laptop. I don't know how useful it would be, but it'd be fun.
I want local models to succeed, but today the gap vs cloud models still seems continually too large. Even with a $2k GPU or a $4k MBP, the quality and speed tradeoff usually isn’t sensible.
Credit to Google for releasing Gemma 4, though. I’d love to see local models reach the point where a 32 GB machine can handle high quality agentic coding at a practical speed.
Fwiw, the real reason we don't have 100+ GB GPUs is because Nvidia likes to segment their markets. They could sell the consumer cards with 200gb gddr RAM on it, they just know that'd eat into their enterprise offering which is quiet literally all their profit margin (which I may add is gargantuan as of 2025)
If there is one thing that that agents/LLMs have highlighted, it is how much credit those test writers do deserve. Teams that were already following a TDD-style approach seem to be able to realize value from agents most easily because of their tests.
The tests are what enable: building a brand new JS runtime that works, rewriting a complex piece of code in a different language (e.g. Golang instead of TypeScript) that is more performant for that task, or even migrating off of an old stack (.NET WebForms) to something newer.
A replacement set of tubes for a 1950s Fender amp costs $200-$400 today, just for parts. A lot more than a new Kindle. A Kindle might even be less e-waste than a set of tubes too.
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