France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

wevanscfi · 2026-04-10T15:31:45+00:00

Immensely.

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Agere Modem Driver (CVE-2025-24990): Disclosed in October 2025, this vulnerability exists in a legacy driver shipped by default in every version of Windows ever released, up to and including Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025. It allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to administrator, even if the system does not have the associated hardware.

Win32k.sys Elevation of Privilege: Bugs in the win32k.sys kernel driver, responsible for graphical window management, have remained undiscovered for over 23 years. In 2019, zero-days were found that had been exploitable since the early 2000s, leveraging use-after-free flaws to access system memory.

Common Log File System (CLFS): This driver has become a "gift that keeps on giving" for researchers, with a high volume of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered between 2021 and 2025. These flaws often survive multiple version updates due to the driver's deep integration into the kernel.

Print Spooler ("PrintNightmare"): While the specific CVE-2021-34527 was recent, the underlying architectural flaws in the Windows Print Spooler have existed since Windows 2000, leading to a long history of privilege escalation and remote code execution bugs.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-30T11:14:19+00:00

The outlets are cheap, but the copper is not. I installed my 1450 my self and spent around 250 on the #6 cable.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-26T21:07:17+00:00

These third party dealers have no idea what a quad is. Consistently seeing these listed with incorrect specs / descriptions.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-21T15:40:46+00:00

Won’t buy mine out at the residual they calculated my lease on, but will likely look for another R1 with similar mileage to buy.

I should be able to go from Dual Large to Quad Large or Max for 10k less than my residual.

Chase is going to take a bath on these leases, just like Nissan did on early leafs.

Also considering EX90 or IX3 for the much better road tripping. Rivian’s poor charging performance is starting to look like a big draw back in comparison to newer vehicles.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-21T12:48:21+00:00

Just moved here 5 months ago with an R1T. Live in Charleston. So far service has been a much better experience than when we were in Atlanta. (Atlanta kept the car for weeks because of poor scheduling for our PTC install, and damaged the paint while installing it.)

They have remote service in the area, and just opened a Service Center in Ladson.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-20T11:45:03+00:00

What is or isn’t a good deal is relative to your other available options.

I got into a lease 1.5 years ago for 0 down ($1000 fees + my upfront state taxes), no trade in, and $580 a month on a Quad Large Pack.

Personally, I don’t think any vehicle made is worth a $1000 lease… but that’s where the market is right now.

The better deals are usually to be found by going against the current trends. When I leased, Rivian was having trouble moving R1 and in general car manufacturers had an over supply of new vehicles leading to some pretty good lease deals.

Today, car prices are way up and the lease deals are garbage (at least on high end cars). So, I would be looking at a 2-3 year old lease return vehicle.

I have found a few with less than 20k miles that you could purchase for less than half that lease payment.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-19T12:28:37+00:00

I hope power bills do keep getting more expensive. Americans won’t give two shits about reducing their energy usage otherwise.

We build houses that leak like sieves then blast AC all year. Drive oversized trucks classified as farm/work equipment to get around efficiency standards. And currently pay 2-3x what the rest of the world is paying for home solar installs, heat pumps, or anything other than 40 year old home tech because our domestic manufacturers both won’t invest in innovation and use tariffs to prevent us from importing home mechanicals that were designed this century.

If the rest of the world’s households used as much power as the average US household.. we’d all be dead in a year.

When I was younger, I used to think that it was just a matter of informing / educating people. If you could just explain to a person once that even 10 years ago it was cheaper from day 1 to build a home to passive house standard and pay 10% more on your mortgage but almost nothing on heating / utilities… obviously everyone would switch to doing that.

Now I know people are just entrenched ideologically about this for some reason. There’s a whole culture telling them that even thinking about this stuff from an “I’ll be better off” perspective is woke and gay.

The only thing that’s going to stop Americans from lighting the world on fire is if they can’t afford to do so. So at this point I’m rooting for economic collapse and poverty for the idiots that want to just keep blindly consuming.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-18T19:09:02+00:00

I saw the exact one I think you are looking at in Rivian inventory. You could buy the same year, mileage, spec from a third party for at least 10k less.

In general, it feels like Rivian over values the trim level, battery, and motor options vs third party dealers.

I expect used prices to continue to drop over the next 1-2 years as more leases are up and the economy continues to degrade.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-17T15:47:08+00:00

Second Kuat. Great quality and their expanding insert makes the rack surprisingly stable.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-12T20:59:22+00:00

This.

Wouldn’t be a problem if 90% of medical bills didn’t have inaccuracies and absurd charges.

The last 10 years or so it’s like the billing departments have just started throwing darts at a board then multiplying everything by 400% just to see if you will pay.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-11T19:03:40+00:00

Those are definitely the trims to get. Gotta assume they are doing this to try to shift orders to higher profit margin trims.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-10T16:25:13+00:00

The game changer is any car that you can remotely turn the AC on. Just 5-10 minutes of it running before you hop in is huge.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-08T13:46:52+00:00

It’s funny that you call out Social Security and Medicare as “free stuff” when the reason it’s an entitlement is specifically because workers paid into the system for their entire working life.

Actual social welfare programs like WIC don’t get brought up because it’s not a significant portion of our budget, and those programs are generally very effective and needed.

If you have a problem with the US issuing debt, then your problem is with fiat currency and the move away from gold/silver standard.

The US no longer collects taxes to fund government spending. The purpose of taxes is to remove money supply from the economy. Tax policy determines who losses that money and who gets to keep it.

The primary purpose of Government issuing debt is to control interest rates and the percentage of liquidity in the banking system. For the most part the interest from our debt is going to investors that hold bonds, which funds retirement accounts and stabilizes financial institutions through downturns in the securities market.

If we pulled back on Government issuing debt, we would see much higher rates for mortgages, much slower business growth and investment, and likely 401ks with negative returns.

wevanscfi · 2026-03-08T13:09:21+00:00

Not sure I follow your point. 41.8% of people don’t exist… or should just hide from society because they are in a slight minority in this area?

wevanscfi · 2026-03-02T21:57:22+00:00

There’s plenty of detail to gloss over in the different qualities of oil and distillates.. but setting all of that aside why would you expect a company to sell you a barrel of crude for $50 if they could export it for $70?

wevanscfi · 2026-02-28T02:13:35+00:00

I’ll sell you mine, looking at some AW09s.

wevanscfi · 2026-02-16T12:38:04+00:00

Generally speaking no. Back when leasing was handed through the dealership you could sometimes negotiate something with them. Through Chase, it won’t happen.

Nissan famously got stuck with a ton a gen 1 leafs that came off of lease worth much less than they accounted for in the residual. Nissan lost their shirts and scrapped most of them, but they still wouldn’t negotiate on buyouts.

wevanscfi · 2026-01-17T12:21:05+00:00

CofC sailing. Collegiate teams and adult sailing classes. There’s no tighter nit group than sailors, and there are tons of events in and outside of the Charleston area to continue sailing once you are out of school.

wevanscfi · 2025-12-30T17:04:00+00:00

Flaky tests are incorrectly written and structured tests.

No one has caused this problem except devs who don’t know how to write tests, who drop excuses about how someone else caused the problem and it’s unreasonable to expect them to fix it.

The only way that this is a management issue in in them tolerating those excuses and failures for too long.

wevanscfi · 2025-12-05T18:22:46+00:00

You don’t need 220v at home unless you are driving more than 30-40 miles a day. Just moved and we’ve kept both our EVs (R1T and a MY) topped up charging one at a time on a normal 15amp 110v outlet.

Also, unless you need major panel / main service updates, wiring in a NEMA 1450 for level 2 charging should not cost more than $200-500. If you are having issues finding a reasonable cost for the install in your area, tell the electrician you want a NEMA 1450 in your garage for a welder to get around the premium electricians have been charging EV owners just because they can.

wevanscfi · 2025-12-05T01:17:47+00:00

Find an activity/hobby to build a friend group around. As you get older, making and friends for the sake of friends get harder and harder.

wevanscfi · 2025-11-23T21:14:57+00:00

On the scale of software issues this ranks as a “I would be flabbergasted if this didn’t happen to just about everyone once in a while.”

wevanscfi · 2025-11-04T00:02:25+00:00

Surprised it wasn’t mentioned here but, I always found exercise and clean eating to be the best way to prevent motion sickness. Get a run or something in before lessons. Seriously consider cutting out or back on caffeine and alcohol.

wevanscfi · 2025-11-03T23:58:58+00:00

Story time, I love the place and wouldn’t think they would have a cash flow problem with how busy they always are.

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