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Comment Re:If Microsoft wants to survive (Score 1) 45

I wish Microsoft would do something worthwhile again but I have a feeling they are too arrogant and complacent so they will continue to circle the drain until someday they finally get liquidated by their shareholders

Inded. These days they cannot get anything right. Example: Just today Teams screwed me over. I minimally increased the speaker volume and some mechanism panicked apparently at the system-signal for speaker adjustment and then I could not hear the other side anymore. Leving and rejoining (either and both sides) did not help. Audio-settings did not help. Now, there apparently used to be a setting to switch this crap off or reset it, but not anymore. Nothing helped and I had to call the other person on the phone. That is not professional level software. That is a cretin-level tpy. If this was an isolated insicent, sure. But I found this has been a problem for people for several years now. And it fits well with the random and unpredictable and obscure behaviour of all things Microsoft. They have done so much crap now that there is no way they can fix this, ever. And some day the real cost of using their trash will become obvious. And then they will die.

Comment Re:Forget that (Score 2) 45

Intel only ever had their superior manufaturing process, which they had from making memory. As soon as that was gone, it became obvious how bad technologucally theor designs actually were and how far behind the competition. Conceptionally pretty much the same as Boeing, or, since that is the topic, Microsoft. These companies never really could compete, except in a dominant position. Time for them to die. They join plenty of others on the trash-heap of tech hostory. And in most cases, death was well deserved.

Comment Re:I expect Google to figure this out. (Score 0) 24

I'm not going to claim solar is cheap as I see little evidence of that being the case.

That's because you have no actual evidence with anything. People who have built solar power systems know that it is.

What I do see is solar power subsidies driving spot electricity rates so low they go negative at times

You were so close to getting it.

Comment Re:Christ I'm sick of how people (Score 0) 137

Do you think I'm a fucking Trumptard?

I have no idea whether you are a MAGA, but the quality of your mental processes seems at least often pretty similar. Remember thet Trump is a symptom of a larger problem and not everybody part of that problem likes Trump. Some even see that electing a rapist, convicted felon and serial banktuptee as president may be a bad idea.

Comment Re: Ok, but... (Score 1) 27

Ugh this.

Everyone is trying to get in on the market place action, including stores I likes using specifically because they were not market places. Also FFS why can they not seem to let me order by "actually in stock in the shop", and "available for next day collection or delivery" when that information is available. That would remove basically all the market place listings and it's also why I use the shop in the first place.

Comment Re:Well, we're lucky (Score 1) 137

Take advantage of the law by owning a bus conversion. Our bus weighs ten tons empty.

Alas, California is requiring us to smog the fucking things now, we have to do the same tests as commercial trucks, not just as often. Our rig passes easily, but it costs money and requires a trip halfway across a large county. In fact, since we hardly ever go anywhere, it significantly increases our emissions...

Comment Now that's super useful (Score 1) 27

The tests I care about other than reliability and straight streaming read or write speed are random read/write which some cards do much better than others — I expected this for writes, but not for reads! — and how long a device can sit around unused and retain data.

TFA notes that there are application performance class ratings, but they are very particular and what I really want to know is what happens with lots of small files.

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