Now we are _better_ than millions of years of humans were before! Oh, wait ...

Indeed. This is essentually the same when rats and other pests start to slowly crawl into a building.

Who says I am talking about their consumer products?

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.

Nobody said MS was "hurting". The claim is that they are a dead man walking and that claim is accurate. They will surely walk for anothe 10 or maybe even 15 years, but their products have gotten so abysmally bad that they have no long-term future.

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.

My mom says there's a lot of white people in Poland.

Yes we all like to see signs that Microsoft is failing but did you notice that Intel is cooked?

Which part?

Wait, they went from Slashcode to something else and somehow managed to not implement whitelisted Unicode text?

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

You were so close to getting it.

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.

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.

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...

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.