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Comment Re:The old auto makers are fucked. (Score 2) 143

In most of the world, 10K oil changes are the norm. My last car had 15K oil change intervals, and got 60 mpg. Never had an engine problem. As this was a company car, I had to return it after 90K miles. Engine was an Volkswagen 1.6 liter TDI with 110 HP. Current car is owned by my wife, similar sized engine with similar range from Stellantis (1.6 liter HDI), 10K oil change interval, currently at 100K miles. Never had an engine problem.

I don't know what the U.S. car's problem is with those short oil change intervals. Low quality oil maybe?

Comment Re:Missed one crucial point/reason (Score 3, Informative) 106

Having set up two Windows 11 PCs in the last couple of months it's amazing how much work it takes to get a usable OS after installing it.

The Windows 10 Decrapifier Script, combined with most of the tweaks available in WinUtil should reduce your workload pretty effectively.

Sad it needs to happen...but I hope it helps streamline things for you.

Comment Re:Excellent! Can we do this here in the uk? (Score 1) 138

One mans "natural" food is anothers' bush-meat. No common  food or drink is safe. You can choke on a glass of milk, as has been observed or live to be 102 drinking porter 3x a day. Japanese eat poisonous fish  & noodles while Greeks gorge on hi-salt olives and sardines. Russian & Germans eat  fat-laden sausage worth-the-name and Argentinians beef by the quarter. Mebby UKers and north Americans just have pussy constitutions and deserve condemnation to vegetarian hell !  I happen to like roast turkey and chicken, so please pass the ultra-processed honey-mustard sauce.

Comment arrogant (Score 1, Flamebait) 64

I read the Business Insider article. Dohmke is an arrogant bastard, without doubt parroting the M$ Mafia godfathers. He's demanding suicide from devs and infantile servitude from usrland. Who would risk their time/money/sanity  with such a sociopath? Whenever Linux infuriates my meager talents I just think about the M$ option ... and laugh.

Comment Re:Why not Coca Cola? (Score 1) 138

The PPM ones would have to be incredibly toxic to have direct impact. Researchers are left to search for tiny little changes in microbiome and insulin response. Negligible, especially with the baseline health of obese people.

There are scary studies for the sugar alcohols, unfortunately truly abominable science.

Comment Re:Or, you know... (Score 1) 64

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

Comment Re:Total ham! (Score -1, Troll) 142

You sound like a seriously disabled person, envying your  hyper-productive  betters. Perhaps liberal pedophilic billionaires fed off family trust-funds, but the wealthy in my extended family bootstrapped from poverty. So either you are mentally/physically too weak to produce anything of value, or you are a professional poor-person/parasite sucking the financial blood from any metabolism close-by. In either case I certainly hope our gene-pool avoids your contribution , noting that in a civilized culture you would already live in a barb-wired, stone-breaking gulag. 

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