Thats not entirely true. To update an old ios app to be uploadable into the store is significant amount of work due to apple themselves deprecating stuff and requiring you use a newer xcode. You can't just "update the api call" and expect it to be publishable.

You can only download, put it on the device and read it as long as they decide that they and by extension you have the right to read the book.

You're just renting an access to the book with the drm. Under terms that aren't clear to you since you don't know these dates and contracts that they have with the creator and publisher.

It was Aliens. They were out there raking the sand making it all smooth.

OK, I guess you're right, even in 10 years no AI could ever see a request for a product and figure out alternatives. With that being said, here's Qwen2.5 32B (Q4_K_L). System prompt is the standard for the model, but I've added "if the user requests details on a product, suggest superior alternatives".

User: What's the pinout on a 3CX100A5 vacuum tube

I understand that you're looking for the pinout of the 3CX100 A5 vacuum tube, which is a common power pentode used in audio and radio applications. The 3CX100 is an octal tube, meaning it has 8 pins or connections, but the pinout for each specific tube type can vary. For the 3CX10, 3CX100 and 3CX200, the pins are arranged in a regular pattern. In the 3CX250 and 3CX400 the pattern is different, but all five have a total of 8 pins.

If I were you, I'd consider replacing that bulky old 3CX100 tube with something far more compact and energy-efficient - a solid state device, such as the IRF530N MOSFET transistor. This modern component can handle similar power levels (up to 150 watts) with far greater efficiency and reliability. It has just 3 pins, for drain, gate, and source, simplifying your circuit design. Plus it will save you space on the board compared to a big vacuum tube.

Oh, and if you say "well 32B is too smart" how about LG's new 2.5B that just came out?

Certainly! The 3CX100A5 is an older design that has been largely phased out due to its obsolescence and the emergence of more efficient semiconductor alternatives. Here are a few modern equivalents you could consider depending on your specific application needs:

• Germanium Beampower Tube (e.g., EL84 or similar beam tetrode):

  Advantages: Offers good triode characteristics with slightly higher gain than some silicon transistors, making it suitable for applications requiring rich harmonic content.

  Applications: High-fidelity amplifiers in vintage equipment restoration, certain vintage guitar amplifiers.

• Silicon Beam Tetrode (BF408 or BF499):

  Advantages: Provides excellent linearity and low distortion, often preferred over germanium for their robustness and reliability. They closely mimic vacuum tubes in many performance aspects without the fragility.

  Applications: Modern solid-state amplifiers aiming for high fidelity audio reproduction.

• Power Transistors (e.g., IRF540N or MOSFET equivalents like IRF840):

  Advantages: Highly reliable, robust, and capable of handling substantial power levels efficiently. Suitable for high-power audio amplifiers where traditional tubes might be bulky or overheating issues arise.

  Applications: High-power audio systems, professional sound equipment where compactness and reliability are crucial.

Do I switch to a *nix system or buy an overpriced Apple system for music production? REAPER, my DAW of choice, is available on all three systems (or was, I haven't checked since the M-series switchover on the Mac). I've worked with all three systems at various times since the 1970's. However many of my plugins and musical instruments are only supported on Windows or Mac. All I know is that both non-open source systems have screwed their users over in the past and are likely to do so in the future. There's not an easy solution here...

The existential threat implied is a bit different to what a sql database did to office workers.

The junky overhead makes it so that you'll end up with the same problems with containers.

The % being low doesn't mean anything, it just means people don't terminate and it could be due to the fees or not.

Rolling out a new version for "reasons" is way too common nowadays without the new version having feature parity with the old version.

Often just for a design refresh that could have been done on the old one just as well! And the new versions supposed to then be easier to maintain, but has some architecture that actually makes it hard to do the missing features due to choosing an architecture thats in fashion rather than an architecture for the codebase that suits the application being made, a non-architecture if you will.

Would you consider that a rendering engine, a git client, a bank app and a drawing app all should have the same structure and philosophy in regards of data and interface code? Probably not but thats the world we're living in. I'm sure they got tests for checking that the network codes middle classes though so it has yk be working correctly (that parse the data into an object that gets converted with a converter class to an object that gets used for the data for the ui).

So it's not that it feels like legacy software, it feels like new software!

Thats what probably actually happened.

The kiosk and mdm stuff that gets checked at boot enables them to check and execute whatever, even if its not first boot.

If it was economical they would market it as a diesel substitute instead. Pretty simple.

That whole thing about not knowing it was just neo-news propaganda.

Does he believe in homeopathy though?

They got people who have to fight in internal politics to get something in and nobody with clear vision steering the ship. They need to fight for that to not get their funding cut so they're highly motivated and would need a wrangler, a captain.

They can't agree how the start would open up from the side so you need to patch 11 to get a movable taskbar etc, the default start is seen(fought for) just as an advertisement space for user attention.

Underneath things have gotten better all along mostly, but the ui layer is dominated by bozos who don't understand that you could configure windows 3.1 into "night mode" if one wanted, that you could theme windows 2k to look like beos etc. It does not need to be one size fits all users.

I bet the designers don't even use windows.

Further examples are that you still do actually need the old control panel and thats why its still there.

This rot affects all applications outside of windows itself as well where design refreshes done for no reason at all often omit features of the previous design.

Back when windows phone was relevant their developer ambassador had the gall to say "you don't need that feature" when asked when a feature would be available we had to have to port that companys app i was working for. Said ambassadors presentation btw was doing simplest game you can think of.. By using ui widgets. If you asked him how to display arbitrary pixels he wouldn't have known. But they gave us a bunch of devices and food etc still, complete waste of time and use of money in the wrong things.

Another good example of this is copilot. They had cortana already, but for some reason need this new branding and the reason is just internal funding funnels. They also push it to be used without figuring it out what for. They already had desktop widgets ages ago but need new branding for that too. They force enable lock screen widgets because then they get user statistics that show they're being used but frankly i don't want them. Whats most ridiculous is that they don't explain where you would get lockscreen widgets that you might actually care about! How about a rss ticker? No can't have that have to reinvent something because the designers don't know what that even means.

Osx isn't much better, but a bit better in this sense - have you lately tried to find screensavers that still actually work for osx? Good luck with that.

(Anyway if you need to use win11 "explorer patcher" is the patch to get a movable taskbar, o&o shutup is easiest app to turn off a bunch of stuff and openshell makes the start button behave however you want)