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Comment Re:Probably not (Score 1) 120

I live in a 1966 house that is fairly up to date and the estimated (take that with a grain of salt) value has doubled in the past ~10 years. We used to live in basically the same house as you, same age, ungrounded outlets, one more bathroom, that house has an estimated value that has gone up 3x in the past 10 years. Our current house is on the edge of the city and country, a few minutes further from everything, a much quieter area where we prefer to live. The previous house is in the middle of the suburbs. Just a one off case but I feel like location plays a bit more than quality of the house when it comes to value.

Comment Re:We need more, smaller ISPs. Not big ones. (Score 2) 59

Where I live there is one ISP. Spectrum. The cost of 1Gbit service is $129 a month. The service sucks. It's always having outages.

Where my brother lives, they have both AT&T and Spectrum. Both carries offer internet for $59 a month to his house.

We need more ISPs. More competition. Less mergers.

Pretty much the same here. Our neighbors can get AT&T and Comcast, but we are one house down the side road and only Spectrum runs lines down here (we are less than 50 feet from them and there are a couple dozen more homes before the dead end). We pay $90 for internet that struggles to try to meet the supposed 100 MB, and hasn't been stable since they upped our speed (and bills) from 25 MB.

Comment Re:Less enshittification (Score 2) 89

Streaming services are one of the pinnacles of enshittification. You pay for stuff you don't own. Everything can be taken away from you at any time. Ads can be added at any time, etc.

Having physical media means that you can get a simple DRM-free file from it, you can watch whenever and wherever you want.

Basically my thoughts. Is it the appeal of physical media, or the increasing enshittification as streaming services fracture, remove content, increase prices... I need to stop talking about all the crap they are doing.

Comment Re:Impenetrable language (Score 1) 25

That sounds a lot like HP Inc is signing up new suppliers at a brisk pace. Broussard said the company has also "expanded lower-cost sourcing across our commodity basket, lowering logistics costs with agile end-to-end planning processes." The company is using its internal AI initiatives to power those new processes. The company is also "configuring our products and shaping demand to align the supply we have with our customer needs" and "taking targeted pricing actions to offset the remaining cost impact in close partnership with both our channel and direct customers."

Did they also have AI generate the marketing statement?

I think (/s) AIs just gravitated to market speak during its training. AI has spent years training on the internet, market speak has been developed to misdirect with meaningless words for centuries.

Comment Re:Depends on the topic (Score 1) 73

For shits and giggles, I tested it against x86-64/linux (as) and it did fine. Can't remember which I used... probably one of the Qwens.

Now granted, it wasn't super complicated, it just basically called stat(2) and write(2) to display the output... but I mean, it did do it, no libraries.

Agreed, when I say chasing its tail I'm not talking about a simply output to the command line (which I really wasn't clear on). I created a program that generates a maze using Kruskal's algorithm with C++ and asked Claude to convert this to intel assembly with comments to cover where the equivalent functions and variables would be to make it easier for a class to match the assembly with the C++. It mostly worked, but Claude kept chasing one bug in circles until I realized what it was doing wrong and pointed out where the actual problem was. The LLM is quite good, but it has a tendency to get stuck and need help getting back out more than I like.

Comment Re:College education is still worth it (Score 1) 145

It's worth *something*, but the price has been outpacing inflation by a wide margin for years and years.

So we have value, but the price has been running away...

This is my thought. Being somewhat pedantic I feel like oversold is not quite right as there is still value in what they are selling, but they are going overboard on the costs to provide the degree. Many local/State colleges are still more than worthwhile.

Comment Well yeah.... (Score 5, Insightful) 116

Repeating somewhat a recent post. I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play (short of like Starfield but it will run Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well). Until the computer is not fast enough I don't need a new one and if someone hacks my machine, a bunch of computer games is not a great loss. What value is Win 11? Not the price of replacing the hardware in this desktop to me.

Comment Re:If only a certain OS didn't end support (Score 1, Offtopic) 77

We may have freed up RAM capacity by limiting unnecessary computer purchases.

Oh my gaming computer will not be replaced for some time until it is worth updating it, even if Micro$soft thinks otherwise. If someone hacks it, not much of value will be lost. Note most of my games are indie games that run just fine on a computer that was near top of the line eight years ago.

Comment Re:You have options (Score 1) 98

Use something better like notepad++, if you are still using notepad maybe change your workflow. I realize that this can be difficult if you are doing tech support on someone elses machine.

I love notepad++ for most of my document editing outside of an IDE, except I liked notepad for having a bunch of little note windows. Maybe I'll have to switch over to the sticky notes app and forget notepad.

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