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Comment Ordered from Aliexpress, marked up for the US (Score 1) 22

Pretty much everything not big-name-brand that's on Walmart or Amazon is marked up 25% or more from the Aliexpress price for exactly the same product. If you're willing to wait for it to come from China, you can get the same crap for less. I've just placed an order for an item that's $200 on Amazon and was $150. I expect it to take maybe an extra week.

Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 36

Calc will generate pivot tables, but not with a live WYSIWYG interface where you can tweak it as you go. It creates a new tab in your sheet after you fill in a dialog which is static, so if you want a current one or want it to be slightly different, you have to create it all over again.

I hear that these days it handles very large files OK, so IMO this is the last major feature needed before it can really be taken seriously as an Excel replacement.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 102

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power.

Simply putting panels between the sun and the house substantially reduces the need for cooling, even if you didn't connect them to anything, because the back of the panel is white and the other side is dark.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I only had so many choices as I wanted to buy something from costco so that I could easily return it if it failed. It was LG, Samsung, or Sony. The reviews all said that the LG was good except for the interface, and the other options were bad including the interface.

Comment Re:bullshit dude (Score 1) 38

the point is that legacy filesystems (e.g. Minix) and operating systems are facing doom because of the Y2038 problem

Oh no! This is of no concern to anyone but hobbyists today.

You could invent some ad-hoc replacement filesystem but then it won't be compatible with Linux.

Unless you added support for it to Linux.

There are still people out there hacking on 2BSD. I am sure they are aware that NetBSD is available as an upgrade path.

Again, hobbies don't matter.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I even have it set to never sleep for efficiency and it still occasionally tells me to wait while it gets its shit together before I'm allowed to change inputs.

All you need is to change channels and inputs

In fact, that is what I was talking about. You may read the quoted section at your leisure.

I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

This one is only a bit over a year old, so it's newer than the one you were using. The entire line has been panned universally in reviews for its laggy interface.

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