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Comment A search engine for electronics with price history (Score 1) 50

by echo123 (#66089536) Attached to: The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices

The Tweakers Pricewatch Is a wonderful tool in Dutch of the local market. It makes it easy to evaluate the Dutch market for almost any kind of electronic device, like the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD.

Clicking on the first product link on that page lists all the Dutch shops selling the SSD with prices, including shipping. Scroll down, and at the bottom of the list of all the shops is a stock market style historical graph of both the lowest and the average price of the part, in euros .

Comment Re:gotta catch 'em all (Score 1) 121

by echo123 (#66087642) Attached to: France's Government Is Ditching Windows For Linux

Bingo. The true impediment is psychological factors.
I've been thru the cycle several times. You show client the alternative. They say they could NEVER use it. The big red button isn't there. They use visual memory to do things, without understanding anything. Enter data in field x, find the big red button, press it. Job well done. Even software updates, where they change the colour of the button, or move it from the right to the middle, or change the text from "ok" to "update" will confuse most ...lets call them "information workers".
After you train them on the new software, they LOVE it. Then a few years later some update comes in, the colour scheme is tweaked, the buttons and text change a little bit and they go ballistic! OMG I can't do my job, the big red button has moved (2 cm to the left). Any change to the software triggers massive FEAR and causes Joe to suddenly look and feel incompetent. Que another training session. After learning that, now they LOVE the software again. If you stick around long enough, some new system comes along to replace the system they originally HATED, then LOVED once they knew how to use it, and you show that to them and the cycle starts again: I could NEVER use that.

True. So true! Oh how much I hate that damn ribbon! Thank goodness I have other options.

Comment Re:gotta catch 'em all (Score 2) 121

by echo123 (#66087538) Attached to: France's Government Is Ditching Windows For Linux

Okay, take a windows computer loaded with sensitive information that must be retained, and install Linux on it without losing anything. Takes some time and effort for one, and they'll have thousands. It's doable, but it won't be cheap or fast.

Isn't everything managed on servers for a long time already, even with 'personal folders', and ACL's are a thing too. Again, in 2026, any motivated organization should be able to overcome whatever obstacles that might lay in their path, even given their previous investments in microsoft.

Comment Re:gotta catch 'em all (Score 4, Interesting) 121

by echo123 (#66087242) Attached to: France's Government Is Ditching Windows For Linux

France says it plans to move some government computers from Windows to Linux as part of a broader push for digital sovereignty and reduced dependence on U.S. technology. TechCrunch reports:
In a statement, French minister David Amiel said (translated) that the effort was to "regain control of our digital destiny"

He forgot the word "partial"

If they want that control they need to at least divest from ALL use of Microsoft "solutions" and possibly also build their own Linux distribution.

In 2026, given the current state of Linux software and distributions, I don't see what is so hard about switching the vast majority of common office computers.

Comment Anthropic's Super Bowl ads addressed this issue! (Score 3, Informative) 53

Of course no one on Slashdot watches sports or ads, so let me point out...

Anthropic's Super Bowl ads were extremely well done IMHO, with just the right amount of 'pause'. Anthropic came to the Super Bowl party in ad form to make it clear Anthropic/Claude won't do ads.

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Is my essay making a clear argument?

What do you think of my business idea?

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Comment Re:It's just pure bullsh]it (Score 1) 68

FWIW, people with multiple residences in different Google regions, (US & EU for example), have to choose which Play Store region they prefer to live with and stick with their choice for at least a year, before they can switch again. The first switch after phone purchase is a little more lenient as I recall, but not after that. As I recall, Chipotle and Panera Bread are only available in the US Play Store region, not in the EU for example.

Comment Re:You beat me with that to FC ... (Score 1) 87

by echo123 (#66051202) Attached to: Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta

I'm genuinely curious...what major mistakes has the US made on the Iranian strikes?

Every modern President wanted to bomb Iran but none besides Trump chose to because it was always clear Iran would mine the Strait of Hormuz and otherwise shoot cheap, short-range missiles at massive oil tankers from high hills/mountains, taking a huge hit on the global economy. And the costs we're now realizing were well known decades ago. No US President was stupid enough to pull the trigger until DJ Trump -- who couldn't plan his way out of a wet paper bag.

The war will end when his gut tells him to stop. That's what he keeps saying.

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