Well put! Inertia, plus distrust with anything new.

The most I can add is from historical experience. When I first got into tech, technology was largely tube, with transistors starting to be employed. Even early RTL logic IC's in a few places.

Tube guys didn't want to upgrade their knowledge.

Computers were migrating from ferrite core drum memory. Dunno if many people lost their jobs over migrating to IC's from that, probably some.

Ive seen people lose their jerbs over refusing to transition to digital photography from chemical. Or transitioning from Ozalid viewgraphs to photochemical viewgraphs to 35mm slides to PowerPoints. 3-D animation work going from VTR frame buffer frame by frame recording to non-linear Editing. I'll bet the newer people here never heard of some of those things.

Tech Fields are not fields for people who resist change.

Bitcoin has a lot in common with precious metal investment. Volatile AF.

However, it is extremely unlikely that gold, silver or platinum will ever be worthless. Bitcoin could.

The whole aim of bitcoin is to get as many people to exchange their dollars for it, then the chosen few in real control begin the selloff. Pump and dump. And so far, there are plenty enough "greater fools" to keep it going.

Someone labels a comment about "Solid State batteries" offtopic I an articles about..... wait for it.... Solid state batteries powering an airplane. So cute.

It's a beautiful deal, I mean everyone is talking how perfect it is, and only I can broker perfect deals.. But lets talking about old Slee[py Joe, he's teh one who rigged The great country of Britain's did I tell you how much I lobe Britain, And they love me oh so much, but Everyone loves me - I love inflation and will arrest Hillary Clinton - who received no votes in 2016, and I'm naming all the buildings in Washington DC after me because everyone loves me, I'm the best president, love love love. Time for a nap....

Looks like the only way I can stop getting your posts is to allow you to have the last word, so have at it!

That's a cool little plane, for certain, probably good as a trainer, mostly.

Exactly. The number of different types of batteries and their use cases is pretty huge. Just chemistry and the electrochemical series.

Right now, everyone is agog about Lithium (something) batteries, with increasing interest in Sodium -ion batteries.

The so called solid state batteries are apparently just Lithium batteries, and haven't lived up to the hype anyhow.

SS Batteries have always sounded pretty Grift-y to me. Solid state isn't magic fairy dust.

So a day or two ago, it was shown that "solid State batteries were only Lithium batteries. But now they are solid state again?

That is the type I had. You might be surprised, but the dealer can refuse to perform the service that you get reimbursed from. Yes, I could have sued them, probably won. My revenge was much simpler than giving lawyers money. I simply stopped buying new cars from that dealership. That way they can lose thousands from both my wife and myself.

Besides, I don't have the time to futz around

I have what you call a file format bug up my ass. Why would my comment be irrelevant?

Some people have no involvement in archival of pertinent documents. They would perhaps think that someone who needs to retrieve documents is some sort of one off thing. We are not. Our ability to retrieve old documents is sometimes very very critical.

I had one of those once. Our local dealer refused to honor it twice. First was for a broken turn signal assembly, second was for a tire that failed at 7K miles.

Well then, is someone forcing you to marry and endure the presents marriage brings to men? I there are no worthy women in the cities, you just don't wife them up. And that's the thing. The present day paradigm that demands women live the single life sampling as many men as possible until their mid to late 30s', is running up against a problem .A man who stays single until that age is losing the desire to marry and have children.

And not to put too fine a point on it, he can always go out and have one nighters or situationships with those modern women, pick them up at the bars or clubs.

Disclaimer - the bar and club scene isn't what it used to be, even Chad and Tyrone are finding better things to do with their time.

So what is your solution when a department head brings you a lot of files in some old format and tells you they need updated in order toe be archived

Just tell them no, and tell them they have a bug up their ass?

Perhaps your use case has no such requirements. Doesn't mean other use cases are irrelevant. Doesn't mean they are only a few people. And since Microsoft doesn't offer a thing doesn't mean the use case doesn't exist.

I've even had to recover files from floppy disks. I'll offer no guarantees, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve likening a heat gun to warm the floppy up a bit before inserting.

I have access to O365, but yeah, LibreOffice is simply better.

Whatever claims some might have to an obscure Excel function, the fact remains that O365, is sorely lacking in the ability to open just about everything, which at least for my use case, is a show stopper.

Yup, I had many people that get confused bring me files to open and convert them to the files they are familiar with.