Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: M3 Southbound EV Chargers

I have a bit of background to the problem as I live close to the M3 in N.E. Hampshire.

The Row of Tesla SC's has been there since late 2018. The issue is that to get power to them will require closing the whole M3 for around 12-15 hours. Power is available on the other side of the Motorway (Northbound). Closing the road will cost the operators a huge amount of money.

There is a housing estate close to the SB service area but the developer being a typical cheapskate only arranged for the minimum sized substation from the Grid. I looked at buying a house on that estate pre-covid but found that the supply to the house was only 60A (230V) with no prospect of upgrading it to 100A. Cheapskate developers strike again. running a 7.5kW home charger (32A) is not advisable on a 60A supply. I didn't buy the property. My current house was built in 1930 and has a 100A supply.

Re: TV that has the Android OS running

If you connect said TV to the internet then it is highly likely that you WILL get blasted with ads. That is what Google is all about.

I have a TV that runs android. In the six years since I bought it, it has not been connected to the internet even once. As it has Freesat builtin then I don't need the internet.

re: When top execs sells, we better run

Don't forget to monitor members of congress. Many of them sold their shares in SVB just before it went TITSUP.

So much for Musk the tech genius...

His cozying up to MAGA and the rest of the Right Wing in the USA will not end well. There are even calls for him to be fired from Tesla.

The skills needed to run Twatter and Tesla are very different.

Something has gotta give... and soon.

Once you see what's under the hood of Windows

You become cynical of everything with an MS label on it. They FSCK around with things because they can and as far as I can see, for no good reason. One [cough][cough] patch to Server 2012 caused the whole MSCS estate to fail miserably. Two days on the phone to MS in Redmond from South Asia (the locals were total POS) and I finally got a fix and clustering worked again but... Why?

After more years than I can remember writing system level software for a Windows platform, it finally got the better of me in 2016 when I saw W10. WTF multiplied by 10x9.

That was it. I decided that it was time for this GOF (Grumpy Old Fart) to retire and kick MS into the dust of history.

Now I ONLY run Linux (AlmaLinux) and MacOS. Sanity restored.

The above OS's are not perfect but I can live with them. Long may that continue.

Don't forget:-

Twitter,

Amazon

Starbucks

IBM

Microsoft

Google

Apple

uncle tom cobbly and all.

Re: Interesting idea...

And a Raspberry PI could do much the same job for most of us.. Smaller, lighter and easier on the wallet.

re: VCs

This is why Vulture Capitalists are bad news for any business that they cast their evil eyes on.

They come in promising the earth but all they do is asset strip and exit stage left leaving behind a company in tatters that is saddled with a shed load of debt.

Then they rinse and repeat again and again.

Re: preinstalled OEM image

In the past, I've had a numpty from just about the last man standing in the UK when it comes to a large electrical retailer tell me to my face...

"It is against the law to sell a PC without Windows."

I calmly point to the Mac section.

"What about those? They run the same Intel CPU as this thing here?"

His reply was:-

"They pay Microsoft a license before putting their own OS on it."

At that point, I walked out of the store with my friend who wanted a new computer. She's now in her mid 70's and is very happy with a Mac Mini.

Re: Pr0nHub

Unless... you happen to be in Utah (and a few more states very soon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehepxLz8sY&pp=ygUDdHl0

I'm pretty sure that the so called 'Christian Right GQP' majority in one state will soon mandate that the only streaming to cars are sermons from the Evangelical Preachers who talk about the devil inside us in return for donations towards their next private Jet/Mega mansion/Yacht

re: what leg Mr Gutman has to stand on.

It does not matter. He has taken a stand and like many politicians and union leaders... refuses to budge.

If he does lose then he'll be on the hook for ALL of El-Fruity's legal fees unlike the USA.

Where's the popcorn?

Re: Regulators are not the smartest in the pond

If they are not so smart then why are most of them frigging Lawyers?

Come the revolution all those to be lined up against the wall first will be the Lawyers. Society had been hurt for decades by Lawyer Politicians

Re: O365 isn’t radically better.

Au contraire...

O365 is radically WORSE

Re: t'll be cheaper

only if they throw away the key and cut off all internet access.

It won't be the SCOTUS

but the House of Repomen (Representatives)

If they can go after the Manhattan DA for spending a measly $500 of Federal Money in their legal attempts to take down their 'Dear Leader who never committed a crime in his life' (Donald Trump) and threaten to defund the FDA, the DOJ, FBI, DHS and uncle tom cobbly and all including the EPA then allI I can say is

WATCH THIS SPACE.

Then there are states that are actively passing laws to ban EV's (or make them so expensive to own that no one in their right mind would want to own one) then the battle is just beginning.