Posts by Steve Davies 3

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.

Have an upvote

for "The Trump Playbook"

It is long past time that the defendants have to put into escrow the sum they are being sued for BEFORE the trial begins. It should be done by court order. Failure to do so sends the CEO to jail for contempt and the case is awarded to the plaintiffs by summary judgement.

But... the US legal system is an utter mess and wide open to abuse as demonstrated by Trump, Musk and especially Alex Jones.

And there there is servicing and spares

Tesla basically refuses to sell spares to customers. That means taking the cultmobile to their service centre where it can languish for weeks if not months because said spares are simply not available.

My local bodyshop refuses to even quote for even fixing a dent on a Tesla and they work on Ferrari's, Lamobo's and Posrsche's so are not a cheapo back street shop.

That says it all about the cult of Tesla.

I did try to like a Model 3 when I was last in the USA and had the chance to rent one. It was built like a Lada on a bad day. 1200 miles on the clock and there was rust already starting to appear because of the shoddy paint job. Sorry fanbois, they are not a Luxury Car. Adequate at best.

re: wish you hadn't kept so much stuff

Have you never heard about email archiving?

Re: Meaninglessly diluted and overrated brand anyway

I met the man when he was selling US Imports from his shop above a shop on Oxford St in the early 1970's. I still have one of the Grateful Dead albums I bought there.

Those were the days...

IMHO, he lost my respect when he sold out his record stores. Since then apart from a few transatlantic jollies, IMHO he has lived on his name.

I had my doubts about the viability of the latest Cornish Folly right from the start. Still, it is sad to see Newquay in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Re: Longevity in the US

Beer Korma is actually worse than many Tories on this matter.

Many of his predecessors will be turning in their collective graves at the thought of a Labor leader betraying the NHS which as we all know is the sole creation of the Labor Party.

Re: rouge state?

Gave me a laugh for a wet Friday when the alternative to reading this site is editing a 86,000 word manuscript that is as boring as hell.

Rouge : the stuff that goes on the cheeks of women in a certain profession.

Rogue : The word that you were looking for.

Re: And here we go again.

Inside Redmond and India, the word 'support' was IMHO blacklisted a couple of decades ago and is now a prohibited word.

Just my $0.024 (Inflation you know) worth.

TBH, it is easier to get blood from a stone than a clear answer about an issue from MS. IMHO, nowt has changed since the day that W95 was released.

Re: The heck it does!

Perhaps that SUSE bias (real or not) should have been front and centre in the article?

RedHat radically changed the direction of CentOS. Out of that TWO stable alternatives have emerged. i.e. RockyLinux and AlmaLinux.

I moved seamlessly from CentOS to AlmaLinux.

As for packaging... DNF/YUM do the job perfectly well. The last time I used rpm directly was to find out what package provided a certain library because I needed to backport one of my apps and the contents of the PHP packages changed from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1. That is hardly the fault of the Distro developers now is it?

There are IMHO serious issues with the current firewalld subsystem when it comes to logging but unless you are deep in system security you would never encounter those things.

Is it too hard to ask to make it easy to find out what IP's have been blocked by a firewall rule?

Does that go whoooosh over most people's head? Then you clearly don't host your own website or if you do then you don't care about the site being scraped by some sweatshop in Mumbai or repeated attempts to find phpmyadmin on your server or even wget commands that are trying to do an 'cd /;rm -fr' on your system?

Re: Chuck everything Amazon in the bin

Only after taking a 6lb club hammer to it first.

It would help compensate you for wasting all that £££ on spyware.

re: people with money to waste?

Indeed. Many Tesla owners have tried to get their computers on wheels repaired in a timely manner and failed miserable. Their bit of Tesla tech becomes an expensive bit of tat.

re: No wonder VS is in the state it is.

Or THTF

Too Hard To Fix

MS are bunch of [redacted]

Re: Test

Is apparently a four-letter word that is banned in the Microsoft Universe.

re: "right to bear arms" is completely alien to me.

Agreed. The general public/man on the clapham omnibus (in the UK)does not feel the need to own a gun let along go around 'tooled up' with an AR-15 (other weapons of mass destruction are available)

The first time I saw a pickup in the US with a rack of guns behind the driver gave me the heebie-jeebies.

The fact that there are 400+ million firearms in the USA and only 330 million (or thereabouts) in the population should make everyone worried.

Re: Sapphire glass?

If I remember the case, the company that promised it could make the glass in the quantities needed was little more than a scam and that the SEC went after the directors

https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-06-apple-sapphire-glass-supplier-charged-with-fraud.html?

Re: Just can't win

What do you expect when Elon isn't building the cars himself?

Joking aside, since he has gone 'right' politically and is fully engrossed with sending Twitter to a (IMHO) well deserved grave, Tesla seems to have lost focus.

To many in the US, Tesla is like the MAGA GOP, a cult. Say anything against either of them, and they will set the dogs on you. That is not good for the long term.

Re: When it comes to Linux, I can't be arsed.

'At that Time' are the key words.

Nowadays, things are very different. The world has moved on from those bad old days. Whilst I am nominally retired, I look after a number of companies E-Commerce sites. These all run on Linux. Some are CentOS 7.3 but they are slowly moving to AlmaLinux 8.7. A few of these were originally built for Windows/MS Commerce but the continual f**king around forced the companies to think again.

Other than Linux, they all use Wordpress.

Crashes? unheard of.

Uptimes? I will be patching one Centos7 server this weekend. It's current uptime is 325 days.

Back in the old days, yes, those of us early adopters had to work hard to get a workable system Those days are gone IMO.

At least with Linux, we don't get the OS provider forcing changes on us with every update.

If you still can't be arsed to try out a distro that isn't bleeding edge than that's on you. Fedora is the testbed for what goes into RHEL and its forks. I'll test it on an old Macbook when Beta 3 drops and yes, I will feed back any issues. I will put my test Wordpress domain on it, not just test the install.

When these Robots

start taking high dives out of office windows perhaps those who thought that this was a good idea might think again...

Oh wait. Who am I kidding. Those who made the decision will either be long gone or on the golf course with their fellow 'C suite' morons laughing at those who have to work to put bread on the table. Mind you, there are some on the far right in the USA who think that even doing that is not for the likes of us and we should starve (and not get food stamps)

re: Car Designers...

I think that should be....

Car, App and ALL UI designers really need to walk across the metaphorical street and speak to the aviation industry on they decades of research of user interfaces and human factors.

Re: If it was profitable

Ok Voice of Truth,

Why don't you put yourself in the position of an MD of one of the companies who banked with SVB in the UK. If they lost everything but £75K then a good number of those businesses would be TITSUP by the end of the week.

What would you do after telling your staff that because of the failure of the company bank, they were all out of a job AND that the company would be unable to pay them for March 2023.

Go on... Please tell us what you would rather have happened?

While I think that this government is a bunch of useless twats, I think that the actions over the weekend deserve a small round of applause.

Tomorrow? the Brickbats will resume.