Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Disable it if you haven't paid for it?

Nah, I would not put it beyond them to make the .exe's all initiate a download of MS Office in the background.

The MS can say 'Hey look... we have found an unlicensed copy of Office on your machine. You owe us $100,000. Will that be a check?

re: ban the sale of Android/iOS devices

This will piss Apple/Foxconn off no end as they have chosen India to be a big manufacturing hub now that China has lost its shine.

Modi seems to be shooting himself in the foot here. Now if this had been proposed oh.... in 2011 or thereabouts then it might have had some chance of taking off.

Merit and Standing

Like most of the cases filed by POTUS No 45, they lack merit or even standing. How else would several of his lawyers be facing disbarment then?

This is true for many of the cases filed in the USA today. Just because anyone can sue anyone over anything does not mean that they should do so.

Re: Are we seriously

Cloud Salesmen (they are usually men) are just modern day Snake Oil Salesmen.

i.e. Not to be trusted one micron. If they can't guarantee the savings then walk away.

Don't forget about the costs you will incur to get your data out of their cloud. The vendors will want to charge you three arms and four legs for it.

Re: Solution in search of a problem

$800 - $1000 every two years to "manage" my license plate?

There are a lot of people in CA with more money than sense.

Soon to be coming to a state near you. Don't you just love progress when it is as useless as this?

Give me the old black and silver/white plates any day.

Re: 2023 is the year of the Linux desktop /s

Gnome as currently implemented OOTB on a number of distros is about the worst MMI that I have ever come across.

Why do windows not have all three buttons enabled OOTB? You know maximise, minimise, close?

I really would like to send all of the people responsible for this to Gitmo and get them waterboarded until they repent.

Thankfully, with Linux being Linux, there are alternatives.

I'm currently using Xfce.

Re: Amazon

With their recent moves into Healthcare and now buying the company that makes the Roomba... I am sure that it won't be long before they buy into the Power Generation business and then everything else.

IMHO, by the end of the decade, they will be the only place to buy stuff.

All hail our Amazon Overlords. Then Bezos can become POTUS for Life, after all, AMZN will already own the gubbermint.

Stop the world I wanna get off. Unless Musk, Trump and Bezos head off to Mars on a one-way ticket and save us all a lot of grief.

Re: Politicians have lost the plot on this one

Excess power from Wind and Solar? Yeah for about three months a year (in the summer)

Last week, our consumption was over 40GWh due to the cold weather. A lack of wind and sun meant that Gas/Coal provided 70%+ of that demand. Nuclear and imports made up the rest.

Currently, the UK's wind farms can output up to 22GWh if the conditions are right.

That means for most of the year, there is ZERO surplus power available to convert leccy into H2.

For that to happen, the UK needs to triple its Wind Farm capacity and in doing so, extend the locations out to the west of Scotland and Ireland and SW England to get better coverage when there is little wind in the North Sea. That won't happen tomorrow.

Re: a CEO who seems to have actual technical knowledge

That won't stop them from selling out and walking off into the sunset with enough loot to live a comfortable life from there on in.

We see it time and time again. A Startup gets some traction (justified or hype) and in swoops a mage-corp and we never see or hear about that bit of tech again.

Sometimes that USP does appear years later in another product but far too often Startup CEOs are just looking for a way out the door with pockets and bank accounts stuffed full of loot.

Consider me jaded and have a drawer full of T-shirts saying, 'been there done that and all I got for it was this lousy T-Shirt'

Re: Oink!

Don't forget to add...

And pays them a shed load of mulah for the dubious honour of using their shite.

Re: We need more modular systems

That was the case around 20 years ago but the creation of SOC's has made that IMHO, a thing of the past.

Once upon a time, you had a choice of 'Computer Fairs' to go to on a Sunday. I still use a pair of Dell Keyboards that I bought at the one in Addiscombe for £5.00 each.

The SOC and the levels of performance that Apple has shown with the M1 and M2, has shown us all how to do it. Performance without the heat (and fan noise) plus a long battery life.

Qualcomm and the rest will be racing to catch up.

I got my M1 16in MBP a couple of weeks ago. My workflows have been halved in time despite the new machine having half the RAM as its predecessor (2020 16in MBP). The old device will be passed onto my grandson once I get the arrow keys fixed under Applecare.

As far as I'm concerned, Intel and AMD are dead men walking. I will be moving my Linux servers to ARM as soon as I can get a small form factor system. I am using one R-Pi but it is a bit of a kludge. I'm fed up with the slow boot times of the SD card. Time to allow booting from M2 SSD's.