Posts by Jimjam3

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Re: You need to get pout more

Energy from water?

Err it’s not a source of energy, in fact in your example photons are. And to tell you the true you would need a massive amount of them to split H2O into their corresponding gases. Never mind the rest of the nonsense steps described.

Maybe you meant to put an /s at the end of your post?

One big disadvantage of globalisation is the large amount of energy that needs to be devoted to transporting said items across the globe.

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Re: OpenAI quest

Yes, I can imagine that’s what the rich twats are hoping for but they have a blinkered view, since AGI if created will out think these numpties whiles using up enormous amounts of energy in the process.

OpenAI quest

I see OpenAI are still rushing to create ‘ artificial general intelligence’. Why?

Just so we can get the answer 42?

I feel like Arthur Dent more and more each day.

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Re: Blatherskite

I truly hope so.

Maybe I’m dumb, but isn’t Palantir’s business model focused on ignoring the Fourth Amendment? Not protecting it?

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

Furthermore, home ownership of new PCs will reduce as they stick to the phones and tablets.

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?

Re: The Reg is a week or so late to this one

“When I were a lad” it was considered a sport scumping apples out of the farmer field.

At school the math department got itself a commodore PET the year I left. I got to see it switch on during the week of my O levels.

Oh how time flies.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

Re: In other words

Agreed. Musky does seem to be able to highlight a valid point and then promptly go off at a tangent into La la land.

Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

Should read;

“CEO takes a motion”

Then preferably flushes it afterwards.

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

EBay against AI

Well all I can say is good luck with that.

Oh and while they are at it get rid of the AI generated descriptions.

It seems the big players in this AI nonsense aren’t either aware or interested in the total meltdown that will follow.

S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

Ready out

Typo, me thinks.

An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together

People tapping away on their phone

I am afraid that this phenomenon is now found throughout the land.

People inside parked cars with engines running.

People in cafes

People at checkouts

People using a zebra crossing

etc…

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

Surely you mean bold assertion and not bald assertion.

Oh and it’s not churlish to point out dangerous flaws in a plan!

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

Re: The unpredictability of fuses

Video not available anymore (UK)

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Re: Sometimes you have to

I used to buy loose tea from an old Tea shop in Portsmouth. Unfortunately they close for good some 20 years ago. :(

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Didn’t know that! Thx.

iTunes still works….

That is true, however newer versions of macOS no longer have iTunes as an option. Hohum.

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Re: Can it improve the Harry Potter books?

Yes, I can tell you used to read Viz. Top marks at trolling.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: My next TV will be a big monitor

My Samsung TV has an Ethernet port that’s unused and I connected an old PlayStation 3 to it (hdmi) and connected the PS3 to my NAS.

Works well and no internet phoning home nonsense.

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Trusted guide!

Haha they lost my trust decades ago.

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Re: Seriously...

Exactly, Browser’s are constantly getting updates and it’s a regular activity on a PC that is connected to the internet.

The car makers must know this and chuck in these outdated packages just for the sales brochure. Awful practice.

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Re: Local copies of, almost, everything here

For local media I have a PlayStation 3 slim with a 1 TB hard drive onto which all my photos, music and films gets ripped to.

It’s got just a local account and also connects to my local NAS and you can get a remote control for it!

Don’t buy gift cards and backup offline everything you value.

On my iPhone I use foobar2000 to play locally stored music and transfer photos to a NAS,

Also use Linux a lot more these last 3 years.

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Re: Accademic performance?

It proves they don’t know their 9 times table.

Re: Bear in mind. . .

Oh we will survive but will be even thicker than we are now.

Proactive parenting will help the lucky few, but the bulk of kids will be mentally stunted.

AI will eventually make us retards

Promoting AI to do our thinking for us is a dumb idea.

What is even more baffling is allowing it’s use at school age, since children are by their nature growing and learning and their brains are developing thoughts and understanding by thinking which then creates intelligent individuals.

Give them AI and they are less likely to think, halting the development of their minds and eventually resulting in the human race becoming (even more) retarded.

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future

Oh noes

MCP,

Yes let’s get the computer to do the thinking for us. (Facepalm)

As a species that evolves according to environmental pressures, the fact we are trying to head to a future where we don’t think and don’t need to do strenuous work means we will likely develop into the Eloi mentioned in the Time Machine novella.

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

I don’t think you can list with no items.

Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it

Re: THANK YOU, Mr. Proven, simply a really big THANK YOU! :-)

Agreed.

Your Linux article’s are a treat.

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

Well said.

Re: "Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us."

The COVID masks were a cheap way of lessening the transmission of viruses in water droplets from sneezing. In that capacity they would help slow the spread of it FROM the infected mask wearer to others. At no point did the masks protect the uninflected mask wearer FROM infected people without masks..

Btw I am a retired pathologist.

PS It does make me role my eyes seeing people still wearing the mask to protect themselves from others.

Use the way back machine

To have a chance of finding data not made up by AI, I would use the way back machine and view websites from the 2000s ;)

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Re: Ouch

Ah, yes they should diversify. Maybe start selling computer displays or how about low cost fashion? /s

Rasp pi

Had a Pi some 9 years ago used as a DNS server but it died within a year.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Re: About a billion years ago in internet time (call it 1986) ...

The English language is a hodgepodge, and it’s no surprise that any words meaning from 500 years ago has altered since. ;)

Re: No Sense of Humour

First saw that ‘pun’ in the newly launched VIZ comic in the mid 1980s.

Closed my NAT-WEST account shortly after….

Re: About a billion years ago in internet time (call it 1986) ...

Gruntled was in fact used in the 1500’s to mean grumble. The dis part was worse ( as shown with disembowel).

Re: About a billion years ago in internet time (call it 1986) ...

WOM does sound like nonsense, in so much as storing data that can’t ever be read.

A little bit like writing you name in the air with you finger.

NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment

Extortion pure and simple.

The money the NHS wastes in this field is huge.

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

It is nice to see a very rich person care about something other than having lots more money.

However as stated, with an IPO you are inviting in the ‘I just care about money brigade’!

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

IKR? Seems the Department of Energy wants to waste as much Energy as possible, :(

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Re: mystery IT meltdown

It’s not oracle is it?

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Re: Going from bad to worse

For my second computer I got an iMac ( for its 5K screen) and must say you can tell it has BSD as its base. Overall a simple to use OS.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Re: Nasty tactic

Troll, trolling

Re: Nasty tactic that will unlikely work

I have a number of friends who are military veterans and can tell you that they do not trust Starmer one bit.

I would repeat what they did say but it was derogatory et al.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: BSD: You were misinformed

Not forgetting the PlayStation OS which is BSD based.

Re: Of course we all know the permanent fix

My experience is that Linux installs and runs a lot easier on desktop PCs with wired networking.

Laptops are a bit more of a gamble.

Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle

Yeah, driving sales of new PC hardware is all its good for. Even then I’d probably delete the OS and replace it.

Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper

Re: Open source is alrady failing

Here’s an allegory for you, Open Souce is a mixture not an ingredient, Hence sustainablilty is not a property you can realistically apply to it.

I think the argument for and against its use is wholly depended on the needs of the ‘users’.

It seems the concerns raised are from those that (want to) use it as a permanent system that is maintained but not run by a big multinational company. This is possible but requires funding and staff (such as big companies!).