Posts by Col_Panek

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Can't wait

Expecting a flood of "old, obsolete" PCs cheap, that I can install Linux on.

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

Zorin has a "windows 7" desktop option. Whatever.

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

Re: Which Distro indeed?

So, it was a customer problem, not a Linux problem.

Zorin appeals to noobs who want that Windows look. Not judging.

Me, I install Mint if I just want everything to work, without fooling around.

Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium

I have four generously sized Linux partitions on my 256 GB SSD, and the other half of it is data space.

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

Re: Electric cars don’t add much to load

EVs can be timed to start charging in the middle of the night when most of the world sleeps. even better if you get a reduced rate.

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

Re: If you'd look outside the US

The Inflation Reductiom Act.

"Unborn Black Lives Matter" makes liberal heads explode.

When has Trump ever seen the error of his ways?

Re: checks and balances of government

An innocent bystander died instead of Trump. SAD!

After 3 years, Windows 11 has more than half Windows 10's market share

Re: Why Upgrade?

That's when I buy them, at big discounts, and put Linux on them. Go, Microsoft!

Re: The Last OS

Linux Mint is the third party app I use. Makes Windows a joy to use.

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

Re: "The Biden administration"?

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. --Malachi 3:5

OK, not a Christian, and Trump hasn't been accused of sorcery (yet), but Jesus had plenty to say about false prophets, hypocrites, etc.

Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism

Re: Baby you can drive my car

Well, you can set the charge and discharge percentages to whatever.

Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes

Re: Hmm

I've come to respect maturity. Up until Joe Biden.

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Re: CO2 is NOT a problem

We found the Luddite/Denier/Petroshill.

Re: Lies, damn lies and statistcs

In the USA, there's terrible selection. The best cheap EV is ... WAS, the Bolt.

Re: The infrastructure plan is a clusterfscked boondoggle

The real problem with the grid is peak load, when everybody is running their air conditioner or taking showers in the evening when the sun is too low to generate solar power.

The real answer is that almost everybody is charging at night when rates are cheap because everything else shuts down yet base load generators are still turning. Evening out the load is a huge benefit for the grid that EVs provide, If we ever get them.

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050

Re: So tell us something we didnt know

Recycling batteries is doable and being done. They don't get thrown in a dump and leach poison like the oil industry tells you.

Another business is retrofitting old EVs like Leafs with modern batteries.

Re: 8 mins

You'll get old some day.

I live above an ancient sea near Syracuse, The Salt City. They spread the roads with a constant layer of it from November to April.

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

Re: Maybe just give Linux and open-source apps to those wiith nimble brains and aptitude

i'm 76, and don't have the patience to screw with Windows, so I and my wife run Mint because it has less drama.

I have a HP LJ 2055, Linux Mint and MX, dunno what you're on about.

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

I, for one, welcome

... the buying of new gadgets, especially computers. I used to buy refurbs for around $200, but now I get free ones that are just fine for what we need to do. Nothing more pleasurable than erasing Windows from a hard drive.

We just had two Motorola phones die because of bad (swelling) batteries. They were only 5 years old but did everything we needed to do. I'm exploring plugged-in jobs for them.

Re: We don't hear you, the money is talking too loud

I had an eMachine but it had an evil NVidia video that was always hassling my Linux Mint. Glad to find another (free) machine.

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

Re: Linux is not major depression friendly

Linux Mint is friendly to this laptop, a 2013 model Chromebook Pixel with touch screen. I dunno about being depression friendly but it cheers me up.

Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

They don't call it duivel for nothing.

Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand

That's when they normally sell cars. The ones I've looked at had even more miles. And they weren't much cheaper than new ones, with the rebates.

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

Ever is a long time. Right now you can buy an old Leaf and drive to work gasless.

Re: Spent Batteries

But they cost £20000?

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

Re: "with the added trust of Microsoft"

I feel for you. I haven't used any Microsoft products in ten years, except my backup laptop's mouse.

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

Re: "To anyone using half their brain"

Remember that chicken who lived passably after his head was cut off? I might write in his name for President.

LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children's hospital

Re: This might be...

But using hydrogen sulfide instead of nitrogen.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

Re: Preparing for October 2025

Those people could use Chromebooks. I don't mean necessarily should, but can, and enjoy Google's version of Linux without the Microsoft hassles.

Next stop is to de-Google, run a pure Linux, and be free. I have, for the last 5 years.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

Re: It wasn't hard once

I use Mint Cinnamon on my 2013 Pixel, with 4 GB RAM. What really sucks up the memory are heavy browsers, and I use Firefox. Just gotta mind the tabs open but still it can get bogged down.

Re: School IT Directors Thoughts

A coworker died unexpectedly and I helped clean out his cellar full of good stuff. 3 racks of which was an HP 2100 computer with its toggle switches and punched tape drive. I called up a computer museum and they said well we have rooms of them but if you mail it to us we'll try to find a place for it.......which didn't happen.

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

Re: Chromebooks

I started with GalliumOS, which was optimized for Chromebooks. The project has stalled, but the website contains a lot of good info on de-Googling your Chromebook.

I then went to Kubuntu, which ran OK except for the sound. There was an issue with headphones not cutting off the speakers, or something. Nowadays I run Mint, which installed and ran just like any other machine. But I remapped the function buttons to my liking.

Re: Bad for the environment?

I hope you're wrong about the 10 year lifespan, because I use my 2013 Pixel all the time. It runs Linux Mint 21.2.

HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems

Funny, I don't seem to have it on my Chromebook, which runs Linux Mint. But I do have an antique HP LaserJet.

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

Re: American ULEZs incoming (in Democrat states).

Here in New York, they spread car solvent on the roads from November to April (Syracuse is nicknamed the Salt City) so putting a lot of money into a steel car is a bad proposition. The junkyards are full of good drivetrains surrounded by crumbling Ferrous oxide.

Re: The problem is unchanged

"The minute a manufacturer produces an EV that can go the same distance as an ICE vehicle, AND be recharged in the same amount of time it takes to get a soda at a convenience store, THEN you will see the mass migration to EVs."

There will always be those who swear they pull a boat for 1000 miles without stopping, uphill, and they're allergic to electrons. What they really mean is, it's the Democrats forcing everyone to buy efficient, non-polluting cars so therefore they are evil.

Re: Who wants a second hand EV?

Does a £500 diesel car actually run? In the USA you'd be lucky if it was $5000.

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

If he got 15 years out of a T shirt, that is probably acceptable.

Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters

That's right! All you can use for millions of years, for free.

Just need a pipeline to the sun.

IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com

I've used Weather Underground (https://www.wunderground.com/) for decades because they have a graph which shows the weather for the next ten days so I don't have to look at a list of numbers and try to figure out the humidity, %POP, temp, etc. As for ads, what ads? My blockers work just fine.

Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries

Re: Yes, but.

Well, goats then.

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

Re: oh wow, such a shock.

"Well, I didn't see that coming." --Stevie Wonder

Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech

Re: Repair

My ten year old Chromebook Pixel is down to about two hours of battery. Could be worse.

Re: Well there's another angle

This is sad news. Now they will hang on to them longer and jack up the price because they're not "obsolete".

My best laptop is a 2013 Chromebook Pixel (list price $100) that I got just off lease for $200. I went through GalliumOS and Kubuntu, but It runs Mint best.