* Posts by John in Brisbane

4 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2015

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

John in Brisbane

Hello from Brisbane. This was an issue here that came to a head years ago (like, 15? 20?) and it was found that the printer makers could not void warranties or prevent their printers from working with non-OEM ink. Refills and those tank-pipe set-up became very popular. How this is only now being dealt with in the US?

FWIW, we don't have lemon car laws like you folks, where a full refund must be given if a certain number of faults occur. But we do have decent rules about things like warranties etc. It is seriously unexpected that this is a current issue over there.

Europe teases breaking up Google over ad monopoly

John in Brisbane

I appreciate that regulation needs to be conservative and methodical in order to minimally restrict the reasonable actions of people in an open society. These principles are timeless. But the systems used to enact these principles were created in an era when a google simple could not become so large so quickly. There needs to be a proactive aspect in such governance that is directed by public discussion and more direct forms of democratic direction.

It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?

John in Brisbane

It's OK. It's getting closer to what 7 promised all those years ago. MS is one of my examples of the classic US company that got too big and disappeared up it's own bottom. Android only exists because they failed. Windows ME, Vista then 8 are an actual litany of failures. As a world, we're being hurt every day by how organizations tend to get bigger while losing the ability to respond and react with the utility and sanity of the little companies and individuals with ownership of an issue. Either they learn or we must disband them. The Covid response is exposing the incompetence of many such organizations and will weed out some. Not all though.

Microsoft says its latest, dodgy Windows 10 build is good for (almost) everyone

John in Brisbane

I like the main pic - very appropriate.

Look I've been on the slow ring and it's certainly better than 8.x but I've had a string of silly problems for an OS that is supposed to be in imminent danger of release. Finally, while trying to upgrade it's died in an endless restart loop. I thought they should have been further along to be frank. From first install I pretty much used it as my main OS. Not now - unplugged that spare SDD and cranked up 7 again. Ah, my old desktop! I was an idiot 32bit hold-out and 7 is a relief but I guess I'll cough up for 10 and 64bit when the oculus rift emerges.

Win10 installed and ran in a flash - so next-gen, but then regularly BSODed or simply froze under light load.

BTW my laptop is my workhorse and Win8 was so annoying that I wiped it and ran a cracked win7 lol