Posts by Empire of the Pussycat 94 posts • joined 7 Sep 2017
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Given its vast troll army, relentless censorship, rewriting/expunging of history, misinformation campaigns, and the physical reality of the brutal repression/elimination of Uyghurs, it's hard to see why anyone would suspect the CCP of being up to no good with this.
Always expected Johnson and his gang of second-raters to be incompetent.
Unfortunately, Cummings didn't consider that while he was gleefully helping them damage and degrade the UK, and in the process enact the greatest stripping of individual rights in the history of the country.
Then came the pandemic, and things got worse.
I've used Mac's 20+ years, but the last few releases of what is now MacOs have been a steady slide into unwanted, CPU-burning, pointless, bloat (Apple glorify new emojis ffs), bugginess, and increasingly annoying/unproductive controlware masquerading as security, as Apple continues to turn it into iOS for keyboards.
With the GPU design flaw ruining my trusty old 17" MBP, I refreshed with the 16" MBP, even though it required adding umpteen adaptors and external drive to get similar functionality.
Can't see Apple changing course, the next refresh will be running Linux with a VM for anything that can't run native..
As it seems to have been a Unix environment, the tools were there long ago.
Back in the 80s I used to create scripts that invoked various bits of SCCS (together with vi) to provide change control on pretty much every config file across umpteen systems.
With makefiles to look after testing, rebuilding etc. for the more complex ones.
Fiddly to set up, but life is calmer once it's done.
I remember it vividly, especially c. 24 hours with no food, little sleep and many remarkably heavily armed police, with big dogs.
All because some numpty messed up the paperwork for certain equipment I was carrying. West Germany, they really did not have a sense of humour.
Even now I can't really laugh about it.
Perhaps it's racist because in spite of similar and well reported problems, of which they must have been aware, they...
apparently failed to train it well enough to avoid the problem
apparently failed to test it well enough to detect the problem
definitely went ahead and used it in a context where the problem could have a negative on the subject
i had the original razr, and before that a startac, both excellently engineered
after a long gap with other brands, i got the lenovo moto z, their 'flagship' at the time
then there was the software update that seemed to bork battery life, they refused to fix the issue, plenty of screwed users on their support forum and elsewhere, two and a bit year old phone effectively trashed
no way i'd get another lenovo phone
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