Re: Just read the article
and there was me thinking you'd answer with "that would be an ecumenical matter"
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Is branded Compaq. Semi-inherited hand-me-down that I've gone back to after trying to keep up-to-date with limited lifespan USB landfill candidates. Purple PS/2 connector, so early 2000s. Runs through a PS/2 / USB KVM switch to my main PC and the work laptop.
Got a couple of black PS/2 connector mechanicals in a box somewhere ('90s computer fair acquisitions) so I reckon I'm nearly future proof, but not in the way that modern manufacturers mean...
Haven't improved my typing accuracy though
20-or-so years ago, there were lots of clickbait articles on the web about curing dendrites in NiCad batteries by zapping them with a chunk of charge (basically using a welding transformer rather than a battery charger). I wondered if this was a similar thing so did a quick search on "dendrite battery" and found many many links to Li dendrite research over the last few years. Could this be another similar piece of research?
Incidentally, on the subject of stuff shrinking when heated (and running off topic from the original article). Steel changes from body centered cubic crystals to face centered cubic crystals, a more compact structure. The steel therefore contracts at the phase change temperature. Whilst an engineering student, I had this demonstrated to me by a lecturer running a current through a steel wire that was fixed at both ends. It expanded as it heated up, causing it to droop and droop and then suddenly shrink and (almost) straighten, then droop again. Allowing it to cool naturally reversed the process, quenching would have kept the structure.. And that's one of the forms of heat treatment
so ain't going to sit on my company laptop. I've allowed 24H2 on twice and had to kick it off again twice coz it doesn't like my KVM switch. Lets me log on, but won't go any further towards displaying the desktop. Previous win11 is OK, win7, pi and SuSE (on other KVM ports) are all fine but 24H2 won't play. So I'll stick with unpatched plus @mickaroo's reply to my comment last week about kicking copilot out.
ALT-SPACE is already a hot key combo in the software I use to earn money to pay my mortgage. Will this unprovement(*) take priority? Does this mean that microshit is actively going to make it harder for me to make a living? FFS!
(*) unprovement - an addition to software inflicted by a software house that reduces the user's efficiency
TL;DR - HOW DO I AUTO EJECT THE COPOILOT?
agreed. They used to be Hermes - aka Herpes. We now call them Nevri.
They've got one decent courier round our way who has a small van and sorts out the stuff that the regular courier can't be bothered with. the regular courier has a small ca, so only picks parcels smaller than a takeaway box. We regularly have stuff go missing in transit for a week or more.
Given the Whisky on the Rocks mentioned later, I would think the lyrics to "Glad it's all over" by Captain Sensible to be quoted:
Submarines in the harbor
Incognito
Submarines of your dreams
Not mine
The red red sky
Must take the price
For giving to the people
Who never never go to war
I'm going to guess that you and BOTH of your friends were behind my downvotes.
I work from home. The TEAM I work with are based all around the country because interwebs. I met my boss AFTER I'd joined the company because being briefed on the company work policies tied in nicely with collecting my company laptop. We work as a team without using cameras for online meetings and we work just as efficiently as teams in the same office. We use technology to allow this in the same way as people use a mechanical crane to do the work that many people used to do with a rope or (technological advance) a rope fitted with block and tackle.
I can understand that many many jobs can't be done remotely. But there is no reason for me to take over an hour to commute 10 miles (fighting past two schools of parents demanding their right to 4x4 their spawn to school) to be in an office to that my boss can see my scowling face. And then another hour back with twats using their cars as battering rams to force their way through queues at roundabouts to be 15 seconds earlier home. I actually work a longer day than I used to when commuting and still have more time at home because I don't spend time sitting in a tin box. hashtab PRODUCTIVITY GAIN
TL;DR Commuting sucks. If there's a better way to work, do it.
Two spring to mind -
20+ years ago I saw a web page where the writer had gutted a CRT monitor and printed the various sprites on art board. Put them together like a Victorian childrens' theatre. Frame rate was measured in dpf (days per frame).
Fairly recently I read another account on t'web where the writer declared that an attempt to "render frames using LED strips and a Raspberry Pi"... didn't work. IIRC the summary of the paper was "the less said about that, the better." Shame, might've been a fun read [hint, hint to the Contributing Editor]
The rest of the article is unnecessary.
I've said it before and I full expect to say it again. TRADING STANDARDS NEEDS TO GROW A PAIR AND TELL MICROS~1 TO PROVIDE SOFTWARE THAT IS FIT FOR PURPOSE OR JUST CEASE AND DESIST. I don't care if they whinge "software is hard". FMCG is hard if you want to make it safe and resilient. Cars is hard if you want to make it safe and resilient. Even food is hard if you want to make it safe and resilient. Everything is hard if you want to make it safe and resilient. Why do software companies think they count as special?
over here in the UK we have the "Sale of goods act" for non-commercial sales. If the product was defective then it falls/fails under the category of "not fit for purpose". Anybody who bought one can (or should) return it to the retailer and ask for their money back. Probably have to accept a reduction due to fair wear-and-tear but it's then up to Amazon / ebuyer / $retailer to release the hounds on D-Link. And maybe if this actually happened then tech companies would get their shit into gear and not hide behind the "but this is soooo complicated" excuse. Software companies too....
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