baz00

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   by baz00 3y ago

   Actually they did build a really competent smartphone operating system that was as good as iOS at the time quite frankly and was affordable. The issue is they went and rewrote a chunk of it, breaking APIs and fucked all the developers off,
2. 152.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   Yeah I mean I can think of a fair few better nouns that are applicable to MSFT than biggest and slowest...
3. 153.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   This sort of stuff scares me with modern Chinese test gear. I'd rather have some rancid old HP or Tek stuff from the 90s and keep a couple of parts mules in the cupboard.
4. 154.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   Oooooh them. They always looked suspicious.
5. 155.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   Yeah I did 6 months on a goods in line. We measured every single part and did full sampled testing. This was on defence grade parts as well from big vendors. They were rebagged, kept in stores ready for use so there were no surprises.
6. 156.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   > This was annoying because the seller is based in the UK and claims you should buy from them because you take your chances buying from China. There are a couple of vendors who do this in the UK. They sell counterfeit crap while compla
7. 157.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   > Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand I'd recommend leaving that one in the bathroom in case you run out of toilet paper.
8. 158.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   https://archive.ph/UAYFP
9. 159.▲
   by baz00 3y ago

   I used them for years. Then I discovered cheap gel pens and never went back. Muji sell really very good ones for no money at all.
10. 160.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    I haven't given a fuck if I own it or not for about 25 years.
11. 161.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    As a former firmware developer I would like to point out that I lacked the competence and interest to have done a good enough job of it past getting paid at the end of the month.
12. 162.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    The best thing that happened to my life was to fight my way so far to the backend I don't have to care about this. Any front end dev I did since basic HTML+jquery was soul crushing.
13. 163.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    > "We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers." That's pretty funny because
14. 164.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    It really depends how you choose to position yourself in the market and how you talk about it which is my point. For example I drove a second hand vehicle for 8 years until the start of this year and the whole total cost of ownership over
15. 165.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    I dunno my PC is running Enterprise and I still got a fucking search bar appear in the middle of the screen. I only use it for two things I can't get rid of on windows now. Everything else is on the Mac. The Mac is just renting a nicer
16. 166.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Botnet operators laughing at your comment.
17. 167.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    I have a friend who semi solved that problem by building a DIY solar and storage farm on his property. His life however turned from various interesting hobbies into doing this to charge his car up which he rarely uses anyway. I don't g
18. 168.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    There are a couple of other issues people don't want to talk about (or don't want to admit) as well. Sample size of four here but the problems are interesting. Firstly it turns out charging your car is a pain in the ass in some pl
19. 169.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Sorry to hear about the sick parent. Regarding the music, mostly obtaining it in the first place is where the issues appear. Either it's difficult to get it (buy / warez / rip) and I have people with little to no technical ab
20. 170.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Yeah I don't give a shit myself. I mean 850 meg is what an hour of decent quality streaming and we get one of these every month or two. Meh. Even when I was stuck tethered on 4G for 9 months this wasn't a big issue.
21. 171.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Apparently, and I can't remember where I read this, they're working on cleaning up the bugs now. There are a few nasty ones but I seem to be the guy who manages to walk through the field of landmines at the moment and not step on
22. 172.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    I spent a good number of years thinking this was the right solution and heading towards it. I had drawn up designs for my house, solar installation and half a rack of kit. This was to run a domain for my immediate family and all services in
23. 173.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Working for a company that got acquired. We're fucking ourselves over more than the acquirers are.
24. 174.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Good point - thanks! Edited comment. Will leave this here to point out my failure.
25. 175.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    This isn't going to be the first run in with one of these folk. I had one. Belittling them is all that was left. I was working for a very very very large defence contractor and the CEO of the hour would take his IBM ThinkPad and throw
26. 176.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Had this. That was exactly what happened to me. It was refunded and I decided never to use booking.com ever again.
27. 177.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    The thing is they probably will run triple-A titles but how well and how modern a triple-A title? Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA 6 when it comes out? I doubt it.
28. 178.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    AFAIK BCM is straight servo loop.
29. 179.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Yeah I can play those games too! I'm saving $40k in 3 years if I don't buy one of these and I put gas in my car!
30. 180.▲
    by baz00 3y ago

    Exactly. In the case of the Cybertruck you can't modulate shit!