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by cjsuk 9y ago
I think that's close to the truth but really there has never been any product direction or commitment from MSFT. why would you build a product on that? Surface isn't successful. It's a disaster. Just a well covered up one so
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I see a lot of people going on about incentives. Actually the simple problem is that MSFT know how to effectively fuck up a product: 1. Schizophrenic product direction. 2. Entire platform change half way through. 3. Quality control issues g
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Fair point even if it is rather sad!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
As a regular user of both and a prolific runner of CentOS in production, I would err towards Debian these days. It just feels better to me. Things like hanging updates applying SELinux policies, the whole Python mess and the lag between RHE
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Let us not forget the butt clench of doom from Microsoft either. Every minor updates hoses people these days as well.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
No. Just what they did 50 years ago is pretty damn good. On the linear regulator front the only progress has been low dropout.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Bob Widlar, who started at Fairchild, was my childhood hero. I literally last week built a power supply with a µA723, a 1967 Fairchild originated part (although mine was an SGS Thompson clone) because it's still pretty damn well one of
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Time for class action.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Eating works :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
My wife has a 5 that is 5 years old and has only just stopped getting updates and the battery and storage is fine still.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Same here. 2013 15” MBP here. I get 5 hours easily on High Sierra and the thing has been hammered since it was new.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’ve been abandoned on updates by Motorola or whoever it is owned by on the current whim within a year of buying my G2 and G3 handsets. I don’t feel I can trust them or Google with my cash. Not only that Google makes it difficult to conside
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Annoyingly even with those problems which I agree with I find it’s the least shit thing. Note that I didn’t say the best because nothing has earned that title. This week I have lost a whole day of my life to printer problems on windows 10.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
It's really not. The discard rate of MSFT tech is pretty high. The amount of times I've seen people discard their WP handset decrying it as a "fucking pile of unreliable broken shit" is quite ridiculous.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
They do fail. But when they do it doesn’t disappear into some independent repairers hole for six months and you get a messed up pile of tainted shit back (Acer, Sony, Asus I’m looking at you). I’ve never had a mac or thinkpad break where I
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Groove Music is the label attached to the state of disappointment that teenagers suffer when their parents buy their first smartphone as an affordable choice. They wanted Apple Music but it didn’t happen because they got a Lumia. Apparently
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Same series of machine here. It restarted itself at 8am this morning when the lid was closed and it was on the side. That’s the only problem I’ve seen.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I have clearly had three bad machines. I've got an X201 and a T440 as well. The Z620 was especially bad, but the X201 and T440 are perfect hardware-wise and existed before the whole windows 10 thing. The software is the main problem.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I'm going to be honest: I never had any PC problems really until Windows 10 came around. Occasionally windows update would get bonked or I'd hose the machine myself but it was pretty reliable. That's going back to Windows NT
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Similar situation here. I've got a 2013 MacBook Pro, a 2016 iMac and a 2015 HP z620. The z620 has been nothing but a pain in my ass since I bought it. It's noisy and shuts down all by itself at least once a week. The Macs, rock so
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Why do they need to do this? They already track people with Oyster and contactless which gives them journey information. This is just a convenient data grab and profiteering. I'm going to sound old and curmudgeonly here, but I'm s
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by cjsuk 9y ago
It's less likely and a far better way to go than cancer :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Genuinely don't care if this is a stupid idea or if it works or not but I'd ride it :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Perhaps annoyingly you’re spot on. The “local net” near me in London is full of Brexit breathing Farage supporters whining about their XYL. The clubs aren’t any better. It took forever to get my license sorted because of this as well. I was
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’m going to be honest, I bought a 6s instead of a 7 because of the 3.5 jack and within a week managed to shut the earphones in a car door. This lead to a trip to my local electronics retailer to get some replacements. They only had lightni
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’m using it with a 45Gb photo library between a phone, a Mac and an iPad with zero problems. It does take a while for things to arrive at all destinations due to my crappy internet connection but for me it works quite well.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
This is the feature I’m paying for. And the one where it basically just works.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We have a support contract and I have support credits with MSDN. That accounts for nothing though apparently.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
That's only there because they know no one can fork and commit to maintain a codebase that size. Same reason no one forked Linux. They still have 100% control over it.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Why does no one listen to customers then? Ignored on privacy. Ignored on bugs. Ignored on product direction. That's not feedback or customer obsession, that's lip service. And we pay for the software so we can only vote with our f

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