I’ve never had a Windows pc get slow after 6 months… Unless I’ve beat the snot out of it as I just don’t care. But I’m an Admin, user boxes don’t usually have such an issue. I have a 10 year old Windows 7 box that’s as fast as it was 10 years ago.

But… If you install/uninstall a lot of stuff, over time that can cause issues (because Uninstallers are notoriously lazily compiled - I say this as an app packager of 20+ years.)

I used to say Windows Reg cleaners are snake oil, but on some systems it can really help with the uninstall issue - lots of crap, especially stuff related to context menus, can really slow it down. The only one I’ve ever recommended is Crap Cleaner - I’ve seen it revive a test machine that had gotten slow from a billion installs/uninstalls, testing lots of iffy software, etc.

Not even close.

Though it’s really impressive how much it’s improved over the years.

Right? Like every little municipality could do this?

While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.

When I’m searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.

When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).

But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.

With your own customization, done locally.

He’s doing his level best to kill it.

I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.

I haven’t used a swipe in years. Virtually all contact less now.

Hahahahaha, right, sure.

Not like we don’t have plenty of current dead hardware as an example of just this issue.

How about we build on knowns, rather than corporate promise fairytales?

Also, many, many, many apartments buildings aren’t built to handle such electrical loads (I’d bet loads of money most aren’t capable - why would you engineer a building for more than it’s projected to need? That just costs more).

In every apartment and rental house I’ve been in, you’d have to install a new service to be able to charge anything, because they’re already running close to max current capacity.

What’s that charger going to pull, in amps, for how long? It’ll need to be 220v, at least, and those are dedicated runs (think electric dryer or electric stove).

Everyone knew assembler back then. I did and I’m no developer today.

This is a “one of a kind” error.

OK, that it can happen at all is a problem. And sorry, but the idiots who put their data in with Google should be fired.

I get offloading risk, little good will that do when your company goes tits up.

Right?

To whom is this not obvious? Top talent has options.

When permitting security failures costs more than preventing, then companies will do something.

Por que no los dos?

I can see both sides:

Super humbling because nature’s complexity can provide data storage and retrieval capacity several orders or magnitude greater than the best we can do right now.

Also super exciting because look at what every brain on the planet is composed of, and how it functions, in a freakin’ square millimeter!

Crazy stuff. Wild.

Fair words make me look to my purse (English proverb).

I’ve read the US has more trees today than 200 years ago.

Sorry, no source, it’s been probably 20 years since I read it in a science mag.

Just looking at pics from the US west back then vs today is pretty staggering.

And the forest service has prevented fires from containing forests for going on 100 years… A problem in its own right (is a major cause of the larger wildfires we see today, which they we warned about in the 80’s by one of their lead researchers).

Careful of the stones you throw at the glass houses of others.

May wish to inspect your own.

Oh ffs, what a shitty, juvenile website. All lowercase, no real explanation of what it does, other than track users by having everything go through their servers.

Sounds like a scam to me.

And push to talk? Who uses that anymore? Welcome to 2000.

her printer was out of paper and she couldn’t find her eye glasses to read the error message.

Hahahah, omg that’s awesome.

To me this user exemplifies where Linux shines: in limited-use-case scenarios (not to say it’s inflexible, just that support increases quickly with increased use-case complexity).

The more general-use needed, the more technical skill is required.

This user has a small set of specific requirements, so it’s pretty trivial to get them running on a Linux distro, and it’s a great application of what Linux brings to the table. System management will be minimal.