Quazatron

This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.

Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.

It is sad to see the mental gymnastics people do to justify their inertia.

“It’s opt-in!”

“You can disable feature X easily by editing the registry”

“You can install this tool from a shifty site to restore that feature MS disabled”

Somehow I’m pretty sure Google already had that information. You’ve never used Google Wallet to pay on the go? No? How about your Android keyboard to fill in some banking form?

Best of luck. Cheers.

Have a look at what came before Symbian : Psion series 5

In the end, when the Series 5 finally shipped, it was like being transported into the future, only through a very murky tunnel.

Gretton’s hardware clocked in at a meagre-sounding 18Mhz — but performed like a desktop Intel PC from just two years previously — and it could still maintain 30 hours use on two AA batteries. Once the circuitry was complete, the Series 5 performed the same tasks as its Windows CE rivals but used only a quarter of the power.

I still have two working Psion 5MX palmtops and love them to death.

It’s not a new phenomena, but it seems to be growing.

I remember when perfectly functional scanners and printers were ditched because the new Windows version would not support them and the vendor would not provide OEM drivers either.

Nowadays they unplug some servers and you are left with an expensive doorstop. That’s progress, I guess.

effluencers

It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.

I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can ear the difference, even on shitty gear.

For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.

Edit: ear, not eat.

I’m sorry to disagree. I’ve been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.

That’s pretty much the only advantage of getting old.

I see what you did there…

I’m surprised nobody posted the surprised_pikachu.gif yet.

Maybe it’s time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.

Sorry, I was having one of those days, I guess.

I haven’t found a good way to filter by subject, so thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look.

I will down vote any and all news that referes to something that the Weird Cheeto in command said.

There are a lot of other neat inventions that deal with that.

The problem with traffic is caused by lack of investment in public transportation. Have a look at how they solved it in Paris.

Well, they do, but don’t cause traffic deaths.

Trains? We’ve been using those for over a century now.

So… did they find any new interesting digits there or just the usual 0 to 9?