Recent content by Leptir

Right. Tell me, were you bitten by a teenager when you were a kid?

I agree, wireless keyboards are a security risk for most people. In fact, every time I look outside, there's a spook right under my window holding an antenna and ready to snoop on my wireless keyboard. SMH

I don't remember either WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 ever being dominant on Windows.

Me too. And it wasn't just resistors, but all sorts of electronic components. The only store with a selection of electronic components (including Arduino and Raspberry Pi) that I know of is Micro Center. But in my case they are an hour away, well over 3 hours round trip in traffic. RadioShacks...

It's a systemic problem with late-stage capitalism. Profit before people (and the planet).

I agree that GeekSquad humans are woefully useless, but the solution is not to replace them with AI. The solution is to hire well, train, and pay to attract/retain knowledgeable and capable staff. Not that I have any hope that Best Buy (or companies in general) will go that route. We're just...

This!

I can understand tech nostalgia. The late 70s and the entire 80s were exciting times, personal computers were new, every new product was unique, had something special. Even the early 90s had some exciting tech, like the early IBM ThinkPad laptops, including my personal favorite – the butterfly...

You can't. This laptop was from the early 2000s.

I've recently bought a 4TB 990 Pro and for the life of me I can't understand how this Rocket 5 drive can justify costing twice as much. Yeah, it's faster, but only in some scenarios. I'd buy it in an instant if it would speed up my work (software development), but it won't. Certainly not by...

Of course every form of energy production has problems. But that's not a reason to adopt the most dangerous one. Like I said, the only reason we ever went down that road is bombs. And profit.

I'm so glad to hear that. No, really I am. Then why is it that the proponents of such reactors are counting, in fact, demanding that the government pays (at taxpayer expense!) for any accident that may happen? Why don't they obtain commercial insurance at their own expense for their safe...

Oh, it's not? Wow, I'm so relieved to hear that. I take it that now you will prove your point by flying to Fukushima and personally cleaning up the three melted cores with your own bare hands.. because it's not a huge problem. Right? We can't even clean up the mess we currently have on our...

Which is exactly why absolutely nobody would ever insure a commercial nuclear power plant, much less those new smaller reactors. Every nuclear power plant in existence relies on the government to pay the cost of any potential accident. Without this enormous government subsidy, the whole...

You are still evading the question and obfuscating. What exactly is this "more permanent" storage? Who guarantees it is safe, who pays for it permanently? Certainly not the operators. We the people will be paying for it for hundreds of thousands of years.