knotthatone

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[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

Yes. Because it still works and hasn't all been replaced yet.

The burden is on the telcos to prove otherwise and justify all the subsidies they got to wire unprofitable areas.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Most people shouldn't buy a home printer at all anymore. Unless you're a crafter or work in a field that still uses lots of paper (i.e. law) they're not worth it.

It's a rapidly shrinking market and HP knows there's no saving it so I guess they're following the cable company playbook.

Squeeze your remaining customers as hard as possible before the music stops

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it hasn't been tested because researching the "best" method for executing humans is abhorrent and the scientific and medical communities have ethical standards.

But the State of Alabama doesn't, a feature it shares with other regimes responsible for the worst atrocities in history.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh, I very much doubt that he's the only billionaire who's written a letter like this to Google in the past year.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong, but it's not just the UI on the kiosk, it's the whole checkout process. A trained cashier on a real checkout line is much faster because the machine isn't nerfed and trying to hold their hand while preventing them from stealing. The real problem is the stores are trying to shift the labor onto the customer but the customer isn't getting much benefit for the effort nor has any motivation to be particularly honest in light of having this chore thrown in their lap.

I don't think they can redesign the UI to overcome that. It's not really a UI problem, it's a conflict of interests problem and they're not going to solve that unless they completely redesign the checkout process. The little Amazon convenience stores that know what you have as you shop seem like a better approach, but I'm guessing they're not all they're cracked up to be since they haven't seemed to catch on that much.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

The impact to the timeline form the Narada affected the timeline before that point as well because it affected subsequent time travel (allllll the times SNW, TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, etc. went into the past would have occurred differently)

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Short answer, maybe, but go through your installed apps first & get rid of crap you don't use. Even if you still decide to do a factory reset, no sense re-downloading garbage apps. Your phone is still modern enough it shouldn't feel slow day-to-day so it's probably one or more shitty apps causing the problem.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago

The original showrunner eventually posted how he intended the story to go. It's a fun quick read about the better show that never got made:

https://www.cyberspace5.net/agentrichard07/coda.htm

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really, which ones?

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You basically have to break the installer to get it to work, which supports my point that the limit is an arbitrary way to exclude PCs made before a certain date from the next version. There is no technical reason MS can't allow old hardware to work and no marginal cost to Microsoft to chose to do so. Like I said, while I don't expect them to support everything forever, Microsoft also made their bed with their illegal business practices that got us here and hordes of malware infested EOL'ed computers are everybody's problem now. They shouldn't be adding to that problem for arbitrary marketing reasons.

I'm not against to fixed support periods, but they really ought to be minimums and not halted based on arbitrary dates, especially in the consumer space where these machines will run whether they get patched or not.

Slippery slope fallacy much?

This already happened during the last big Windows-on-ARM push w/ Win8. UEFI secure boot was required enabled on all new hardware but no requirement for user-added keys. It didn't overtly restrict Linux (on MS's part) but several manufacturers did lock down their devices. I don't see any reason why that won't happen again. It's the norm in the cell phone and tablet ecosystem (which is a damn shame, but there may be hope on the regulatory front w/ right to repair laws gaining steam.)

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one -3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The ink plan isn't required, you can still use regular cartridges.

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