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- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 6 days ago:
Not at all. A Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 6 days ago:
Overbloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech components. Batteries are a question too.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
Yes good analogy. Just my guess. Been a long time since I actually worked in the field.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
There are various designs of backlights. The all typically have a stack of loose components in an assembly. By loose I mean not totally fixed but not too fixed. They have to free float enought that temperature changes do not cause issues. They also have to not stick, warp, or buckle over time. Harder to engineer then you might think.
So consider what might happen if for example the top backlight film might buckle some then stick to the back of the lcd. The film might deform which would change its optical properties. Then later thermal cycling might cause release. It might do same elsewhere.
Not saying this is mechanism, but just example.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
Backlight I think. Probably film pack warp / buckle / wetout. Just a guess.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like the backlight behind the LCD. They have components which could potentially sag or warp. White screen is probably best way to see. Also look at various angles. May be more visible at some angles then others.
Hard to unsee. I know this feeling. I use to work in the industry years ago. Displays are never perfect and hard to unsee things once you see them especially when it was part of your job.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
See the edit to my comment. If not sharp, could be warping of films in backlight.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 2 weeks ago:
That is an interesting one. LCDs as far as I know do not usually burn in and if it is moving the it is not really that anyway.
I will interested what others come up with?
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 4 weeks ago:
Some of it is useful but IT practices that waste my time mean I get less done, makes me work more unpaid overtime, and destroys innovation and the company in the long run because more and more things need permission. You cannot run an imnovative organization that way.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 4 weeks ago:
The real idiotic thing is a network where one client system compromise compromises the whole company.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly it. Out sourced stuff that there is no way to verify. I stopped clicking on this stuff too unless I had to.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 4 weeks ago:
Ironic thing a company I use to work for would send out both email you need to click links to do your job then do training to not click links or even open the same kind of email. Then even test that by seeding in very realistic test email. Total stupidity. Your expected to tell the difference when there is no way to do so. The training was moe CYA then anything.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 months ago:
Programming in particular, though fun, has always been kind of a piece part job. Aparently easily out sourced, and now easily automated. I say aparently because out sourcing and off-shoring turned out not to be that easy. We are now going to find out about AI.
One reason I did not go into IT 40 years ago was this reason. I went into the physical sciences and engineering. I was wrong then it turned out. Who knows now.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 2 months ago:
Absurd! No home appliance should require an internet service.
- Comment on They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion. 2 months ago:
You could say the same thing about cults. A lot of the MAGA movement. A lot of religion.
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 2 months ago:
In my case the NID is in the basement and connected to my own UPS that powers everything on my main comm panel.
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- Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk? 3 months ago:
Fields can, just depends how strong and this applies to spinning hrd drives not SSDs. We had an idiot at work once that decides to store a bunch of magnetic bases on the top of a tower PC. Corrupted the drive.
- Comment on Google Gemini deletes use's code 4 months ago:
I am never quite sure if the I in AI stands for intelligence or ignorance.
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- Comment on Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China 4 months ago:
Not surprising. The US is a petro state. It will never want to switch to something else. China and the EU are far more motivated.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 6 months ago:
No you probably sue them both.
- Comment on Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal 6 months ago:
By the way, lot of crap paper out there too. Lot do not mark which side to print on first and this is related to curl and shineyness. On3 hs to guess. If your getting a lot of jams try flipping the paper over.
Our last ream has a deffective narrow page every 4th page too.
- Comment on Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal 6 months ago:
My first printer in the early 80s was an EPSON dot matrix for $800. The second was an Apple laser printer in the late 80s for $3500. The third was a Brother momochrome MFC laser printer for $500 in the 00s. You can see why they are crap, huge price reductiions. E>en more if you consider inflationn and capability.
Always look at per page cost. Generally that means monochrome laser.
- Comment on Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked 6 months ago:
Interesting. Government record keeping rules require loggimg of many things. Normal Signal probably would not comply. This might.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 7 months ago:
That is not what they said. They said operationally nothing is changing. However, they are basically in-part ad supported and so with that comes some strings. All of this can probably be configued out but it is a pain.
For me, hard call. Fragmenting into maybe better browsers reduces Firefox popularity and that impacts wheather web developers will test against anything but Chrome. When that happens these other browsers become irrelevent. So using other browers has a consequence.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 7 months ago:
Why do you think Firefox is spying on you any more then any if the other major browsers?
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 7 months ago:
Yes or sometimes it is just that the Firefox version is too old or your privacy setting too strict. So updating to latest version and switching to a new clean standard profile can help.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 7 months ago:
There is only one answer, Firefox or a derivative. Anything else is a vote for a closed commercial web.