When I started a new job in IT around 2009, I learned that AS400 / iSeries / IBM i was a thing, and it’s still doing pretty well with big retail and the insurance business.
In the same vein, the system used by the aviation industry to book flights is also quite ancient but still very much used to this day.
Just wanted to add that maybe the last thing that we did for the environment and that really worked was for acid rain in 1991. At least where I live.
A few years before that there was the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs and helped to heal the hole in the ozone layer. I think.
But yeah, I don’t remember anything of the sort recently,
Your optimism can only be admired. However the US has already stated multiple times that it doesn’t care about international law and that Americans cannot be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, or they will invade the Netherlands. The ICC cannot even detain an American. This was during W Bush and his “war on terror”.
And then Trump recently reiterated it with a new executive order, imposing penalties and visa restrictions on people even helping the ICC to investigate Americans.
But it was maybe a few months old at best. Maybe it had a defective battery from the start but I contacted Xiaomi and I’ve been told it was “normal” in “winter”. Then when I looked online for this issue with Xiaomi phones, the people on the forums said it was “normal”, and that I expected too much.
In the end it was probably a defective battery. I couldn’t believe that they were selling millions of these and that people always just kept them warm all the time. Like, they have a proper winter too in some parts of China, and I can’t imagine millions of people having their phone dying on them as soon as we get into sweater weather.
But obviously this left a bad taste in my mouth. This and having to ask permission to root my phone.
I decided not to buy another Xiaomi phone when the one I previously had would turn off when it was a bit mildly cool outside.
Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!
I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.
Yet, all my other phones’ batteries didn’t die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.
So, I don’t have to bother with their names anymore.
Por que no los dos?
How many times has he “completely lost it” recently? He’s always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.
Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he “completely loses it”.
If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.
Aside from the sad news, as a Montrealer, the title confused me.
When I hear about the North Shore it’s usually to describe the north of Montreal, as opposed to the south. I thought the title was lacking precision.
Then I read the article, saw Natashquan, and realized ‘North Shore’ in this context is about Côte-Nord (North COAST).
I didn’t know it could be translated to ‘North Shore’.
If you speak French you can consider Guadeloupe as a possibility.
Of course there’s cars everywhere but it’s entirely possible to travel there without a car.
There are municipal buses from the airport to multiple cities. There are also ferries to go to the multiple islands. The island of Marie-Galante can be cycled, and is very nice.
I spent a few days in Le Gosier, Pointe-à-Pitre and Grand-Bourg, and I never needed a car.
On the opposite side, avoid SXM.
I was using E16 years ago and liked it but eventually switched to Gnome (2, I think), after waiting for E17 for too long.
What made me quit was the wait. All the other DEs at the time were releasing new versions frequently but Enlightenment took forever.
That must be why Google’s greenhouse emissions went up 50% in five years. ChatGPT’s legendary efficiency.
Keep defending those power wasting glorified autocomplete. In no way are we doomed as a species.
We can just continue tu pump more and more into the air. “AI” will surely find a solution for that anyway.
Rice. I know it’s common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I’m from.
I’m a francophone and tried to explain that France is not “dépaysant” enough for a vacation and the closest word I came up with is “exotic”, but it’s not exactly what I want to convey.
It probably consumes as much energy as a family house for a day just to come up with that program. That’s what happens.
In fact, I did a Google search and didn’t have any choice but to have an “AI” answer, even if I don’t want it. Here’s what it says:
Each ChatGPT query is estimated to use around 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search, with a single query consuming approximately 3 watt-hours, compared to 0.3 watt-hours for a Google search. This translates to a daily energy consumption of over half a million kilowatts, equivalent to the power used by 180,000 US households.
I’m not a cable expert by any means and can’t answer all the questions, but I can tell you that the protocol used by cable is called DOSCIS. So it might guide you into some of those answers.
And the coax cable itself doesn’t go very far now because it’s connected to a fiber network somewhere in your neighbourhood.
What a nasty question! Very nasty!
It became untenable well before that for certain people. It’s all stuff that can be changed or disabled but the Start Menu in Windows 10 with the tiles, and its default search on Bing was infuriating. I do tech support and some clients just don’t bother to deactivate it. There is also the whole thing about Microsoft removing parts of the old Control Panel and its utilities.
But another aspect of why they may also be losing market is how bad they have been with other architectures, like ARM. Windows for ARM seems to be lacking a lot. Even though they have been slowly getting better with emulation, they are still very much behind macOS and Linux. And I’m just a level 1 tech, but it seems like ARM devices and other low power architectures will slowly replace the old home desktops. They may have made a big mistake there.
But they still hold the corporate world and governments by the balls so, it’s gonna be interesting to see.
I’m always a bit amazed of how things have progressed and on what Linux can still run.
This is an extreme example, but it’s also possible to run a modern Linux OS on SBCs like a Raspberry Pi Zero, and still have something somewhat usable depending on your needs.
To have a computer half the size of a credit card with more RAM than my full tower rig from 2001 is amazing. And it can even run software from that era with dosbox or wine.
My 15 years old laptop is still supported and can still read 1080p on YouTube, using Linux.
Linux devs just recently decided to drop support for 486 CPUs and some early Pentiums.
There’s just no competition.
The high commissioner for childhood, Sarah El Haïry, said the “no-kids trend” amounted to “violence against children” but that her target was not couples who decide to remain childless, but adults who do not want to be disturbed by other people’s children.
Sure, sure. Violence against children. What a fucking ridiculous thing to say.
EDIT: I’m not from France but I speak French natively and was looking into more information about this person. From her party’s website, apparently:
I don’t understand her point at all. She says that because some places are not accepting kids, it’s putting pressure on parents and force them to show videos to their kids instead of interacting with them.
Lady, nobody is telling you that you can’t fucking bring your kids to Disney Paris just because some people would like to have a hotel nearby where they won’t have to hear your kids. She’s so fucking entitled. She equates not wanting kids nearby to forcing parents into plugging their kids on screens. And violence against them! Is asking your child to stay quiet is also violence? Are quiet train cars violence against people that would like to shout their lungs out?
C’est ta putain de responsabilité d’empêcher tes enfants de grimper sur les étrangers dans le train, mais t’as pas forcément à les mettre derrière un écran pour ça. C’est pas la faute des passagers autour si tu sais pas t’occuper de tes enfants. T’as pas à leur imposer. Ils peuvent être des enfants qui lisent, qui dessinent, qui jouent à des jeux de table… C’est pas parce que t’as des enfants que toi et toute ta famille avez le droit d’empiéter sur les autres. Non mais quelle stupidité.
Nothing surprising to the people in this community. It’s crazy to see how people are very much sold to the idea of cars, even if they don’t like to drive one.
Recently I was in the comments of an autonomous vehicles community about how some car manufacturer chose Waymo’s “self driving” tech over Tesla’s, and one popular and revealing comment went like “I can’t wait for self driving cars, I’m so tired of driving!”
To me this is pretty sad, but apparently it’s better to invest billions in a technology to have multi-tons vehicles wasting energy driving one person around, rather than invest in public transit. Some people hate driving but still can’t see anything wrong with this excessive car culture.