The key thing the EU are ruling on here are phones. I replace my phone or laptop battery every 3 years at average! Does it need to be removable for that? Hell no. Sticky tape, glued in I don't care. I will pay apple or whoever to replace it. 30 minutes of labour is fine for this interval!
What pisses me off are the people who are too fucking cheap to pay for a phone battery from the manufacturer but will throw 10x the cost on trivial repairs on a premium car while whining about it.
Yep, call pros to replace them every 3 years? Probably okay. Device becomes trash after 3 years because battery is DRM-protected and no longer produced?
EU should really f**k them hard about this behavior. It's 100% planned obsolescence.
Log the producer of parts is okay but intentionally make them non functional is not.
Oh I agree with that one entirely. One reason I buy apple shit is last year I got them to stuff a new battery in my old 6s which I bought in 2015 and they did it there and then in store. Second swap it has had.
No thats not the main issue. Most of the issues come from crap batteries not being anywhere near fit for purpose. I’ve swapped out enough (tens of the things) to see that as the average case.
Most laptops just whine about third party batteries and you can just nuke the vendor battery junk to get rid of it.
Because won't somebody think of the... Wait, no, I meant to say: "It's dangerous and a third party battery can set your phone on fire!" Also, "it will allow hackers to steal your data". /s
As far as I can tell, the manufacturers are doing a pretty good job at occassionally setting your phone on fire and exposing your data themselves.
Great technical review. I appreciate the insight and thoroughness from someone who obviously knows their craft extremely well. The nuance in which you broke down how "[i]t sounds less than bad" left me incredulous, and then you completely rendered any type of retort useless by affirming that it was "... not good". There's just no countering that.
Spot on. I will never trust a musical review on fractal musical composition by anyone other than fairly experienced guitarists and/or pianists ever again.
My review was spot on. It’s subjectively not terrible but you wouldn’t use it as the basis of a composition.
Perhaps a school bell. But it would get annoying as fuck very quickly. Actually perhaps sticking it on repeat in a torture cell would be a good place for it. It’s not bad enough or good enough to be likeable.
>"Would it be possible to share one of your own compositions"
One does not have to be composer to judge music. Also it is very subjective. In my opinion the piece is a short phrase that does not cause immediate allergic reaction. But it is not a composition.
Some math translated to notes and producing reasonable harmony is not really that exciting imo.
A few years back I built a fairly simple little python/flask app to solve and integration problem. It's been sitting there handling 5000 or so requests an hour. Nothing major. I set up an ansible script which pushed out the distro (Debian) provided flask and other deps and fired it up in uwsgi. There was about 200 lines of python and about 50 lines of ansible config for it over our base image. This was pushed out to a t2.tiny instance in AWS which was behind an nginx instance on a t2.small instance which was already doing ancillary crap. To deploy this, you literally had to "aws sso login" then "make" and it was done. I added a simple AWS CloudWatch canary to check it was alive still.
Along comes someone and rewrites it using docker because, well you know this has to go in the Kubernetes stack (bollocks it does - there is no ROI for changing it). So after a week of "devops engineering time" which consists of getting it running in a container, setting up the kubernetes manifests, setting up a github pipeline etc etc. So I look at this later and we burned $4500 dev time on it and increased the yearly spend, as it needs a multi-region redundant ALB and node push to EKS to $2250 from the RI cost of $220 a year.
That's progress apparently.
I'm going to buy a canal boat and forget this industry exists ASAP.
It's not even that complicated with hardware of that era.
Let's say you are afraid to destroy the through holes of the multilayer PCB by de-soldering the broken parts, or heating bordering parts up too much, whatever.
In most cases you can pull the caps just off from their pins, clean the pins, (even with paper tissue only) and simply solder the new ones to the old pins still anchored in the board.
Once I discovered "desoldering needles" I basically stopped being scared of desoldering through hole parts altogether. You can get a set cheaply on aliexpress or amazon or whatever.
You slide the needle over the component leg and then melt the solder. The needle slips over the component leg. Wait for the solder to cool and pull the needle out. Hey presto the leg is separated from the PCB pad. Also works great for cleaning solder out of a hole after traditional desoldering.
Indeed, don't throw out old boards due to bad caps. I'm working on building a recapping skill so I can keep my old hardware alive as well. It's pretty cool to have the ability to take old non-working or marginal hardware, apply heat and modern capacitors to it, and make it stable again.
Meh. If you're smart enough to read this web site you should find someone else to leverage some equity out of and a good salary and ride it to IPO then retire and do something else.
Yes because if you’re so smart , you should be able to pick the one out of 10 startups that don’t outright fail - something that VCs can’t do - and then join the company early enough to get decent equity (where you statistically have even less of a chance of choosing the right horse) and then choose the company out of the ones that don’t outright fail that have an outsized exit event.
Yeah, do what, exactly... Dawdle around dabbling in random stuff, only to eventually get bored and return to tech for making an impact on something and changing the world...
Friends, family, books, movies, games, food, travel, hobbies, more hobbies, coding stuff that's fun instead of merely profitable...
Most people only work so they can support those things in their off hours. There's a thousand things I could occupy a happy lifetime with if I didn't have to work.
They're not a replacement but they will be generating so much credible indexable garbage that they will reduce the signal to noise ratio to the point that they are useless.
Apologies for this alcohol fuelled rage comment but for fucks sake Microsoft just stop redesigning shit and finish the last 11 redesigns of windows, fix all the cruft hanging out everywhere and start giving a crap about your clients from a security and attention perspective. We are not cows to be milked for upsells, telemetry and ad revenue. We are also not caged animals to experiment on. We are paying customers who need a professional grade operating system that isn't a tragic waste of cash, time, resources, compute, bandwidth and attention.
And no Windows 11 is not it.
Nadella was treated like the second coming of Jesus on here a few years back. Turns out he's another one trick capitalist trying to push up revenue of a dying turd by sprinkling glitter on it and selling it to you monthly while pocketing whatever he can make out of your data.
