On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:58:42 +0200
Post by wolfgang kernmy beloved workstation died after 3 years 7/24 permanent on power.
so a temporary solution is a HP/IntelcoreI5 laptop [total crap].
Only 3 years? Ouch. This machine is 8 years. The one before that was
6 years. It died from overheating issues. Video card BGA chip kept
un-soldering. It's really difficult to do reflow soldering at home
with a hair dryer ... Later, I found out that the case was missing a
rear cooling fan. The main source of heat issues. And, the I noticed
power supply fan was in upside down from the manufacturer. It has a
bottom fan instead of a rear fan. That power supply is still working
in this machine though. I think it's now around 12 to 14 years old.
Don't jinx me! Of course, there was a time when I'd build a new
computer every couple of years. That's just too costly and too
disruptive to my life, i.e., backup/restore/reinstall etc. Personally,
I'd rather have a stable platform for at least a decade. Most of my
stuff from the 90's was lost due to failures and upgrades.
Post by wolfgang kernnow I can confirm that windoze10 is really the worst I ever saw.
What? Something displaced Loonix at the top of your list? OMG. It
must be a new era.
Post by wolfgang kernand after the last recent update of Thunderbird I cannot send emails
from my accounts, it only can receive and let me mail to newsgroups.
There are a couple of weird glitches with Firefox 93.0 too. I haven't
tracked these down. I'm just living with them, hoping for 94.0 being
clean.
Post by wolfgang kernI may support maniac diseased folks and even give them jobs,
but why must all of them work yet at M$ and Mozilla ?
Peter principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Roughly, people are promoted to the level of their incompetence. I.e.,
good programmers/engineers become bad managers, etc. So, there are no
good programmers/engineers in organizations with hierarchical
management.
Just a Post-n-Go, BFN.
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