cweickhmann

fatsam, 5 days ago to random

After 2000, lots of people sneered that the Y2K bug had been a big nothing, massively overhyped.

They were idiots. If the vast amount of Y2K remediation that took place hadn't, planes might well have fallen from the sky, nuclear power plants might well have melted down. I worked on two projects myself to fix bad 2 digit dates.

We get to the other side of the current Nazi infestation, the same idiots are going to say, "See, you were just hysterical."

cweickhmann, 6 days ago to random

That’s a really good point. Ignoring supercomputers and workstations that do actual numer crunching, everyone is pretty well off with any by-now-15-year-old computer with a decently large SSD. Issue is most of the time: one broken component, maybe a battery or a missing PSU, and the hassle to even figure out what’s wrong.

FWIW, I’ve just taken my laptop from before 2012 back in service. The PSU (a no-name replacement, because the original one broke) got lost in a carton box. Now I got a teeny-wheeny USB-C to barrel-jack adapter and it’s humming with a 65W mobile phone charger. Funny enough in this one the battery still works decently after so many years.

#RightToRepair #ProvideSparepartsOrOpenSourceThem

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