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“They” being people. It might be a feature of just having enough people in a group.

As someone who had been doing lots of Excel work with macros, this looks interesting. Don’t need it now, and I’ve adapted to using LibreCalc’s Basic which is very similar to VBA, but still, good to see some true competition now. Looks like they’re mainly aiming for the Europe crowd with the FreeOffice comparisons.

Their new owners, right? Like bought last week? Scams everywhere.

If you have to use Windows and Office at work, you’re kind of stuck. At home I finally ditched Win10 and found LibreOffice perfectly fine to use. Not everyone can make that choice or would want to have one type at home and one at work.

But it’s okay, Microsoft seems to want to shoot themselves in the foot every chance they get. Even making the mistakes they are, they can’t even easily topple the monopoly dependence they built up.

How much loss is there for a converter? I always thought that for the most part they were pretty efficient. Unless you’ve measured and found a difference, you might be trying to solve an issue that isn’t a huge one.

I’ve been very happy with my Cyberpower setup, and the smaller one is powering my router and monitors. It’s still 650VA, so will roughly match the time the larger one would keep my computer alive. I’m not running a server though, so it might still be low for you, but 12V 5A doesn’t seem like a large pull.

At least the kernel hasn’t (yet) gone full KDE.

Because like so much of the IT field, most go for the easier thing to do and don’t have or are losing the skills to do these things themselves. A good photoshop is a rarity now, and often will get called AI slop because of it being good, so they don’t.

Sounds okay, but don’t forget, pumping it out of the case isn’t enough. If you’re in a small room, it could get toasty. Won’t really affect the computer much, but there’s a reason why server rooms are kept cold.

Always consider the heat flow in the box. Adding something new and taking up space changes how much air gets to places, and how it flows. Might consider another fan (although whether you want more pushing or pulling is a debated topic), and maybe using the GPU fan to control that is a good idea… In my mind, cooling is like memory… you can’t have enough.

I always got the impression that at least for GPUs and other things with heatsinks it was better to have those parts on the bottom, so dust won’t settle on them. Dust won’t do as much on the back side of the card. Maybe that’s just a convenient plus of whatever other reason from the horizontal days of motherboards.

Took me a little more than fifteen minutes when I had to do one years ago after an engine seize. But I did it myself slowly with a few jacks.

I developed a love/hate relationship with them after four different ones. Three of them were auto stick shift. Such a fascinating concept, if you could keep it maintained.

Seen that too. Inconceivable!

I saw one today where there was no price at all for diesel. Figured it was just a sign glitch or something, as other places have some, but maybe not if their supplier is low.

Five seconds? What’s hogging that system? Mine is about two, at most, from the WM shutdown selection.

Anything you can’t build and repair when it breaks is worthless for a long term situation. Unless long term means a week or so and then civilization returns, like after a bad storm. Hand, water, and gravity powered energy storage are not pretty or as much energy, but they’ll keep going long after panels break or wear out. Then there’s how to store the power, batteries are a lot more complicated if you want something that you can redo or make vs. scavenging. Again, it’s the line between even a bad outage with eventual resolution or complete loss.

Now do training centers, since it’s obvious they are never going to settle on a final model as they pursue the Grail of AGI. I could do the exact same comparison with my local computer and claim that running a prompt only uses X amount of watts because the GPU heats up for a few seconds and is done. But if I were to do some fine tuning or other training, that fan will stay on for hours. A lot different.

They took a path they believed would develop into something, and it’s a narrow alley they can’t turn around in. They have to keep going with more compute and power to continue the chase. Thing is, everyone else seemingly thought they were onto something and followed as well, so they’re all in the same predicament where reversing course is suicide. So they hope they can keep selling the dream a bit longer until something happens.

To be fair, it’s a lot more than just autocomplete. But it’s a lot less than what they wanted by now too.