I totally agree. It's nice to have something that doesn't require magic vendor tools to fix. You don't have to go all the way back to the 80's though. The 90's are fine too and you still own your vehicle in the 00's. Late 90's make the vehicle harder to steal.
I remember back when Macbooks had issues with their temperature sensor. They would die due to the sensor cable being too short and everything expanding when the laptop got hot. Apple later resolved this with a firmware update.
Anyway, I got asked if I could fix a Macbook that was turning itself off. Sure, that's probably just performing the firmware update. But when I got the Macbook, it turned off just moments after starting OSX.
I put it in the freezer for 20 minutes and tried booting it again, yup, this time it took longer before it would turn itself off. I put it back in the freezer for a few hours. Booted it, started the firmware update, praying that it wouldn't turn itself off. Everything went successful and after that the laptop worked perfectly!
For other possibly dangerous things in society there are things like taking a license and renewing that license. Perhaps that should be a requirement for buying hard drugs where it's legal.
>only supported 3G - a networking standard that has been turned off by the major carriers.
Remember, the US is not the world. What major carriers do in the US is not necessarily a global fact. Where I live 2G and 3G is still a fallback if 4G or 5G doesn't work. It will continue to be that way until 2025.
>If your motorcycle only supported leaded gas could you use it?
Google lead replacement additive or think about whether the engine could be rebuilt/replaced on a motorcycle. I certainly would prefer an engine rebuild/replace over replacing a modem in an iPhone 3GS.
>the iPhone from 2009 was an iPhone 3GS, it had a 320x480 screen, 256MB of RAM
The iPhone from 2009 wasn't that impressive in specs compared to other phones at the time. My even older 2.5G dumbphone had higher PPI on the screen and could run useful j2me apps. In 2010, the iPhone 4 came, had a 640x960 screen and 512MB of RAM. The fact that the specs could be doubled within a year shows that the earlier 3GS wasn't pushing anything spec wise.
In a country north of UK the law was once the same. People with worn down cars would find the perfect opportunity to slam their brakes, intentionally get hit from behind and claim insurance.
Sadly, I agree, don't think I noticed anything special when this happened. I'm on older hardware though; MBP 2014, i5 2.6GHz, 16GB DDR3.
Still, I applaud the effort to make Firefox faster on MacOS. I'm happy for every performance gain I can get, even if I don't notice it straight away. A few more minutes of battery life or a bit less fan noise can make such a difference.
From the accessibility you can select to have booth transparency and noise reduction. You can also tune what the transparency passes through. It's not super sophisticated, but maybe it's a bit closer to what you want.
I've been using OpenHAB for a year. I can't recommend it.
It's complicated to understand and use.
It's resource intensive for what it's doing.
I've had all the configuration disappear on several occasions.
It's not uncommon for OpenHAB to hang. Nowadays a crontab reboots my machine every night to make OpenHAB "stable".
Since I don't touch it anymore and the daily reboots makes it stable enough, I haven't tried running Home Assistant yet. But if OpenHAB breaks one more time, I will switch to something else, that's for sure.
Exactly the same. I bought a new computer 2017, the telemetry, account nagging and forced auto updates + reboots became too much.
Updates could remove old Windows applications I had installed, change the default application association, or just break the installation. Every warning that I thoughtfully chose to dismiss came back with every update. Don't like to integrate your AV with the cloud? We will make sure you to warn you on every. single. update.
It felt like I didn't own the system nor that I was the administrator of it.
All this made me switch to Linux permanently. It made me take the steps from dualboot, VMs and experimentation.
For those few times per year when I need Windows, I connect a separate disk with Windows, boot it up and do my thing.
Usually the next time I come back to the computer, Windows has forcefully rebooted back to Linux. Thanks.
If Windows 11 requires an account, I guess I'll stick to my old Windows 10 installation until it stops working. Hopefully I won't need Windows for anything by then.