kraussvonespy
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Comment · 1 month ago
The gaming apps for many people are roughly equivalent to giving an opiate addict an app that dispenses heroin whenever they press a button.
Comment · 2 months ago
Approximiately 60-70% of desktop / laptop users worldwide use Windows according to wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
The big problem with shifting users from Windows is training. Corporations aren't going to pay to train their employees in something new if they don't absolutely have to. With that said, now that Windows workstation prices going crazy because of RAM/storage/GPU inflation, I hope that we see a shift to more memory efficient operating systems (anything based on UNIX like Linux and MacOS) but need 2x-8x memory (along with fast storage) to have a similar experience running Windows 11.
Comment · 2 months ago
That would look good as a title on a nice business card. Letterpress, maybe.
Comment · 2 months ago
C'mon Apple. Ease off on the app store fees, let innovation blossom again, maybe use some of that momentum to encourage game developers to use the Mac platform for gaming. Consider throwing some extra GPU cores in future M<whatever> chips and manufacture cheap Mac Minis / Macbook Neos that come preoptimized for Steam (and other) games.
My ultimate goal: I'd really like to be able to play modern games on a laptop that doesn't also act as a makeshift space heater / 110db white noise generator.
Comment · 2 months ago
Well said. Your last stanza is Orwellian.
Comment · 3 months ago
It is. It's a good study of what happens when you combine complex systems in planes and helicopters with the complex systems of navigation and communication, and air traffic control.
If you're looking for more Cloudberg, some of my favorites are:
the United 232 crash in Sioux City
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fields-of-fortune-the-cr...
the Gimli glider
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...
and UPS flight 6
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/alone-in-the-inferno-the...
That last one is truly a nightmare scenario if you're a pilot.
Comment · 3 months ago
Note that this is a long article (~3 hour read). If you just want the executive summary of what happened, I might suggest skipping forward to chapter 7 first and then if you want more, go back and read the in-depth analysis of earlier chapters.
Comment · 4 months ago
Windows isn't getting any slimmer. Storage / RAM isn't getting any cheaper for the first time in the the last ~50 years.
There's a storm brewing.
Comment · 5 months ago
This started long ago. In the 1980s, pros used 60 minute Umatic cassettes because it was the standard and it was the highest quality format. Home users had VHS and Beta (and laserdisc and CED discs and...) The pro market was mostly short videos / news segments / local insertion commercials so a 60 minute Umatic tape limitation was fine with the pros. In the home market, VHS won over Beta in part because the recording time was longer and it meant that most rental movies didn't need a second cassette and a swap in the middle of the movie. To your point, most video production companies had VHS and Beta decks if they needed home formats (I was playing with my VHS-C camcorder and caught that plane crash on tape), but even in the dark ages of NTSC, pros didn't want to use home formats unless they absolutely had to.
Comment · 5 months ago
Sometimes the journey is the reward.
Comment · 5 months ago
lol
We consult with a medium sized medical group that interfaces with all of the larger hospital groups and tons of smaller clinics around the area. They had me do an audit on their fax server because they were getting complaints that a lot of faxes weren't getting to their destination. Well.
Almost 90% of outbound faxes didn't get delivered. What?
So I started researching the destination numbers of those faxes. About 2/3 of those numbers continuously rang, were continuously busy, had been disconnected at some point, or were voice answered by someone who had no idea that they were supposed to be making fax noises at me.
Sadly, the story ends there. I didn't have the stomach to investigate how these records were getting places if most of the faxes were destined to fax machines that no longer existed.
Comment · 5 months ago
You used the magic word "fax". I think you just told me you work in the medical industry without telling me you work in the medical industry.
Comment · 5 months ago
Today in the US in 2026, if you're blindly trusting fully enshitified corporations to keep you alive, I assure you that you're not going to have to worry about broken insulin pumps for very long.