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That neglect is the reason that it was made worse. Everything added to Windows that was worse is actively designed to generate some kind, any kind, of revenue growth. Without the f…

That is not correct at all. Part of the revisionist history these days is making IBM out the be hero that was crushed by Microsoft but nothing could be further from the truth. IBM …

I disagree. Microsoft software was some of the best. Maybe not because their quality was excellent but because their competition was easily worse.

If customers have a real choice between ad supported and not ad supported then that's fine. (And by "real choice" I mean that ad-free isn't ridiculously overpriced) (And not a subs…

> Wouldn't it be fair if BMW at least shared the advertisement revenue with the car owners? No.

Or making a VR headset that has to be tethered but still put all the compute on your face.

70hz to 75hz on 12th Gen Core i7-12700 Get about 10 more hz in Firefox than in Chrome which was unexpected.

I was going to say that really shouldn't be a problem but then I read further: https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html

> I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. Perhaps the fact that our jobs are intellectual is the proble…

In my experience, there is no advantage to pausing on some random icon I don't want. I always have to re-orient anyway. Tapping an icon on the screen is instantaneous. There's also…

Of course, cars are always evolving, that's why a new model comes out every single year. Ironically, the screen elements of cars always become the most dated part. I don't feel the…

It's a good argument except the basic controls needed for a car haven't changed in decades: We all need the same climate controls, media controls, etc. For deep car settings, those…

> The 2020 Bolt we just got leaves the climate controls on screen at all times At that point though they might as well be physical buttons! It's all the disadvantages of a touch sc…

I have this knob and I don't understand your point. With the knob or the touch screen, you need to look at the screen to see what you're doing. The knob merely controls a cursor. I…

You cannot touch the touch screen on a Mazda with the commander knob unless you're in Carplay/Android Auto and only if you've found the buried setting to enable it. It is not an al…

Wait till have they have to swipe up from the bottom of a touchscreen to do the same thing. In many ways, it's all the same buttons with the same icons but now they're inside of me…

This is a timely article for me because I test drove a 2026 Mazda CX-5 and then ultimately purchased a 2025 instead. Disliking the giant touchscreen wasn't the only reason but it c…

Eventually used cars will be today's new cars.

> CarPlay is bad for the car manufacturer and is far worse than the modern car software. I have a new car with actually pretty decent modern car software; far better than the decad…

I think that ship has sailed, my friend. My last car could accept a double DIN head unit but I never put one in because then I'd lose any way to control all the settings in the car…

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" -- Upton Sinclair This is the CEO of Rivian's software arm -- his job …

I only got a car with Carplay this year... before that, phone in a dash mount. But just getting into you car and having it project your phone interface instantly from your pocket o…

In many countries, Whatsapp is texting. You wouldn't expect a dumb phone to do email but you would expect it to do minimal texting.

You missed my point. The system designers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) are absolutely trying to build a system that gives the best and most accurate answers possible. The model itself…

I understand how the system works. I also know that the free LLMs are dumb as rocks. But they're not all dumb as rocks -- it's a continuum. You're the person who doesn't seem to un…