Microsoft do an amazing job supporting a vast array of different hardware. This is much more difficult than supporting hardware that you design yourself, and control. Yes, they make some baffling bus… (View Post)

One of my regrets in life is being an archetypal Englishman who knows no other language, aside from a little schoolboy French. I have so many friends who are multilingual. (View Post)

The other day I mentioned we had had two pieces of white goods go wrong. Here's a video about how built-in obsolescence is adding to the enshittification of the modern world https://www.youtube.… (View Post)

A massive issue is reliability. If you only make 100 of something, you really only want to fire one or two at a target, and therefore require as near as damnit 100% reliability. If you make 1,000 of … (View Post)

This is actually true. Mrs J works as a silicon chip designer. When she travelled to the US for work years ago, a lady at immigration looked at the name of the company she worked for, which included … (View Post)