enshitify before the IPO

I always see it after. Because then the suits take over and it becomes a mandate to increase profits quarterly for the share holders. IPOs want to show happy users to sell the idea of future revenue from milking those users.

The entire MacOS including finder and the tools was 216KB on the 400KB floppy.

The original Macintosh had 128k of ram.

It’s likely intentional. What’s the point of a good reputation if you don’t milk it for profit? Bestbuy alternates between good and bad. Build a good reputation, the cut corners for profit for several years until people notice while banking that profit. Then restart the good reputation.

Dragon’s Lair was a hugely popular arcade game that worked that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair

I’m sure Google does monetize the gps data instantly, then throws it away rather than save old data that only costs money to respond to government requests.

This is a case where privacy is economically beneficial to Google.

The device only was for privacy. When the data was stored in the cloud, the government had unrestricted access. By making it device only they need to get your device to get that data.

Is it always 20 minutes? Or is it sometimes 15 minutes and sometimes 25 minutes?

Btw the CPU in the Lenovo P330 is an e-2174g. I also got an e-2274g.

I got a sff P330 Xeon with integrated graphics for ~$500 two years ago that includes case power supply etc. Far faster than an n100 and even lower power than if you added a GPU to an n100.

I just plugged in a kilowatt to check:

My Lenovo sff workstation running Plex idles at 15 watts- which is 90% of the time. Streaming 4k 52Mbs hevc (This Flash Gordon is my torture test that caused me to upgrade 2 years ago) it’s 18 watts! I was so surprised that I went back and unplugged the Ethernet thinking I put the killawatt on the wrong server.

What’s your budget? I’m a big fan of old Xeon servers.

You have to look at the datasheet. It says 6 minutes at full load and 18 minutes at half. Full data can’t be listed because it’s a non linear curve. The website gives you a calculator at the bottom.

https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SMC1500-2UC/apc-smartups-c-line-interactive-1440va-rackmount-2u-120v-6x-nema-515r-outlets-smartconnect-port-usb-and-serial-communication-avrgraphic-lcd/

You pay a huge premium for rack mount. You could buy 2-3 regular UPS for the price of one rack mount. I bought a shelf for my rack and have regular UPSs on the shelf. Note that you can only chain 1 ups into another without problems. So it’s best to separate devices onto different UPSs or buy one that supports plugging external batteries.

Watts is peak usage not watt hours. You can have two 1500 watt UPSs but one could last far longer because it has extra batteries but the same 1500 watt inverter as another model.

Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati?

That’s Les Grossman.

He grew up in New York and only recently moved. He’s got that New York attitude. Yeah it’s off putting.

Forward it to Louis Rossman. He’ll make an entire video about it and add it to the wiki tracking these scummy companies.

If humans are so good at coding, how come there are 8100000000 people and only 1500 are able to contribute to the Linux kernel?

I hypothesize that AI has average human coding skills.

JavaScript itself is fine. The problem is developers who import a library to add two numbers.

Yeah I want to completely switch off of Plex but neither is a good solution for my non tech family members. Mother in law is in a retirement center where they use wifi provided for the condos so I can’t access her router. And I would expect her ip to occasionally change on reboots etc. I might try IP ranges or narrow geo blocking.