And likely in ATM servicing.

Just few months ago seen windows 95 error message on HSBC ATM.

For a long time all the IBM ATMs ran OS/2 Warp 4.

I recently saw that running on special 16 channel DAT recorders used by the 999 service, recently as in "within the past five years". I believe they've been retired but kept around in case they need to recover tapes off them.

I kept my mouth ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SHUT about knowing my way round OS/2 Warp 4.

I've completely forgotten pretty much everything about OS/2... worked support for iomega for a while covering OS/2, Jazz and 2nd level zip calls in the late 90's. I have very little desire to look back to those days.

Except it would be nice if computers were as snappy as back then... so many layers of cruft that nothing really pops. I remember I used to just disable all the NT/2K animations and it felt so nice. I built a career on web apps, but most are just really poorly written it pisses me off.

> Except it would be nice if computers were as snappy as back then... so many layers of cruft that nothing really pops.

You should try Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/

It's actually pretty usable these days, at least on Thinkpads and other "generic Intel chipset" machines.

It's sub par to google maps. As much as I would like to use it in Japan, but it is crappier than Google.

Noone in my circle with iphone uses it. Most of people are using Yahoo maps, which is way better than google and apple maps combined.

ICE cars use energy from close to 100% oil. As long as your electrical grid is more diverse than that, you're already better off.

Exactly, electricity generation is already diversified, so it naturally gets somewhat shielded from shocks. Energy companies can burn wood if they get truly desperate, but I can only fill up my car with gasoline.

What? Where? In face that statement is not true pretty much everywhere. 50% of electricity in Hungary is nuclear. 80% in France. 50% coal in Poland, 30 % solar in Spain.

You should reread their post. You're proving their point.

In places where electricity generation is primarily nuclear, solar, hydro, wind, or geothermal? Yeah pretty much.

In most countries electric utilities have either regulated rates or are public-owned. They don't increase prices willy-nilly.

If you have an internet connected charger, which is standard in some countries, you can be decoupled from gas prices long before the gas gets phased out of the grid by charging when the grid is cheap and clean, even if gas is still being used for peakers. A simple timer will also often do the job, but you get even lower prices if you help the grid out by letting it dictate the exact time to start charging.

It's not about price; it's hedging against the very real risk of petrol rationing and shortages. An EV can charge from any source, and in Europe a lot of power is sourced from non-oil sources

If that's the case, probability of rationing/shortages for electricity may be even higher, unless you have your own generation.

There are several oil companies/sources, but for electricity you are at mercy of those who control grid. Again, unless you have your own generation.

> Again, unless you have your own generation.

Which is cheap compared to even cheap Chinese cars before the tariffs are added: https://www.kaufland.de/product/512021383/?search_value=pv+c...

Don't accuse people of not thinking before you've thought about it.

Charging an electric car at home is a lot cheaper than filling an ICE car with petrol. If the price of both doubles you save more money by switching to electric.

To make it really simple...

Before: Petrol car costs £10k to buy, plus 20p/mile (or whatever). Electric car costs £20k, plus 5p/mile.

After: Petrol car costs 40p/mile. Electric car costs 10p/mile.

That pushes the incentive towards electric.

Very few electricity grids (I think _none_ in Europe?) are particularly dependent on oil. Many European grids are quite _gas_ dependent, but gas prices are considerably less volatile than oil.

Here’s my way of thinking: charging overnight on a smart tariff means my cost per mile is a quarter of what it used to be. It could go up by 3x and I’d still save.

No. But there is more control than with petrol. An if you have more charger, could balance charginf during off-peak cheaper hours.

Can't do anything about petrol. Pay or gtfo.

i rarely (as a 12 year ev driver) see discussions mention you just get multiple times more distance per dollar, as a consumer, with an EV over ICE. (and i like both....it's just what i have measured having both)

> I am not sure if the process is equally or more simple with android phones though, but in my circle noone buys new phone because of the battery (often the battery is used as excuse to get a newer model).

Your circle sounds pretty strange honestly. Everyone in it lies to you about why they do things, but you secretly know their real motivations?

To be fair, your comment doesn't have much substance as well

The only reason they want you to download their app is to farm more data about you. They will push you to huge extent just to collect more data.

To share an egregious example, Mercury (which is a great bank) sent KYC notice literally saying "we noticed you use app outside of declared locations" for one of my friends companies. And yes they push their app hard.

Watch Altman's reaction in Tucker Carlson interview to the question about (alleged) murder of OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji.

The overall response and particularly the body language speaks a lot.

I wish the data would be more reliable (or they have better sanity checks) though. One of my flights suddenly "departed" one hour+ before scheduled time. I almost got heart attack.

Needless to say there were no objective reasons for that - airport dashboard was showing proper time and flight departed with 30min delay (displayed by Flighty as 1.5hr delay).

I've never seen what you describe but I have seen other data issues. It usually depends on the airline, the same types of problems occur with the same airlines.

I've asked and they say there's little they can do, the airlines systems are broadcasting this data and some airlines are better at it than others.

To be fair, it was the first majour hiccup with the app. Usually it is quite correct.

It's hard to believe airline broadcasted incorrect data in my case. Even if that was the case, they could have cross checked it with airport data, which is way easier to obtain compared to airline stream.

And also they could have additional checks for cases when aicraft "changes" departure time to 1 hr before scheduled at around 2 hours before scheduled time. It should be highly unusual case.

I am having similar thoughts.

To add to list of questions - it's undeniable the AI is making humans dumber by doing mental job previously done by humans. So why we spend so much energy making AI smarter and fellow humans dumber?

Shouldn't we be moving in opposite direction - invest in people instead of some software and greedy psychopaths at helm of large companies behind it?

There is no point to argue with stupid people. It's the same people who support their "opinion" with internet articles (like that means anything), mainstream media (hard to find bigger deceivers), or social media posts (that's arguably the worst).

Now they got another "God" in LLM.

How to deal? Just ignore. There is way more stupid people with stupid opinions than we can possibly estimate.