From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:58:42 +0200   
   wolfgang kern  wrote:   
      
   > my beloved workstation died after 3 years 7/24 permanent on power.   
   > so a temporary solution is a HP/IntelcoreI5 laptop [total crap].   
      
   Only 3 years?  Ouch.  This machine is 8 years.  The one before that was   
   6 years.  It died from overheating issues.  Video card BGA chip kept   
   un-soldering.  It's really difficult to do reflow soldering at home   
   with a hair dryer ...  Later, I found out that the case was missing a   
   rear cooling fan.  The main source of heat issues.  And, the I noticed   
   power supply fan was in upside down from the manufacturer.  It has a   
   bottom fan instead of a rear fan.  That power supply is still working   
   in this machine though.  I think it's now around 12 to 14 years old.   
   Don't jinx me!  Of course, there was a time when I'd build a new   
   computer every couple of years.  That's just too costly and too   
   disruptive to my life, i.e., backup/restore/reinstall etc.  Personally,   
   I'd rather have a stable platform for at least a decade.  Most of my   
   stuff from the 90's was lost due to failures and upgrades.   
      
   > now I can confirm that windoze10 is really the worst I ever saw.   
      
   What?  Something displaced Loonix at the top of your list?  OMG.  It   
   must be a new era.   
      
   > and after the last recent update of Thunderbird I cannot send emails   
   > from my accounts, it only can receive and let me mail to newsgroups.   
      
   There are a couple of weird glitches with Firefox 93.0 too.  I haven't   
   tracked these down.  I'm just living with them, hoping for 94.0 being   
   clean.   
      
   > I may support maniac diseased folks and even give them jobs,   
   > but why must all of them work yet at M$ and Mozilla ?   
      
   Peter principle.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle   
      
   Roughly, people are promoted to the level of their incompetence.  I.e.,   
   good programmers/engineers become bad managers, etc.  So, there are no   
   good programmers/engineers in organizations with hierarchical   
   management.   
      
      
   Just a Post-n-Go, BFN.   
      
   --   
   Things are only going to become worse for Joe Biden.  His only chance   
   at salvation will come from the thing he hates the most: Donald Trump.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)