From: nowhere@nevernet.at   
      
   On 10/10/2021 08:46, Rod Pemberton 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.   
      
   rare seen, but CPU may have died on overheating due a bubble in the   
   thermal compound [I shouldn't have used my pretty old Dow Corning]   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   No :) after experienced Suse, Loonix is not even worth to check on.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   for the moment I run windoze edge instead of FF, similar crap anyway.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   a good one, I'm a fan of Hull and Moore since I first heard of ...   
   about 60 years ago?   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
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