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From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 10/19/25 09:12, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:46:48 +1300, Your Name
> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-10-18 16:22:58 +0000, Paul S Person said:
>
>
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>>> Kind of like when Microsoft decided that "640KB RAM was all anybody
>>> could ever need".
>>
>> 640KB probably would be enough ... except that Microsloth keeps
>> bloating their awful software. :-p
>
> Tell me about it.
>
> XP started out needing 2GB (I typed "2MB" but surely that is not
> correct) but ended up needing 4GB. It just took more and more and more
> and more space.
>
> I do Full Backups every week (AOMEI). Judging from those, Win 10/11
> are pretty stable in terms of size-on-disk.
>
> OK, things did go up a bit when a new version was installed -- but
> after a few weeks, it went down again.
>
>> The Commodore 64 only had 64K of RAM, but is probably more than enough
>> for the majority of users' needs (emails, web browsing, word
>> processing, etc.)
>>
>> Not that Microsloth are alone in bloating software - the original MacOS
>> could run off a 400K / 800K floppy disk and still have room for your
>> documents. Even on my ancient Mac, this MacOS now takes up around 47GB
>> (including space used for things like caches). Similarly, software like
>> Photoshop has become massive in size.
>>
>> In all cases, the majority of people don't even know about, let alone
>> use, all the gimmicks in the software.
>
> I don't even bother to read about all the nifty new stuff when Edge
> updates itself or I install an update.
>
> The only reason I checked on Win 11's 25H2 this morning is because it
> didn't take any time to download and not much to install yesterday,
> which doesn't match my memory of the process for Win 10. Once I found
> that it was mostly activating stuff from prior updates, though, I
> stopped reading. All I wanted was an explanation of why it was so
> fast; the new stuff is of no interest.
>
>> It's not just software either. Most don't use all the gimmicks that
>> over-complicate new cars, and even want to turn off those annoying
>> gimmicks. Same with appliances around the home - nobody needs a "smart"
>> / "AI" kettle!
>
> I would love to be able to tell Bing to take it's AI stuff and shove
> it, but I don't seem to be able to find a setting for that.
>
> Although a connected house does appear in, IIRC, /The Martian
> Chronicles/ (bravely trying to fight a fire consuming it), it has
> /never/ made sense to me.
>
> Although, if/when I convert to a heat pump, a wireless thermostat
> (that is, one that connects to the heat pump/whatever else is needed
> without requiring a third wire to be pulled to join the two now in
> use, not just an "app" that controls a wired thermostat) would
> probably be a good idea (pulling wire is, I am told, expensive).
>
> But I expect it will turn out that no such thing exists. It would,
> after all, be convenient rather than sexy.
Heat pumps are expensive in any event in initial cost but can help a lot
with heating/cooling bills. About 40 miles East of San Francisco
behind the
Coastal Range is a belt where heating and cooling are major expenses.
I would not live their if I could not have a heat pump to handle the
heating
and cooling of a residence.
Here in San Francisco I was planning before I was ripped off to get a
window mounted heat pump for my studio apartment. The previous owners
when my stove failed replaced it with another gas stove with alway on
pilot light. On hot days only multiply fans make the place comfortable
and in Winter if I give up on fresh air the heat is just a bit sort
of comfortable
in any space in the apartment.
Wire pulling would be the least of your expenses with the heat pumps.
Review the This Old House Show on PBS where you can access back
episodes where they have dealt with very expensive installations using
deep wells drilled to take advantage of the temperature of the Earth.
bliss
bliss
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