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Video on planned obsolescence.

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SilverSolder:

The funny thing is, the newest version of Office has a "reduced Ribbon" mode that looks a lot like the toolbars we used to have in the older versions...  we have almost come full circle!  (we are just missing the textual menus now.)

JohnnyMalaria:
My two main gripes with Office 365 are:

1. The File "menu" and trying to defeat automatically saving to OneDrive (rather than the local repository)
2. A general Windows 10 thing - system modal menus hidden behind the desktop. The number of times I've killed an unresponsive Office app in Task Manager only to discover a system modal dialog buried at the bottom of the pile escapes me. More recently, this annoyance occurs with the MS Authenticator for Outlook.

But I can live with the ribbon. It's been there for 14 years...

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on April 13, 2021, 12:24:26 am ---[...]  A general Windows 10 thing - system modal menus hidden behind the desktop. [...]

--- End quote ---

Yes, that is incompetence on an intergalactic level...  you feel like the app has frozen, and all that's wrong is that the Windows 10 crew has broken something that worked in Windows v1.0 - makes you wonder about the quality of the code that you can't directly see working...

jonovid:
planned obsolescence  >:D
I have found that if you run LED at a lower voltage it will quadruple it's life
in a desk lamp that had failing LED's in it's ring after just one year of it's operation
with this mod I see barely any noticeable dimming in its light output on many of my projects

 found this yt video about
Hacking an extra trashy Poundland LED lamp with schematic

this video by show how maybe you can mod a bolb for a longer life!  by a  resistor on its pcb that controls the driver ic

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: jonovid on April 13, 2021, 04:58:42 am ---planned obsolescence  >:D
I have found that if you run LED at a lower voltage it will quadruple it's life
in a desk lamp that had failing LED's in it's ring after just one year of it's operation
with this mod I see barely any noticeable dimming in its light output on many of my projects

 found this yt video about
Hacking an extra trashy Poundland LED lamp with schematic

this video by show how maybe you can mod a bolb for a longer life!  by a  resistor on its pcb that controls the driver ic

--- End quote ---

It is pretty clearly intentionally limiting the life of the "trashy" bulb, compared to the better one.   I really don't understand how people can be so good-hearted as to think planned obsolescence isn't a "thing"...

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