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icwtyjj commented on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine   macrumors.com/2026/03/13/... · Posted by u/tosh
everdrive · 2 days ago
There's an unspoken rule in corporate America, colleges, etc. Laptops MUST be loaded down with terrible software, no exceptions. My last corporate laptop actually had the paid version of winzip in 2025, and it ran with a little tray icon that I couldn't disable or remove. That was in addition to all the other corporate crap I couldn't remove.

Some of this is not _just_ a corporate problem. Why would Winzip have an auto run application and tray application in the first place? Every single app seems to think they need one, and it's a classical tragedy of the commons. Perhaps on a virgin Windows install, your app with autorun and a tray icon will be more responsive. But when 20 other apps pull that same trick, no one wins.

This is actually one of the reasons I'm not excited at the idea of Linux defeating Windows. If it did, corporations would just start crapping up Linux the way they've crapped up Windows.

icwtyjj · 2 days ago
I think there’s a pretty big difference though. Linux is open while windows almost certainly will remain closed so even if corporates start bloating up Linux users can rely on the gpl to give them choice while windows users are stuck
icwtyjj commented on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/johnbarron
HPsquared · 2 days ago
Helium for diving is going to be a different mix than what's used for balloons. In diving it's used to reduce the partial pressure of oxygen, and also to quickly diffuse back out of tissues when returning to the surface. Very different application!
icwtyjj · 2 days ago
Sorry i was referencing "Balloon grade H is the least pure at 97.5 percent." from the diving article
icwtyjj commented on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock   tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/johnbarron
emsign · 2 days ago
Balloon gas is ~20% oxygen, so your kids don't go unconscious while doing the funny voices.
icwtyjj · 2 days ago
https://www.bocgases.ie/files/balloon_grade_helium_factsheet... says 95% helium and 1% oxygen while https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/helium-gas-purity-what-i... says 97.5% helium but very unlikely for it to be as low as 80%
icwtyjj commented on 'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center   commondreams.org/news/new... · Posted by u/abdelhousni
blibble · 23 days ago
> how about making the new datacenters fund nuclear, solar, and grid battery?

good luck with that

any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted

icwtyjj · 23 days ago
What about a making it prerequisite? Demonstrate you have built the nuclear/solar/whatever capacity to cover your own energy before you're allowed to build a datacenter?

u/icwtyjj

KarmaCake day90January 12, 2026View Original