Comment by 👻 darkghost
My family member did design work and complained endlessly about the lousy Java based tools that ran like molasses. (He did design work with DEC back in the good old days and was on the Alpha team.) He begrudgedly worked on Itanium and swore to never own anything with that chip in it. Near retirement it was impossible to schedule meetings between San Jose and Israel. They offered him a very generous GTFO package for retirement and he took it.
2025-09-03 · 8 months ago
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Intel NUC — This has to be one of my worst purchases. I have been trying for years and putting up with this nonsense for years to get the damned HDMI out to be functional 100%. HDMI will randomly crash into snow and blink out for 3 seconds. Sound works sometimes, when it feels like it, after the appropriate blood sacrifice over a blood moon. I finally come into a lower resolution monitor, hopeful that it will behave at less than 4k with older tech. What a fool I was. It is no different. I had...