I currently use an employer issued HP Elitebook 840 G4-laptop for development work. It has annoyed me. It has bothered me. It has always been totally under-performing, despite its Intel Core i7 CPU, and even with power connected and all Windows power management settings verified to be sane. I didn’t figure out why until recently […]
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Why you should use Mozilla Firefox
Recently, Microsoft announced that it will base future versions of its Edge browser on the Chromium web engine (Blink, which also powers Google Chrome). The linked blog post states: Making the web better through more open source collaboration blogs.microsoft.com I will not argue against open source collaboration being a good thing, but the web will […]
Wasteful coinputing
The Bitcoin network consumes a significant portion of world’s energy to produce nothing but hot air and lucky winners.