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On 03/15/2016 01:35 PM, sdm wrote:
..It was directed at, generally, other people who are having idiosyncratic problems with openSUSE and it actually turns out to be because their hardware is at fault. It's just something many "software people" don't always take into consideration.
I'm sure there are such. I prefer not to presume that people can't learn unless that make it very clear that they are unwilling to learn. I have a suspicion that 'hardware hacking' such as we speak off has gone out of fashion. The 'maker' culture seems to have been handed over to, perhaps, the Chinese, and we in the west have been spoilt by having easy access to wave after wave of low cost innovation. Any of the corporate 'discards' I play with are, as many have pointed out, more powerful than the Apollo moonshot computers. The same goes for my early cell phone that barely ranks as a smartphone, from before Android was released. Contrariwise, almost everything these days has a computer in it, regardless. ten years ago that wasn't so; you could get stoves, fridges, even hearing aids that didn't have a processor in them. I'm sure the IoT will mean that pens and pencils coffee cups will have processors in them soon, and be more expensive for it! So now we really have function defined by software and people think of software first when something doesn't work. They don't actually need to be 'software' people. All that being said, when my software controlled microwave turns off after a couple of seconds I give it a slap on the side. There seems to be a loose connection on the fan. It all 'tamper proof', not like the microwaves when I was a kid that I could repair. *sigh* -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org