Shouldn't large amounts of data be handled in a database? Or is the learning curve for a proper database too steep for most people? I certainly never learned SQL, but then I didn't need it to do my job.

Since abandoning Windows in 2019 the largest spreadsheet I've had to deal with is about 105,000 rows and AQ columns. LibreOffice on Linux had no trouble with that.

I haven't seen that problem myself on my M1.

The only problems I had were using and Indirect function in a spreadsheet, I had to change some setting in Preferences, then it worked. The other problem was with old Mac Minis I had to set the graphical acceleration to Skia to avoid only half the screen scrolling left or right.

I definitely have no use for a cloud-based collaboration system, or for that matter a pivot table.

You do have a point though, there doesn't seem to be a middle ground spreadsheet. There used to be Microsoft Works and Apple Works. Lots of people do seem to get by with Numbers but Apple doesn't support ODF so that doesn't help me since the desktop is Linux. Excel is trying to become a database and LibreOffice is playing catch-up and both are bloating out of control.

"Developers who work on it for the love of it are often disconnected from normal users"

There seems to be a decent fraction of them that take Linux as the ultimate computer game. That's well and good for them and KDE seems to have more than its share of them "because it's so customizable."

Paralysis from too many choices is a thing. I have work to do or I wouldn't be on the computer. For goofing off online the iPad worked better if only because the chair is more comfortable.

For the record the "work" computer is running Linux Mint Cinnamon.

"Did Musk, or Jobs, or Andreesson, or Dell, do any of the work to make the products they are known for?"

If you think it's easy to gather that many items from that many suppliers and get them to a certain at a certain place at a certain time feel free to open your own business.

It's not the sand exactly, it's where the aluminum oxide actually is located in the stratosphere and higher.

Remember Freon as in R-12? Harmless at ground level, a superb catalyst at decomposing ozone at high altitude. As heavy as it is you wouldn't think it could get up that high, but it did.

7% of nameplate between the low angle of the winter sun and the typical overcast. I have hard data on that.

Calculate how many panels you need and multiply by 14.

Wind is no help either. The same inversions that bring in the clouds also bring in dead calm.

How many hours of sun in the winter? The problem where I live is when I need power (winter) the days are short and usually heavily overcast.

"I honestly did not even knew Temu even existed. I wish I had tested it out."

Be glad you missed it. A casino rips you off less.

Shein is another extra-low quality operation. It fills up landfills with polyester.

If the tariffs kill fast fashion the world will be better off.

So it was out of focus? They looked right through it.

How does one move heat? There are three ways. Conduction, but there is nothing touching the heat source in orbit so that won't work. Convection to a fluid. Oops, space is a vacuum, no fluids.

That leaves radiation. That will work, but "Stefan-Boltzmann law, states that the total radiant heat power emitted from a surface is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature."

How hot can you get these chips again? I didn't think so.

"That's no moon, that's the heat sink for the AI server!"

Obviously they did not or the prototype would not have had intergranular cracking.

Surface Corrosion isn't necessarily the limiting problem. Look up stress relaxation cracking in alloy 800HT for an example.

They also discovered serious intergranular corrosion when they decommissioned the molten salt reactor. Whether the Chinese found some alloy that does work is a fair question.

The bookcase is in the dining room. According to my phone I never leave the house.

"So if people are actually worried about being tracked, they need to toss that addictive little tracking device they have in their pockets."

Mine stays in the bookcase. ;-)

I attempted to disconnect on OnStar box, but to get to the box I have to disassemble the dash. It is really buried in there.

I can pull the fuse but that turns out to have other side effects.

I thought of disconnecting the cell phone antenna at the antenna end but I don't know which wires in the bundle they are. Cell phone, Sirius (don't need that either), GPS, AM/FM, probably multiple grounds. I need a wiring diagram.