So much BS that all has its own separate background update processes. Every time I ever use my laptop it freezes up for hours while updates for various built in microsoft apps download and bog everything down. No matter how long I wait SOEMTHING is ALWAYS in the back ground downloading files, running scans, and logging stuff. I've never seen a single time where less than 20 files where being read or written to by background system processes in the last 10 years on any of my mobile microsoft devices, any time I think one task has almost finished, another starts up.

Most printers come with enough 'demo' ink to print ~10 pages if you are lucky. The eco tank comes with enough ink to print for years, a free set of ink bottles if your run out in the first 2 years, and comes with more ink than will fit in the printer. I've printed thousands of pages, hundreds in color, and STILL don't have room in the tanks for all the ink that came with the printer. Also it has dies AND pigments, so it does the bright whites (with corect paper) and the inkiest of blacks, on par with the high end laser printers people are talking about above. PLUS the software that comes with it is simple, filled with all the options you need, doesn't have a ton of bloat, and unlike brother, functions well most of the time. I know people swear by brother, but they are cheap and low quality and basic. they serve their purpose fine, but the EPSON Ecotanks do it better. The printhead is a separate part that lasts a long time (its the same print head the super expensive commercial printers, you just get one of them instead of an array that can print an entire page in one pass). The brother printers still have the more expensive printhead/tank combo (but cheaper than the big brands) where you throw out good print heads to replace ink. I used to have the kodak printer that was similar but the ink on that was lower quality, so was the printer, and the maintenance wasted lots of ink, and did not work well. We had to end up replacing ALL the printheads (its an integrated unit) on the kodak when ONE of them clogged up which was quite often. FWIW this is why most printers have you replace the printheads so often, they clog up if not maintained or designed well.

Its interesting that you mention the swoosh. nike is so prevalent in online imagery that it is very difficult for openAI to generate images containing shoes that to not have the swoosh. It even tries to put swooshes on other brans if you ask specifically for some DC's, or van's for instance.

the price of the old nintendos wasn't necessarily dropped... It was unbundled. The original had 2 controllers, and the most popular game as a pack in. The later price dropped versions, had one controller and no games to play at all. If you wanted couch multiplayer, and the game everyone else had, you had to pay for them separately which brought the price right back up (or over) the original price. the 'discounted' switch without the bundle, is already available now. You can save $50 NOW by buying the switch 2 without a game without having to wait for the 'price drop' years after launch. SNES controllers didn't cost a ton, but the games where 55-70 dollars each. this makes the '$100-$50' price drop more like a ~20 dollor price drop, and it was significantly into the products lifespan.

to be fair, the chemisty course that they teach that in is optional for that degree track. (boggles my mind) While pursuing a similar degree myself I opted into those courses because I figured it would be ridiculous not to know how heat, liquids, and batteries work when being a specialist in the field. The physics and thermodynamics courses tackle different problems.

not instead of, but both. Microsoft should leave it alone as the most basic editor, and if you want something better you should use for example notepad++, word pad, etc. or roll your own.

the original notepad was JUST a default text box with a default window. basically an example of what you yourself could build with Visual Studio with drag and drop plus a few clicks. Initially 'updates' to notepad where just updates to the MFC that got inherited by all apps on the system that used default widgets.

Microsoft releases newbuilt in backup solution, after previous new built in backup solution broke the existing new built in backup solutions.

I guess you havn't heard of corel. They have competed against adobe longer than I've been alive and still offer full purchases. there are also lots of smaller inde developers who have really good alternatives such as https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frealisticpaint.com%2Ffea... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paintstormstudio.c... and MANY others.

ChatGPT recommended to me to avoid the AI chips and buy the previous generations. The AI npu's are too weak, or too overpriced to be economical. You are better off having a GPU with tensor cores, and an older pre NPU - CPU that is faster and cheaper.

You are correct, wii u has lots of exclusives. I waited a LONG time to get a switch, so many of the titles where ports from other systems, and it took them a while to get most of the ones I actually played. I'm more excited for the switch 2.

WiiU still my fav. Mine has the best version of several games, exclusives you still can't get anywhere else, and a ton of old titles ported from the wii and prior systems it copied over from my old wii.

the chat button is pretty major. I'm supposed more people aren't mentioning it. Nintendo is famous for limiting 'chat' to: Lets go!, I'm using tilt controls, go easy on me!, and 'good bye!' besides generic hellos and goodbyes, there isn't much more you could historically communicate except that you are using motion controls and are an easy target. If Nintendo is actually finally opening that up and letting friends matchmake with each other, communicate, and do some actual game discovery it might help the multiplayer take off. Nintendo has been trying to avoid 'on-line' and force people to 'play on the couch' but is finally realizing that doesn't work for a lot of people outside of Japan.

Trump is a life long democrat who switched parties like RFK because he was shut out like bernie was. Trump is a symptom, not the root cause.

I used to have to kodak printer that worked the same way. the problem we had is that we didn't use it enough, and the nozzles constantly clogged and had to be replaced, and they where not individual like the ink carts are, the cost of replacing a 4 pack of printer heads every time one color clogged was just as expensive in the end as doing the same thing with the ink jets. they design them that way so you replace the ink nozzles frequently. "cleaning" them doesn't work, and wastes lots of ink anyways.