>It's like complaining that your company has to many customers.

Well, management accepting more orders without enough people/space to do the work can be a pain.

Well, there's hundreds of abandoned-looking industrial buildings in my area that are actually filled with CNC machines and only have 3,4 employees

Well, youtube does manage to play the video instantly but having to wait 5+ seconds for recommended videos and comments to load is pretty awful and distracting once they load

The worst is that on Safari (at least, might also affect other browsers), when navigating to a different page and setting the player to fullscreen, it will go back to windowed mode when the other page components (related videos, etc) load. It's a nightmare.

That too, and it also happens on firefox

Meanwhile the rent-seeking on FAT patents continues

Intel and IBM also have their own share of not so FOSS friendly actions, yet devs keep embracing them.

Issues and old repots would be lost but people would move on to another service.

Waay too boring following the safety police rules.

Playing with HV can be fun, just build fly swatter-level inverters instead of using a transformer/capacitors big enough to kill you.

A CCFL inverter from an LCD screen is a good start, you can light neon bulbs and gets ozone

those are dangerous too--they output high frequency AC which can cause burns. with a thumb-sized CCFL supply i once burned a tiny hole in my finger. never bled a drop since the current cauterized it but it hurt for a week.

You can burn yourself with a soldering iron or splashed solder too, better avoid electronics all together.

The fact that you can burn yourself with soldering iron is mostly obvious. That CCFL inverter can easily burn hole through you finger without you noticing it until it's too late is not that obvious.

You'll live.

In both cases with overwhelming probability. But there is difference: you have to be extraordinary clumsy to get life-threatening burn from soldering iron, but you can get life threatening burn from HF HV very easily.

Not from a CCFL inverter, you won't.

This thread serves as a great example of why it's not a good idea to plaster dire warning labels all over everything on the planet "just to be safe." When everything is dangerous, nothing is.

That's not always a good thing, everytime I've tried a post-plasma KDE version I've always ended up spending too much time regularly tweaking the whole setup.

I find that the GNOME way of doing this, need a lot more of work that simply doing : Preferences -> "Change stuff here"

AGM batteries are packed with fiberglass, so when oxide starts building up on the plates because of improper charging or electrolyte drying up they start pushing on the case.

As someone who rebuilt a couple dozens PCs for a charity from dumpster parts, boards in plastic bags while wearing mostly synthetic clothes, I'd say you underestimate the ruggedness of those things.

Drivers and OS are much more likely to be the cause of quirks and weird behaviour.

A stainless boiler is just 2 stainless steel cups held togheter by a clamp, it shouldn't affect the price much, my 120€ delonghi has one.

Yeah, I was pretty much assuming that all the cheap machines would use standard small diameter copper plumbing rather than pay for all stainless fittings all the way through (which would be somewhat specialized from a plumbing perspective), so it wouldn't really matter much whether the boiler itself was or not.