Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 10 Aug 2025 19:49:40 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <10721bg$3uf46$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1073tgu$empg$6@dont-email.me> <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 8umg7kvo9/pOuS72oY7WUQqtT1oLHLHWaGzv20ZCxlijyAnvo7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yeFQxzrSeQ5h96TMLFM18nAcD3M= sha256:9ICwxEKImboB6Dj81BQtFbPl3twQCknIk6IGniKJXI8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70751 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21887 On 10 Aug 2025 18:37:38 GMT, vallor wrote: > On 9 Aug 2025 21:28:56 GMT, rbowman wrote in > : > >> On 9 Aug 2025 10:49:40 GMT, vallor wrote: >> >> >>> Yes, I did love to hear the dulcet strains playing from my >>> Pi-controlled sprinkler controller. >> >> Did it play 'Fur Elise'? It was rumored that was what a early >> generation of Windows PCs played on the internal speaker just befor the >> processor burst into flames. >> >> https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20220316-computer-plays-fur-elise/ >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgFhNbFvl_s > > I was being facetious. > > (Sprinkler controllers don't have to play music -- although if they did, > I suspect Handel would be appropriate.) I have a sprinkler controller: https://www.orbitonline.com/products/mechanical-hose-watering-timer That's a problem I have. I could use a Pi with sensors for soil moisture, temperature, humidity. the ability to download the NOAA forecast, and BLE control from a phone app. Or I could walk over and twist the dial. Many things fall into that category. I examine the problem and devise a hi-tech solution in my mind and then ask the fatal question, why bother? Even the timer is a solution for a problem that shouldn't happen. I've got a traveling sprinkler that theoretically shuts off when it hits a ramp on the hose. In practice it sometimes catches on the ramp, doesn't shut off, and the wheels dig ruts in the lawn. All this is metaphorical for involved programming solutions to problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place.