Hacker News: AmVess

New comment by AmVess in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

AmVess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:48:09 +0000

OP was not successful because they didn't want to fix the problems he discussed. I have been in the same exact situation, and no level of communication skills would have been successful in changing their minds.

New comment by AmVess in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

AmVess — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:40:00 +0000

That is absolutely insane.

New comment by AmVess in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

AmVess — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:04:12 +0000

Running Windows in outer space takes some pretty big balls. Gives me a cold sweat just thinking about it.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

AmVess — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:21:48 +0000

Yeah. I have one. People buying the Framework Desktop mainboard aren't buying it just for gaming. There are better and far cheaper options for gaming. What this does is everything, though. Good enough for 1440p gaming. 16c/32t powerful CPU, it can run LLM's. SFF main pc that can do everything in a tiny space is a win.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

AmVess — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:15:05 +0000

That PCI slot has low power output, not suitable for what people would plug into it. Easier to cover it than run into support problems. It won't run a GPU directly. It will run an Oculink card which will allow use of an egpu.

New comment by AmVess in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

AmVess — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:34:23 +0000

Or the mountain of returns they have to deal with on a daily basis. I signed up for Xmas, bought some things. ALL of them returned. This isn't a counterfeit issue on my end, but the simple fact that everything they sell is garbage.

New comment by AmVess in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

AmVess — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:28:11 +0000

That's not how commercial real estate works.

New comment by AmVess in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

AmVess — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:25:30 +0000

No one sells $4 lunch bowls in the US because no one wants to work for minimum wage for 12 hours a day. The article makes it seem like a great idea, but people in Japan who run these stores work like dogs and live in poverty for their whole lives.

New comment by AmVess in "2025 was the year Xbox died"

AmVess — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:06:24 +0000

80 billion spent buying game studios with essentially nothing to show for it. Pretty amazing to think that money holds 0 value to these people.

New comment by AmVess in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

AmVess — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:32:13 +0000

Yes, it works. The state that I used to reside in has draconian DUI/Traffic laws, and not coincidentally low traffic death rates.

Driving with license revoked or suspended was a serious charge and resulted in impound of vehicle and mandatory jail time. Repeat offenders would have their vehicles seized.

DUI laws similarly brutal. 2nd time offenders faced potentially life-altering charges and penalties. Get into an accident with injury to another person while DUI? Huge jail time. Felony DUI results in permanent loss of driving privileges.

Speeding 20 over the limit? Enjoy your reckless driving charge which is as serious a dui charge.

I read that getting a license back after a 2nd dui carries and average cost of $50k. Getting 2 dui's within 10 years automatically bumped 2nd dui to felony....no more driving for you.

Lax driving laws and penalties do nothing more than get a lot of people killed.

New comment by AmVess in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

AmVess — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:08:27 +0000

Sales drove off a cliff. The larger problem is that Ford has lost multiples of tens of billions trying to do EV's.

New comment by AmVess in "The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade"

AmVess — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:11:13 +0000

I have to laugh at the absurdity of a German company evaluating quality and reliability of vehicles.

New comment by AmVess in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

AmVess — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:35:54 +0000

Perhaps not, but Linux desktop marketshare doubled in 2024. It is still minuscule, but it doesn't take much for a movement like this to take off. Microsoft continues to make Windows 11 impossible to install for the average user up to and including not all that rare scenarios where it cannot be installed at all.

Conversely, 15 minutes to install, fully patched, and ready to go Linux distro is a hugely attractive alternative to Windows. There are 3 viable gaming distros, and the underlying tech continues to evolve. It is already invisible to most games.

New comment by AmVess in "Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots"

AmVess — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:11:19 +0000

The same thing we are doing now: nothing. The poor already aren't customers, and what remains of the middle class is already being priced out of basic necessities.

Have no fear, they are gunning for the upper class, now. A quick glance at big tech gutting their ranks is just the beginning for high wage earners.

History shall repeat itself, and many of those jobs will vanish forever.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo"

AmVess — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:28:20 +0000

I haven't tested the power draw, but I have the mainboard from Framework that I put into a larger ITX case for better cooling.

My main PC is a 7950X3D which has the same core count/threads as the Strix unit, and the Strix benches within margin of error as the 7950X3D. Which is to say the performance is the same.

That you can get the same computer power in a laptop is crazy.

New comment by AmVess in "AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo"

AmVess — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:15:17 +0000

I have one. Framework Desktop mainboard that I put into a larger ITX chassis and regular power supply.

It's fine for 1440p gaming. I don't use it for that, but it would not be a bother if that was all I had.

New comment by AmVess in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

AmVess — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:51:13 +0000

That's all there is to it. All these scum know they are buying stolen items, but they do it anyway. Same thing for catalytic converters and copper stolen from just about anywhere.

Drop long prison sentences and massive fines on these people, and this problem would vanish in short order.

New comment by AmVess in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

AmVess — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:56:19 +0000

Trained cashier? The local Lowe's and HD have little old ladies running the checkouts. They can't even lift most of the things I am buying, and have to scan them myself.

Supermarkets usually have old slow people running them. The only time I don't use self checkout is when I have alcohol, and it is slower every single time than doing it myself.

New comment by AmVess in "Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills"

AmVess — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:31:37 +0000

One foolish decision after another. Believing that the loans would be hand waived away was peak naivety.

And now, 2/3 of them are not even bothering to pay the loans. Good luck getting an apartment, house, car, or a top job with bad credit.

New comment by AmVess in "[dead]"

AmVess — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:47:10 +0000

Borderline? He crossed that border a long time ago.