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A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-for-flying-HDD-magnets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"

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  1. Obligatory... by Brazilian+Geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kari's hot.

    I don't care how badly her hair is cut nor how fugly red she has it, she's still hot.

    I know this isn't Fark, but it has to be said.

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  2. Mythbusters, Ubuntu and Open Source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think I just shot a load all over myself

    Regards,
    CmdrTaco

  3. Oblig by flitty · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is this news? It seems like the paragraph or two that mentioned Linux was the only reason for this article to be relevant
    ..you must be new here..
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  4. Use something else, then. by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you think Mandriva is bloated, then use a different distro. Goddess knows there's only a few hundred to choose from.

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  5. "mindshare" is not a word. by plasmacutter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "mindshare" is not a word, it's an invented marketing newspeak like comcastic or techron.

    Worse, it's invented by the **AA schlubs in their attempts to pry the advertising value out of file sharing without the actual files haring itself taking place, thus the phrase "mindshare".

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  6. Re:Hate to feed the troll but by Jumphard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok preacher. Go have a cookie.