Just saw the first quicky intro on cnet. Fantastic! there are *desktops* to which you can switch!... and when Gnome 2.0 did away with workspaces, last century, and I complained, the answer was - like the famous need of the numbers of computers or the RAM - that *nobody* ever needs workspaces. And when I watch that clip, W10 looks like an enhanced version of enlightenment combined with a smartphone interface. But I'm too old to actually give a damn any more, people are just plain wxyz. "It doesn't look like Windows" is what I have been told the last quarter century, trying to evangelize a proper OS, any proper OS, except that one. And now Windows looks like a second-class copy of some desktops we had - or could have had - 10 years ago, and everyone yells: "Oh, wow! Windows 10!"
Once upon a time, a PC was supposed to be a servant, sitting on my table to do what I want it to. The way it is presented, is more like a sex object, you drive it with mouse and cursor, may even touch(!) it; and most of all it has taken the center of a desktop, the master guiding through one's daily work. At least, this is how it looks to me.
As a KDE person, I find the demo clip rather disappointing. So I have nothing against KDE, to the contrary. But what we see is totally off the shelf, a phone applet being pretty blunt, other apps, very much skeleton apps. I believe it does what it should do, but there was no visible refinement to a staple diet, basic interface. It looks as if the underlying software was the standard KDE software, so that would be fine, if we had an ecosystem that works on 32" as well as on 4.5". Does it? Thanks to Qt it ought to. So we see something of a rather academic interest?
If the link shows W10 (or, as they use to say, "Windows"), it is an overall very lousy design. To me it resembles slightly to Unity, with all the bad items carried forward from W8. Look at an almost full-screen simple interaction box: "Continue" on 70% real estate. On childish blue. 1001 *nix desktops had a nicer default background, to start with. It all looks awfully flat, I'd advertise it as "Finally real 2-D!". Navigation? A bunch of overlapping windows, seemingly arbitrarily placed on the desktop. Navigation? I see no structured clustering of applications, actually reminding me of that famous W3.x
I can imagine that it will appeal to the average art-agnostized SMS-speaking audience though; those who consider IKEA to be the most fashionable, creative and most inventive furniture shop. To those who run about brandishing their tattoos by wearing spaghetti shirts and hot pants.
As much as I hate to, I have to second your notion on the values of dictatorships. I used to stay in one of those Franco-induced flats, and quite happily so. Much worse, when I read all the posts above on 'freedom', democracy, (free) market, I feel the need to even beef up on your thoughts: I also knew the real situation in the dictatorship-place of the former East Block (before 1990, that is). Everyone had food and shelter, for pennies. Not that I would have loved to live there, for fear of being arrested for watching the wrong TV station. But the ordinary citizen was fed, had a reasonable roof over their heads, a place for their kids in the kindergarten, and - if gifted and sufficiently pro-government - a free education until PhD. If I had to make a choice between semi-homeless in the Bay Area and the enormous pressure to earn the food to be put on the table in combination with the (limited) freedom of an American citizen, and living in the former East Germany where my basic needs are catered for easily and allow me to live relatively stress-free, I'd reluctantly chose the latter.
Almost, unknown soldier. Since there is no convergence for this function, it is undefined. Not only undefined with its sign, but also with its value. It can have any value, infinity, 0, pi, e, banana or apricot.
Some nice arguments. However, I'd unify the first two, because the first is the same as the second, and both are only instances of rx/x. Which is always r, except for x=0. So the lim is the same from both sides, 1/-, : r. The other alternative is the last one: 1/x. Here the function values from both sides are infinitely different.
I agree with the 'most stupid question ever asked on Slashdot', because it is clear that x/x for x=0, or any division by 0 is simply a mathematical indefinite.
I was very excited reading the post, went there, and probably missed the sufficient nerdyness to actually appreciate what was shown in a low-resolution video clip of less than 1 minute. Okay, yes, it is moving, as high-rise buildings show. The rest is static, way way below Google Earth. What the heck! I said to myself and went to write this post.
For tablets, the Windows 8.1 Metro look is actually better, while for laptops, the Windows 7 look is.
Exactly. I am a *nix person who recently acquired a Lumia because I consider it the most intuitive of the two in the reasonable price bracket. While 8.X is simply c**p on the desktop. And once you've seen it both on desktops and small gadgets, it is totally clear that the designers had tiny touch screens. Desktops usually don't -> that's Windows 8 for you!
Me, and a good number of other people, including *nix-people, have recently acquired a very competitive Microsoft Lumia. I guess, it gets subsidized by MS for all that it has included from the side of hardware as well as software. If they keep offering prices below comparable phones of the two major competitors, price alone will make them one of three equals.
EMC, Oracle, RedHat have income beyond the consumer market paying for OSes, while MS lives on income through OS for customers and some notorious office suite.
[Despite of the lousy approach of putting numbers and facts in free floating UTF text instead of a database:] Lenovo T410s i5 2,4 GHz 6 GB RAM 256 GB SSD 1 TB HD WWAN and GPS on docking station 32" 1920x1024 monitor Logitech Bluetooth keyboard with touchpad, SG
All this is recent, and a result of concentration of my several machines into a single one, for all purposes, as desktop (docking) as well as for travel, containing all and everything that I need in one machine to carry, and sufficient for my purposes as desktop. I always hated all the laptops with cables extended and pulled and plugged from all sides and corners, the docking station is perfect for me. A smaller partition of the SSD has W7, for the odd application that doesn't run on *nix, and the larger part *buntu 14.04. The 1 TB carries media files. All other data are in the cloud.
Over 5 years or so I expect to be able to migrate this single machine into some sort of phone that does everything as above, including the docking (that is a real keyboard plus touchpad like now when docked), plus phone functions, to carry around in my pocket. I am still waiting for a proper k*buntu, eventually on Qt6 / Plasma 6 to be as much of a great phone interface as a standard interface with a large monitor like above. With the current sizes of 1 TB SSDs this should not be a problem. Rather, I am afraid the OS or its versatility might still be lacking. Just look at Windows 8.1: it is really great on the phone (and I am a *nix person!), while it still is butt-ugly on a larger screen, AFAIAC. Still hoping for improving sanity with the KDE devs in this respect.
See, just impossible. Dozens of beers on tap, if they are anything but an artificial cocktail of chemicals, that wouldn't work. A tap beer that doesn't flow continuously tastes like p**. Or the hundreds of sorts on bottle. How long does a good beer take storage and transportation?
When I drink beer, I want some of the Deutsches Reinheitsgebot. This is an old regulation and stipulates that you may use 4 ingredients only to brew beer: water, hops, yeast and barley (for the malt). While this has been watered down during the last 20 years, there are still plenty of beers available in Germany brewed like that. Now ask a chemist, how long the 'living' product of this can last, despite filtering and pasteurization?
Sorry, and not trying to patronize you, nor wanting to dictate 'taste' to you, but yours is awfully spoiled by US-American chemical industries. I do agree with you that between 'Bier' and (American 'beer') is a huge difference, though not ordinarily to the favour of the latter.
is the end already. Logically speaking, one never knows exactly not about the authorization. Therefore, it can only be a selfie. A flying-oily-selfie.
Think hard, think fast, and within a fraction of a moment you'll agree with me as security researcher that preventing any invalid I/O is indeed a 100% safe bet. Over. Any illegal and unauthorized bank transaction prevented makes banking 100% secure. The crux is the detection of what 'illegal' and 'unauthorized' transactions are. In basic computational terms, as example, a write to hard disk is I/O. But no such writes come accompanied with an authorization tag issued by the CPU, as an atomic / complete instruction. Rather to the contrary: it is simply issued. Over. How would the gatekeeper software know that it is malware? Or, as I used to ask my students: which bit or byte or word is the bad one? Only to find out that none such does exist, but becomes malware only through the context, and only within its context. Second, 'authorized' means what? All I/O must be authorized. Wow! And who authorizes a bunch of data coming in from www.site.pl? Who 'authorizes' a key stroke? Ah, keyboard is trusted. LAN?
The whole set reminds me of that old Windows Software, Zonealarm. I loved to demo it, with its enormous number of questions: Are you sure you want to accept...? Are you sure you want to print to...? Shall I remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to visit google.com? Do you want me to remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to accept logo_google.jpg? Shall I remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to render google.html? Shall I remember....
I don't want to be rich, then. Even if it worked (I doubt), this does not mean that you stay young forever. You don't age normally, but all your joints will be used up purely mechanically. Not ageing does not equate to 'no wear'. It doesn't equate to 'no disease', and neither to 'no cancer'. Teeth will decay, nothing to do with age. Even parts of the heart will be used up and not regenerate. In a nutshell, the non-ageing population segment will be zombies with artificial hips, joints, teeth, heart, and so forth. Buggers who over centuries will have learned to stay in governance, no new thought, the Blatters for eternity. No pension, then. I already see the slogan for the cure in front of my eyes: "With this miraculous cure, no more need to retire! Work, and be active for centuries! Meet your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson for a ride on the bike."
Zardoz, anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Not a fantastic piece of movie, and neither totally bad. At least they thought through the misery of living forever. With all its consequences that we don't foresee when we ponder 'eternal life' naively.
Okay, lousy stitching already being mentioned, but I also doubt the motive. Endless snow fields with the least interest, and you'll never know how small/large you have zoomed in. One of the few interesting, recognizable, parts is the building site with crane. Wow, that comes out pretty nice, though. But 99% of 46 TB is almost wasted storage space. I'm amazed by the overall panorama, and said building site. In no case any reason to stay up for a fortnight at minus 10C.
I'd wish you had rather put some of your attention spans into your post, sorry. Because I can feel that there is something interesting you want to say, and that I would like to read (reference to children), but that seems to have gone into some bin for... lack of attention?
You seem to be a doctor, and not a bad one, and I wouldn't mind you being the doctor to operate on me (god willing, as few operations as possible, better zero needed during my life span), but I would on the other hand not want you to be one of my co-scientists in a research project. Because 'attention span' in this context is not the notion that you operate for 8 seconds only before you fiddle with the nurse's lower back for 8 seconds, look out of the window for eight seconds, think of your wife for eight seconds, and so forth. Of course, we all can attend to things for much longer. What is meant is the time you spent looking at the dailies shown in the shop of your clinic, finding out what the headlines were, and decide if you wanted to buy one. 8 seconds. And that blonde nurse in the elevator that you never saw before, could she spontaneously be the object of your desire? 8 seconds. Reading this post of mine:
You seem to be a doctor, and not a bad one, and I wouldn't mind you being the doctor to operate on me (god willing, as few operations as possible, better zero needed during my life span), but I would on the other hand not want you to be one of my co-scientists in a research project. Because 'attention span' in this context is not the notion that you operate for 8 seconds only before you fiddle with the nurse's lower back for 8 seconds, look out of the window for eight seconds, think of your wife for eight seconds, and so forth. Of course, we all can attend to things for
You are an AC, and sound like like flamebait. You had better used your real screen name to make more of an impression (OMG, now I have to...)
Because you are generally right. I used to help projects of FOSS with bug reports, but almost all of mine against KDE have gone the path into the drain that you described. Often, with requests for debugs, installs of other, newer software (with missing dependencies), and after some years, the standard comment: 'too old'.
For too long time their governance has shifted into a high 'bleeding edge' gear, and their quality control has closed both eyes to actual quality control, and instead patted the back of rather egotist developers of 'cool stuff'. My question / request about my preferred desktop of the last 4 or 5 years, and heavily based on activities, remained unanswered. Respectively, I was told behind the scenes, that the 'new thing' was enormously cooler than the old style. I understand, the unified interface is cool. Seriously. But I won't use it on my phone, and rather stick to my customized activities on Plasma 4. Never mind, on Plasma 5, but the term 'backwards compatible' is not exactly known in KDE-land.
I wish you were right, but you are not. The problem that you describe is known in quite another field as 'last mile'. The trucks will be driven by AI, solely by AI, and the human driver will come on board for that fictitious 'last mile'. Like the pilots that enter a ship to steer it through difficult waters. So may take some hundred thousands off the list of fully unemployed, and count them as employed for hourly work on demand. The difference between the OP and your assumption will be minor, effectively. Consider driving a loaded truck off the warehouse as 'easy', and the need for a human driver is still reduced to one last mile before the destination.
0. About half a year ago, performance at read of data not read for a long time is observed to degrade.
1. Samsung acknowledges this fact. The work around is obvious to everyone with a common sense: re-read data with old access data. This would be no fix, but the work-around of choice.
2. Samsung offers a fix some months later. Immediate observation: this fix doesn't fix the problem. Samsung asks for more time and promises a fix.
3. Some more months later, Samsung provides the 'fix', which isn't, but the almost obvious work-around: regularly re-write (!!) the data.
Conclusions:
4. Samsung has tried to find a fix during 6 months, but in vain. The final solution is a brute-force work-around.
5. Strangely, though, the obvious work-around, that is re-read the data regularly, is not chosen. Instead, the data are re-written. This points to
6. There is more than meets the eye, because the path of no-wear, lower power re-read is not taken, but the one that uses additional power and additional life-cycles. This can't be an oversight on the side of Samsung, but intentional.
7. Why? What is it that we all don't know? There must be additional problems (unknown to me, at least) for Samsung to take this path for the work-around.
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Just saw the first quicky intro on cnet. Fantastic! there are *desktops* to which you can switch! ... and when Gnome 2.0 did away with workspaces, last century, and I complained, the answer was - like the famous need of the numbers of computers or the RAM - that *nobody* ever needs workspaces.
And when I watch that clip, W10 looks like an enhanced version of enlightenment combined with a smartphone interface. But I'm too old to actually give a damn any more, people are just plain wxyz.
"It doesn't look like Windows" is what I have been told the last quarter century, trying to evangelize a proper OS, any proper OS, except that one.
And now Windows looks like a second-class copy of some desktops we had - or could have had - 10 years ago, and everyone yells: "Oh, wow! Windows 10!"
Once upon a time, a PC was supposed to be a servant, sitting on my table to do what I want it to. The way it is presented, is more like a sex object, you drive it with mouse and cursor, may even touch(!) it; and most of all it has taken the center of a desktop, the master guiding through one's daily work.
At least, this is how it looks to me.
As a KDE person, I find the demo clip rather disappointing. So I have nothing against KDE, to the contrary.
But what we see is totally off the shelf, a phone applet being pretty blunt, other apps, very much skeleton apps. I believe it does what it should do, but there was no visible refinement to a staple diet, basic interface.
It looks as if the underlying software was the standard KDE software, so that would be fine, if we had an ecosystem that works on 32" as well as on 4.5". Does it? Thanks to Qt it ought to.
So we see something of a rather academic interest?
If the link shows W10 (or, as they use to say, "Windows"), it is an overall very lousy design. To me it resembles slightly to Unity, with all the bad items carried forward from W8. Look at an almost full-screen simple interaction box: "Continue" on 70% real estate. On childish blue.
1001 *nix desktops had a nicer default background, to start with. It all looks awfully flat, I'd advertise it as "Finally real 2-D!". Navigation? A bunch of overlapping windows, seemingly arbitrarily placed on the desktop. Navigation? I see no structured clustering of applications, actually reminding me of that famous W3.x
I can imagine that it will appeal to the average art-agnostized SMS-speaking audience though; those who consider IKEA to be the most fashionable, creative and most inventive furniture shop. To those who run about brandishing their tattoos by wearing spaghetti shirts and hot pants.
As much as I hate to, I have to second your notion on the values of dictatorships.
I used to stay in one of those Franco-induced flats, and quite happily so.
Much worse, when I read all the posts above on 'freedom', democracy, (free) market, I feel the need to even beef up on your thoughts: I also knew the real situation in the dictatorship-place of the former East Block (before 1990, that is). Everyone had food and shelter, for pennies. Not that I would have loved to live there, for fear of being arrested for watching the wrong TV station. But the ordinary citizen was fed, had a reasonable roof over their heads, a place for their kids in the kindergarten, and - if gifted and sufficiently pro-government - a free education until PhD.
If I had to make a choice between semi-homeless in the Bay Area and the enormous pressure to earn the food to be put on the table in combination with the (limited) freedom of an American citizen, and living in the former East Germany where my basic needs are catered for easily and allow me to live relatively stress-free, I'd reluctantly chose the latter.
You must be a mathematician.
How do you divide your cake among 0 people: you don't divide. Contradiction in itself.
Cannot be done. Over.
Almost, unknown soldier.
Since there is no convergence for this function, it is undefined. Not only undefined with its sign, but also with its value. It can have any value, infinity, 0, pi, e, banana or apricot.
Some nice arguments.
However, I'd unify the first two, because the first is the same as the second, and both are only instances of rx/x. Which is always r, except for x=0. So the lim is the same from both sides, 1/-, : r.
The other alternative is the last one: 1/x. Here the function values from both sides are infinitely different.
I agree with the 'most stupid question ever asked on Slashdot', because it is clear that x/x for x=0, or any division by 0 is simply a mathematical indefinite.
No wonder we have so much of lousy software!
when you were needed most by your country?
I was very excited reading the post, went there, and probably missed the sufficient nerdyness to actually appreciate what was shown in a low-resolution video clip of less than 1 minute. Okay, yes, it is moving, as high-rise buildings show. The rest is static, way way below Google Earth. What the heck! I said to myself and went to write this post.
For tablets, the Windows 8.1 Metro look is actually better, while for laptops, the Windows 7 look is.
Exactly. I am a *nix person who recently acquired a Lumia because I consider it the most intuitive of the two in the reasonable price bracket.
While 8.X is simply c**p on the desktop. And once you've seen it both on desktops and small gadgets, it is totally clear that the designers had tiny touch screens. Desktops usually don't -> that's Windows 8 for you!
Alas, wrong on a number of accounts.
Me, and a good number of other people, including *nix-people, have recently acquired a very competitive Microsoft Lumia. I guess, it gets subsidized by MS for all that it has included from the side of hardware as well as software. If they keep offering prices below comparable phones of the two major competitors, price alone will make them one of three equals.
EMC, Oracle, RedHat have income beyond the consumer market paying for OSes, while MS lives on income through OS for customers and some notorious office suite.
[Despite of the lousy approach of putting numbers and facts in free floating UTF text instead of a database:]
Lenovo T410s
i5 2,4 GHz
6 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
1 TB HD
WWAN and GPS
on docking station
32" 1920x1024 monitor
Logitech Bluetooth keyboard with touchpad, SG
All this is recent, and a result of concentration of my several machines into a single one, for all purposes, as desktop (docking) as well as for travel, containing all and everything that I need in one machine to carry, and sufficient for my purposes as desktop. I always hated all the laptops with cables extended and pulled and plugged from all sides and corners, the docking station is perfect for me.
A smaller partition of the SSD has W7, for the odd application that doesn't run on *nix, and the larger part *buntu 14.04. The 1 TB carries media files. All other data are in the cloud.
Over 5 years or so I expect to be able to migrate this single machine into some sort of phone that does everything as above, including the docking (that is a real keyboard plus touchpad like now when docked), plus phone functions, to carry around in my pocket. I am still waiting for a proper k*buntu, eventually on Qt6 / Plasma 6 to be as much of a great phone interface as a standard interface with a large monitor like above. With the current sizes of 1 TB SSDs this should not be a problem. Rather, I am afraid the OS or its versatility might still be lacking. Just look at Windows 8.1: it is really great on the phone (and I am a *nix person!), while it still is butt-ugly on a larger screen, AFAIAC. Still hoping for improving sanity with the KDE devs in this respect.
See, just impossible. Dozens of beers on tap, if they are anything but an artificial cocktail of chemicals, that wouldn't work. A tap beer that doesn't flow continuously tastes like p**. Or the hundreds of sorts on bottle. How long does a good beer take storage and transportation?
When I drink beer, I want some of the Deutsches Reinheitsgebot. This is an old regulation and stipulates that you may use 4 ingredients only to brew beer: water, hops, yeast and barley (for the malt). While this has been watered down during the last 20 years, there are still plenty of beers available in Germany brewed like that. Now ask a chemist, how long the 'living' product of this can last, despite filtering and pasteurization?
Sorry, and not trying to patronize you, nor wanting to dictate 'taste' to you, but yours is awfully spoiled by US-American chemical industries.
I do agree with you that between 'Bier' and (American 'beer') is a huge difference, though not ordinarily to the favour of the latter.
oil selfies and can fly.
Seriously.
by preventing unauthorized I/O activity
is the end already.
Logically speaking, one never knows exactly not about the authorization. Therefore, it can only be a selfie. A flying-oily-selfie.
Think hard, think fast, and within a fraction of a moment you'll agree with me as security researcher that preventing any invalid I/O is indeed a 100% safe bet. Over.
Any illegal and unauthorized bank transaction prevented makes banking 100% secure. The crux is the detection of what 'illegal' and 'unauthorized' transactions are.
In basic computational terms, as example, a write to hard disk is I/O. But no such writes come accompanied with an authorization tag issued by the CPU, as an atomic / complete instruction. Rather to the contrary: it is simply issued. Over. How would the gatekeeper software know that it is malware? Or, as I used to ask my students: which bit or byte or word is the bad one? Only to find out that none such does exist, but becomes malware only through the context, and only within its context.
Second, 'authorized' means what? All I/O must be authorized. Wow! And who authorizes a bunch of data coming in from www.site.pl? Who 'authorizes' a key stroke? Ah, keyboard is trusted. LAN?
The whole set reminds me of that old Windows Software, Zonealarm. I loved to demo it, with its enormous number of questions: Are you sure you want to accept ...? Are you sure you want to print to ...? Shall I remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to visit google.com? Do you want me to remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to accept logo_google.jpg? Shall I remember this decision for you? Are you sure you want to render google.html? Shall I remember ....
was all but been removed from the dictionary of the English language.
Insightful. Hmm.
I don't want to be rich, then.
Even if it worked (I doubt), this does not mean that you stay young forever. You don't age normally, but all your joints will be used up purely mechanically. Not ageing does not equate to 'no wear'. It doesn't equate to 'no disease', and neither to 'no cancer'. Teeth will decay, nothing to do with age. Even parts of the heart will be used up and not regenerate.
In a nutshell, the non-ageing population segment will be zombies with artificial hips, joints, teeth, heart, and so forth. Buggers who over centuries will have learned to stay in governance, no new thought, the Blatters for eternity.
No pension, then. I already see the slogan for the cure in front of my eyes: "With this miraculous cure, no more need to retire! Work, and be active for centuries! Meet your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson for a ride on the bike."
I can tell you precisely what I am not keen on.
Zardoz, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not a fantastic piece of movie, and neither totally bad. At least they thought through the misery of living forever. With all its consequences that we don't foresee when we ponder 'eternal life' naively.
Okay, lousy stitching already being mentioned, but I also doubt the motive. Endless snow fields with the least interest, and you'll never know how small/large you have zoomed in. One of the few interesting, recognizable, parts is the building site with crane. Wow, that comes out pretty nice, though. But 99% of 46 TB is almost wasted storage space. I'm amazed by the overall panorama, and said building site.
In no case any reason to stay up for a fortnight at minus 10C.
Text? What text? I only see text on the material, 'Kalzip', and that reads quite okay.
I'd wish you had rather put some of your attention spans into your post, sorry. Because I can feel that there is something interesting you want to say, and that I would like to read (reference to children), but that seems to have gone into some bin for ... lack of attention?
You seem to be a doctor, and not a bad one, and I wouldn't mind you being the doctor to operate on me (god willing, as few operations as possible, better zero needed during my life span),
but I would on the other hand not want you to be one of my co-scientists in a research project. Because 'attention span' in this context is not the notion that you operate for 8 seconds only before you fiddle with the nurse's lower back for 8 seconds, look out of the window for eight seconds, think of your wife for eight seconds, and so forth.
Of course, we all can attend to things for much longer. What is meant is the time you spent looking at the dailies shown in the shop of your clinic, finding out what the headlines were, and decide if you wanted to buy one. 8 seconds. And that blonde nurse in the elevator that you never saw before, could she spontaneously be the object of your desire? 8 seconds. Reading this post of mine:
You seem to be a doctor, and not a bad one, and I wouldn't mind you being the doctor to operate on me (god willing, as few operations as possible, better zero needed during my life span),
but I would on the other hand not want you to be one of my co-scientists in a research project. Because 'attention span' in this context is not the notion that you operate for 8 seconds only before you fiddle with the nurse's lower back for 8 seconds, look out of the window for eight seconds, think of your wife for eight seconds, and so forth.
Of course, we all can attend to things for
8 seconds
You are an AC, and sound like like flamebait. You had better used your real screen name to make more of an impression (OMG, now I have to ...)
Because you are generally right. I used to help projects of FOSS with bug reports, but almost all of mine against KDE have gone the path into the drain that you described. Often, with requests for debugs, installs of other, newer software (with missing dependencies), and after some years, the standard comment: 'too old'.
For too long time their governance has shifted into a high 'bleeding edge' gear, and their quality control has closed both eyes to actual quality control, and instead patted the back of rather egotist developers of 'cool stuff'.
My question / request about my preferred desktop of the last 4 or 5 years, and heavily based on activities, remained unanswered. Respectively, I was told behind the scenes, that the 'new thing' was enormously cooler than the old style. I understand, the unified interface is cool. Seriously. But I won't use it on my phone, and rather stick to my customized activities on Plasma 4. Never mind, on Plasma 5, but the term 'backwards compatible' is not exactly known in KDE-land.
I wish you were right, but you are not.
The problem that you describe is known in quite another field as 'last mile'. The trucks will be driven by AI, solely by AI, and the human driver will come on board for that fictitious 'last mile'. Like the pilots that enter a ship to steer it through difficult waters. So may take some hundred thousands off the list of fully unemployed, and count them as employed for hourly work on demand.
The difference between the OP and your assumption will be minor, effectively. Consider driving a loaded truck off the warehouse as 'easy', and the need for a human driver is still reduced to one last mile before the destination.
0. About half a year ago, performance at read of data not read for a long time is observed to degrade.
1. Samsung acknowledges this fact.
The work around is obvious to everyone with a common sense: re-read data with old access data. This would be no fix, but the work-around of choice.
2. Samsung offers a fix some months later. Immediate observation: this fix doesn't fix the problem.
Samsung asks for more time and promises a fix.
3. Some more months later, Samsung provides the 'fix', which isn't, but the almost obvious work-around: regularly re-write (!!) the data.
Conclusions:
4. Samsung has tried to find a fix during 6 months, but in vain. The final solution is a brute-force work-around.
5. Strangely, though, the obvious work-around, that is re-read the data regularly, is not chosen. Instead, the data are re-written. This points to
6. There is more than meets the eye, because the path of no-wear, lower power re-read is not taken, but the one that uses additional power and additional life-cycles. This can't be an oversight on the side of Samsung, but intentional.
7. Why? What is it that we all don't know? There must be additional problems (unknown to me, at least) for Samsung to take this path for the work-around.