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  • Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen

    So many people say that but I actually liked the menu. It opened very fast and you could far more quickly find and hit the right tile than that stupid nested programs tree that was the norm in the start menus of earlier Windows versions.

    I’d say considering that telemetry started to creep in primarily with Win 10, 8 was indeed better (meaning less bad).


  • I didn’t mean they only last 2 years but battery degradation is a pretty common and known thing.

    By a quick search I didn’t find any claim of storage battery lifetimes outside of 10-15 years, so there doesn’t seem to be a breakthrough in tech I wasn’t aware of. 15 years is hardly the lifetime of a house, so you certainly don’t “buy only once”.

    Solar panels also don’t work indefinitely but their efficiency degradation is more on par with the lifetime of major parts of the building, like the roof itself.