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  2.    alphabet-jigsaw reacted to a post in a topic: Stardock announces DesktopGPT, and it's free for Object Desktop customers
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  4. leonsk29
    It has been done in the past and the government has lost a few times. Trying to take on the Chinese government, now that's another story...
  5. MrElectrifyer
    Like explained here.
  6. excalpius
    It's to raise their stock price, of course.
  7. sphbecker
    Companies and even individuals win suites against the government all the time. If they are in the wrong, they are in the wrong. To be honest, setting a policy that dictates action against a specific company seems like something that could be challenged. Now, if the government is able to prove they have violated privacy laws, which most people feel like they have, then the ban is likely to be upheald.
  8. hellowalkman
    Missed 57" G9 Neo? Samsung 49" Odyssey OLED monitor is still at cheapest price by Sayan Sen On the occasion of the ongoing Amazon Gaming Week 2024, Samsung dropped the price of one of its most popular gaming monitors, the Odyssey Neo G9 to its lowest-ever price of just $1700. Although that deal is no longer live and the price has gone up by $100, you can still check it out if you want. You can also consider this 32" model that is still discounted if your budget is limited. Like the 57" Odyssey G9 Neo linked above, the 49" Odyssey G9 OLED has had also dropped in price, and it is still at its lowest price (Buying link under the listed spec details). While this monitor is slightly smaller, as the name suggests, is powered by OLED technology and hence, the colours are even better than on the G9 Neo. While both monitors are super-ultra-wide with an aspect ratio of 32:9, the 49" G9 OLED is a 1440p screen with a resolution of 5120x1440. However, this should not bother as the pixel density is still excellent as the screen itself is smaller. The key specifications of the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED G93SC are given below: Resolution: DQHD (5,120 x 1,440) Aspect Ratio: 32:9 Screen Curvature: 1800R Brightness (Typical): 250 nits Brightness (Min): 200 nits Contrast Ratio Static: 1,000,000:1 Response Time: 0.03ms(GTG) Panel Type: OLED HDR(High Dynamic Range): VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 HDR10+HDR10+ Gaming Mini LED Local Dimming: N/A Color Support: Max 1B Color Gamut (NTSC 1976): N/A Color Gamut (DCI Coverage): 99% (CIE1976) sRGB Coverage: N/A Adobe RGB Coverage: N/A Refresh RateMax 240Hz FreeSync Premium Pro G-Sync Compatible VESA Adaptive-Sync: Yes KVM SwitchN/A Get the Samsung G9 OLED at the link below: SAMSUNG 49" Odyssey G93SC Series OLED Curved Gaming Monitor, 240Hz, 0.03ms, Dual QHD, DisplayHDR True Black 400, FreeSync Premium Pro, Height Adjustable Stand, LS49CG932SNXZA, 2023: $1099 + $100 off with coupon => $999.99 (Amazon US) Don't have Amazon Prime? Get Prime free for the first 30 days, and more: Get the first 30 days of Amazon Prime for free Get Prime Access at 50% off (SNAP, Medicaid, government assistance) for $6.99/month Get 50% off Amazon Prime for Students Audible Plus free for 30 days - Plus Catalog, Podcasts, Audiobooks & more then $7.99/month Gift Audible to someone (choose between 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or a year) Kindle Unlimited $0.00 for 30 days or $4.99 for 2 months As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
  9.    excalpius reacted to a post in a topic: Apple announces new M4 chip with big focus on AI and 'giant leap in performance'
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  11. jrolson
    No button = no buy...
  12.    George P reacted to a post in a topic: Apple announces new M4 chip with big focus on AI and 'giant leap in performance'
  13. jrolson
    Trying to take on the Government... how cute.. lol
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  15. Chay Meredith
    Like the m3 after a few minute load your performance probably drops in half due to heat
  16. adrynalyne
    You are wrong on so many levels. Sure there is a performance hit (for encryption that isn't hardware accelerated), but useless? No. Data loss is mitigated by backups, and many (most?) backup solutions have answers for encrypted data and have for a long time. I will concede that for certain use cases it isn't useful, but to broadly call it useless is ignorance.
  17. sphbecker
    "forcing" and "distasteful" are dishonest terms when discussing this topic. It isn't being forced, it is simply on by default and can easily be turned off. There is nothing controversial about BitLocker, so calling it distasteful doesn't fit. I could see if they were referring to the MS Account or something like that, but BitLocker is a good thing that most people should use, if you are one of the edge cases that doesn't need it, then you probably understand why you don't need it and how to turn it off. There are a TON of features in Windows (or any system) that get set one way or another by default. You can't ask the user for every one of them during startup, for some, you have to choose the best option for the majority of users and leave it at that. BitLocker is something that you should use if you don't understand what it is. If you understand it well enough to know you don't want to use it, then it is reasonable to spend the 2 seconds it takes to turn it off.
  18. adrynalyne
    You completely missed the point. I am moving on, I don't have time for this nonsense.
  19.    Boogiepop reacted to a post in a topic: Apple announces M4-based iPad Pro with Tandem OLED displays and 5.1mm chassis
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  22. John Callaham
    TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the US goverment to fight its possible ban in the country by John Callaham In late April, US President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that requires TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell off its interest in the social networking company, or it could be banned in the country. Today, as expected, TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the US government to fight the enforcement of the new law. The recently signed law says that the China-owned ByteDance must sell off TikTok 270 days after the law was signed, President Biden could give ByteDance a 90-day extension if the government feels a deal is close to being made. If TikTok is not sold off by the deadline, the US could ban the service from US app stores. The supporters of the law have argued they don't want to actually ban TikTok, but they do want to separate it from ByteDance due to US security concerns that data from TikTok's owners could be sent to the Chinese government. The government has offered no evidence that this could happen and TikTok has repeatedly denied this scenario will happen. In its filing today in the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia (via The Verge), TikTok stated: For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban, and bars every American from participating in a unique online community with more than 1 billion people worldwide. TikTok added that this new law is "unconstitutional", and added that the deadline to sell off the social network is "simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally." Even if such a selloff was possible, TikTok says that it would still be unconstitutional, adding: If upheld, it would allow the government to decide that a company may no longer own and publish the innovative and unique speech platform it created. If Congress can do this, it can circumvent the First Amendment by invoking national security and ordering the publisher of any individual newspaper or website to sell to avoid being shut down. TikTok is asking the court to rule that the law is unconstitutional and that the US Attorney General be barred from enforcing the law. The legal stage is now set for what could be a long court battle between TikTok and the US government.
  23. dirtyvu
    Most of the times offering a better foldable than Samsung's yeah, after comparing the Flip with the Razr, I went with the Razr. the sad thing is all the little touches that Motorola added went unreported or were obscurely covered. Like on my Pixel 7a and 6a phones, when you bring up the list of running apps, the close all is all the way at the far end of the list. So you really have to swipe a lot to get there. And you never really know how far you have to swipe. So let's pretend you have 10 apps running but you don't know that. You swipe up to close an app. Then you swipe up to close the next. Then you swipe up to close the next. Then you decide to swipe all the way to the end to close all of them. But let's say you only have 4 apps running but you didn't know. So you could decide to pre-emptively swipe all the way to only realize that you did all this swiping action when it wasn't that far away and you could've used less effort by closing each individually. But on the Razr, the close all is underneath the first app. So many of these little things throughout the phone.
  24. Jaybonaut
    Appreciated!
  25. dirtyvu
    Wasn't Bethesda hoping Redfall would be canceled when MS bought them? It sounds like releasing Redfall was Microsoft's idea. the team behind Redfall didn't want the design that the heads of Bethesda wanted. By the time Microsoft came to the scene, the game was way too far along to stop.
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  27. TarasBuria
    Apple announces new M4 chip with big focus on AI and 'giant leap in performance' by Taras Buria The Apple M processor family, which debuted in 2020 in the MacBook Air and Mac mini, today enters its fourth generation. The Apple Silicon M4 processor is now official, promising a "giant leap in performance" and a significant focus on AI. Interestingly, Apple has decided to use the iPad Pro as the launch platform for the M4 chip, while all the current Mac models are powered by M2 and M3 chips and their variants. Apple says the new M4 chip is built using a second-generation 3nm process (28 billion transistors) to deliver Apple's signature energy efficiency and performance, especially for thin devices, such as the new 5.1mm-thick iPad Pro. Besides offering notable performance improvements in daily tasks, the M4 focuses on AI-based processing with the ability to deliver up to 38 trillion operations per second. As usual, Apple dunks on PCs by claiming the M4 is faster than any AI PC available today. That may change soon, as Microsoft, Qualcomm, and other companies are gearing up to launch new Snapdragon X-powered PCs. The Apple M4 processor is available in several configurations in the new iPad Pro, which is a bit unusual for this device category. Customers can pick among the following models: 256GB 512GB 1TB 2TB CPU 9-core CPU 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores 10-core CPU 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores GPU 10-core GPU RAM 8GB 120GB/s 16GB 120GB/s NPU 16-core Neural Engine According to Apple, the M4 processor features next-generation cores with better branch prediction, wider decode and execution engines, and a deeper execution engine for efficiency cores. Apple also improved its ML accelerators for better on-device AI processing. Performance-wise, customers can expect about a 50% uplift in CPU horsepower when compared to the M2 processor. Interestingly, Apple does not mention the M3 processor, which suggests the performance difference is less impressive. Exact performance differences and uplifts will be available next week once the first buyers get their iPad Pro tablets. On the GPU side, M4 promises some new tech for iPad users, such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing (first debuted in the M3), hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and more. As for the NPU (Apple calls it "Neural Engine"), customers can look out for better AI processing thanks to a dedicated block on the chip for accelerating AI workloads. Those include real-time audio captions, identifying objects through the camera, creating musical notations in real-time, object isolation, and more. Again, Apple says its Neural Engine in the M4 is more capable than any NPU in modern Windows PCs. Finally, iPads with the M4 chip now support AV1 hardware acceleration for more power-efficient playback of high-resolution videos.
  28. SarK0Y
    disk encryption is completely useless.. for privacy & security + it devastates stability and speed of filesystem + any data loss becomes unrecoverable. more fun is, how to make backups from ciphered volumes
  29. hellowalkman
    1.45x performance for 2x tflop increase. 200% increase is 3x increase actually
  30. Steven P.
    It's an additional free perk for existing Object Desktop customers. What's the actual problem?
  31. SarK0Y
    some prisons have more restrictions, some less - but prison is prison.. clouds provide You just cloudy license which can be changed to much more cruel version in NO TIME. even if You're purely lawful, they easily can play a soap opera w/ hw problems & all Your small business will be ruined literally in one day.. clouds are so unstable, distant and illusive
  32. TsarNikky
    A typical dishonest comment from an anti-11 person. Nothing is being forced, this is simply a new default which can still easily be turned off. You may not like the feature, but its important and should be turned on for all laptops at a minimum. Hardly dishonest. It depends on how obvious MS lets a user know that encryption will be done--UNLESS you chose "no." Better yet, display a window, at which time the user must choose either "Yes, encrypt" or "No, don't encrypt." Most regrettably, MS has a long history of doing questionable things under "cover of obscurity" without letting user know in advance.
  33. Geezy
    Considering how much of a big deal fanboys made out of that difference, there will probably be a big deal about this difference too. Here we go again.
  34. Geezy
    Not sure to be honest, I think HiFi rush was well received, never heard of the other one. Maybe this is a case of Microsoft killing something that wasn't an immediate grand slam despite being moderately successful? That sounds like a page out of the book of Square Enix.
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  36. Geezy
    I think this is more of a case of Bethesda putting out hot garbage over the last few years. Wasn't Bethesda hoping Redfall would be canceled when MS bought them? It sounds like releasing Redfall was Microsoft's idea.
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