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  1. Unpopular(?) opinion: just kill it altogether and drop WinRT/UWP/whatever-it-is-called-this-year
    6 points
  2. They missed the mark completely with the store. Should be more like a package manager. No one uses 'apps' in Windows.
    6 points
  3. Dopamine

    Hi everyone, Dopamine 2.0 (Final) has just been released. This is the change log (since version 1.5.14): – [Added] Added a setting to remove songs from disk in the Now Playing context menu – [Added] Added folder view – [Added] Added smart playlists – [Added] It is now possible to sort songs by album, even when no album is selected. – [Added] The search field can now be activated by pressing CTRL+F – [Added] Added sort by “date added” and “date created” in the song screen – [Added] It is now possible to drop files on now playing, when no songs are playing. – [Added] It is now possible to drop folders on the playlists screen – [Added] Added rating and love to the bottom left now playing pane on the main screen – [Fixed] Added an extra button to access Now Playing – [Added] Added a Japanese translation – [Added] Added a Norwegian translation – [Changed] Changed the overall design – [Changed] Removed song covers in playlists. Loading images in memory causes a huge memory footprint for large playlists. – [Changed] Tweaked the now playing screen – [Changed] Removed the “Frequent” page – [Changed] Updated the Bulgarian translation – [Changed] Updated the Chinese (Simplified) translation – [Changed] Updated the Chinese (Traditional) translation – [Changed] Updated the Croatian translation – [Changed] Updated the German translation – [Changed] Updated the Greek translation – [Changed] Updated the Hungarian translation – [Changed] Updated the Italian translation – [Changed] Updated the Japanese translation – [Changed] Updated the Korean translation – [Changed] Updated the Polish translation – [Changed] Updated the Portuguese (Portugal) translation – [Changed] Updated the Russian translation – [Changed] Updated the Spanish translation – [Changed] Updated the Swedish translation – [Changed] Updated the Ukrainian translation – [Changed] Updated the Vietnamese translation – [Fixed] Multiple memory leaks – [Fixed] Lyrics scrolling doesn’t work correctly for lyrics which have no timestamps – [Fixed] It is impossible to fetch lyrics from LyricWikia when song artist or title have special casing and special characters – [Fixed] The spectrum analyzer causes crashes – [Fixed] Artists or genres which are identical, but use a different casing, are shown as multiple artists or genres. – [Fixed] Enabling the system notification on Windows 10 N causes a crash – [Fixed] Rating songs makes the UI non-responsive – [Fixed] Songs which are enqueued from Explorer, are enqueued in the wrong order. – [Fixed] It is impossible to delete songs from playlists, for which the song files have been removed from or renamed on disk. – [Fixed] Pressing multimedia keys causes glitches when the spectrum analyzer is enabled – [Fixed] System notifications causes a crash when playing a song which has a malformed track number – [Fixed] Artists and Genres screens don’t show songs for the Cyrillic alphabet – [Fixed] Artists info pane displays white stars instead of actual artist pictures – [Fixed] Lyrics “Search again” does not work – [Fixed] Lowered CPU and memory usage – [Fixed] Short sound after starting up – [Fixed] Zero-sized images which are embedded in audio files, are mistakenly treated as valid images. – [Fixed] Queued songs which are not in the collection (e.g. from playlists), are not resumed after a restart. – [Fixed] Playlists containing the same song multiple times, confuses play previous and play next. – [Fixed] Incorrect ordering of timed lyrics which contain duplicate timestamps – [Fixed] Tray icon is not visible when using light system theme in Windows 10 – [Fixed] It is not possible to type + and – in the last.fm password box – [Fixed] Removing all songs from Now Playing causes a crash – [Fixed] Discs are ordered wrong when an album has more than 10 discs – [Fixed] Pressing the keyboard left arrow doesn’t jump a song back to the beginning when it has been playing for less than 15 seconds – [Fixed] Lyrics are not saved to the audio files – [Fixed] Lyrics are not displayed the 1st time the lyrics page is shown – [Fixed] File size information in the songs lists is rounded down – [Fixed] It is not possible to add songs to playlists from the Now Playing screen – [Fixed] Playback order is not reset when song order is changed on the songs list and songs are enqueued again – [Fixed] Multimedia play and pause keys are not always working – [Fixed] External control server fails to retrieve the current track Download here Enjoy!
    5 points
  4. Google preloads their own bloatware, so why the hell would they do anything about it? And I'm not talking about Play (I would consider that a necessary feature). I'm talking about preloading Google Keep, Play Books, Play Movies etc
    4 points
  5. Lots of people have been asking for this for years. I'd get rid of a bunch of this Google junk in a heart beat.
    3 points
  6. The store should be a place to find software that works for your device. It helps too that Microsoft has checked it for security. Whether it's UWP or what ever shouldn't matter, first you need to get stuff in the store and worry about that later. The real issue is they aren't hosting the apps we want. Adobe (I wish they used the store and auto updates....so annoying)? Office? Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Planner? Microsoft SharePoint? Handbrake? Visual studio? SourceTree? browsers? Joinme or Zoom or WebX? Google Apps? etc. The issue has nothing to do with desktop users not using apps, we use lots of apps. It's those apps not existing in the store. The process can be debated of how to get those apps in the store, but if you went to Zoom's website and clicked download and it opened the store and started installing and if that happened for pretty much every where you downloaded software....you'd use the store. And if the search in the store was half decent, you'd probably stop going to the web to look for software, and check the store first. But Microsoft doesn't even do this for their own apps. Right now if I buy Office 365 from the store, it sends me to a browsers to download it. That's got to be a joke! If the store dies, it's because the sections of Microsoft that aren't Windows won't support it.
    3 points
  7. Actually the carriers do not. The OEMs do it on behalf of the carriers. So the carriers decided it and required it, not the OEMs who only carried out an order? Woosh, you sure did miss my point. Too many people out there think carriers have the ability to edit phone roms themselves when they do not and never have. That is true, however from my experience in cellular at work I can tell you 1 carrier I know of has access to all it's devices and can run any command on them, it is a requirement for that specific carrier to allow devices on their network. There might be others but I've not interacted with them.
    2 points
  8. Of course. Windows 10 is a complete failure. What garbage Store is that it fails at very basic, to choose in what folder you want to install app and the amount of file/folder/registry garbage UWP creates is staggering, compared to Steam games where it keeps everything under on folder, with optional shortcuts and next to no registry keys.
    2 points
  9. Lots of people have been asking for this for years. I'd get rid of a bunch of this Google junk in a heart beat. The amount of apps I've "disabled" on a stock Google Nexus is amazing. The only reason I have rooted my phone before was to remove these apps.
    2 points
  10. Ensure that all this bloatware can also be uninstalled. If it is not wanted by a buyer, then "poof" begone.
    2 points
  11. So you're telling me they actually learned NOTHING from current-gen? Bravo. Both consoles provide pretty much the same perf and exp, so Spencer, PLEASE tell me how I'm gonna make the decision to pick one? YES, based on exclusives! It's not that hard, dude! The only exclusive I needed this gen is TLOU, so naturally, I went PS4. If MS had a tempting enough exclusive, I'd have gotten an Xbox too. But they didn't, so I didn't. That's it, end of story. Why is it so hard to grasp. Blows my mind.
    2 points
  12. As an owner of an Xbox One who doesn't want to get the next system at launch, that sounds great
    2 points
  13. Segway stops CES S-Pod demo after a journalist crashes into a wall

    "The back of the chair contains lights which flash when you’re turning to allow those behind know what you’re about to do" So many selfish d-bags on the road don't use them on their cars already as it is.
    2 points
  14. They should kill it altogether. A platform that doesn't allow you to backup your stuff and force you to re-download everything at any misplaced backup restore, doesn't deserve to live.
    2 points
  15. Wonder if it was some idiot from the verge who crashed
    2 points
  16. Segway stops CES S-Pod demo after a journalist crashes into a wall

    Well, it's approved for me. Let's give them to the whole CNN staff.
    2 points
  17. Nokia 7.2 review: A $299 phone that's better than a Moto G7

    I could care less. There will always be someone who complains about something. How the notch looks is probably the least important part of a phone. “Couldn’t”
    1 point
  18. MS and Apple do the same thing with their apps. So nothing new with what Google is doing.
    1 point
  19. Not only do OEMs install apps, but so do the phone carriers and some can not be uninstalled, just disabled. Wouldn't it be nice to have a clean, stock version of Android
    1 point
  20. Couldn't agree more about blowing away all the Google crap on the phone! Only 3 things of Googles I've ever touched is Gmail, YouTube and the PlayStore. Everything else can be gone! I was just wondering to myself last night, in fact. How much crap comes preinstalled on an Apple phone? I've only known 1 person who has had one, and they gave it up for some reason. Never got a chance tolook it over.
    1 point
  21. Yeah, same stuff I have in mind. The only app I need is the Play Store. I don't even care about Chrome. So much of their stuff would be gone the next second if I had the option to.
    1 point
  22. Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer purchasable on Steam

    Music licensing?
    1 point
  23. If what you mean is for it to work as the program stores on Linux distros, that would actually be useful - a one big hub, from which users can install the programs they want and keep them updated or even opt in for beta versions... Or maybe even add something like their own repositories for even more programs... That's one of the few things that has improved on Linux since I first started messing with it around 2008 - it really made it simple to install software, provided your hardware is compatible enough with Linux and it found you semi-proper drivers so you can sort of make 25% use of your GPU and whatnot. The current Store app on Windows 10 feels like Microsoft wanted to copy Mac OS' app store for all I can see... or maybe Google Play too. Except that those two actually make sense and are useful.
    1 point
  24. Serious question : then why buy series X? I can get a One X for cheap instead. Won't it cannibalise the sale of series X?
    1 point
  25. I'm in a similar boat. Apart from people who have upgraded screens who already had an Xbone and not being overly concerned with 4k gaming I don't see what will cause a rush for the Series X initially
    1 point
  26. Please don't do this.
    1 point
  27. Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL are discounted on Amazon right now

    Face Lock has too many issues; worse, fingerprint lock is not an option. It's also overpriced compared to the 3a. Nyet, nyet, nyet.
    1 point
  28. what they could do is not mess up design they had with R7, where keyboard was at the bottom and trackpad on the top. if you want screen completely flat though, you will need external controls either way. for me gamepad worked really well with various macros mapped to controls reachable with one hand, and to extend tool set I've used one of the buttons as 'shift' to alter other buttons mappings. so basically holding gamepad with one hand and drawing/retouching with pen in another.
    1 point
  29. 2 users at the same time?

    "she doesn't play graphically intense games she's only 4" Maybe VMware? Check it... Install VMware Workstation Player (which is free for home use) Install a copy of Windows Install WMware Tools after Windows is installed/loaded Install Steam Install the game .. and pray. If the game isn't resource intensive you should be alright. I just tested with the game "Inside" and it was fine. With VMware you can connect (capture) the game controller which disconnects it from the Host (so it doesn't interfere). You can also do this with a secondary mouse/keyboard so they'll stay within the VM. The Host keyboard/mouse wouldn't mess with the VM either (unless you click within the VM) Just a thought. Might not be the most elegant solution ... but it'll probably work for a 4-year old playing simple games. Clear as mud?
    1 point
  30. No, its Windows 8 with less features
    1 point
  31. 2 users at the same time?

    Looks like you can do it with unRAID, but you'll need two video cards.. Also, looks like Aster can do it,
    1 point
  32. Nothing says I shouldn't have bought this device, and should have bought a regular laptop like buying something else for even more money to make that device into the laptop it should have been in the first place.
    1 point
  33. So pretty much Windows 8?
    1 point
  34. Why do they call an erect penis a hard-on?

    1 point
  35. Real talk: I wish there was just a switch where if PC joins a domain, certain functionality is disabled: junkware games, MS Store nagging, etc. It should simply be understood that a user is probably not going to have a Microsoft account to sign into the MS Store with to be downloading junk. The only application we use out of there for example is Sonicwall to setup SSL-VPN, which shouldn't require me saying No Thanks or knowing to close out the Sign In window when trying to install it. They relaxed a bit on their Windows 10 installations requiring you to sign in, which previously required you to keep the PC off the network just to get around it... Like... Microsoft, it's not that we don't love ya, but you're smothering us and wasting our time! I don't need to hear Cortana whenever I start a new PC setup either...
    1 point
  36. Microsoft is reportedly killing off the Microsoft Store for Business and Education

    WinStore should have just copied Play Store. Allow Win32 apps, just in containers etc. Do not block other browsers etc. Imagine if Chocolatey or something like that was the Windows Store
    1 point
  37. The store was always a joke and was DOA anyway. It took them long enough figure this out.
    1 point
  38. Nothing added to my Steam library (I also own the BFG Edition).
    1 point
  39. Huawei selling 100K units of Mate X every month

    Sorry to be that guy but they can say they sold whatever number of said device in China and no one will ever be able to fact check it. I really don't trust the figures that come out of Chinese companies let alone the government itself.
    1 point
  40. I just don't get spending $1000 on a chrome book.
    1 point
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    1 point
  42. BeOS alternative

    I downloaded it and started messing around with it.. It's very light and very fast!
    1 point
  43. What a joke of a process. Why not just allow users to enter the search engine if it's not on the list to begin with? There should be a other option that lets you punch in what you want. And how can they turn this around and make it an auction and get paid for it? Who the heck sees this as correct? Should get drawn right back into court.
    1 point
  44. Doom re-releases get 60FPS, add-ons and other features, also now out on PC

    I hope this will get pushed to GoG builds.
    1 point
  45. Professional laptops really need to move from 16:9 to 16:10 resolutions
    1 point
  46. Glad I finally deleted this lousy service, what a ###### it's become that tools have to be created for this in the first place.
    1 point
  47. They're not even as fast as 1080 ti's which is about to be 2 generations old. That's not a very strong selling point.
    1 point
  48. Knowing how nvidia does, that KO is probably a cut it version and slower version
    1 point
  49. Here's what ports are on the back of the Xbox Series X

    Type-C connector isn't important where space isn't a concern, and Type-A doesn't fall apart like Micro-B does. Type-C on the controller should be considered mandatory though. For performance, the only real gain would be with Thunderbolt for SSD storage expansion. Its absence could be either from a lack of available spare PCIe lanes, or from security concerns with exposing DMA. It was just last year that Kernel DMA protection came to Win10/Intel systems and in a games console, a lot more than the kernel would need such protection (ie: prevent Thunderbolt from being used to implement a modern GameShark). I'd expect that being a custom design they could ensure DMA could be supported without compromise, but would understand reticence and challenges in exposing such functionality. I'd also expect the storage to be fully soldered as a result of this too. SATA is a relatively tame protocol compared to NVMe. Extensive IOMMU shenanigans is required to bring it under safe control, and Windows just isn't fully built for that yet (even though Zen 2 most certainly is). The security angle is something everyone should be aware of, and if anyone works with deployment/IT/etc - keeping these ports restricted is really important, just as it has always been with DMA level interfaces. I could see Microsoft implementing a failsafe technology, though this would make it worthless/restrictive, or just avoid Thunderbolt all outright. This is also something I have been curious about, as I could see Sony selling the PS5 to users based on it having Thunderbolt, and then have the entire platform hacked and emulation easily running on PCs and probably even the XBox itself. (I mean, Microsoft was offering full online resell, trade, and sharing of digital and physical games, and a few other cool features for the XBox One, and yet Sony conned gamers and consumers into seeing it as evil DRM crap, with insane online requirements. All while every PS4 uses the same level and type of DRM, especially with their online content, and now has similar online requirements for content, more invasive that what Windows 10 Store or XBox use for digital games. Yay, people fought the good fight, and got fewer features, less technology, and the same restrictions...) -Couldn't resist the rant. PS DMA and Direct Access attacks have been around for a long time, 25 years or so, with Thunderbolt being the newest external connector to be targeted. (Fireware, Thunderbolt, PCIe/PCI, CardBus, etc.) -I also remember ISA being used as an entry point for this type of attack, and 'access' back in the day. These types of attacks have also been a major problem in every major OS. Even with the Thunderbolt 3 specific DMA kernel features added in 1803, it is still not truly secure on any OS. Thunderbolt specifically is STILL a major problem with regard to security, but like most consumers today carrying Android devices and shoving tons of monitoring devices in their home, a DMA PCI external port on their Mac/PC is something they just won't care about. Direct external access is dangerous, as many of these technologies depend on the light security/overhead to achieve the speeds they do. Physical capping is need on highly secure devices. This is also why Thunderbolt, unlike USB, should be physically secured/blocked from general/public access. Even deploying a laptop to employees, this port should come with a lock requiring them to physical enable it while in use, and disabled when not. Physical access to a Thunderbolt port means any PC/Phone/Device is not secured.
    1 point
  50. How to get photo realistic colours on a Macbook pro 2019?

    Edit: Justa quick update. After doing all of the above and applying the Apple RGB colour profile, the images on the Macbook now look better than the same images on my TV. All of the depth and richness is there now. So problem solved.
    1 point