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  1. Rocket League to drop Linux and macOS support soon, removing online play

    Great. Screw Epic even more.
    5 points
  2. Steam Lunar New Year Sale is now in action with thousands of discounts

    Steam sales have sucked generally for years, and I haven't seen a game I wanted to buy since the original sin 2.
    3 points
  3. Btw, I use Libre Office, like I want to pay Microsoft $10+ dollars a month for Office?
    3 points
  4. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    Come on Microsoft... Don't do this... USB-C please.
    3 points
  5. EU must be kidding!
    3 points
  6. now THIS I don't agree with. If a different default search engine is set then no app should be allowed to alter that without user notification or approval/interaction. That's just rude and anti-competitive.
    3 points
  7. Epic Games Can't get basic features working on their platform (even Stadia has achievements) Can't develop their own games (the last original title was what... Gears of War which they don't even own anymore) Pays for exclusivity, including revoking accessibility of a game that was already crowd funded, with no intentions to discontinue this behavior Offers devs/publishers 88/12 which provides the consumer zero tangible benefit; but at least the companies are profiting, right?! This move demonstrates yet another milestone in Epic's seemingly backward ass thinking. Valve doesn't have a perfect track record, don't get me wrong, but when customers complained, they answered back. Customer service today vs. 5 years ago is drastically different, as well as throwing out paid mods after backlash. That to me is just called listening to their consumer base. Microsoft too has turned things around due to customer feedback. That is the sort of behavior I want to see and actively encourage from big companies. Not... this. Not sending the industry backwards.
    2 points
  8. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    Sounds like Spiner said the only way he comes back to act for data is to make sure that the events of Nemesis aren’t reversed.
    2 points
  9. whats makes this worst is bing is just pathetic and bad
    2 points
  10. iPhone SE successor could be announced in March

    Get a Pixel 4a or 4a XL. That's pretty poor advice when you don't know if he uses other apple products within the ecosystem. He may use apple card, have a large itunes catalogue, historical health logging, family sharing icloud plans/photos, location sharing with children, have homekit aware products such as the secure video cameras, or thermostat. Ecosystem changes are not easy for everyone.
    2 points
  11. Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access)

    If he comes back, he's going to need even more CGI work than Spiner...
    2 points
  12. As if there aren’t enough reasons to hate and shun Microsoft already...SMH.
    2 points
  13. ;I want to use an online editor that supports both unicode and TT font, because TT fonts at: https://fontvilla.com/vaporwave-text/ are only supported for some layout tools and uniocde is supported for the browser editors. How can I transform it into a true style native font[ say ML Revathi or Karthika] when using a Unicode font[ mostly IME based Malayalam, India]. What encoding method can I use. It is better to have an example of experienced coding. C#/ASp.net
    2 points
  14. I guess this game isn't making the money it used to
    1 point
  15. Xerox is moving forward with its attempts to take over HP

    is this method even legal? why is Xerox so obsessed with taking over HP to go to these measures anyway?!?
    1 point
  16. Google Drive gets a Progressive Web App version

    What is really the point of these PWAs if they don't work offline? Is it literally just a web page without the address bar and native-like notifications? How is it different from the old Chrome way "Pin to the desktop"?
    1 point
  17. What a waste! Give me that money.
    1 point
  18. iPhone SE successor could be announced in March

    Get a Pixel 4a or 4a XL. That's pretty poor advice when you don't know if he uses other apple products within the ecosystem. He may use apple card, have a large itunes catalogue, historical health logging, family sharing icloud plans/photos, location sharing with children, have homekit aware products such as the secure video cameras, or thermostat. Ecosystem changes are not easy for everyone. That's the problem with the iOS/macOS ecosystem: you are stuck with one brand, with a limited number of devices to choose from, and with the prices we all know. They take advantage of it.
    1 point
  19. iPhone SE successor could be announced in March

    Could you not just buy an older model iPhone? I mean theoretically that would be a similar outcome relative to purchasing an under-powered android device. Maybe I'm missing something. My iPad Air (1st gen) is still great and I imagine it'd be dirt cheap now. I have the iPhone 11 Pro and it, to me, is entirely warranted in price. It's very close to, if not, the most useful thing I own and costs hardly anything relative to the price of things that do far less for far less money, or far more for far more money.
    1 point
  20. If a guy named John Wilkes had a booth at a flea market

    if a guy named warwagon told humorous jokes you would not be reading this topic!!
    1 point
  21. Hello, The only other thing that immediately comes to mind is to contact the manufacturer of the computer you are using, and asking if they have firmware or driver updates available that would allow you to run the software. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  22. If a guy named John Wilkes had a booth at a flea market

    that was worst thing i've ever read
    1 point
  23. Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (OFT)

    The simulations weren't even that good compared to what SpaceX has done/is doing are they? ---- I might be getting confused with reading a bunch of comments somewhere else when they had the clock issue and why that never showed up in a simulation.
    1 point
  24. Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (OFT)

    Going paper & simulations first vs. flying real hardware early is biting them in the ass, big-time.
    1 point
  25. Dirty. Bad form MS. Bad form. This does nothing but make you look bad. For shame. This reeks of desperation.
    1 point
  26. Netflix: Altered Carbon

    Agreed, thought Kinnaman was very good in the lead role. Atleast the story/universe lends itself to the change in actor with the concept of sleeves. Very much looking forward to this.
    1 point
  27. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    Has't it been a PC since the first XBOX? remember when people said similar things because it was an Intel Coppermine based Pentium III Even though it is a Pentium 3, there are no emulators for it.
    1 point
  28. Are you American? You need to consider how useless Bing is outside of its core countries (US, UK, France, Germany etc). Also even if it was useful, forcing it like this is just not A-OK
    1 point
  29. Must be really painful for the german government... They switch from windows to linux, which really didn't seem to be planned well and cost a lot, they then had to pay and switch back to windows, now they're paying yet again to stay on an old version of windows...
    1 point
  30. Google's Android *is* bloatware and spyware. The only way to get rid of it is not use it.
    1 point
  31. - Full sync support (not this mess, like ""oh sorry we forgot to sync your search engine settings") - Linux build That's all I need
    1 point
  32. This is how you deal with a data breach properly. Props. Of course, this shouldn't have happened in the first place. I expect better from MS.
    1 point
  33. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    No, because 'real gamers' don't want extra features. There are hundreds of thousands of PS4 owners that pat themselves on the back that they didn't buy an Xbox One and still see the HDMI Pass Through port as proof it IS NOT A REAL GAMING CONSOLE. (So ya, dumb often wins, sadly. PS See next user comment below yours for an example. ) It's not that real gamers didn't want these features, but that they didn't want a console unveiling to be centered around TV and Call of Duty. As I said last time, you don't go with priority #3 or 4 as the centerpiece for a console announcement. Not sure why you got to keep up this dumb charade that Microsoft should take their toys home, instead of you know... just being a better console and ecosystem.
    1 point
  34. But who said you have to buy new hardware? It's not like Windows 10 doesn't run very well on Windows 7 era hardware, I've got it running just fine on a old i7 920 I built back in 2009. The cost to upgrade the OS would be around the same depending on the type of gov deal MS gives.
    1 point
  35. €800,000 is a big pile of cash. However, 33,000 units is no small number either. Everything is relative. It probably cost the German Government somewhere in the region of €15 - 33 mil to purchase those PCs. So, spending a relatively small faction of that sum to pro-long their life sounds reasonable (vs. spending €30+ mil to buy new hardware).
    1 point
  36. Good thing I moved to Linux ~10 years ago. This has got to stop, Microsoft.
    1 point
  37. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    why? There wouldn't be many devices suitable that would take advantage of it and licensing it would bump up the price. Not having USB-C would be criminal.
    1 point
  38. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    Wait what? No HDMI pass-thru?
    1 point
  39. Real-life images of the Xbox Series X show off all of its ports

    Lol the tower PC is back.
    1 point
  40. The iCloud leaks were nothing more than celebs using obvious to answer password reset questions. The same thing could of happened with OneDrive back then. Less people use Onedrive, than iCloud and Google Drive. So it's safer for me somehow. Just like Outlook vs Gmail. I ain't sure about Outlook users number though, still there're more news about millions of hacked Gmail accounts. It isn't about numbers, it is about the way data is handled by Microsoft in contrast to Google and Google services. Anyone that checks out the password lists shared or sold on the dark web, the majority of information gathered in the last few years comes directly from Android devices. So if you use Android you will have a gmail account. This also means if you login to Outlook from your android device, there is chance that email and password get compromised Sadly, due to how Linux and Android are both designed, there is not a way to fully secure or fix the ways malware gets in and the way it hides. The only option would be for Google to fix it, which would also break most Apps in the Play Store, and Google doesn't care enough to fix the things that work break Apps, let alone a platform wide series of corrections to the way Android works.
    1 point
  41. Agree with the sentiment, but technically passwords handed on the cloud side are not subject to compromise for most online cloud providers. There are also ways passwords are used to encrypt data that makes the users data more secure than a non-shared or local password. For example, Microsoft's password servers (MS Account/Passport) are walled off. If Microsoft and OneDrive and Outlook.com are all fully hacked, that doesn't mean the hacker will get access or be able to read anyone's data stored on these services, as it is encrypted using the user's key that uses strict token passing from the password servers. This also means, MS engineers working with OneDrive data, can't read the user's document or see their picture, the data sets are an encrypted mess to humans. I do agree that people should do research on any cloud service, and know for sure the data is protected properly, and also protected from the cloud service provider as well. They have no business reading content. (Which is one of biggest beefs with Google, as they leave all data accessible by engineers, which is not necessary.) Another tip/trick, is to use client side encryption, especially as services offer differential data updating where you can encrypt an entire Volume (HD) that only your local system can decrypt and open. (Use a VHD for example, mount it as drive Z:, fully encrypt the volume with bitlocker or even use NTFS folder/file level encryption, and then store the VHD on your Cloud data service.) This ensures nobody can read it. This can also be done on a more granular level with any type of package/compression technology that has good encryption, and selectively encrypt data before it is uploaded.
    1 point
  42. Here's how Microsoft will roll out the new Edge browser

    That is awful, as bad as what Google does, when you sign into a google website, it will sign the browser in as well. there is a option to stop it, but it should be opt in, not opt out. i wonder if there is a option on Edge to stop windows changing into a MS account. I do not use any of this synchronising myself, be it google or MS.
    1 point
  43. Windows 10 Mobile is dead ... again

    it is dead you write this nonsense every time even when the most insignificant news occurs grow up At this point, I hope his messages are sarcasm.
    1 point
  44. Windows 10 Mobile is dead ... again

    it is dead you write this nonsense every time even when the most insignificant news occurs grow up the system is no dead until Microsoft take app mobile app from store and all app stop updating. I will wait for that date. No. It’s dead. Let it go. Are you going to eBay a second hand phone when yours dies? really? why its dead? my phone is working phone. Microsoft can remote turn off the phone? make it not power on? oh that's not what me mean by dead. dead doesn't mean it's just going to stop working. What we mean is it will no longer receive new features or security updates. I believe new apps can't be added to the store. And apps in the store are not likely going to update for much longer. It's a platform on life support just waiting to be put to rest fully.
    1 point
  45. Windows 10 Mobile is dead ... again

    If serially pissing on everyone else's parade is what you call respectful, sure.
    1 point
  46. Steam should become a competitor to the Microsoft Store, allowing all types of software to be downloaded/purchased, not just games. Steam has had a "Software" section for ages - unfortunately the stuff that is in there is almost as bad as the Windows Store...
    1 point
  47. There's no need to have a different Store "for Business" or "for Education", which is rarely used by companies and schools for private purposes, so a public Store for everybody is enough!
    1 point
  48. 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.
    1 point
  49. Show us your PC Setup - Bonus points for RGB

    Unfortunately I can't award points for jaffa cakes...
    1 point