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  1. Google and YouTube announce measures to protect the U.S. Presidential election

    Translation: "We will censor the side we don't like"
    10 points
  2. They need protection from themselves if that's the case. They manipulate their opposing candidate search results (sometimes maybe not directly, but stories surrounding their beliefs).Not making this a Left vs Right thing, but it's still true. Google is a horrible company, but still has the best search engine.
    8 points
  3. Finally some real news from a giant corporation with non nefarious interests that I can trust 100% and base my election decision on.
    3 points
  4. Gmail's Dark mode goes missing for some Android users

    does it have dark mode? for me, it never has a dark mode
    3 points
  5. Do tell, what sources would you prefer be included in this section? I doubt I’ll ever get a direct answer. Surprise me. I can't honestly say who I'd put in there. But he's not wrong. The simple inclusion of CNN and Fox shows that. The biases may or may not weigh each other out, but they will definitely be biased one way or the other.
    2 points
  6. Router gone bad?

    UPDATE: on Jan 31st 2020 I replaced the two 16v 470uF capacitors (with some used ones I found around the house(although they are 85c rated instead of the stocks 105c)) in the ASUS WL-520gU router and it seems to have cured it's stability/uptime issues as I am nearly 2 days 18 hours in and so far all is good. but ill probably need a full week, maybe two, before I can say for sure. but I am pretty confident replacing the capacitors fixed it since in recent memory the router has gotten worse as I noticed even the wireless was kicking out (like the light was completely off even after attempted hard-reset etc and then came back on out-of-the-blue several minutes later) and typically could not get more than about a day or so of uptime. I stumbled into this stuff over on the DD-WRT forums where someone said he's fixed quite a few routers etc this way. I suspect that's what's acting up on my Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 which has four 25v 220uF caps in it which I suspect ill eventually replaced with some Panasonic ones on Ebay for only around $5 as the ones in it currently are likely generic junk as it shows HERMEI for brand name on them, which apparently are made in Taiwan, where as quality caps typically come from Japan as looking around online there are a fair amount of brands that are supposed to be top tier caps and Panasonic is one them. I even re-flashed to the newest firmware (FreshTomato 2020.1) on the ASUS WL-520gU and cleared the NVRAM and reconfigured from scratch to help ensure no glitches remain. so I just thought I would update this topic as this could be useful for those who have a soldering iron etc as it's a simple $5-ish fix which makes it worth doing as if it was like $20+ it would not be worth attempting. p.s. I heard that can even fix PSU's and computer monitors a good portion of the time to but I never tried it on one yet as my computer monitor is 10 years old this month and still going strong. but if it dies, if I can get some caps for around $10, ill probably gamble and give it a shot.
    2 points
  7. Skagen Falster 3: The most beautiful Wear OS smartwatch

    Glad to see I'm not alone in the comments here. Instantly reminded me of some cooking pots I have, except mine still look better.
    2 points
  8. Router gone bad?

    @Riggers But the caps on both of my routers look perfectly okay (i.e. no swollen caps or leaks (like one would normally expect)) even though it appears they were actually bad as at the moment I got 3 days 6 hours+ and everything still seems okay. because this is the same experience of the person I talked to over on the DD-WRT forums in that the caps appear to be perfectly okay from a visual standpoint even though they are not. I have some caps on my old motherboard that are swollen, with some even appeared to have slightly leaked, but it's still stable the last I checked as I ran a memory test and Prime95 on it back around Jan 2019 and all was good. because there are at least 8-10 caps that are at least slightly swollen with a bit appearing to have slightly leaked. but given how much work it is, and it's just a backup computer, I probably won't bother fixing it for the foreseeable future. p.s. I am aware of the whole negative/positive stuff as I take note of that before removing the old caps and I know you can increase voltage of the capacitor (like say go from stocks 16v to say 25v for example) but cannot decrease it (like if stock is 16v you cannot go lower than that).
    1 point
  9. Escobar Inc is back with a $399 clone of the Samsung Galaxy Fold

    I don't think this is anything more than a scam to pull in free money, using free publicity. I can't find an actual review of either phone.
    1 point
  10. Escobar Inc is back with a $399 clone of the Samsung Galaxy Fold

    after watching that video, I'm waiting for John McAfee to make a phone too
    1 point
  11. I haven't read a lot of it, but what I have seen of disrn.com has been pretty good. They're conservative, you can tell by their opinion pieces which are quite biased, but I personally feel their news coverage is fairly factual and non-opinionated. The thing is, except for Fox, conservative news outlets tend to be much less bias and actually report on stuff, instead of Orange Man Bad for 4 years. And it sucks that this 2 party system almost eliminated centrists. I would call myself that. I agree with some stuff from Demos, some stuff from Repubs. We are picking from the least evil Without sounding like a I'm wearing a tinfoil hat... it's what they want. Having more than a two party system would force them to actually work against independent, centrist candidates. Right now, you have to pick one extreme side or the other, which leaves zero room for bipartisanship and creates the polarization each side thrives off of. More parties, equals loss of control.
    1 point
  12. I haven't read a lot of it, but what I have seen of disrn.com has been pretty good. They're conservative, you can tell by their opinion pieces which are quite biased, but I personally feel their news coverage is fairly factual and non-opinionated. The thing is, except for Fox, conservative news outlets tend to be much less bias and actually report on stuff, instead of Orange Man Bad for 4 years. And it sucks that this 2 party system almost eliminated centrists. I would call myself that. I agree with some stuff from Demos, some stuff from Repubs. We are picking from the least evil
    1 point
  13. Sometimes, I find more unbiased news, from non U.S. sources. Seems like everyone has an opinion, right or wrong. How I long for the days, where they just gave the news, and let the consumers make up THEIR opinion. Now, all news has to have a "slant", and, some want to be the first to break a story, just so they can be first, instead of ACCURATE.
    1 point
  14. The Specs are not bad for the price but wouldn't buy it. I don't want to be Escobar's guinea pig.
    1 point
  15. Can you shoot 4K video with any camera on One Zoom, even the ultrawide one? And which cameras support 60 fps? 4K @30fps but no Ultra Wide 1080p @60fps The ultra wide is mainly for photos.
    1 point
  16. It sounds like they never needed to make the 2X
    1 point
  17. Giving people what they want becomes a problem when factual information is withheld from users in search and news results. As for Google Search, it is good. However, one can exist with seldom using Google. I maybe have a need to use Google Search less than 3 or 4 times a year, and I average several hundred searches per day. Bing is fine, as private as DuckDuckGo, and doesn't generate bias results from previous interactions, which is handy for political information. DuckDuckGo is also better than Google for most people. I also use other sources for news, instead of Google News. Even MSN/Bing News offers more diverse information, which even if I don't like it, is far more factual than Google results. Google News heavily shifts and caters to the user's belief system, often with results that are non-factual or at best opinion. On my 'Google throw away account' - my Google News political results are entirely skewed to my political nature, and if it was my source for information, there are dozens of stories I would miss even knowing exist each day. This is a huge problem, and Google hasn't done enough to fix it. Google also doesn't fix the biases that they know search results can create, that are shifted by their advertisers that proclaim to be apolitical and aren't. Heck, Google search results can still be manipulated to provide fake business information, phone numbers, etc. - even after being exposed 10 years ago. This same tricks are used for narratives and political results. Even if Google is diligent in removing them quickly, millions of people will see them and be influenced in a matter of a few minutes. Google's results are equivalent to people that only consume one media and one source, (Fox, MSNBC, etc.) - they end up knowing less about current news because they don't see many of the current news stories. As a result, then then know less factual information over a time span compared to people that randomly choose news sources. If people stick with Google News/Search for political headlines and content. At least poke your head out once a day and check Bing/MSN news or some other non-biased aggregator. I know I beat the 'Google does crappy stuff dead horse' a lot, but it costs you nothing to use other searches and sources for information once in a while or once a day, which is your benefit.
    1 point
  18. "Google and YouTube announce measures to protect the U.S. Presidential election" LOL ...
    1 point
  19. I don't believe their search engine is the best anymore and haven't used them in near 3 years. They are now an ad engine and often just plain wrong. Must be the algorithm. ;-)
    1 point
  20. Blackberry just isn't relevant anymore. I am sure their phones probably work as well as any 2nd tier Android brand. Where BB missed the mark was investing so much time into their QNX operating system. Over the 3 years they developed it they went from the king of smart phones to a has-been no one cared about. If instead, they had simply made the shift to Android in 2009, they could have continued to lead for some time to come. They could have even taken all their Blackberry apps (which at the time were well respected for business users, worlds ahead of the competition from Apple or Google) and ported them pretty easily to Android, even kept them as exclusives for Blackberry hardware. Instead they sat for 3 years with no new intonations to spread of while they developed a new OS, while everyone else caught up to them in the business world and had already surpassed them for personal use.
    1 point
  21. Gmail's Dark mode goes missing for some Android users

    Happened to me too, using a Oneplus 7T Pro.
    1 point
  22. Gmail's Dark mode goes missing for some Android users

    I'm using a OnePlus 5. Completely missing for me too.
    1 point
  23. Possible to start programs before Windows logs in?

    You really should do the math on how much you actually save doing this... Its not as much as you think It's almost for sure not worth the hassle. Even using 16p as cost in the UK, which is higher than anything I see there... And if you only run the PC for 12 hours vs 24.. Your saving like 40 quid over the whole year... And are you really only running it for 12 hours? Or is more like 16 hours, if you turn it on when you get up and then turn it off when you go to bed... So now your talking maybe 30 quid for the whole year... Dealing with turn it off and on every day.. I really don't see how this makes any sense to do...
    1 point
  24. Microsoft is shutting down its Ad Monetization platform for UWP apps

    Pretty much everything Sinofsky touched turned to sheet. Its like he was a trojan horse to kill Microsoft. Trying to dumb down and shoehorn a GREAT desktop operating system platform, onto a 4" touch screen device was plain madness, and yes "I told you so" too! Opinion aside, let us at least untangle your arguments. Sinofsky hated WP, hated tablets and didn't care for touch either. He and Ballmer had a similar mindset. Sinofsky is who gutted the touch and tablet features from Office and stagnated the Win7 touch features, which were supposed to be a large focus after Vista. If it wasn't for the Surface hardware showcase technologies, Windows 8 would have offered nothing much new for touch. Even the touch technologies added to Win8 are almost a duct tape implementation, breaking the previous 'new' Win7 touch/input drivers, and creating an addition touch overlay that didn't work with the existing frameworks or technologies. This was a massive mistake. So you can't blame Sinofsky for small devices or touch, as he was the one sabotaging them. I do agree, he was a freaking idiot, as the original UWP (WinRT) platform was to include the Phone technologies along with desktop integration APIs. Instead he locked out the WP team, and rolled over desktop developers. WinRT on Win 8 sucked as a mobile API and sucked as a Desktop API. At the very least it could have at least mimicked the Phone framework and ran Phone Apps. Sinofsky also left App development for Win8 to the XBox App team, which is another reason Apps in Win8 were limited and horrible. As for Windows running on a 4" device, it works well. Windows is still lighter than Android on devices. And remember this is the full version of Windows 10 compared to a mobile OS, with Android even consuming more RAM to this day. People also forget that WP and WM received tons of UI and design awards. It works, and is still nearly far ahead of what we now have on Android and iOS. The entire framework was GPU accelerated at the lowest layers, where iOS and Android slap on some GPU acceleration on top of their frameworks. WP also influence iOS and Android a lot, from the simplistic Metro design, to many UI contexts; Apple even designed their multitasking and isolation models based on how WP worked. Windows on a Phone or other tablets was a good idea, even if it faced Apple and Google antics and Microsoft not firing Ballmer and Sinofsky sooner. Moving forward from today... The desktop UI needs the UI technologies from UWP, that is all that was necessary for software to run on any size device with any screen size and resolution. Back when iOS and Android and other popular frameworks could barely scale, UWP was scaling and flowing and automatically adjusting to any device. UWP is not going anywhere; however, it and desktop are being rolled together with WinUI 3.0 being separated and working seamless with any framework. As for Windows Store, even if it changes from how it exists today, at the very least it will exist as a repository and distribution technology, which potentially could even become multiplatform. Even the corporate App changes already in place from Microsoft still provide distribution. As for the Ad system being removed, Microsoft has provided and allowed 3rd party advertising technologies for Apps for many years now, and Microsoft has been pulling out of direct Advertising ever since they fired Ballmer. There used to be a large Ad infrastructure for Bing and MSN that are essentially gone or dead now. The Store advertising platform is one of the final pieces to be turned off. (The developers complaining have a 'tiny' point, but unlike Google or Apple, they are NOT locked into Microsoft to make money from Ads, they have been able to use 3rd parties for several years now.)
    1 point
  25. Perhaps we should invest in Linux more New CEO has been cancelling anything that doesnt meet his expectations. In the end, Microsoft will be two services: Azure & Office 365 Haha you may be proven correct!
    1 point
  26. Another uninspired me-too Microsoft product on the verge of cancellation? Now that’s shocking news.
    1 point
  27. Skagen Falster 3: The most beautiful Wear OS smartwatch

    Thoughtful review, but why title it with an opinion? Not the most beautiful and that's my opinion.
    1 point
  28. These are the 62 new emoji characters coming this year

    WHERE IS MY DEAGLE EMOJI?
    1 point
  29. That’s incredible 8 minutes to train the network!!
    1 point
  30. Skagen Falster 3: The most beautiful Wear OS smartwatch

    The lugs are bloody ugly. Apart from that it's a cylinder, wow the design world is going CRAZY in 2020!
    1 point
  31. In a decade we'll all be docking our android and iOS devices into a hub if we need a larger screen and keyboard. Or if by Linux, you mean Chromebooks, sure, otherwise no. Microsoft has been a services company, and outside of last year, the continuing dwindling of pc sales is only more writing on the wall. Outside of Enterprise and gamers who don't want a console, Windows will be an after thought for most people. You know this, we know this, they know this, subscriptions for Office365 and Azure will be what drives them forward. I am seeing more and more customers I support opting for an iPad Pro or a Chromebook. I've also migrated to an iPad Pro and sync via iCloud and OneDrive and honestly haven't needed to use my desktop since I've purchased it. Putting that all aside, Windows 10 in 2030 will no doubt be as refined and as advanced then as it is now, but only used in corporate environments, and probably as a legacy system or IT. Maybe in a decade we'll finally only have one Control Panel. lol
    1 point
  32. I think you've not understood the article at all. The Microsoft Store is not closing down He doesn’t understand most things he reads.
    1 point
  33. I'm not really surprised given Microsoft's track record for canning projects.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft is shutting down its Ad Monetization platform for UWP apps

    Without Windows Mobile, UWP is a pointless platform. The goal was to have a unified system for developers to build apps that would run on any Windows device, regardless of format. The UWP UI toolkit is still pretty basic compared to the wealth of WinForms & WPF control available on the market, so developers had to take a step backwards when designing their interfaces. Without mobile devices - since DUO runs Android, it doesn't count and NEO will still run Win32 applications - there is no incentive to use UWP aside from Store distribution. NEO is designed for UWP, but that won't revive it as a platform of choice. If Windows Mobile survived and was viable, then sure, UWP makes sense, but in the current environment, I think more developers will give up on it and go back to traditional desktop application toolkits.
    1 point
  35. Nope. Not good. Don't quit your day job. And don't listen to that weird girl of yours either.
    1 point
  36. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    Oopsie... https://spacenews.com/boeing-takes-410-million-charge-to-cover-potential-additional-commercial-crew-test-flight/
    1 point
  37. That's exactly what the U.S. has been doing since the 20th century. That's why foreign technology companies like Asus, Sony, Comodo, BitDefender, Nero, and TuneUp software had to obtain U.S. registrations and have some American managers before selling anything. And while you make this practice seem like something evil, it's simply because to be in a country means having an obligation to obey that country's laws. And I can't blame China for not wanting another Opium War.
    1 point
  38. This has absolutely nothing on BonziBuddy!
    1 point
  39. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2020

    I use XFCE on my ArcoLinux (ArchLinux fork) install, too. Used to like MATE, but I've had so many issues with it. I was always with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, but needed a change..
    1 point
  40. I still remember After Dark's screensaver program that I think would pretend to screw things up. Also they had a version with not so nice ones like a guy mowing his grass and running over cats on the screen.
    1 point
  41. Not everyone, just the US but yeah even everyone else could pay the price here because Huawei and many other companies in China will likely look for alternatives that are home grown. But the one that loses out the most here is the US and it's companies, by the US government playing political games, it's made it much harder for countries and companies around the world to trust using US tech and services in case the US plays games with them. Google should be worried about this because if Huawei makes a success of it which they likely with the size of its population and others around the world looking for alternative, Google is just the first to pay the price and likely won't be the last.
    1 point
  42. And perhaps a well deserving one
    1 point
  43. The late 90s...they are back.
    1 point
  44. Once Huawei store catches some traction, all Chinese companies like Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE will jump on it. Google should be worried about this development.
    1 point
  45. Huawei is giving everyone the big "F-U"
    1 point
  46. "Instead, it wants to create a third smartphone ecosystem that stands next to iOS and Android." AWESOME!
    1 point
  47. That's fine, if they feel like they can make due on their own and build up their own app store or flat out OS, go for it.
    1 point
  48. US Space Force mocked for unveiling camouflage uniforms

    Typical agenda driven "news" and brainless Tweets. With the ink on the legislation barely dry, the actual Space Force uniforms, logos and emblems are still in the design & order process. These are just make-dos until that process and done and the orders filled.
    1 point
  49. Router gone bad?

    Then yeah you prob didn't get to play with the old plug your phone handset into the modem..
    1 point