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  1. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    You realize the point isn't marketing, but that many needed supplies are still hard to come by right? They don't profit off of this. There are many that have been publishing instructions on how to make your own stuff like this. "Just buy existing ones." seems ignorant to the shortages of supplies right now, not just for face masks but for lots of stuff.
    6 points
  2. I bet the software updates will suck
    4 points
  3. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    You realize the point isn't marketing, but that many needed supplies are still hard to come by right? They don't profit off of this. There are many that have been publishing instructions on how to make your own stuff like this. "Just buy existing ones." seems ignorant to the shortages of supplies right now, not just for face masks but for lots of stuff. You realise they do from the media coverage. The early designing their own version does nothing to end the shortage. Yes because a small company like Apple needs all the media coverage it can get.....
    3 points
  4. How much of sex is "work" and how much of it is "pleasure?

    A U.S. Marine Colonel was about to start the morning briefing to his staff. While waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing, the Colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled. He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he failed to reach his usual amount of sound sleep.He posed the question of just how much of sex was "work" and how much of it was "pleasure?" A Major chimed in with 75%-25% in favor of work. A Captain said it was 50%-50%. A Lieutenant responded with 25%-75% in favor of pleasure, depending upon his state of inebriation at the time. There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the Private First Class who was in charge of making the coffee and asked for his opinion? Without any hesitation, the young Private First Class responded, "Sir, it has to be 100% pleasure. The colonel was surprised and as you might guess, asked why?
    2 points
  5. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    The next thing Apple will be making the materials for these and then selling them for $799.
    2 points
  6. "the Snapdragon 8cx is faster at running native ARM64 apps than the Intel PC is at running x64 apps (compared to an HP Spectre Folio with an Intel Core i7-8500Y and 16GB RAM)." I mean I actually doubt that but if you're going to try and run such a test it would make sense that you run a fair test i.e. not with one machine using 2 generations older DDR3 RAM (intel) and the other using DDR4X (this one). And the speed (according to wiki) of LPDDR3 is 1600MT/s whilst LPDDR4X is 4267MT/s so what an absolutely crap comparison to make.
    2 points
  7. I get the feeling that no one cares about WoA. It would be a HUGE risk to buy one. If I still sold computers it would be a huge mistake to recommend one, Actually, no, there is no reason to recommend one to anyone. Who is left that needs or wants one then? The only people using these are reviewers like Rich Woods who writes very good reviews.
    2 points
  8. ISS Commercial Crew test flight Date: May 27 Time: 1632 EDT (20:32 UTC) Pad: Kennedy Space Center LC-39A Booster: Falcon 9 B1058.1 Vehicle: Crew Dragon Booster Recovery: yes Duration: about 110 days, extended from the original plan of a few days. About 1 month after DM-2 returns from ISS SpaceX will launch USCV-1, the first fully operational Commercial Crew mission. They will continue flying USCV (US Crew Vehicle) missions until Boring's troubled Starliner gets its act together, which may be a while. There are only 2 more flightworthy Starliners, so another miscue would put Boeing in a real hurt.
    1 point
  9. Assuming this product actually works by using a UVC LED, you shouldn't be in the same room when this device is turned on. Yeh you shouldn't really be selling this, especially with no clear specs or warnings on the UVC aspect.
    1 point
  10. What are you playing?

    Oh don't get me wrong, I love the series! I just wasn't grabbed by the beginning missions and the daunting size of the thing. Starting simple missions, "go here and kill him. Now go here and kill him" is a bit boring compared to what the other games are asking of me at the moment. I'll send you a PM with my PSN. I warn you though, it might say that I'm online or currently playing a game when I'm not. For example during this isolation thing I'm working from home, so I might take five minutes to relieve some stress by taking out demons and then pause and go back to work rather than shutting the PS4 down.
    1 point
  11. What are you playing?

    Jesus you got alot of games to play. 🙂
    1 point
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  13. They need to offer the images in a variety of resolutions to fit the modern screens.
    1 point
  14. It's glass on both sides so will have to be hidden.
    1 point
  15. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    They literally sourced, made and donated 20 million masks earlier in the month...and people complained about it. Now you’re here complaining about them donating respirators on top of it. ”A few suggestions “ lol.
    1 point
  16. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    You realize the point isn't marketing, but that many needed supplies are still hard to come by right? They don't profit off of this. There are many that have been publishing instructions on how to make your own stuff like this. "Just buy existing ones." seems ignorant to the shortages of supplies right now, not just for face masks but for lots of stuff. You realise they do from the media coverage. The early designing their own version does nothing to end the shortage.
    1 point
  17. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    Why not make them themselves and then give them out for free? Or work with a partner to mass produce? Has Apple done anything but make a few suggestions and donate respirators?
    1 point
  18. New Graphic Card for old System

    Is this for gaming? If it is, unless you're planning on upgrading the rest of the system at some point the old dual core CPU will severely bottleneck any modern GPU, putting a £200+ GPU in that system would be a waste of money. You could grab a 2nd hand GTX 960 for £50 and it would still hit a CPU bottleneck in most games, even at 1440p. If you wanted something with a bit more vram headroom you can pick up a 2nd hand GTX 1060 6GB for around £80 but even that would be huge overkill.
    1 point
  19. New Graphic Card for old System

    $300 into a 10 year old box? That is just utter madness.. Just buy a replacement card, and save your money for a new machine.. You can for sure pick up something for under $50 what will work just fine.
    1 point
  20. Multiple external IP addresses on a FRITZ!Box 7530

    That article hey linked too is putting the public IPs on devices behind your router.. The device itself would have to be using the public IP, and you would have to setup that IP static on the box behind your router..
    1 point
  21. Apple details the specifics of making your own face shield

    Great marketing tool off the back of a pandemic, just buy existing ones.
    1 point
  22. Multiple external IP addresses on a FRITZ!Box 7530

    Its not going to be a route you add. If you have multiple IPs, it would be a VIP you (virtual ip) to your current wan.. Is your current router you using one from your ISP... Or some other router you bought? And yes if you want your outbound traffic to use this other public IP, then yes you would need to setup your outbound nat to use that for what devices behind your router you want to use that IP with.
    1 point
  23. PowerToys Spotlight-like search reportedly coming in May

    ikr. same functionality. I hit "s" in the taskbar search or start menu and I see almost the same stuff as the above screenshot... adrenaline can't even explain the difference. You said it looks the same. It does not. If you can’t see why, there is little to discuss. You seem to think it brings up search results means this is the same thing as the start menu? Kinda weird. 3 replies and you still haven't explained how the functionality is different. Why would I explain that the functionality is different? I never said it’s functionality was any different, I said it doesn’t look the same, in your response to saying it looks the same. Stop building a strawman, it makes you look silly. What I did say was it is better. Why? The start menu doesn’t get out of your way like this does. Opening the start menu to search is useful, but why do I need all the icons and tiles and crap? Why do I need a section of my screen taken up by it? The start menu is designed for people who need a visual cue for their shortcuts. This is short, sweet, and to the point. This is not the start menu, it doesn’t look the same, and windows search being accessible from the start menu doesn’t make windows search, the start menu. So again, if they look the same to you, there is something wrong upstairs. I would use this over start menu, just like I use spotlight over launchpad or Finder >Applications.
    1 point
  24. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Boca Chica SN-04: road closures for transport & tests Times are Central. +1 hour for Eastern.
    1 point
  25. At this price, yes definitely not recommended. This can handily compete with Chromebooks at lower price points since it can run x86 apps.
    1 point
  26. OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro unboxing and first impressions

    I don't care for iphones, but, they are a good quality phone. I just like the more openness of Android. Now, with Oppo's OnePlus, it's better to wait about 4-5 months until they start to announce a new phone, then grab last years overpriced phone for about 1/2, or more. That's how I do it.
    1 point
  27. That's more correct than wrong. Windows Spotlight, a component of Windows 10, sets images for the lock screen, and the images come from the same source that Bing uses. Unfortunately, Spotlight is available in 17 countries only, i.e. the countries in which Microsoft Azure is being offered. Others receive a 403 response. (Of course, this number 17 belongs to some years ago, it must be larger now.) Prior to 1703, Spotlight worked all over the world.
    1 point
  28. Samsung Galaxy Book S review: This is what Windows on ARM can do

    Office uses hybrid ARM executables. It maintains x86 interfaces for plugin compatibility, but the backend code is ARM. The result is that there's an x86 executable that loads and uses ARM binary code. So it does have an official ARM port. Teams and Code are Electron apps, and that means they are dependent on upstream Electron development. I'm not a fan of that, but that comes with the territory of being Electron-based.
    1 point
  29. Useless for 4K monitors. Typical half arsed MS effort.
    1 point
  30. My thoughts exactly. There's that darn "Background" option in the rewritten Settings app, why on Earth can't this be another option under there? Not to mention we already had a Bing Desktop app sometime ago for this same friggin' purpose. Why do we have to deal with this clutter. Just integrate stuff already.
    1 point
  31. No one is forcing you to install it. I never said that. My point was that instead of fixing the things that they already have, they lose time and resources making duplicate half functional applications. I also love Bing and Spotlight pictures, but it's been 5 years and we still have two control panels...
    1 point
  32. Cyberpunk 2077-themed Xbox One X and Wireless Controller unveiled

    I own both an XBox One and a PS4Pro. The One has been a total waste of money. Haven't turned it on in months. I had an Xbox One X and a PS4 Pro and sold the PS4 Pro because that was my reaction to it (it being junk and all.)
    1 point
  33. Home network rack/setup

    Hello! I know I've made a few threads over the past few months, apologies for the janky paint job and angles here, but I cant consolidate properly until I stop working from home so everything is still a bit temporary. Eventually everything will be on the rack and in the spare room, at the minute I have the rack in the bedroom and the little WD NAS in the spare room, as it's always on through the day and power managed to turn off at night (and back on in the morning). I've hardwired my second floor and it's split at each side of the house between the hardware. So, I was going to go 10gig, I had to drop that idea as it wasnt feasible price wise, Id rather aim for that after getting some of the infrastructure-ness setup. Ive an aggregated connection on the NAS and on my PC, but havent set it up yet to try and get better speeds. My PC is a Ryzen 3600, X570 ASUS board and 32gb of ram. Its pretty nice and a RX590 is pretty smooth. I mostly run this as a hackintosh. I replaced my old logitech speakers with the Edifier speakers shown, they are alright, and take up a bit less space which is good. The rack is a Startech 25u open rack, it was a PITA to build as I didnt believe how heavy and solid it was, I've two power extensions as one is turned off nightly, and the other is left on. Network wise, at the moment I've a Netgear unmanaged switch that Ive had for a while, I have a Unifi AC Lite access point and a Raspberry Pi 4 2gb running Docker, portainer and the Unifi control centre. I want to delay having to buy a £200 cloud key for as long as possible if I dont have to. My next purchase for the rack will probably be a POE Unifi switch. At the bottom of the rack there's a Raspberry Pi Zero W running Pi Hole. The second picture is the spare room, running my current WD NAS, I was running a second tower with FreeNAS but Ive retired it temporarily due to space restrictions. I've a 5 port Tenda unmanaged switch, and the Unifi USG acting as a router. Our modem is downstairs and is a Draytek Vigor 130. Its a pretty nice setup, although the NAS was pulling an IP from the modem which was a pain instead of the router, so I've moved the router to be the first item on the route to the NAS and it's resolved the issue. This really is a setup following everyone's advice in the few threads that I'd posted previously, just wanted to say thanks and say that it was eventually done at least one benefit of working from home is that I can tinker in the background when it's quiet.
    1 point
  34. No one is forcing you to install it.
    1 point
  35. I really don't get why Microsoft creates extra clutter to their clutter. They already have a buggy "personalization" page for installing and modifying themes in Windows settings. They already have "live" themes that update automatically via feed. Instead of improving those, they add another plugin, with incompatible functionality to the regular settings. Why?
    1 point
  36. PowerToys Spotlight-like search reportedly coming in May

    It looks like it does the same thing as the taskbar search. What am I missing, other than it looking a little different?
    1 point
  37. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    May 27 ...about time.
    1 point
  38. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    1 point
  39. Apple announces the 4.7-inch iPhone SE for $399

    It's a phone for the masses. The millions of consumers out there that don't care about specs and most of them will be coming from an iPhone 6/6 Plus, SE, 6S/6S Plus, 7/7 Plus and 8/8 Plus. They could do without Face ID, larger displays and multiple cameras. I'm confident that this will be the best-selling iPhone for 2020 and likely 2021 if the prices goes down a bit. The biggest thing that'll attract such consumers is the price. $399 USD for something that could easily last years is impressive. Plus, you can double the storage (64 to 128 GB) for an additional $50. The thing even has wireless charging which most mid-range Android phones lack (ahem, Pixel 3a and 4a). This is the new teen, mom and grandparent phone.
    1 point
  40. reminds me of the 2003 longhorn concept, or the whole plex theme that was going on. they need to go back to that.
    1 point
  41. Hoarding toilet paper?

    1 point
  42. Hoarding toilet paper?

    I have 5 cases of 80 rolls each 🤣 no I'm not joking either, I got it almost half price a year ago and figured it will get used up and it's able to be stored for long periods lol now I just need a way to secure my house from anyone that knows I have this........ 😄
    1 point
  43. Hoarding toilet paper?

    OK, pointless discussion on the web #6,456 but here we go. You were the one who said hoarding toilet paper made sense and people shouldn't mock it. The thing that we are all mocking is the fact that people are prioritizing toilet paper as the number one thing they can't live without if they are isolated. That's the item stores are running out of, not food, not water. I can't live without food or water, neither can you. I can live without toilet paper, I'd prefer not to but if I had none I wouldn't die. So, you have to ask yourself why people have chosen this one item? The reason is because they are being told my media, their friends, that people are bulk buying it so others do too because "that must be a good idea". It's not a good idea, that's why people are mocking it. If people were panic buying everything (which, if they believe Armageddon is coming, they should) then we wouldn't be hearing/seeing the toilet roll famine of 2020.
    1 point
  44. Hoarding toilet paper?

    1 point
  45. Hoarding toilet paper?

    1 point
  46. Hoarding toilet paper?

    The issue is that people are only hoarding toilet paper because they are told everyone else is. Water, canned food, dried food would all seem like more logical things to hoard but the herd have decided toilet paper is the one thing you can't live without!?
    0 points