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  1. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Next year the phone will not be included in the box either.
    18 points
  2. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    This is just an example of why I have never purchased anything from Apple Inc. My level of common sense is nothing short of exponential.
    8 points
  3. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Reminds me of the Intel Nuc. Didn't come with a power cord, yet when you opened the box it played the Intel jingle.
    6 points
  4. I'm expecting next year's iPhone doesn't include an OS. You'll have to buy that separately.
    4 points
  5. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    LOL! That is like buying a car without a gas tank. Must be a self charging phone.
    4 points
  6. The top OxygenOS features you need to know about

    Uh no, it is just an attempt to highlight the top features of a popular Android OEM skin like we did in the past with Samsung's One UI. https://www.neowin.net/news/to...for-galaxy-s10-and-note-10/ Fair play. I gravitate towards Apple gear, and when reading articles here about that, they tend to note the potential negatives too. In fairness, when the title of the article is "TOP OxygenOS features" I'm not expecting it to be a pros and cons article.
    4 points
  7. Yes. That era is over. This is the era of Bash, PowerShell, Git, WinGet, npm, node.js, grunt, gulp, .NET Core, Docker-CLI, MSBuild, Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WinPty, and Windows Nano Server. Command-line has never been more fashionable than today.
    4 points
  8. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    You can always come home to Android. You'll always be welcomed back to digital freedom.
    3 points
  9. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Customer: "hi yeah I bought an iPhone and the battery died after only 7 hours. Shouldn't it last longer than that? I mean at least until I can buy a new phone right since you all didn't include a way to charge the phone" Apple: " hi there yeah totes magotes dude, you will have to spend $40 on a charger if you want to use your phone again. We're trying to save the environment." The actual fascists and nazis are the most insidious companies we have to deal with.
    3 points
  10. The top OxygenOS features you need to know about

    Uh no, it is just an attempt to highlight the top features of a popular Android OEM skin like we did in the past with Samsung's One UI. https://www.neowin.net/news/to...for-galaxy-s10-and-note-10/
    3 points
  11. Windows File Recovery is a new app by Microsoft that helps recover deleted data

    It also doesn't support CP/M or Windows 2.0.
    3 points
  12. Yes. That era is over. This is the era of Bash, PowerShell, Git, WinGet, npm, node.js, grunt, gulp, .NET Core, Docker-CLI, MSBuild, Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WinPty, and Windows Nano Server. Command-line has never been more fashionable than today. He thinks CLI is dos. 🤣
    3 points
  13. This shouldn't be a surprise, any low level tools of this nature require admin rights, it's often the case on other OS's as well. You don't want regular users messing with these types of tools anyways.
    3 points
  14. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Please remember: this is not a fact, it’s an opinion from an analyst who’s job it is is to put out articles.
    2 points
  15. This is just a stupid business move. BOO Apple. boo.
    2 points
  16. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Hmmmm. I was looking for an upgrade for my X, but this nickel and dime crap (if true) may make me return to Android.
    2 points
  17. Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens coming on July 1

    A few of my friends played it a while and got bored with it also. "Let's make a new Minecraft game, without any mining or crafting!" I'm not sure how they thought that was such a brilliant idea.
    2 points
  18. Lenovo Legion 5i unboxing and first impressions

    Macs can't sustain speeds these other laptops achieve due to CPU throttling. Apple favours form over function in some of their products.
    2 points
  19. No doubt they released this to help their support agents assist customers trying to recover files in the wake of the latest data-destroying Windows update. (Though this would likely be no help with the current data loss fiasco involving parity Storage Spaces in 2004, since that fault is almost certainly underneath the file system.) I would like to say I'm just kidding with this post, but I'm really not.
    2 points
  20. It also doesn't support CP/M or Windows 2.0. Not comparable. Troll someone else, Mobius Enigma; you perpetuator of false information.
    2 points
  21. Ugh, command line... The 20 people who like using command line stuff will enjoy this.
    2 points
  22. To be honest they should launch a GUI, we have gone past dos days, even if some people still like using Dos and the command line.
    2 points
  23. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    OK, I was about to make fun of Apple, but since they are removing just the charger and not the cable, it makes some sense. 1) They ship a pathetic 5W charger. It is as good as not bundling it in the first place. 2) A vast majority of people already have some USB port to plug into and charge the phone. (This can be a major issue if Apple ships a USB-C to Lightning Cable, the world still uses USB-A primarily) 3) A lot of Android OEMs support fast charging tech with only the included charger. Since many of Apple's design choices make their way to Android (whether you like it or not), it can drive Android OEMs to move their tech inside the phones. (This is a niche benefit)
    1 point
  24. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    How many of the people on here are moaning or poking fun yet they already have chargers at home? The adapter and headphones from my iPhone 11 are still in the box, it helps with resale when I upgrade. I charge using the same wireless charger on my bedside that I’ve used for my last 3 phones. You don’t need an identical new one with every new phone unless your changing ports.
    1 point
  25. Given the EU has been pushing for standardised chargers (I.e. USB) for years with the express purpose of NOT shipping chargers with every device (everyone will already have one), I don't think this is true. Of course Apple broke the agreement they made with the EU on this years ago (in spirit, if not the letter) by going to lightning and having an adapter to USB available instead of just using USB like everyone else did.
    1 point
  26. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Isn't this a good thing in cutting down on electrical waste. Most people already have a charger, if you need one then buy one. People now just love to complain about everything.
    1 point
  27. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    You can always come home to Android. You'll always be welcomed back to digital freedom. Digital freedom? Lol it’s Google! Appe might nickel and dime you on the hardware, Google does it with your privacy
    1 point
  28. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Oh well. Personally, I don't use the charger that comes with my phone. I plug the cable into my computer. I don't like fast charging anyway.
    1 point
  29. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    Let's be honest here, they have pretty much met their market saturation, and most people will just be upgrading. Also, they are obviously trying to push people towards the wireless charges. So they can also sell the one they eventually put out. If it lowers the price great, will it? Probably not. People will still buy them.
    1 point
  30. iPhone 12 will reportedly not come with a charger in the box

    I've stayed with my iPhone for a long time now but if you don't include a charger which is required for use, we're done. I'm not a fanboy, but have enjoyed using the platform. Even though this is a report and not fact, it's truly one of the dumbest moves you can make for a product with a "rechargeable battery".
    1 point
  31. Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens coming on July 1

    A few of my friends played it a while and got bored with it also. "Let's make a new Minecraft game, without any mining or crafting!" I'm not sure how they thought that was such a brilliant idea. I understand the point can be different when the focus is dungeon crawling, but they didn't even try to tie in aspects of Minecraft like you suggest, such as using a pickaxe to open an alternate path, or luring a creeper to blow up a wall, or yeah finding material to craft better weapons or other tools, or even items to use on the spot TLoU style. It doesn't feel minecrafty in ways you would expect. They didn't use the license to its full potential and didn't push the franchise forward. But even putting aside all that and pretending it wasn't Minecraft for a moment, it still feels uninspired.
    1 point
  32. Lenovo Flex 5 14 review: AMD Ryzen 4000 is a game-changer

    Not cool. Not cool at all Rich. That’s something you should have picked up on, especially since going to the site yields no 16GB models. I'm pretty sure the link was an accident. There is a 16gb model officially from lenovo that sells on amazon for $600: Model Page. Comes with 16gb ram. https://psref.lenovo.com/Detai...lex_5_14ARE05?M=81X20005US" rel="external nofollow">https://psref.lenovo.com/Detai...Flex_5_14ARE05?M=81X20005US Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...p;s=electronics&sr=1-3" rel="external nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...mp;s=electronics&sr=1-3 Fair enough. When I went to Lenovo site, I could only purchase 8GB models. They didn’t even list a 16GB model. Yeah, kind of confusing, maybe an amazon exclusive. I'm just amazed they're putting 16gb in a 2 in 1 with good cpu at this price point ($600). Don't see that every day. Edit: Also, messing up that link is really bad, and I hope he fixes it soon, because buying for ~800 and possibly losing warranty is just not good.
    1 point
  33. What is really frustrating is that AMD has not yet updated their drivers for Mac Bootcamp...
    1 point
  34. I do not know that so many users out there are afraid of CLI program.
    1 point
  35. That's an odd comparison to make. I can have a Bash or PowerShell script create a GUI based window..does that mean those are GUI applications now? Oh, and .NET Core does a wonderful job at console applications, even on headless Linux servers with no display server running whatsoever. No GUI even possible. Don't be afraid of a terminal. So much more productive. This. 100 times. The keyboard isn’t gonna bite, guys. It will be ok! It is fine for younger people, they can get their head around things, as you get older it gets harder to take things in, but even for a lot of younger people they have used a GUI for everything, so something like this will confuse them. Remembering the name of the file you want to recover is going to be a problem, sure it can use wildcards, I just wonder how many of the younger generation know what a wildcard is. I used to use a CLI a lot on the Amiga, when i changed to a PC i did it a bit then, the machine did have Windows 95 on it, but I thought I would give Ms dos a try and yes I know CLI is not DOS. Thankfully there is plenty of software out there that is easier to use that will do the same job, not that I have ever needed to use one myself. You stop being able to learn new things when you choose to
    1 point
  36. Going to have to stop you right there. I'm 52 and use a console daily. My daughter is 12, and she's experienced no problems with it. My girlfriend's mother is near 70, and holy balls she can remember how to spell words in a terminal tool. That's one of the more ridiculous things I've heard in a long time. I'm all for click-click-done but comon. Oh and fun fact, wildcards work in pretty much every GUI file manager known to man as well. My kid frequently does a wildcard search looking for particular mp3's. Just saying.
    1 point
  37. The top OxygenOS features you need to know about

    Is this a paid article? It reads like one...
    1 point
  38. It's not for that. I'll give an example - say there is a business wide meeting, across continents, you can easily have 300 people dial in, they're not all talking at once. We used to have them every few months with over 100+ participants.
    1 point
  39. Share if your Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) is blocked

    That's what I've seen in WU since the start. Following the link from Learn More is just a headache if you ask me. If it's blocked on your system for a reason they should tell you what that reason is instead of having you try and guess.
    1 point
  40. lol, all I said was I don't trust FB with that responsibility, just like I don't trust them to secure their website, protect user data, or practically anything else. No, you rattled off a whole bunch of nonsense that I listed and you have now dodged. And now you've added another strawman after it. Of course FB has proven it can't be trusted to not cash in on whoever pays them for ads. But that has nothing to do with all the things you brought up afterwards.
    1 point
  41. That's an odd comparison to make. I can have a Bash or PowerShell script create a GUI based window..does that mean those are GUI applications now? Oh, and .NET Core does a wonderful job at console applications, even on headless Linux servers with no display server running whatsoever. No GUI even possible. Don't be afraid of a terminal. So much more productive. This. 100 times. The keyboard isn’t gonna bite, guys. It will be ok!
    1 point
  42. That's an odd comparison to make. I can have a Bash or PowerShell script create a GUI based window..does that mean those are GUI applications now? Oh, and .NET Core does a wonderful job at console applications, even on headless Linux servers with no display server running whatsoever. No GUI even possible. Don't be afraid of a terminal. So much more productive.
    1 point
  43. It also doesn't support CP/M or Windows 2.0. 8.1's still supported for a few more years though, and both use NTFS 2.0. I'm more surprised by the required Win10 build number, leaving out a few supported systems including Server 2019 and LTSC. Not that there's third party options of course, just a bit disappointing.
    1 point
  44. Tell that to those who think global warming is preventable, rather than understanding that it's inevitable, and all the actions taken are only to slow it down. Okay, let's take this apart with facts and science. Your first mistake is making an either/or out of multiple parallel issues. For example, we can absolutely address the housing issues and city planning issues to help with global climate change issues. Even moving as many of us as possible to working from home will absolutely make a huge difference, as we have seen these past few months. And, while replanting all the trees we cut down will no longer reverse the trend, it will absolutely work in tandem with other solutions (see below). Second, you seem to be confusing short and long term issues. For example, we cannot stop climate change right now, only slow it down. So, yes, some change is inevitable, but that doesn't mean that it needs to reach the disastrous levels we are on track to see given our complete lack of efforts over the past 30 years. HOWEVER, that does not mean that it is not reversible! This is really important and so many people don't realize the breadth and scope of what technological solutions are being worked on now to, for example, remove carbon out of the atmosphere directly. Powered by renewable energy sources, we're already testing technology to do this very thing. Unfortunately, that means that it will cost all of us around the world a lot more money going forward than it would have if we had just listened back in the 1980s when the experts and scientists raised the red flag. But that's our fault isn't it? So, perhaps you are getting tagged as a "climate denier" because you are missing many of the pieces to this puzzle? I don't know. But I do hope that this helps give you a broader understanding of the entire issue, such that you can hold your own when someone is being a jerk. I'm not against movements the improve the world, but rather ideas that are costly that don't make sense so your argument here implying I'm talking about planting trees is bad. Read reddit (or any social media) for a moment, and you'll realize there are again people who understand what it means to slow global warming, and those who absolutely believe they'll stop/reverse it. That's just unrealistic, especially when the efforts of modern America and Europe even pale in comparison to nations that don't care or quite frankly, can't afford to care. I'm all for improvements to tech, again going back to 1 where I never said we shouldn't pursue renewable energy and good ideas. Again, this goes back to costly ideas that don't make sense so don't confuse my argument. This is more of good ideas vs. bad ideas, rather than all ideas are good ideas, even if they're costly and show little promise. Lastly, labeling in politics is the simple act of taking what someone said and making it out to be everything BUT what they said. Republicans and democrats do this, along with other political parties. It's almost as if your political affiliation for that matter has nothing to do with one's willingness to listen to logic. At the end of the day, keeping yourself informed is the best thing you can do. If the end goal is to sit on our asses to be fed information, then take no surprise when FOX, CNN, or any local Sinclaire media production tends to show bias or bot like behavior in the way they spoon feed their audience. Personally, I'm just not willing to trust companies to do that job. You're welcome to the idea though, it's worked out SO well thus far. The cost is now irrelevant going forward. Either we watch the planet die and us along with it or we spend what it will take to reverse the damage we have done in addition to the measures to slow down our impact. In fact, the "it costs too much" is the reason these corporations used to stall our efforts for 40 years now. They lied to all of us to pinch a few pennies profit here and there, even after their own internal studies showed what was the inevitable result long before the general public was made aware. I'm not sure what your argument is, but I happen to be one of the experts on /r/science on these topics, so all you seem to be presenting here is uninformed nihilism, deflection, and a strawman argument to boot (see below). You again make a number of assumptions not in evidence. You rant about rightwing propaganda, of which I am offering none of. Then you present a strawman argument claim that I'm saying that corporations will fix this, but I made an argument about SCIENCE and technology solving the problem and all of us having to pay for it. More to the point, what is your actual point?
    1 point
  45. Until ARM chips are made generally available to PC builders and the like outside of just OEMs/ODMs then x86 won't be going anywhere. They are available. No one is interested. PC's are stuck in compatibility land and if we want something new we get a phone or tablet
    1 point
  46. Wow! Can I have some of what you're smoking?! Must be some awesome stuff? FWIW, have never seen a MS retail store anywhere around here! Haven't ever seen an Apple store either, so they're equal on that part!
    1 point
  47. I'd hate for FB to be responsible for moderating that. The age warning does help though; I've had this crap happen on Reddit where an article gets posted, everyone is angry, then they reveal it happened 8 years ago and people are like "oh..." It's just facts supported by evidence, not rocket science. Clearly, op-eds would be free from this issue, since those are just opinion pieces and might be true or just paid Putin propaganda, etc.
    1 point
  48. How about a "this is not true" warning?
    1 point
  49. Desktops Thread: 2Q 2020

    UPDATED - Now with Stardock Curtains! Windows 10 64x ver. 2004 Stardock Curtains: https://www.stardock.com/products/curtains/ Luna theme with custom color set to try to mimic silver Upper right - Rainmeter: https://www.rainmeter.net/ Win10 Widget Theme: https://www.deviantart.com/tjmarkham/art/Win10-Widgets-619765834 Win10 Widget Weather Patch: https://www.deviantart.com/eclectic-tech/art/Win10-Weather-Patch-V3-b-780236969 Taskbar Shadow - TB Shadow by Sweatyfish: https://www.deviantart.com/sweatyfish/art/Taskbar-Drop-Shadow-102794087 Wallpaper - Colorado Desert Skies by Jared Evans: https://unsplash.com/photos/Wwg1TzCuV9E
    1 point
  50. They report the bugs, and then wait for Microsoft to ignore them.
    1 point