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  1. Stardock's Curtains customization tool is now available

    If nothing else, it certainly brings back memories of endlessly looking for a custom theme that doesn't look terrible, giving up and going back to default.
    5 points
  2. Chrome is so terrible it's either a massive RAM hog and when they slightly fix that (it's still a fat slug) it becomes a massive CPU hog. And entire world still flocks to this pile of steaming garbage for some reason. WHY?! It doesn't have any features what so ever, it's not even that fast, they sacked ad blocking API's, so why the hell everyone uses this garbage? Because you can login to google account in it from the menu? I just can't understand the idea behind this insane popularity of Chrome...
    4 points
  3. I'm not about what browser I think is the best or what browser another person doesn't think is the best. I use Chrome because it works and works well for me and my business across many different hardware configs. I have It on 15+ computers including, laptops and about 8 phones. I am integrated into the Google ecosystem and use their other apps as well. The above has nothing whatsoever to do with being a fanboy. If you don't like it, don't use it. Super simple. I never think about how much memory it uses as it never causes me any issues, on any computer I have occasion to use whether it be personal, business or my Mom's, various friends and other Family. It's simply not a problem for me. I have a gaming rig and when I game, I can have Chrome open with 12+ tabs and never know its there. I don't see the uproar.
    3 points
  4. I don't think you can call it a bet when the outcome is given to you beforehand.
    3 points
  5. Xiaomi launches Mi Portable Electric Air Compressor in India

    Is it cloud connected to track my whereabouts, suggest safe places to stop/check tires? Will it auto-dial 911 if I'm shot on the side of the road while inflating my tires? Sensors to monitor outside temps and feed me realtime estimates on how long it will take to inflate? How about connecting me with my friends also filling their tires throughout the community? Whats the subscription fee for timely firmware updates? Inflation stats via site portal?
    3 points
  6. Here's how I read that: You've got a Windows 8.1 machine and a Windows 10 machine. From the 8.1 machine, you -can- fetch files from the 10 machine. From the 10 machine you -can not- fetch files from the 8.1 machine. 8.1 supports grabbing but not serving. As of July 31st, neither supports serving.
    3 points
  7. I'd suggest it's more aligned with their strategy of "Let's do everything in the cloud".
    3 points
  8. Microsoft sneaks in Bing search integration on Android using Outlook

    So then, can I assume you support MS's dubious tactics to promote Bing? If so, you must have no issue with Google's dubious tactics in promoting Google Search then.
    3 points
  9. Some people are just fans who like to try out new gear. It's not for me personally but l understand it. I beta test software all the time. Paid or not paid, I do it to see what's new coming out. Some people like to help out just to do it, no money involved. I have been doing Windows Insider, Xbox Insider, and Apple public betas since they started. People like to play video games, watch tv/movies, it's just about the same thing. Just something to do and the feeling of helping out (even if they are the top billion dollar companies in the world).
    3 points
  10. Nothing Disrupts the System Like an Inquisitive Mind

    PSA: It's as dumb as you'd expect it to be.
    3 points
  11. Nothing Disrupts the System Like an Inquisitive Mind

    I work in a large hospital as a critical care RN and have seen the deaths from this pandemic first hand. I work with COVID-19 patients and I have seen entire families die from this virus. This video is total cr@p. Anyone who believes this is an utter fool. I guess that this is Darwinism at it's best.
    2 points
  12. Because they can. And a lot of people collect Lego.
    2 points
  13. The new Edge, which uses the Chromium engine. It's a great browser, regardless of what the Microsoft RageHate Crew says.
    2 points
  14. Actually it isn't bad, especially when you consider that this system will have several times the CPU performance and 10x or more the GPU performance of the fastest $60,000 Mac Pro configuration.
    2 points
  15. If you want your damn porn remotely then pay me. -MS
    2 points
  16. Everything was sounding good till I got to the price.
    2 points
  17. the more u hear about the nord, the less you want it, they really screw up, plus the holes, lack of headphone jack, the crappy SoC that they are going to use and the absurd price.
    2 points
  18. Another phone I won't consider, since I need a headphone jack for my Square reader to accept credit/debit cards. My current cheapo Samsung A10e from 2019 works just fine.
    2 points
  19. UK mobile networks set to remove Huawei 5G equipment

    Oh yes, we must take notice of our lord and masters in the U.S, the U.K. once again taking orders from the U.S.
    2 points
  20. Expensive ornament.
    2 points
  21. #BringBackWindowsMobile.
    2 points
  22. Lame. My boss uses this feature several times a week. His notebook has limited storage and he's frequently surprised when he needs to dig out an old contact or photo. We just leave his machine on at work and he pulls as he needs. He doesn't want to spend for additional storage on his notebook nor does he want to keep files sitting in cloud storage. Very disappointed that Microsoft keeps choosing to remove features from it's products. I guess I should be thankful they didn't do the reset button of "Here's our new OneDrive! Half the features, but..it's new..and those features will be coming back as exciting 'new' features in the coming years!" This was a feature that has worked well for our particular use case for many years. If their intention was to force people into more cloud usage, it's going to be completely the opposite in our case. I suspect he'll go the route of getting a larger drive and be pretty angry for a long time.
    2 points
  23. The issue that I'm aware of is the scenario where an employee has OneDrive set up on their personal laptop to access their work files via Office 365 and then the employee discovers this option and enables it. The employer ends up with the facility to retrieve any file from the personal laptop regardless of location and this is no good for either the employee or the employer. It is a liability hellhole.
    2 points
  24. This may be due to some security flaw or lack of actual usage. I never used it myself.
    2 points
  25. Pretty sure that's a 6x6 transparent "radar dish": https://www.bricklink.com/v2/c...alogitem.page?P=44375b#T=C" rel="external nofollow">https://www.bricklink.com/v2/c...talogitem.page?P=44375b#T=C Based on those pictures it looks that is part of a mechanism to make Mario go up or down as the "screen" moves. I definitely agree on your comment - I really don't have any interest in the other Mario sets they're selling. If they'd made sets with Minifigs on the characters and creatures that would have been so much more interesting. Oh OK, I didn't watch the video but now I'm guessing the dish glides along the tiles. That makes more sense than a suction cup which wouldn't grip with all of the creases. Does the screen actually scroll on a caterpillar track? That would be crazy. Image 4 of the above seems to suggest turning a crank on the right hand side of the TV moves the picture or Mario.
    2 points
  26. Xiaomi launches Mi Portable Electric Air Compressor in India

    Reporting your tyre pressures back to China! /s
    2 points
  27. Selling ARM would be stupid. Full stop. ARM holds monopoly on mobile devices. They even sell licenses to Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, Apple (yeah, even though their stuff is in-house they still need to pay ARM license because they use ARM architecture or at least parts of it). That's just mobile devices. There are bunch of other devices like routers that also run ARM processors. This thing is huge. But that's quickly a mentality of your owners if they are some sort of investment BS and not actual owner with focus.
    2 points
  28. Huawei's H1 sales rebound amidst criticism of its 5G equipment

    Which it won't. In a supposed situation between the US and China based upon a "cold-war" style campaign, my money would be on China.
    2 points
  29. Lets face it, if this was google they'd totally replace the "web search" option and not even say anything. The only dubious thing here is that the addition isn't limited to just outlook. If it was just outlook specific then I understand it.
    2 points
  30. I kept saying they are no better, but the MS fan boys would not have it.
    2 points
  31. Microsoft sneaks in Bing search integration on Android using Outlook

    The comments on this should be interesting. MS are now behaving like Google has done in the past. MS fans have savaged Google for this type of behavior so I would assume these same Google critics will now attack MS...or will they use the old 'yeah but were not as bad as Google defense'.
    2 points
  32. Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs might have big and little cores

    A better tactic would be big x86 cores + little ARM cores on same SoC/Motherboard. But we're still years away from a OS which would be able to do that seamlessly. Windows NT has been capable of agnostically scheduling and routing threads to varied architectures and instruction sets for years. The OS isn't the limitation, it comes down to performance cost/benefit of those cores. Reference Info: NT CPU/GPU/Etc scheduling which includes translation, conversion and dynamic execution across any type of processor. Examples like x86 code translated and wrapped to run on the faster GPU cores if it would run faster or if the CPU is underload even if the CPU would normally be the faster pathway. There has to be more than a battery/power benefit to what Intel is doing. For example the power consumption being reduced to increase speed of the main cores or keep the processor in consumer power limits. For example, one thoughts is that instead of having 16 big and power hungry cores, smaller tasks could run on 8 little cores which would not impede the clock frequency or power needs of the 8 big cores, thus allowing more efficient threads without a per core clockspeed drop across the CPU. This approach would also make sense based on what Intel hold over AMD, and that is core clock speed and performance. Intel could use this model to keep their all core clock speeds higher while offering more threads for light tasks. Thus giving them 10600K core speeds on 16+ core CPUs.
    2 points
  33. OnePlus Buds truly wireless earbuds to launch alongside OnePlus Nord

    Why all earbuds looks like apple’s AirPod cheap knock offs
    2 points
  34. Nothing Disrupts the System Like an Inquisitive Mind

    LOL the old "watch it before it's removed" rhetoric to get more people to watch it. As my sig says, keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out and this guy is throwing it against the wall hoping it sticks. You'll need your tin foil hat for this vid.
    2 points
  35. iPhone 5S dying on me...

    I'd be extremely surprised if it wasn't.
    2 points
  36. Stardock's Curtains customization tool is now available

    The paid themes, many of which look ultra tacky, are what killed it for me.
    1 point
  37. Nothing Disrupts the System Like an Inquisitive Mind

    Same, insofar as I have personally seen families where more than one person, previously healthy and within the age brackets deemed “less risk” die. This is why I get so infuriated when people deny it! Hope you are coping ok with what you’re going through!
    1 point
  38. RIP: Grant Imahara at 49 (Mythbusters)

    Grant Imahara, Host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' Dies at 49 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101
    1 point
  39. There is Microsoft Edge, I don't care what Google to with Chrome
    1 point
  40. Amen. Windows/Chrome give up the RAM if needed anyway. People just love to moan about the "high" RAM usage.
    1 point
  41. Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs might have big and little cores

    Windows NT is the most advanced OS kernel scheduling technology in the history of humanity, of course you would think it is junk. Care to elaborate with ANY specific example? Anything? Nope, ok moving on. FFS
    1 point
  42. So apple gets away with it in every other country!
    1 point
  43. I think Windows 10 is ok for anything lower than 64 cores.
    1 point
  44. Pretty sure that's a 6x6 transparent "radar dish": https://www.bricklink.com/v2/c...talogitem.page?P=44375b#T=C Based on those pictures it looks that is part of a mechanism to make Mario go up or down as the "screen" moves. I definitely agree on your comment - I really don't have any interest in the other Mario sets they're selling. If they'd made sets with Minifigs on the characters and creatures that would have been so much more interesting. Oh OK, I didn't watch the video but now I'm guessing the dish glides along the tiles. That makes more sense than a suction cup which wouldn't grip with all of the creases. Does the screen actually scroll on a caterpillar track? That would be crazy.
    1 point
  45. Wait for one more year and you will receive iPhone without battery.
    1 point
  46. Need a laptop suggestion

    Judging by all the reviews I have seen, look into getting an AMD Ryzen 4000 series laptop. The performance for price is amazing. Maybe something from this list might float your boat https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/fw02jz/ryzen_4000_series_laptop_guide_megathread/
    1 point
  47. Nothing Disrupts the System Like an Inquisitive Mind

    Thanks for saving people time.
    1 point
  48. SEGA's Genesis Mini is currently discounted to $50 on Amazon

    Anyone want to play these games Could have done so in an emulator for decades.
    1 point
  49. It boggles the mind there is no glass option in Windows when they achieved it with Vista 13 years ago, but I believe the official explanation was about technical limitations and hardware manufacturers (and consumers) not being happy about it not working on all hardware. It was never about technical limitations, it was about perception and maybe a bit of battery usage along with dumb MFRs complaining. The irony is MS gave them 'Starter' edition - which was slower than using the newer compositor. There were 1000 guides on how to turn off Aero/Glass/Blur/DWM/etc. Because users 'thought' it was slower because it was pretty, this created disparity with users rejecting and turning off the composer. Windows 8 turned it all off because the Composer was forced on. This was to prevent users from screaming about the 'pretty effects' and preventing them from turning it off. Which worked. There are guides now that tell users to turn off blur/transparency - even though there is zero performance hit on hardware made in the last 10 years. I agree, and wish Microsoft would just turn it back on everywhere. It exists outside the Windows chrome, with Acrylic being used in most Windows Apps.
    1 point