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  1. registering for a pre-order... right... this is as bad as teaser trailers for trailers.
    10 points
  2. Can it make me sound like Bane?
    7 points
  3. In an age of runaway global heating, does the world really need Bitcoin?
    5 points
  4. How about to add history sync?
    4 points
  5. Trump doesn't care about it being a China based platform, he's just mad it screwed up his Tulsa rally and threw egg in his face. Even if Walmart or MS buy it, I seriously doubt he'll just rescind his order. shockz - what in Ned did Donald Trump do to you? You are looking for ANY thing you can to throw egg in his face - even something as far left field as that "accusation" (Basically, you are acting in the same way you are accusing Trump of acting.) Do you even realize that? Sigh.
    4 points
  6. Trump doesn't care about it being a China based platform, he's just mad it screwed up his Tulsa rally and threw egg in his face. Even if Walmart or MS buy it, I seriously doubt he'll just rescind his order.
    4 points
  7. Vader voice module or no go!
    3 points
  8. No no, competitors need consent. Apple's own advertising network will track you as freely as it likes ^.^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...cebook-google-wont-on-ios14
    3 points
  9. I'd rather go back to apps that you paid for, they did what they did, and that was it. No privacy invasion, no ads, no subscription to do the most mundane of tasks. In fact, I distinctly remember an app from some dev called PSQUARE that had ads and tried to trick people into paying $4.99 a WEEK. That's just criminal. The very fact that they try to get access to your data on top of it... nah, the hell with that. They can make a good product FIRST. I'm not losing sleep over these half-assed apps.
    3 points
  10. yeah, not worth watching.
    2 points
  11. Excited about the new game. But, man, was that video equally pretentious and vapid. Some of those live action shots of the developers with the swelling music? I don't blame them, of course, but give me a ######ing break.
    2 points
  12. Google Duo is coming to Android TV

    Yeah, just in time to roll this out before they kill Duo.
    2 points
  13. Microsoft lists the new features being added to Edge this month

    Exactly. And a Linux build. I'd also really appreciate extensions on mobile (all I need is tampermonkey tho), but I could live without that. yeah I'm surprised linux support hasn't been implemented yet. they keep "promising" it's coming. Out of everything that should be the easiest to do since chromium already nativally supports the linux environments
    2 points
  14. Google Duo is coming to Android TV

    I heard Google Duo was been discontinued? So Meet or Duo ?
    2 points
  15. If Apple keeps this attitude up, I will definitely give up android and hop in to iOS again. Well done Apple!
    2 points
  16. When will they fix the stupid live tiles from freezing with a progress bar? So damn annoying.
    2 points
  17. TikTok's CEO Kevin Mayer quits after just three months

    He'll probably receive a payout worth more than I'll earn in an entire lifetime.
    2 points
  18. Whole situation in Kenosha is unacceptable from the start and from both sides. Why cops now do not have cameras required, I do not know. All cops need body cams and need to keep them on at all times. And if for some reason they were off, then the cop needs to be reprimanded and if to many violations, fired. They also need to be better trained and the cops protecting each other needs to stop. That happens way to often. And people causing the violence and destruction are not protesters like what the media projects them as. They are criminals, plain and simple. Protesters are the ones who are peaceful and doing things right. Do protests get heated? Sure, but burning businesses and causing property damage and harm to individuals are unacceptable and makes these unlawful acts and the people criminals. Violence is still raging in Portland and in both Portland and Kenosha, the victims families are calling for things to remain peaceful. But their wishes are falling on deaf ears. And all this violence and destruction does is take away from the real issues. All the focus is on the violence and very little focusing on what happened and how to address the problems with the police. Someone threw a brick at a Police officer in Kenosha and he was in really bad shape and the people laughed and cheered. Businesses and individuals being harmed that have nothing to do with what happened. People eating in DC are being harassed and threatened if they do not raise their fists and say what the "protesters" want them to say. I understand people want justice and this to stop, but they are responding with the same acts they are speaking out against which makes them hypocrites and makes people not want to listen to them. And I know some here may disagree with me here, and it is their right, but I still firmly believe most cops are just fine and do things the right way. But the media, again, mainly reports on just he negative/bad side and you hear nothing about the good things cops do. Victims families have made similar comments and made comments that they do not want to defund the police. They want more/better trained police. My cousin's husband is a cop in the Houston/Dallas area and I really feel for him and hope he is safe. And I would say all cops need to go through training and a refresh every now and then. Businesses and residents are leaving Portland because the Gov cannot seem to get things under control there. Shall see if the Feds can put an end to the violence in Kenosha, or make things worse. If they help end the violence quickly, then maybe Portland needs to ask for assistance like WI/Kenosha did. But again, Fed presence may make things worse but shall see. Anyway, hope things get under control soon so the issues can be heard clearly and then real change can happen.
    2 points
  19. A lot of apps are still lagging behind in doing notifications "right" because Windows didn't really have a halfway decent notifications system until Windows 10. One developers are comfortable with dumping Windows 7 / 8 support, we'll see wider adoption of this since they won't need to lug around their own custom notification systems anymore. Mac OS X went through the same mess a decade ago. Centralized notification system didn't come along until Mountain Lion in 2012 , and before that, people either rolled their own, or built on top of a third-party notification tool called Growl. The problem is that Teams wasn’t released until Windows 10 had been out for 2 years already.
    2 points
  20. "You are an idiot! Ha ha ha ha ha" -virus
    2 points
  21. It will break through your wallet.
    2 points
  22. " Apple's latest operating system for iPhone will make it harder for businesses to track user data by preventing apps from collecting those data using Apple’s device identifier without their consent" Let me grab my violin.
    2 points
  23. Awesome! By the way, these "collect and share data" options are coming enabled by default in almost every app/program and game for any platform, that should be illegal in the first place! People don't check the settings, so they don't even know about it.
    2 points
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  25. Dear lord, why the hell did it take this long to implement???? You would think Microsoft would be able to use their own native APIs in all their own apps at least ....
    2 points
  26. We'll have to see but if there's one thing about battery tech, what's said and what is delivered are two very different things, we always hear so many promising new battery techs but they don't make it to market or if they do, not in an impacting way.
    2 points
  27. Should I update my WIndows 10 USB installation media?

    update, you will have 1903 and installing 1903 now is non-sense, updating it will save you time to update from 1903 to 2004 later.
    2 points
  28. Your largest installed games?

    Road Rash is pretty big, but Sonic 3 & Knuckles wins with a height of 13cm.
    2 points
  29. Microsoft lists the new features being added to Edge this month

    I don't like the new Quick Links UI, blends too much into the Bing Daily Wallpaper background
    1 point
  30. Fairphone introduces the Fairphone 3+, but you can just upgrade the 3

    Seemingly only Europe
    1 point
  31. Red screen - No boot

    old adobe software will work fine on Windows 10, don't believe what Adobe tells you.
    1 point
  32. Goes to the comment I made that cops need to stop protecting each other. Cops are like a fraternity and if you squeal on a one another, then everyone hates you and you are labeled a nark or retaliated against. Which is unacceptable. Body cam requirements also need to be mandatory for all police nationwide as that will help determine the facts of the incident. And lots are using what is happening as an excuse to loot and commit crimes. Shooting in Minneapolis last night where a guy shot another and the police found him. The police approached the guy and he pulled out a gun and shot himself. The suspect committed suicide. Without the facts coming out, people starting to riot and loot again. Calling for harm against the cops or for them to be arrested. Another shooting a few days ago in Chicago I believe. Cops were pursuing a person and that person shot at him so the cops returned fire. Riots/looting again and people were spreading false info that the cops shot a kid. I understand people are upset, I am with them. I have several black people in my family and they are tired of it but are keeping a cool head. Everyone needs to settle down so the focus can be directed to solutions to the problems and not focusing on getting order back in the cities and addressing other crimes like looting, assault, vandalism, and murders "protesters" are committing. Listen to the victims families who are calling for peace and calm as if people should listen to anyone now, it is the victims families. Then of course you have people of all races using what is happening as an excuse to do criminal acts. They do not care about what is going on and think it gives them a free pass. Once found, then need to be prosecuted and made an example of as their acts are adding fuel to the fire and drowns out those who are doing things right.
    1 point
  33. Incoming personal take that you'll probably just disregard and just class it as as a slanted opinion... I personally know police officers... some I grew up with, others have been friends that chose that career path, others I became acquainted with when I moved and had to work with them for my job. Hell, a few of them I found on dating apps lol. They're okay most of the time, until they're not, but doing things the right way? Depends. They regularly let things slide with their close friends, and I'm not just talking about traffic tickets... i.e... selling drugs, drinking and driving, some domestic abuse exceptions. Filing complaints, and I actually have as it was a family situation... typically do nothing outside of generate a union meeting with their rep, and at worst place them on desk duty for a few days. It's a waste of time. Almost all of them can cite traffic code off the top of their head, have no problem running into a burning building, or a dangerous situation, but when it gets into the nitty gritty things about rights, and what they can and can't do when a civilian resists, that's when it becomes woefully apparent that it's the Wild West out there. It's pretty terrifying. And their egos tend to take over. A few are indeed racists, not all of them, but the ones that are... when they discuss their actions with what they've done to black vs white examples, blacks usually are portrayed in a much more negative light, as well as the actions they take against them. I.e instead of letting them go for a small amount of weed they smell when pulling over for a traffic offense, instead of just confiscating it like they would a white person and issuing a citation, they'll search the car, usually find nothing, and then bring a dog just to be sure. They hold them up, seeing if they can get them on something else. None of them have gone and shoot up anyone of course, but that systemic racism is clearly there, and has become part of police culture. One of the guys I know was actually fired due to an incident where he didn't like his daughter was dating a black man, was late getting home, took his police car and searched for them, pulled them over, and in a fit of rage arrested him for no reason, tossed him in the back of his car, and admitted on camera it was because he didn't like him, and before someone thinks I'm pulling that one out of my ass.. that one made national news actually. The police department he was on is generally a good department, and in fact stood in solidarity with the BLM protests that occurred here, and have constantly been engaged within the community, so their actions do indeed speak louder than words, the problem I have is that officer was with the force for decades, and his opinions and actions were widely known. Nothing was done until there was actual irrefutable video evidence that couldn't be swept under the rug. That's the problem. The department doesn't care to do anything until they get caught red handed by the public. Of course there are good cops out there, the problem is they enable their racist coworkers into doing terrible things by simply not speaking up or taking a stand against it. When it comes to being an officer, and enforcing the law, not saying anything is completely unacceptable behavior. And while it's only my opinion here, out of the 21 cops I personally know, I'd say at least 8 of them are racist, and almost all of them have skirted the line on making exceptions for their close friends. In just from listening to them describe their actions while on the job. They're from different departments, sometimes in different states, that's not a good percentage... and while it's certainly not a majority, that's still a good chunk of them. How that problem is fixed, well, I don't think it ever will be. We're too polarized as a country, culture that focuses on triggers instead of the actual problem.
    1 point
  34. Firefox 80.0

    I assume this applies to stuff like YouTube etc? ; because currently I can tell it's not using GPU h264 acceleration even though with stuff like SMPlayer (paired with mpv) it does use GPU h264 acceleration when I enable 'cuda' in the options on typical .mkv (x264) files I got. For YouTube GPU h264 acceleration you're gonna need the h264ify add-on. Do you have it installed? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ I have not installed that extension (I have heard of it though) but ain't that the point of this Firefox v80 release is to get GPU assisted video playback without us having to do any additional stuff? ; or am I misunderstanding you? ; because, to my knowledge, there is already some level of GPU assisted rendering for the browser itself in Linux but that it mainly lacks in not assisting video playback like it does on Windows. plus, it seems like with that extension it forces YouTube to use h264 instead of vp9 etc. but from what I know it seems vp9 is more efficient with bandwidth/image quality even though apparently is a bit more taxing on CPU. my internet connection is definitely slower than most to (i.e. 400-420KB/s). It's a little more complicated than that but I really don't have time to go into details right now, apologies. Anyway, I made it work, here's how: https://www.reddit.com/r/firef..._in_firefox_stable_version/ It's crucial to add the "MOZ_X11_EGL=1" environment variable to /etc/environment. In your terminal c/p: sudo -H nano /etc/environment and then c/p "MOZ_X11_EGL=1" (without quotes), save and restart the browser. Thanks for the info. but I followed those steps (I don't have to reboot computer after adding the "MOZ_X11_EGL=1" to the 'environment' file do I(?) ; because I did not reboot) and things are basically the same. I even tried to add the h264 Firefox extension you linked to and it does not seem to make any obvious difference in CPU usage even though I can tell it did change the codec on YouTube as one video I was testing was initially vp9 prior to that Firefox extension installation and now it's showing avc1 on the 'stats for nerds' (i.e. right click YouTube video and select 'stats for nerds') on YouTube. because when I play a h264 (x264) 720p or 1080p video on SMPlayer (paired with MPV), with 'cuda' enabled in the options etc (which enables GPU accelerated video playback), CPU usage is quite low (floating around 5% give or take). so I know that's working. but with Firefox things seem to be pretty much the same, which is around 20% (give or take) on my i5-3550 CPU. NOTE: I am using Linux Mint v19.3-Cinnamon with NVIDIA driver v440.100. I got a 1050 Ti 4GB GPU. but I did notice a comment from about 16 hours ago on that link of yours... "Please be aware that Nvidia proprietary driver will not be able to use VA-API acceleration on Linux." ; assuming that's true, I assume that's why I am seeing no difference? p.s. it appears GPU acceleration will be on by default in Firefox v81 Most likely that's the issue. It seems that Nvidia graphics cards with their proprietary drivers don't play nice with browser acceleration on Linux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
    1 point
  35. Lighting could be better but it isn't that bad. IMHO, what lacks is the material grit. Now everything looks like plastic...even he grass. Is it fixable by the release date, that is a real question.
    1 point
  36. So much wasted resources for some Monopoly money...
    1 point
  37. Sounds like they're bringing him in to give it the final approval or make any changes needed to the story.
    1 point
  38. Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20201 to the Dev channel

    yes, I have a 40GB partition for the installation and the upgrade to 20201 fails with "not enough disk space" the windows\softwaredistribution\download folder gets filled with a lot of stuff.. that did not happen with previous upgrades. will try to upgrade by ISO.
    1 point
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  40. Its Raining Goodness
    1 point
  41. Red screen - No boot

    It's a miracle !!!!!! I changed the monitor and VOILÀ !!!! I had no idea that a bad monitor would prevent a PC from loading at all. First stop tomorrow morning - a new backup HD (was done last June) and a new monitor. Thanks to you all :-) :-)
    1 point
  42. LOL, they are actually presenting this as it was a bad thing...to ask user consent to gather personal info...thanks for the laugh FB.
    1 point
  43. oh boo hoo; you need to get consent to scrounge for info about your users now.... Good, hasn't Android had this same "limitation" functionality for a couple versions now? they SHOULD have to get consent to gather personal/habitual information...
    1 point
  44. So what, like Pokemon Go but instead of capturing critters, slaying monsters?
    1 point
  45. YouTube removed the most number of videos in a single quarter in Q2 2020

    Yay for censorship, amarite?
    1 point
  46. I'm surprised he didn't claim "420%" increase . . .
    1 point
  47. Musk: Tesla may be able to produce batteries with 50% more energy density

    From Germany to Croatia on one charge would be a cool thing honestly, as much as I dislike electric cars. For my use cases, I can't start to consider electric until recharge times drop dramatically, not just range exceeding 400 miles. I'd need recharges that are measured in single minutes not hours and available at just about every 'gas' station. In a cross country drive (which we take many times a year) we usually do 800-900 mile days. Often times we have a choice of only one or two 'dusty' gas stations at a stop. I'm not going to drive around looking for a charger than sit and stop for an hour minutes every 400 miles just to recharge. If it's not fast and convenient, it's not yet something I can consider. I understand we are the exceptions rather than the rule and that most others would be 100% covered by 400-500 mile range.
    1 point
  48. I said it before and I will say it again, that man have mental health problems
    1 point
  49. Dopamine

    They are 2 different things. But gapless requires short crossfading to mask the click or pop that can occur when switching tracks. Closing and reopening the audio device can cause this, and even if the player would play the files directly after each other, without crossfading, users won't be happy, as they would still hear a click between tracks. Quite some trickery is required to have a perfect illusion of gapless. That is why gapless is never the first feature a player supports. I honestly find it annoying. Annoying that we need so much effort and trickery to get around the fact that the format (files) is being misused and that a feature of a totally different format is expected. It's like when switching from horses to cars, the car drivers would expect car makers to make cars jump up and down to simulate the horse's walk on pavement.
    1 point