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  1. There were paid extensions????? Really?
    7 points
  2. Google is permanently removing paid extensions from the Chrome Web Store

    I had no idea there were paid extensions
    5 points
  3. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    That would be communism... /s But yes, natural born citizens of the US also need to register to vote, sometimes every election cycle depending on the state. It's also a common voter suppression tactic. By making it hard to vote, you ensure that only those people who can afford to go through all the steps will vote. Turnout in US elections is abysmally low. It's very easy to vote in the USA, so nobody has an excuse that it's too hard. You can vote by mail several months in advance, many states allow same day registration at the polls, and you don't need an ID to cast a vote. You're right that voting turnout is generally really low, so a lot of places are practically begging for people to care enough to vote. Personally I think many people are so sick of how hostile and violent US politics has become, they they completely zone it out.
    5 points
  4. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    getting people to register to vote isn't election interference.
    4 points
  5. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    That would be communism... /s But yes, natural born citizens of the US also need to register to vote, sometimes every election cycle depending on the state. It's also a common voter suppression tactic. By making it hard to vote, you ensure that only those people who can afford to go through all the steps will vote. Turnout in US elections is abysmally low. This is a stretch about voter suppression and not being able to afford it. It doesn't cost anything to vote in the US. You register once unless you move between elections and you can go vote. You can also register at the polling place. Some states are slightly different, but it isn't hard. There are people trying to fix something that isn't broke and has worked for many years.
    4 points
  6. Microsoft announces that new features are coming to Cortana

    I like the feature where they killed cortana and just pay lip service now
    4 points
  7. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    They should put more shielding on their equipment.
    4 points
  8. The wireless adapter uses the Xbox proprietary protocol which is lower latency than Bluetooth (6 ms versus bluetooth's 13 ms). It also let's you use up to 8 controllers simultaneously. When you connect an Xbox controller to a pc via Bluetooth, you can only connect 1 bt Xbox controller.
    4 points
  9. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    Please explain how encouraging people to register to vote is election interference.. I'll wait
    3 points
  10. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    Sorry. Its ugly. It truly is.
    3 points
  11. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    That would be communism... /s But yes, natural born citizens of the US also need to register to vote, sometimes every election cycle depending on the state. It's also a common voter suppression tactic. By making it hard to vote, you ensure that only those people who can afford to go through all the steps will vote. Turnout in US elections is abysmally low. this isn't true. It's very easy to vote in the US. It's also free to vote. It doesn't cost anything beyond the gas to drive there. By "voter suppression" you mean, not allowing the dead to vote. Do you know how many dead democrats are voting this year? I have both my parents flagged so they don't try and steal their votes again. They're dead!
    3 points
  12. Would recommend ordering from MS site. Tried Walmart/Amazon when preorders became live and said "Out of Stock". MS site appears to went through. MS site was getting hammered tho and had to refresh several times. EDIT: Got a confirmation email from MS on my order. So order went thru. Looking forward to Nov10th. I got t he Series X since I use my system to play BR movies as well.
    3 points
  13. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    My guess is that TV wasn't functioning normally.
    3 points
  14. That's great news! Hopefully it will encourage native ARM64 apps, but even if it just means ensuring emulated apps will run flawlessly it's a step forward for the platform.
    2 points
  15. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    It's not default on upgrades anyway, not sure about new installs. I switched to it, I really like it.
    2 points
  16. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    It's not mandatory - if you don't like it, chooser a different theme - or no theme at all. (Yes - that is an option.)
    2 points
  17. Microsoft announces a bunch of new features coming to OneDrive

    I'd be happy if their mobile developers could somehow figure out how to limit the Photos tab to just the Photos folder so it doesn't download every. single. freakin'. graphic. image. on. my. entire. freakin'. One. Drive. Thank you . . rant over. Does Microsoft have a programmer who could do that?
    2 points
  18. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    CRTs use a very high voltage and have a lot of emissions, as equipment gets old, it degrades and the leakage of emissions increases (also helped by electrolytic capacitors drying out). CRTs work by actually firing a beam of electrons at the screen, that's why you also have deguassing magnets and systems to rejuvenating old arcade monitors and whatnot.
    2 points
  19. I wonder if thats why the TBW isn't listed on their site. I will stick with my somewhat slower, but better warrantied gigabyte drive. https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...Me-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp" rel="external nofollow">https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...US-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp" rel="external nofollow">https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...RUS-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp 3600TBW. Even Corsair's offering is 3600TBW. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/...2000GBMP600#tab-tech-specs" rel="external nofollow">https://www.corsair.com/us/en/...F2000GBMP600#tab-tech-specs I wonder if the leak Ars saw was supposed to say 3600TBW instead of 600TBW. They are all TLC. This page has the warranty and TBW listed (under specs) https://www.samsung.com/semico...d/product/consumer/980pro/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.samsung.com/semico...sd/product/consumer/980pro/ Thanks, I didn’t find a link to the data sheet. Wow 600 TBW. That’s...that’s pretty bad in comparison to what’s out there. I think I would go with 5000/4400 and 3600TBW vs. this.
    2 points
  20. I wonder if thats why the TBW isn't listed on their site. I will stick with my somewhat slower, but better warrantied gigabyte drive. https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...US-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp" rel="external nofollow">https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...RUS-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp 3600TBW. Even Corsair's offering is 3600TBW. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/...F2000GBMP600#tab-tech-specs I wonder if the leak Ars saw was supposed to say 3600TBW instead of 600TBW. They are all TLC. This page has the warranty and TBW listed (under specs) https://www.samsung.com/semico...sd/product/consumer/980pro/
    2 points
  21. I wonder if thats why the TBW isn't listed on their site. I will stick with my somewhat slower, but better warrantied gigabyte drive. https://www.gigabyte.com/Solid...RUS-NVMe-Gen4-SSD-2TB/sp#sp 3600TBW. Even Corsair's offering is 3600TBW. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Storage/M-2-SSDs/Force-Series%E2%84%A2-Gen-4-PCIe-NVMe-M-2-SSD/p/CSSD-F2000GBMP600#tab-tech-specs I wonder if the leak Ars saw was supposed to say 3600TBW instead of 600TBW. They are all TLC.
    2 points
  22. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    I was discussing a similar issue with one of my companies old ISPs. They had the same issue, an old lady had an old CRT TV and when she turned it on, the broadband on the street became unusable. The locals all chipped in and bought her a new TV, problem went away over night.
    2 points
  23. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    There is no way Openreach found this issue.
    2 points
  24. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    Thats such a wild story, lol
    2 points
  25. My score to this article, on the scale of zero to five: Zero (0) 👎 1. You forgot the part where one has to install the web browser! 2. VirtualBox plus a guest Windows OS offers poor performance 3. Running Windows inside any VM requires a Windows license for the VM. Without the Windows license, you have to ditch the VM once in a while and set up a new one. There are already much better solutions: 1. If you have Windows 10 Pro, install the Application Guard. It runs Microsoft Edge inside Hyper-V with almost no performance penalty. 2. Use Sandboxie or Turbo.net. They can sandbox the web browser without imposing the weight of a whole virtual machine. (Note: Antivirus software have recently become very hostile with Sandboxie, because Sandboxie authors are too poor to pay $5,000 for a digital certificate.) 3. Use Windows Sandbox. It is much faster than a virtual machine. 4. Install WSL+Docker and run Chrome or Firefox inside a container. (For power users only. This is not every grandpa's cup of tea.)
    2 points
  26. Google could release a new $99 Wifi router later this month

    Reminds me of... My captors feed me well and I don't have to think about anything, captivity is the best! :)
    2 points
  27. Google could release a new $99 Wifi router later this month

    My Google WiFi kit ain’t the most powerful kit I have but I never have to worry about anything not working right or them dropping support for it so it’s still my favorite. It took them a bit to get a solid platform but these days I can’t complain about it at all, hoping they get an AX router out soon.
    2 points
  28. [Official] Xbox Series X & Series S Discussion

    Manage to bag one this morning! Bring on Nov!
    2 points
  29. Google could release a new $99 Wifi router later this month

    Google on my home network? No thank you!!!
    2 points
  30. According to the article, it's a woman with beard. But women don't have beards...
    2 points
  31. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    Please explain how encouraging people to register to vote is election interference.. I'll wait Republican playbook is to suppress voting. They know in pure numbers the Democrats win the popular vote. Therefore, for the far right extremists such as @SeriouslyMaD any attempt to encourage voting negates their chance of stealing another election and must be vigorously opposed and there is no limit to the depths they won't stoop to in an effort to suppress voting.
    1 point
  32. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    I know, but yikes!
    1 point
  33. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    Yikes.
    1 point
  34. Razer launches upgraded range of wireless accessories

    IT'S OFFICIAL! Razer has FINALLY made and unleashed the mouse that every Razer fan has been wanting and asking for since 2015 or so, the DeathAdder Wireless!
    1 point
  35. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    That would be communism... /s But yes, natural born citizens of the US also need to register to vote, sometimes every election cycle depending on the state. It's also a common voter suppression tactic. By making it hard to vote, you ensure that only those people who can afford to go through all the steps will vote. Turnout in US elections is abysmally low.
    1 point
  36. Eats more power, has twice less write endurance than 970PRO, and it's 3-bit NAND. Better stock up on the 970s while they are available.
    1 point
  37. I've heard that twice before but I see nothing on my end. For what kind of slowdown must I be on the lookout?
    1 point
  38. Microsoft will become ‘water positive' by 2030

    Saline water isn't safe to drink, and you use a lot of energy desalinating it.
    1 point
  39. Or Windows Dev builds. VirtualBox had been broken for a few months now(green screen)
    1 point
  40. And for those of you with the windows update 2004 with WSL2 get ready for lots of issues with virtualization and extremely slow vm's
    1 point
  41. Google could release a new $99 Wifi router later this month

    Looks like it's the same price point as the new ASUS RT-AX55; a wifi6 (802.11ax) AIMesh compatible router.
    1 point
  42. [Official] Xbox Series X & Series S Discussion

    I feel like a bit of a mug now battling online lol
    1 point
  43. I'd almost forgotten what a Microsoft of confidence was like. It kind of faded during the days of Windows XP. Now that Ballmer's gone and Nadella's era in full-swing, I'm seeing a lot of wheels moving and confidence swelling. The Microsoft I remember is coming back.
    1 point
  44. Emoji 13.1 introduces 217 new emoji characters, coming to devices in 2021

    i am not upset over the content, I just do not see the point in them and it does annoy me when these things end up in normal off-line life. Why? If you don't use them, then cool - if others do then they have reason to. it is when people think they need to send that stuff to me, thankfully most people I message know not to send me messages with that rubbish, but then most people I know thinks the same about it as me. So again if people don’t send it to you, why are you acting so affected by it?
    1 point
  45. ...or about 1windows phone by nokia.
    1 point
  46. Should I get more RAM?

    Yeah 32gb is always good if you have the slots and money available
    1 point
  47. Good grief. Who cares whether they are "hot and cute chicks" as long as they're (hopefully) good at their job. I don't think there's an expectation for men to be "hot and cute" when representing tech companies.
    1 point