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  1. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    Thanks for the reminder, Captain Obvious. Doesnt change the fact that the theme is ugly as sin.
    6 points
  2. Microsoft to release a new perpetual license version of Office next year

    What? That's those old plastic things that look like "Save" icons.
    5 points
  3. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    Sorry. Its ugly. It truly is.
    5 points
  4. I agree but it doesn't just apply to Supergirl, Hollyweird takes actual current social issues and then just runs with it until you are fed up of it getting slapped in your face all the time.
    3 points
  5. 'Supergirl' Canceled: Why the CW Show is Ending After Six Seasons

    Here's my personal opinion on why this show sank like the Titanic, and please tell me if you agree or not. It's ok. When this show premiered, it was great. The stories were very good. The characters. Everything was about Supergirl, especially the episodes where Superman made his cameos. That was good. Great visuals. Great story. Lots of action, but then something happened: They went into LGBT land and everything went straight to hell. Mind you, this is supposed to be a "Family Show", so before those of you who are gay or belong to the LGBT community get on my case, let me make something very clear to you: I have absolutely nothing against the gay community as I have many friends who are gay. This isn't about that, is about the show and what it was supposed to represent and the audience it was supposed to be directed at. Like I said, this show began as a family show, which means little girls, little boys, teens would be watching it, as well as some adults. In the beginning it was great, but then they shifted to the lesbian/gay story lines and all of the sudden, we see two women kissing each other on a show that was supposed to be a "Family Oriented" show. Now, those parents who were letting their children see this show for what it was, are no longer letting their children see it. Why? Because even though being gay is a norm in our society now, there are still parents out there who think otherwise and now you have millions of families, who at one point supported the show, drop their support because of this. Supergirl was no longer a Family show once that line was crossed. It was a gamble and they knew it. The gamble failed and now they are paying for it. The ratings speak for themselves. I had mentioned this to them on their official YouTube channel last year. I told them they needed to ease down on the lesbian/gay storylines for the sake of the ratings and the fact that the show was supposed to be a family show, not a PG-13 soap opera. The show went from "The Adventures of Supergirl" to "The Adventures of my Gay Sister Alex". Every episode after Season 3 was just simply bad. Tyler Hoechlin made Season 2 of Supergirl worth watching. Season 3 was good, especially the end of it. The last episode of Season 3 was action-filled and the visuals were amazing, sadly every season after that was bad, for the reason mentioned above. Supergirl became just another, boring soap opera show. There were so many wonderful stories and things they could have adapted from the comics and make the show successful for another few seasons, but instead the writers chose to dive into waters they should have never dove into and damaged the show and it's original vision and direction. Good news is, we will have more "Super" action as Tyler Hoechlin is returning to be Superman full time soon with his own show, and I am quite positive Melissa will make a cameo as Supergirl on his show, just like he did on hers, from time to time, so it won't be the last we see of her character. Let's hope, for the sake of his show, that they don't make the same mistakes they made with Supergirl.
    3 points
  6. Seriously doubt if the end is near for Windows, but always good to have choices. Have to give kudo's to Lenovo for doing this.
    3 points
  7. Have you ever actually used swift?
    3 points
  8. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    Trumpies thought processes just continue to blow my mind. What you posted literally makes no sense. None. And yes, hopefully he deletes it and moves to Parler, where it'll be a echo chamber of insanity, that nobody outside his base would ever care to visit. Perfect.
    3 points
  9. It is a pity Adobe do not follow with their software. So fair play to Ms at least they are giving people a choice, the problem is what will the price be? I have to go and install Office on a Mac on Thursday, that will be fun as I know very little about a Mac. After the last MAC Os update my mates older version of Office don't work any more, so he had to buy the latest version Myself, I will stick with Libre office.
    3 points
  10. 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?
    3 points
  11. 'Supergirl' Canceled: Why the CW Show is Ending After Six Seasons

    You are the only one here that has found it rude, so........Whatever you say sweetheart.
    2 points
  12. 'Supergirl' Canceled: Why the CW Show is Ending After Six Seasons

    You are obviously a little too sensitive to have an adult conversation of this type without being on the defensive and rude so let's leave it at that as I have no time for immature comments such as yours. Come back when you grow up more.
    2 points
  13. 'Supergirl' Canceled: Why the CW Show is Ending After Six Seasons

    Cat Grant leaving the show was a big loss. She was their best character.
    2 points
  14. 98, long life. My grandfather will be 96 in the next couple months. Lives lone, cooks himself, still drives, mows his own lawn (riding mower). Old farmer. Just do not build them like that anymore.
    2 points
  15. 'Supergirl' Canceled: Why the CW Show is Ending After Six Seasons

    I stopped watching it midway through season 1 because my eyes started hurting from all the 🙄 I was doing from the storylines.
    2 points
  16. Well not exactly. It is more of a replacement for the 1980s Objective C crap they have been dragging around. Outside of the Appleland, it is in xcode and has some linux following, and it can almost perform as well as C# on .NET Core. It has some interesting concepts, but imho, doesn't do any of them or anything exceeding well. It does best Objective C in performance most of the time, even if its binaries are heavier. It is something everyone that programs or likes languages should play with and understand. It isn't something anyone should devote their life to, as I'm not even sure Apple will not diverge to something else, especially with the need for other concepts for handling newer threading models in ARM that will be important. - I'm no expert on Swift, just played with it a bit, and listened to a few colleagues drum on about it, either saying it has potential, or talking about how it is another bloated crap pile from Apple. The truth is probably mixed in between.
    2 points
  17. The team working on this are doing a great job, these updates are coming at a very nice speed and bringing a good bit with them. For quite some time the *nix fans would hate on Windows because of the limits in cmd.exe, Powershell started to change that, but now with the new Windows Terminal and all the WSL support, things have come a long way.
    2 points
  18. Swift makes its way to Windows 10, toolchain images now available

    Have you ever actually used swift? Clearly not if it's only just been released for non-mac OS's Talking from a place of ignorance and then confirming it? https://tenor.com/uXSy.gif
    2 points
  19. [Official] Xbox Series X & Series S Discussion

    Just to support the idiocy of MS naming conventions; Xbox One X sales skyrocketed on Amazon today and mistakes may have been made - The Xbox One X sales rank was up 700% the day Xbox Series X went up for pre-order. Source
    2 points
  20. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    2 points
  21. I take it you've never travelled to another country (so don't have a passport). You don't drive a car (so you don't have a driving licence). You've never purchased a property (so don't have bank account) This is neither the fault of YouTube or the EU that you have no identification
    2 points
  22. I think perpetual licenses are much better value for home users. For something like Office with the exception of Outlook I use Office no where near enough at home to justify the subscription. If I didn't get Office 365 though work i'd buy a perpetual version of Office and just run it for as long as it got updates. In a business environment though its a great way of staying current without spending large sums of money every couple of years (which accounts hate!). Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, OneDrive and Teams all under a single monthly payment per user is hard to argue against.
    2 points
  23. Icons not showing on mini spy or in create new topic

    This should be fixed
    2 points
  24. They missed a chance for some great alliteration with the title. "Detroit driver detained for dangerous, daredevil drawbridge dash"
    2 points
  25. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    The US government has been de-registering voters without warning or notice. So not only do citizens need to register to vote, they need to regularly check if they are still registered.
    2 points
  26. This was my thought as well. Adobe has no guarantee they will have dominance, and there are a ton of bitter users for this reason. I know two people, who have now dropped Adobe and gone for Serif affinity, yes I know it is only two, but that is only from my small group of people, Honestly, I need to look into this, possibly at the end of the year when I've the time. Adobe's subscription model is starting to annoy me.
    2 points
  27. This was my thought as well. Adobe has no guarantee they will have dominance, and there are a ton of bitter users for this reason. I know two people, who have now dropped Adobe and gone for Serif affinity, yes I know it is only two, but that is only from my small group of people,
    2 points
  28. Almost all the details of the upcoming Pixel 5 leak

    Almost all the other flagships offer the same, or more, camera capability now. It's only selling point is vanilla Android and some great google assistant tie ins, but well, that's really not enough for me anymore. Especially at that price. Close to 800 for a sub flagship soc. No thanks, if I was getting a Pixel I'd opt for their "a" line.
    2 points
  29. 1TB of OneDrive for everyone in the family for under $100? Yes please. It comes with Office too.
    2 points
  30. I think this is better, the 365 subs get the new features first as they roll out, then at some point MS takes a snapshot and does a release like this one. Why go full sub if you still have demand for buying it the old way? Anyways, I'm still on 2013, I use Outlook the most but I think it's time to upgrade to this next version when the time comes.
    2 points
  31. Not everyone wants to pay perpetual subscriptions for software they don't ever own. I want my software on floppy disks.
    2 points
  32. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    getting people to register to vote isn't election interference.
    2 points
  33. 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.
    2 points
  34. Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

    From The Reg article As UK telco Zen helpfully explains, SHINE and its relative REIN (Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise) generate interference “in the frequencies used by the ADSL Broadband service.” “SHINE is where this interference is generated as a burst – when a device is powered on or off, for example,” says Zen. “As a result disconnections or line errors may result at the time a device is switched on or off.” Zen explains that an AM radio can detect SHINE-emitting kit. Openreach’s statement on the matter says its “most experienced engineers” were put on the job after 18 months of outages and failed attempts at fixes. “As a final resort we decided to bring in a crack squad of engineers from the Chief Engineers Office who were based in other parts of the UK to investigate,” said Openreach engineer, Michael Jones. “Accommodation was understandably hard to find due to the Covid-19 lockdown but we did eventually manage to find a guest house with a field near Llandrindod Wells, so the team camped there and made the 55-mile journey to early the next morning.” Jones said the team fired up the spectrum analyser and took to Aberhosan’s streets at 6:00 AM – in a downpour, no less – and as the clock struck 07:00 “picked up a large burst of electrical interference in the village.” “It turned out that at 07:00 every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would in-turn knock out broadband for the entire village.”
    2 points
  35. I'm surprised to see so many people complain about VirtualBox performance with Windows. I've been using it for 10+ years and, aside from the occasional audio hiccup that is fixed with a reboot, I haven't had any performance problems... Keep in mind I'm not recommending people play Crysis in the VM, just browse the web which doesn't require many resources at all. It’s a slow application. I’ve not had any issues with it either but I will take a type 1 hypervisor over it any day. That said, in regards to secure browsing, any one who has Windows Sandbox available is better off in every way from performance to ease of use, to even security vs. Virtualbox. I haven't noticed it being slow at all, and tons of people in the Infosec community use it every day... Plus, I believe Sandbox is only available on Windows 10 Pro. Tough crowd though in the comments... Seems like I wasted my time writing it I guess... Virtualbox is definitely slower vs. alternatives. If you haven’t compared them, then no you won’t notice it being slower. Which is fine, as I said, I don’t have an issue with it being a slow application and for the price of free, nor do many others. In regards to Sandbox, I did say: “any one who has Windows Sandbox available” to make it clear it wasn’t available for everyone. Don’t take the criticism personally, take it as a way to improve yourself. Nobody is attacking you, so I see no reason to sulk about it.
    2 points
  36. I'm all in favor of the unban because it should happend within the Law, not some clown with power. If there is evidence it does spy, then let the law determine it's punishment, not from man with the power of a pen. That's call dictatorship
    2 points
  37. I never understand the thing behind Microsoft’s app retirement strategies. They mention telemetry says that People app is not launched from Start. So far, so good. Why exactly they decided to retire it? They got angry with users? They cannot maintain... an icon?
    1 point
  38. I guess you should have done some research before you bought it, then. My NVidia Shield Android TV box came out in 2017 and is still getting updates (a new update just last week). It's performance is spectacular. Lol I found one for about £20 on ebay but still expected a bit more. Will got Roku in future if I need one of those smart boxes. If you bought some piece of shite on ebay for 20 pounds, you didn't get an actual Android TV box. You got something that uses a bastardized generic Android implementation designed for phones.
    1 point
  39. It also blows all the nodejs/rust/etc terminals out of the water.
    1 point
  40. Microsoft to release a new perpetual license version of Office next year

    Except if you want cloud storage, you get 6TB of space for only $99 per year. That’s cheaper than any other cloud storage service. Plus you get the entire office suite for free. So instead of looking at it as a office subscription, see it as a darn cheap cloud storage/backup subscription that happens to include the perk of free access to all office apps including (Access and Publisher that isn’t available in Office He editions)! While I appreciate that, I already have other cloud storage solutions and I'm not really using them as it is. It's just a personal preference, I guess.
    1 point
  41. Mozilla launches Firefox 81 with new Alpenglow theme

    The new theme is actually good! Don't know why so much hate?!
    1 point
  42. Twitter begins U.S. voter registration campaign

    Funny... in the US, college students would try to convince you this is racist... after they make bonehead assumptions that being a minority means you're either poor or too dumb to know how to get an ID. The reality is that anyone who's had to live off some sort of welfare should know they likely already have a form of identification to receive those benefits. 🤷‍♂️ There is so much wrong with everything you wrote, I wouldn't even know where to begin. "Here, let me define a liberal college student, and then tell you why they are wrong based on my insane definition." That is just the first couple of words. Why even equate citizenship to racism? How do you get there? This sounds like the thinking of a Fox news host, and one of the really dumb ones. Do you think there is no racism or systematic racism? Do you want me to share a story about my neighbors growing up, that trained dogs to attack black people, and how a little girl was killed one day? This is real life kiddo, this is not some made up FOX reality. I do hope you never say a thing here, but someday go ask why what you said sounds a bit crazy. I see your comments here, you are too bright to have such a massive disconnect in critical thinking.
    1 point
  43. 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. I know you are trying to be helpful, but you are providing incorrect information. One example: THERE ARE PLACES THAT PHOTO ID (of a specific kind) is required to vote. Also about it being hard. I once fought to get registered in the year 2000 for over six months with nearly 40 pages of submissions and applications that resulted in me getting an attorney and suing the county clerks office. I'm glad it has always been easy for you, but this is just not the case for everyone. Oh, another example, my friend submitted their registration 4 times, with it being returned saying their birth town was missing from the application. Which I saw, it was literally printed on the registration. The 5th time, I told them to change their party affiliation to Republican from Democratic, and it was accepted. There were 6 people on our block that had to do the same thing in the year 2004 - "Birth Town is missing" "Birth Date is missing" when it was clearly on the form - they changed from Democratic to Republican and their registration was then accepted, and they were able to later change affiliation. This is 7 people in a community of about 20 people. (This stuff isn't even illegal, as it is seen as a plausible mistake/error.) Go look at some of the lingering Jim Crow laws, many things that have returned since the Supreme Court ruling they no longer had to oversee state discrimination laws.
    1 point
  44. 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. Affordability includes incidental costs. Does a minimum wage full time worker have the ability to take time off work to vote, possibly waiting in long lines when their workplace only allows one hour off? Do they have the means of transportation, private or public, to go and get documents and IDs? Do they have access to the internet? Or the time to set aside to do the basic things that most of us take for granted? It costs to be poor.
    1 point
  45. You can now pre-order the Xbox Series X and S to get them on November 10

    We live in the 20th century where the technology to order something online seems almost impossible. The Microsoft Store website has crashed; Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. What a joke!!! You would think after years of this happening there would be a better solution. The only thing I can say is Apple seems to be the only company to accomplish high volume ordering online with no issues. Microsoft, you Sux!
    1 point
  46. 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.
    1 point
  47. According to Ars technica article, "the 980 Pro's sharp increase in throughput comes with an equally sharp decrease in warranteed write endurance because for "Pro" line they switched from MLC to TLC"
    1 point
  48. I'm surprised to see so many people complain about VirtualBox performance with Windows. I've been using it for 10+ years and, aside from the occasional audio hiccup that is fixed with a reboot, I haven't had any performance problems... Keep in mind I'm not recommending people play Crysis in the VM, just browse the web which doesn't require many resources at all. It’s a slow application. I’ve not had any issues with it either but I will take a type 1 hypervisor over it any day. That said, in regards to secure browsing, any one who has Windows Sandbox available is better off in every way from performance to ease of use, to even security vs. Virtualbox. I haven't noticed it being slow at all, and tons of people in the Infosec community use it every day... Plus, I believe Sandbox is only available on Windows 10 Pro. Tough crowd though in the comments... Seems like I wasted my time writing it I guess... Virtualbox is definitely slower vs. alternatives. If you haven’t compared them, then no you won’t notice it being slower. Which is fine, as I said, I don’t have an issue with it being a slow application and for the price of free, nor do many others. In regards to Sandbox, I did say: “any one who has Windows Sandbox available” to make it clear it wasn’t available for everyone. Don’t take the criticism personally, take it as a way to improve yourself. Nobody is attacking you, so I see no reason to sulk about it. I've used VMware Workstation before and honestly saw no difference in speed. It's not going to change my workflow - I have a handful of VMs (not just for browsing) that I use for work and fun, and VirtualBox fits my needs just fine. I'm not sulking. And I'm allowed to be disappointed that an article I was passionate about writing is getting all hate. The first comment I saw was: "My score to this article, on the scale of zero to five: Zero (0) 👎" Hard to be happy about that! LOL
    1 point
  49. Help me understand this logic

    As long as they support AOSP 9 or AOSP 10 (both of which - depending on the firmware - support VoLTE), they do - that is something I have been doing with various AOSP 10 firmware via VoLTE. Xfinity Mobile uses Verizon Wireless as a background; however, there are some advantages to Xfinity Mobile compared to using Verizon Wireless directly other than price - mainly because you get unlimited access to the Xfinity hotspot network at no extra charge - and that is a LOT of hotspots.
    1 point