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  1. JUST get a Windows laptop and run Chrome on it
    6 points
  2. Dropbox is a rip-off and a joke. For $99 a year, I can get a Family plan of Microsoft Office that includes 6 TB of total storage, plus the entire Office suite of applications. And Dropbox thinks $20 a month ($240 a year) for 2 TB and nothing else is a deal? What a bunch of jokers.
    3 points
  3. Mozilla is worried about being collateral damage in Google's antitrust case

    The last thing I want is Mozilla to be involved with ads. WTF? I wish more users would freaking donate their dollars--> https://donate.mozilla.org/
    3 points
  4. ....was only a matter of time. AMP needs to be napalmed....
    3 points
  5. Never heard of it.
    2 points
  6. it was a stupid idea from the start...
    2 points
  7. Humankind, sounds like someone was virtue signaling when they came up with the name.
    2 points
  8. Mozilla is worried about being collateral damage in Google's antitrust case

    I have no problem with Mozilla taking money from Google to make their search the default. Anyone who cares will execute a couple of "clicks" to change it to DuckDuckGo or whatever.
    2 points
  9. Mozilla truly is a really pioneering company actively promoting an 'open web', far more than Corporations like Google, MS, Apple, Opera, etc. Unfortunately they're giving off free lunches without having a capable source of income. RedHat/Canonical do similar, but they offer paid support, etc. which helps in operating costs. They should invest in/buy Mozilla to keep them alive and free from bankruptcy or the clutches of big companies.
    2 points
  10. Instagram expands paid badges in Live to more creators worldwide

    instagram is a toiletbowl.
    2 points
  11. Windows Configuration "banner" on top op screen

    It is a staggered rollout. I have it on one machine and not the other. The enablement package isn’t the catalyst afaik. Neowin did report on it, but it was 6-12+ months ago if memory serves.
    2 points
  12. Amazon is paying consumers to share data on their purchases from other stores

    Yeah, no thanks. LOL
    2 points
  13. Sounds cool and everything, but the only place I shop is Amazon...
    2 points
  14. Microsoft releases the Windows 10 October 2020 Update

    Uneventful update, just how I like it!
    2 points
  15. Parallels Desktop lets you run Windows on Chrome OS starting today

    I really don't understand the draw of Chromebooks. For pretty much the same price as an equivalently spec'd PC, you get a massively limited OS experience. Paying a subscription to run Windows on a Chromebook makes absolutely no sense financially and functionally.
    2 points
  16. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    While I can understand that viewpoint - this is a company that owns it’s own platform. What it does with it, within reason, is frankly their right. Muddying up the waters here with concerns over how much power the platform should have ultimately ends up in handicapping them from doing what they can to control misinformation. We all consent to their terms of service in it’s use, so there’s no real rights being infringed upon here. If people are looking for content that’s not on Facebook or not allowed there, they will go elsewhere. Nobody complains that Facebook doesn’t do Porn. There’s other Tubes and Hubs for that. AI’s or ML’s issues aren’t with biases of it’s training, it’s due to some more complex issues than that. It’s a learning issue, it’s fallible, susceptible to bad data. Deep learning I think helps with this, but when you’re source is the internet of mostly garbage, it’s a hard thing to train. If people have no desire to promote fake news or outright lies, they should stop using and supporting platforms for those who seek to spread them utilize on a daily basis. Everyone’s complaining and concerned over Facebook’s power to control misinformation, but 4Chan is still around and is full of the most disgusting bigoted, racists, misinformed, misogynistic posts day in and day out. Here’s my worry, not to get too political but I’ll align what your concern brings to me with this point: Give government control over what Facebook can and cannot post, and you’ll give the current US Administration the power to control how the current pandemic should be viewed (not based largely on science at all), what can and cannot be trusted as information in the US election, and whether or not the media - regardless of their political leanings - should be able to post the stories that they do to keep people informed.
    2 points
  17. StarLink 14

    StarLink 14 Date: October 22, 2020 Time: 1214 Eastern (1614 UT) Booster: 1060.3 Pad: SLC-40 Recovery: ASDS JRtI
    1 point
  18. Quibi is reportedly considering shutting down its streaming service

    My prediction was correct! To the month! https://www.neowin.net/news/qu...irst-week#comment-598538651
    1 point
  19. Minecraft Java Edition will soon require a Microsoft account

    Wow, they're trying to pull a FaceBook. This is unacceptable. Everyone please boycott Minecraft until they reverse this decision.
    1 point
  20. How about Win32 or generic Window handle creation, setting the background brush to White or Black based on the user's theme. Having Chrome or Edge Chrome flash white before the UI attaches to the Window is blinding, let alone ugly.
    1 point
  21. WinUI 3.0 is 'hopefully' the current plan to integrate the UI, bringing all software into the modern fold. However, this was promised with the Win32 UWP interface technologies in 2015, and again, and again, and several times with the WinUI project goals. WinUI 3.0 is looking promising, but there is still so much they are leaving out, it may create hodge podge, instead of fixing things. The crazy thing, is that a couple of years ago, the team was concerned with .NET and Core unification, and had ZERO UI plans, and were surprised when developers screamed, "WTF are you idiots doing." - Which did get a response, but it was more like, "Is UI important?" *Windows NT was written from the ground up with new technologies the world had never implemented in less than 3 years. The developers now can't get all the features of silly Apps on Windows working consistently or properly. (Which I hope is getting better with recent changes.) *Cross fingers they have better/smarter people finally.* The irony is that Microsoft could implement a full UI unification, that could also be 100% dynamic and replicate any previous, current or future UI - all without developers or even developers inside Microsoft doing any work. It could be a side project that also works on the fly, so that a newly developed piece of software that never gave a crap about UI, would just appear as the user wants. Along with being accelerated using native controls, even from crap UI frameworks. (Microsoft, call me maybe.) Sorry in advance to the OP for throwing my rant in here.
    1 point
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  23. Facebook can take a running jump!!
    1 point
  24. UK: Virgin Media starts Google Smart Home trial

    Seems expensive to me. I have a complete Ring security system, Alex, Chrome casts and Home device setup with VM and they work just great and i own the devices, which i assume you would only be renting from VM? I then pay £80 a year for the extended monitoring on the alarm system with Ring and backup mobile data. Granted the one off cost was quite a bit, but in the longer term it would be a cheaper solution.
    1 point
  25. Acer's new consumer laptops all have Intel Iris MAX dedicated graphics

    "It also has Thunderbolt 4, and a 4-inch FHD screen with an 84% screen-to-body ratio." 4-inch screen, is this a laptop for hamsters? 🐹
    1 point
  26. Yeah, I know that sounds awful, but it sadly works better than Skype. I'm waiting for Microsoft to enable consumer features in Teams for desktop devices. i last used ICQ back in the ICQ2001 version. i didnt even know people still used it. It was the result of desperately looking for Skype alternatives I was equally surprised, but it actually works pretty ok.
    1 point
  27. Nah, there were no hackers in 2016, especially not enemy states like Russia. /s I am going to start selling bridges to people that still believe this crap, especially after 4 years of non-partisan cyber divisions like Microsoft SCREAMING at the US government, while cleaning up crap the government agencies were forbidden from addressing by the current administration, along with defunding of any counter intelligence efforts to secure and thwart Russia. (You know, if I didn't have anything to do with Russia, I wouldn't defund agency/military cyber security groups or order them to stop working on Russian attacks.) I mean, who would risk the national security by doing this? (Anyone that thinks this is hyperbole, go look it up.)
    1 point
  28. United States DOJ sues Google for monopolistic practices

    The irony, is there is a really good case against Google here, just their Google Services BS on Android would be enough to trigger this type of case, let alone Google Search and all the other crap they do to kill competition - which is a predatory problem they constantly being found guilty going back to the mid 00s. However, you are right that nobody in the *cough* parts of the country and government gave a ###### until the President started complaining about Google's news and search results, ironically calling them out for content published by news and science sites. As we know, facts and science, are biased against lies and lack of understanding.
    1 point
  29. It's not censorship It's not censorship It's not censorship It's not censorship Lie to yourself even more. Is that the lie you to yourself? Use arguments. Ok, here's an argument, dummy: If I own a bar and someone walks in and yells " need to go back to their own country!", do I have a right to say "get the hell out of my bar", or am I compelled to shrug my shoulders and say "Nothing I can do folks, that's his first amendment right!" YouTube is a private business; don't like their terms of service? Then don't use their service! Censorship applies to the government preventing you from speaking, it doesn't apply to private businesses. Patiently awaiting your nuggets of wisdom...
    1 point
  30. Amazon's Luna game streaming service is now in early access

    You're right. Stadia's numbers show us that it failed. What numbers would those be?
    1 point
  31. VirtualBox 6.1.16

    No GPU acceleration for Windows XP means no value for me in "upgrading". It was removed due to security vulnerability instead of patching or re-implementing it.
    1 point
  32. Their little project to accelerate pages on mobile devices. I just find it a PITA. No it's not to accelerate page loading, it's for more data mining. They can see what pages you go on and other metrics, they don't give this away for 'free', they're getting data from it. But yes, it needs to die, in fire.
    1 point
  33. Wow, this basically could essentially be the Golden Edition release of Windows 10 at last that everyone is still pretty much waiting for since Day 1! 2 issues from the last release that still exist but should only affect maybe 1-2% of users.
    1 point
  34. United States DOJ sues Google for monopolistic practices

    Good point and insightful. "Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas" all have what in common? Exactly.
    1 point
  35. Parallels Desktop lets you run Windows on Chrome OS starting today

    "but but chrome os with web apps is enough"
    1 point
  36. United States DOJ sues Google for monopolistic practices

    Free market economy only goes so far, if left unchecked, you'll end up with some massive corporations that could even be a threat to many governments around the world. The truth is, it's rare for big companies to have our interest in mind and it's also a lot harder for smaller companies to compete with bigger companies, especially when they use one market to monopolize another. The way I look at it, this isn't about what is fair for corporations but what is right for consumers, getting tough on a lot of big corporations around the world would likely open up the market for smaller companies to compete better and that is usually a good thing for progress and lower prices.
    1 point
  37. Microsoft releases the Windows 10 October 2020 Update

    I have an issue where all Microsoft Office apps on my start menu have very small icons compared to the rest of the system icons. Does anyone else have the same problem?
    1 point
  38. Parallels Desktop lets you run Windows on Chrome OS starting today

    wow it's a yearly subscription for the functionality? that sucks also no support for ARM devices yet. With this latest news I don't see many Enterprises actually making use of this; they'd rather just get normal hardware so all they have to worry about is the Windows license.
    1 point
  39. Google Pixel 5 owners report gap between display and body

    Foxconn. Same OEM as iPhone.
    1 point
  40. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    But Facebook isn't a public entity and so users must submit to it's rules to use it's platform. Don't like it? Don't use it. ^This, the user agrees to their TOS, not the other way around.
    1 point
  41. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    But Facebook isn't a public entity and so users must submit to it's rules to use it's platform. Don't like it? Don't use it.
    1 point
  42. I'm not sure that I follow. They're basically offering their equivalent of MTV, before MTV became reality TV shows...does MTV still exist?
    1 point
  43. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    They are blocking advertisements. I dont see any porn being advertised on there either but I'm not loosing my skirt over it. It's not like they need the money.
    1 point
  44. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    Give government control over what Facebook can and cannot post... I think the real answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Honestly, there should be some sort of limitation to the content that can be mass spread, if the people who are supposed to moderate such content can barely make a dent in these tasks. Back in the day when most our news was fed via TV/radio, I'd imagine FCC broadcast regulations might've played a part in what you could or couldn't say, such as restricting hoaxes and that sort. Yet when YouTube/FB content can hit more people than some of these TV stations, it really makes you wonder if FCC regulations have just fallen by the wayside, as we allow companies to do their "best effort" in moderation. I'm not suggesting I like the idea of a bunch of old dinosaurs in Congress regulating a website when they can barely understand how it operates... I guess I'm just conflicted in all this just the same. Just a thought though. That limitation of content is already covered by the law. Libel, slander, defamation, obscenity, hate speech, causing panic, incitement to crime, malice, etc
    1 point
  45. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    Their site their rules. You're not forced to use FB, you have the freedom to choose other SM platforms to use. Add the fact that SM is not the Gov. So no, this is nothing like 1984.
    1 point
  46. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    I don’t buy that. People are free to set up competing platforms.
    1 point
  47. Facebook rejected two million ads that obstruct voting

    Good. Although, it would be interesting if the AI / Machine Learning algorithms used in Facebook finally evolve to where it realizes the best option is to simply delete Facebook altogether.
    1 point
  48. LG Wing unboxing and first impressions

    Exactly, this is so good that I want to buy it but so risky that I don't want to put my money on the first gen. Let's hope LG doesn't stop after this first attempt.
    1 point
  49. Quibi reports 1.7 million downloads in its first week

    I downloaded... then it asked for credit card info just to see WTF this was about? NOPE!
    1 point
  50. Quibi reports 1.7 million downloads in its first week

    LOL I'll give it 6 months until complete failure
    1 point