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  1. Translation : We're waiting until the uproar dies down and nobodies paying attention.
    13 points
  2. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    That's what testing is for.
    8 points
  3. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    About time someone did this. Hopefully, more countries will quickly follow suit.
    8 points
  4. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    I'd love this to be followed by the rest of the world. Social Media companies have become digital plagues/
    8 points
  5. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    I never thought I'd see the day that Poland protects freedoms better than the US. While some are pointing out social media companies are private, so are newspapers and broadcasters. They must adhere to laws that social media seems immune to. There also seems to be a double standard with small businesses and to who they may or may not serve. There are haunting similarities to the Nazi rise of power: Nazi party was officially "National Socialist German Workers' Party" and promoted as a government for the people to give them back what they deserve. They started with a meager 2% popularity. They then took advantage of media and current tumultuous environment to spread propaganda. After gaining power, they bought a newspaper (Völkischer Beobachter) and controlled the message of other papers. Opposing views were squelched and those opposing leaders ostracized or executed. Poland obviously remembers the horror Nazis inflicted on them, while the US has forgotten.
    6 points
  6. Apple extends free TV+ trials anew to July 2021

    Good series. I will wait 2 months though. Releasing weekly episodes on a streaming is plain dumb and backwards
    6 points
  7. How about a native version instead of the bloated one now?
    5 points
  8. Eww. Why are we moving back towards boxy laptops?? That's not going to bode well for watching movies designed for widescreen viewing (which... They pretty much all are, soooo...) Dislike. Wouldn't go with a boxy laptop unless there was literally nothing else on the market. PS- they better not phase out 16:9 completely... The Rev will not be happy... >:-(
    4 points
  9. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Who knew that Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook are trying to get rid of competition
    4 points
  10. It only took them 5 years to realize nobody wanted that. Just release a touchscreen MacBook
    4 points
  11. I hate this slow and heavy electron/web apps trend, i can understand small companies, but big companies should go native, specially for you OWN OS version
    3 points
  12. WTF is even "native" software anymore. The browser might as well just be another runtime now. If anything, electron apps are less gross than Java apps ever were. electron apps are heavy and slow, I ditched postman that used 500mb of ram and started in several seconds for a native app do the same, use 50mb of ram and start in a second
    3 points
  13. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    The deliberate suppression of opinion should never be allowed in any country especially in America.
    3 points
  14. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    Laws of land >>>> some community rules of social media. If you're a PLATFORM, be one, don't try to be a media and edit according to your political correctness.
    3 points
  15. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Every time I open Signal now, I see more and more contacts appearing. It’s so awesome
    3 points
  16. It looks good, but it is an electron app, so it is a webpage, what a shame, XAML not good enough to make nice apps? not crosspaltform? even Apple didn't ship iTunes as an electron app on windows, not even on their own OS
    3 points
  17. Sweet, I can't wait to tell people I saw a comment on an article from someone who saw a post on Reddit from someone who saw a post on Facebook with something unusual going on as objective proof of something sinister.
    3 points
  18. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Should be considered anti-competitive.
    3 points
  19. Apple reportedly testing Music and Podcasts apps for the Microsoft Store

    Its probably going to be better than Microsoft's Groove player thats been stagnant for the last 6 years. Groove still has that Spotify ad on the hamburger menu. Microsoft first party apps are a disgrace. Its sad a billion dollar company can't make any decent apps with their own framework.
    3 points
  20. Well, yet again, Teams development team is focusing more on design (I am familiar with Windows and MS apps overall inconsistency) than on fundametal features like configuring Teams via GPOs (cruial thing for VDI environemnts). What about disabling auto-start of the app? Another example is auto-start of MSI installation where "OPTIONS="noAutoStart=true" simply doesn't work and start (install the app) it for any new logged in user...and many many other things which are pointed out via uservoice for very long time already, with many votes.
    3 points
  21. Don't worry, there are far better ways to enjoy a movie than on a laptop.
    2 points
  22. Awesome! Ever since HD started becoming popular I've always disliked the wide aspect ratios. It might be good for movies (and that's debatable in my opinion) but for computing more vertical space really helps. I hope we start seeing more taller monitors for desktops also. And are there any Ryzen-based laptops with a taller display? At the very least, 16:10.
    2 points
  23. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    Smart move. Good to see some countries are still trying to protect the freedom of speech online. Not every country must agree with the fascist social media platforms nowadays.
    2 points
  24. I use a Macbook regularly and I find the touch bar to be completely useless. Most apps only use it for one or two functions so 90% of it is wasted space. You lose 12 keys with tactile feedback to gain 2 keys with LCD display. It's just bad.
    2 points
  25. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    Is Poland a socialist government? I'm thinking having a government entity dictate how a private company chooses to operate is pure socialism.
    2 points
  26. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Found the Facebook employee, :-p
    2 points
  27. Ignorant comment. Fluent is literally about adding shadows, transparency, and animation. You're stuck in 2012 dude. give it up.
    2 points
  28. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    I wouldn't trust Facebook with anything that is supposed to be secure. Wait until you say something they don't agree with.
    2 points
  29. That's good. It will give everyone time to check out the other services they are leaving to much longer.
    2 points
  30. WhatsApp/Facebook seems to be doing this for the reason that their user base is already lower than before they made this announcement and is trying to get those users that already migrated to another platform/messaging service.
    2 points
  31. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Well. That will only help Telegram. Too bad for signal. Just checked. Still no message sending ability
    2 points
  32. Transparent

    I find those programs to be memory hogs. But yeah they still deserve recommendation :D
    1 point
  33. Don't buy something for the looks. LOL A 3:2 display is great for browsing and using productivity programs. For $1,600, I'm going to care what it looks like. I use my laptop almost all the time, so I tend to look at it quite a bit.
    1 point
  34. I wouldn't get too excited, this no doubt will be Xbox only. I doubt Apple even cares about Windows users and MS seems to care less (in regards to the Microsoft Store). I'll be happy to be proven wrong but I have serious doubts.
    1 point
  35. Apple extends free TV+ trials anew to July 2021

    I had a 1 year free trial because of a new iphone. There was almost nothing interesting on the streaming service. The things I liked were paid movies... on a paid streaming service... are you insane? Cancled the subscription the day after. Did this because I did not want to risk forgetting and an auto renewal of something useless.
    1 point
  36. Apple reportedly removing the Touch Bar from the Macbook Pro and adding more ports

    Intel? Sure. AMD? Nah mate Oh, yeah! AMD makes the Ryzen chips that ... Apple still doesn't use. Microsoft does. And that has what to do with anything? That was my best guess as to why Intel is in trouble but AMD isn't. Speaking of which, why do you think AMD isn't in trouble? Apple never used AMD CPU chips in the first place so this has little to no effect on AMD He is one of those "M1 is faster than your i7 so x86 is dead" people Actually, I think it is much simpler: There is this whole population of the world who purchases computers. When Apple released M1, a larger percentage of this population purchases M1, and as a result, a smaller percentage purchases x86-based machines. Hence, the x86 manufacturers are in trouble. huh? Apple's desktop/laptop market share is less than 10%... the percentage of that moving up to M1 is way less than that at the moment and probably in the next year or two will still be way less than that... Apple is not a threat to Intel / AMD at this time, all it will do is make Intel and AMD get more aggressive and most systems sold are corporate systems, who run usually windows or linux environments, they probably wont be switching architectures anytime in the next one or two refresh cycles Yeah. M1 will be popular, no doubt, but they are still machines that start at 1k USD.
    1 point
  37. Intel? Sure. AMD? Nah mate Oh, yeah! AMD makes the Ryzen chips that ... Apple still doesn't use. Microsoft does. And that has what to do with anything? That was my best guess as to why Intel is in trouble but AMD isn't. Speaking of which, why do you think AMD isn't in trouble? Apple never used AMD CPU chips in the first place so this has little to no effect on AMD He is one of those "M1 is faster than your i7 so x86 is dead" people Actually, I think it is much simpler: There is this whole population of the world who purchases computers. When Apple released M1, a larger percentage of this population purchases M1, and as a result, a smaller percentage purchases x86-based machines. Hence, the x86 manufacturers are in trouble. huh? Apple's desktop/laptop market share is less than 10%... the percentage of that moving up to M1 is way less than that at the moment and probably in the next year or two will still be way less than that... Apple is not a threat to Intel / AMD at this time, all it will do is make Intel and AMD get more aggressive and most systems sold are corporate systems, who run usually windows or linux environments, they probably wont be switching architectures anytime in the next one or two refresh cycles
    1 point
  38. Qualcomm's answer to Apple's M1 could be the SC8280

    My bet is at least one of those numbers is wrong.
    1 point
  39. Too late, already jumped ship!
    1 point
  40. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    What? LOL
    1 point
  41. Windows 8 - Free Reference Card Bundle

    If you are still using Windows 8 there is something wrong with you.
    1 point
  42. What, using PowerShell to check that the application isn't running and edit an undocumented .json file isn't good enough? Admins are such ingrates these days! /s
    1 point
  43. Tech does have some of the highest turnover compared to other areas. In the end it's nothing new. Sounds like more of a move up so good for her.
    1 point
  44. Windows 8 - Free Reference Card Bundle

    Wayne from BetaNews didn't join this site as a contributor did he?
    1 point
  45. Aah, Fluent Design. Working hard to make Windows 10 +apps look like Windows 2.0 from 1987. Why use colours, shadows, transparency, animations etc when everything can be monochrome and flat!
    1 point
  46. Intel? Sure. AMD? Nah mate Oh, yeah! AMD makes the Ryzen chips that ... Apple still doesn't use. Microsoft does. And that has what to do with anything? That was my best guess as to why Intel is in trouble but AMD isn't. Speaking of which, why do you think AMD isn't in trouble? Apple never used AMD CPU chips in the first place so this has little to no effect on AMD He is one of those "M1 is faster than your i7 so x86 is dead" people Actually, I think it is much simpler: There is this whole population of the world who purchases computers. When Apple released M1, a larger percentage of this population purchases M1, and as a result, a smaller percentage purchases x86-based machines. Hence, the x86 manufacturers are in trouble. that in turn still doesn't mean AMD is in trouble since Apple never used them in the first place. It does. You see, AMD is fabless. TSMC fabricates for AMD. Now it is fabricating for Apple. Hence, AMD is in trouble. Intel is in trouble because it supplied Apple's CPUs and now, that revenue stream is gone. As for x86 being trouble, I agree that it isn't facing extinction. But, 20 million Mac shipment is something. TSMC manufactures for everyone. Apple, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm x86, Intel, AMD and Microsoft are in no trouble just because Apple's ARM CPUs turned out to be very, very good. Sure, you are blinded to that, but consider this... some people don't like MacOS. BOOOM! Shocker, I know!
    1 point
  47. Samsung introduces ISOCELL HM3 108MP mobile image processor

    ISOCELL? Get the hell out of here. All that self-excitement is what they are using to justify what amounts the same phone and super high cost they want for it. I'm not so moved. Screw samsung.
    1 point
  48. Intel? Sure. AMD? Nah mate Oh, yeah! AMD makes the Ryzen chips that ... Apple still doesn't use. Microsoft does. And that has what to do with anything? That was my best guess as to why Intel is in trouble but AMD isn't. Speaking of which, why do you think AMD isn't in trouble? Apple never used AMD CPU chips in the first place so this has little to no effect on AMD
    1 point
  49. Intel? Sure. AMD? Nah mate Oh, yeah! AMD makes the Ryzen chips that ... Apple still doesn't use. Microsoft does. And that has what to do with anything? That was my best guess as to why Intel is in trouble but AMD isn't. Speaking of which, why do you think AMD isn't in trouble? Because Macbooks are not the only computers on the sale...
    1 point
  50. Google joins Microsoft and Facebook in suspending political donations

    I hate to burst your bubble but companies absolutely meddled with the government in the 90s and long before that. Perhaps the general public was less aware of it. Cronyism in its current form has been a thing since at least the industrial age. The way some companies and individuals amassed so much wealth was precisely by using their money to influence the government and make more money in the process.
    1 point