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  1. WandaVision

    I sat through the whole damn lot of them just in case there was an end credits scene, too...
    2 points
  2. You wouldn't, trust me on that. Unless you want to blast your ears off 😜 The buds get pretty darn loud at max volume.
    2 points
  3. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    Are you from Brazil? No but I am a fan of Huawei. Yeah, it's great what they're doing, spying on other countries and helping the Chinese government put Uighurs in concentration camps, how can you not be a fan?
    2 points
  4. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    I know there is no proof of them being a security risk but better be safe than sorry.
    2 points
  5. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    That's what automated test platforms are for i.e. before this is even shipped to any customers or insiders. lol.. you use what effectively is an alpha test release ring and complain about things breaking.. I think you are not really clear on what being in the fast ring means.. for one.. it's not intended for production environments and things will break.. a lot..
    2 points
  6. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    What does this have to do with a beta build? He just repeats this stuff until blue in the face in every Microsoft Windows thread he can find. Best to just ignore it and not bite.
    2 points
  7. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    What does this have to do with a beta build?
    2 points
  8. Inpaint 9.0

    I was about to get excited until I read you comment. Thank you for saving my time
    2 points
  9. Inpaint 9.0

    A photo retouching app that does one thing but the Demo version won't let you even save a picture? Why not just purchase a Trial version of any other photo-editing software out there and use it, plus all its other features?
    2 points
  10. 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.
    2 points
  11. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    Except such a law would apply to Poland-hosted contents only. American social networks, such as Facebook, aren't within their purview. Let me clarify that I think this law is intended to protect the Polish political presence on Facebook, not the average citizens of Poland. These politicians can demand a fine and suspend business with Facebook if the latter refuses to pay up. However, the result may be quite the opposite: Facebook could say "Okay, I won't do business with you" and they lose their entire social presence on Facebook instead of just one post.
    2 points
  12. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    About time someone did this. Hopefully, more countries will quickly follow suit.
    2 points
  13. Vmware workstation pro question

    Gee, It is amazing when you watch the correct video and use an evaluation copy how much faster an easier things work. 😠 but now Thx for all the help.
    1 point
  14. Vmware workstation pro question

    Windows Server 2019 Evalution.
    1 point
  15. Vmware workstation pro question

    i got it to install now. Hopefully, there will be no more issues. I might be back if I have more. Virtual box is so much easier, at least to me. Sorry for being a PITA with this. I greatly appreciate all the help.
    1 point
  16. Vmware workstation pro question

    Make sure you have the install iso selected for the cd drive. If it is and you are not seeing the windows boot or at least the "Press any key..." message, your install image is not working.
    1 point
  17. Vmware workstation pro question

    Windows.old will be a previous windows version left behind invade a major update on the new build fails. If you are not seeing anything wrong with your current install, you can use disc cleanup as Steven said and select previous windows builds. It will show you a warning that you will be unable to roll back, accept that and run the clean up. That should clean out that folder.
    1 point
  18. Qualcomm's answer to Apple's M1 could be the SC8280

    Just an arm. *drums*
    1 point
  19. Vmware workstation pro question

    If you are still not seeing any activity, then it may be safe to say that the install has frozen. If so, make sure you check you install iso and possibly download it again to ensure it is not corrupt. Since you have yet to get into windows, there is nothing lost outside of the initial install time and you can update your settings to help speed stuff up.
    1 point
  20. Vmware workstation pro question

    1 core in all of my tests are usually slow. With a quad core, I would say it would be safe to do at least 2 cores which should boost your performance. The RAM side, 4 GBs should be good, but you will want to monitor the overall use. While the machine will be able to use the 4GBs, the app may use much more than that. With 8GBs total, you may run into low RAM states while using the VM and any other apps on your actual desktop.
    1 point
  21. Vmware workstation pro question

    Ctrl+G should grab the do "Grab Input". You can also use the VM -> Grab Input menu option. May want to check if the VM has the VMWare Tools installed, as the pointer and keyboard should activate when the VM is in focus.
    1 point
  22. You must be like Flossy Carter with this Max Volume test. He's always testing at Max Volume. I don't ever get distortion. I own a pair and they are the some of the best earbuds you could get. I like these more than my Soundcore Liberty Air 2's which cost me twice the price. The thing about these is they are loud. And if you are a bass head as I am, you are in luck with these. My question is, how in the world can you even listen to them at high volume and why do it? My ONLY bugaboo with these is the way you have to flip them backward to put them in the charging case. It is damn near impossible to do in the dark. I would give these 8.5 Easy.
    1 point
  23. Polish government eyeing free speech social media law

    This would be interesting for moderators . User A is in Poland, so can call a politician a c*nt freely, yet user B lives in the US, so should have their account banned and post removed. User C lives in the EU, so they should have a warning and post edited to remove the comment and user D lives in China, so never made the comment to begin with .
    1 point
  24. Enacfire E90 Wireless Earbuds review: True bang for your buck

    When I go to that page I am offered a 20% coupon bringing it down to $39.99 + free shipping, and I do not have Prime on the U.S. site. I updated the article with this info at the bottom.
    1 point
  25. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    You might think cheap equipment is the only thing that will happen, but look at Africa, how they're pretty much colonies of China now with no way out. Do you ever post anything factual?
    1 point
  26. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    Are you from Brazil? No but I am a fan of Huawei. Yeah, it's great what they're doing, spying on other countries and helping the Chinese government put Uighurs in concentration camps, how can you not be a fan? Any proof of that? In the UK, the UK government did all the spying. Having worked for T-Mobile in the past (now EE), the amount of government servers in our server rooms was an eye opener. The government had a direct live feed of every phone call, SMS, email & data sent over the network. The data was only supposed to be viewable with the approval of a magistrate, but the Government & police only make token applications to make it look like they were following the law. I could tell you far more about what the UK Government does by proxy for the US Government with users data, but that's a story for another day. But everything you've ever done online or over a telephone is logged & archived. It's also surprising that government data collection goes as far back as the late 1940's. And UK & US intelligence agencies have been taking advantage of memory/firmware vulnerabilities to syphon data off for decades. Even your printer isn't safe. Yet people have been brainwashed to believe that China & Russia are the problem. The US & UK have surveillance operations running out of Russia & China by the way. Looks good for finger pointing when traces are uncovered. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55634388" rel="external nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55634388 Google, a US firm, were doing, far, far, far worse with their Wi-Fi snooping and a multitude of other illegal forms of data collection that has been verirfied by Google itself and they got nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Wonder who was benefitting from this data collection?? Any tech companies have all kinds of patents, it doesn't mean they are actively using them all. Again, nothing to do with 5g though. Anyone working in telecomms will be updating the firmware on their infrastructure regularly to patch vulnerabilities. And if data was being leaked back to China or any other location, it would be extremely obvious to see where network traffic is heading to! I've yet to see a single report from a telecom company accusing Huawei of stealing data or facilitating an actual leak. Did you even read my link? It's subject wasn't data espionage, but keeping track of Uighurs so China can send them to concentration camps. But as you're clearly not even reading what I write, there's no point in discussing with you as you clearly have no intention of understanding a different point of view.
    1 point
  27. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    Are you from Brazil? No but I am a fan of Huawei. Yeah, it's great what they're doing, spying on other countries and helping the Chinese government put Uighurs in concentration camps, how can you not be a fan? Any proof of that? In the UK, the UK government did all the spying. Having worked for T-Mobile in the past (now EE), the amount of government servers in our server rooms was an eye opener. The government had a direct live feed of every phone call, SMS, email & data sent over the network. The data was only supposed to be viewable with the approval of a magistrate, but the Government & police only make token applications to make it look like they were following the law. I could tell you far more about what the UK Government does by proxy for the US Government with users data, but that's a story for another day. But everything you've ever done online or over a telephone is logged & archived. It's also surprising that government data collection goes as far back as the late 1940's. And UK & US intelligence agencies have been taking advantage of memory/firmware vulnerabilities to syphon data off for decades. Even your printer isn't safe. Yet people have been brainwashed to believe that China & Russia are the problem. The US & UK have surveillance operations running out of Russia & China by the way. Looks good for finger pointing when traces are uncovered. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55634388 Google, a US firm, were doing, far, far, far worse with their Wi-Fi snooping and a multitude of other illegal forms of data collection that has been verirfied by Google itself and they got nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Wonder who was benefitting from this data collection?? Any tech companies have all kinds of patents, it doesn't mean they are actively using them all. Again, nothing to do with 5g though. Anyone working in telecomms will be updating the firmware on their infrastructure regularly to patch vulnerabilities. And if data was being leaked back to China or any other location, it would be extremely obvious to see where network traffic is heading to! I've yet to see a single report from a telecom company accusing Huawei of stealing data or facilitating an actual leak.
    1 point
  28. 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. Does it really look that bad if you need the better 3:2 display? It looks like a laptop to me... Considering the 3:2 display is the issue I have, I'm not going to shell out $1,600 for it. It's not something that has a right or wrong answer. I just don't like the look of a 3:2 display. You summed up that a 3:2 display is more important for your needs, but it's not for me. So you do you, as they say, and I'll keep looking around at other laptops.
    1 point
  29. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    It’s a beta build, it is supposed to be buggy. It is for testing.
    1 point
  30. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Working just fine for me in Australia It was fixed, that’s why.
    1 point
  31. Already moved to Signal.
    1 point
  32. Freedom of speech only applies to the government though, it means they can't silence you or punish you for speaking your mind. It has nothing to do with social media or any other private company though. Facebook, Twitter and even Neowin can ban you for any reason they feel like. Sure, freedom of speech doesn't apply to them. That's a problem. 1A disagrees with you. 1A? Do you mean the 1st amendment? It says nothing on this matter. exactly. That means it's not a problem, as you suggest. How does it mean that? There's a reason for amendments, you know. Because it only applies to the government. What exactly makes it a problem that it doesn't apply to them? It's as I stated earlier. They control the major avenues communication and finance, and are becoming more powerful than the government itself. The founding fathers could have never envisioned the way that we would be communicating in the 21st century, and thus the 1st amendment does not protect it. The way we communicate isn't the problem. The 1st amendment only applies to government. That's it. That was the founders only point to it. They didn't have to envision anything else. Only that the government can't censor your freedom of speech. Nothing more. They don't care who it is as long as they are not a state actor. The language is 100% clear. So as unelected leaders gain more power and control over us, we are to ignore that because they don't fall under the umbrella of "government"? Of course the first amendment only applies to government. That much is clear. If our major communication and financial infrastructures are not protected by the same standards that we hold to the government, then I want them added also. If it takes a new amendment, so be it. If you want to run a company that's free of such regulations then don't run one that's serving such a large percentage of the population. Lol. That’s not how any of this works.
    1 point
  33. Brazilian government allows Huawei to take part in 5G auction

    Are you from Brazil?
    1 point
  34. Great news right there.
    1 point
  35. 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
    1 point
  36. That's what automated test platforms are for i.e. before this is even shipped to any customers or insiders. You got an automated test platform available to test every possible scenario that Windows 10 can be installed? I doubt it, but if you have one for your systems I sure hope you're using it and not your production machines in the Insider Program. 'every possible' I mean really you woudl just need one 64-bit ARM machine, and one of the tests would be "run this x64 application - does it fail? If so, regression test failed". I write embedded firmware and damn right we have regression tests for it, if the tests fail, the software doesn't get released
    1 point
  37. Qualcomm's answer to Apple's M1 could be the SC8280

    They need to start appearing in 300 Euro (with 8GB of RAM and a real SSD) machines. Nobody is buying 1k+ Windows machines unless they are gaming or business (XPS, Latitude, Elitebook, Thinkpad) looks at my spx You and 8 other owners. Don't hate it till you try it. It may not be for you, but it is a nice device, and a lot more capable than most here give it credit for. the hate for the spx usually comes down to "i don't understand it/can't afford it and so it's garbage". For anyone who is a student, works in law, economics, statistics, chemistry, etc. I would argue there is no better device.
    1 point
  38. I really hope that isn't the case. My Surface tablet is very underwhelming as a tablet wen there's very few optimized tablet apps unlike the iPad. Using a web browser is clunky and PWA has its limitations.
    1 point
  39. Windows 10 build 21292.1010 breaks x64 emulation on ARM PCs

    Apparently Windows runs very well in a VM on M1, at least the ARM version does.
    1 point
  40. 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... >:-(
    1 point
  41. Mac OS Desktops: 1Q 2021

    Here is the desktop on my M1 MacBook Air. It took forever to arrive (because it was 16GB/1TB), but performs better than my old i9 16" MacBook. The battery life is insane, I only need to charge every two days now.
    1 point
  42. All those bans will probably disappear on Wednesday Jan 20th, once Biden is sworn in. With his & his family's dealing with Red China, those bans will probably go away.
    1 point
  43. The Great Reset has begun.
    1 point
  44. 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.
    1 point
  45. Qualcomm's answer to Apple's M1 could be the SC8280

    They need to start appearing in 300 Euro (with 8GB of RAM and a real SSD) machines. Nobody is buying 1k+ Windows machines unless they are gaming or business (XPS, Latitude, Elitebook, Thinkpad) To make matters worse, it's 1k € machines that can't compete with even lowest end x86 machines and can't even run Win64 apps. It's just pathetic.
    1 point
  46. Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

    Who knew that Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook are trying to get rid of competition
    1 point
  47. How about a native version instead of the bloated one now?
    1 point
  48. Specs Appeal: Samsung Galaxy S21 vs Galaxy S21+ vs Galaxy S21 Ultra

    It doesn't support Samsung Pay. So if you get this and us Samsung Pay, this phone is reported to NOT support it.
    1 point
  49. am I the only one that finds it ironic that the mockup for the new action center / notification area looks VERY similar to the one in Chrome OS? :lmao: also all I'm noticing with the start menu mockup all that seems different is they put empty padding around the outside of the menu so it's not sitting flush with the taskbar and side of screen. It just doesn't look right IMO.
    1 point
  50. New boss at Windows, more changes. Every time.
    1 point