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  1. So, instead of Hitler's mustache, they gave it Hitler's hair cut. Okay Amazon...
    16 points
  2. They can change the icon all they want, they're still "blitzkriegging" into every market they can without a care in the world.
    11 points
  3. It seems people have still waaaaaayyy too much time on their hands for nonsense like this....... Jeez...
    10 points
  4. Microsoft outlines what's next for the PDF reader in Edge

    I know! I have a dedicated app for PDF viewing / editing (PhantomPDF), and every now and again, Windows has some "problem" with it and resets it back to Edge. Give me a break!
    6 points
  5. Microsoft outlines what's next for the PDF reader in Edge

    Why Microsoft keeps resetting my default PDF reader to Edge's?
    6 points
  6. Manufacturing electric cars is worse for the environment than any combustion engine. This mumbo jumbo touted by these CEO's need to stop. You don't fight climate change by making less reliable cars that in the future will become subscription services based just like everything else. What hurts the climate most about cars is the rapid buy and sell cycle that the car companies promote these days. Cars barely reach "old age" any more. They're tossed away as scrap while still being fairly new and fully functional. Huge fleets of barely used cars sit around in huge lots completely unused because people were offered a better deal on something newer and flashier. That is the absolute WORST thing for the climate about cars. Wether you buy an electric car or gasoline car, as long as you keep it, service and maintain it, and use it for 15-20 years, which is considered the normal lifespan of a decent quality car (as long as YOU maintain it), it barely makes a dent in the environment. Emissions from cars alone count for about 2% of the worldwide CO2. There is a lot more that can be improved and changed that will have a far greater impact on the climate than electrifying cars... But I guess those things doesn't generate income for all these companies as much as subscription cars and electric charging does.
    5 points
  7. I don't want to live on this planet anymore. You have to be one sick individual to think that looks anything like Hitler.
    4 points
  8. I swear I didn't see it until social media started going viral with it, and now I can't unsee it 😂
    4 points
  9. Fair point - does a bit 😂
    4 points
  10. Microsoft outlines what's next for the PDF reader in Edge

    People using a third party program/app to view PDFs are a minority these days. False.
    4 points
  11. I was playing NFS games since TNFS back in early 90's. The way EA treats NFS franchise I just stopped caring about it. Especially now that Criterion is in charge for it again. Criterion made excellent Burnout games on PlayStation 2, but all NFS games from them are so god damn soulless and generic. None of them have any story either. Sigh. I'm especially annoyed how Ghost team actually made NFS Heat to 90% and when we hoped they'll add those extra 10%, the only NFS game that actually had tons of potential got entirely sacked just 3 months after launch. NFS Heat could be one of best NFS games in last decade. But they just didn't care. Now I don't care and EA fan go F themselves for that.
    4 points
  12. To make it go faster
    4 points
  13. Volvo plans to go all-electric by 2030, and you'll need to buy online

    Those people that live in sunny places like southern california love to tell you that solar is the future, except they dont consider any other place on the planet where solar isnt feasible. Cleveland, OH is one of the cloudiest places in the US. Sure, the sun is out as i type this, but fall and winter are 90% gray. Also, the massive CA solar grid failed them last summer with rolling blackouts due to their horrible electric grid, massive temperatures, wildfires and no where to store the solar power. sounds like a great future to me!
    3 points
  14. It is the consensus by the experts (yes, experts...I know that is a dirty word for your type) that taking the vaccine, wearing masks and social distancing are appropriate steps to take to minimize both catching the virus and spreading it to loved ones. Define what is your definition of an expert for this situation? The vaccines have at most 6 months of testing and during the testing, they cut corner in every single aspect (self-testing = no testing at all). Can you show me a formal paper that documents the testings? I believe in vaccines but not in all vaccines. IMHO : * Pfizer = The worse of the bunch. * Moderna = so much risk of side effects. * AstraZeneca and Johnsons & Johnsons = I think they are a copy of Moderna. Just a couple of weeks ago, AstraZeneca owned shares of Moderna. * Sinovac = the best by far (and cheaper). * Sputnik = it's another that is working fine Aaaaand in one post you managed to prove why Twitter are doing this and what a good thing it will be. Astrazenica has formal papers that shows how they did the testing. Why are Phizer the worse of the bunch? Hows the AstraZenica and J&J vaccine that use historic ways to make vaccine the same as the RNA vaccine from others? Why is Sinovac with an effacacy of just 50% better than the others? You spout opinions which then makes it harder to actually combat the pandemic.
    3 points
  15. Twitter starts labeling tweets with false claims about COVID-19 vaccine

    Twitter aren't stopping anyone from holding those views, despite how repugnant they are. You are free to believe whatever you want. Twitter are however not allowing you to publicly spout your nonsense on their platform and potentially undermine the efforts of health authorities across the world. It is the consensus by the experts (yes, experts...I know that is a dirty word for your type) that taking the vaccine, wearing masks and social distancing are appropriate steps to take to minimize both catching the virus and spreading it to loved ones. Twitter has every right to take these steps and imho it is also their civic duty.
    3 points
  16. I mean I had the vaccine and I got a sore arm and a headache. In comparison a family member got covid and has been left with a permanent fatigue and not exactly a pemanent shortness of breath but their breathing has deteriorated quite a bit... You don't think a short arm ache and headache that go (not talking about any of the american vaccines) quickly are worth not getting permanent health effects?
    3 points
  17. Microsoft outlines what's next for the PDF reader in Edge

    I use SumatraPDF because of its superior navigation of PDFs and F10 to see Table of contents.
    3 points
  18. Microsoft outlines what's next for the PDF reader in Edge

    People using a third party program/app to view PDFs are a minority these days. Not at work they don't.
    3 points
  19. Nokia/Microsoft dropped the ball pretty hard on this one. Lumia had the best camera tech around early 2010s. I still remember people buying the 520 in droves, one of the reasons because its camera was far better than anything even 2x its price. With the 1020, they had (have?) a Pixel like cult following. I doubt the Surface branded mobile phones will ever reach its predecessor's appeal.
    3 points
  20. Blimey they should be way on the way to second generation by now, not writing job ads.
    3 points
  21. Amazon changes its app icon... to apparently make it look less like Hitler

    This obsession with Nazi Germany and Hitler is just ridiculous. People need to grow the hell up.
    2 points
  22. I mean I had the vaccine and I got a sore arm and a headache. In comparison a family member got covid and has been left with a permanent fatigue and not exactly a pemanent shortness of breath but their breathing has deteriorated quite a bit... You don't think a short arm ache and headache that go (not talking about any of the american vaccines) quickly are worth not getting permanent health effects? But the vaccine is really effective and for how long? It's amazing that these questions continue to be asked... maybe you should re-eval your news sources. This information has been available for months. Yes they're effective, and yes, we'll likely need boosters that would be included in an annual flu vaccine. shockz, what about the 40-50% of the people that never get a flu shot? I've never had one nor have I ever had the flu (even though I've been around plenty of people that had the flu). I've also been in close prolonged contact with a family member that was positive for SARS-COV2 (notice I didn't say COVID-19 because PCR doesn't test for the disease, its tests for the virus. They are NOT the same thing but I digress) and never tested positive for the virus (or antibodies). I have no intentions of getting any SARS-COV2 vaccinations (of flu for that matter) for the foreseeable future. My work has already said they will not require it. I do not fly or travel outside the country. If I did decide based on consultation with my physician to get it, it would likely be the J&J variety. I'm not sold on mRNA yet. It's a rather promising technique with two decades of research history but an somewhat abysmal track record of success until this particular one. I'd like very much to see if there is any impact 12-18 months down the road to ensure there are no 'unforeseen' issues. As to the original topic, I do however support anyone that wants to get vaccinated to do so and at this point I no longer care what Twitter does or doesn't do. They are a private company that regularly closes the door to dissenting opinion because they need to 'protect people from certain crack pots - but not all crack pots' . At least the flat earthers and moon landing deniers still get to push their crazy ideas. My only question is what will be the responses if a year or two from now, we find out some of the crack pots were right? Stop holding the flu up as some sort of comparative illness they are not. Covid is mostly transmissible before you get symptoms and falls off after day5~. So yeah being in contact with someone while they have it isn't a guarantee your going to get it. Did you at any point get a PCR test done to see if you asymptomatic like the majority of people who have had Covid? FYI in the UK there were little to no flu cases in the last flu season but there were a lot of Covid cases. Maybe, just maybe, one is a lot more infectious than the other?
    2 points
  23. People complain about everything these days. Someone will complain about me complaining about other people complaining soon.
    2 points
  24. I mean I had the vaccine and I got a sore arm and a headache. In comparison a family member got covid and has been left with a permanent fatigue and not exactly a pemanent shortness of breath but their breathing has deteriorated quite a bit... You don't think a short arm ache and headache that go (not talking about any of the american vaccines) quickly are worth not getting permanent health effects? But the vaccine is really effective and for how long? Yes it is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56083905 and only real world testing will show for how long it lasts. You can't do 10 years worth of white blood cell checking in a lab in a month, that's not how it works. And in response to your other claim "* AstraZeneca and Johnsons & Johnsons = I think they are a copy of Moderna. Just a couple of weeks ago, AstraZeneca owned shares of Moderna" this is nonsense, they are nothing alike. Moderna and pfizer are both RNA, Astrazenica is a modified virus, you can get this information from a 5 second search pretty easily, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55274833 about half way down the page. It comes down to unless you have passed at least college level biology you need to rely on experts. If you can't rely on experts (or know what constitutes one) then it's probably time for more formal education as opposed to the school of google\facebook\twitter.
    2 points
  25. Just as we quit using it because it only works 40% of the time... We've had documents sit in queue for hours before coming out, custom drivers (which are supposed to work) don't work, the Universal Print drivers don't handle multiple trays properly... When it does work it's great, but the problem is that it doesn't work reliably.
    2 points
  26. Everyone also quotes that scotland ran off solar power alone in summer last year, and that it would be easy to add electric cars and get them running green... Except in summer, no one has heating on which uses a substantial amount of power, the sun is shining the most of the whole year and not many people have electric cars. Flip that to winter, suddenly everyone has heating on, there is no solar power, NONE, and now everyone has an electric car which, due to not generating heat in the engine, is going to use substantially more electricity to heat the car itself up which it doesn't in summer... Where's that power going to come from? As of every person I've asked thus far, no-one has been able to give me an answer, in fact the people with electric cars just stop talking at that point and change to an entirely different subject. But it's a real problem, in 20 years when apparently everyone has electric cars, how is this massive extra demand on the electric grid going to be addressed?
    2 points
  27. As i said in my previous comment, i'm all for reducing pollution and slowing global warming, but this rush to all-electric isnt the way to do it. What would be better is to improve the efficiency of modern combustion engines and continue to work our way to cheaper electric cars. Is there a battery tech that doesnt require massive amounts of lithium? this industry calls lithium "white oil" b/c it's going to be the next massive commodity. as it stands, there isnt enough lithium on the earth today to replace every car w/ batteries, let alone long-term. batteries produce massive amount of toxic waste that has to be stored somewhere. Electric cars require massive amounts of precious metals that are already being gobbled up for other means like electronics, bullion, jewelery, etc. Then there's cobalt, which is currently a filthy mining procedure that often exploits the poorest countries w/ harsh labor conditions. that's just the tip of the iceberg. Electric sounds romantic and gets everyone feeling good, but it's not sustainable.
    2 points
  28. Lumia 950/950 XL also had very decent cameras for its time. Unfortunately, by that time, Windows 10 Mobile/Windows Phone was on its last legs. Lumia 950 had THE BEST camera for that period, competitors didn't come even close for a while If you had said the 925 then I would have agreed. The 950 camera doesn't have OIS and it doesn't handle low light or hand shake so well. (Present tense because I still use my 950). Are you sure that 950 has no OIS? yeah btw the 920 camera was revolutionary (I had both)
    2 points
  29. Volvo plans to go all-electric by 2030, and you'll need to buy online

    I saw a video on this the other day, it was about the adoption of electric cars and why it isn't happening faster. It's evaluation of the situation was actually the biggest issue currently is infrastructure. Currently the US government is offering incentives to buy electric cars....when it should probably be spending more incentivizing the infrastructure to make it feasible to own an electric car for those who don't have somewhere to charge at home and to cover all the gaps on the high ways. They should also have more high speed charging stations.
    2 points
  30. Volvo plans to go all-electric by 2030, and you'll need to buy online

    So who is going to miss the sound of engines roaring down the road? I know I sure will! They also need to make charging fast as we don't want to wait.
    2 points
  31. Oh lol!! I'd be much more worried about the owner of Amazon than the icon they use!!
    2 points
  32. Nope, I don't see Hitler.
    2 points
  33. 2 points
  34. Probably more like... "Twitter starts labeling tweets that are not pro-vaccine as false'. it's simply a matter of trust and my general mindset is this... a high percentage of people will probably by fine straight up, so why inject something into ones body? ; I tend to see there being a higher risk from the rushed vaccine than from what it's supposed to protect you against in the first place to the average/healthy person (and if this is true, I am sure the corrupt media etc will censor it as usual). bottom line... there no way am I getting that shot as there is a lot of BS politics around covid with masks etc which is all the more reason I tend to just block out the noise (since what the media feeds people is rarely the truth anymore) and get on with life as usual.
    2 points
  35. Automated is wrong. Twitter AI scripts are a total mess. Got locked several times because of them, last time for 3 months as there were working from home and ignored all the appeals.
    2 points
  36. Lumia 950/950 XL also had very decent cameras for its time. Unfortunately, by that time, Windows 10 Mobile/Windows Phone was on its last legs.
    2 points
  37. Look at the design of Nokia phones in the representative image provided in article. Beautiful 😍
    2 points
  38. Still holding out hope for a fall 2021 release of Neo with hopefully this person’s work on cameras in it.
    2 points
  39. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    You can still back your data up in the cloud if you choose. It isn't an either/or situation. I already do that and have been doing that for > 10 years, thank you very much. Which is the reason why I don't see the need for 1Tb on my mobile. Funny how when iPhones first came out with limited storage (16Gb!!!) this same argument was used to justify the limited storage. Now 16Gb was really really limited and I see 256Gb as the sweet spot. the only one turning this into a debate is you...its an option, you dont have to buy it. I see uses for low storage w/ icloud and high storage (recording a lot of video while not on wifi, preferring local than using the cloud, etc).
    2 points
  40. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2021

    Probably Garuda.
    2 points
  41. I’m surprised that Apple is opening stores because things are far from getting back to normal. COVID is still a huge issue and if people start behaving like normal then a new wave of infections and deaths will happen.
    2 points
  42. Windows Server 2022 is now available in preview

    You mean upgrading from 2019? or to the final version of 2022 when released? I am interested too in both cases actually yeah I currently have a mini server running at home on Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview and am wondering how to update the build to the current Insider Preview build (aka this 2022 build) You have to do upgrade using the ISO: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...windowsinsiderpreviewserver (You have to be logged as insider) okay so the upgrade button from the ISO button works; just can't be done through WU. good to know. thanks for confirming Yeah, at this point I thought there were some windows update for insiders on server, but nope only using the iso upgrade
    1 point
  43. Instead of adding a bunch of new useless features, why can't they fix all the stuff that's already there and is broken? With the latest update, now I can't see who is in a meeting unless they talk. I was in a meeting yesterday with 8 people but I could only see two of them. Or maybe they could listen to all the user feedback? It is still just as horrible and buggy as on day 1. Oh, actually I guess they finally fixed the double-mute issue after FOUR YEARS of people being continuously annoyed with their headset mute buttons going OOS with the program. So hats off to the developers for finally getting the software up to the bare minimum standard set by ever other piece of audio conferencing software ever. Whew, that felt good to get out.
    1 point
  44. I mean I had the vaccine and I got a sore arm and a headache. In comparison a family member got covid and has been left with a permanent fatigue and not exactly a pemanent shortness of breath but their breathing has deteriorated quite a bit... You don't think a short arm ache and headache that go (not talking about any of the american vaccines) quickly are worth not getting permanent health effects? But the vaccine is really effective and for how long? Yes it is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56083905 and only real world testing will show for how long it lasts. You can't do 10 years worth of white blood cell checking in a lab in a month, that's not how it works. And in response to your other claim "* AstraZeneca and Johnsons & Johnsons = I think they are a copy of Moderna. Just a couple of weeks ago, AstraZeneca owned shares of Moderna" this is nonsense, they are nothing alike. Moderna and pfizer are both RNA, Astrazenica is a modified virus, you can get this information from a 5 second search pretty easily, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55274833 about half way down the page.
    1 point
  45. "Critical bug?" LOL. This issue causes no actual corruption and requires you to attack yourself. It is very low-priority.
    1 point
  46. This is all good and fine, but other Android OEMs are simply a year or more ahead of Microsoft hardware design. If Microsoft made hardware that could run Windows, well that would be interesting and useful at least, even if it didn't have the latest hardware. Running full Windows-on-ARM with x86 emulation, could actually be useful. This.. eh why not just buy a Samsung or an LG or whatever. (which is what everyone has been doing anyway, this Surface Duo is the biggest flop ever)
    1 point
  47. Apple has re-opened all of its U.S. stores for the first time in a year

    Looking at their profits (and many other product OEMS) they really don't need stores at this point. Stuff sells and gets repaired anyway. Even the people that I know who hated online shopping have discovered all the benefits and will keep doing it even after the pandemic.
    1 point
  48. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    The more local storage you have, the more cloud storage you will need for a normal user that do not manage their data.
    1 point
  49. Terraria for Google Stadia is back in development

    They claim Google is bringing a lot transparency now but Spinks remains completely opaque, never explaining anything. Exactly. Fishy. I think Google promised them $$$ to come back. Cannot be just access restoration. Also why not give more details - any keep them secret - because they were bought out.
    1 point
  50. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    wouldn't say hate, MS and Apple have been friends from the start just go back and look at the deals they've made since the Apple 1 days, they are just highly competitive.. MS wrote BASIC for the original Apples, wrote word processors for them, all kinds of software... Apple also gave MS some stuff they made too. They've been odd friends from the start, even Gates and Jobs were friends who would call each other to talk about stuff
    1 point