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  1. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Because it goes against the narrative that Intel Evo is the best.
    4 points
  2. Try out freeCodeCamp if you want to get into programming

    It's amazing how many free resources there are to get into software development. 4-year $200K Ivy League degrees are NO longer necessary to land a $400K/year job at Google.
    3 points
  3. Was about to say the same! Very well written and explained! I didn't have to look for secondary sources to understand it. “Additionally, Google used Word Clouds to visualize the semantic meaning behind each cohort” Hah! I was thinking of adding a disclaimer that some amount of knowledge of statistics/maths/machine learning would be preferred before you dive into the article but then decided against it because it might sound too pretentious. Although, I'm happy to refer readers to relevant articles if they are interested in knowing more about the methodologies mentioned briefly in the article. I studied most of these methods like agglomerative clustering method with changing centroids during the Data Science course at university and I know how mathematical/technical they can be so I did not go into too many details and just briefly discussed their concept. And specifically with respect to word clouds, I'll add here that it is a visualization technique to show keywords from the data in this case. These keywords can be used to understand the semantic meaning behind a collection of text. For example, in this case, when Google tested the algorithm on the music data, they generated a cohort which had a word cloud containing keywords like "metal", "hard metal", etc. which shows that the cohort mostly contained users who tend to listen to songs of the metal genre, so it's a good cohort/classification. Sorry, I know I could have explained it more in the article but I didn't want to make it a longer read than it already is
    3 points
  4. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off. You put a lot of effort into this project and I, for one, appreciate it. I think the only thing you did wrong was mistakenly using the word "inbox" when you meant "built-in". 😉 But on the whole, you tried your best to represent a neutral point of view. If the world can't see it, then, screw the world.
    3 points
  5. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off.
    3 points
  6. Jack Dorsey is selling Twitter's first tweet as an NFT

    Wow, what a time. Idiots that actually pay money for this ######. Mind blowing...
    3 points
  7. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off. You put a lot of effort into this project and I, for one, appreciate it. I think the only thing you did wrong was mistakenly using the word "inbox" when you meant "built-in". 😉 But on the whole, you tried your best to represent a neutral point of view. If the world can't see it, then, screw the world. I really appreciate that, more than you know sorry, i tend to forget the human when i comment on websites, i appreciate the insane amount of effort it took to make the full review, and replying only with a negative comment was very disrespectful, i apologies
    2 points
  8. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2021

    POP OS with Sweet GTK theme and icons. The previous one I posted was Garuda Linux, which I liked but was a bit bloated and not as responsive and fast as POP OS. POP is a beast when it comes to UI response speed and overall stability.
    2 points
  9. Yes, Bitwarden premium can do that. Best $10/y ever spent IMHO.
    2 points
  10. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Are you blind? There are two whole "Performance and battery life" sections in parts six and seven. Nah, I don't think he is. I did a Ctrl+F and "battery" didn't show up once in this article.
    2 points
  11. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off. You put a lot of effort into this project and I, for one, appreciate it. I think the only thing you did wrong was mistakenly using the word "inbox" when you meant "built-in". 😉 But on the whole, you tried your best to represent a neutral point of view. If the world can't see it, then, screw the world. I really appreciate that, more than you know
    2 points
  12. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    1. First of all, I'm not going to write up forward-looking statements as fact. I realize that everyone here seems to want me to be an Apple cheerleader instead of writing my experience, but if it's not supported, it's not supported. But also, any chance you have a link to where Apple promised to fix this in a future update? I've not seen any evidence that this was going to change. If it does change, however, I'll happily update this article, as well as other parts of the series where I mentioned the lack of multi-monitor support. I'm also not going to write about a third-party workaround for Apple explicitly not supporting it. 2. I wasn't only talking about Intel apps when I said apps launch faster on Intel PCs
    2 points
  13. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    It was a stupid comparison series to begin with. Compares Macs to Macs because it differs too much from Windows machines.
    2 points
  14. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Not a single mention to battery life? It is one of the best thing of this new macbook, i have one, and the battery life is INSANE
    2 points
  15. Nice article. Well done 👍
    2 points
  16. Jack Dorsey is selling Twitter's first tweet as an NFT

    Very interesting time we live in.
    2 points
  17. McAfee and his advisor indicted over cryptocurrency fraud

    Good old drug-addicted (or just playing the role very well?) Mcafee, and his crazy tweets. Its ok to enjoy his tweets as entertainment. But who was so idiot to trust him as financial advisor, and give him any cent? He is a scammer simply speaking. A famous one yes, but still a plain scammer.
    2 points
  18. Try out freeCodeCamp if you want to get into programming

    Although... as long as basic math and logical reasoning is involved with software development, the vast majority of people will never achieve such a career. As the saying goes, you cannot fix stupid.
    1 point
  19. Unboxing the innovative new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga

    Lenovo always have sales. I got X1 Carbon 1TB 16Gb i7 (8gen) last summer for around $1600 - that laptop was $3500 when released or something crazy like that. It is quite likely I will get this particular laptop in about 1-2 years though to be honest I will likely pick 16:10 X1 model Very nice laptop! I had 2x 6th gen Core i7 8650 16GB and 512GB NVME X1 Carbon laptops... Only have the one now (new job). Great laptops. They Run Elementary OS / Ubuntu very well!
    1 point
  20. Microsoft Edge Chromium is starting to roll out for Xbox consoles

    Maybe this new Edge is better but I've never had a good experience browsing the web on a console. Yeah, I am not to sure why anyone would do that. I have used the built-in browser to get to sites that host shows, like Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, to stream entire episodes of shows, when there was -- at the time -- no alternative way to stream it on the Xbox via apps. The alternative is to use something like ChromeCast or AirPlay to stream it from other devices, and have hardware able to do it. I now have an Apple TV, so I doubt I would need to do that again, but it's nice to have the option.
    1 point
  21. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off. What I'd like is for someone who doesn't clearly have a strong dislike for anything Apple to be the one to review Apple products. Your dislike for them is very clear in every review you've done, and that's fine as long as you're not a reviewer. Someone reviewing products should be impartial, but you're clearly not capable of doing that with Apple products. The lengths you'll go to to try and prove that Apple products are crap by finding the most absurdly irrelevant "flaws" is probably the one reason why I bother to read your reviews, it's bordering on comedy at this point. You're just not suited to reviewing this stuff. That's fine but it's dragging down the credibility of this site.
    1 point
  22. Local Windows 10 Photo Manager

    digiKam is a great piece of sofrware - it's open source and has all those features you mention. https://www.digikam.org/
    1 point
  23. For some reason I read this: "As usual, it is important to look past the headlines, as the devil is in the details.
    1 point
  24. I think it will make it difficult to fingerprint your device because of/from your cohort provided that the cohort has thousands of users. Yes, rolling them out to their own services to set an example and a precedent first makes more sense. I did read the EFF piece this morning but I personally feel that they are outlining a worst case scenario (which is possible btw) and it has a lot of whataboutism that is unjustified at this time. I believe the testing phase in this year will shed much more light over how privacy preserving or breaching FLoC really is. Remains to be seen about privacy-guarding software since FLoC hasn't been tested with them yet. I suppose both sides (uBlock and Google) will be fighting constantly to one-up each others' efforts when the time comes
    1 point
  25. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off. The issue is that you were given the hardware by Intel and your articles aren’t impartial in any way shape or form. You’ve followed Intels narrative and your articles read as Intel advertisements. Nothing to do with being a fanboy or not whatsoever and failing to acknowledge that and reducing people’s comments down to ‘just being bashed for not being a fanboy’ when people are questioning impartiality is very telling.
    1 point
  26. Runtime inspection of XLM macros is now available in Microsoft Excel

    Appreciate the feedback, this is from before my time ('96-born ) so I went by what's mentioned by Microsoft: "XLM macros is a legacy macro language that was made available to Microsoft Excel in 1992..." Let me know if I misunderstood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#History
    1 point
  27. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    @RichWoods, I personally think you did a great job with this series, however I think you were setup by Intel to fail. Most of us are not upset at you as a reviewer, I do however believe the comparison supplied by Intel was flawed from the beginning and much of what we have been saying has been based around those concerns. Your points however have showed that you have been aware of those issues, especially in your closing comments where you said it's only a matter of time before Apple would pull ahead with this silicon. Honestly you did really well at this frankly horrible assignment. It's clear that Intel is running scared, and I am glad as this will make them more competitive again (them dropping the ball to AMD was a sure sign they were struggling). But having people including yourself write a review based off early Gen1 M1 Apple hardware and a well established high quality brand may well present the point that RIGHT NOW things aren't great, but based on how fast Apple move in these spaces, this Intel advantage will not last long!!
    1 point
  28. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Agreed, apart from the dual external displays, would any of the other external hardware tests have worked on an Intel Mac? As much as I prefer Windows over Mac due to the compatibility and flexibility, Apple have a way with designing a very slick product. If they thought the dual external display was going to be a major issue for a large portion of their users, they would have held back. But I suspect that those users may use a different product in Apples range. Further, is the dual display out purely a hardware issue, or could it be "resolved" with a software patch? I wouldn't think this would be the case, however I'm not that familiar with this chip so they may have a sneaky way to activate it later..?
    1 point
  29. Wiring cat5 and cat6

    Cat6a is definitely more expensive to the tune of 2-3 times the cost of Cat6. Proper terminators that make use of the drain wire add to that cost as well. Go with higher MHz Cat6 or Cat6e and call it good.
    1 point
  30. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Are you blind? There are two whole "Performance and battery life" sections in parts six and seven. Nah, I don't think he is. I did a Ctrl+F and "battery" didn't show up once in this article. You're totally right about this. I could have done better at focusing on battery life, and I don't really have an excuse for it. But yea, the battery life is killer on the ARM MacBook.
    1 point
  31. Wiring cat5 and cat6

    Your close but wrong with the connectors. Phone lines are typically RJ11/RJ12 not RJ45, RJ45 is ethernet cable connectors. Cat5 thru Cat 7 can be used as phone cable but they are typically used for Networks, VoIP and PBX systems, typically Cat 3 and under are used for phone lines. Cat5,6,7 and I think 8 when used in conjunction with typical RJ45 connects are all electrically compatible, for future proofing Cat6+ should be used, regardless of if your going to be running 10Gbe+ or not though it does come in at a price penalty to futureproof (Higher the Category higher the price and more difficulty to terminate the cables). The wiki page on Registered Jacks is a good resource to learn of the different RJ jacks.
    1 point
  32. "k" is actually the number of users in a cohort, but yes, I completely get what you're saying, which is that if there are 100 users and 100 cohorts are generated for them (which would be the result of a poor algorithm tbh), they could all be individually tracked. I think there's a long way to go which is why we'll mostly be seeing testing this year rather than a full-scale implementation. Google claims that the cohort ID alone can't be used to de-identify individual users unless it is paired with other information signals as well. As such, I think work needs to be done on the governance and security aspect too before this is given a greenlight
    1 point
  33. Interesting. This is a combination of the method used by training in your phone (Pixel devices and Google Assistant) and Apple's unique email generation, now done in the web browser. The funny thing in here is that I can see that you could potentially exploit the k value (number of cohorts) to be as big as the number of users, giving you similar abilities to the tracking. Now, as long as your cohort ID isn't easily traceable back to your device (and it truly stays in the browser as the company said), it can work.
    1 point
  34. Was about to say the same! Very well written and explained! I didn't have to look for secondary sources to understand it.
    1 point
  35. Its not. I'm not blind. Seen this with IE before. It's always best to stay with 3rd party browsers. You don't want one browser that ties too deep into the OS. Microsoft is simply doing another IE, and that is pretty clear for anyone that's been in tech for a while. Its as close to becoming IE as Chrome is. Considering its cross platform...what are these deep OS ties you are referring to? There are many. Please tell me how I can complete uninstall Edge without hacking it out of my Windows 10 installation? I don't want Edge or any browser pushed down my throat. But Edge, just like IE, is being pushed down everybody's throat, because of deep integrations and ties into the OS, and it's not possible to simply uninstall it. Add deep integrations with Bing and other MS services on top of it. Edge is being pushed onto everyone just like IE was. NO THANKS. The only "IE" like thing is uninstallation, yes. But every OS needs some sort of WebView, which happens to be Edgium. Otherwise just remove the icon from your start menu and you will never know it is installed. After the incidents related to IE in the past, Microsoft offered a basic application where you could choose which browser you wanted to download and install after you installed Windows. So that's not true. Not every OS needs an integrated webview. Lazy "web developers" might think they need it, but it's absolutely not if these developers just started learning an actual good low-level programming language. Lazy? Huh.
    1 point
  36. McAfee and his advisor indicted over cryptocurrency fraud

    I think there's a shorter list of people he hasn't crossed.
    1 point
  37. Agreed, I think there's a long way to go. I've seen some critics lambasting this technique, but at least it's a start and it's better than what we have right now. I'll take the chance.
    1 point
  38. Neowin Community Minecraft Server

    Me too
    1 point
  39. Twitter is working on an "Undo" button for tweets

    Just delete the tweet and redo it?
    1 point
  40. Neowin Community Minecraft Server

    donated for the next payment period.
    1 point
  41. Its not. I'm not blind. Seen this with IE before. It's always best to stay with 3rd party browsers. You don't want one browser that ties too deep into the OS. Microsoft is simply doing another IE, and that is pretty clear for anyone that's been in tech for a while. Its as close to becoming IE as Chrome is. Considering its cross platform...what are these deep OS ties you are referring to?
    1 point
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  43. LibreOffice 7.1.1 Community

    I never liked "LibreOffice" as a name either but what exactly were they going for adding "Community" to the name? Adding "Nacho" instead would've at least fit a bit better. OSS "Community" has never been all that great at naming things. Its all free though so whatya gonna do \o/ ?
    1 point
  44. Google says it will stop tracking you on the web via ads next year

    Yeah, in 2005...
    1 point
  45. Still no real tablet version either......
    1 point
  46. The one that bugs me is for most of the games I play its not possible to back the saves up to the cloud. That needs to be worked on so for games like Pokemon so the saves can be restored to a new console if anything happens to your current Switch for example. The ability to communicate with your friends would be nice on the Switch its self, even if no global chat is present in multiplayer games. I do find it kind of of ironic we've started group chats on the Xbox in the past to then play an Nintendo console online. As far as backwards compatibility goes I'd have like to of seen GameCube emulation, homebrew efforts are pretty good, if not quite full speed. Nintendo could have probably got things running perfectly if its something they wanted.
    1 point
  47. Prepping PC for reformat

    Yeah I second getting them direct from the manufacturer of the motherboard, if you have a Gigabyte board, don't use the APP Center, it is crap! Just grab the individual files from the support page. If the PC is Intel based, you can also use Intel Driver & Support Assistant for chipset drivers etc.
    1 point
  48. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2021

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  49. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2021

    Gnome tweak tool allows you to change a bunch of items. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tweaks I basically tweaked a bunch on the fonts, and then added a shell theme and icon pack. For transparency, that comes from the shell theme. Screenshot shows all the other modifications. You can find these all at https://www.gnome-look.org.
    1 point
  50. GNU/Linux Desktops: 1Q 2021

    1 point