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  1. for the love of god, same needs to be done for the passengers
    8 points
  2. Microsoft Store for Business and Education may be killed off soon

    There's other ways to push specific apps to your education or enterprise devices, so having specific store front ends just for those two seems unnecessary. They could just update the main store and make it better overall.
    5 points
  3. Is 5ghz wi-fi just as good as a wired internet connection?

    First, it's 5 GHz wifi, please don't call it 5G wifi. Because 5G is a different thing. Wired is always better, faster, more reliable. But that being said, in wifi, the PHY speed and signal strength are two factors that determine how good or bad it is. Do a speed test on both wired and 5 GHz wireless if your client PHY speed is decent - it may be good enough for your internet speed requirements - may offer the same speed via wired too. Not for LAN/WLAN transfers where wired is miles ahead. Read this long but very interesting page to learn more about Wifi: https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html
    2 points
  4. 2 points
  5. Qualcomm: I win over a Celeron. 🤔
    2 points
  6. Funny you bring up GamersNexus... HardwareUnboxed just came out with a video on this and explained what they are talking about, though. Given the SAME CPU across 4 GPUs, the AMD cards performed better on the lower-end CPUs at lower resolutions: (side note, 1080p is still the most prevalent resolution in the Survey.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLEIJhunaW8
    2 points
  7. Google Chrome on Android adds the ability to preview a page

    God, I hate browsing the web on a phone or tablet.
    2 points
  8. No clearly not, all those shipping labels, all those stickers on products, all those serial number labels... They're all generated with a monkey and a toothbrush in a secret room...
    2 points
  9. lol, this is very much laughable at this point🤣
    2 points
  10. AT&T expands 5G to all on older unlimited wireless plans

    I think they're trying to show up Verizon since Verizon announced that their 5G at least in the C- bandwidth (fastest) would only be available to their top end unlimited plans.
    1 point
  11. DLSS 2.0 is one of the coolest things about RTX 2/3xxx series. Would be wicked cool if AMD implemented something like this. Or better, if MS implemented something like this via DirectX
    1 point
  12. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Starship Orbital Pad A: launch tower footings going in
    1 point
  13. Microsoft Store for Business and Education may be killed off soon

    Disagree. As an organisation we're not going to allow our users to see or download non-business related apps like Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Asphalt, etc. It's just not sensible and appropriate for a work environment. However as Microsoft has chosen to put things like language packs in the store, as well as some apps that we're perfectly fine with, such as To-do, whiteboard, etc, then we need a way of allowing users and local IT teams to install these apps. Microsoft Store for Business gave us this capability and it works well. We curate the apps that are allowed into categories, and users can choose to install them. If we have to block access to the store entirely, which will be the case if Microsoft shut down Store for Business, then that will also mean that inbox apps such as calculator, mail and calendar, etc will stop being updated, which is also undesirable. Valid points but I think instead of having 3 different store front ends, having one store that shows specific things depending on the account you sign in with (consume, edu, business), would be the better way to do it, no? You could then just limit the ability to login with a consumer account via group policy for example. Not a bad idea. But as is typical with Microsoft the removal of one thing will come well in advance of whatever is destined to replace it. Also to be fair, it's not really an entirely new front end per se right now. It's the same store, the same apps, the same update mechanism, just displayed on a different tab. The group policy then just hides the "public tabs". This works well, and isn't too dissimilar to your suggestion.
    1 point
  14. I wish they would test this Windows on Arm, especially with Windows10x around the corner.
    1 point
  15. microsoft giventh, microsoft takenth
    1 point
  16. Do you own a printer & Do you print?

    I have a Brother MFC laser printer/fax/scanner/copier I print a few things up, tried to fax with it but it didn't work through Google Voice, have used the scanner.
    1 point
  17. Do you own a printer & Do you print?

    I am entertained by how many things regular people realized they didn't have when the lock down started. Computers, Webcam's, printers and such.
    1 point
  18. Windows 10 feels like a big old watertank, sometimes the water leak can be stopped with ducttape, sometimes cannot. Sometimes the tape comes off from previously patched holes.
    1 point
  19. Microsoft Store for Business and Education may be killed off soon

    Disagree. As an organisation we're not going to allow our users to see or download non-business related apps like Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Asphalt, etc. It's just not sensible and appropriate for a work environment. However as Microsoft has chosen to put things like language packs in the store, as well as some apps that we're perfectly fine with, such as To-do, whiteboard, etc, then we need a way of allowing users and local IT teams to install these apps. Microsoft Store for Business gave us this capability and it works well. We curate the apps that are allowed into categories, and users can choose to install them. If we have to block access to the store entirely, which will be the case if Microsoft shut down Store for Business, then that will also mean that inbox apps such as calculator, mail and calendar, etc will stop being updated, which is also undesirable.
    1 point
  20. Future Bethesda games will be exclusive to platforms with Xbox Game Pass

    After the failure of PS Vita? I think Microsoft is happy they missed out on that one. Even Nintendo merged their handheld and console into one unit. As for PC gaming, this now has more priority over at Bethesda. They can focus on releasing on Xbox and PC whereas previously they also had to consider PS before launch. I strongly believe Vita would have been successful if it used SD cards
    1 point
  21. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Pedal to the metal...
    1 point
  22. I rarely agree with your take but wins over MediaTek/Celeron/Pentium Silver are not much of a news story. Hopefully they place some pressure on the Celeron line and spur Intel into pushing better hardware into budget machines - I'd like to see results of greater competition on the low budget/low performance end. We've already seen the effects of stagnation on the mainstream/high end with Intel's decade-long domination over AMD. While budget machine hardware might be completely boring, changes to these product lines actually matter to a lot of people.
    1 point
  23. It's an entry level chip for computers... It does better than Intel's entry level chips, and not just Celeron. Remember Microsoft is actually using Pentium in Surface Go. 7c is much better performance and power for the same cost. Even better than Core M at times.
    1 point
  24. Save 98% off the Complete Become a UI/UX Designer Bundle

    We should gift this to windows team 🤣
    1 point
  25. CPU bottlenecking becomes less of an issue as the resolution goes up, not the other way around, because the processing load shifts towards the GPU. It'd still be a bottleneck, but if it achieves acceptable frame rates at lower resolutions, then there's a good chance it could manage at higher res too.
    1 point
  26. Future Bethesda games will be exclusive to platforms with Xbox Game Pass

    The Xbox app already allows modding. The developer has to enable the option to open up the game's files though. I'm aware, but how deep does that go? Anyone familiar with Fallout or TES games likely know what "script extender" is which a lot of mods rely on, not to mention the other game overhauls and expansions others in the community have done. Unless they've got answers for those, I'm gonna be skeptical, especially as many other items still need a lot of improvement on the Xbox app. (I do use GamePass)
    1 point
  27. everyone non-apple is apple first, makes no sense, target your platform first!
    1 point
  28. The Xbox app already allows modding. The developer has to enable the option to open up the game's files though.
    1 point
  29. It's strange that Google is bringing this out to iOS first instead of Android!
    1 point
  30. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    If they follow the SN pattern then BN1 would do load & pressure tests then a static fire like SN3/4, then a successor BN would do the first flight. Early BNs will have 4 gimballed engines, with a full center cluster being 8. Outer ring = 20 fixed RMax engines (high thrust, no gimal).
    1 point
  31. Facebook starts allowing short-form video monetisation

    "...it’s opening up new ways to let content creators monetise their content on its platform..." is just code for "...new ways Facebook can earn more money of the back of others..."
    1 point
  32. Onedrive next please! No thank you, I happen to use OneDrive a lot for my work and like the OS integration. Totally obtainable when downloading it too.
    1 point
  33. What should be expected with something that was made needlessly complicated. It is very old-school; but, modular programming worked very well for decades. Now, we just have coders.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft confirms Windows 10 printer crashes after Patch Tuesday updates

    This is the second update in recent past that has broken printing. I'm an ISV and get tech support emails about this crap when people think it's my software causing the error. So, I have that to look forward to! Thanks for the heads up.
    1 point
  35. I mean, yes. This is how one tests CPU's against one another. Throw in a powerful, modern GPU and use anything from high to low end CPU's and measure their speed (obv. ensuring all other system component variables are as similar as possible). Then again, most custom builders should already know they shouldn't be buying a $1000+ high-end GPU paired with a cheaper lower-end CPU. If you want more information on how CPU testing is done, reference GamersNexus.
    1 point
  36. Most certainly in business settings. For example, Zebra is one of the listed in the article. If you've ever gotten anything with a UPS label on it, it likely came from a Zebra printer.
    1 point
  37. Instagram Lite arrives for low-end devices in 170 countries

    turn on an adblocker in your network and suddenly all apps/websites become 'lite'. It's easy to say than done. It’s just as easy said and done.
    1 point
  38. Even Google apps come to iOS first 😂
    1 point
  39. Onedrive next please! OneDrive is integral to assimilating users into the Microsoft ecosystem, it is not going anywhere. It has to be updated anyway, so clearly it doesn’t need to be there since we all know MS doesn’t know what a differential update is. All they are doing is downloading a new version. So again, there is no point in including it. Especially since it’s on the store, can be downloaded from the site, and is included with Microsoft 365.
    1 point
  40. Onedrive next please! OneDrive? Hopefully not lol. Why? Is downloading hard? is uninstalling hard? Nope. But if people are going to whine about little crap like Paint 3D, (and they have in the past), we might as well mention that OneDrive doesn’t need to be there either. But hey, if you like the whole opt-out (which is basically what uninstalling is doing, opting out of bloat) approach, more power to ya. On the other hand, Microsoft actually knows how many people use each app and can make decisions based on that. So seriously, why are we even talking about this? And they would get the same numbers from people DOWNLOADING it. It has to be updated once its used anyway, so why add something bound to become deprecated, if it can merely be downloaded? I imagine the people using Dropbox might have very little use for OneDrive. Or they might not. Either way, its downloadable just like all the store stuff they add. Make a placeholder if needed and people can install it that way. If we are going to debloat, lets do it right. We are talking about it because someone mentioned removing it. I'm sure you can fill out the rest by reading the comments. My point was, they already know this crap. Random internet comments aren't going to make them change directions. Well I’m also not discussing it with “them”.
    1 point
  41. Adobe Photoshop now runs natively on Apple M1 Macs

    I have seen a couple reviewers pointing that out. The big advantage for Apple could just be the much better processor compared to Qualcomm.
    1 point
  42. Onedrive next please!
    1 point
  43. Windows 10 build 21332 removes 3D Viewer and Paint 3D on clean installs

    Less preinstalled bloatware the better
    1 point
  44. Adobe Photoshop now runs natively on Apple M1 Macs

    Give it a rest, your shtick is old and tiresome.
    1 point
  45. I'm very confused by this analogy.
    1 point
  46. TrendForce warns of SSD price hikes later this year

    Ah yes, the good old conspiracy theories.
    1 point
  47. I know the website canva.com which allows you to make memos for your business.
    1 point
  48. No, its saying that cybersecurity software should have the VAT reduced on it so businesses can buy it more cheaply to ensure they don't get hacked. But VAT is not a cost for businesses. If you have a VAT number (which most businesses have), you get back all VAT paid. It doesn't matter if it's 5%, 50% or 90%. The VAT is a tax on the consumer not on businesses.
    1 point
  49. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    The issue is, what is "best". You get handed a stack of resume and most people's would be similar, there has been numerous studies on unconscious bias, groups were shown exact application but with photo or name included versus excluded, the ones with non-Anglo names or clearly women are viewed more negatively. Rarely does a resume stand out. There is also another story on the FBI (or CIA) regarding 911. No one understood the symbolism behind Osama Bin Laden making a video in a cave, most thought it was some lunatic. He was lunatic alright, but they didn't take him seriously because he is in a cave, when, and I paraphrase greatly, he was invoking images/metaphors the prophet and that his calls for holy war is for real. Most of the people hired by FBI are highly educated, but they are predominantly white male with certain backgrounds, and they lean towards them because the hirers are often of the same demographic; by hiring more people of same demographic as yourself, you provide positive feedback to yourself. The "best" is merely a perspective on what is the best
    1 point