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  1. LMAO such privacy invading features should have never been there in first place. What if I am watching porn and all my history is seen by my co-worker or my wife or my mum or even worse, my male Yoga instructor and his dog? They should also give us an option to disable Top Apps being displayed when you click on search box. I don’t want everyone to know that I use Virtua Girl app constantly and play Cyberpunk the most.
    3 points
  2. Microsoft is winding down another Windows 10 feature, the Timeline [Update]

    Good... It was always a standard thing to disable on new Windows 10 installs.
    3 points
  3. Good riddance
    3 points
  4. good now remove the bloatwares in windows 10 and remove duplicate apps
    3 points
  5. All I got today was a new build of Chrome 89.
    3 points
  6. It's not here.
    3 points
  7. WinRAR 6.01

    Because 7zip has a user interface that looks like it's from the 90s
    3 points
  8. I never used the feature, it just is not compelling enough to get me out of my legacy workflow. However, the hypocrisy of bashing Microsoft over features like this never fails to surprise me. macOS never even had a feature like this, they hardly put out 'daring' features anyways they're so conservative. Remember Launch Pad, well it's still there. Nobody uses it, still useless on a non-touch screen, no pont. No Apple bashing. I don't think Microsoft should be bashed for trying interesting things like Timeline. I think once again the lack of Windows Phone kills it. The ideal scenario is going back and forth between PC & phone with a feature like this. Nobody is going to have 2 Windows 10 PCs signed in with the same account to use this. Hell, even the Continuity feature between iOS & macOS is nice but I hardly ever use it for task continuation. Only text messages, phone calls. That's it.
    2 points
  9. I hope they get rid of this type of data collection. It clutters up my task view screen when it's on. If this feature must stay, then they need to figure out how to make it less cluttery.
    2 points
  10. They should World of Warcraft-ify it with the amount of work they've been put into it! What a waste of time and effort it would have been just to shelve it now.
    2 points
  11. Well it's been 3 years. I also suspect that most people only have 1 PC, the amount of people that both have 2 PC's and would use TImeline is likely small. That said it doesn't seem like a feature that takes enough time to maintain that it would be worth cutting unless they feel they may have a replacement or removing it makes it easier to update a component it relies on. Possibly with intent to bring a similar feature later. Maybe with/after the Sun Valley revamp
    2 points
  12. Best free anti-malware software?

    Windows Security is the best for Windows 10. If you skip the biased horshit you see on the internet and really check it out, you'll see it's very robust. I manage 15+ computers at home/work/family. All have Windows 10 and all have Windows Security as it's sole AV/Malware solution. They are wide ranging hardware specs and usage. None have been infected.
    2 points
  13. A good move, I'd rather see companies admitting they can't meet a deadline than higher-ups try and get the programmers doing some Japanese-style Karoshi to meet the unmeetable.
    2 points
  14. I don't know why you're claiming click-bait, I've quoted him almost verbatim and backed most statements with backlinks to older articles. I don’t think he knows what clickbait is. While I question why they would shelf such an expensive product for them anyway, it’s certainly not clickbait. Oh I do know what clickbait is. Asking a suggestive question, then over-emphazising the answer to create an exaggerated and missleading statement. "I don’t see an option to shelve Cyberpunk 2077" is the answer to a question that is non-sensical to begin with, which clearly was if CDPR would abandon the title. Taking this and turning it into "CDPR refuses to give up on Cyberpunk 2077" gives it another turn on the bs-meter, implying that this was demanded by someone. yeah ... that's click-bait allright. It's an interview by Reuters, reported by us. If anything, go blame them for asking the question which got a response "I don’t see an option to shelve Cyberpunk 2077". Like adrynalyne, I agree that it's a silly question but it's definitely not click-bait on our side at least.
    2 points
  15. Most of the negative effects could've been avoided if the suits didn't force the game to be released on the last-gen base consoles (PS4/XB1). Those just can't run it, I don't care how much they patch or try to optimize it. They'll never be able to run the same type of game on those that you'll get on the new systems and PC, forget night and day, we're talking the difference between Earth and Mars here. The smart thing would've been to go all in on the PC version first, iron that out, release it this year, THEN work on PS5/XSX versions for later this year. Just drop the last-gen versions. But all the suits see are the user numbers and the revenue/sales they'd lose by dropping those versions and push ahead knowing it would be a mess. Oh well. I've enjoyed it on my PC though, bring on the free dlc and more content so I can jump back in and do something else.
    2 points
  16. How do you like these compared to Creative Suite? Anything you miss compared to CC? I think the only reason Adobe's still ruling is because there's no other complete suite with so many products integrated into each other. But at this point, like MS Office, they're too feature rich than what regular users need or care to learn about, and most would rather prefer to purchase cheap 'Lite-version' apps a-la-carte. I'd say those mentioned largely cannot compete with Adobe products in terms of usability and are not even within shooting distance in features. That said, if you are not already accustomed to using Adobe software and having everything you need at your fingertips, they're absolutely acceptable alternatives. Paint.Net and InkScape are great in a pinch for simple Photoshop- and Illustrator-esque work, respectively. For DTP, Quark and I have never been friends. I can't believe they are still around. InDesign was iffy when it was new because there were lots of problems with commercial RIPS, but even then I was more willing to put up with it's tricks than to use Quark XPress. Some of it is snobbery, not just from the users, but from the clients as well. a friend of mine have been using Adobe products for years, mainly photoshop and illustrator as she is a graphic designer and a lot of the time it was her clients that says about using Adobe products and yet a lot of the time it makes little difference to them, sure if they need the file format than that is a different thing, but if they only want to use the final product, then what does it matter what she used? Anyway she cut down at the start of this year to smaller clients and got rid of Adobe products, going instead for Serif affinity suit, she loves it, and she thinks they are as good as Adobe stuff, once you get used to how they work. She does very little video stuff, but for that she uses final cut, and she used that for years anyway. You are right that being all combined helps keep the sales up for Adobe products, but hopefully people will see that there are other ways outs there.
    2 points
  17. Bad news aside, the game still makes the news like this and has interest from gamers who want to play it but are holding off for next gen or for more bug fixes. It's not like it didn't sell well overall, I bought it and have enjoyed it, just waiting for more content since I've done everything to do for now. Once they get a few more updates and some free dlc or the next-gen updates, I think they'll see another round of sales.
    2 points
  18. "He went on to say that the company is on the lookout for acquisition opportunities as part of its efforts to work on two AAA games in parallel starting from next year." Great, now you can have 2 crappy games instead of just 1!
    2 points
  19. WinRAR 6.01

    Its like IrfanView, never gets old!
    2 points
  20. On PC have I never experienced real issues. Guess it's "just" consoles...
    2 points
  21. I'm looking forward to the next gen console updates of CP2077.
    2 points
  22. There is always a mostpowerfulever galacy junk every 6 months. People will still be interested when mostpowerfulever galaxy S6795 is released? Arent you bored about all of this s#t?
    2 points
  23. Vivaldi and Brave web browsers come out against Google's FLoC

    Then Google will say .. "Well Floc them"
    2 points
  24. Vivaldi and Brave web browsers come out against Google's FLoC

    Hopefully, Microsoft, will also disable it.
    2 points
  25. It's not seeing the update yet in Chrome itself. Also not on Brave...
    2 points
  26. Amazon refreshes the Echo Buds with a more compact design for $119.99

    wonder when they sell them in Canada they look pretty good all things considered and my MPOW wireless, while good, are buggy and not as smooth as i hoped (i mean, who am i kidding, i got them because they were cheap... LOL) i was looking at Samsung Buds+ and at Sony, but Sony's best is expensive, and my Sony phone I paid around $700 for, so I would not like to spend $200+ on new headphones also!!
    1 point
  27. Get three months of Amazon Music Unlimited or HD for free

    Sorry, it applies to Amazon US too, I will update https://amzn.to/3e5r7G3 Thank you!
    1 point
  28. Best free anti-malware software?

    There might be a reason I call it Windows Security. I'm on 20H2
    1 point
  29. I always disabled this, never liked the idea of the OS tracking every single thing I do and adding more overhead and bloat. I already know what programs I use regularly and I know where my files are saved. I don't need some silly timeline to tell me what I was doing last Tuesday.
    1 point
  30. Perfect Virtual Desktop was the MAIN feature, but they decided to bloat it with timeline, that was unnecessary and hinders the positive and needed feature that was virtual desktop
    1 point
  31. It was never really supported, a lot of the software I use don't support it, so there is really no point., one of the reason I disabled it a long time ago.
    1 point
  32. Best free anti-malware software?

    Common sense cannot stop Stuxnet or Exchange Server attacks. It might stop NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 though.
    1 point
  33. They never allow these things to breathe a bit. For some users it just takes time trying out new stuff. And if it isn't integrated across devices then it becomes even less of a feature.
    1 point
  34. Annoyingly the feature has been a bit flaky - at least the Chrome addon anyway.
    1 point
  35. Parallels Desktop adds native support for Apple M1 Macs

    I think you'll need the native or emulated versions of your Windows apps on ARM to do what you need to do. Hmmm. Thanks for the response. I'm trying to do my winforms development in a VM on M1, but I can't quite tell if that is possible. I don't want my stuff to run on ARM necessarily... just trying to move to one laptop haha
    1 point
  36. Epic Games raises $1 billion in the latest round of funding

    Doesn't make sense at all though. Sony does exactly what Apple does on their PlayStation devices. They are tightly integrated with Sony's own PSN store. Alternative stores are not allowed. And publishers and developers pay a 30% cut to Sony for being able to sell their software on the PSN store. So in that sense, Sony is funding Epic that is trying to legally fight exactly what Sony themselves are doing to a well established and big platform of devices and services. The difference really is that iOS and iPadOS devices are general-purpose computing devices. Consoles do serve a primary single purpose, we don't see a mass amount of people using their consoles as their primary computational platform. Plus they've advertised gaming consoles. The thing with iPad and iPhone is that they are advertised as a general computing device. The countless times we've heard of the Post-PC era and the "What's a computer" advert, those are examples of the advertising and pushing iOS and iPadOS as general-purpose operating systems. They run on general-purpose processors, they compare the performance to laptops as well. I do also have a stake in this, I purchased an iPad Pro, I purchased it as a general-purpose computing device, as that's what Apple advertised it as such. Developers have now made applications for those devices. However, Apple still gets a final say on what can and can't be allowed on these devices. Game streaming is the big one, there's no technical limitation to prevent it, it was developed using the regular SDKs available to the public, but for very greedy reasons Apple blocks those apps from the AppStore. Apple dictating what can and can't be installed is a reversal of computing as we have known it. This is the same criticism leveraged at Microsoft for attempting to lockdown Windows to just store based apps. There are already a billion active users of iOS and iPad OS devices, who do use them as their primary form of personal computing. Letting apple dictate what software can be distributed to those platforms really does lock the future of personal computing. You already knew that you needed to use the AppStore when you bought your iPad, didn't you? If that poses a problem for you, you shouldn't have bought the device. Complaining after the fact, simply because you disagree, or didn't do proper research, is a flawed tactic.
    1 point
  37. Doesn't make sense at all though. Sony does exactly what Apple does on their PlayStation devices. They are tightly integrated with Sony's own PSN store. Alternative stores are not allowed. And publishers and developers pay a 30% cut to Sony for being able to sell their software on the PSN store. So in that sense, Sony is funding Epic that is trying to legally fight exactly what Sony themselves are doing to a well established and big platform of devices and services. The difference really is that iOS and iPadOS devices are general-purpose computing devices. Consoles do serve a primary single purpose, we don't see a mass amount of people using their consoles as their primary computational platform. Plus they've advertised gaming consoles. The thing with iPad and iPhone is that they are advertised as a general computing device. The countless times we've heard of the Post-PC era and the "What's a computer" advert, those are examples of the advertising and pushing iOS and iPadOS as general-purpose operating systems. They run on general-purpose processors, they compare the performance to laptops as well. I do also have a stake in this, I purchased an iPad Pro, I purchased it as a general-purpose computing device, as that's what Apple advertised it as such. Developers have now made applications for those devices. However, Apple still gets a final say on what can and can't be allowed on these devices. Game streaming is the big one, there's no technical limitation to prevent it, it was developed using the regular SDKs available to the public, but for very greedy reasons Apple blocks those apps from the AppStore. Apple dictating what can and can't be installed is a reversal of computing as we have known it. This is the same criticism leveraged at Microsoft for attempting to lockdown Windows to just store based apps. There are already a billion active users of iOS and iPad OS devices, who do use them as their primary form of personal computing. Letting apple dictate what software can be distributed to those platforms really does lock the future of personal computing.
    1 point
  38. CDPR refuses to give up on Cyberpunk 2077, wants to sell it 'for years to come'

    I don't know why you're claiming click-bait, I've quoted him almost verbatim and backed most statements with backlinks to older articles.
    1 point
  39. "CDPR refuses to give up on Cyberpunk 2077, wants to sell it 'for years to come'" Please ... seriously, it is time to lay off the clickbait. 1. That game was a completely buggy mess on consoles (maybe it still is, I didn't check) but it sold like hot cake nonetheless even with all the offered refunds. Why would a studio "give up" on such a title? Just because a horde of "journalists" insist on creating fake drama? 2. The Witcher was an utter buggy mess on release too ... anyone still remember that? Took them months to fix the worst of it. Look how that turned out in the end. CDPR has very real issues with crunch-time and ... let's call it "unwise" management decisions. One thing they have yet to do however is abandon one of their titles. Unlike so many AAA studios out there, CDPR has yet to do an "Anthem".
    1 point
  40. Based on No Man's Sky I'd say it's doable. They really transformed the game from what it was initially. It just sucks to be the initial player base coz you got something different that you paid for...
    1 point
  41. WinRAR 6.01

    It still works very well for most people.
    1 point
  42. Adobe Creative Greed no thanks. I moved on from them to alternatives - Affinity Suite, Inkscape, Paint.net, Krita, Gimp, DaVinci Resolve, QuarkXPress, Corel, Audacity! Anything but Adobe. Only Adobe's Elements bundle (Photoshop and Premiere Elements) is good.
    1 point
  43. Apple is holding its next event next week

    Smells like iOS 14.5 GM coming.
    1 point
  44. Apple is holding its next event next week

    Apple Ejector seats Apple Ball Point Pens Apple Bed Mattresses ....thinking of more spring based products .... :)
    1 point
  45. Microsoft unveils Surface Headphones 2+ and more peripherals

    there's really little scope of improvement in ANC now, 13-levels and 8 mics would be a gimmic at this point. What's really needed in wireless audio is high-bitrate, multi-channel audio transmission with minimal latency. hundreds of dollars worth of premium wireless systems can;t even come close to a simple wired audio setup, despite the hundreds of proprietary codecs & RF tech.
    1 point
  46. Basically an ad
    1 point
  47. You're not missing anything. For this wasn't scientific research; this was a PR survey. The entire point of the “research” was to get the brand name in news articles and promote their product. In this case, Norton has succeeded. They've not only got their name in the press, they've also got their logo in the header image, and they've got stories written about how their product will solve this allegedly-common problem. Lots of free publicity! It's a very common tactic. The tabloid press (and to an extent also the “quality” press) is full of similar PR stories.
    1 point
  48. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium review: The new best convertible

    Your evaluation of the M1 and its performance are not simply not accurate, even if the M1 was available for PCs, or that MacOS could run a lot of the software a device like this can. If you are anyone else is going to go Mac, do it, but if you base it on the M1 performance, Apple conned you. Make sure you do some homework on your needs and how the M1 performs in non-test software or non-major software suites. Some of this functionality is on purpose accelerated on the M1 in silicon, and does very little for any other software.
    1 point
  49. camera aside, there isn't an OEM ANYWHERE with a machine this well put together, outside of perhaps apple. Software sucked, but hardware is excellent (dating aside)
    1 point
  50. They fired whole Nokia team before and now hiring else for the same job.
    1 point