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  1. Hello! I'm the author of this concept!! Thank you very much for making an article about it!! BTW: here's the link to my Twitter post: https://twitter.com/AlurDesign/status/1382350448611487744
    4 points
  2. Finally, I'm loving it.
    3 points
  3. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    The PSU is new, it makes a weird noise, RMA it.
    3 points
  4. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    They can start by making their own products easier to repair and having more readily available parts for anyone. This will prevent E-waste. But I doubt that will ever happen, Apple would rather virtue signal about being "$Green$"
    3 points
  5. And a lot of the kinds of users that hang around sites like this would love that. People have been lamenting the demotion and eventual loss of fileman.exe since Windows 95. You can't find a thread about file explorer without at least one eventual mention of Directory Opus or Total Commander -- two of the most dated looking pieces of software out there. Agreed. I'm old and I love Directory Opus in comparison to Windows File Explorer.
    3 points
  6. Meh... Already see lots of usability issues for people who actually do more stuff than just copy a file over. I've been using the much more powerful XYplorer for years now, and File Explorer feels so clunky compared to it.
    3 points
  7. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it. Right click - Properties... (Display delete confirmation) Been there long time, maybe even was in Win95. If it something worth complaining about, it is also worth a simple search to see if there are settings or ways around what we see as a problem. PS Can also configure Recycle Bin size defaults per drive. We all know there is a toggle to re-enable it. that's not the point. We're talking about your average joe non-tech savvy person that probably only uses windows for work and doesn't actually know their way around the system. These are the types that aren't even going to think about it being possible to change things and are prone to the accidental deletion without realizing that we're talking about. Why was the default changed in the first place? It doesn't seem like a logical change and no other platform has followed suit on this either. Started in Windows 8 yep and I didn't understand the point of the change of default back then either personally. I don't either. I mean, its certainly an option I would turn off because I don't want nags but in cases like my family, hell yeah nag them! Too many times I get calls of recovering deleted data.
    2 points
  8. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    Heh. Had that happen with my Logitech mouse. But they didn't require I send the defective one back. They just gave me a new one.
    2 points
  9. Mouthwatering? This is what we had before directx and powerful GPUs... Simplified, colorless, flat, boring. This is Win3.1 with lipstick.
    2 points
  10. No, actually at this point, it's even more pressing to stop using the Hz unit and use only MT/s. Hz implies that some chip is running at such frequencies, which is wrong.
    2 points
  11. Inb4 "liberal Big Tech propaganda!!!!"
    2 points
  12. O2 launches initiative to cut e-waste in Glasgow, Scotland

    Perhaps this waste problem is due to the manufacturers making so many different phones .
    2 points
  13. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    if it's a new PSU you could look into RMAing it then. there really shouldn't be any kind of whine like that I wouldn't think.
    2 points
  14. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    I've never been successful in removing an noise caused by dust, in my experience once dust causes a noise in a fan .. time to replace the fan.
    2 points
  15. Oh boy do I hate this. It looks like the Mac explorer and is missing a ton of the needed detail. It has that same idea behind it of "You don't need to know where your files are! Here's a pretend folder that doesn't really exist for you to save things to! What's the layout of your drive? Dunno! Stuff it somewhere you'll never look at and just use search!" It's terrible. I'm a high-end I.T. professional and this would hurt badly to use.
    2 points
  16. Look at all the inconsistent margins and spacing. They didn't even get the window button spacing correct. It's essentially a poorly executed take on Microsoft's fluent design. There's nothing wrong with the colors, iconography and typography. But then again, those parts aren't original.
    2 points
  17. Microsoft's UI team would come up with something more like Windows 3.1 though
    2 points
  18. Perhaps you should as it will be gone in a few decades the way it's going. Yes, in a literal sense. No in a how sad it's going to look on google earth through time.
    1 point
  19. Yes we can trust a trillion dollar corporation Google to never push their ideologies on people. There's absolutely no possible way they would ever do something like that. You do realize you have just proved his point, right?
    1 point
  20. NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

    STARSHIP WINS NASA HLS COMPETITIO!! Shocker 👍 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/16/spacex-sole-winner-in-nasas-hls-moon-lander-program-report.html
    1 point
  21. What's the point of making fixes if the game is still going to be unplayable? LOL
    1 point
  22. What do you mean? Drives are there, all the existing special folders, path, breadcrumb etc Okay. As a user, go ahead and show me where the directory is located. Oh, I know you can see Pictures / Wallpapers in the demo pictures, but in actuality, that directory is a "Symbolic Folder" and doesn't really exist. The real path to the file is "C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Saved Pictures". The problem with the symbolic directories is that documents are listed there constantly that don't physically reside there. The number of user machines I've had to pull files from is astounding and due to poor File Managers on Mac and Pinned / Favorite directories on Windows, people don't know where their files are. Period. Ever since Windows 10, storage management has been a godawful mess when dealing with users as they do not know or care where they save things, they just hit "save". It goes to a download folder (that gets cleared whenever a file cleanup happens), a Documents folder (that doesn't exist), or their desktop. It's sad that the desktop is, organizationally, the best option, and this UI is further enforcing the "I dunno, search for it" school of thought that has made things so poor for both I.T. and users (even if they don't know it). This (and UI design like it) is designed for looks, not utility. It functions terribly the deeper you need to go and serves to enforce bad habits. However, I'm certain it is the road UX will travel down because people are very lazy and would rather have the OS think for them instead of having to do it themselves. "It just works" until someone has to actually do something technical, then "it just sucks." Hang on, they may be symbolic folders, but they link to a real place and are so deeply integrated that unless you delete the link to that folder (which I don't think you can do) the files are still there.. I use Libraries still, probably not in the way MS intended, but its very useful for showing different folders in the one spot. My Photos Library has three folders: - One Drive > Pictures > Photos (1950-1986, 1987-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) - One Drive > Pictures (Maps, Photo Wall, Photos, Projects, Reference, Scrap, Screenshots, Print) - Dropbox > Camera Uploads (all photos from my phone, moved and sorted into the relevant year folder in Photos) I know where files come from, but I do not care. As long as I can access them, I'm good. Also physical locations are not necessary bound to the computer. OneDrive and Dropbox break that old design, with the account being the root of that location, rather than stemming from "C:" or whatever we've been used to since dos days. That "break" is the bane of any OS application developer! That break means that different coding logic must be built to adapt to how every remote-drive app implements that logical paths process! For OneDrive, it's typically in the Users\account\OneDrive space, but it might also be in the Users\account\AppData\local-roaming-etc\OneDrive space, but it might also be changed to a different location. Try managing file-reads/backups in that scenarios -- does the requisite app have read-write access to that filesystem location? Are there conflicting FS restrictions in a multi-boot scenario? Google Drive/Dropbox/Box all behave differently, especially when the non-default local drive is a remote NAS device. For Apple iCloud, that's a different story itself. And that's just for basic media assets. Start getting into source code, dependency libraries, and all kinds of symbolically-linked assets... it quickly devolves into a nightmare. SO MUCH SO, that even Microsoft + GitHub have been developing a pseudo-filesystem that embeds sym-links wholesale for very-large-drives! Yeah, they're trying to find solutions to these problems cuz it bothers them (Microsoft) at levels greater than ourselves. Mind you, they also consider local-versus-remote file version control paradigms, metadata indexing, etc.
    1 point
  23. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it. Right click - Properties... (Display delete confirmation) Been there long time, maybe even was in Win95. If it something worth complaining about, it is also worth a simple search to see if there are settings or ways around what we see as a problem. PS Can also configure Recycle Bin size defaults per drive. We all know there is a toggle to re-enable it. that's not the point. We're talking about your average joe non-tech savvy person that probably only uses windows for work and doesn't actually know their way around the system. These are the types that aren't even going to think about it being possible to change things and are prone to the accidental deletion without realizing that we're talking about. Why was the default changed in the first place? It doesn't seem like a logical change and no other platform has followed suit on this either. Started in Windows 8 yep and I didn't understand the point of the change of default back then either personally. I don't either. I mean, its certainly an option I would turn off because I don't want nags but in cases like my family, hell yeah nag them! Too many times I get calls of recovering deleted data. You would turn that off? You wouldn't want to be notified that you are about to delete something? it terrifies me at the thought of using a computer with the delete confirmation dialog box turned off. Everything I do is intentional. So yeah. If in the event I do accidentally delete something, I just tap ctrl-z and go on with my day. Things that are permanently deleted, give warning so I am good with that.
    1 point
  24. Which is neat...but considerably slower than File Explorer. It's certainly nice looking. And I agree, it is very slow which put me off but I checked their GitHub and there's a pinned post on the issues page saying they are working on making it faster.
    1 point
  25. SpaceX StarLink satellite internet [UPDATES]

    End of beta & mobile Starlink timing...
    1 point
  26. Soooooooo much better, from animations to scrolling Yeeesh the old version was such a piece of garbage
    1 point
  27. Best/worst computer brands.

    If you don't feel like building your own computer and would rather get a prebuilt, what are the best major computer brands? The worst?
    1 point
  28. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    Agreed in this case absolutely. I often wonder at mates when they get something brand new but then spend ages trying to fix or whatever. Nah, back you go!
    1 point
  29. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    Sometimes the humming is actually the capacitor's working, Vibrating its also its common fault on PSU's when they get hot. i would RMA it and get a new one as it probably will get louder and will fail and could probably cause damage to your PC when it eventually blows.
    1 point
  30. At this point, it may be time to start referring to RAM clock speed in Ghz. 10 Ghz and use one decimal place if needed. it's unlikely that anything of the order of 10 Mhz would make much difference anyway.
    1 point
  31. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    It's funny you guys think this is some sort of gotcha as if proponents of electric bikes don't also support electricity from renewable sources instead of coal as pictured.
    1 point
  32. Absolutely. Do you also open individual browser windows for each website? Yes. In an ideal model with Edge working like IE did before tabs. I'm not saying there is no value to Tabs, but it is NOT a productivity-focused workflow model. PERIOD. There are so many things that are better, and even SUI workflows like you suggest can be a lot more productive. Tabs are a bit of the lazy model to get a portion of the productivity. This isn't 'my' opinion here, there are studies and whitepapers and research on existing UX/UI models and productivity going back to the 1980s and 90s - Several studies done at Microsoft and why they DID NOT WANT to screw up the workflow of IE and Windows by adding Tabs and forcing every Website into a MUI tabbed banner application. Example you can notice today: Web Apps - Notice they are SUI by design and for Productivity. They open in their own Window for productivity reasons and by design. Clearly you and I have different definitions of productivity. I trust mine more.
    1 point
  33. And a lot of the kinds of users that hang around sites like this would love that. People have been lamenting the demotion and eventual loss of fileman.exe since Windows 95. You can't find a thread about file explorer without at least one eventual mention of Directory Opus or Total Commander -- two of the most dated looking pieces of software out there. I think Dopus looks just fine, and besides I'll take functionality over "pretty" any day. https://i.imgur.com/vUS5OcP.png
    1 point
  34. Virgin Media launches hologram dining experience in the UK

    I'm confused. Did 4K, photo-realistic holograms become a thing without me ever being aware? That picture looks to me like it's just a big screen.
    1 point
  35. What do you mean? Drives are there, all the existing special folders, path, breadcrumb etc Okay. As a user, go ahead and show me where the directory is located. Oh, I know you can see Pictures / Wallpapers in the demo pictures, but in actuality, that directory is a "Symbolic Folder" and doesn't really exist. The real path to the file is "C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Saved Pictures". The problem with the symbolic directories is that documents are listed there constantly that don't physically reside there. The number of user machines I've had to pull files from is astounding and due to poor File Managers on Mac and Pinned / Favorite directories on Windows, people don't know where their files are. Period. Ever since Windows 10, storage management has been a godawful mess when dealing with users as they do not know or care where they save things, they just hit "save". It goes to a download folder (that gets cleared whenever a file cleanup happens), a Documents folder (that doesn't exist), or their desktop. It's sad that the desktop is, organizationally, the best option, and this UI is further enforcing the "I dunno, search for it" school of thought that has made things so poor for both I.T. and users (even if they don't know it). This (and UI design like it) is designed for looks, not utility. It functions terribly the deeper you need to go and serves to enforce bad habits. However, I'm certain it is the road UX will travel down because people are very lazy and would rather have the OS think for them instead of having to do it themselves. "It just works" until someone has to actually do something technical, then "it just sucks."
    1 point
  36. this sure puts another nail in the WinXP coffin
    1 point
  37. dual gpu setup, case recommendation?

    I have a Fractal Design Define S2. Fractal Design cases are good. I have 3 of them, different specs. Edit: Is your case free of dust? Might be running hot because it's clogged with dust.
    1 point
  38. Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating

    Modern for Microsoft usually means 95% of the functionality missing, slow, bloated, ton of UI glitches and memory leaks. If File Explorer ever looked like that I would stop using Windows altogether and move to macOS.
    1 point
  39. Looks hideous, look at all that wasted space on the navigation pane.
    1 point
  40. dual gpu setup, case recommendation?

    Any ATX case will give you adequate space. After that, it's about maintaining positive-pressure air flow (fans at the front pulling air in) and personal taste. Personally, I prefer a Fractal Define R5.
    1 point
  41. I have a feeling it'll stay minus the sync'ing side of it. I've always used alt+tab instead of win+tab so I don't use timeline much if at all. It's really nice to swipe from the left to open Timeline on a tablet without keyboard access to check information on the taskbar, such as battery life, without exiting fullscreen on an application or video.
    1 point
  42. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    That sounds like a fan groaning. It could be your PSU or your back fan. Take a q-tip and stop the fans. One by one. If it stops the whining, that is the culprit.
    1 point
  43. Parallels Desktop adds native support for Apple M1 Macs

    Last I heard and also from what I can find, Visual Studio has not been ported to ARM64 (at least not in its entirety), so you're going to be running translation on top of virtualization. If you deploy an insider build of WoA you can probably use 64 bit emulation/translation unless it breaks unless some bug breaks it (its beta software afterall). If you build a stable release on WoA (using UUP dump as mentioned previously) you'll be limited to the 32 bit x86 apps until probably the fall update. Visual Studio still has a 32 bit version. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...es/2019/system-requirements SQL server might be a problem on a current stable build of WoA. Looks like SQL Server 2016 is when Microsoft dropped 32 bit support. I expect we'll eventually get ARM64 support for SQL server when an ARM64 build of Windows Server becomes available, but pretty sure that's no available to anyone outside of Microsoft if it exists yet. All that to say... while perhaps technically possible, who knows how well it'll run via x86/x64 to ARM64 translation. Of course, the M1 is supposed to be faster than the Qualcomm 8cx, so maybe it'd run ok. There is no x64 nor arm version of Visual Studio it's always just been 32 bit. Visual Studio Code does have an 32, x64, and arm64 version. You would also need to look at Azure SQL Edge( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql-edge/overview ) as long as you aren't using any CLR stuff in MSSQL right now.
    1 point
  44. Parallels Desktop adds native support for Apple M1 Macs

    Last I heard and also from what I can find, Visual Studio has not been ported to ARM64 (at least not in its entirety), so you're going to be running translation on top of virtualization. If you deploy an insider build of WoA you can probably use 64 bit emulation/translation unless it breaks unless some bug breaks it (its beta software afterall). If you build a stable release on WoA (using UUP dump as mentioned previously) you'll be limited to the 32 bit x86 apps until probably the fall update. Visual Studio still has a 32 bit version. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...es/2019/system-requirements SQL server might be a problem on a current stable build of WoA. Looks like SQL Server 2016 is when Microsoft dropped 32 bit support. I expect we'll eventually get ARM64 support for SQL server when an ARM64 build of Windows Server becomes available, but pretty sure that's no available to anyone outside of Microsoft if it exists yet. All that to say... while perhaps technically possible, who knows how well it'll run via x86/x64 to ARM64 translation. Of course, the M1 is supposed to be faster than the Qualcomm 8cx, so maybe it'd run ok. Thank you for the detailed information )) It sounds like maybe I'm not able to do this quite yet.
    1 point
  45. Dell's XPS 13 is now available with an OLED display

    People are hung up on crispness of text. Which is ruined by Windows 10 scaling, regardless.
    1 point
  46. WinRAR 6.01

    7-Zip is a free and open-source, why would you bother with anything else?
    1 point
  47. Focus solely on diversity hires and inclusivity and that's the future any company will be heading. I guess Brian Krzanich was a diversity hire for the CEO position. No data to back up this hate post as usual. reported.
    1 point
  48. WTF WHERE IS RICH GOING.
    1 point
  49. Yahoo mail issues

    Probably can't help you on this one I'm afraid. That said, I think the solution is to move off of Yahoo mail and on to just about any other platform. I didn't even know after all the security issues Yahoo has had over the years that they even HAD live email service anymore nor why anyone would want to continue using it. Good luck man
    1 point