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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. Alder Lake-S will be the 12th gen mainstream desktop chips built with the Alder Lake architecture. This slide shows they also plan to offer a W680 chipset which will offer more workstation features than the other 600 series chipsets. The Z690 chipset may not have DDR5 which personally could have been a big step to get ahead of AMD for once. However it also shows a W580 chipset for Rocket Lake, which hasn't been released yet. Perhaps they dropped it at the last minute because it would be a bad idea to advertise an 8 core chip as a workstation product. Especially when it loses in workstation tasks to the 5800x, nevermind the 5900x or 5950x. Alder Lake-P is the codename for the mobile chips with the Alder Lake architecture. Got it... This says Alder Lake on the desktop is coming Q3 or Q4 which is when I heard Alder Lake on mobile was coming. Can we assume coming sooner for mobile now? I'd say the plan was to always get mobile chips out first as that's the bigger market segment. The desktop versions coming after wouldn't be a surprise.
    1 point
  20. 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
  21. https://www.anandtech.com/show...r5-subtimings-and-latencies
    1 point
  22. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    Contact the company you bought it from first. Sometimes they'll send you the new unit first so you can test to make sure it works right before shipping back the defective unit. If you're lucky they'll even send a call tag with the new unit so you don't have to pay for shipping yourself to send the defective one back.
    1 point
  23. Best free anti-malware software?

    Hello, Anti-virus and anti-malware software are actually the same thing. They are marketing terms used to brand a product in order to promote it to a particular market segment. Several years ago, I wrote a guide to evaluating anti-virus software on Reddit's r/sysadmin subreddit. I have revised it a couple of times since then, mostly recently last month, and it can now be found on the Spiceworks IT community as one of their HOWTO's: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/155722-evaluate-antivirus-software Perhaps you will find it of use. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  24. 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
  25. Clever use of $$. Never seen anything like that before. You should be proud.
    1 point
  26. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    Population growth is not an issue, the issue is energy intense lifestyles. Despite climate change awareness, more people seem to be flying and having more cars per household.
    1 point
  27. Microsoft Edge 90 is out with Kids Mode and more

    I have read somewhere that this is a gradual rollout for the version.
    1 point
  28. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    Too late
    1 point
  29. No I will not waste time pointing out everything wrong with some random person's mockup except mentioning that it's too simple and already missing too many things at first glance. Unless you work at Microsoft on the Explorer shell and listening in which case I will give feedback via the Hub app 🙂 You already wasted time moaning about it, then more time explaining that you don't want to waste time, along with everyone's time reading it. At this point, I don't think time is the issue but you do you man.
    1 point
  30. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    SN-15 launch target: next week
    1 point
  31. 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
  32. Sony Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III price revealed on Sony Russia website

    1 III, 5 III? I swear Sony has some of the weirdest naming schemes for their phones and they can't seem to settle on any particular scheme either
    1 point
  33. Microsoft Edge 90 is out with Kids Mode and more

    Probably rolled out in stages/region's or even devices . Not here in UK yet for me yet .
    1 point
  34. this sure puts another nail in the WinXP coffin
    1 point
  35. A bit prettier, but here is the thing: It brings zero modern UI/UX concepts to Explorer, which should be essential to any major rewrite/rework of Explorer. Microsoft created Explorer back in 1993 for Win95, it hasn't significantly changed since then, and nothing from Apple or anywhere else as produced anything better or much different. The WIn95 team did well with Explorer and the concepts, even though I think it should have leaned into a better object model, which would need NT to make usable/performant. Look at new UX and UI concepts. Things that work similar if needed, but break everything you think is 'necessary' with a new smart model. Just like the use of Tabs - sure they can be 'ok' - but there are FAR better productivity concepts that NOBODY uses. We need new thought and new UI and UX productivity features in Windows that extends from Explorer, throughout the interface of all software that can hook into older software and offer the new concepts to that software and create a springboard for new ways of working. If anyone is curious, the concepts are talked about across the web, even with some of MS's own UX experts proposing things that are full OS interface shifts. We have lived through several productivity models, and gone back through some of them several times, like ######ing TABS - and it is time for a major OS to offer these concepts to users and new software and existing software. Windows can easily do this better than any other OS technology in technical terms, although Apple could FORCE their users and developers to comply or die, which would get things rolling, even if it was half assed and technically limited. The difference between cool mock ups like this and deeper UX/UI design and discussion, is this addresses nothing behind the picture or functionality behind the picture. It is pretty, functionally empty, with us having to assume it works like Explorer does today - and based on that, why bother other than to make it a bit prettier - especially as it will break a lot of Explorer legacy features that most users and developers don't even realize are there. The other difference, is the test groups and designers and people that make a living out of theorizing about UX and UI - don't post screenshot of their concepts to Reddit. I'm always amazed that people see these and think, this is good, this is complete, this is better, this S:DLFKJSLDFJSL. It is just a pretty sketch based on the current Explorer - this helps nothing.
    1 point
  36. Internet Download Manager (IDM) 6.38 Build 21 [Update]

    among other things, I love the feature to download practically any video on any website. Example... Let's say you are watching some porn, and you like the video, click the download button above the video to save it for later. Not saying I've ever done that, but you could if you wanted to :-D
    1 point
  37. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    It might be clogged with dust. If you are able to remove the PSU and cover, see if you can blow out the dust (if that's what it is).
    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. That’s very similar to Apples Finder..
    1 point
  40. Oh please it's one of those super annoying articles, some non-professional/hobbyist "designer" creates some mock-up designs that throw out functionality and usability for the app looking good and all the clueless people who know nothing about UI design salivate over it. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ I loathe such concepts. It has all the words also that I hate - Fluent, clean, minimalist, sleekness. NO THANKS. This is anti-productivity as the controls are dumbed down. Such concepts throw out the 25+ years of evolution Explorer had. They are ok for amateur users on Windows 10X, not for Windows 10 Desktop. Such idiotic ideas are dangerous should actual Program Managers at Microsoft adopt these ridiculous concept designs and throw out the app that was designed in a certain way and evolved for 25+ years.
    1 point
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. Dell's XPS 13 is now available with an OLED display

    Literally nobody puts commas in resolutions as it makes it hard to read. ”The resolution of the OLED model is actually 3,456x2,160, whereas on the 4K LCD configuration, the resolution is 3,840x2,400.”
    1 point
  45. Is it safe to use an extension cord with computer products?

    https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5278 1ft all the way up to 25ft. Unless you were talking about a different cable?
    1 point
  46. "Its first ARM-based CPU"? Uh, what? Nvidia has been making ARM-based CPUs for over 13 years. They power the original Microsoft Surface, most Tesla cars and 80 million Nintendo Switch.
    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. How to use an IP address as a printer port.

    First locate the IP address of your printer by printing a network configuration page on the printer, or by looking at the DHCP table of your router. If you have the means to connect your pointer to the network via ethernet instead wifi, DO IT, it's MUCH more reliable. If you are only printing from your desktop and do not wish to print from a laptop or mobile device and the printer is located next to the computer, just connect it over USB instead. First try to ping your printers IP address. Open a command prompt (start / (Type CMD) / click command prompt at the top. Then type ping (the Ip) .. and press enter (the IP in the photo was just an example) If you can ping it, type it in the address bar of your web browser to log into the web interface of your printer. Once there look around for network settings and set the IP address of that printer to static. (Since we will be printing to an IP address we don't want this number to change). Then go to device and printers in the control panel and right click the printer you wish to use and click "printer properties". Then click on the ports tab and click "add port" and click "standard "TCP/IP port." Then for the address type in your printers IP address (the IP in the photo is just an example) . Once you add that IP address, check it in the ports list to make that it is the default printer port. Then see if it prints.
    1 point