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  1. WHOO HOOO!!! It didn't blow up.
    5 points
  2. Google wants you to imagine a future without passwords

    I'll keep a password manager over whatever Google is offering.
    4 points
  3. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    looks good... except for the File Explorer, my god it is ugly and wastes so much space windows 10 doesn't only need a face lift it needs to replace all the ###### bloated systems - updates shouldn't take longer than 2 minutes to download/apply - i shouldn't have to restart after an update - i should be able to revert the update in 2 minutes if that update is broken (it's possible on arch linux thanks to the new filesystem if you take snapshot before the update, NTFS sucks ass) - remove the registry system, it is trash, you can never properly uninstall programs, since it's gonna get bloated with multiple windows specific things BY windows oh and add tabs to file explorer.................................................................... NOW
    4 points
  4. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    Concepts tend to look good till the actual coders turn around and tell you this doesn't work or you can't do this or it won't work right. Or the user groups that companies bring in to test some changes don't like it so the whole thing is scrapped.
    4 points
  5. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    All looks, no brain
    3 points
  6. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    Another scary anti-usability anti-functionality pro-dumbing down concept 🤦🏻‍♂️
    3 points
  7. Facebook's Oversight Board says it was right to suspend Trump

    Facebook needs to go...its time to let it die like myspace and stop using social media all together. When a company can ban a sitting US President like they did when others were clearly still left on the platform after doing much worse then we have issues.
    3 points
  8. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    I Like the ModernFlyouts sound flyout better.
    3 points
  9. Signal made a good point though.
    3 points
  10. Degoo Premium: Lifetime 15TB Mega Backup Plan now 96% off

    I think you are right in that you don't want a fake Chinese iPhone if you truly want to have the premium experience of the Apple eco system, however if you can afford to gamble on a 15TB storage that may or may not work out in the long run then its a nice deal. Reviews online are mixed, but so are people's experience with iPhones. I once bought a lifetime single PC license to MalwareBytes in 2012 for €2.49 by doing it through a sponsored partnership on some game that was posted by Copernic (that's Razvan who does all of our software news) in our forums. I still have the latest MalwareBytes fully licensed and everything at MalwareBytes website. Although this turned out legit, and I am still using it to this day I could afford to lose €2.49 if it turned out to be some scammed/stolen code (like the Windows 10 keys on cdkeyz type sites for $5). Sometimes it's a win, and sometimes you truly get what you pay for.
    2 points
  11. That scam is going around for a couple of years now with a similar excuse to buy gift cards. My wife received an email supposedly from her boss with exactly that procedure in 2019. The email was done very well, and she almost fell for it. Lucky for her she got called into a meeting before getting the gift cards and on the way out of the meeting she asked the boss about the email. Of course, the boss had no idea what my wife was talking about.
    2 points
  12. Stardock announces DeskScapes 11, Beta available right now

    DeskScapes has supported h264 for years. Yup, I can confirm that. Does the new DS11 support h265 now? If your system supports h265 DeskScapes would too. The problem was that back in the Vista days Microsoft didn't include support for most codecs. Now adays, Windows has everything built in.
    2 points
  13. Because what Sony needs is a Windows Phone level failure... or as Sony likes to call it, a PlayStation Vita. the reason the Vita failed was completely Sony's own fault. it had proprietary overpriced expandable memory and I heard it was a PITA and expensive to develop for compared to other offerings. Instead of learning from their mistakes Sony just decided to exit that market. Which was a shame. The original PSP was such a good portable.
    2 points
  14. You're forgetting the most important feature. Stock. This is about the best time for Intel to enter the market.
    2 points
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  16. Because what Sony needs is a Windows Phone level failure... or as Sony likes to call it, a PlayStation Vita. the reason the Vita failed was completely Sony's own fault. it had proprietary overpriced expandable memory and I heard it was a PITA and expensive to develop for compared to other offerings. Instead of learning from their mistakes Sony just decided to exit that market.
    2 points
  17. My mums just replaced her Nexus 9 with a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. Granted it runs Chrome OS, however all her Android apps work great on it. In addition it will get updates until June 2028, far longer than any Android tablet released today. She's really happy with it and I must admit from the play about I had with the Chromebook Duet it makes a really nice tablet.
    2 points
  18. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    It's terrible for it's spacing, and doesn't consider any real use cases, which is the biggest problem with most "fan concepts"
    2 points
  19. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    Absolute poor effort. The concept has to be discarded the moment it reduces functionality of the ribbon. Atleast, it should attempt to address ribbon deficiencies if planning to remove it.
    2 points
  20. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    In my opinion, the best Start Menu design was the one they used in Windows 7.
    2 points
  21. Looking forward to seeing some 3d renders from blue origin on how they are going to achieve landing :-/
    2 points
  22. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    Not a fan of all the padding and whitespace in Explorer. I just want to see as many files as I can in a folder... I don't need it to be "pretty"
    2 points
  23. Well, neither MacOS or Windows have a great sound flyout. I'd prefer the interface above over what MacOS and Windows have. it's not exactly the same but I mean its basically it: https://www.howtoisolve.com/wp...nter-on-macOS-big-sur-2.jpg
    2 points
  24. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    The graphics are really bad.
    2 points
  25. Facebook's Oversight Board says it was right to suspend Trump

    Who knows? If you or I, just minor nobody FB users get banned, it doesn't make the news at all. So they could be banning a large portion of users on both sides, unless someone you know gets hit you're not going to find out. There are plenty of high profile people that provoked the riots and weren't touched. Can you imagine if Trump said this during the protest at the capitol? https://twitter.com/KamalaHarr...us/1267555018128965643?s=20
    2 points
  26. Nice. I like!
    2 points
  27. Private system....and his words have weight and because of his position manage to somehow incite idiots. They believe his words. Because of that, he needed to be removed. Also, as the article stated, what he did, clearly violated their rules. Case closed. They have not banned Congress Woman Maxine Waters. A double standard in which is also their right as a private entity. Stay on topic please, whataboutism doesn't work here. Just because you don't like it does not make it off-topic or whataboutism. There's certainly an argument to be made for the banning of Trump over the riots, but that argument falls apart for them if they are not going to hold the same standard to others doing the same thing. They ought to either apply the standard consistently, or not at all.
    2 points
  28. For a product that is supposed to connect people, they are almost impossible to contact to resolve issues like what I posted above. Ten years ago they deleted our page twice and only did something about it when Neowin got a lot of news coverage about their inaction, despite saying they would be more careful next time, they went and did it again soon after. https://www.neowin.net/news/fa...atement-on-fanpage-removal/ Facebook doesn't care about its users.
    2 points
  29. I hate Facebook with a passion. Neowin's pages are still blocked from posting (since April 23rd) and Facebook business support are completely useless, not once in all that time have I been told WHY the pages were blocked from posting, other than some message about "temporarily limiting posting" (when all we do there is repost our news feed, just like we do on Twitter @NeowinFeed) meanwhile I get unhelpful updates like these: Hi Steven, Thank you so much for your patience! We're still working on looking into this and resolving the issue for you, please be assured that we understand how urgent this issue is and we're treating it as such. We're doing everything we can to get this resolved as soon as possible, and thoroughly for you! I'll be in touch as soon as I have an update, apologies for the delay. I hope you have an amazing day, take care! Thanks, **Redacted** Concierge | Facebook Support
    2 points
  30. If it wasn't true facebook wouldn't have ban them.
    2 points
  31. Easy enough to just check for the "dbutil_2_3.sys" file as described above... I didn't have it on either of my Dell laptops (which don't have a lot of Dell software loaded).
    1 point
  32. > Not every part of the UI will be using Segoe UI Variable right away, though... Ugh. Here we go again. OK, OK. I know it's an insider build. I'm just not super hopeful that this sentence doesn't still apply to a public release, though.
    1 point
  33. Google wants you to imagine a future without passwords

    google purposely ######s over anyone that only wants to use a password. Sign in to an old account 'you need to add a phone numebr to sign in for verification', click 'other options', it asks for your password which you type then you get a 'sorry we are unable to verify that it is really you'... Die in a fire.
    1 point
  34. Google wants you to imagine a future without passwords

    Considering I never heard of SQRL before I guess it has a long way to go.
    1 point
  35. Why would you expect linear performance between two different architectures? Lots of variables. The 3060 performs terrible compared to the 3060Ti, so I can't see it performing below that and equal to a 3050. If it did, why would they even bother? Cuda is only a big deal for some people. Not gamers. Ray tracing still needs to perform better across all cards to be "really" useful. DLSS is really the ONLY technology that is definitely useful to vast majority of gamers, but even it needs to be supported in more games. Unreal Engine support baked in will help, but that's it's mostly valuable asset at this time, by far. Also, Intel has XeSS: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/78644/intel-xess-is-team-blues-answer-to-greens-magic-dlss-technology/index.html Of course we don't know a ton about it, yet, and AMD has it's DLSS alternative coming, also. I think I have 3 games that support RT that I know of, lol. Metro, Control, which I haven't played, and Cyberpunk.
    1 point
  36. Stardock announces DeskScapes 11, Beta available right now

    I keep looking at Object Desktop, and think I would use Groupy & Fences, but that's all. I'm not into desktop customisation anymore - I use a computer, I don't care to decorate it. Tiles "looks" intriguing, but I just don't get it. People who have more than one on PC, and have ever tried Multiplicity (part of OD), will wonder how they ever did without it... Yes, I work for Stardock ;)
    1 point
  37. Physical Keys (YubiKey, etc)

    what's a minor inconvenience? moving a mortgage that will cost a few thousand dollars in fees to do? 😂
    1 point
  38. Doing the hybrid approach paid off for them. But then Nintendo was going strong on the back of the GameBoy and DS for so long, it made sense to stick to their strengths. I mean outside of the Wii selling great it was pretty hit and miss for them on the console side. WiiU did terrible, GameCube wasn't so hot either. Going all in on portable was the easy play looking back.
    1 point
  39. Terrible piece of hardware, but excellent games It's a shame there isn't a bigger competition in the portable space
    1 point
  40. Last chance to get the two-year NordVPN deal with a 68% discount

    Last chance my butt... NordVPN do these "last chance" deals more often than a politician takes a payoff...
    1 point
  41. Ahh that is soooooo cool to see congratulations to those involved for all the hard work they put in and a great result
    1 point
  42. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    I hope it never happens. In reality it will look like this. https://i.imgur.com/PNOPfRo.jpg
    1 point
  43. why would any one spin it? the gov was careless to stop the parties where dozens of people were there before getting out of control Have you not...read these comment sections? Someone will almost certainly spin it.
    1 point
  44. New Windows 10 concept shows us a new Start menu and flyouts

    The Start Menu sucks balls. * The default view should be the list of applications, as it always has been. * The search bar is in the worst location in the Start Menu. * And the tiles thing in the Start Menu in the current Windows 10 is near perfect. The concept what-ever-it-is is a massive downgrade. * And worst of all, it looks like a Mac or Android skin. Stop making stuff worse, MS! The flyouts and the Explorer are ok, I guess. Would have to use it first.
    1 point
  45. I mean they all look copy each other these days but that basically looks like MacOS (sans the start menu)
    1 point
  46. Just checked, 3 files, though 1 is 2mb itself but it's from a month ago. I think the issue is one that shows up due to a few variables. Like it says, it seems to be a Server 2016/2019 issue. Also for those who are running multiple security software. I only use defender, not it and something else. I see no point in running multiple AV apps on my systems. Just pick one and stick to that.
    1 point
  47. Facebook Workplace now has 7 million paid subscribers

    So basically Facebook's Yammer killer.
    1 point
  48. People should be really concerned with where this is heading. Do you really want these massive media companies to show you only the content they want you to see? Year 2020 was a frightening year which revealed the power they already have.
    1 point
  49. I don't get the hate against Facebook itself. Facebook isn't selling my data or giving it away. It gives advertisers a tool to really specify who should see their ad. Only Facebook knows who those people are. Now compare this to any other company. For example, the local store with a discount card, that promised not to share my info, GAVE my email adres and balance to Facebook. Hospitals, even very specific about my condition share my email address, name and birth info to Survey holders and services like mass mailers without consent. Or any other website with 300+ options to disable not to send my data to other companies. So I rather have 1 service that knows everything about me, but keeps it private than having over 300 companies building profiles about me.
    1 point
  50. Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their marriage

    They both deserve a pat on the back for what they achieved together. They have made the world a better place with their billion plus dollars they have invested in to worthy causes. Like you Steven I wish them both well and hope their fine work continues. Edit: I now understand it is in the tens of billions donated to worthy causes. This is just staggering, why aren't these two humanitarians being honoured in some way!
    1 point