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  1. Facebook now asks you to read an article before sharing it

    When I see a post that reads "comment the number 8 and sees what happens" and then I see that 64,000 people actually did it, I start to think maybe they do need a nanny!
    11 points
  2. England's NHS app to be used as vaccine passport from next week

    Vacine passports - crap. You can still be contagious after vaccination
    6 points
  3. Looks kind of like HP’s Stream laptops.
    5 points
  4. Facebook now asks you to read an article before sharing it

    That's going to mess with people who only read the headline. Probably. I don't know, I only read the headline.
    5 points
  5. Now all we need is covid-19 to blow over and Bitcoin to crash.
    4 points
  6. England's NHS app to be used as vaccine passport from next week

    The UK is among the best vaccinated countries, so you might as well stop complaining. Most countries have it way, way worse.
    3 points
  7. 99% of all consumer-level camera users are doing so via SD card. This allows for that.
    3 points
  8. Facebook now asks you to read an article before sharing it

    People still comment on a service that they don't use? What a waste of time.
    3 points
  9. Most of the time, the one who say that they don't need it is the one that need it the most.
    3 points
  10. What was the last movie you watched? (2021 edition)

    The Classic Blazing Saddles.
    3 points
  11. Windows Holographic version 21H1 rolls out with a bunch of new features

    MS has more confidence and dedication in Hololens than they had in Windom mobile
    2 points
  12. HTC announces the 5K Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3 VR headsets

    There's no good reason any typical consumer would/should pay $1400 for this over an Oculus. VR isn't the future at this price point.
    2 points
  13. I was hoping to see 21H1 released today, i guess we will have to wait longer.
    2 points
  14. 1909 is ideal for me as 2004 has the horrid broken Explorer search box which can't be reverted to the good old one and also Connected Standby is forced with 2004 and later.
    2 points
  15. How can they not do Space Grey. That alone would stop me buying one.
    2 points
  16. YouTubers? Sure but this is my go to... https://www.anandtech.com/
    2 points
  17. England's NHS app to be used as vaccine passport from next week

    So what do you propose, let's just stay at home until someone comes up with a 100% efficient vaccine for all current and future variants?
    2 points
  18. I don’t foresee that being an issue. I mean I guess it could be, but even on Windows laptops, I’ve not heard of that being a thing. Have you? Honest question.
    2 points
  19. Computer is getting power, but will not turn on

    Correct, but using a screw driver rules out, a bad power button, or the power switch plugged in incorrectly on the motherboard.
    2 points
  20. Facebook now asks you to read an article before sharing it

    I find it annoying when apps try to be my nanny. I'm an adult. I do not need or want a nanny.
    2 points
  21. Pink? For business use? Are we selling Avon? /jk.
    2 points
  22. Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro review: The perfect earbuds for business use

    Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro Damn that name just rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
    2 points
  23. England's NHS app to be used as vaccine passport from next week

    Sure if you go to another country then fine, but should not need it in my own country. But then I have refused to have the vaccine. You have the right to not get the vaccine and the private business also has the right to deny entry. if you wait long enough, the requirement of the vaccine will pass and then you will be allowed to join in with the rest of us. As for voter ID, just buy a passport, you need it to leave the country anyway and its valid ID even when expired as long as its an adult passport. I used it for the last vote we had when ID's were required, a lady looked at the picture, my face and my name and gave it back along with my voting slips. It's nothing to be scared of.
    1 point
  24. Gaming notebook with 32GB... useful, handy or overkill?

    the only benefit would be if youre combining your daily work and gaming simultaneously. i have nothing more than two browsers open currently, and my laptop is using over 10GB of the 16GB. If you can find some cheap, compatible RAM, why not?
    1 point
  25. Gaming notebook with 32GB... useful, handy or overkill?

    Seems fine to me.
    1 point
  26. Thanks to the amazing web tech /s
    1 point
  27. Can they release an update to add an optical port??? (Kidding). ...not kidding. lol.
    1 point
  28. Got to give Epic credit here, they've opened up a right can of worms lol.
    1 point
  29. Personally, I hate the fact that nVidia is fracturing the card base by introducing so many different iterations of a new chip when it can't even produce enough for themselves or other AIB's for the typical 3070, 80 and 90 series... what's the point?
    1 point
  30. Facebook now asks you to read an article before sharing it

    Yep, you figured out the evil plan!! This is honestly a good thing. I can't tell you how many times I have seen someone share an article with a provocative title that either has no facts to back it up, or is just an op ed masquerading as news. I am guessing it will be little more than what some EULA screens do, force you to scroll to the bottom of the page before you can move forward.
    1 point
  31. Pack your things and go. Just go. 🤢
    1 point
  32. Now Intel, this is looking good. I'm not buying the graphs until Youtubers analyze them. But considering this is a 10nm processor (similar to TSMC's 7nm fab), this is more convincing than the Rocket Lake fallacy. I want to see thermals and throttling, which have been the main issues with H series processors for a long time.
    1 point
  33. Sd Cards are a garbage tech, way too slow, way poor life, less reliability & durability, high failure rate. I'm not sure Apple wants people to buy a 128gb mac and expand it via SD cards instead of purchasing more storage giving them more profits
    1 point
  34. People buy Apple products because they see it as a status symbol.
    1 point
  35. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Looking at Brendan Lewis build progress sheet then there is no 18 and 19 even in production so it looks like they're already skipping those. 16 is almost done so it makes sense to carry on with that one and I suspect they're far enough through 17 to warrant that one going too. 20 I believe Elon was hoping to be doing the orbital flights with so that's a completely different so shouldn't really be considered as part of the this phase. Looking at it, I'm not even sure they have time to re-fly 15 as it takes 1-2 weeks minimum to get starship down to the pad, cryo tested, raptors installed, static fire and then launched. I guess it will depend on how close BN3 and the launch tower is by July.
    1 point
  36. Yes, this is correct. Facebook has 2,700,000,000 monthly active users which is a third of the world's population.
    1 point
  37. Computer is getting power, but will not turn on

    send her a snap shot of my comment and say "SEEEEEEE!!! He's suggesting the same thing!!!" Are you not getting fan spin?
    1 point
  38. Finding a PlayStation 5 may continue to be difficult until 2022, says Sony

    It's a slightly better PS4 Pro. I really don't get the kerfuffle. I saw the trailers, and aside from the neat things the SSD can do, it didn't impress me much. I'll calmly wait. Even if it becomes readily available I'll still wait longer. It just has no games worth caring about.
    1 point
  39. Better? Then it only runs on one single kind of hardware - the kind you built yourself and no one else. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Microsoft could do that? No, it wouldn't... Oh this BS argument, again Correct me if I'm wrong but all WoA devices, at least as of now, are running on just a few Qualcomm chipsets...
    1 point
  40. What was the last movie you watched? (2021 edition)

    The Mitchells vs The Machines. A good giggle factor
    1 point
  41. im 37. My interest in gaming has decreased over the years. These days i'm looking for more casual, simple games. These hardcore games are so utterly involved these days that i just dont have the time or interest. I've actually started collecting older games on last-gen systems rather than hunting for new games. I have a backlog of Xbox/360/PS3 games that i want to play. I also collect retro games. I miss the days or just popping in a game and playing.
    1 point
  42. Darn. I guess i'll wait for the PS5 Pro, instead. perhaps it's just my age, but is there really any excitement for this new generation of consoles? it's been 4yrs since the launch of the Switch, and i couldnt care less. it's been 6mo since the release of the Xbox/PS, and i still dont care...
    1 point
  43. Icons on the desktop? OK... 😂 This is me since Vista days: *First boot* 1. Log-in 2. Right Click Desktop 3. View > Show Desktop Icons 4. Untick You would get an immediate stroke if you saw my desktop with those hundreds of icons There is a meme floating on the internet about this: there are 2 type of people... Trying to explain verbally: shows 2 picture next to each other: 1st desktop with no shortcut icons, only some pleasant nice background. The other picture: shows some background wallpaper, but hardly anything could be seen of it, as in the foreground there are gazillion of excel, word, ppt and text shortcut icons with filenames like xyz FINAL.xlsx, xyz FINAL_V2.xlsx and so on
    1 point
  44. TWIRL 12: Remains of Chinese rocket land in sea after space station launch

    Glad to hear it didn’t hit anyone.
    1 point
  45. F9: StarLink 27

    SUCCESS!!
    1 point
  46. Microsoft Azure icon gets a Fluent Design makeover

    I keep reading the story, and keep looking at the Microsoft Azure text next to it, but my brain keeps saying "that's Adobe"... and I don't know why 😟
    1 point
  47. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    And we have out fire suspect...a thermal blanket. Just as SN-15 landed it looked like one came loose on the engine bay camera.
    1 point
  48. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    SN-15 may fly again...
    1 point
  49. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, Arianespace, Russia, most all the majors, are moving to methane.This is being done because it's cleaner burning, efficient, and delivers a pretty good punch. Mechane is a C1 simple hydrocarbon, 1 carbon atom per molecule. Combustion product: CO2 and water. RP-1 (rocket grade kerosene) is a C10 - C16 complex hydrocarbon which produces a chemical factory's worth of pollutants. Solid rocket fuels, like the Shuttle, Ariane, Indian & SLS boosters , also produce noxious compounds along with hydrochloric acid vapors and unburned chlorates. Many Chinese rockets burn toxic hypergolics like nitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine. Yuk. Starship, During pre-launch activities there is little to no methane release; methane tank vapors are collected and sent back to the tank farm where a recondenser re-liquifies it for later use. Their use of methane extracted from natural gas is a temporary practice. As it is now, SpaceX is buying methane from a local supplier but they've acquired a natural gas well near the build site. They will be purifying to methane and liquifying it for launches at the well site. Also going in near the well site is an oxygen condenser for making their own liquid oxygen. Future methane for Starship launches will be "green," made from CO2 extracted from the atmosphere. A good thing, yes? This tech would serve double duty; producing launch fuel on Earth, and producing return fuel on Mars (which has a CO2 atmosphere) or wherever. SpaceX's baseline CO2 --> CH4 chemistry is the well known Sabatier reaction, invented in 1897. On Earth it'd be powered by wind and solar. The Musk Foundation is also funding a $100 million Carbon Removal X-Prize to evaluate other carbon capture processes, which could also be used to make methane. https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
    1 point
  50. Ironically true since fb is primarily a misinformation platform lol
    1 point