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  1. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    I thought the iPod Touch was brilliant for kids. You pull out your phone and they're like "I wanna watch a video! I wanna play a game!" -- buying an iPod Touch for my daughter at that age was awesome for her to listen to her own music, watch movies on planes and play Fruit Ninja or whatever it was at the time without getting her stick fingers all over my phone.
    4 points
  2. For those on 21H1 who for, whatever seemingly random reason, have not had News and Interests become enabled on their taskbar as yet, this update will enable it
    3 points
  3. Netflix is reportedly getting into video games

    To be fair... Netflix will spend $17 billion on content this year. That sounds like a huge investment. Is that not enough? Can they not do other things too?
    3 points
  4. Microsoft adds Math Solver to Edge for all Insiders

    Why would I want my browser to have a math solver??
    3 points
  5. Original Xbox easter egg revealed by developer after 20 years

    somewhere at MS there's a dev team head screaming they missed this check in and let it get released .... easter eggs at MS == no no after the Windows 2000 age
    3 points
  6. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    I would pay to avoid anything Electron. So Sublime would be a reason over vscode. Electron is a dumpster fire.
    3 points
  7. Mp3tag 3.07

    Good old mp3tag. Nice to see improving new format support.
    3 points
  8. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    I thought the iPod Touch was brilliant for kids. You pull out your phone and they're like "I wanna watch a video! I wanna play a game!" -- buying an iPod Touch for my daughter at that age was awesome for her to listen to her own music, watch movies on planes and play Fruit Ninja or whatever it was at the time without getting her stick fingers all over my phone. What age are we talking about? Who buys a $200+ device for a six year old? No idea why a kid would be ever be touching my phone.
    2 points
  9. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    Why is there even a camera on it?
    2 points
  10. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    The cult of apple who line up for anything with the almighty logo on it
    2 points
  11. Considering the age of even the MCC, let alone the original releases, I am glad they are still adding/updating Halo. If nothing else, it helps to set a precedent for the rest of the gaming industry of how to treat customers and how to handle a long term IP technology with online support. I never thought that Halo would be the one thing Microsoft would be doing/getting right. I remember when the work around UX and dev platforms and NT/Windows was brilliant and being done right. PS Anyone know a warlock that can get us the last 5 years back?
    2 points
  12. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    I would pay to avoid anything Electron. So Sublime would be a reason over vscode. Electron is a dumpster fire. I wouldn't say that, after all, it is possible to put out a dumpster fire.
    2 points
  13. Microsoft adds Math Solver to Edge for all Insiders

    Jokes aside, that's actually a catchy name for a mobile device.
    2 points
  14. Microsoft adds Math Solver to Edge for all Insiders

    I'm waiting for Microsoft to finally announce the competitor to the Chromebook. The Edge Explorer.
    2 points
  15. That's seriously a mystery to me.
    2 points
  16. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    Everyone who read your comment: -50 IQ
    2 points
  17. Hamas always start the trouble, whether its rockets or suicide vests. If you want someone to stop, tell it to Hamas or the arabs. Israel is just defending itself. Apple obviously has too many "woke" staffers on the payroll.
    2 points
  18. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    Everyone who read your comment: -50 IQ Kind of insulting and uncalled for. It does come with any ancient Unix or Linux if you are not root at work Not in the least when we all know he is trolling. Joke is on you.
    1 point
  19. And that is why this is such a money grab scheme for idiot consumers. Also even if it was aimed at audio professionals, what audio professional would use any sort of wifi tech to transfer audio to a speaker. They are going to be using gold tipped gear hard-lines.
    1 point
  20. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    I thought the iPod Touch was brilliant for kids. You pull out your phone and they're like "I wanna watch a video! I wanna play a game!" -- buying an iPod Touch for my daughter at that age was awesome for her to listen to her own music, watch movies on planes and play Fruit Ninja or whatever it was at the time without getting her stick fingers all over my phone. Why not just buy an iPhone and don't use it with a SIM card? You wouldn't need to buy another device when you think they are old enough to have a smartphone. Why spend $1000 on something that doesn't even make phone calls or send text messages? If I was going to pay that kind of money for a music player, I would get something from Astell & Kern, frankly. Not Apple's crapola. $5 says they don't even ship it with a headphone jack, yet they put the idiot camera on it. Bunch of morons coming up with ideas down there.
    1 point
  21. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    I thought the iPod Touch was brilliant for kids. You pull out your phone and they're like "I wanna watch a video! I wanna play a game!" -- buying an iPod Touch for my daughter at that age was awesome for her to listen to her own music, watch movies on planes and play Fruit Ninja or whatever it was at the time without getting her stick fingers all over my phone. Why not just buy an iPhone and don't use it with a SIM card? You wouldn't need to buy another device when you think they are old enough to have a smartphone.
    1 point
  22. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    I feel like I’ve time traveled to that past when the first touch was announced.
    1 point
  23. iPod Touch could be making a return in Fall 2021

    Apple should just remove the SIM card requirement from iPhones.
    1 point
  24. HomePod and HomePod Mini will get Lossless audio support

    It is just a gimmick. Lossless audio is aimed at professional audio (HIFI) and still, we barely could notice the difference. The Homepod is not a bad speaker but it is not professional audio. It is also a mono speaker 😗 You can buy two and get a stereo experience but sheesh. In general, if you want to get the best experience then you will need a good pair of speakers and an audio device with a good DAC, homepod lacks both. And about Dolby Atmos... in a mono speaker 🤣 Dolby Atmos is not about quality, it is about features that it could be used (but only if the original source uses Atmos). It is aimed at movies and games, and not for regular music. But, if it is for free then why not? However, I don't want to see some YouTubers claiming that it sounds awesome and it is the best audio and yadayadayada the best purchase ever.
    1 point
  25. I'm not sure how well this is known but in California, it is illegal to boycott doing business with Israel and if you do you are classified as "anti-semitic". How awful is it that lobbyists from another country will crucify you if you refuse to do business with their country that regularly engages in genocide by lobbyist that have taken over your own country? Let's just get one thing clear, not supporting Israel is not the same as being anti-Semitic. The fact is the Palestinians are Semites. So if you don't support Israel, technically you are being truly pro-Semitic as most people in Israel are European Jews and not authentic Israeli Jews. And also, let's just be brutally clear, this is not a comment against real Jews. This is a comment against the evil zionist have taken over the great nation of Israel. Zionism is not equal to Judaism in and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
    1 point
  26. Netflix is reportedly getting into video games

    It's still an AWS backend isn't it? Not quite sure at this point. But since netflix is just streaming content now I don't see how getting into gaming in some physical sense would fit their business model. It'd have to be a streaming type setup.
    1 point
  27. Microsoft adds Math Solver to Edge for all Insiders

    If the power goes out, they won’t be selling you anything anyway.
    1 point
  28. Microsoft adds Math Solver to Edge for all Insiders

    This is one reason people are so ignorant. If power goes out, most people can’t count change or figure tax rate in a business. I have seen some just close, lol. Ridiculous...
    1 point
  29. Netflix is reportedly getting into video games

    I know I'm in no place to properly comment, but seriously, both Amazon and Google were pretty stupid on their approach. That's why they've been failing. For Stadia to work out, you can't expect people to pay a full price for the game that they will never "own" as you need to keep paying the service in order to play it (In contrast to GeforceNow, which you own the game through Steam, Epic, or others). Amazon, we honestly don't know what the heck has been going on with the development of its games: They look disparate and feel like you mash up many buzzwords together, creating something worse than Anthem. I believe the one that has it right is Microsoft: You pay monthly for a service that includes both: the streaming and the games. In case you want the full game, you can pay for it and as long as you have your PC or Xbox you will be able to play it without continuous membership fees. It's a shame that Mixer didn't work out as expected, because it would've been very powerful to just "enter into a game" as soon as you are looking it at a stream.
    1 point
  30. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Most Muslims are black or colored! And Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, offers the highest financial medical aids to its trans citizens. Maybe get your facts right before slandering others. In Iran, you can change your sex, but homosexual relations can be punished by death. When you visit Muslim-majority countries, remember to set your watch back five hundred years.
    1 point
  31. Sublime Text 4 launches with many improvements and license changes

    People who value performance, and/or are long-time users and prefer the workflow of Sublime Text.
    1 point
  32. Users report constant Chrome crashes on Windows 10, possible workarounds listed [Update]

    And when Firefox starts crashing? We have now run out of browsers, didn't we? Well is chrome crashing or all chromium based browsers crashing? Also if firefox crashes, you have seamonkey, which retrofits the newer Geco Engine from FF into the the unchanged shell of Netscape Navigator 9.0 (still includes Netscape Composer program to let you create your own 90s style html about me pages). Surely THAT program should be stable enough and not crash, as it’s the tried and true 90s.
    1 point
  33. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Most Muslims are black or colored! And Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, offers the highest financial medical aids to its trans citizens. Maybe get your facts right before slandering others. Those you see in Gaza sure as hell aren't. And yeah, they will aid trans people by stoning them But hey, I'm an atheist, I see all forms of religion as a mental illness anyway
    1 point
  34. Netflix is reportedly getting into video games

    Their first, First Party game has been leaked too. It's a new IP called "Missed the Boat".
    1 point
  35. Then how about we stop killing each other?.
    1 point
  36. If you actually read the Qu'ran, I think you will find that Islamaphobia is certainly justified. Apologists calling Islam the "Religion of Peace" have obviously not read the contents of the holy book. And don't think I'm just picking on Islam. The Bible is almost as barbaric and horrific, but most Christians have never even read it, so it's not quite as dangerous. Oh, and then there's the whole jihad/infidels/martyr stuff that really makes Islam an especially problematic faith for lunatics to subscribe to. Islamaphobia isn't the disease. Faith is.
    1 point
  37. My workaround is to simply not install Chrome. Use Microsoft Edge, its better anyway.
    1 point
  38. Blame the Apple (tech company) employees for being humans (with race, gender, religion, creed, geography, and other divides).
    1 point
  39. BSOD errors

    "failed VL activation" Why are you getting a failed volume license activation? You have a VL key? The 0xc004f074 is saying the KMS is unavailable. I think this had less to do with the BSOD but the Windows activation? No idea about the second error...could be tied to the first one. /shrug
    1 point
  40. management stuff meh
    1 point
  41. Nearly 1,000 Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians

    Except muslims openly call for violence against LGBT, blacks and trans people...
    1 point
  42. If Apple starts backing the terrorists, then I think Apple should face charges of backing a Terrorist organization. It seems that every time there is a "war" that breaks out in that area, it's always the Iranian backed HAMAS Terrorist. The Palestinians supply HAMAS with bodies to commit there terrorist acts. I am NOT saying that ALL Palestinians are HAMAS and it is those innocent ones that I feel sorry for.
    1 point
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  45. Sublime Text 4 Build 4107

    You know that Sublime Text exists for more than 10 already, while VS Code only has 5-6 years. It's still a good product despite the huge success of Code. Sublime Text "was" the best text editor, but the popularity of these web-based text editors like Code and Atom killed it a bit. But like some guys already pointed out there's still a lot of persons that prefer Sublime because it's more lightweight since it's not electron-based like the others.
    1 point
  46. Sublime Text 4 Build 4107

    They are targeting people who hate MS, Electron, and want a faster product. I own a license for 3, but got it before VS code existed. I still prefer it over VS code most of the time. Will up upgrade? Unsure. I like their products (also have a license for Sublime Merge).
    1 point
  47. The actual paper does talk about the importance and calculations relating to density -- and contains many fun, colorful graphs to boot!
    1 point
  48. Demi Lovato announces they're non-binary

    I personally don’t care. “They” can identify however they like, that’s their decision and I respect it. But it will not be my decision to identify them as such. I go with biology to determine how I identify them. If I can’t tell, then I will use they. They can identify as a toad. Doesn’t mean I will refer to them as a toad.
    1 point
  49. China successfully lands its Zhurong Mars rover

    It is, but then again when you're not the one trying to figure things out from zero it does help speed things up. Most of the tech needed to do these missions and the knowhow isn't really a close guarded secret like back in the space race of the 60s. It also shows how the US and Russia just sat on their hands for so long when, if they would've kept going the way they were, we'd probably have a few moon bases and a few moon orbiting stations already. And probably well into manned Mars missions. But what happened in the end is what normally happens when the political side of it is done with things and bows out. the race to space and to the moon were astronomically expensive. there's only so much money to go around so when there's the Cold War to fund in the past and local economies to take care of now, the budget for space has shrunken dramatically. neither the Republicans or the Democrats want to prioritize space. Sure it's expensive, no doubt, but in the long run the advances in space tech find it's way into other things and other markets which boosts your economy. And it's not like NASA builds everything it uses in-house. Lots of businesses and jobs are paid for by these programs. The number of parts and pieces built by hundreds of companies out there is crazy. The view that space is a waste of money is so short sighted IMO. But hey, lets spend more on some extra bombs and feed that industrial military machine instead. Doing things for the long term payoff? Nobody is going to go for that. you're darn right...
    1 point
  50. China successfully lands its Zhurong Mars rover

    It is, but then again when you're not the one trying to figure things out from zero it does help speed things up. Most of the tech needed to do these missions and the knowhow isn't really a close guarded secret like back in the space race of the 60s. It also shows how the US and Russia just sat on their hands for so long when, if they would've kept going the way they were, we'd probably have a few moon bases and a few moon orbiting stations already. And probably well into manned Mars missions. But what happened in the end is what normally happens when the political side of it is done with things and bows out. the race to space and to the moon were astronomically expensive. there's only so much money to go around so when there's the Cold War to fund in the past and local economies to take care of now, the budget for space has shrunken dramatically. neither the Republicans or the Democrats want to prioritize space. Sure it's expensive, no doubt, but in the long run the advances in space tech find it's way into other things and other markets which boosts your economy. And it's not like NASA builds everything it uses in-house. Lots of businesses and jobs are paid for by these programs. The number of parts and pieces built by hundreds of companies out there is crazy. The view that space is a waste of money is so short sighted IMO. But hey, lets spend more on some extra bombs and feed that industrial military machine instead. Doing things for the long term payoff? Nobody is going to go for that.
    1 point