?I'm just stating a fact here. It's not "literally" true. But it is true.
paul-thurrott
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Someone complaining about a problem they have experienced is not "trolling." But there should be a word for pe
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I used to love that online comic.
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We are all praying for the Chinese railways.
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Well then. Any other requirements you'd like to impose on others?
Also, you do need to charge at home. Obvio
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Well. Thanks, but ... no you wouldn't. :) It's really not that interesting.
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I called that out in my MacBook Pro 13 (M1) review and was told I had anti-Apple bias.
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FPS Boost:
https://www.thurrott.com/games/xbox/xbox-series-x/247334/microsoft-brings-fps-boost-to-backward-co
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Reason?
Why did you climb the mountain. Because it was there.
Why did you, as a Windows enthusiast, install
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Yeah, I can imagine quite a bit. That's not that fanciful. :)
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There are aspects of "work" I'm not fond of. Meetings. Deadlines. Shit posting in site comments. Etc. But just
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It is sad. But 2 million people is literally 0.006 percent of the U.S. population.
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? I feel like we would have mentioned that if so.
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I honestly don't think this is all that interesting to most people. And it's not like I've had some exceptiona
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Come on. Apple's platforms are not "hobbyist." They are used by many millions of people. Billions, for iPhone.
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This should be working already.
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They really did.
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You should be able to edit and delete comments.
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North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia are all possibilities. But ... that's years away. :)
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Yeah, we have only done one domestic home swap so far. That is possible.
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It was just a spelling mistake.
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I just use File Explorer for the date.
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Not really.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/247340/microsoft-finally-announces-windows-10-versio
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I don't see anything changing with regard to console sales no matter what they do.
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Good stuff.
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Yeah, I guess it's one of those staggered rollout things.
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Those are literally the updates I was referring to.
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Looking at Update History, I believe it was called "2021-04 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 2
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Right. You won't get that until you install a May 2021 cumulative update. There's a preview version available.
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No. It means that the battery wasn't rundown all at one time. Honestly, what I think of as "sleep performance"
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We didn't decide to remove that, so I have asked about the schedule for that.
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There is literally no reason not to upgrade now. Telling enthusiasts not to be enthusiasts is like spitting in
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I finished scanning my old photos two years ago, so that work is pretty much done, at least the heavy lifting.
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I got that by installing an optional preview update, so it must be coming officially in May.
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Nice!
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If it's red, it's because it's been liked by one or more people. If it's not, it hasn't been.
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How does that explain why so many regulatory bodies outside of the EU are also investigating Apple for exactly
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Just like there's no question that Apple is competing illegally with Spotify. There are all kinds of good poin
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I'm sorry. I cannot allow you to come here and spreads lies and misinformation. And what you wrote is one or t
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Of course you do.
Apple subsidizes its services, including the App Store, with its crazy high hardware margin
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Good Lord.
The government didn't hand anything to any company. Apple colluded with the world's biggest book p
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I think a replacement is overdue. I'm lazy.
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I pretty much disagree with all three of those sentences.
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We all have bias. My bias is towards objectivity. I have no problem pointing out when a company is doing the r
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Sure. Look, I have been open to and waiting for a great Android tablet. But it's not just about the hardware.
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Dear God, wake up.
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I believe that's arriving with a Patch Tuesday update.
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There's no version of this story in which Epic is the bad guy. They are doing the right thing, not just for th
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We have a long list of things we want to fix, yes. :)
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Yeah, it's been on the upswing since that night, thanks.
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Yeah, but that's not surprising. Most Macs sales were always the cheapest models, and those are all now M1-bas
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It's not my decision. And it's something we've all wanted to change for a long time.
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Yeah, sort of. You could also sign-in to Insider, configure for Release Preview, install the build, reboot, di
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We had good reasons for it. They made less sense in execution than in theory.
We can't touch the forums yet
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If we don't adhere to what Google requires, we can be erased from the web, basically.
Someone in an antitrust
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I have to close this down early because we're traveling today. Thanks! --Paul
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes, that's the goal.
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Because they are trying to stop the gatekeepers that now control app and payment access on dominant platforms.
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This is a tragically wrong worldview. Who cares how long it was in the works?
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You can change the default font. But I think you have to do it in each app.
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Spelling mistakes are just spelling mistakes. So maybe just tell us where the problem is instead of making us
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What.
Let's not have choices because choices are ... messy? Every developer won't have their own payment syst
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They've already made changes. They will make more.
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The "why" is that it was better than typing on glass and it didn't take up any space on-screen like a virtual
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No need to tell us where you buried the body. But ... he had it coming, obviously.
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That's not true either. In fact, that's the problem: Consumers and developers have no choices, and thus can't
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"Consumers don't care because they are not being harm by anything."
That's wrong. Consumers that don't care h
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I think we're mixing things up here. The payment system(s) in question would be chosen by developers, not by c
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Apple makes a lot more from its App Store than Microsoft does from Xbox games. So whatever.
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Try the new dark mode in the Office apps. Eye-saver.
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That wasn't in the earnings announcement. But I mentioned it in Short Takes.
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Guys. Seriously. They're companies. They're literally designed to maximize profitability. They're not "bastard
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I would imagine that the growth would be slow to non-existent in that case.
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Gross.
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Why would anyone jump through hoops to not get 20H2?
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I'm not sure about that: 20 percent of $50 billion is still a lot of revenue. But it's fair to say that Google
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"Not the worst tablet in the world" isn't great marketing vs. "literally the best tablet in the world," which
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Off-topic comments aimed solely at making others upset are just deleted.
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It might be related to the fact that all major Android flagships don't even have bezels, let alone a giant bla
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There is where size and market matter. Xbox isn't one of two ways in which people can play videogames, and it'
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This is a long-winded way of saying that two screens don't automatically make you more productive. Which
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Yes, thanks!
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You know, if you live in the first world, that's the type of problem you're going to have. :)
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What? Do you really believe that there is some contingent of Android fans who have looked at what Apple is doi
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Put another way, it's literally true. :) You're not using Chrome.
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In reply to lvthunder:No.Over 3 million people have died worldwide from COVID, and over 572,000 in the US alon
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I've used them at the gym and they work well but I won't know for sure until I've used them on a plane.
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No, it doesn't.
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Yes. But it was really a giant cup.
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NVIDIA does not own ARM now.
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That is obviously not a request for a bailout, which Intel does not need anyway.
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lol
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In reply to simont:Thanks! Fixed.
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lol right
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There is nothing wrong with copying unless you own a monopoly and can control the original innovator's access
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Not a laptop. :) But if we're going to include all computers, the Atari 400 keyboard has to take the crown. Or
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Sorry about that. Yes, if you write [email protected], someone---probably Brad---can get this fixed for you.
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You're sure. :) Sure you are.
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Right. The way I described this on Windows Weekly is that it's like choosing between getting shot in the shoul
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I had never heard of Bluesound. Looking at its site, it appears to be to Sonos what Purple is to Casper in the
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The simpler way to put this is that many people clearly don't understand what it means to have a monopoly. It'
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:)
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All supported versions of Windows 10. So 1909 and newer.
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It's not a fixation, it's an obvious and dramatic example of why appeasing a madman doesn't work.
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What a weird and unfair criticism. Unless you mean the commenters, lol, then yes.
I think of this website as
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A ... non-innovative product. Wow. So I guess it was so non-innovative that Apple took notice and copied it ou
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Please don't. Easily or otherwise.
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So, climate change is real. That's not bias, it's fact.
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Your first assertion is incorrect so I stopped reading.
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No, it isn't.
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Closing this down a bit earlier than usual because I'm traveling and want to try and finish up late this
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Yeah. He should have learned by listening and not by dictating, making tons of horrible mistakes, and not lear
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All I can (and did) say in the isolation of a review of a particular product is that Apple puts a metric ton o
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Yes.
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Yeah, that's what Chamberlain said about the reaction to Hitler, too. "Kneejerk." :)
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No, it goes back. I don't usually get to keep review laptops.
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It should work on any system that can run Chrome or Edge.
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This is one very specific workload, and there's a reason many creatives turn to the Mac. In typical productivi
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Yeah, this is clearly some back-end issue that Apple could and should fix. It's a huge problem.
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:)
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Look, we can argue over semantics, I guess. So let's call it bloatware. It's just a collection of stuff aimed
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:) Nice!
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Yeah, I spent some nights just babysitting app updates while we watched TV. It's crazy how slow they are.
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The iPad will recover from this slight. It's OK. :)
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Right. Though the move to a single code base could change that.
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Sigh.
Master/slave is literally racist. The only question now is whether we fix it.
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One point of all web apps is that they're cloud-hosted and thus can be changed once rather than requiring an u
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lol nice
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I'm a little confused by the confusion. :) But PWAs absolutely *can* be used offline, though adding that capab
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I guess just don't buy one if you're worried about it.
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Yeah, that could be. I have this weird half-memory from the early days of OS X that because it was based on Fr
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I rely on Facebook to remind me about birthdays. It's pretty much my only source for this information.
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Maybe there's some similarity in people who are drawn to IT/technology and have trouble remembering certain th
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Yes there is more Evo v. M1 to come. This is just a straight-up review.
The other questions are just hard to
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https://www.thurrott.com/resubscribe
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:)
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In your imagination. :)
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There's a pretty clear evolution in iPad designs, and this one visually resembles the iPhone 12 and iPad Ai
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I assume this dates back to the iPod. :)
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In reply to SyncMe:I meant it seriously. I criticize Windows PCs for crapware as well, of course.
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In reply to wunderbar:And not just limited to WOA, but to pre-release and unsupported versions of WOA. But I d
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The PWAs update themselves from a functional perspective. The underlying code you use to display a PWA is upda
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You will see an install prompt when viewing a PWA. When you install it, the app is installed in Windows and ap
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A PWA is an app just like any other app. It's not "just" a website.
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In reply to jrswarr:Same. I recognize all kinds of people. Instantly forget names. It's the worst.
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Not yet, but I will do so. Not really looking forward to this: He's full of crap and will be rewriting hi
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There are some rumors about much-improved lenses for the Pixel 6. Crossing my fingers...
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It must be because they are more trustworthy and it's not even close.
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Yeah, I really enjoy using it. There's just something "right" about it.
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Not sure, sorry. (And does AdBlock even block FLoC on desktop already?)
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Thanks!
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Yeah, I think so. Just raising awareness is huge.
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The ways of Microsoft are mysterious. :)
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It was really quick. I've added this sync to a few other PCs and, yes, when there are already files there on a
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Shhhh....
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No.
I suspect the solution going forward will be USB4, which will be available on AMD.
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Nice!
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Who cares about advertisers? Seriously.
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Holy shit. Dude, no.
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There's no reason not to look around, but I wouldn't be rash about such a move. You can solve tracking on Edge
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It's not hype. PWAs are a great new kind of app. And they're special for many reasons, but mostly because they
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Nice!
When we were teenagers, we were doing one of those typically stupid "teenagers drinking in a parking l
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In reply to jwpear:It is. Sorry. :)
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Closing this down so I can answer the questions...
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You should trust Microsoft a lot more than Google, if only because Microsoft's reach as you use the web is non
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In reply to peterc:PeterC is correct.Given Apple's switch to the M1, though, maybe that can change for vi
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I feel weird having to choose between incompetence and evil. :)
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Yeah, it's rolling out in a measured way. I got an 89 update on one PC and then got 90 on another.
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Gotcha. Someday we're going to figure out comment nesting here. We are working on it.
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What the heck is this? Are you a Google PR plant?
Brave, Vivaldi, and "others" all have business plans. Thos
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Nice. :) Yeah, I just turned that on.
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Thanks!
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Well, maybe they do. But there is a whole world of perks that makes Prime totally worth it.
https://www.thurr
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Context matters. And news happens when it happens: This article exists because this information was disclosed
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Thanks. :)
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And just like that, it's political. We gotta stop viewing everything through such polarized lenses. Just do th
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Honestly, the real solution here will be remote access, and emulating Windows apps isn't necessary for most no
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Right. This is a no-brainer that requires no thought and no particular politically correct line of thinking at
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The corporate overlords appreciate your uncritical and unthinking support. They literally rely on this level o
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Sure. That's sounds ... optimal.
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We complain about Microsoft's inability to clearly communicate all the time. And yes, we complain directly to
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So, I was told this explicitly by multiple sources at PC makers.
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They're open.
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Mining? Have you actually looked at the privacy policy?
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Yeah, that is the weirdest part of marketing to me as well. It's especially noticeable at Apple announcements.
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Yeah. Sadly, that's where this does fall: Makes sense, I do not use it.
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I am curious whether Intel virtualization can even happen. If it can't, this product gets a lot less interesti
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"They led the way in getting manufacturers to ship PC's with less crapware and bloatware."
Um, Windows 10 lit
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Agree. But not that I've heard.
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I don't see it this way. What PC makers were doing was refusing to go down the tablet- and touch-first drain h
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Unfortunately, that conversation is several months away. We obviously do try to push this kind of thing on WW
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Thanks (and sorry if I came too harsh) ... What you can do, I guess, is care about privacy and then take steps
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This.
You know, based on some of the comments I see here, I'm starting to wonder if the real shift at Surface
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It's gotta be 5 o'clock somewhere...
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Suspect that has more to do with what's available to them, not with what they would like to do. I would be fin
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You can add that at order time or later. It's easily expandable.
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You forgot to add a "/s" tag to this :)
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Agree. But I guess we'll see what they do. For now, you will want Privacy Badger, the DuckDuckGo extension, or
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You'll be right next to me on the podium getting the Gold since this article is about Surface hardware and not
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I forgot that because it didn't happen. PC makers like Dell, HP, and Lenovo were already cranking out high-qua
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Well. I have plenty of earpods. And I'm about as far into the Apple ecosystem as I care to go. :)
But I just
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Almost all apps. You would need to use them side by side to see what you are missing. This not even debatable,
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Do not give them any ideas. :)
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I don't think this impacts the Discord talks at all. Microsoft has $130 billion in cash.
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You're not a cynic, you don't understand the severity of the situation.
This isn't just about ads, it's abou
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In reply to bleeman:There are probably many commonalities of experience for most Americans, but one is absolut
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In reply to Patrick3D:Yes. Hands on the wheel is always good advice. I do actually do that.
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The difference is app quality, which is job one, and that's where any Android tablet falls flat. There is no p
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Antitrust kicks in at volume. An app store that serves ~2 billion consumers on mobile is more concerning than
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Well, that was the theory all along, right? I'm sure Steven Sinofsky made this argument to the executive board
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I didn't trade-in the old iPad, sorry.
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I didn't notice any difference. And I don't really see huge benefits from high refresh display rates, personal
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Well, I wrote that the zoom quality is garbage, especially above ~10X. That's all that is, not a reason to not
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Thanks!
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It works in stereo in both orientations, so whatever. All I care is that stereo works.
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I have tried this.
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/ipados/233311/the-ipad-game-changer
It's great. It's not
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Yeah, I almost went down one of those "you get what you pay for" things, but ... well, sometimes you really do
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Those relative nobodies ship far more hardware than Microsoft and thus get better access to components and bet
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I don't see any path toward forcing Apple to create/support software on other platforms. But that's not the po
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It's kind of hard to explain, but I'll be reading an article linked from the Google app (Discovery feed) or Go
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I have a long history with Bose noise-canceling headphones. They've always worked well.
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The reason this is interesting and relevant is that it is part of establishing a pattern of behavior.
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You can still get it in the Store, and it won't be removed if it's already installed.
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No, but that's classic! I used to really like that site.
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This kind of thinking is classic conspiracy theory. There must be a GREAT reason for what they're doing. But i
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Don't ever let go of this grudge. It's super-healthy. :)
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In reply to Pierre Masse:They are literally my favorite rock band of all time, and I have a hard time imaginin
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In reply to DBSync:Ah, nice!
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In reply to louiem3:Thanks, will do!
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In reply to Pierre Masse:I don't understand.
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Closing this down so I can try to answer the questions today. Thanks!
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Right. Of course technical people are aware of this. The general public, probably not so much.
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The Microsoft post explains how to find out.
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Mary Jo is literally the source of this information. If others have mischaracterized what she wrote, that's on
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:) And no.
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That's good advice, really: Read multiple reviews, look for the patterns.
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Of course. But those numbers must be dwindling.
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I think what they place a high value on is a consistency across generations that's demanded by their business
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That's a new problem. Microsoft has been doing this for years.
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So is the lesson that they'll always get burned by going with modern technology? Or that they need to improve
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Exactly. Nothing.
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lol
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How would they even notice 0.001% of cases?
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Notepad doesn't need that level of updating. Which explains my comment.
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Don't spread misinformation, and don't you dare cast aspersions at people who do great work despite having dif
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Sorry for the confusion. But this is on the always poorly-written Insider blog.
Which wrote:
"Because we’r
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Who? Who cares? :)
Why is perhaps more interesting. But knowing the answers to these questions won't help us
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Correct.
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lol
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We get so caught up in the next shiny bauble. What we should celebrate are the things that last.
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The glass thing always bothers me. I have no idea why anyone thinks that is "premium," as it's just something
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That's outside of the scope of my coverage, and I don't have any insight to offer there at all. A SCOTUS rulin
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I think they would make this happen.
That said, I intend to be cremated and don't see the point of cemeteries
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I agree with this. It's far too common with all the major phone makers: You need the biggest phone to get the
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I only have an iPhone 11 Pro Max for comparison's sake, but my rough idea here is that the color accuracy/imag
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In reply to wright_is:Yeah, I always leave some in the car.
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In reply to wright_is:That's tough. A friend from Australia just told me he's scheduled for his firs
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Just reviewing. I have to move on, I have several laptop reviews to get to.
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It's Xbox so the bigger issue will be actually finding one.
Too soon? Sorry.
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I can't recall having this particular issue before, but it just keeps coming back on this iPad. I don't know.
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I need to see whether these things work on a plane, which is the most extreme use case from a noise perspectiv
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I'm more surprised you can't customize RAM and SSD separately.
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lol why?
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I see this all the time in Android. In fact, I kind of want to turn it off. :)
This can't just be on an app b
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Ah nice.
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It's on the list! I just got one the other day.
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/248782/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-nan
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All I can do is report what I've seen. In the pandemic, I doubt all the battery results I get.
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I can't even count the number of times I've driven somewhere (Costco, maybe, the gym), gotten out of my car, w
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Ah there you go. There is a weird density to it for sure.
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In reply to drjohnnyray:Nice! And congrats on the vaccinations!
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In reply to wluck:Thanks ... I have been watching a lot of Mexico travel videos on YouTube lately and feel lik
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Ah, interesting. I hope to need to worry about this someday. :)
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This is like an auto enthusiast complaining in the 1960s that no one tinkers with cars anymore and they don't
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I don't think I've ever used a third-party cover, so I guess I'm not sure.
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The clue is the text in the screenshot.
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:) Yep. Thanks.
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I use Print Screen so much that I use it with a third-party app (Greenshot) to make sure I'm getting exactly w
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lol nice. We'll definitely be doing some driving trips this year as well.
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I figured I'd want to go back to the iPad mini when it was refreshed, but they kept the old design and I've go
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See, I was thinking that designing a car was the perfect use case. :)
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Indeed. Fixed.
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That's good stuff. I feel like I'm never going to understand assembly, but ... yeah, I could see doing this.
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No, you can still get the lower-end version. Just not from OnePlus.com at this time.
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It's been there for a while on ThinkPads. I actually kind of prefer this layout, since many mobile keyboards r
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https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-and-google
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Yeah, they don't mention Brave because this isn't needed on Brave.
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I would think so. The issue here, wired or wireless, was always that the signal could somehow be intercepted a
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Still faster and more efficient than macOS. So sure.
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That's part of it, for sure. But I've been working for home for over 25 years, and I gotta say, things only ha
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Good question. There was no real context to this, but since 2X gains native to native are literally impossible
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Yeah, that could be.
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Thanks!
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lol ah well
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I assume this is up to the game publishers?
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What on earth does this have to do with Google Maps adding new features? Right. Nothing.
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:)
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Surface Duo seems like the obvious choice.
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Most of the nation never even heard of Cortana, I bet.
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Not so much surprised. But just dedicated to calling them out on it every time I see it happen.
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:)
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The HomePod did fail. Apple killed it after just three years.
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The HomePod did fail. Here are a few select articles about it.
Why did Apple’s original HomePod fail? Let
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Technically, they are the only one. Every PC maker offers a choice of models with various types of ports. Only
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I couldn't find it in the Google Play Store this morning.
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Yep. They were also poised to become the number one smartphone maker in the world. Now they're number six, and
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Technically, no real heroes wear capes. :)
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What I see is something I never did expect to see in my lifetime, which is major carmakers publicly spelling o
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So, that's kind of a wide open question. (And the way this Ask Paul thing works is that I post a forum post on
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Thanks, no worries. :)
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It's important to hold a grudge for as long as possible.
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It will probably be smaller. :)
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Anyone can buy a business Surface. They're $100 more per model.
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Edge or legacy Edge? Edge works fine with Twitter.
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Spectacular!
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:It flew over us and the triangular shape blocked out the stars. So ... Not sure wha
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In reply to c.turk:That is amazing.
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In reply to jbinaz:I was a big fan of Millennium, but it lost steam after the first season.
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In reply to jbinaz:Yeah, I think that could be.
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In reply to will:Totally. There's one where they are at a farm at night and the guy is lying under the fl
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Thanks!
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People fear change, they remember the defeats but not the victories. Microsoft has done well by GitHub, Minecr
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Yeah, I think the reason the Pixel 5 needs a hole is that the body material is metal with a resin coating.
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This seems like a surmountable problem. :)
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In reply to BillBecker:Thanks!
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In reply to djross95:That's not something that is different between these two handsets. I'll be look
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Newer Sonos speakers have both Alexa and Google Assistant integration, and I believe all Sonos speakers can be
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No. There is just what happened---the truth---and then there is the nonsense history rewriting that you engage
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I wrote this up years ago. Ballmer was right about the iPhone, and Apple was forced to dramatically cut the pr
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They're awful because they are modern for the time they were added (20 years later), and unlike the effects in
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You know, Episode 1 mapped very closely to Episode 4 and was ripped to shreds for it. But when they did the sa
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Yeah, I understand that. I don't mind as much, and I'll fall into the argument that it's art and the artist ha
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Then no need to jump in on this topic, please.
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Some troublemaker wrote:
"'Who said the iPhone is a failure?'That is Paul's go to narrative when discussing t
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No. It's a single SIM card. I'm guessing there's no eSIM, since that should show up in Settings.
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It's definitely not meh. I'm still waiting for it to betray me in some unreliable way, but so far so good.
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My big complaint about the Mandalorian is that it's too fan-service heavy. But the second season was also a bi
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Yeah, I'd get one, but I'd go for the Intel version since the AMD chipset is now, and was always, out of date.
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I'd love a modern 4K version of the original-ish print.
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Right. That's easily one of the best SW movies.
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In reply to crunchyfrog:The third prequel film was great. And the first two sequel films. Also The Mandalorian
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Yes. That is true. :)
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It's literally the truth.
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What I am is tired of people highjacking articles by posting multiple comments that just amount to the same no
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This coming week.
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lol it pays to be proactive.
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I can't imagine anyone cares about the Microsoft Store at this point. Nothing can "save" it. It's just a PC ap
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In reply to evictedkoala:According to OnePlus, the main and telephoto lenses have OIS.https://www.oneplus.com/
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In reply to Mcgillivray:It *is* history. The history is that Ballmer was right about the iPhone.https://www.th
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Exactly. I'm going to codify this type of thing into our user terms. This is just hijacking a conversion with
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To be fair, OnePlus was never a Hyundai. It was more like Lexus: It's products were great from the start and t
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Well, they're outsourcing AND building capacity. I assume those 2023-era chips he discussed will be built in s
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What of them?
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Competition is always good, both for the players involve and for the people who buy their products.
I presen
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I'm pretty sure that the people working on icon designs are no more qualified than you or me to work on Window
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Or an archeological dig.
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You're missing the point. There's no one laptop/ultrabook/2-in-1 that meets that goal. There are many choices.
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It clearly is. Look at the address bar. It's huge.
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There's nothing else to do. If you follow these instructions, that will work.
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There's no reason to be cynical. This is one build, not a feature release. It's one change.
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It has some dark context menues. It also has this:
https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/1374779626065649664
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Right. This is like me claiming that Pennsylvania still has plenty of viable steel manufacturing facilities. :
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And let's not forget the icons that will get left behind. :)
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That's too bad: Washington D.C. is my favorite city in the United States.
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To the people who felt the need to comment here for no good reason I can think of: Please consider what's
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I will be doing so, yes.
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Stop repeating the same misinformation. Please.
M1 laptops offer advantages over older Macs, for sure. But M
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This is not correct. This is not a marketing exercise, it's an actual partnership that has already resulted in
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I think there's an understandable weariness after a year. But when it's coupled with stupid, as we're seeing i
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If I can, yes.
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Only the name has changed.
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Me too. I'm hopeful but realistic.
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I have no idea why Microsoft would add another communication service. I have to assume this is about the audie
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You know what's helpful when I have to deal with trolls in the comments? Not this.
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Ah boy. :) You're welcome? :)
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In reply to b6gd:I know an entire family of 6 people that have contracted COVID. Parents are 40-ish and the ki
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I'm sorry this isn't obvious to everyone.This is NOT the place to spout nonsense untruths about vacc
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In reply to dell5050:We are not doing this here. Please do not call others names, and please keep your opinion
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Guys, guys. Come on. Please.
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Don't forget Porsche! :)
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If you had asked me last year whether Europe or the United States would weather the pandemic and the transitio
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You can see both extremes in every person's reaction to wearing masks, distancing, etc. out in the world. Good
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lol
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I agree that D.C. needs statehood, and obviously the debate over that has been going on for ... well, forever
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Microsoft gave up on Mixer because it was unprofitable and never attracted enough users to justify the cost.
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In reply to Chris_Kez:No.
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In reply to chrishilton1:We're not getting on a plane until we're both fully vaccinated.
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In reply to jjthomas:Yes, and yes, those pictures are from Old Ebbitt Grill.
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You are so tiring. There is nothing here worth responding to. It's like arguing with someone about the color o
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Lol what.
For the record, ribbon UIs solve a problem called command density, which includes both menus and to
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It was compatibility. Microsoft moving NT to the 9x driver model was one of several things it did to bring NT
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Do the file explorer equivalents in Chrome OS and macOS have tabs? I'm not 100 percent sure, and I'm away this
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Thanks ... Am definitely interested in this topic as well.
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You're really over-analyzing this. The ad is aimed at normal people.
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Yeah, good idea. Will do, thanks.
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Replace the word "ask" with "berate" and I think you will see what it looks like from the outside.
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Not to keep this spinning, but if you're a photography enthusiast and enjoy that whole process, don't give it
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Or important in some way. It is obvious what Intel is doing here. It's also obvious that these ads are fantast
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I feel like we're completely missing the point of these ads. Completely.
They're fun and funny. They're accur
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Yeah, maybe that's the right way to look at this (there are many): We moved from monoculture to heterogeneous.
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Let it go. You can do this.
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Nice, thank you.
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Heard ya. Disagree completely.
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I recall hardware compatibility being a major issue. I used to print out the relevant part of the HCL (hardwar
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I'm continuously ... what. Whatever.
There's no "media blitz." Intel has finally put up a single page on its
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Yep. It's sad, and was very much expected. These ads are fantastic.
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"I'm not sure what point Intel is trying to make here."
:) Oh man. It's pretty fricking obvious.
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And the solution that is every one of those PC makers offers you many choices, many of which have legacy ports
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Doesn't Intel still power 80-90 percent of all PCs? Arguably, the PC is only about Intel. The other chipmakers
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Totally.
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Guys.
I can't post anything about Huawei without the anti-China militia showing up.
Xenophobia, racism, wha
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Yep. Exactly.
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Search your GIF source for "common sense."
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Oh, easily. They used a platform that can't run many of the apps that people want, and runs those apps that do
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Well, you definitely don't get it, yes. :)
On a regular laptop, multitouch is just another option. But many p
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And is also completely legal!
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We're not seriously still wondering about fingerprints on touchscreens? We touch phones and tablets all day lo
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I am hoping to review the OnePlus 9, so we'll see what that looks like.
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All I can do in a review is explain what I experienced.
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I can't wait until I need to buy a hat. "Do you guys have plus sizes?"
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It might be interesting to use both for comparison purposes. I have no doubt the full frame camera will be bet
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Right. I've been burned enough times to need hard proof, but most of their handsets have been nearly perfect o
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Windows Terminal is also updated through the Store.
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Perfectly reasonable.
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I wobble on the edge of Samsung myself, but haven't ever really switched. If OnePlus messes this up and Google
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I literally spent time adding features to Notepad over various programming projects in 2019-20. There are some
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lol
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It means a podcast played back in the browser.
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In reply to JMarco:I can't complain enough about their inability to clearly communicate.
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I'm pretty sure that bashing anything is an Internet-wide favorite pastime. Microsoft doesn't own an especiall
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I'm having trouble understanding what you're upset about here. But I also desperately want you to not expand o
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I feel like an interpreter sometimes. :)
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Right. In this case, it's a little troubling that they think this needs to be updated more regularly than twic
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I prefer the electronic version because the manual shutters are impossible to see against the bezel and it's h
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The AI stuff in the Huawei camera app is optional (and can be toggled off on a shot-by-shot basis if needed to
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Yeah, I've come very close to putting up with it myself because the phones are usually so good in every other
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Whether they realize it or not, 100 percent of Windows users use Win32 software every single day.
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I changed the headline. Sorry for the confusion.
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Closing this down early (sorry) so we can head out mid-day for a long weekend. We'll see how that goes.
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It has Google Play. I believe it's just regular Android.
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In reply to Echo64:These things are subjective, but I do like that. They're easier to see when the backli
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In reply to pecosbob04:Sorry, but no. :)
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Yes. And while we're at it, HL 3 Episode 3. :)
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They do call out dongles in one of the ads :)
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In reply to jgraebner:Great question. Fixed!
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Nobody has ever missed IE. :)
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It's like a carbon offset!
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That column of keys is on the other HP laptops I've reviewed as well.
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Different markets. Selling 10 million units in a year in a market of ~275 million is whatever, but selling 10
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In Jenny McCarthy we trust!
Obviously \s
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In reply to jbinaz:One thing I'm acutely aware of is that I've not been sick in the past 12 months a
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Disney is a content company. They've seen the future and are investing heavily in Disney+.
Apple is a consume
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Most likely, that Chrome extension should work on Brave. But I have not tried that.
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The article is titled "Apple Discontinues the HomePod," not "Apple Discontinues the HomePod and Will Now Screw
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You should always keep your PC secure. Also, all of your devices.
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That is ridiculous.
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You may not see it if you have a Microsoft work (AAD) account configured. That's going to change over time.
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I'm sure the unit sales are smaller, but there is a lucrative market for these kinds of speakers, yes.
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Yeah, I'm hearing that people who have a work-based Microsoft account (AAD) don't even see the Passwords tab t
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I don't recall that but at the time, it was kind of a joke. It has definitely matured in the years since.
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Sure, I've been promoting the use of Movies Anywhere since it was first released.
https://www.thurrott.com/?s
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Then look up how many customers Microsoft has compared to those companies and extrapolate.
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I hope that's not true.
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Microsoft does not "insist" on sending codes via SMS. It has several other methods you can configure for 2FA,
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No, no.
Movies Anywhere syncs *some* of your purchases from *some( of the studios. In my own collection, a b
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Supporting customers is just common sense, both morally and legally. It doesn't have to be magic, just do the
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To be fair to Ballmer, the world has changed a lot in the interim. It's not like today's Microsoft suddenly re
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It's not a question. They are/were scraping, not just linking.
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"what Paul is arguing is that..."
Everything after that is wrong. I'm not arguing that and don't care in the
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Why's that? Prime Video does work.
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In reply to Prebengh:It's what I said it is: A way forward. They could have just left it to rot.
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In reply to panjjj:Sure, I didn't mean it was the only player. Just the market leader. But none of those
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I never commented on the quality, I'm sure it was great. But it still failed, which is what happened and what
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If anything, we should be celebrating that Harman Kardon provided a way forward for the otherwise abandoned In
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Your guess is as good as mine. But I bet we get an announcement about beta access on Windows, web, and iOS ver
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Right now I'm not using any live TV service. I go in and out of YouTube TV for sports. But nothing for now, pr
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Paint 3D is crap, yes.
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Speaking of bias and agenda...
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The delta between Google's tracking, ads, and content theft and Microsoft's "telemetry crap" makes the Grand C
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A Microsoft employee/friend once described a brush up between Dell and Microsoft and then ended it with "these
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It can't. That's just a typo.
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Sure, but I feel like both of these products will/did very early exhibit some sense of whether they can/will b
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More like whathappenedism and now letsfixitism.
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What.
Microsoft is not telling itself anything, it's a company. Microsoft is competing with a company that si
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You're minimizing or not understanding the support requirements to Microsoft, hardware makers, and others with
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OK. Well, who knows or cares what U.S. Cellular covers. :) It's just part of the puzzle. Seamless networking s
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I get it. But this is only new on the Mac. Edge updates perfectly well elsewhere.
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You will find that the smart TV app versions are not as good as those on other platforms, are not updated as m
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What does that even mean? "Microsoft" is not a person with "likes."
If this is some reference to the late 199
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Oh for sure. Windows is a mess. I can only hope at this point.
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Many would argue that these things don't qualify as crapware, but Macs are LOADED with Apple applications that
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LOL. Yeah, "good." The Apple blogs are there to serve your fair and balanced Apple reporting needs.
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Yeah, I think so as well.
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Yeah, you should definitely optimize a device you use every day for that brief time when it's transitioning be
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Why does Apple even need to be in the content business? This is high-risk, high-cost, and mostly low reward.
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The iPhone 12 *Mini*, not the iPhone 12 overall. Duh?
No, no question mark. Just "duh."
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I can't counter this. :)
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I'm expecting an announcement on that soon.
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I wonder if Bethesda had some previous deal that prevents that for now.
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This brings back a vague WinAmp memory for some reason.
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Well. If you'd suffered from using Microsoft AutoUpdate (or whatever this POS is called), you would actually e
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Still sore about this, huh? :)
Guys, it's been a year. They worked it out.
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"Size matters not" -- Yoda.
"Until you turn middle-aged and just need to see the damn thing." -- the real wor
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It will happen. But surely it's no surprise that this isn't a priority at Adobe.
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This is the comments section of a blog, not a court of law, but I feel good about citing facts, sure.
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\checks
An estimated $11 billion in revenues in the most recent quarter. That's why.
What were the revenues
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Thanks, I can handle the semantics. The iPhone 12 Mini is a failure within the context of iPhone sales overall
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This is oddly reminiscent of the Kindle crashing bug caused by whatever version of Windows 10 that was.
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Welcome to my life.
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This is a good example of being all-in vs. not being all-in.
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Huh.
I'm not sure I'm able to profile all 1+ billion iPhone users to a single definition. These things are p
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I'm hoping to do something similar, but maybe in reverse if I'm still on a Pixel: I can use Fi with the eSIM a
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That was a calculated move to show antitrust regulators what happens when you don't follow the gatekeeper's an
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Good stuff, and good luck!
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This is the latest in a long string of stories about the lack of demand for the iPhone Mini. I only wrote abou
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Mint is on T-Mobile. Fi is only a combination of T-Mobile, Sprint (now part of T-Mobile), and U.S. Cellular wi
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Because Microsoft's business customers require it. This was never the case with Edge.
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Please don't confound the Sonos haters with facts. It just makes them confused.
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Your corporate overlords appreciate your defense of their anticompetitive business practices.
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That's the Epic Games image. I assume it's a donkey?
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:) Thanks.
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This is my understanding as well. That said, they've made some curious camera lens choices too.
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Yes. Still in preview.
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Just checking here. You believe that Sprint only covered 10 percent of the United States? LOL.
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Sorry, what's Lenovo's "attitude" about battery life? :)
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Welcome to my world. Stating something clearly and watching those with their own agendas accusing me of the sa
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Much more ... fun? Huh.
I always appreciate when someone reaches into my brain like this to extract some pur
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In reply to Jeff.Bane:Yeah, it's one of those "why did I wait so long" moments.
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In reply to jwpear:It's not horribly inconvenient to just go month to month and give it a shot. If it doe
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In reply to sabarrett:Great. I don't really keep a running tally per se but I was testing 5G speeds for a
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In reply to diamond575:But seriously, I really do like the service, and it's hard to argue with the price
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In reply to diamond575:Woo-hoo! :)
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I used to paste-up the local newspaper using wax, rollers, and paper strips. :)
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We're already in the post-PC world: More people use other types of personal computing devices than PCs, and by
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I love your certainty. But I suspect that Chromebook usage only continues to grow, and that will happen in bus
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Lenovo usually provides reviewers with more data than that, but this time there was nothing.
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In reply to gregsedwards:I think it's just in-process. Should be up sometime today.
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They are. This one is particularly bad, as I wrote.
"Quality is ... OK, but it’s darker and fuzzier than th
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It's great. Why do you think your experience is the norm? Because you see complaints? Everyone experiencing no
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Sorry, I don't control how the site works, so if I remove an offensive comment and that removes replies to tha
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No, not exactly. I always use WD hard drives, mostly because I've never had any issues. I don't even own a USB
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Windows Go is an excellent name.
Bookmark this everyone so we can congratulate him if he's right. :)
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It is. Why do you ask?
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Yes, it should just work normally as a Bluetooth speaker.
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Yep, me too.
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Consumers are not lured by Microsoft. That's part of the reason why this speaker failed.
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Guys. They sold like 100 of these things. What they've done is more than enough.
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Yeah, you've cut right to the heart of our calculated web of lies.
Or maybe your memory is just terrible and
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Yeah, we rescheduled two concerts a few times each last year and finally gave up. (Nothi
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In reply to gmooreiu:Nice, congrats!
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In reply to panjjj:1. Agreed. We might actually visit DC soon even though the museums are closed, but just to
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The biggest lie in politics is getting people to vote against their own interests.
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If you're looking to just dabble in iOS programming, I guess save money and don't worry as much about chipsets
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Fear not, we pay in other ways here.
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I'm curious if more than a dozen people regularly browse the web from a video game console. I suspect this is
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Accurate.
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Not sure about the site's hunger-based activities, but I do delete comments that are personal attacks or off-t
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Xamarin is a hot mess. It's a complete non-starter.
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Well, not exactly. In this case there are three codebases, one that is widely used (desktop) and two (mobile)
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Ah K, I was curious about that. Make sense.
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You'll want 16 GB for developer environments like XCode for sure.
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Based on my experience, I bet the compatibility is really good.
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The HP Envy 15 uses similar rubber feet too and they really stick out.
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Yeah, but that's the situation now. Things change, and as developers get used to targeting more capable Apple
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lol yep
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lol I doubt it. :)
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>It's really a love-hate situation ... mostly hate. :)
Yep. Exactly.
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Yes.
Also, you can see that in the screenshot. :)
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In reply to matsan:Agree with this. Not sure if you need 16 GB of RAM (vs. 8) but I suppose from a future-proo
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Yes, thanks for this.
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Yep, correct. Sorry about that.
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30 degrees is my line.
But we were watching TV inside and heard a noise in the cellar window well, so I veri
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It's not particularly obvious.
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Yep, that's even better.
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Yes, it's still on legacy Edge. I assume that will have to change at some point.
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The point is that virtually everyone I've known throughout my life is on Facebook and it's the only way I can
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In my defense, I usually think about this time difference from the perspective of being IN Europe as I seldom
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Interesting. I think just having to troubleshoot whether the issue is you (meaning the browser you use) is maj
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Yeah, this is the dream with 5G or whatever, the elusive always-on Internet. It definitely is getting better,
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I like it. :)
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So it comes down to trust, basically. Do you trust Microsoft to do the right thing with email? (Rhetorical.)
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Instagram has been on some weird line for me for a while now where I can still tell why I use it but I'm incre
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Thanks ... Enjoyed the (accurate) comparison of Twitter to Mad Magazine. :)
But yeah. Social media has turne
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Ah good.
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Thanks ... I *do* have my Band 2 here somewhere...
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Ublock Origin handles this, I know. Brave and Safari handle it natively.
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Closing this down so I can answer the questions this morning if possible...
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We built our site on WordPress like the rest of the planet. The problem isn't "us," it's that this is how the
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Nice, thanks. Will check that out.
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Nice!
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Seems more logical than cynical. You don't turn your back on 80 percent of your revenues.
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The number of living room set-top boxes out in the world has to be about 100x that of video game consoles.
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I like it. "Free range privacy."
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Really, it's just a branding thing. By my count, there have been over 10 new Windows versions since the first
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It's too bad you have to do that work. I get why certain studios don't want to be part of Movies Anywhere, I g
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We should stop seeing this as an us vs. them thing. Microsoft is embracing every developer technology it can.
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There's no real legacy on mobile. But on desktop platforms, it seems like so-called legacy apps are either all
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lol yep
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iOS support has been there all along and it seems fine. Desktop support is still in pre-beta at this point.
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"All cross-platform frameworks produce mediocre apps."
Woah, woah, woah. Have you looked at any Flutter apps?
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Interesting. That should work, I'd think, via an extension?
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Because it's 2021, not 1999, and Microsoft is a partner in a heterogeneous world of personal computing, not so
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Yes. And they did this with gaming too.
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Is there a person on this earth that wants to move photos in that direction? Kidding, but ... is there? :)
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That original version with RC Bray is literally the best audiobook I've ever listened to.
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Nah, this is the right place to put your photos.
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To be fair, there are over 150,000 Flutter apps published in the two mobile app stores. I'd say Dart has caugh
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"Even" me?
I try to give people good advice. Not Microsoft-skewed advice.
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Do you mean while using Microsoft Edge? The banner does disappear.
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Sure. But the previous NUC was perfect. It just got killed by lightning.
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Well. Windows Live Mesh was one of Microsoft's pre-OneDrive cloud storage services. But it didn't turn directl
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That's what Lenovo says.
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Agreed. I feel like that should have kept going.
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No, the last paragraph brings this story home to Microsoft users, who have reasonably been wondering for years
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What's different is that it supports non-Apple devices, for starters. Huge difference, really.
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"I have mixed feelings about this."
Pardon the pun!
\rimshot
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Microsoft needs to learn that it does not have to satisfy every single need of every single user. That's exact
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In another example of how this was classic Microsoft, you can imagine the debate: Look, if we don't say anythi
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Things change, for starters. I would also not take anything that anyone marketing something says literally.
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Talking about the next Windows, apparently.
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Yep. Even more absurd is how Microsoft will refer to each version by *multiple* names. Guys, seriously.
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When the keynote started, I complained on Twitter that there were distracting emojis "responses" (hearts, clap
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No, that reasoning should have been clear several years ago.
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He says it about things that are not very interesting, so it's kind of worn thin at this point.
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It's not just you. It's getting tired.
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I love how every time a company tries to sell something to customers, it's a "cash grab." This is the reason c
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes, but that's something we do need.
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In reply to MikeGalos:Yeah, I don't expect any Windows news there.
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It's about time we paid for high-quality content. This will happen everywhere.
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HOW DARE YOU!
Oh I see. :)
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Yep. They also need a web interface for managing passwords etc.
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Yeah, I do hope someone can learn from my mistakes and mishaps at the least. I wish I could say they were purp
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Yes, but thanks. You'd think this would solve all problems.
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Yeah, I do walk and go to the gym most days. And yeah, it's pretty rote in that it's the same thing(s) over an
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Hm. It'd be nice if there was a solution to this. Though the NUC 10 never had this issue.
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Yeah, this is why I say that technology is more like magic than science. It should
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In reply to SRRLX1986:Yep. I definitely need to get the heck out of here.
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In reply to MikeH:Yep. Definitely have my eye on the new generation NUCs, which should be publicly available s
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Is this the opening paragraph of the next Stephen King book? :)
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I'm guessing cost is the reason. And that 16:10 will become much more common over the next few years.
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When I look at Messages in the Play Store, it says "This app is available for some of your devices," not "all
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Yes. And your horse is showing. :)
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Why do we need to make up artificial excuses for iPhone having a terrific year? It was just the right time for
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Yes and yes.
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If he wins that bet, he can use that money to buy another one!
Wait.
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Perfect, thanks!
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Well, Microsoft didn't remove Edge, it upgraded it. IE is EOL from a features perspective, but yeah, it's part
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Nice!
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Why? :)
More to the point, everyone should just use what works for them.
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Um. We covered it here as well. I have no idea why this thread even exists.
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/c
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I don't think you understand how irony works, but regardless, this is the first major Xbox outage in almost a
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We all need to remember that everyone has different needs. And that not everyone agrees with everything you th
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No, it's not advertising.
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This has been asked and answered too many times already.
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Why not just expect a powerful console to be able to do both?
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Math is my nemesis.
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Yeah, just last night, I played two albums sides back-to-back and could really see a huge difference. One was
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Yep, that makes sense. I think the sheer amount of usage also adds a bit of performance creep, and while reset
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I had the 20th Century Fox version. But it's long gone: My record collection was sold to a collector in the 19
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I feel like this was a several-years-long problem in Windows 10. But I've not experienced it in a while.
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Facebook agreed to pay as well. Also, the law passed.
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Yep. You can really tell the difference between recent vinyl and the stuff I grew up. The old albums seem oddl
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Hysteria is also an amazing recording, quality-wise. I should have mentioned this somewhere, but in addition t
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Full HD is 1920 x 1080, yes.
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lol yes, I always see Google through the lens of its altruism.
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Literally none of this is bloatware.
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Yeah, I'm well aware of what MA drivers are like. I grew up there and lived there most of my life.
The driver
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Obviously, I can separate my needs as a user from my needs as a reviewer. I would not hold on to any phone for
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The latter. But hasn't Samsung agreed to at least three years of OS updates? Will need to look that up.
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They're cumulative updates, so they will be rolled into Windows.
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In reply to bschnatt:For the millionth time, this is not my fault. My camera(s) work fine.
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In reply to DanO:Sounds good to me!
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In reply to gregsedwards:It's not the webcam, it works fine everywhere else. Plus, I've tried severa
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This is a step in the right direction.
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Pyromania is great. But it's not quite Hysteria great. :) Honestly, those are some of the best 1-2 punches in
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That 385.25 figure is the total number of smartphones sold in the quarter. I made a small addition to the sent
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God, imagine being stuck with the same phone for 5-6 years.
\shudders
Also \kidding not kidding
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I think the definition of what's old is moving upwards. :)
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Yeah, I do.
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lol
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Yep. I hate shopping, usually fade out within 30 minutes, but even I've had to go to a store once or twice thi
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Yep. We had just gotten to the point where my wife would come along on work trips and we could spend a few day
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This past year has been horrible all around, for sure, and for older and retired people in particular, I bet.
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In reply to tony_ansley:Agreed!
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In reply to eeisner:Thanks ... Honestly, I could see my generation backing away from technology as well. :)
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In reply to jwpear:No song skipping, just listen to one half of the album.
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In reply to LT1 Z51:I wonder if the LP format of the time contributed to the song listings. I guess it must ha
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I want to pick up some Pink Floyd on vinyl, for sure.
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It's something on Brad's end. My video is fine.
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Just with Amazon Music HD. Honestly, I never found it to be very different.
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I use a Pixel 4a 5G.
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That's explicitly not true, since Google has already assured regulators in the US and EU that will never
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But none of the first-party password managers are exclusive to that platform or browser.
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At the time, the thinking was that Premium comments would typically be fewer but of higher quality. But our ex
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The Pixels surprassed the 950 XL years ago. So did the iPhone, Huawei, and Samsung flagships.
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Closing this down now.... Thanks!
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I feel like this market is evolving to resemble that for anti-virus/anti-malware, where the platform (in this
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It is a company. There's no gambit, there's no conspiracy. They provide a service and they want to be paid for
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This kind of mistake is at least innocuous: You can change the view filter and see your content. And you can n
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I'm seeing the same thing. There's a glitch in the Matrix!
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We didn't go on the rollercoaster, which at the time at least moved slowly but hangs over the edge. I don't re
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No.
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:lol yes
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In reply to christianwilson:Re: Short Takes/Ask Paul, that's just about what I was thinking as well, than
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The dictator appreciates your blind support.
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I guess the point is that this feature shouldn't require a completely new version of Windows.
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That's still not true. The XPS 13 is specifically aimed at people who value thin/light/portable over legacy po
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lol
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Ah good. I wasn't even aware of that.
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I am surprised that Apple, in particular, has not gone HD/lossless with Apple Music. Amazon offers an HD music
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Yes! Thanks. :)
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In reply to slerched:No, this is all very fair. Honestly, vinyl doesn't make sense for most people. I
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Not that I'm aware of. The site search does include forums. I will push this Q to the team and see if we
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In reply to CharlesWallace:Kate Bush, Eat the Music. :)
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In reply to sevenacids:I don't generally recommend vinyl either, but we have our reasons. Will get to tha
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In reply to delorean:No, the Star Wars album was black (and was a double album). Regarding that Star Wars sing
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In reply to jwpear:Hysteria is absolutely a perfect album.
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In reply to gregsedwards:Ah man, should have mentioned Columbia House. I was in the tape club in the 80s and l
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In reply to eeisner:Thanks ... Expensive is relative. I was basically still a kid. I remember when a friend go
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There you go.
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In many cases, it seems it only does internal testing.
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I don't think it's funny. I think it's a great example of how Apple's platform limits choice compared to the P
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Bingo.
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Also, it's in a class all of its own!
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All that is, is overt and malicious bias. I don't like it.
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Exactly right.
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Before the iPhone, the smartphone market was approximately 1/10,000th the size it is now.
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I find it hard to believe that there are any important or popular mobile apps that aren't in the iOS App Store
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This is like wondering how the little guy will be impacted when the Empire is defeated in Return of the Jedi.
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I quote Major League all the time, especially the Uecker stuff. "JUST a bit to the outside!", "A juvenile deli
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Or a President's Day sale.
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The entire point of the PC industry is choice/diversity. So yes, you can of course find some ultra-thin PC mod
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Well, for starters, Google silently stopped promoting Australian-based news sources when this started so that
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Nope. There aren't always two valid sides to every story.
It is a business reality that LastPass can't keep
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You're kind of proving my point. But whatever, a dead link is not malicious. It's a mistake. It's also not per
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I feel reasonably qualified to state that Windows has never offered a consistent experience, visual or otherwi
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Always.
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lol yep
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If only customers had been asking for just that for years. :)
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In reply to lwetzel:We had 6 feet of snow on the ground in early 2015, and that was when I started thinking ab
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If that's true, then it would be even better with Chrome OS on it, since you can also run Android and Linux ap
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Because no one who uses a Chromebook needs more than that? Everything you work on is in the cloud.
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Chromebooks dominate in education. They outsold the Mac in 2020, when 1 in every 10 computers sold were Chrome
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The first generation version started at $999.
But it sounds like you'd pass at any price.
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I haven't tried that, no.
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This is the correct response to this news.
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They have been.
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Seems to be. :)
Is.
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No, sorry.
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Yep, thanks for the heads-up. I never noticed.
But seriously. It's not my fault. So ... oh well.
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You're missing how entitled people feel to get everything for free.
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Looked at from the other side, I suspect those that create things are getting fed up with the "everything we m
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Yeah, I think there is some combination of switch and cable in there that's not right.
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Right. Almost certainly a mix, mostly Cat 5.
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>The reality is his testing is very much based on a P.C. Based ecosystem and really isn’t doesn’t represen
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I'll write more about this soon, but Intel contacted me (and others) to gauge interest in comparative reviews.
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Having owned and used all of that, I'm sure it does sound great.
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Yep.
I could see not using Sonos for the TV for sure.
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Thanks. Yeah, it's impressive what they've done here for sure.
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Thanks ... Yeah, the M1-based Macs are clearly on par with modern Windows PCs in a variety of ways (performanc
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Literally the definition of schadenfreud.
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No, not really. It may have to come down to running some sort of benchmark/test or whatever. But the battery l
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Yeah, I may do that. This is an impressive accessory.
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Regarding switches ... yeah, that could be it.
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I don't have an Intel-based Mac here to compare it to. But that's a reasonable assumption.
That said, in thi
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The other 7.7 billion people in the world you don't know? :)
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You forgot to add the words "in my opinion" to the first three sentences.
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I was positive I had a shot of that, but I can't find it. I'll need to connect it all back to find out, sorry.
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Sure. But I can also only test what I have here in-house. It's no surprise that things will improve in the fut
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The patience, or lack thereof, will come when I read the comments. :) These articles, no matter how even-hande
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So from the Apple Watch's perspective, you are its slave. Got it. :)
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My point is only that the Apple Watch is not the runaway best choice for everyone. We all have different needs
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Whether I see it or not, it's just a single anecdotal example.
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Microsoft has a live Rust event happening this week.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uAsA1hm52I&ab_channe
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Name an Apple Watch that gets 6 days of battery life.
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>you're wont to point out that PCs are almost irrelevant to most consumers although mission-critical for busin
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This kind of thing is maddening.
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These numbers are available every quarter. The Mac was less than 8 percent of all PCs sold last year, and Chro
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So, that is absolutely not true. People do have a choice. And they choose PCs 85 percent of the time, not Macs
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Thanks!
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Because not everyone will be working from home forever?
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There is also the Show Desktop sliver to the right of the Action Center button. Click that.
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Businesses aren't looking for progress, they're looking for compatibility. And Microsoft delivers it.
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They're talking about total number of actual subscribers, regardless of how they're subscribed. Not since-dele
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This sounds like something a random app update will fix.
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Honestly, doing so could only help.
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lol
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Thank you for the psychological profiling. Always fascinating. /s
Reviews are opinions. Opinions are formed
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Yes, that's it.
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Appreciated, thanks.
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It's a room in which three of the four walls are basically windows, and there are no shades, so it lets in a l
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I don't do this, but you can control Sonos with Alexa or Google Assistant as well.
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Hard-hitting journalism there.
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Well, for starters I'm not sure I agree it offers better any of that. I think that because it's a first-genera
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Nice... Have been thinking about mounting Play Ones (or more likely those IKEAs) as rear speakers in the livin
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That's another part of this: I don't know that we would have made half of these upgrades if we hadn't just spe
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Yeah, it's fair to say I wouldn't have gone in this direction without some prodding from the person who usuall
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This is exactly like the console vs. gaming PC debate. Some people just prefer things that work every time and
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I like the Nest Audio. But they need a new big speaker, home theater equipment (soundbar, sub, etc.) and more
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I feel like making that point has been my life's work, yes.
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In reply to Interloper:Yep. Right there with you.
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I can't even. For the love of God.
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In reply to helix2301:Yeah, that was the first Windows Phone book. I had two other book authors contact me to
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So one crime justifies the other? :)
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The Razer at $1199 is likewise comparable, specs-wise, to the MacBook Pro at $1299.
Overall, they're compara
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Sure. These are premium PCs.
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I'm not sure what to say about direction since Intel literally provided no direction. And it's not advertising
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Sorry, "advocating"?
I got into this business to support the mainstream, not the fringes. 25 years later, tha
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Computers aren't investments, they're tools. I think the more important concern is length of viable service. N
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Stay tuned. ;)
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The 8 GB configuration of the Razer is less expensive than the Mac. The 16 GB configuration is more expensive.
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We don't really have a rule that explicitly covers this type of thing. I'll ask the team this week,
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Still legacy Edge on Xbox.
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It also limits the audience and thus the analysis, which I assume is on purpose.
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In reply to sevenacids:All they're doing is swapping something that comes with WIndows with something new
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Feature? It's not Chromium compatible and Mozilla/Firefox is dying as we speak.
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That meeting was Friday afternoon.
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Hm. I'm not sure if that's the plan, to be honest.
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The logistics of getting guests on the show are too complicated for us to do it even a few times a year let al
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The advertising and tracking overlords at Google commend you for your support.
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No, but I can look into that.
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Are you a spy or a high-placed government official? :) Why do you do this?
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This is probably the worst time ever to move to Firefox, which is a downgrade. :)
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Put another way, successful companies keep doing what works while unsuccessful companies need to change the wa
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"So many Chromebooks are a grudge purchase. People hate them. Really really hate them."
Please, guys. Come on
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Suspect that's not true every quarter or year-over-year. The holiday quarter is always kind of an outlier. At
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I just don't get even noticing or worrying about this. Today's Microsoft has matured to be more agnostic. We s
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"Google has killed every product I’ve ever liked"
This seems unlikely. The top Google services I use/like a
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Because Safari has a built-in market of 1.5 billion potential users across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and Firefox
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Yes, thanks!
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Wow. I feel like you're doing something wrong because buying anything on Amazon couldn't be quicker or easier.
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lol ok but the rest of the world thinks Microsoft is the better brand. :)
More seriously, but no less truthfu
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It was exactly the same: 81 percent.
https://www.thurrott.com/google/229295/alphabet-reports-fourth-quarter-e
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Right. Cook is the reason everything is made in China. That's ... quite the legacy, when you think about it.
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It's amazing to me that this is still so unpredictable in 2021.
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This is my descent into middle agedness.
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Hm. I feel like I should know who that SQL guy was. Steve ... something? This seems familiar.
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I suspect what's going to happen is that CloudReady moves to official Chrome OS since Google will own it.
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What else would mobile screenshots be on?
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Ah, cool.
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Huh. I recall reviewing it very recently and liking Stadia a lot. Also, Stadia is a free service.
https://ww
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Because Microsoft is a better brand than Office. This is just one of many examples of Microsoft products and s
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They wasted so much time pretending that Mail, in particular, was great and an example of what UWP could do in
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Sigh.
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Well. They certainly have a decade-plus of experience in videogame hardware. I think this speaks mostly to the
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Oftentimes I'll put BS is quotes so people don't think that came out of my mind. :)
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It's a solution to put Chromium OS on old PCs. Google bought its maker, so it will soon be the official Chrome
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I believe they're positioning it so that any of the Lens solutions are equal, so no. If you're using it somewh
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No, no. We can debate anything, of course.
But there are about one billion people who disagree with you on t
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No one is catching up to Apple in this regard. If Lenovo and HP can't do it, and they can't, Microsoft isn't e
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In reply to simont:This might be it:https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/163197-how-to-select-different-ver
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They could do that. I suspect they're incented not to, so that this can be another selling point for M1-based
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Given that most people spend most of their time in a web browser, Windows and the Mac are "just" browsers too.
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Sorry, what did you tell us? :)
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"Given that ARM runs faster than Intel already"
That is not a given btw.
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All I can communicate is my own preferences. And I do not prefer large touchpads.
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I still find Apple's very vague and unattributable M1 claims to be odd, yes.
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What now.
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In reply to shameer_mulji:Ah K, thanks!
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No, it's not a change of stance. Apple changed the Watch. When this thing first came out, it was a waste of ti
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I am astonished and dismayed that you believe that I should somehow dictate what tools my daughter, an intelli
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Guys. Enough.
Let's make this about the topic, not about an individual you disagree with.
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Your definition is wrong, so sure.
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This might be the most insightful and correct comment I've read all day.
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And you never will.
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Maybe the magic of Apple is that they look at computing devices as being more than just a calculator :)
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I suspect that's mostly the case. But as an integrated Windows feature, I bet there were other constraints too
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Sure. But blindly accepting that Apple marketing is the truth is probably more dangerous and dumb than questio
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Review? What review?
The only Apple Apple Watch I reviewed was the first one, several years ago, and that dev
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Or, why do Microsoft and Apple have to have comparable products?
There is overlap, of course. Macs and Surfac
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It's not larger than the MacBook touchpads. It's not even close.
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Um.
It's more profitable as a percentage, but that's makes sense because most of Microsoft's products are sof
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You're not old school, you're just misinformed. Browser tabs can do all kinds of things that aren't just about
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It's not an obsession, for starters. :)
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Yes, but that's like asking whether the United States was once at war with Japan. Yes. But that is ancient his
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It's not a flop. It's a $2 billion business. :)
But it's also not a particularly big business compared to the
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It's not.
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That's kind of a weird question.
But think of it this way: Teams is part of Microsoft 365, which is part of
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Right. This where Apple kills Microsoft, in engagement. The Windows 10 user base is big, but it's not actively
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Or a mistake. I don't think iPad is designed to lie. :)
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They were both equally important.
Short term, that investment kept Apple out of bankruptcy. And long-term, M
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I'm not sure what my stance "was" on Apple Watch. But I've always been interested and the addition of Fitness+
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I found it odd that this was presented without attribution or explanation as well.
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Legacy Edge was only updated when Microsoft released a new version of Windows, so twice per year. New Edge is
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PWAs are real applications that really work across multiple platforms, really adapt to the unique capabilities
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Are you advancing the conversation or ... what is the point of this comment?
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https://www.thurrott.com/apple/246754/apple-by-the-numbers
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Which they're not. You have to buy them separately.
The sale price noted onscreen is roughly correct for all
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There's no problem with Microsoft advertising its products. And a head-to-head comparison can be either brave,
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Literally mentioned in the article.
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No, PWAs can have major advantages over normal webpages, including integrating with the underlying platform by
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PWAs have specific technical requirements and then a set of optional capabilities.
But Edge (like Chrome, etc
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No, I didn't. I mentioned that the touchpad was rather large relative to the small wrist area on the keyboard
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I feel like there are benefits one could focus on here that would be more honest.
Even the pricing thing is
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You hope to see more lies? Hm. OK.
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To be fair, no one should be relying on benchmarks, ever.
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Um. Web apps are apps. They can be great, bad, or indifferent, but them being web apps doesn't preordain them
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Well, the entire PC market is competing with the Mac.
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Why? This is a nicely modern PC.
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Yes, basically.
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Yep. So many smart people. So many dumb decisions.
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That's true, they're not in the same league at all.
As a business, the Mac is over 5x as big as Surface from
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Now you believe that iPads are "gathering dust"? Come on.
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Yep. Some of this is just indefensible.
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That is not true.
And I gotta say, I'm not particularly excited when people come into a post about a topic t
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Maybe instead of believing in absolutes, we can simply believe that one is the better option for some and the
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The Mac's marketshare rose in 2020.
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Better that the bug scene in the same movie :)
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They're open to the honesty, which is a big part of why I'm doing this. They understand that the M1 is an acco
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Yep.
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The way this works is, having a touchscreen doesn't hurt you if you think you don't need it. But most are surp
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In reply to drjohnnyray:Thanks ... not sure it's the machine per se ;)
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In reply to lvthunder:Yeah, I think a year of no travel/going away has had a negative effect.Sorry about the c
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In reply to goldsworp:No, but thanks. I will check that out.
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:Thanks ... I do have severe sleep apnea, and I already sleep with a CPAP.
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Sigh.
Guys, please. Job one here is to be reasonable with each other. This isn't a place for personal attacks
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Dear God.
As noted elsewhere, I've been reviewing hardware for over 20 years. Review units are not gifts, the
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Thanks for the accusation. It's always nice to wake up to a character attack.
Look, I've been reviewing hardw
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It's that I am aware of the gestures. On both platforms.
Also, I absolutely do use Windows a lot more than th
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I am well aware of the touchpad gestures, thanks.
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As it should.
Taller aspect ratios change the resolution, of course. I suppose that this is technically Full
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What does it mean to deal with GoDaddy?
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This is not true. There are many PCs with excellent battery life, and I've never once thought that any MacBook
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I use over 15 different laptops every year, and there's no need for this thing to be so large. I'm sure palm r
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Appreciated, thanks!
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Yes. People really do wonder why Sony does so well. :)
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Ha! I will allow it.
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Thank you. That is exactly right, and one of the worst things about this era is how everything is made to be n
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Yes, I've had that there as well. Lyon is such a home of rich foods that steak tartare is the light option.
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In reply to Phil_Adcock:I don't have any issues with GoDaddy, fwiw. I had to look to see if my Outlook.co
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In reply to Markld:Being decent isn't political, or it shouldn't be. Look, I would never push a libe
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In reply to dallasnorth40:sorry :)
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In reply to bschnatt:It never hurts to experiment. :)
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Closing this down so I can try to answer the questions today...
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone.I should address some of the common questions that maybe I should have ant
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Sure. Given that this is still new to me/us, I'm still working through it.
There will be at least one new ver
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There's a revision history in the book.
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It's not happening in the stable version this month.
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Interesting, thanks!
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I'm a big fan of technology making me do all the work. :)
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I think the same thing every time I see that name.
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In reply to MattHewitt:Thanks! :)
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One of the strengths of Windows, or any true desktop platform, is its versatility. I can keep files wherever I
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Win32 has to be present, it's Windows. This thing doesn't boot on a Linux kernel or whatever.
Mary Jo says th
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They tried and failed. Office is not moving to UWP.
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No, this system makes sense (assuming it works). A 4 GB PC/device would run Windows 10X well, and it would str
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To be fair, I'm pretty sure the pandemic punched a big hole in their schedule for creating new content for muc
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They can GET expensive, but $329 is a great price for a 10.2-inch mainstream iPad.
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The only thing I care about is Date Taken. And that can be adjusted, and in bulk, right from File Explorer.
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We really enjoy Servant. For All Mankind is fantastic.
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Sounds like the original description of Windows. :)
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We spend a considerable amount of time watching Netflix, almost exclusively because of its excellent series an
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It doesn't run any desktop apps. No Teams, no desktop Office. Core Office mobile apps, which are outdated---Wo
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No, UWP isn't capable of that.
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Yes, Paint3D does work.
(You can only save locally to Downloads, of course.)
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Given the choice, I'd like to have file system access for a variety of reasons, including putting documents an
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Definitely a possibility.
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I can't say, it's in a VM. Based on what I see, I suspect it will be much faster/lighter/small than mainstream
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There are already crappy $200-$300 PCs for education. I assume the goal is to hold the line on price but provi
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That's not always true. $999 for a MacBook Air is the right price given what it competes with. I think the rig
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He's an engineer not a marketer/businessman, for starters. So maybe he starts making good engineering decision
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Yeah, the Edge thing is ... interesting. If Edge can run, why not Notepad?
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Yes, I think it's important when you're exercising to start that exercise in the laziest possible way. :)
On
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I assume they meant beat Apple in processors. :) What else would he mean?
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Teams started out simple too. Or the Settings app in Windows 10. Eventually, you make these things more sophis
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I feel like I do get it.
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lol yes. It's going to be a huge success!
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There is a way to edit the date formats, but nothing for numbers or currency.
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Right. That's a system capability built-in to Chrome OS (and it's how SMB-type networking works). There's noth
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It's doing both. This exists because it serves a different need than traditional (or ARM) Windows 10. We'll se
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No. All of the included apps are shown here.
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The core Office Mobile apps (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) *do* work (or, at least install correctly). But ...
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We can only speculate, but I assume that's one point of stripping away the Win32 stuff: Lower system resources
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Said the man who gave us a tiny, round, unusable mouse with the first iMac a few years later.
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No, it won't work on this device.
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No.
And there's no option in Settings for choosing where to look for music.
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You get a UWP File Picker. It only lets you access the Downloads folder locally: There are links to Documents,
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It works normally.
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The only taskbar option is size: Small, medium (default), and large.
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In Settings?
Settings > Time & Language > Region
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This doesn't even break the top 1000 of things that need to be fixed here. :)
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"macOS is by far the best operating system..."
Please. Look, we all have preferences, and needs, and whatever
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To display another running app, the one that is "below" it in the task switcher. It's a minimize button, not a
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Language use here is interesting. How is Chrome OS not "an intentionally dumbed-down version of snap and split
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You can't install anything like that. Dropbox is a desktop application.
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I don't see that remark as disparaging. It's true: Apple IS a lifestyle company.
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In reply to PhilipVasta:Yeah. I feel like the name implies something that either isn't obvious or just is
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In reply to crunchyfrog:There are no networking capabilities like that.
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In reply to Bart:How about windowing? Full-screen only is so limited. Even Chrome OS supports that.
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In reply to illuminated:No, that's fair.
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Yeah, it was terrible in 1989. :)
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This is more market-related than economics, though I guess it drives both. There's no market reward for "flat.
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It's not. It's a huge improvement.
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That Windows is too complex compared to modern mobile platforms, and that most good PCs are too expensive. Rig
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Keyboard/mouse work with both. I'm not sure if it's game to game or whatever.
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I don't like the full-screen requirement. Playing Devil's Advocate, perhaps it's related to the focus on web a
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There's nothing there, so it does nothing.
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Fitbit is not profitable, no.
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:)
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I feel like it should be able to do that, but I can't figure out how. WINKEY + E brings up the new Files app,
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Interesting, thanks. I was/am aware of this app, but haven't looked at it in a long time.
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We can joke about it, but this is real. And for many commercial entities---not just businesses, but government
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What are you talking about? That happens all day long every single day. It is literally Google's business mode
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Tiles aren't about looks, they're about functionality. And they make sense on smartphones, where you pick them
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The hardware matters too. If this only ships on cheap education market crap, then ...whatever.
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:)
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I would just never remember to do that.
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It just doesn't seem necessary.
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It's literally called Windows 10X. :)
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If you go to Settings > Reset & recovery, there is a single Reset this device option, which launches a very si
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That has to be the plan, but they're not included in this image and will not install from the web.
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It offers no Google tracking, longer support, and Microsoft Store app compatibility. In the future, it will of
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In reply to haghighat:According to what we've heard, it will not be included in Windows 10X in this initi
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Don't get an i3. The big thing is dual-core vs. quad-core.Remember that Surface Pro and bundles are on sa
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:)
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There are such things, but nothing directly from AMD. Agree that would be interesting.
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Last year, Apple was 6.8 percent (or whatever). 2022 was an increase.
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That's the open-minded approach we try to preach here!
Wait.
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I mean, that's why they're companies. To make money.
My retirement fund had its best year ever last year. Tha
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Generally, Chromebook benefits from both, more from the former than the latter. But Q3 is the back-to-school q
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That would have been called Surface Pro 8. I think they're pushing back the refresh to the next year.
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$899 for the base version was all I got.
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This is one of those things where many (including me) would say, "yeah, probably for most people," but would n
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Dear God.
Impartial? I'm not impartial. I've been reviewing tech hardware for over 20 years. I very much have
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The Elite Folio is WOA, yes.
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I didn't get into this but Microsoft's announcement (which also includes Surface Hub 2S 85, another waste of t
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Yes, and thanks. And shouldn't this be obvious?
Turning everything into an us vs. them thing is literally wh
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Apple provides review units to trusted reviewers, and yes, there is an implication there. I used to get review
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Hours I could understand. Over a day and a half to sync is ... broken. Granted, it's x64 code and involves som
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The reason Microsoft stopped using year names (mostly) was that it makes the products seem old quickly. If you
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Guys. Geeze.
When I complain about personal attacks, I don't just mean against me. Please, let's be civil.
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There's no combination of factors that would get me to switch to a Mac. I really don't like macOS. But that do
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Hey, we got you to take the time to comment on it!
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It kind of reminds me of Mercedes and BMW car lines.
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I suspect it's mostly related to Q3 being the back-to-school quarter.
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I wouldn't wait for a drive-up either. :) But there's something about getting food from outside the house that
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I was just going over the "Install Windows 10" chapter of the book and thinking about this. I believe it'
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In reply to Georgecoll:Book it!
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In reply to jshoq:lol
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In reply to BeckoningEagle::)
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Um. It *is* discoverable.Open the Start menu and type "reset."Discovered.
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I am deeply bothered by the personal attacks and commentary that this article has triggered. This is not a sta
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You don't understand why a portable PC would be different from a desktop PC? Really.
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Guys. I wrote about the important stuff first. This is just tacked on because it was my final experience using
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That is a nonsensical complaint. Microsoft is the standard for productivity apps, including, yes, on the Mac.
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I'm right here guys.
I already described why I bought the Mac Mini. I will let you find that for the full rea
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Not true.
Apple has a support page that describes using this environment when you're selling your Mac:
https
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It should never have been this bad for so long.
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In reply to madthinus:There's a lot more demand for Surface products from businesses and this is a minor
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In reply to Prebengh:Yes, and also like there is in iOS/iPadOS. So much for that virtuous cycle.
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In reply to nbplopes:It's almost like you didn't read what I wrote. I noted that it wasn't comm
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In reply to brzilian:Thanks. I know you can remap the keys. It just became obvious pretty quickly than a deskt
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In reply to Winner:I didn't originally intend to return it, no. I got this because it was the least expen
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Sure. That's been true for years.
But there are still use cases for virtualization as noted in this post.
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Let's just say that I don't expect to ever write that headline. :)
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Closing this down so I can try to answer the questions this afternoon. Thanks!
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I mean, the controllers could still come with a rechargeable battery pack. :)
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:)
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:)
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This is the historic problem with Windows, really, that it has to serve such disparate user types. What's need
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Neither of us has an eidetic memory, but I think the reason we work well as a team is that we've been living t
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I assume it's obvious that Android, a mobile OS primarily used on phones, and Windows, a desktop OS used only
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Maybe be a bit less closed-minded and overly-dramatic.
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The primary use case for Parallels on Mac is Windows. And by Windows, I mean "real" Windows, not WOA. WOA does
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I got the crash when I tried to use the Store previously as well. Will look into this today. I wonder if it's
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I'm sure that's what it is.
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I don't think it's fair to blame any one company. This is on both parties: The hardware needs to be adapted to
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Yep. I was an INTV kid growing up but the new console is curiously sterile to me.
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I do. I paid for it on Windows. I paid for Elements previously on the Mac.
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https://www.thurrott.com/forums/premium/paul/thread/join-us-for-our-live-ama-on-december-29th-at-7pm-et
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This is the first time this has ever happened.
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Google's apps have been updating this week on Android. Gboard, Google Translate, Android System, Google Drive,
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Plus, this is Microsoft. They'll never really kill the classic client.
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Yeah, it feels old-fashioned. THere are several things like this that are just better, faster, and/or more eff
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Nice! I was just looking into that, go figure.
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I think that's where I did get it.
It started working sometime after 36 hours later.
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Nice, thanks for this.
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Both companies are very much focused on privacy, but Apple markets it to consumers. The big thing on the Windo
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Actually, I think Teams is what makes the simplification of Outlook possible. They can leave out crap that is
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Cluttering up the Windows UI with unnecessary crap is ... long noverdue? Someone didn't get the memo.
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He's working on it.
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Neither. Also, this kind of us vs. them mentality is what's wrong with the world, so get with the program.
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Pretty sure the bots didn't rise up independently and do this themselves. :)
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It's the part we need to scrape off our shoes.
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Sorry. A ... political agenda?
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In reply to TheJoeFin:There won't be anything like that. :)
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Um, yeah.This is How Apple Will Transition Macs to its A-Series Chips (Premium)This is from over two years ago
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Not sure about most, but it was noticed by me:
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/244997/hands-on-wi
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I can't check the version. It just beach balls when I go near it.
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I always do it during Setup. I don't see any reason not to.
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Yes, will do.
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This has come up a few times recently, but I literally haven't run into that issue in years.
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It may have to do with the Mini's use in render farms where it will be going all out all the time and would ne
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Long enough to know that they are not waiting on this one hire to start this project?
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Yeah, I have extreme sleep apnea and use a CPAP. I don't get the miracle benefits that most people do.
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Yeah, I may expand on that at some point. Let me see how it goes.
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Pretty sure it's the camera :)
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Not yet, but there will be soon.
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Maybe now they can. The Intel versions used Y-series processors, and the previous generation didn't cool it pr
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Nice!
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Nadella didn't "let" Windows phone die. Windows phone died of natural causes, Nadella just pulled the plug.
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In reply to kevinbouwman:I like it!
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Yeah, I do use OneDrive for personal files as well, and for photos and home videos.
I don't use OneDrive's a
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This is very specifically about documents/work files. I was thinking that photos and videos might require a di
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In reply to sentinel6671:Yes. I don't put source code I'm actively working on in OneDrive. But I als
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In reply to Harrymyhre:?
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In reply to madthinus:Yeah, actually. It's much better than the previous game.
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Sure. But complaints can be warranted, too, no one is above it.
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Dear God.
Please. It's 2021. Let's make basic decency a thing again.
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No worries.
2020 was frustrating for many things but from the perspective of this site, the big one for me in
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I had expected this to happen already, but we will be making all of the Premium newsletters available via the
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No worries at all. I can't keep track of what we publish, I don't see how anyone else can. :) I always have to
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No. :) Sorry.
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Sigh. It kills me that people not only think like this but feel the need to berate me/us for it.
Look, I was
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:)
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In reply to TomKer:Please email [email protected] if https://www.thurrott.com/resubscribe is not working for y
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I prefer to sign-in explicitly, not just when I pass in front of a computer.
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Yeah, he had it out recently.
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Yes, thanks. It's impossible to keep this glossy thing free of dust, and my cats also have destroyed the furni
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I did do so, thanks!
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It's kind of a size/shape thing, but the key for me, and what sold me on this particular bag, is the depth. To
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Yes, we already have two of those in the kitchen.
https://www.thurrott.com/music-videos/sonos/228429/rethinkin
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Hm. The way I would put it is, "Paul does not use Windows Hello facial recognition." I don't have anything aga
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Thanks! To you as well.
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Microsoft pretty much planned for this situation. Xbox as a platform is more than just the console.
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The iPhone 12 Pro includes a USB-C to Lightning cable that will not work with my kids' chargers. And the cable
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Thank you so much. To you as well!
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In reply to franklyray:Hm... No :)
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In reply to christianwilson:I was looking at the Wonderboom and suspect that sounds really good as well. I lik
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In reply to North of 49th:Just the other day.
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Sorry if this sounds harsh, OK not really, but I feel like I've explained this properly and enough times. That
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Most people don't even think about such things. Maybe that is the real point.
And for whatever it's worth, I
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Paul.
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Thanks to everyone who joined in!I'll put together a special/different "Ask Paul" for this week that will
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No, no. Thank you. :) I was going to email you this morning, but I see you were able to catch it, which is gre
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In reply to ggolcher:These things often confuse me. But I don't have any articles in my mind that deserve
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In reply to djross95:We were all confused by this.
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In reply to pecosbob04:Pages views, comments, and average time spent reading.
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In reply to brad-sams:Yes, this election was stolen. #fakenews
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In reply to nbplopes:I haven't used an M1 Mac. This is my perfect thing list, it's not clear why you
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Yeah, the key here would be having the choice.
I suspect if Activision gave us that choice, SBMM would just
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Sort of, but it's a bit more nuanced than that. For starters, I'm actually pretty good at this kind of thing.
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This must be a very human condition. You need to lose something (maybe data) to get religion (in that case, ba
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I ended up just deleting COD: BOCW and (re)installing some older titles (Modern Warfare Remsastered, WWII), an
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See, I don't think we actually disagree on this.
But I'm not sure that "the vast majority of people require
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Yes, but that's why I described it as "2020 changed people's *perspective* about the importance of the PC." We
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"Windows has little to offer if you want to integrate iPad, iPhone, iMessage, FaceTime, and other Apple servic
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I've randomly seen people claim that PC prices went up this year, but that is not my experience, and when I ta
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The nice thing about non-SBMM systems is that when that happens, you just bow out and start a new game and the
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So I almost deleted this because it looks like spam. :) What a stupid URL for them to choose.
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But that's sort of like saying the Mustang Mach-E is archaic because the first Mustang came out in the mid-196
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Well, I agree with one thing. You really don't get the complaints about SBMM.
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There's no call for personal attacks like this.
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Computers are not getting more important.
They've always had an important role for productivity work. That i
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Yes, all Americans are exactly like that. /s
Come on.
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In reply to RobCannon:The point is that PCs are suddenly seen as necessary again, so they will be upgraded. Th
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Yeah, there's no proprietary port or whatever.
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COD4: MW came out in 2007, and I adapted to the change. And then play COD successfully all the way until 2019.
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Hm. It's not deliberate on his part I assume. But looking at your account, it's not blocked or muted or whatev
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In reply to sammyg:That seems accurate. Map sizes in COD vary wildly now, I assume the bigger maps were inspir
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In reply to Adam_Bailey:Some COD games had the notion of Ranked and Unranked (some other word) game types whic
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In reply to SWCetacean:Aside from mechanics, I bet the big difference there is that you see actual teamplay in
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In reply to reefer2:Well, I only focused on what I play/enjoy. I didn't mention Zombies either. Warzone
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In reply to Usman:Should have mentioned crossplay, but yes, I turned that off very early on and had done so on
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In reply to BigM72:I just making a comparison, not writing an op-ed on international travel.
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In reply to sjgibb99:I haven't tried Battlefield in a while, actually. I should take another look.
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Interesting. I will look at that, of course.
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:Hm. What's your name on Twitter?
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In reply to rmac:Thanks! MAUI won't ship until .NET 6.0 in November 2021. It's still in an early pr
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Right. But it expires and isn't supported. It's not for this purpose, it's to test the next version(s) of WOA
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Right. It's coming in 2021.
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I think the primary reason you pay is for the 4K/HDR capabilities. Honestly, for game streaming, you're probab
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I'm hoping to test Luna soon, but yeah, the controller linking process on Stadia is convoluted.
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The Stadia controller? It seems fine to me.
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Right. You're basically being held hostage, waiting for weeks, so many people will simply accept the offer and
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I think the general understanding is that they had lost interest, basically.
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There may literally be 100 percent overlap.
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No worries. Someone will try to figure this out.
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What LOL.
No.
I don't care if this is standard. It should not be.
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Maybe they just want to avoid lawsuits. I suppose both can be true.
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Thanks. I've known Steve for many years, and I respect both of those guys quite a bit (and Leo too, of course.
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The term "pray" has no place in a legal filing of any kind.
More correctly, it should say "given the prepond
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Yeah, RAM is "how they get you."
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This can't be right. WOA is not supported on anything other than new PCs.
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No, they changed the supposed configuration of the Mac from a Core i5 to a Core i3 to justify the change. It w
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They'll be fine for years to come. I bet they'll be fine for longer than someone using a Surface Laptop Go, ho
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Sure. I've looked at all kinds of options. But generally speaking, when I'm upgrading a manufacturer's device
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"There are really no good reasons why anyone would wish to run Windows based applications on an Apple macOS co
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I doubt Parallels will ever support Windows 10 on ARM. This must be just normal Intel-type Windows 10.
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I can also go to Apple.com and look up my orders. It says "13.3-inch MacBook Air 1.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i
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I had never had an issue trading in with the same manufacturer, including Apple. This was ... unreal.
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What Google should be doing is learning from the mistakes that Microsoft made.
What Google IS doing is being
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I don't have a Samsung device here to test, but if you search Settings for "autofill" you will see an "Au
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The excitement is that it's happening on a computer we want to use.
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https://www8.hp.com/us/en/laptops/2-in-1s/spectre-x360-14-convertible-laptop.html
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Yes, I'm going to look at that.
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That wasn't the case when I wrote this. They updated the original article later on.
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I am paying $9.99 per month for YouTube Premium and have an ad-free YouTube experience. Maybe I was grandfathe
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Even Apple would admit this was a several-years-long effort.
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lol
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I don't see HP moving its entire portable lineup, premium or otherwise, to 3:2, but I hope that this is succes
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It's been a while since I've done this kind of transfer, though I did at one point transfer over all of our VH
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This is the new keyboard layout for 2020 HP premium PCs and I gotta say, I really like it a lot.
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This is just a first impressions post, but fair enough, will look into being specific about that in reviews.
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Please don't post customer support issues to the forums. Email [email protected] and someone will look in
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In reply to [email protected]:Thanks! To you and yours as well.
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In reply to WesHaire:lol nice!
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Have you played with the thermal controls in the Command Center?
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I agree the external display thing is an issue, and that's why I've been begging Microsoft for years to releas
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I agree.
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I hear you, but two thoughts on this...
1. It's best to leave DEL in the top right because of muscle memory.
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Because there are no real-world advantages to moving to a new platform. Compatibility comes first. Familiarity
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CES is coming soon.
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We were all so taken with HD and wide screens in the early 2000s.
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Microsoft said in March that over 200 million people use Skype. That's almost double the current number of Tea
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This one.
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"I don't understand the buzz about ARM. Its only advantage over x86/x64 is lower energy consumption for casual
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Thanks!
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Thanks!
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:)
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Officially, the support lifecycle is 10 years, and that's the point where Microsoft stopped making the Xbox 36
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Winning a benchmark doesn’t mean a freaking thing. Real-world use is far more telling, and that is much more
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I try not to bring this up. ;)
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:)
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We can only regulate the world that is, not the world you're imagining.
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Well, their chips are better and less expensive. And Intel's years-long failure to modernize its CPU lineup sh
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In reply to bschnatt:I know, I know.
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Closing this down so I can try to answer the questions today. Thanks!
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A couple of things.
Corporations are designed to make money, not to be charitable organnizations.
In this ca
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Sorry for the delay responding. Yes, will write up something about this soon.
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Admit it. You laughed when you wrote that.
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"China is Germany’s biggest trade partner and the biggest market for German companies."
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I can't recall the history per se, but Project Treble does seem to be having a positive impact, at Least.
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They're probably all Flight Sim programmers. :)
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Accurate is accurate.
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You should be using an authenticator app like Microsoft Authenticator.
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It's there.
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/
Choose Dev.
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You can't lump Epic into this mess. Epic is a good company doing the right thing. Facebook is just terrible.
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Firefox has had a native WOA app since April 2019.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/204800/firefox
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No, it's just an app for content.
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Creepy and not particularly sophisticated.
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If you replaced your PC every two or three years, I bet that support wouldn't exit.
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Let's see.
Belgium’s center for cybersecurity has found no evidence that telecoms equipment supplied by Hua
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Thanks!
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This is kind of the classic example of antitrust and monopoly. Here's this huge terrible company that acts as
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I guess. But it's not like anyone should rally behind Facebook of all companies.
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Just Google and Qualcomm.
So just the maker of the platform and the maker of most of the underlying hardware.
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They already announced that this is coming. I think Xbox had its hands full with two major new console launche
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Sorry, is there an instance of Google canceling an important service with user-stored data and not allowing th
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Yeah. I don't see a UX apocalypse at Google at all. My God, we use Windows. The rest of the world looks consis
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Or Microsoft is OK being sloppy and just fixing them each month going forward. I guess we'll see.
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OK. Well, I do.
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Wow, I can't believe anyone gets anything done on a phone when you put it like that.
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lol
Maybe by early 2021, they'll have THREE unique experiences!
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Do they need to?
I mean that seriously. Is there some cost/benefit to completely re-working the desktop suite
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Yeah, new estimate is 12 to 20 inches (down from 24).
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Yep. I'm surprised there isn't a generator.
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Yes. I've always wondered why Microsoft doesn't have this kind of thing, if only for store apps. You have to m
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Right. We're so toxified these days that even a simple fact is contested as some kind of partisan commentary.
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I am positive most people, and by a very large margin, use the built-in password managers in web browsers.
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I've just started testing it. I will check on this.
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The way you describe it, it sounds essential then.
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I think you need to get off your soapbox. Google makes some of the very best web apps and services in the worl
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A folding device is just an inferior version of a folding screen device and are, to the system, the same kind
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It's important that the rest of the world suffers as much as we do. :)
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Literally is already happening.
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Ah.
Curious what that has to do with Duo. :)
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Thanks!
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Ugh? You don't want science?
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There's nothing political about calling out an idiot.
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This is certainly true. One thing that PC makers have come to understand is that, while PCs overall are not pr
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That's the new UI. Honestly, the existing one isn't far off.
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Publishing I can imagine. Keeping it up-to-date will be interesting.
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We can't go by what we each see and experience. There's a huge, diverse world out there that we're unaware of
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Thank you! To you as well.
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Then they should get a new PC. I review a dozen-ish PCs every year and most of them aren't loud, don't run hot
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:) Guys, guys. The M1 is perfect. We're not allowed to say otherwise!
But you just wait until the M2 hits. Th
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Well. No one is forcing anyone to buy Fire TVs. but having used all the mainstream solutions, I already like t
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:My favorite is a local ATM that warns me not to try and remove the card until it te
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Brave literally says that "Nobody can track the content that Brave users are reading, including Brave itself."
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If by sore you mean "has filed lawsuits against Google," then yes, they're sore.
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I literally just installed this build. There's no way to make any useful battery observations yet.
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lol
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This is one of many examples of the reward (within MSFT) of fixing this is non-existent even though the need i
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No, it's still in preview, but they will. And it will be something like 2020-era chipsets and newer, 8 GB of R
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This is nothing but good news.
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We could only guess, but Microsoft officially supporting Pi PCs with mainstream Windows 10 is expensive from a
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I do agree that bringing back OneNote 2016 and then updating it again is ... confusing. But it's also an examp
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Well, remember that this is in Dev channel now. So ETA for the masses could be ... anytime in 2021, really.
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Yeah, I'd hold off until they sort out the generation performance issues with some future chipset.
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I'm not sure I've ever made a list per se. The graphics app is the big one, and I very much prefer Affinity ov
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:) Yes!
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:)
Why would Google let you upload music to its storage for free ... and then let you cast it to a non-Googl
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What does that mean?
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Sigh. That's ... Ah, Microsoft.
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This won't work on that PC, I believe. It needs higher-end specs.
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Closing this down so I can try and answer the questions today. Thanks!
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OK, but the difference between Halo Infinite and, say, a game like Duke Nukem Forever is that this impacts the
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I would say that Halo contributed to the problem with this year's Xbox launch. But Xbox isn't alone in having
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BMW earned that. And it took a long time.
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Yep, I saw that as well.
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Man, I don't know how to encapsulate that whole thing in one article. There's so much to it.
I'll think about
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Yeah, this still bothers me as well. Every time the Edge team talks about their great relationship with Google
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Fascinating. Thanks for this.
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This seems like the better deal. New VOD movies are typically $20 to $30, and HBO Max is $15 per month. So you
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Sure. I guess what I mean is, that's less and less common these days.
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Sounds like a lot of work. And a lot of denying yourself some of the web's very best services.
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Back then, the Mac was 100 percent of Apple's business. Today, licensing the chipsets that power the Mac would
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While we're being honest about Tim Cook, let's not forget the suicides and human rights abuses that
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In reply to Maciek:I see PlayStation Now as more of a Game Pass competitor, but Sony is known to be working on
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\stands up and applauds
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Apple convincing you that they're the BMW of headphones is in many ways its biggest achievement.
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Yeah, I find it funny when Apple's hyperbole meets reality as well. :)
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I've not looked at that, sorry. Off the top of my head, would lean towards Pixel for a variety of reasons (cle
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And they will answer, "on my phone."
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I don't think any smarthome company thought they could own this market. But clearly, integration is the key to
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They should have called it JavaScript++!
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:)
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Thanks!
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This is not in Apple's DNA.
That said, that would be amazing.
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I'm holding out for the M3! :D
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We all succumb to the allure of anecdotal data, but ultimately that's all it is.
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Yeah, it's by design, of course, but a bit offputting.
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Windows-only software has to be from another era. That was more common 15 years ago than today.
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Actually, it was a bit of both. Google was afraid that Microsoft would gain traction and cut it out of mobile.
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I specifically asked Microsoft about this when they killed Groove and pushed people to Spotify: It's going to
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I assume it's a legal requirement designed to fend off class action lawsuits.
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I feel like DOOM required a third-party service to play online in the early days. I do know that networking wa
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I don't use Your Phone, but it works with Pixels as well.
You can also use Google's Messages web app if you j
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I literally am doing this right now and I do need to wait. The empty box just arrived.
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I think all kinds of things I guess. I'm just glad you see the humor in it.
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Yes, it is.
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Yes.
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In reply to Ron McMahon:Nice, thanks!
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In reply to Phil_Adcock:Yes. I asked my wife about this, and she asked if I told one of the bank robbery stori
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Yes, I remember. It really kills me this isn't what I remember.
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I feel like Microsoft tried that, and will try again with Windows 10 X. But it's the user base that's not movi
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:)
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Hey, this is what people used to say about Windows too.
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:) Well. They did release JScript at that time as well.
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No, I bought a 4K/HDR gaming display specifically for this console.
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The opposite is true. Compatibility has to be assumed. Then we talk about performance and battery life. If the
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Google's screw-ups were all hardware related. The big appeal here is a simple system that just works.
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Most people wouldn't do that, of course. But it has a better camera and a fingerprint reader, plus 5G, and tho
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Yeah, it is a nice step up from the 3a for sure.
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It's never too late! :)
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Exactly.
The flowchart for this buying decision is: Does it run all of the apps and work 100 percent with all
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Interesting, thanks. It really is ruining the game.
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In reply to toms:Yeah, I got over $300 on trade from a Pixel 4 XL which helped as well.
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I agree Edge is in danger of becoming a bloaty thing. The good news about that particular feature you mention
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Several of the Intel- and AMD-based PCs I reviewed this year achieve that level of battery life.
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Faster isn't enough. For WOA to make any sense at all, it needs to offer a reasonable level of compatibility,
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Yeah, it's just ubiquitous. There's no use ignoring it.
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Appreciated. I will try to figure something out. For me most of all. :)
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:)
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Problem solved! :)
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That's fantastic.
My one key takeaway about health/fitness/nutrition is that everyone is literally different
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It's because many of its products are best of breed. Not using them is the classic "bite your nose to spite yo
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In fairness to Eich, he had no time and this was just supposed to be a simple "glue" scripting language. I'm s
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Yes.
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Off the top of my head, I'm wondering if Sony just hasn't had to worry about this. Every game studio targets P
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In reply to murray judy::)
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Closing this down so I can try and answer the questions later today...
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Honestly, the beauty of Team Cat is that they don't care at all.
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1000 nits, thanks. Will fix.
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Nice! (And thanks.) :)
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Yeah, and maybe this is the impetus I need to finally make that happen.
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Thanks!
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Absolutely.
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The problem is that I switch PCs too regularly to be re-creating all that stuff each time I install the app. B
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According to whatever Flurry is. :)
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More likely I wouldn't even notice this. :)
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The Paint replacement I use on the Mac is called Paint S. It's not exactly the same, obviously, but fills the
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Because my main account (thurrott.com) is on Google. I'm not forwarding mail from the account I use most often
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Yeah I thought Stream was going to use SP/OneDrive on the backend soon?
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Sorry, what?
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We have several years of Qualcomm PC chips as experience, not just one. It hasn't been pretty.
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Making something run on a device is one thing. But to be fully supported, etc. would obviously require a lot m
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I'm sure it compares favorably to the 8088! :)
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Sets. Gone.
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Yes. Terry Myerson initially brought a welcome transparency to the Windows team in response to the Sinofsky ye
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My needs/wants are even simpler: I wish Microsoft would simply communicate what it's doing rather than randoml
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Sigh.
It's free. Sometimes we get sponsors. I'm guessing over 947 episodes, over 900 of them didn't have an a
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I can't argue with that.
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Because the author is a known and trusted analyst.
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:)
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It's not hate. It's an honest evaluation.
Performance that's good enough vs. Performance that is excellent.
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Teams winning was the reason this acquisition happened, when you think about it.
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Put another way. It's still just a Mac.
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This was a data point from Techcrunch. "Entering 2020 it had lost around 40% of its value since it went public
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Yep. This is something to worry about. And to work to overcome.
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Completely agree.
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That badge doesn't appear on the game tile. It appears on-screen when you're in the game and bring up the Guid
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Normally the Beta channel would have switched to 21H1 testing by now. But it's just testing updates to 20H2.
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In reply to Vladimir:lol yeah that is almost certainly true. Thanks.
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Yeah. And helping it look old is this newly-designed, modern-looking Surface Pro X sitting right next to it.
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Sorry, I meant "apps that one would regularly need and use on a desktop PC."
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Fair enough. As a fan of Surface, of sorts, I certainly agree that the product line has had more than its shar
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Why would I take the time to write that out? :) You can see what's on my home screen here:
https://www.thurro
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Hope springs eternal with WOA. There's always that ONE thing that will put this platform over the top.
And a
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:)
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lol ah man
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Yep. It always comes back to Sinofsky and his terrible/wrong decision to make Windows 8 look like Windows Phon
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We want the Pro lineup to adopt the more modern Pro X design, for starters. Surface Laptop is less in need of
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Why even release an expensive computer that is so compromised? Is what everyone should be asking of this produ
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In reply to SWCetacean:This is accurate. Note, too, that you can purchase titles you really like at a discount
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No, not yet. Still dead in the water.
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Apple fans love everything that Apple throws at them. Criticism is the domain of actual reviewers, i.e. "criti
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This was why I raised the issue in the first place. I feel like many will read the first two lines of that ema
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You forgot to add "lol" to the end of that. :)
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I'll see if we can do something about this.
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Exactly.
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I use AdDuplex because they survey a reasonable number of real PCs that are really being used out in the world
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I'd give it more than a few days to determine which is and which isn't "the most powerful" console, whatever t
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The Xbox One sold fewer units than the Xbox 360.
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Games are optimized specifically for the Series S and they'll always be better in some way than on an Xbox One
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It would still need to work like a tablet to replace an iPad Pro.
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Suspect it's a bit of both. Smartphone sales declined YOY for the first time over two years ago.
https://www.
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No, this is coming to the UK at some point as well.
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Absolutely.
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I'd expect them to run their standard workloads, not a list of apps Apple told them were already optimized. I'
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#winning!
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No, I don't. I think every single one of them was accounted for.
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There you go. The "small number of users" (as I'm sure Microsoft will describe it) who were impacted by this b
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I bet most people don't read past the first sentence or two and that that was what Amazon was counting on.
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Um.
I agree we should be nice and help others. But that should be our choice, not the choice of the world's
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That's a smart way to go about things. I suspect it eludes most people. I'm obviously aware of such a thing ev
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The issue is that people pay for bandwidth in many places. The other issue is the potential security and priva
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Yes, but no release date yet.
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Yes to both, thanks.
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Interesting. Yeah, it sort of is, though at least there are only 2-3 choices now and not 17 or whatever.
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Yep.
The issue I see upfront is that GeForce Now can only access part of my Steam library, so I can't literal
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Right.
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Exactly. You can cite a clear user benefit but you need to look beyond that for the real purpose.
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You may want to "unknow" anyone that dumb. It freaks me out how stupid people can be in the face of facts.
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Agreed.
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I mean, that's one way of doing things! :)
The right way.
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Totally agree.
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I assume it's about all the built-in Google tracking for advertisers.
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It's impossible to argue with any of that. Hopefully MS gets its act together. But there's no sign this will h
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I mean, someone has to talk about it.
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Thanks!
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Well, that's how you know this issue isn't a big deal, since it's not possible that anyone returned an Xbox Se
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This is sadly common with phones too. Oh, look, a phone-sized box!
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No there aren't. What are you talking about? :)
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In reply to j5:No, just on the PC. I don't use a news reader on mobile.
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Come on.
People use Google products and services because they're better than the alternatives. There aren't
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Other stores? When you go after the bad guys, you go after the biggest one first. Then the others will fall, e
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Fixed, thanks!
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It's been fine so far, but the concern is the long-term. I feel like the performance will always need an aster
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I don't listen to other TWiT shows, but again, we just can't ignore things that are this important.
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A pattern, lol. You know, like a serial killer.
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I get it, I guess, but we simply respond to what's happening in the world when it's relevant. It's a heterogen
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Yes you can.
If you're not getting them now, you can sign-up here.
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We w
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According to Brad, this feature is coming. The suspicion is that it's tied to a migration from the Xbox Consol
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No worries, links below.
Fitbit data will not be used for advertising, and users will be able to review, move
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Oh, I agree on the nap thing. :)
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That is not clear. All it says as a disclaimer is "Limit 1 per person/account."
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Yeah I think that's where I'm at as well.
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I think it will just remain up. Hope it will anyway. :)
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Let me see what I can find.
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Thanks! Fixed.
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I added an image from the Costco site, hope that's OK.
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Xbox Series X|S Wireless Controller is not compatible with Apple devices (yet)
Not really worth a full news story, but the Apple Support website notes that "Microsoft and Apple are working together to bring compatibility for the Xbox Series X controller to customers in a future update." Currently, the newer Xbox One Wireless Controller (with Bluetooth), Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2, and Xbox Adaptive Controller are compatible with the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, and Mac.
I assume that support will happen quickly.
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About this weekend (November 21-22)
Hi all,
Just a quick heads-up that we're performing some back-end services maintenance this weekend that shouldn't impact the site's availability. But we won't be able to post from 9 am ET on Saturday, November 21 through late that night or possibly early Sunday. As some may know, I usually try to post 1-2 articles on each weekend day, so we'll see how that goes.
Thanks!
Paul
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Closing this down so I can answer the questions. Thanks!Paul
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In reply to nbplopes:The T2 is a separate chip ... on all Macs through this week. Which is what we were compa
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In reply to navarac:For whatever it's worth, Mary Jo was the one who put the Apple topic in the show note
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App stores do need to regulated when they're controlled by monopolies that abuse their developers, partners, a
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That's not a screenshot. It is hand-drawing that I reference as such in the article.
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It doesn't matter what sounds right to anyone. What matters is what is right. And Apple's fees are indefensibl
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In the US car market, there are not two or three cars. So "most" people cannot prefer any one car.
In the PC
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Well, the credit should go to HP, but ... yes. It was kind of eye-opening. Sometimes these companies make the
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Yeah. That's the fear: It works fine up front but falls apart over time.
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Please. Stop.
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Interesting, thanks for this.
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Enjoy the top/left speaker! :)
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Exactly.
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In reply to djross95:That is correct.
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Nah. They'll just keep cheering em on and thinking they did this for the right reasons.
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Interesting. I'm glad it's not my Xbox.
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I have a weird soft spot for Prometheus. It's hard to explain.
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They did this for 98 percent of developers, not for smaller developers.
Your desire to see the good guys los
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My understanding is that WinUI 3 will arrive well before MAUI. I know the latter is scheduled for late 2021, b
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Yeah. That is what I thought of the presentation. :)
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lol nice
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Sounds like something that's more likely to happen with a Mac :)
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Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world by far. So the answer is "most people do."
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No it isn't. It's the simplest way to say it.
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No one has said that. Their low-end systems are working great. There's no way they compare to higher-end Intel
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As I wrote, there is literally not a single image of an actual icon in the linked post.
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That's not what this is. The T2 works like TPM does, it's separate from the CPU.
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Maybe it's just what I wrote, that Apple never provided any real-world comparisons but instead provided meanin
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Most people still prefer Windows, for starters.
And we do have Windows PCs with tremendous battery life as we
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40 total entities, yes.
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Please spell my name correctly.
I'm fascinated by how this is turning out but this could and should have all
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Suspect it's related to copy protection and worries about content theft.
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It's not clear, sorry. Seems like the type of thing that could/should work.
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It's just a first public beta release.
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I'm glad to hear that. I love the phone otherwise. This seems like a solvable problem.
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The way I look at this is that both sides go to market with whatever strategies they devise, and both are vali
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Benchmarks don't matter.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I remember seeing my dad's IBM PC (original model, I believe) at work and being unimpressed by DOS and B
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In reply to Stoicjim:Yes, Global Entry was what we were set to get in March. Still haven't. :)
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You can't watch Blu-ray or DVD movies using an external optical drive on Xbox Series S, Microsoft says.
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Sounds like bait and switch. The bait was free unlimited storage. The switch was taking that away.
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Yes.
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The 4a 5G is as close as we get this year.