Yep I support 3 very very small business and all 3 have software tying them to windows, only one could maybe consider switching when a particular product gets better at "cloud stuff" (webui over the local client)
I myself installed Ubuntu last week and as a windows guy for 20 years, gotta be honest, it works pretty darn well! Very well.
Spend a month optomising the code, a lot. I'm tired of needing to buy a new phone every 3 years because they run horrifically.
Employ tricks like Apple do with the screenshot of an idle app that comes up first, then the app loads in behind it, making the app usable.
Oh and to the handset manufacturers? Please, can at least SOME of you stop copying Apple? You don't have to remove headphone jacks, you don't have to remove notification LEDs, you don't/have/ to remove home buttons.
I own and really really like my fairly new Huawei Mate 20 (non Pro, curved displays can DIE!)
There's many great features on the phone, I like having an IR port, I have headphone, massive battery, very fast, notification LED. It has allmost all the old original Android features that first wooooed me from Apple (which most idiot handset manufacturers are now removing to copy Apple....)
HOWEVER this phone, replaced a 2015 Samsung Note 5. Yet the camera's much like the p30, cameras everywhere,..... Those cameras? Yeah at least on the Mate 20 regular? They're kinda "ok"
It's sad that my old old Note 5 can take a brighter, crisper image AND it takes it without fiddling with pro mode stuff. I don't care if the mate can do fancy camera stuff, with patience, I just want a nice point and click to be honest.
I know they're improving all the time, but seeing that my almost brand new phone produce worse pics than my old one, kinda disappointing.
The Tesla seems to be a relatively impressive electric car.
The Tesla is not even close to a self driving car in any capacity. Look at the amount of sensors, software on the Waymo vehicles and they're still not finished.
The Tesla is a 'toy' automated vehicle. Using this feature is dangerous and foolish. Leave it as an electric vehicle, not an autonomous vehicle in any capacity. I'm shocked more people aren't dead due to this.
For the rest of you, this guy using the term "Goobers" means he's already staked his flag deep in the far left SJW dirt and will be absolutely unwilling to consider any opinion that doesn't comply with the rest of groupthink.
Don't make decisions for yourself, don't watch any PewDiePie videos in any capacity, do not follow him, it's been declared he's in the sin bin, do not question the rest of the horde, follow, berate and comply.
Don't be surprised to see language used such as "icky and gross" "problematic" "toxic" and so on and so forth.
PDP, is quite harmless, but the media have it in for him since he's a nice big target and they hate steamers/ bloggers generally because they're eating the lunch of traditional gaming media.
PewDiePie encompass typical childish and nerds humour, taking the piss and messing around. There's very very little bad stuff here.
Man did the sjw types get a hard on for him and will not drop it. It's foolishness like this, when they're so blatantly wrong which actually weakens their cause as people start to question "if they're wrong about PDP, who else are they misrepresentating?"
Ultimately resulting in genuine bad actors getting less need criticism and or general distrust of the gaming and eventually, regular media.
Had multiple archives which were reporting as corrupt / damaged in 7zip and opened fine in WinRAR, near a decade ago.
Had I followed the advice of 7zip I could have discarded perfectly good data.
I reported the bug YEARS ago, supplied files too, nope no interest from the developers. I spoke with someone yesterday with someone who said the same thing is STILL going on.
Nope, I don't have faith in 7zip, working with the data reliably is the #1 thing for me. I'll stick with a patched WinRAR thanks.
Another day, another âoeRussian Boogeyman!!!â Post. At this point, itâ(TM)s more scary that people actually believe thereâ(TM)s *that many* Russian bots infiltrating us here, than the actual thought of the Russians doing it.
For a start if we need to worry about a country, it ainâ(TM)t Russia. Itâ(TM)s big and itâ(TM)s red and we buy EVERYTHING from them.
Iâ(TM)m sorry to say this to you, but I strongly suspect youâ(TM)re from the far far left / crazy SJW crowd (yes, dismiss my post for using the pejorative SJW, sorry but itâ(TM)s the simplest description)
The extreme left, appear to take issue with *anyone* who isnâ(TM)t also, extreme left.
What this has caused, is that previously, quite normal lefties, have become either unchanged but now defined as âfar right!â(TM) Because they dare disagree with the extreme left, or theyâ(TM)ve genuinely been pushed to the centre, baffled now at where they stand, because extreme left loony types have labelled them all kinds of nasty things and threatened to dox them and fire them for not agreeing with some bafflingly extreme stance, you know something simple like âoeALL MEN ARE SCUMâ or something as benign as that,....
I may be calling this incorrectly but this is a wild guess! Iâ(TM)ve never seen anyone make the observation you just made, but I certainly suspect a lot of the previously left / rational left (ie: atheists) are probably the people you THINK are âfar rightâ(TM)
No, Iâ(TM)m not far right, but Iâ(TM)m sure Iâ(TM)ll be accused of it.
I browse 12 hours a day. Improvements are good, I need more though.
I have 8 cores, 16 threads. 32GB. Let me tick a box "insane fast mode" I don't care if it uses 24GB memory, I want preemptive tab updating in the background of tabs they know I open 70 times a day.
I also want, since I browse like a drunken master, to not open a tab I already have open. If I have one open already somewhere else just switch that tab in its place. So I'm never on duplicate tabs. (They do this now, poorly)
I'm all for Google bashing, my god I could do it for hours on some topics, but when it comes to deploying a truly autonomous vehicle, on the road with all the variables of real life, frankly the project is astoundingly complex.
Even designing an autonomous car that can only work in a single city (example one which works within 150 miles of San Francisco ONLY or within 50 miles of Vegas ONLY) would still be immensly complicated factoring in weather, emergencies, unpredictable animals, people, cyclists, scooters, garbage men, mailmen, idiots, bad drivers, random rubbish on your roads, ambulances, etc.
It's astronomical. Utterly. I'd be surprised if there's anything still launched within 5 years.
I did see a theory about long haul trucking from point A to B being replaced . Almost like a train, local trucks deliver to a point, which swaps to much larger, long haul autonomous trucks. They run a long long route, drop off goods at another depot point and return. That being said, they still need, I think at least a man remotely able to control the vehicle in emergencies (see also the autonomous mining trucks deployed in Western Australia)
How does one refuel a long haul truck that runs on gasoline for example?
I did this SPECIFICALLY because I was so impressed with the consistency of the back button location, the fact I could access context menus consistently with the settings / context / right click button.
. They've gone on to ruin the options / context consistency, for a multi task button. They have removed my home button. They're (generally) copying Apple with the headphone jack.
Now the back button? UI / UX designers peaked about ten years ago. Now they just break stuff to keep working and "innovating" So so so so sick of stupid ui decisions the last decade. Across the entire industry.
I might run Windows on my laptop and my Desktop and have done since 3.0 but good lord, on a Pi? Why would you do this?
I'm so very impressed with my Pi and the flavour of linux which comes with it. Linux is streamlined and reliable. It's predictable. If you ask it to do something, properly, it will do it, indefinitely.
The GUI that comes with the Pi is actually not half bad for speed either. Windows just isn't going to work well with that amount of memory.
At one point I wouldn't dream of anything but Windows in my house, now I have FreeBSD (NAS) I have linux for my HTPC (libreelec) and Linux for my DNS / home automation (Pi / Docker / Pi Hole / Hass.io)
I still don't mind Windows for Desktop, but man. Microsofts stuff doesn't belong on a Pi
Mod this guy up, the idiot whiners who keep referencing Trump need a hiding.
Republicans are/generally/ worse with the environment, but this problem hardly, hardly rests entirely on their shoulders, in the slightest. Our entire culture, our entire behaviour as a species has led to this, almost every element of our worthless, stupid, consumerists lives have got us here. This is hardly some idiot time to whinge about god damn @#%ing moron Trump.
The far left are now, as bad or worse than the far right.
Get your shit together people, you could Bernie or Hilary in charge for 4 decades (if the poor guy lasted that long) and it'd barely make a dent.
You want to solve this shit, for real? Actually quickly? Reduce the population by 97% and we'll all STILL probably be screwed. Inertia is a hell of a thing and we've just started the mother of all snowballs, it's just moving very very slowly.
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Yep I support 3 very very small business and all 3 have software tying them to windows, only one could maybe consider switching when a particular product gets better at "cloud stuff" (webui over the local client)
I myself installed Ubuntu last week and as a windows guy for 20 years, gotta be honest, it works pretty darn well! Very well.
Spend a month optomising the code, a lot.
I'm tired of needing to buy a new phone every 3 years because they run horrifically.
Employ tricks like Apple do with the screenshot of an idle app that comes up first, then the app loads in behind it, making the app usable.
Oh and to the handset manufacturers? Please, can at least SOME of you stop copying Apple? /have/ to remove home buttons.
You don't have to remove headphone jacks, you don't have to remove notification LEDs, you don't
Up your stupid assholes.
Stop doing this shit, we're fucking adults.
It was tiring when the internet was young, now?
Stop it, just stop.
I'd have no problem with news editors deliberately posting that shit to get written warnings. It's a god damn scourge on the internet.
Looks like I'm getting some extra work done today.
Time to close the browser for near 48 hours (time zones drag this garbage out longer)
I own and really really like my fairly new Huawei Mate 20 (non Pro, curved displays can DIE!)
There's many great features on the phone, I like having an IR port, I have headphone, massive battery, very fast, notification LED.
It has allmost all the old original Android features that first wooooed me from Apple (which most idiot handset manufacturers are now removing to copy Apple....)
HOWEVER this phone, replaced a 2015 Samsung Note 5. Yet the camera's much like the p30, cameras everywhere,..... Those cameras? Yeah at least on the Mate 20 regular? They're kinda "ok"
It's sad that my old old Note 5 can take a brighter, crisper image AND it takes it without fiddling with pro mode stuff. I don't care if the mate can do fancy camera stuff, with patience, I just want a nice point and click to be honest.
I know they're improving all the time, but seeing that my almost brand new phone produce worse pics than my old one, kinda disappointing.
The Tesla seems to be a relatively impressive electric car.
The Tesla is not even close to a self driving car in any capacity. Look at the amount of sensors, software on the Waymo vehicles and they're still not finished.
The Tesla is a 'toy' automated vehicle. Using this feature is dangerous and foolish. Leave it as an electric vehicle, not an autonomous vehicle in any capacity. I'm shocked more people aren't dead due to this.
Yep, these are the same people convinced there's Russians in their toasters.
" but that guy who murdered 50 people in Christchurch last week did tell people to subscribe to him on his live stream right before doing it..."
Hitler also drank water, walked on two feet and breathed oxygen. Rumour has it, he even loved his mother.
Your argument is embarrassing, you should be embarrassed. Stop drinking the cool aid and think for yourself, please try common sense.
For the rest of you, this guy using the term "Goobers" means he's already staked his flag deep in the far left SJW dirt and will be absolutely unwilling to consider any opinion that doesn't comply with the rest of groupthink.
Don't make decisions for yourself, don't watch any PewDiePie videos in any capacity, do not follow him, it's been declared he's in the sin bin, do not question the rest of the horde, follow, berate and comply.
Don't be surprised to see language used such as "icky and gross" "problematic" "toxic" and so on and so forth.
This poster is correct.
PDP, is quite harmless, but the media have it in for him since he's a nice big target and they hate steamers/ bloggers generally because they're eating the lunch of traditional gaming media.
PewDiePie encompass typical childish and nerds humour, taking the piss and messing around. There's very very little bad stuff here.
Man did the sjw types get a hard on for him and will not drop it. It's foolishness like this, when they're so blatantly wrong which actually weakens their cause as people start to question "if they're wrong about PDP, who else are they misrepresentating?"
Ultimately resulting in genuine bad actors getting less need criticism and or general distrust of the gaming and eventually, regular media.
Had multiple archives which were reporting as corrupt / damaged in 7zip and opened fine in WinRAR, near a decade ago.
Had I followed the advice of 7zip I could have discarded perfectly good data.
I reported the bug YEARS ago, supplied files too, nope no interest from the developers.
I spoke with someone yesterday with someone who said the same thing is STILL going on.
Nope, I don't have faith in 7zip, working with the data reliably is the #1 thing for me. I'll stick with a patched WinRAR thanks.
I see another poor bastard has replied on Slashdot using an iPad.
For goodness sakes this needs to be fixed.
Thank you and EXACTLY what I was attempting to say.
This this and this. The left has changed, a lot. Extremist group now.
Another day, another âoeRussian Boogeyman!!!â Post.
At this point, itâ(TM)s more scary that people actually believe thereâ(TM)s *that many* Russian bots infiltrating us here, than the actual thought of the Russians doing it.
For a start if we need to worry about a country, it ainâ(TM)t Russia. Itâ(TM)s big and itâ(TM)s red and we buy EVERYTHING from them.
Iâ(TM)m sorry to say this to you, but I strongly suspect youâ(TM)re from the far far left / crazy SJW crowd (yes, dismiss my post for using the pejorative SJW, sorry but itâ(TM)s the simplest description)
The extreme left, appear to take issue with *anyone* who isnâ(TM)t also, extreme left.
What this has caused, is that previously, quite normal lefties, have become either unchanged but now defined as âfar right!â(TM) Because they dare disagree with the extreme left, or theyâ(TM)ve genuinely been pushed to the centre, baffled now at where they stand, because extreme left loony types have labelled them all kinds of nasty things and threatened to dox them and fire them for not agreeing with some bafflingly extreme stance, you know something simple like âoeALL MEN ARE SCUMâ or something as benign as that,....
I may be calling this incorrectly but this is a wild guess! Iâ(TM)ve never seen anyone make the observation you just made, but I certainly suspect a lot of the previously left / rational left (ie: atheists) are probably the people you THINK are âfar rightâ(TM)
No, Iâ(TM)m not far right, but Iâ(TM)m sure Iâ(TM)ll be accused of it.
I "spray salt" almost daily and it just leaves me short of breath and one more sock to wash.
I'd prefer an ultra Ultra slow and very stable tested train of updates.
You know maybe even give it a name, a more simplified ui, call it something like windows 7 or something like that.
I browse 12 hours a day. Improvements are good, I need more though.
I have 8 cores, 16 threads. 32GB.
Let me tick a box "insane fast mode" I don't care if it uses 24GB memory, I want preemptive tab updating in the background of tabs they know I open 70 times a day.
I also want, since I browse like a drunken master, to not open a tab I already have open. If I have one open already somewhere else just switch that tab in its place. So I'm never on duplicate tabs. (They do this now, poorly)
Please read this guy's post, he's making some very good points.
Just replace the foreign actor section with "smart marketing folk and western pay per click outrage peddlers"
The claims this stuff is "the Russians" is some of the wildest nonsense I've ever heard.
I'm all for Google bashing, my god I could do it for hours on some topics, but when it comes to deploying a truly autonomous vehicle, on the road with all the variables of real life, frankly the project is astoundingly complex.
Even designing an autonomous car that can only work in a single city (example one which works within 150 miles of San Francisco ONLY or within 50 miles of Vegas ONLY) would still be immensly complicated factoring in weather, emergencies, unpredictable animals, people, cyclists, scooters, garbage men, mailmen, idiots, bad drivers, random rubbish on your roads, ambulances, etc.
It's astronomical. Utterly. I'd be surprised if there's anything still launched within 5 years.
I did see a theory about long haul trucking from point A to B being replaced . Almost like a train, local trucks deliver to a point, which swaps to much larger, long haul autonomous trucks. They run a long long route, drop off goods at another depot point and return.
That being said, they still need, I think at least a man remotely able to control the vehicle in emergencies (see also the autonomous mining trucks deployed in Western Australia)
How does one refuel a long haul truck that runs on gasoline for example?
We have a long long long way to go.
I did this SPECIFICALLY because I was so impressed with the consistency of the back button location, the fact I could access context menus consistently with the settings / context / right click button.
. They've gone on to ruin the options / context consistency, for a multi task button.
They have removed my home button.
They're (generally) copying Apple with the headphone jack.
Now the back button? UI / UX designers peaked about ten years ago. Now they just break stuff to keep working and "innovating"
So so so so sick of stupid ui decisions the last decade. Across the entire industry.
I might run Windows on my laptop and my Desktop and have done since 3.0 but good lord, on a Pi? Why would you do this?
I'm so very impressed with my Pi and the flavour of linux which comes with it.
Linux is streamlined and reliable. It's predictable. If you ask it to do something, properly, it will do it, indefinitely.
The GUI that comes with the Pi is actually not half bad for speed either. Windows just isn't going to work well with that amount of memory.
At one point I wouldn't dream of anything but Windows in my house, now I have FreeBSD (NAS) I have linux for my HTPC (libreelec) and Linux for my DNS / home automation (Pi / Docker / Pi Hole / Hass.io)
I still don't mind Windows for Desktop, but man. Microsofts stuff doesn't belong on a Pi
They'll get so much flack for it from people who don't know better.
Between USBc teething issues and the switch to lightning only being what 4 or 5 begrudging years ago, it makes sense to wait.
Let's see them make Apple pencil and headphones USB C and a few more MacBooks being out in the wild.
They'll bide their time on the flagship product
Well, it is Google, only a matter of time
They could save themselves the hassle and just Jill it off now to be honest.
Mod this guy up, the idiot whiners who keep referencing Trump need a hiding.
Republicans are /generally/ worse with the environment, but this problem hardly, hardly rests entirely on their shoulders, in the slightest. Our entire culture, our entire behaviour as a species has led to this, almost every element of our worthless, stupid, consumerists lives have got us here. This is hardly some idiot time to whinge about god damn @#%ing moron Trump.
The far left are now, as bad or worse than the far right.
Get your shit together people, you could Bernie or Hilary in charge for 4 decades (if the poor guy lasted that long) and it'd barely make a dent.
You want to solve this shit, for real? Actually quickly?
Reduce the population by 97% and we'll all STILL probably be screwed.
Inertia is a hell of a thing and we've just started the mother of all snowballs, it's just moving very very slowly.