* Posts by unaware

18 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2023

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

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Re: 10 years !!!

Desktop 16g i5 2011 ubuntu 24.10 ssd data runs app like libreoffice , except graphics, better and loads faster than an 2023 64B , pic4 ssd, Acer aspire 3 notebook. With win11 or ubuntu 24.10. go figure ..hardly much difference even building kernels. That's 12 years progress.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

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Re: Goodbye Windows 11

Buy a small 19" 600mm deep rack, replace only mobo when it's dead. Save the earth from enclosures in landfils. So far 15 years .. 1 mobo replacement ..should get some carbon credits...

Taiwan's new president wants to upgrade from 'silicon island' to 'AI island'

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Taiwan....

If only his party had done anything in the past 8 years about the exterme high house prices and extreme low salaries for the people in Taiwan including those building the AI products, the speech would have some credit, but is all floating on hype. Now that the opposition has a majority again the left wing protests in Taiwan organized by their "professional protestor" backing groups are back on the streets again to block the opposition. 8 years hardly any protest due their majority where they could push anything through even gay marriage (personally pro for it) but that was rejected by the majority of the population in a referendum. Democracy ?

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

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How IT has changed

In past history there were some people with bad intentions to attack enterprises, called hackers. Now enterprises have included bad intentions into their business plans and products to attack the people.

Sadly. For the world. Computing has, in many regards, failed to help people and humanity due to the behavior of a few evil, very large companies, that monopolize the world.

Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs

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Could the AMD uptick have to do with the state of NVIDIA drivers/support on Linux ?

Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again'

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Re: Typing in the start menu

It should be called startbrowser instead of startbutton. but a browser where you cannot find apps wyou need. And then pinning something to the taskbar .. those pins often disappear as well. So neither works. W11 is a pin in the .... W11 is the marketing gimmick of windows history. ... 1. TPM security, 2. copilot, 3. Advertstart button..

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Re: Do what you like but give options

Have not touched office since 2009. Libreoffice for documents and evolution for mail, yes with oauth authentication, and also very easy to import old PST files from the 00's.

Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree

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Re: Small to invisible

From the beginning of PC hardware, PC makers only have had one addiction. MICROSOFT.

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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You can install but not upgrade, at least not without a VM that means wiping the disk. That count for insider builds as well. Weird policy

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To make sure applcation developed a long time ago still installs and runs on later versions, including insider preview builds. Not everyone likes to put their perfectly fine PC at the landfill and be forced to spend money just to run windows. Not like every developer has buckets of space and money to replace hardware when microsoft dictates it.

AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing

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No NPU. No Windows 12 ?

News from microsoft in 2025: now we will make your experience even better and secure by making windows hardware requirement include an NPU.

read: There is enough space in landfills for your insecure TPM based hardware.

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Got me an $700 i5. Lightweight, Discrete, non-CUDA, not eating power for lunch, 64GB DDR 3TB SSD, notebook for just non-AI coding. That was hard. Last of a kind probably.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

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Re: @Martin an gof - Re-purposing Already Happening

Good luck finding linux WIFI drivers for the Acer Aspire 3 notebooks sold in 2023. So needed a usb dongle. They use a chip for which no drivers exist. Go figure.

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

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Re: Where's the "Outlook" feature in LibreOffice?

Happily using Evolution for a decade. Supports oauth . Imports pst fine from the latest office. My mail sources are on google, hotmail, my own webhost and pst's from the long past and forgotten windows/outook era. Everything in the end goes to the local folders/drives leaving nothing in the cloud. I keep and own my own stuff, the cloud is just a temporary storage and exchanger service , thats how it should be. :-). Not sure why there is not more love for Evolution. Rich formatted editing could have huge improvents example though ,example the nasty reformatting and >>>> for replies.

It's time to stop fearing CPU power management

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In current operating systems it is too cumbersome to switch between modes, like browsing, gaming and what is in between. Power profiles are vey simplified. They should include which devices should be excempted and which can be switched off. There are huge savings possible but os, cpu and expansion cards vendor believe power is endless and are far from providing easy to change power settings. Probably 90% of users in corporate or home settings use much more cores and power they really need. Even when improvements will cone due to installed base it bay need decaded to finally get savings. Without regulation probably nothing will change.

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

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Interesting that this was discussed on the Altium podcast rencently and the same story shows up here. From what is said most cars older than 3 years old are less vonurable. Anyhow in the future your car will be hacked via the web, not CAN. Ha.ha.

It's this easy to seize control of someone's Nexx 'smart' home plugs, garage doors

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Is it a coincidince that this Sam works for Amazon ? A dinosaur company with huge stakes in IoT and smart home, trying to crush small companies that cannot afford millions for secuity ?. Perhaps Amazon wants their product by an easy take over after their declaration of bankruptcy ?Perhaps the register can elaborate on this ?