Posts by PCScreenOnly

Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking

Re: Slow is fast

years and years ago, a colleague and I developed on the fastest desktops we had - whheeeee

Out main test desktop was an old, ancient no longer used, well underspec unit. We made sure it ran fast on that before passing to users

Even now with SaaS etc. At one point at a client we tested the mobile app on a crap mobile with limited screen size and data transfer speed. We optimised where we could, we compressed where we could. It can be done, just not often. Dekstop users at that client loved it

Re: 2 generations behind?

And American kit doesn't - or just not caught yet ?

read something on el'reg about some coding that the Russians did because of limitations and the Americans just threw bigger processors. Seems the same to me with the ChatGPT and other American options vs DeepSeek and the other Chinese ones. Less resource, find a better more efficient way

Re: Still generations behind

For most use does make me wonder if a Chromebook is not a better alternative for most use these daysd - until I find I can get a quality refurb laptop for less than a new chromebook and it will probably last longer

Re: most people don't need the latest

Yup, my new laptops are refurb'd T14s gen1. An i7 and a Ryzen. The older two, a T490 and T460 are fine doing what they need to.

As for lower power usage. Mostly they are plugged in, so that is not a concern, and I am with Snake on everything else. I may play an old MAME game or two, no games on the phone, and the only reason to upgrade the phone last time was a naff screen on the Samsung. Only compelling reason to change a phone now will be a better camera when I go on our next big holiday - 2yrs away.

If I was still encoding blueray rips or some intense processing then maybe. And not worrying about games as would a serious gamer use a laptop - doubt it

Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong

Reaching out

Add that to the list

Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops

Why replace ?

These days more and more is doing via a browser and PaaS so the refresh of a PC with faster disk and RAM is less and less. There are some exceptions and maybe to keep on top of windows bloat, but there has been no great improvements in anything that would warrant it. slow spinner, get an SSD - NVMe is faster, but once loaded - do you care ?

If I was a bean counter who cared, I would be really miffed at being forced to perform an update where there is no real good reason for it. And Microsoft, as we all know, W11 runs without your stupidly enforced requirements

Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears

Re: ... or, you could use a Linux machine

that's just a citrix terminal

At a job years ago we went down the Wyse terminals with their cost replacing all the old PC's. I did suggest we use a small Linux distro andd the citrix client, but no, lets waste lots of money on Wyse 'unreliable' terminals

TFTFY

Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for Patch Tuesdays when Microsoft crash your machine

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

Old phones

Mine are either dead, so old with no future updates or I use it.

The misses does upgrade her phone still, but on holiday she takes the old one with the sim. the only thing that may go against that is the quality of the camera, but there have not been that many quality updates on the camera front as far as we can tell

Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday

Maybe the service works and reports it is, but in reality it is not.

I dunno, not seen it, not doing infra any more and many places I have worked at do not us MS for DHCP .

I remember we were once bitten by a simple check of something running and monitors looking OK only to find it was anything but. It caused a few problems, but made me wise to that

Microsoft patches the patch that can brick Surface Hub v1 screens

Ignorance is bliss - Aren't they

Just big old touch screens with a PC strapped on the back ? surely a wipe of the HDD and then a reimage will get them working for the next few months

Ignorance: I have no idea if they are a big old strapping screen with a PC bolted on the back or something far more complex. Be surprised if it is more complex incase of HDD failure and the need to swap

Getting boring now

too common to read crap like this

More AI in M$ and more Patch errors.... coincidence ?

Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads

Re: Here's a thought...

And all the scam ones they run..

Perhaps...

In meta world

the nude app gives ai a bad name, so let's kill it

Investment scams only let people lose money, so no harm to ai and that is fine

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'

24H2 is really a dog

So slow and continuous problems with "patches"

Avoid at all costs

Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

Re: VAX field service engineers

There is a footballer who lost a finger, due to a ring when he climbed a fence

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

Re: MAGA

Lea e the Muppets out of this or Miss Piggy will be on your case

Hiyyyahhh

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Re: Li+ batteries

Hate that cars auto lock

At least that is the one"safety" feature my car lets me disable and keep disabled, all others reset on the next start

Re: "from Yantai, China"

I do wonder what brands, was it the bigger ones we know byd,mg or smaller ones

I remember once riding to work, stopped at some lights and a guy on a new, but cheap Chinese motorcycle was having a problem..... It had just caught fire

Re: Tesla that burned so hot, it melted part of the road

Could only remember my mercs SPF when I had been doing more that 50 for a bit and was still doing over 50

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

South African immigration

Has it stopped yet ?

Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

Filter, filter and filter

Be like me, when someone at my place spams me with shit, add a rule to forward all to deleted

If there is a subject that will get lots is responses, do the same

That way I can summarise my emails very quickly

As for a document. I find the TOC works really well and all our docs have a Synopsis and solution as the first 2 headings

No need for ai shit

Re: We all know what'll happen

Fruit loom and guildian rule

KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'

Migration

What is needed is a set of instructions in one place for people on how to migrate all the key apps and Google to keep them going in the same way

M365

OneDrive (inc auto offline)

Teams

I - things (tunes / cloud)

How old to import pictures from an iPhone to a local folder, etc

Most people these days are probably mainly browser users with the odd app here and there

Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest

Re: Why upgrade ?

Potentially, but in a lot of cases there is no point in upgrading and moving to a cheap SIM only is going to save you hundreds, if not thousands before there is a really compelling reason to upgrade

I know they are supposed to move to to a cheap deal when your 2/3 year contract is up, but most of those are a ripoff compared to what to can get

Why upgrade ?

When the manufacturer stops providing updates and you want to keep on using backing apps

otherwise there is no real point

Cameras are not dramatically improving

Microsd - most seem to be stopping:(

Ai - keep that shit away from me

My old phone had a green screen issue which meant an upgrade a couple of years ago. At a recent family event, I took a few pics on my phone (Sony) and numerous mentioned how good it was (mostly iPhone users)

I do hate bankd that will et you run their app on an ancient unrooted phone that is so vulnerable, but won't if you root and put on the latest asop build - as it is a "security risk"

Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma

Turned off

They still throw patches when you think you have stopped them all so you can patch manually and in a controlled manner.

Amount of times my machines have all rebooted and patched overnight when I do not want them to is staggering.

Let me patch machine A, if it breaks I can use B or C. Don't patch and break them all so I am fucked

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

Wordpad

They get rid of WordPad to make Notepad into Wordpad

do they not understand that people want a v simple text editor, aka notepad

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

Netware

Prefer the old Netware Anvil myself

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

Re: Legacy

Most are in court. I know Mercedes are in court in October - based on the latest newsletter I got

Like that Abercrombe & Finch nonce

Re: re: Sentences

Real World Tests are what should be used, but it is slow and a drawn out process and you can guarantee that if certain test routes are used someone will complain as that company used this route, that company used that route.

Need to define it far better - but all of them are at it - even now on the adverts where they say WTLP may differ from real usage and tout WTLP figures - which are clearly incorrect

they did move on

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgleg70r7rno

Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool

It is a problem with non laptop browers - the lack of plugins such as noScript, adlock, privacy badge

a few browsers have some protection - also a private DNS, but

why are FB and Linked in allowing them in the first place ?b

ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it

Re: Repairable would help

My old Lenovo's had a quality docking station - nigh on impossible to dock badly.

The new ones have a USB dock. I do not like the size and weight of the cable from the dock to the laptop. Looks like it is putting too much pressure onto the usb port. I now have a Post-it page marker pack under that port / plug to provide a larger area to stop the "bend"

Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone

Re: ho no

C-suite; beancounters

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Ask any AI how to remove a specific app or feature

from windows / android and they will all roll off the usual

Go to apps and look here and choose uninstall

Go to settings, apps, Show all apps, and uninstall

Great for some apps, but those buggers that are bloat from the supplier or AI shit - none of it applies, and when I check, I have specificailly asked to remove / uninstall completely, CoPilot/Gemini/Other Bloatg

Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates

Re: Phew

Especially as it does not touch north America and that IS the world

Rideshare companies in India are asking for tips before the trip

Bribe and ride

Thought tips were for good service

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Ethernet when you can, Wi-Fi when you have to

Due to the walls here and poor signal, a few EEro units. What is near to the Eero - TV, Squeezebox, Console, is wired into that Eero leaving the wireless alone except where the device needs it

Re: Just....

But you get some places, and the MiL is a classic, so much rebar in the walls that even the router on full strength can only get into the room next door. down the hallway to the other bedroom is a no go. Either a booster in between or Ethernet over mains and another AP

China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station

Tardigrades

"no big deal"

Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

Well blow me over

Seems science, medicine and physics make good use of ai.

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

Marvel

He's been watching Marvel again and thinks it will be like the dome over Wakanda, only instead of hiding the civilisation it will be gold in colour fruit bowl....

I wonder if we can sell him the O2 (the upside down wok to give it its old name) and spray it gold ?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

Upset with China

Can do as much with old spec cards, their own cards and uh oh, optimisation of code and usage

He is probably most upset about the later as it shows you do not need to use such powerful cards and therefore impacts his next payout. I mean, what is everyone went down that route ?

Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

Tencent

Perhaps that is what Tencent have done and them made adjustments to fully utilise and not be bothered by the latest and greatest - which they cannot get

Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet

Back up the SA refugee claims

come on, reports who have done basic investigation on the SA refugee who was in the press, quickly showed he was not a farmer but ran a mine until last month.

Something has to counter that, so Mr Nazi clearly tried to inflience

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

Re: Disconnect Everything

yeah, would not want to be in security these days, nor recovering. Many places only then find their DR is not good enough, nor were backups etc

When a bank or whoever calls me, it is what I do.

I ask them to tell me something they can see and tell me - specifically with banks and a recent transaction. Guarantee you get a "but GDPR", so off you go into why that is a load of bollox and they can tell me as I am the thing GDPR is trying to protect and they are the controller.

Passcode to phone

Try telling a bank to stop doing that. Do not want to listen - even though it is not too hard to bypass

Run their app on a rooted phone - major risk, we cannot do