Posts by Piro 2313 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2008
What what we want is performance and stability, and basic features like the search box also filtering fields other than just name. In Skype I could immediately see who was online from a department by typing that department name. Can't in Teams. It locks up, it consumes resources like almost nothing else...
I don't need some 3D avatar rubbish, fix the actual product before adding useless crap!!
24 hours is extremely underwhelming anyway - I don't know why we've all accepted that phones have to be huge, but battery life is awful.
5G is bad for battery life, 4G not being particularly great, and then you have all the random battery sucking services running on the device.
I have an older Android phone (Redmi 4X, battery is from 2017!) that I use exclusively for work, it has a custom ROM and a fairly minimal application load, it's almost entirely idle the whole time, and it can last 4 or 5 days between charges. It can be done.
Hm, I don't know. I had a Samsung mono laser that was tiny and cost me 50 quid new, 3rd party toner was dirt cheap, I think I replaced it twice in the well over 10 years I owned it, and ended up selling the printer, and it was still working then. Never any issues.
I replaced it with it colour multifunction Brother laser with an ADF. I'm also happy with that so far, in the 4 or so years I've owned it.
Windows 10 was never finished, and still lacks the cohesive design of 7. Microsoft have just been going from fail to fail after 7, in my opinion.
11 looks awful, and the limitations are artificial and astounding. Their reasons are also terrible "clock will crash more often" - are you telling me that after all these years, you can't write a simple clock application that won't crash?
That says a lot more about them than the hardware.
The line has to be drawn somewhere, exactly.
I think it should simply be drawn at the dawn of the AMD64 era. It's almost what Windows 10 does - it requires instructions that came about in about 2003, but there is a 32-bit version of Windows 10.
If Windows 11 had the same requirement but was 64-bit only, I think that would be reasonable.
If they wanted to optimise further, and restrict it to modern platforms that won't give a bad experience, I reckon SSE 4.1 support would be a good baseline to aim for, which shouldn't piss too many off or generate a bunch of e-waste.
"I'm already putting up with them in Win10, so it's not like Win11 will make my life that much worse."
Oh no, it can get a lot worse, and it has. Basic functionality like dragging and dropping to the taskbar to open a file in an application doesn't work. You can't "ungroup" taskbar items (horrible feature that was crap in XP, and has been crap ever since), just to name a couple of things that will drive me mad.
There are only 3 renderers in that post.
WebKit, Blink, Gecko.
Blink of course being a fork of WebKit.
Opera is a fantastic browser, by the way, and some the features make it well worth using. Its built in print to PDF function is just better than others I've used, for one.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for many years, but I sometimes lose patience with it. The way they ruined extension support a while back still stings, and I find that now and then it just messes up in ways Blink based browsers don't seem to. It just has a slightly jankier feel about it, which is sad. So then I open Opera and get on with things... Vivaldi is also a reasonable choice..
This is an odd machine. Pentium II with 4GB of RAM?
I never have heard of such a thing. Is there even a chipset that supports that combination?
It would have been in any case, unbelievable, and I refuse to believe that any desktop PC could have had space for the number of RAM slots/sticks needed.
Far better than the rest of the industry?
How many SMARTphone charging cables have there really been?
3, mini USB, micro USB, USB C..
Not exactly crazy. Some earlier "smartphones" that didn't have capacitive touchscreens had legacy connectors from their respective brands (I had an SE P900 and P990), but that phase is long gone.
Apple should just switch to USB C and be done with it. If it was good enough for the iPad...
I personally consider a cookie the large, fudgy kind, better if they're warm.
There are also several biscuits rammed with chocolate chips that are called cookies, so it's just easier to call them cookies, even though they could also be considered biscuits.
They are right on the edge of biscuitness, I'll give you that.
But you have to admit, there's a fair bit of biscuit in a Penguin or Club. That said, the focus is, I agree, the chocolate. I just had to throw them in so they weren't entirely forgotten (the caramel wafer is clearly not a biscuit).
Ginger nuts are indeed fantastic, and their low-tier presence is disturbing.
It's been a while since I had a fig roll, and they are indeed also excellent, and other classics have also been named, such as shortbread.
Bourbons are good, but digestives as winners? Where are the Hob-nobs? What about a Club, Penguin, and so on. If we stretch the definition a bit too much, we could even come to Tunnock's caramel wafers..
I'm now developing quite the hunger...
Until January 2023 thank you very much. Just not for the plebs (without a workaround).
Very fondly missed. Microsoft has largely been messing up the interface ever since.
It's the last time they emphasised that they'd actually listened to feedback. Anyone remember all the great ads? They were trying to distance themselves from Vista's less than stellar response.
When I took my test, it did involve going over the Magic Roundabout, and I passed (although I had a few minors due to driving too quickly).
Though a week or so before, I heard a story about someone taking their test who must have hesitated at the wrong moment, and got rear-ended by a bus.
I've got AdGuard Home running on my network now, which should hopefully kill ads.
But fact is, for my purposes, after much research, the Lenovo Tab P11 was the only tablet on the market that met my needs.
I wanted a relatively inexpensive tablet that had:
A charging dock
A real pressure sensitive stylus
I was replacing an HP TouchPad with the wireless charger. I'd never buy a tablet without a charging dock of some kind, it fits the way we use it.
I also appreciate that the Lenovo tablet has a battery preservation mode, which means it's always between 40% and 60% charge, not just ramming 100% forever as it's almost always on charge.
It's fast, lighter than my old tablet, I like the magnetic attachment of the cover (although I wish it would dock with the cover on, like the HP TouchPad did) and I paid very little for it new on Lenovo's site (found a discount code that actually worked!). I can honestly recommend it..
"LTSC users have a tricky decision to make. Stick with the existing Windows 10 2019 LTSC, which lasts until 2029 because it was released before Microsoft decided that LTSC wasn't forever, and certainly not the 10 years of old (unless one was using the IoT version.) Or upgrade, knowing that support for this Windows 10 LTSC will end in 2026."
The third option. Install Windows Server 2022 and enjoy the Final Edition of Windows 10, with patches until 2032...
I was as naïve as you, once, and then I saw the light: Smart TVs are bringing the price of TVs way down, due to the data they can collect and sell on you.
It's crazy how cheap an enormous, fragile and complex object is - and it came from around the world to get to you. Smart TV functions have a hand in that.
Simply never cable the thing up to the network or enable the wifi, and now have a not-so-smart TV, for less than a monitor of that size would cost you. It's definitely NOT the hill to die on.
You might even find yourself thinking a couple of the functions are OK - for example mirroring from a smartphone (quite nice to show a photo quickly up on the telly), and want to re-enable the networking on the device. If you do that, then, like me, you can just block every last bit of traffic at your firewall, so it can only chat internally.
Et voilà, a device that's working for you, and isn't even able to spy on you.
I see what you're trying to say, but that's not the real world. I know some people would be happy to even to run Core 2, but I think they're a bit on the old side, I personally would say Sandy Bridge (2nd gen, as Intel calls it) quads and newer are perfectly acceptable for day to day use
The win+arrow window snapping was brought in with 7, so that's one more off the list. Win+shift+arrow even moves between screens.
Taskbar on all screens can be a useful one, I'll grant you that, although there were 3rd party applications to achieve that.
"If we just use them to bicker about Brexit, we’ll drown out the real lessons in the noise."
Yup, exactly. It's a problem that's been coming for some time. Farming and logistics are two utterly critical sectors that have been squeezed and squeezed.
Another huge issue is the fact young people's heads are filled with all kinds of fantasises, they've been sold lies, that they can be anything they want - who would then choose to work long hours for low pay, and probably endure health problems because of it?
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