Looks interesting.
I would prefer a bigger autonomy though, even if it means a 1 mm less thin body and 100-200 g more.
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I re-evaluated a possible upgrade to Windows 11 due to Windows Update harassement, but I came to the conclusion, again, that Windows 11 is still Windows 10 --
The main bar can still only appear at the bottom of the screen, whereas one could choose any of the 4 borders for as long as I can remember.
The games still seem to run slower than on Windows 10.
For pro-audio, the jury is still out whether Windows 11 is quicker than Windows 10 or the opposite.
I couldn't care less about Android apps on Windows.
So Microsoft, give us real reasons to upgrade.
Begin by firing fully delusional Panos Panay, who already became insufferable as Surface Boss the last couple of years, out-bullshitting Apple on each and every product presentation, self masturbating with design and whatnot.
Here's my problem witrh the 5G as a dream picture: unless I'm wrong, it'll take a lot of energy to move 60 fps from the cloud to a smartphone and controler data from the smartphone to the cloud with minimal latency. Thus destroying autonomy.
This will seriously limit the appeal, at least on the go. And in a fixed environment, fiber-based wi-fi will probably be much cheaper.
And it's pretty much the same with all the other "5G is not an evolution scenarii" such as automated driving coordination, telemedicine and whatnot.
BTW the console lifecycle is still 5 years.
No, it's using C/C++ incorrectly without the available tools to detect and remove these classes of bugs, refusing to use libraries and langage facilities and well known patterns explicitely made to avoid those bugs, and repeating ad nauseam the same errors, that is like refusing to use ABS.
That said, the competition with Rust is very welcome, and will force the C/C++ ecosystem to address the issue of incorrect code.
Here's my problem with Windows 11: Graphic card, DirectX 12 & WDDM 2.x
I bough components to build a brand new computer in December 2020, except a graphic card, since modern ones were, still are, and will be probably until H2 2022 impossible to purchase.
I installed my old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 in my computer.
Hence, it is NOT compatible with Windows 11.
I'm pretty sure I won't be alone with this issue, unless bitcoin value goes to $0.
Windows 10 is a very fine OS and has mostly improved with time.
I'm super happy it is compatible with hardware I'm still using, launched in 2003, with last firmware in 2007 and newest available drivers from 2010 and using an interface long forgotten: FireWire.
Pretty sure this wouldn't be the case on a Mac, nor on Linux for lack of driver.
Microsoft has to make sure Windows won't break systems written decades ago.
So the chance of Windows becoming an emulation layer on top of Linux are 0 % imho.
There is no value to Windows otherwise, and Microsoft would be much better off writing a new os from the start.
Also, people have been underestimating the revenues of Windows for a long time.
Windows profits paid for (failed Windows Mobile), for Azure and for Staya's other whishes.
Yes, Azure is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft, but not important enough that it discloses its turnover, much less its profits.
In my opinion, they get it and that's what they mean by:
"He also promised that Microsoft will not alienate developers with "yet another solution".
Win32 devs who aren't missing anything will continue with win32
Win32 devs who are missing something, and this should be most devs developping modern applications compatible with touch and so forth, will get extended APIs that for all intent and purposes look like an evolution of Win32.
Those who may loose a little are the UWP devs, if the upgrade to the new API isn't as automatable as forethought. However, they also win since everybody knows the divide is unsustainable and things had to evolve.
To be fair, choice is always better, and some people do prefer targeted advertising at the cost of their privacy.
I really don't understant why Facebook isn't awaiting the result: 5 % of people opting in is better than 0 %.
Unless it is sure Apple rigged the question so that nobody would continue to accept use of an IDFA.
Regarding trends on the bleeding edge, did you read Facebook's explanations on the full rewriting of Messenger for iOS?
To me, after years of building hipster javascript framework upon javascript framework, it seems Facebook devs (re)discovered what older devs did. Such as sql stored procedures and such.
https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/
Had this problem for a few days on my laptop, but not my desktop.
This is what I tried after everything I found on the internet didn't work: I added a new Windows 10 display language.
It did work, and then, switching back to the usual display language continued to work.
I would be very surprised to have done that experiment at the exact time Microsoft fixed its network problems, but what do I know.
European telcos are right to recoup their 4G+ costs.
5G promises of a revolution instead of an evolution will come at a huge cost, if ever, with the need to multiply terrestrial antennaes, and huge fiber interlinking infrastructures. And that's not even taking into account the need for power efficiency increases of smartphones to benefit from speeds & short latencies for more than a few minutes.
In the mean time, there is very little to be gained by a few percentage to 2x download speed over 4G+, at least for the customers. Videos are downloaded fast enough, and no 4K phone screen makes sense.
If there were no compromises to be done for security, developers would already write (or mostly let the computer write) ultra secure code.
Believing a language change is a panacea stinks, plus it doesn't even take into account the training of Microsoft's 30k+ developers.
This isn't to say Rust hasn't a bigger role to play at Microsoft - maybe it will, but we would already know if security was as easy as a language's switch.
Our friends at npm have been a top malware injector, and they are Rust lovers.
Exactly what does suck so much in WIndows 10 ?
Apart from the telemetry, wich is decreased each time the EU or one of its DPA complains, I don't see much to complain, especially for the price.
I'm still using a ~12 y.o. firewire audio interface/control surface/mixer whose last driver was for Windows XP. It works superbly. With brand new daw code only compatible with W10/x64. Without any issue.
Last week I flashed a c++17 application on an Arduino Uno under WSL/Ubuntu with avr-gcc.
I can remote debug a Raspberry Pi native app from free Visual Studio Community.
There are pretty much best in class applications in all domains.
Thanks for this!
Just switching from Windows Mobile, I have tons to learn about Android, and I am appalled I can't do simple things such as choosing a color for BG or text color without resorting to tricks (black jpg) or downloading apps.
Any recommendation on which dns server I should choose with blockada? DNS AdGuard?
Do you know if the S8 is rootable & would it affect development of apps for the Google store?