Posts by BrownishMonstr

New year, new OS: OneDrive support axed for old versions of Windows from 1 Jan 2022

Windows 10 came out 6 years ago, so another 2 years at least, maybe 6.

Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero

Re: This is what scares me

I'm 30.

I've no idea what TF is going on any more.

Multimillionaire Activision Blizzard CEO cuts annual pay to $62,000 amid sexual harassment probes

Re: Jeez, not much.

The key is to not buy the games---once enough people stop, they'll either make it worse, or another competitor will come out with something better.

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Re: "If this is the future you want to see..."

I for one think it's an amazing idea, one which Mr Zuckerberg should bet all of his and Facebook's money on. Just invest all that money into this idea.

Hopefully, then, Meta/Facebook will become bankrupt

Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

Ahem, 13 shades of blue, green, yellow, and read.

Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office

Don't know the long term consequences of getting jabbed

This is a sane argument and is one I personally express too, as have a few of my colleagues. Learning how talcum powder may have caused cancer, and hearing about the side effects of other products decades later means that there very well could be side-effects of the vaccine. Side effects we won't find out until later life.

But it's either a known risk of death now, or an unknown risk of side-effects in the future. We can only see what happens, but I really hope there's none.

Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only)

Re: Use cases?

I'm sure they've had their run-ins with Google.

On Windows Phone 7, the chocolate factory didn't release a YouTube App and sent a cease and desist to MS to stop them from releasing their own version of it.

I thought it was petty, but the lack of apps on Windows Phone certainly caused it to die.

There were also rumours of Microsoft wanting to port Android apps over to WP, but that went dead in the water, for some reason.

Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier... but slightly worse

How dare you say Windows 7 was peak MS Paint, Sir.

Certainly, the non-ribbon one had features its successors did not have, such as selecting a tertiary colour. I'm pretty sure there were other features lost, but alas I cannot remember what they were.

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Re: Really odd...

When I was in high school, secondary school for you non-Lancashire fellows, about 14 years ago, we used a plastic magnetic stripe card to pay for lunch. We'd top that up with coins, or by giving a cheque to the canteen staff in the morning. They moved to that because it was faster.

I think after I left, they moved to a finger print reader, instead of the card.

Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws

Re: Obviously guilty

Keyword: could

But I know what they are trying to do.

Microsoft .NET updates include C and C++ code in Blazor WebAssembly, release date for Visual Studio 2022

> you can quickly get up and running and get something useful running

I've heard people say the same thing about WinForms, but I much prefer WPF with its databinding. I miss WPF, prefer it over Web Development.

Microsoft shows off Office 2021 for consumers ahead of the coming of Windows 11

Re: artsy UI updates

I was in about 15/16 when the Ribbon came out and, for some reason, enjoyed the changes back then. At the time I quickly got used to it, but it would be frustrating for me now. I thought it was frustrating for MS Paint to use the Ribbon, that seemed to have got rid of some features.

That said, the ribbon wasn't a bad idea in MS Office, it made some things more visible. I remember at school the teaching assistant, who was doing the GCSE course as well, was putting textboxes all over their document because they didn't know how to use superscript. That wasn't the easiest to do on the old UI, you had to go to the format text window via tools. With the Ribbon it was on the first tab right next to the font dropdown. I suppose they could have put the super/sub-script button on the toolbar on the old UI, but adunno.

Revealed: How to steal money from victims' contactless Apple Pay wallets

Re: No Problem

Last year I rang Halifax and told them someone's taken hundreds of pounds from my account, and I have my card right with me, I got a refund for each payment. I suspect that would be Visa's zero-liability policy, as opposed to my bank.

Take a look, and you'll see... Windows XP? Bit of Dairy Milk, Fruit and Bork at Cadbury World

Re: XP vs 10

I remember it taking 10-15m before it was usable.

Then again, the crap I installed at 13 versus the crap I install now, and the hardware, as you stated, may play a part in it.

iFixit prises open the iPhone 13 Pro, claims 'any display replacement knocks out Face ID'

They are supposedly bringing touch id back, perhaps under the screen. I've had my 8 plus for about 4 years now, and won't mind waiting for another year or two for that feature.

If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs

Re: Trickle-down effect?

Which would shorten the life of the car, in terms of actual years of whether it's used or not, not the total years of use. So if there was only 5 years of updates, it might work as the car might not even last that long.

5 years is too short for cars these days, but when you're not buying them it may not matter as much if most of it can be recycled.

Re: Trickle-down effect?

Unless we all, except from those who can afford not to, move to subscription-based cars and using them like taxis, instead of being something personal.

Microsoft slaps on some new Paint and previews Windows 11 on Azure

Re: Looks like every other paint app

Can't you do that with the Win+S shortcut in Windows 10?

Record-breaking Kuwaiti heatwave triggers inadvisable TikTok expletive outburst

Re: No women, not even top-of-the-line engineers

I don't think Islam strictly forbids women from working, however I do believe Kuwaitis' sexual repression may play a part in it.

Apple settles with student after authorized repair workers leaked her naked pics to her Facebook page

Re: How to tell if you're stupid.

I have images of my wife during pregnancy. Very unflattering, but neither of us would want the photos to be exposed. I also have photos of my 3yo daughter.

If some stranger goes snooping and looking at the photos, I would have a strong urgency to punch the twat, no matter how likely it is they will win the fight. I'm not the type of person to fight, but I'd do it in that scenario.

The only reason to look at photos is to maybe test the camera. No other fucking reason exists.

All phones should come with a repair mode to restrict the OS to extremely basic functions, sandboxing apps like the camera and photos.

Why did automakers stall while the PC supply chain coped with a surge? Because Big Tech got priority access

Yes, used to.

My phone has a much better entertainment capabilities than my outdated 6yo car.

Perhaps it's time for auto makers to further modularise parts of their cars. The entertainment shit can be upgraded much quicker than the actual car.

Oh wait, fuck it. It'll just be 100x more expensive than it should be.

What do you mean?

Touch screen is great, except from all those damn times you need to keep your eyes on the damn road.

My fuckingg car's heating controls are touch screen (2014 insignia), I do not understand how anyone thought it was a good idea. If I wasn't lazy or cheap I'd buy a crappy screen protector and stick cutouts, so I can feel my way round.

Fucking idiots.

Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months as the weather – and election campaigns – start to heat up

If the US was smart, they would have wanted to give Rouhani more leeway, to appease the Iranian population. That way they would keep voting for moderates instead of another jimmy jab for president. Perhaps one day the Supreme Leader role would no longer have existed.

Perhaps the US are smart and don't want Iran to progress.

Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told

Re: What about others....

I recall a few years ago I checked the Spotify sub on ios and it was more expensive than online. Turns out they added the 20% or whatever it was on top.

Re: Actually the Pope isn't Catholic.....

Wasn't QI abused by The Register for its inaccuracies. It ultimately led me to stop watching it. The comedy was funny, but not as much when I had to question whether the answers and info were correct.

Day 3 of the Apple vs Epic trial: What actually is an iPhone anyway?

Perhaps Apple should sell the iPhone and iPads at a loss and they can then justify a 30% cut.

Sorry, silly joke.

UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways

Re: Thought experiment

Ideally the car will be able to identify the falling objects it will come into contact with so it will brake harshly. The logs might be rolling back relative to the lorry, but relative to the lamp post next to it, it'll still be moving forwards.

Brit MPs and campaigners come together to oppose COVID status certificates as 'divisive and discriminatory'

Isn't it time we stop vaccinating our own population and ensure the majority of the world have vaccinated their over 50s?

If we are only one of a few countries to have vaccinated all of our countrymen, then we might end up being back in full lockdown once a deadly mutant variant is back in our population, one which escapes our vaccines.

Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

Re: Get started on the B Ark...

At least they suck well.

Re: Traditional infrastructure is all well and good but...

Really? The world feels like it's moving more right than left.

How not to apply for a new job: Apply for it on a job site

Except agencies have a list of contacts they can easily email.

Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess

Feed the dogs,

Brush your teeth,

Clean the john, and give your horse one final rubdown.

Cos a cowboy's life ain't easy and a cowboy's life is hard,

Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver calls on the UK to extend Coronavirus Act provisions for online meetings

It's a Village Council, for the Village. Strangers aren't welcome here.

Microsoft sides with media groups, together they urge Europe to follow Australia's lead, make Google, Facebook pay for news article links

Re: What a surprise

Old Mcdonald has a grudge. E-I-E-I-O.

Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition

The whole thing sounds like a Farsi

Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol

Re: I'm confused

I think it was the use of "their". Not sure how it's politically correct, it's a valid use of the language.

I think schlee needs to calm down a bit as schlee is only making a joke of schlimself/schlerself. Hope schlee doesn't go all capitol on us.

Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though

What's better? Signal or telegram?

My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me

Re: You get what you pay for

Please do tell me what a good fucking alternative is? The Windows Phone was one, but that was Nadella-rized.

I have had enough Android phones to realise that OS was a terrible piece of shit, and the upgrade support was next to nothing. Fuck expandable memory, "No Storage space left". What the fuck are you onabout...there's 32gb left on the memory card. Oh I see, bloated ROM with just a few of my installed apps allowing me to move it to external memory. Sure that was like 10 years ago and I was a cheap bastard being a student, but I'm not gonna waste my money on the unknown devil.

My iPhone 8 plus is on its third year, with only recently experiencing some hardware issues, but that would likely be down to my daughter. Yes, I've had some issues but it mostly just works. I'm not interested in changing phones every couple of years so I'd much rather my phone last for 4+ years.

What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?

Re: "water falling from hundreds of feet up"

Don't worry, French will be a dead language. At least that's what my trusted documentary told me.

YouYube

Whistleblowers have come to us alleging spy agency wrongdoing, says UK auditor IPCO

Maybe someone needs to tell that to Persia.

UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010

You know, maybe the ones in charge of the tender need sacking.

The Daily Mail complain about money going to the EU but it's really the bastards closer to home who burn a bigger slice of the pie.

Makes your blood boil. But what can you do other than drink/eat the sorrows away.

Running joke: That fitness gadget? It's, er, run out

Obsolete for a fanboi, good enough for the rest of us.*

* don't have the iWatch so tbh can't actually say if it'll be obsolete or not, but then apple aren't a startup so if they go bust there's much more worrying things.

Happy silver jubilee to JavaScript, king of the web at 25 and still hanging on to its crown, for now

Re: uniquity

Was Typescript supposed to replace JS, or was it just to make development easier?

Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear

Re: with only sizes for the larger fanboi available

MS paint has lost functionality when the ribbon was introduced, replaced with stuff for amateurs. Yes the application was for amateurs, but you were able to do quite a bit with it, like setting the page colour.

Re: GirlsWhoCode

One has to ask what sexual assault/harassment has to do with gender fluidity.

But, yes, why. Maybe his penis was too long so, as per NTFS and FAT32, had to be cut and stored elsewhere (for, er, backwards compatibility*).

*ahem. Gives a whole new meaning to backwards compatibility.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a monastery-burning romp that would be way better if it was not an Assassin's Creed game

I enjoyed the first one, though that may have something to do with being Muslim, or I just thought the concept was awesome. Then from 2 onwards it seemed like they were in it for the money and it was less about the origins of assassins.

Then I grew a bit older and only played battlefield. Now I'm much older and haven't got time to commit to console games.

Nokstalgia: HMD Global introduces yet another homage to the past – a 4G rework of the Nokia 6300

Re: "why you’d want to text on a T9 keyboard is beyond us."

The keyboard on the Lumias were great for swiping, some issues but was mostly good. Second best is SwiftKey. Despite being Microsoft still not as good as the lumia ones.

Re: Nokia N8 remake when?

I'm waiting for the n-gage

Re: Cool

When is that? Tomorrow? Next year? 60 years? Never?