Posts by Nick Sticks 27 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015
I laughed at this bit, we've now got apps (is Ida an app?) "reaching out".
"We're told that when you wake up Ida and talk to it, it will figure out whether you're asking it to perform an action specific to your vehicle – such as adjusting the aircon, or looking up a destination. If it can handle the job itself, it'll do so. If not, **it will reach out to Cerence servers**, which may in future ask ChatGPT to solve the problem and generate an answer."
If Edge is so good (in the last 6 months or otherwise) why does MS think it has to badger, force or trick people into using it?
It should be the other way round, make a good browser and people will actually want to use it.
Whether it's any good or not I won't use it because of the above and even if they change it would take a long time for me to trust them.
Exactly. I posted this on The Register back in 2015:
I'm sorry, Windows 8 and 10 is my fault, and probably yours too.
After all I opted out of that "Do you want to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program?" thing on Window 7 (and previous OSes too).
I didn't want them collecting information about my PC and how I used Windows, their words.
That means that if all the tech savvy people opted out of this what was left was the people who just read their emails and looked at Facebook.
So why wouldn't MS think that Windows 8 and 10 was what "the people" wanted or needed?
It's about this time in the comments that someone needs to reminisce about their old Acorn computers.....
I'll be that person.
I still have my boxed BBC B, BBC Master and my Acorn Archimedes in the attic.
Great computers and many a happy hour spent learning BBC BASIC and assembler and of course playing games.
It will work for some people without UPnP and Port Forwarding but there are less problems when you do.
"Port forwarding is commonly used to resolve problems encountered when connecting to the Frontier Servers, or to other players. It is especially important to enable port forwarding if UPnP is disabled or unsupported by your router."
https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=344
Hmmm. There is something going on that I didn't think could happen.
I have just spent the last few hours since I posted here testing on my 2 PC's and my 2 ED accounts.
With UPNP turned off and no port forwarding ED worked as it should. I could see other CMDRs in Open. I could also Wing up or MultiCrew with my other account.
In fact after turning off UPNP (guilty) and ED still working I thought that my DrayTek router needed rebooting for it to kick in, but it was the same afterwards.
Much has been made of Frontier's decision to use p2p for the networking between clients and they do use a central server for some transactions, but clients do talk directly to clients. This is why combat logging is a thing. This post does explain quite well how ED's networking happens:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/238233-VERY-basic-guide-for-ED-networking
A Google search will come up with a lot of pages about Elite Dangerous Networking Issues, so it doesn't work for some people as well as we all would like it to.
The latest update also includes new settings for networking in Options that include port forwarding.
So, I would say it can work well for some people depending on their router, but there's no doubt that others have problems that can be fixed by port forwarding or having UPNP enabled.
Fly safe CMDRs
(ED Kickstarter backer, Founder level)
Well it might have worked for you but you just did not see anybody else in Open or Group mode and/or you were playing in Solo mode.
Frontier Support on UPNP and setting up port forwarding:
https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=33
Some players get better connections when they have port forwarding set up.
Another Old Git.
After all I opted out of that "Do you want to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program?" thing on Window 7 (and previous OSes too).
I didn't want them collecting information about my PC and how I used Windows, their words.
That means that if all the tech savvy people opted out of this what was left was the people who just read their emails and looked at Facebook.
So why wouldn't MS think that Windows 8 and 10 was what "the people" wanted or needed?
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