* Posts by The Central Scrutinizer

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Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster

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Apple wants the world to know.... that it sells over priced shiny shit that can't hold a candle to a properly specced X86 machine.

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

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AI, the new 3D TV?

Overhyped crap that absolutely no one asked for or wanted.

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club

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Re: The quacking, walking duck.

Noooo I'm sure it's 100 percent legitimate.

Caveat Emptor.

Western Digital wasn't the only one - Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems

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Windows, the gift that just keeps on giving.....

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

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Re: It really is sad...

has become?

It was always so.

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway

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Re: Data custodians + access key

Seriously, a "reliable custodian" like Apple, Google etc?

What could possibly go wrong?

You really haven't been paying attention, have you?

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

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I once worked for a Telco/ISP.

Walked in one morning and several screens were displaying a "no signal" message. My so called manager was in a panic and was on hold to tech support saying "we have to get this problem fixed".

I sat at one of the machines displaying the message and got it up and running. When the manager asked me how I fixed it I went into smug mode and said "I turned the computer on".

She quickly terminated the call with tech support.

LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem

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Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading.

I'm still laughing so much from that opening sentence that I can't possibly get through the rest of the article.

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

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Well, I'll be watching my gloriously dumb Sony until it dies.

This enshitificatio of everything is seriously bloody out of control. I believe some TVs won't let you use them unless you agree to all the tracking. How's that for "informed consent"?!

Cars are out of control too, sending all sorts of telemetry to the mother ship, from where it's siphoned off to scumbag advertisers.

And the mega corps wonder why we hate them so much.

Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

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Re: Woa - desktops = production??

Yeah but I do actual real work on my PC. Not just email and browsing yada yada. Graphics intensive 3D stuff and video editing.

As long as my PC supplier of choice exists I will still be speccing my computers with the hardware I want.

Thanks for the downvotes, whoever did that.

Numpties.

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Re: Woa - desktops = production??

"In other words, 5Y or so, you may still have things that *look* like desktops, but in fact, they're sealed boxes, non-expandable... but you can use your own keyboard and mouse and screens. Which is still worth having, but it's only a small part of what's worth having."

So the options for those of us who carefully spec their machines with particular CPUs, graphics cards etc are just going to dry up?

I think not.

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

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Yeah, they really are.

I'll put my processed raw images up against a phone's crappy jpegs any time.

A quality SLR or similar will eat a phone for lunch.

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Phone cameras are shit. I use an actual camera to take photos and shoot raw images. It's the only way to fly.

AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand

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Take your "AI" PC. and shove it.

It's a bit like so called "smart" devices. Absolutely no one needs them and most people certainly don't want them.

I'm the intelligence that operates my computer, not the other way around.

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. That's America. Get your facts straight. Seriously....

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Re: Good!

Trump can't dissolve NATO Or are you just posting on Vlad's behalf?

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line

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Re: Survailance without enforcement

You really are quite unhinged.

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What sort of twisted mind comes up with this dystopian horror show?

What ever happened to leaving people alone to go about their perfectly legal business?

The tech bros are clearly well out of control, to put it mildly.

No no and no

AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords

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Re: "Best to just suck it up and master Delvish"

Walter White and his home made thermite?

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What a stupid article

No, I will never try to "appease the machines". Don't be so bloody ridiculous.

Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha

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Yeah, nah.... I'll stick with Mint.

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

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Microsoft Linux

Just the thought makes me shudder with disgust.

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

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This is why you never, ever buy so called "smart" stuff, because it's sold by bastards who want to keep charging you ad infinitum or just can't be arsed supporting it anymore.

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

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Re: Amiga, Amiga, Amiga *sigh*

The whole thing was a great computing experience. LightWave was incredible for its time and relatively affordable compared to the likes of Softimage et al.

And ... Fred Fish disks.

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Ah the Amiga

I went from a C64 to an A500 and then an A4000 in fairly quick succession. It had a 120 meg hard drive and 4 meg of RAM. The power!

The Video Toaster came bundled with LightWave, which was used to create the Babylon 5 models and various effects. The station, the jump gate, the Starfuries etc etc.Babylon 5 inspired me to get into 3D graphics and when Newtek started selling stand alone LightWave, I bought my first copy of it and was hooked.

I still have my March 1993 copy of Amazing Computing magazine where Ron Thornton and Paul Beigle-Bryant talk about setting up Foundation Imaging to create the B5 universe.

They really were heady days for those of us getting into 3D graphics, but eventually of course, Commodore screwed it all up.

I always get a bit misty eyed when I think back to those early days of 3D and how good the Amigas were.

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

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Ah yes, the tech bully boy at it again. It's a cult.

US 'laptop farm' man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Korea to fund weapons programs

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They should have twigged earlier, when he said his username was Kim Log In.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'

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If gps tracking had been available when I was doing onsite support, at least on day shift, I might have been occasionally in trouble.

Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister

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You've missed my point completely. Read it again.

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The signatories argued that the proposed measures would "stifle" social media and discourage public participation in democracy.

And there's your reason, right there.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

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"Mint, on the other hand, is prone to problems, and it's hardly supported at all. There is little written about how to work with Mint, almost none of it up todate, and little other support on the Internet. When you ask for help on Mint forums with any problem you get told "reinstall". Its developers clearly don't care at all. The operating system and its files are arranged completely differently, which is quite unecessary and must have been done deliberately to make it hard to work with Mint under the hood, since Mint is basically Ubuntu with the desktop made more attractive and user friendly. This means that usually the solution to problems in Ubuntu don't work in Mint."

That is all just flat out wrong.

In just over 10 years of using Mint I have had one audio problem with it. That's it. If you don't like Mint just say so, but don't spread untruths about it.

Nvidia's next Linux driver to be… just as open

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Wow, all the hate for nVidia. I am running an nVidia card with Mint, using the proprietary driver and it ... works very well, as in, not a problem at all

I'm rendering 3D scenes with the GPU and it's as smooth as. As far as game performance goes I have no idea as I don't play graphics heavy games.

I don't get all bent out of shape about being "pure" and refusing to run the proprietary driver as I like to use what gets the job done.

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

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Yeah, torrenting is inherently illegal, says a bunch of technically inept clowns.... because "copyright"!

How tech went from free love to pay-per-day

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Re: Speaking the copium

Well said. I have a complete 2D/3D pipeline using FOSS, including the OS.

Those of us who get stuff done with FOSS usually don't bang on about it because we're usually busy getting stuff done.

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

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Re: "certain types of journalism won't be tolerated"

More bullshit from you

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your all caps yelling does not make your alleged point any clearer. He has not been convicted of any crime. He pleaded guilty to get out of 12 years of incarceration and unending harassment.You will love it if Trump gets back into the white house. Journalists will be hounded mercilessly.

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well, you are an anonymous coward.

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Don't verbal me. And go away.

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Assange may not be the nicest person on the planet, but the insane level of rage against him here is pathetic, to say the least.

He and WikiLeaks exposed American war crimes.

It is a bad day when journalism is being punished. Trump has repeatedly threatened to go after journalists if he's re-elected.

Think about that for a millisecond, if you can.

EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians

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And the clown car of encryption busting ideas just keeps on driving full tilt towards the edge of the cliff.

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

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Maybe she is secretly working for the Apple and Linux PR departments.

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

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Re: All I want to know

Linux does all I need it to and that is quite a lot, so.... pfftt

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

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The level of self importance you have is truly mind boggling. I'd love to see your evidence of the huge problem of activist judges in Australia, but, nah I can't be be arsed wasting any more time replying to your drivel

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Re: Modest proposal.

Having a mygov account is not compulsory. Stop talking bullshit.

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Ah yes, your first and last resort is to start name calling. That's some real intellectual rigour on display, right there.

The rest of your post is just unintelligible gibberish.

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"Over 62% of Australia's real estate has compulsorily changed hands since then as a result"

No, it hasn't. You've been down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories for far too long.

Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'

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Having used Linux Mint exclusively for the last 10 years, these kinds of articles simply make me laugh now.

I'm so happy I got off that shitty train when I did. Why people still willingly install that Microsoft garbage onto their home PCs is beyond me.

Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

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Google, enshitifying the Internet one search result at a time. Any search for anything useful on technical computing issues is fucking useless.

It's becoming more and more like Clippy.

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