Posts by BGatez

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion

notepad++, 'nuff said

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

surprise?

Maybe cause NOBODY needs another data snoop on their gear or just tired of power sapping nonsense.

Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025

We don't need no stinkin' AI

F a bunch of MS and AI. Really loathe both and if I eventually get a new laptop will do my best to block one and eradicate the other.

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

SURE IT'S VERY REPAIRABLE - NOT

The race for most e-waste to cut a few grams is kind of stupid and pointless.

A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them

New?

"New" more bogus marketing hype for small PCs. AI the turd icing the fake cake. Can't wait for the reaction of a true intelligent AI to the job boring humans to tears.

IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales

new hardware for Microsoft?

If anyone imagines I'm going to landfill my perfectly good hardware fort the privilege of running Windows 11 you are in for a shock.

New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules

Re: Perspective - what seriously?

Are you being dense on purpose? Right torepair is all about independent repair places having access to parts and plans, NOT the end user with a box of screwdrivers (though no reason to exclude if they wanted to do it. DOH!

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

The koi sold me

First screen with swimming koi and water touch pretty cool

Microsoft launches full-court press to save $69B Activision deal

Everything Microsoft touches dies

Title says it all, MS, the app killer, not the killer app

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

cost of ink cartridges?

Printers that WON'T print black if a single other cartridge is empty. Cartidges that cost 60-80% of a new printer. No thanks. Love those Brotherlasers.

Re: Can't help feeling it's more a bottom line thing than a green thing...

Is it sohard to add paper every200 sheets instead of 500? If you have such a high print rate then your printer need to be a robust model which will hold more.

iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to

Re: Yawn ...

And non -removable laptop batteries? Glue is BS for bucks.

Re: Interesting video

And every other device, (like LAPTOPS)!!!

If you're still on Windows 7/8.1, it's time to say goodbye to Google Chrome

Ha, I kissed off Chrome a long time ago. F*** a bunch of Google.

Wearables sales slacken as the novelty wears off

Re: An $800 watch

AND unrepairable

Lenovo updates ThinkPad mobile workstations with AMD variants

I don't want thinner and lighter

When I want a "workstation" I want a graphic and 3d capable monster with a 17" screen, overflowing with ports, the ability to connect at least two external monitors, and RAM and drives and battery I can access, replace or upgrade easily at will.

Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'

Re: I'll stick with my Astell and Kern.

As if AK wasn't stupid $$$ :)

sure this one is stupid $$$ but..

I have and do use a separate device for music on the go.

First, I'm not running down my phone battery, for the now and time it must be replaced due to a distinctly finite lifespan.

Second, even if wifi were available everywhere I like MY music without having to search and find it's not on this subscription, I need another. Or it's not popular enough to be anywhere, or an audio book I own, etc.

Third if I have lossless I want to hear it all, not what is broadcast or current wifi speed allows.

Fourth, I can use whatever headphones I please without adapters or bluetooth, (ef you Apple and now Samsung).

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

another reason to kiss off google

Just try reading el reg w/o an ad blocker. UGH! No thanks.

Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy

Heavy?

Amazingly Dells NEW 12th gen Precision WORKSTATION laptops, even the 17" version, have NO ethernet port! This is in addition to socking RAM and M2 slots on the inside of the MB, making them inaccessible to consumers without disassembling the machine. Yet another WTF moment of FU from Dell.

Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range

get a graphic workstation? good luck. Time for a custom Clevo frame laptop

Workstations from Lenovo, Dell, HP are disappearing into low end trash. Sealed in batteries, limited RAM slots or slots requiring taking the damn thing apart to reach. M2 slots same, on the inside of the MB. I don't need thinner and lighter, I need capable, reliable and up gradable - by me without 4 hours with a zillion teeny screws and delicate ribbon cables.

The new Dell Precison Workstation laptops have NO ETHERNET PORT, only wifi, because ???? F**K thinner and lighter.

Microsoft exposes glue-free guts of the Surface Laptop Studio

They're also made like crap. Totally non-repairable. Even apple cared up the wazoo, if something goes south you get a replacement, not a repair. As all memory, RAM and storage is soldered on, anything not saved elsewhere is gone baby gone. As with most of their products forget recycling as disassembling even rough takes too long.

Re: Not really surprised

When upgrading my wife's Dell Precision workstation laptop from 16 to 32GB of RAM dell offered me ONE 1GB chip for TWICE the price of TWO 16GB guaranteed chips from a large memory manufacturer.

Typical of so called "service manuals"

"Thin and light" BS pevasive

In the latest in bogus, Dell's newewst Precision workstation laptops no longer have an ethernet port cause.... thin and light? WTF? Their newest Anienware gaming laptops still get ethernet ports.

Dell, along with Lenovo and HP end users must, at least partially disassemble their MOST expensive, presumably advanced laptops designated as WORKSTATIONS, in order to replace or upgrade RAM. Typically at least 2 of 4 slots are buried under the keyboard.

Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real

lipstick on pigs

Better looking crap games with endless $ buy-ins... yay?

Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all

F*** that C***

F*** a bunch of elon, enough a holes on twitter as is

Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter, sends share price to the Moon

Re: Why didn't old Trumper think of this?

Cause he couldn't get someone else to pay for it

Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change

uninstall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arH3ztMTB9Q&t=204s

South Korean uni installs lavatory that pays out when you spend a penny

Re: Vacuum

Yes? See how that works at your home.

Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 midranger makes premium phones feel frivolous

Price?

When did the price of a very usable laptop become reasonable for a phone?

The M in M1 is for moans: How do you turn a new MacBook Pro into a desktop workhorse?

Why I don't shed $$$$ on something not up-gradable or easily recyclable or serviced where i please.

iFixit wants you to be legally able to break software locks to repair gizmos. Unsurprisingly, manufacturers are less keen

As ALWAYS Apple, GFYS and all copycats

Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

Re: Who is the most disgusting?

the slave factory abettors of apple?

Re: Charging infrastructure

When they get more popular they'll be more chargers - DOH!

Cherry on top: Dell shoves MX keyboard into its Alienware m15 R4 ultrabook

Re: Desktop keyboard

"Light" is not the point, heavy stays in place

Recovery time objective missed by four weeks, but Parler is back online

Re: Free speech ought not to be restricted by any person or organisation

They have the freedom to express their hate filled filth, just not the right to a venue or digital megaphone

Since when does nazi filth deserve a venue?

Bitcoin surges, exchanges flooded after Tesla says it bought $1.5bn in BTC, hopes to accept it as payment soon

elon fast fav for world's smuggest a-hole

Wanna know a semi-secret? Samsung's semi-rugged Galaxy XCover Pro is more than a semi-industrial curiosity

replaceable battery

so an extra rugged phone can have a replaceable battery but others can't? because????

Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us

I never look at ads but..

I NEVER buy anything I am harassed with, in fact I email or FB companies with offensive ads and tell them

Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State

Re: Two things

larry can afford a dozen mansions

Re: Two things

OTOH you're still surrounded by a-hole texans

Uh huh, except it's not housing for the homeless but housing for the wealthy that real estate interests want to build. And more high rise condos in a major earthquake zone, like that pretty new sky high downtown building sinking and tipping.

Re: improve our employees’ quality of life

if by "neo-liberal" you mean wealthy scum like the head of oracle and the endless greed of real estate interests, then yes

Re: improve our employees’ quality of life

made so by tech companies making hovels priced like palaces and adding enormously to the homeless population

Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy, pledges fight against 'data-industrial complex'

HILARIOUS coming from the people who brought you the latest Spyware OS for their new shiny

Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79

Re: A glitch

justifiably so - F*** a bunch of apple greed-holes

Re: This is a crime against the planet

Why TF would anyone buy a chromebook anyway?

Well deserved for those stupid enough to shell out for apple POS landfillers