Posts by BGatez

Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook

Re: There's disposable income then there's

Unless by then the battery's done (quite likely) adding another $70-90 US to replace (if there's an Apple store nearby)

Forget your deepest, darkest secrets, smart speakers will soon listen for sniffles and farts too

Re: My security system already listens to everything.

Can it discern between your farts and the dogs?

1984 anyone?

Not in my home - ever

Home users due for a battering with Microsoft 365 subscription stick

Re: XBox?

Prime also includes a lot of free shipping as well as 2 day shipping. Consider media content an added freebie

reaction

ReactOS can't happen soon enough

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

A MS reseller can provide you with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB for about $300. Comes sans ALL crap and IMHO is closest to 7. Comes with NO "feature" updates, security updates only.

excuses excuses

But whataboutism at it's finest. Try explaining to the officer about all those other guys speeding as well.

Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving

FFS they're teaching a bot to drives like the asses on the road?

Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC

Surprised? Anyone?

LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing

Does it have a built in fruit machine?

Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks

Re: Quit messing users around

Absolutely true. How can you call it "Pro" and "business ready" with all that crap and spyware (I mean "digital assistants" on it.

Re: Any change to notepad is big news of course.

And not new, been a superior choice for years (one of many to Windows native items).

good start, now...

Now if they could get rid of Edge, Cortana, Xbox, Store, Games, ads, forced updates, data slurping, etc. we'd have an operating system.

Wintel dust up: Intel supply woes vs Win10 demand

Move toward least serviceable, most disposable

Not so great

If you ever felt like you needed to carry 4TB of data around, Toshiba's got you covered

option to lose more data than previously

IMHO every drive I have looked at above 1 TB seems to have a very high failure rate. Reviews regularly report 20% or greater drive fails. That said drive failure rates vary greatly from model to model. I think I'll wait for a few stats to come in.

Apple in another dust-up with its fans: iMacs, MacBooks lack filters, choke on grime – lawsuit

Plenty of horrible Apple repair policies

I found this guy on YouTube. Long but worth a look, seems he's been in long struggle with Apple over rights to repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyKp7fiXkws

Re: Errr....

To be fair it's most laptops now with non removable batteries that are an added crime. How to swap RAM or a drive if you can't power down? Gel pack batteries are no excuse, as anyone who has pried open a device to change one knows. Especially nonsense when many laptop batteries carefully locked away and as inaccessible as possible are the same black brick just screwed in.

OnePlus 6T: Tasteful, powerful – and much cheaper than a flagship

L500

Am I the only one who still thinks a phone for the price of a serviceable laptop is too steep?

Hands up who isn't p!*$ed off about Amazon's new HQ in New York and Virginia?

Re: A billion here, a billion there...

Honestly as an expression of immense wealth a billion serves nicely. As an American I'm not especially worried by your nit picking nonsense. I think Brits have an expression for idiot compatriots, "f**kwits".

Re: Crony capitalists* are happy

replaced with "a$$h0les" which about covers it

Empire state of mind: NYC scatters palm leaves for Bezos' cloudy web shop juggernaut

Housing? Services?

Works for me if Amazon builds on site housing for ALL of it's employees with 10% overage for poverty level income locals. Of course this will still jack commercial rents beyond the already insane greed levels meaning all local businesses and services will be replaced by Starbucks, Burger King and surviving liquor stores. Forget shoe repairs, hardware stores, bakeries - "useless" stuff like that. Already jammed roads, bridges, mass transit will enjoy Noah's ark style conditions.

Samsung unveils next-generation 8nm Exynos silicon

How's the phone calls sound?

Just a little heads up: Google is still trying to convince everyone that web apps don't suck

web apps- nope

What could go wrong with putting all your data on the net? Most suitable when going panrless in town square.

This just in: What? No, I can't believe it. The 2018 MacBook Air still a huge pain to have repaired

Saving $?

Oh yes, I think we can all see how making their gear into one glued brick has enabled them to lower prices to consumers.

Persuading world+dog to love Microsoft's AI assistant a step too far for Acompli founder

I would pay to remove

The first person to come up with a utility that not just disables, but removes all MS rubbish like Cortana, forced updates, telemetry has my money.

Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned

Re: 2000 quid?

Which is famously overpriced so...

yeah yeah

"OK then, a MILLION BILLION dollars!"

Grumbling about wobbly Windows 10? Microsoft can't hear you over the clanging cash register

Re: Github

Think you're dead right here. MS has a long history of killing every thing it touches. My perspective is graphic software, some very nice ones, it purchased and soon killed. And for no good reason, wasn't even like they were competition.

Re: Conditioning.

Not every business is "Enterprise" level and disasters like the wildly misnamed Windows 10 "Pro" follow the SOP of MS auto opting in to every data sucking, machine slowing, ad-loading, pre-installed bit of garbage. People in small businesses have to devote and enormous amount of time and resources basically squashing junk while dealing with business destroying updates that can't be chosen.

Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

The real fix

1. STOP rolling updates into one big pile of poo, allow selective updates

2. STOP forcing installation of updates

3. ALLOW users to remove whatever they don't want- Cortana, Edge, the ton of crap you foist on paying customers.

4. STOP slurping customer info. Keep it ALL turned completely off by default. Offer a cookie if they'll turn it on.

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

Windows 10- ugh

ugh, maybe Enterprise LTSB but otherwise, nope

Windows 10 passes 700 million, Office Mobile in a coma and Intune, er, cracks time travel

Win 10 win by attrition

As new machines come with Windows 10 pre-installed their user numbers go up. Especially since installing Windows 7 on newer CPUs is made as difficult as possible (but can still be accomplished using a freeware patch). https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

alternatives

Was persuaded to try WeChat recently on my ancient Android phone and was stunned with how easy it was to have an international video chat with a friend. FWIW

Office 2019 lumbers to the stage once more as Microsoft promises future releases

ugh! no- DOUBLE ugh

If it weren't for (alleged) compatibility issues with free office suites, and Outlook addicts, NO ONE (in their right minds) would deal with the mess that is Office.

Adobe forks out $4.75bn for Marketo in massive marketing mashup move

No Adobe for you

As a creative I've gone to alternatives to Adobe software since they went to a subscription model. No desire to be unable to open my own work should their log in mess up (as has happened) or my subscription lapse. Really no desire to be an Adobe thrall for life.

Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

Everything Microsoft touches dies

Ever since MS acquired Skype it's been a struggle to use, even signing in. Had opportunity to try WeChat and soooo easy to start a video call.

OMG! Battle looms over WTF! trademarks

FCKPG

Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Bit dubious on longevity. Lot of data to vanish without warning.

Windows 10 April 2018 Update lands today... ish

Windows 10 - if you must

Best to avoid entirely, using the open source patch to install 7 on new processors. If you must then Enterprise LTSB else you have to root out Edge, Cortana, the MS Store and the nearly impossible to eliminate telemetry among other rubbish.