Posts by SketchyScot

MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies

It's simple really

Using your personal PC to access a corporate computer in the cloud is very handy...

or in my case, I have 4 of them, 1 for each partner organisation we support to easily do any testing without the need for a physical device from each.

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process

As long as you don't need Microsoft Office on your OS... you're good with 8Gb for basic use

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

Re: Problem?

Being able to listen in makes it too easy for criminals to plan work and then listen out for the police getting on to them to make their getaway. Drug dealers would suddenly all be kitted out with the ability to listen in to evade being caught in the act.

Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes

This is the part where they "optimise" the phone by progressively slowing it down or adding limitations to prevent it heating up...

they might even charge £200 for a real fix...

As much as I dislike Apple already, the demise of Steve Jobs has ruined them beyond belief

Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

A fatal error has occurred....will definitely be more accurate in the future.

Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you

Didn't run in Brave browser either, script blocking option also stops it completely.

Five years in the clink for super-crook who scammed Google, Facebook out of $120m with fake tech invoices

Re: He should of just hit normal people

I'm pretty sure he's "spent" the rest and that's all they could find so yes he's probably not going to be too bothered about the next 5 years once he gets deported back and picks up the rest of his salary he hid so well.