Posts by NopetyNope

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

Re: No imagination any more

Advertising is what killed it. The best and brightest of the current era get paid silly money to make adverts appear ever so slightly faster now.

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

Re: 75 percent ... would be put off ... if they knew prices were going to rise mid-contract

For me that's not the right argument. The providers say "it's too risky for us to offer 24 month contracts without this term". The answer in my view is simple - instead of putting all that risk onto the consumer don't sell 24 month "fixed" contracts. It should not be legal to offer fixed contracts for longer than you are willing to fix them.

Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights

Re: Who else does this apply to ?

If only there were some kind of way that browsers were able to pre-signal that decision without interruption. Maybe some kind of header would work, perhaps "do no tracking" or maybe better "do not track"...

Malicious compliance at it's finest from the entire tech sector at play here.

Windows 11 update blocking some users from logging in

Re: Relevant

I still can't see any future other than Windows 10 being the last version of Windows I use at this point.

Valve have removed the last big barrier with some frankly amazing efforts around proton/steam play and the steam deck to the point where older win32 games now work better on Linux than windows. (None of the comparability mode nonsense required) Also most of the AAA games I tired with it you can barely tell as a user if it's native or not.

Meanwhile Microsoft have steadily removed all the "don't drink the cool aid" options I've relied on and told me my desktop with tpm2, secure boot, 64GB of ram and i7 7700k doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

A Windows 11 tsunami? No, more of a ripple as Microsoft's latest OS hits 5% PC market

Re: Do I want Win 11?

Maybe it's fine today but there's no reason to suppose a future patch won't add an unavoidable use of an instruction the processor doesn't support and then it's bsod on boot all the way from there.

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

Simple rule of thumb

I live by a simple rule of thumb. If there's any wires at all going to the device (power, audio/monitor, etc.) then there will be an ethernet connection amongst those. If there are no other wires at all then wireless is the way to go.

(The advent of USB-C now means I can do everything I care about well in one simple cable, which is awesome)

Big Tech has a big problem with Florida passing a law that protects politicians from web moderation

Re: Not quite.

"The simplest solution would be for all of the services affected, to stop servicing Florida."

My assumption here was that Facebook, Google and Twitter would be looking to very rapidly purchase or build a theme park. Just one would do it nicely.

UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out

Redacted

In the PDF of the CCO ruling the names of some of the 3rd parties they worked with are redacted. Given that these are either companies that outsourced their calling schemes to cowboys, or sold data to cowboys without proper consent why are they redacted? It's precisely these types of companies who profit from and directly enable such cowboys to operate that I want to be sure I never do business with.