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OK, great, thanks Microsoft. About 10 years too late IMO, with everything being steadily downhill since Windows 7 (God I miss that OS). You know who does't issue such notices? Apple. You know who doesn't have issues with updates even though they issue about 6 a year? Apple. And no, I'm not a...

Gee, thanks Ars, you made my day. And on a Monday morning too....:(

A few years ago I started my Linux migration because I hated win 10 which I considered half baked and ugly. People (including on these pages) told me I was crazy. These days I’m bored of watching how I switched to Linux” videos on you tube. Nice to see the world moving on.

It is hard for me to express, how excited \I was about the MCU up to Endgame and how disinterested I am now. Up to that point all the characters introduced were faithful to the originals, exciting, inspiring and fun. After Endgame every new character and most of the old ones has been a joke...

I want to know two thing: 1. Can this be used to make truly realistic video games, without the awful 3d fakeness of even the top AAA games? 2. Can it be used to make new Star Wars episodes with Luke, Han and Leia, without the involvement of Lucasfilm, Disney and Kathleen Kennedy?

I‘ve been using pocket since it was called Readit Later. I’ll miss it. Anyone know of a good replacement?

$80 for a game is just dumb, unless if it’s something that provides hundreds of hours of playtime. I mean a come on!

Why is this still a surprise? LLMs do not really reason and do not really write code. They apply an algorthic approach to produce “code like“ that is not in fact code but is close enough to be compiled and run. But of course they will hallucinate and make errors. And that means code that is...

I’ e lived though a situation like this in another country. People never realise what’s happening until it’s done.

Why anyone would still use these systems in 2025 when superior alternatives like TrueNAS with ZFS are available, is completely beyond me. Synology NASes made sense more than 10 years ago, when the ease of use was superior.

Windows explorer never remembering folder view settings across multiple versions. No idea if w11 fixed it, I switched to Mac/linux. trying to eject an external disk: always works in Mac/linux, occasionally on windows. Trying to assign a single key to change keyboard language: almost...

People dislike subscriptions because they make it hard to keep your expenses under control. That is a factor that will never go away. We already have utility bills, streaming bills and newspaper/sites subscriptions, all of which make sense because they are linked with a continued service, that...

Windows 11 was the straw that broke my back the same way. After losing the great usability of win 7, suffering to make win 8 /8.1 as much as win7-like as possible, only to then be thrown into the bottomless pit of trying to make win10 vaguely usable, win11 came and I’d had enough. Wasting so...

Honestly, who cares about another iPhone? Their devices are incredibly stagnant. I am invested in their ecosystem (Mac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone) because of the wonderful integration but the mobile hardware is so dull now.

And more to the point, the Multiverse makes keeping track completely pointless...

In many parts of the world, Apple Maps its actually far superior to Google Maps. It provides better routing and its voice instructions are infinitely more helpful (e.g. telling me to get on the right lane to prepare for a turn, vs Google suddenly saying "now turn right". Similarly iCloud is...

Although, I only used licensed TV boxes running android TV, this is one more thing pushing me toward an all-Apple ecosystem.

Actually, that's a great idea! OK, maybe not 4 years, but why not every two? When it comes to processors, there isn't a new generation every year (with the M chips being the exception. Noting wrong with a two year upgrade cycle, it would probably allow for optimizing the production process and...

I don't think people hated it because it was "woke". I think people hated it because: a) it was really bad b) it broke cannon (which you do not do in a "sahred universe IP", because if you do, what's the point of it c) it continued the tradition of pissing all over the original saga (by making...

My Ryzen 3700x/x570 system is basically unpatchable anyway. The last 3 bios updates cause it to fail to POST with all 32GB of its QVL certified RAM. It only posts with half the memory installed, so I am dtuck using an older BIOS. My system is otherwise secure, runs Linux and windows with all...