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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#8801: Jun 18th 2022 at 6:41:09 AM

Oh, good. So what it takes for Microsoft to fix an issue is apparently massive exposure in the media. (I just got that update on my Win10 PC overnight.)

Edited by Fighteer on Jun 18th 2022 at 9:41:18 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#8802: Jun 18th 2022 at 2:24:33 PM

I hope that was in the pair of updates I did yesterday then.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8804: Jun 20th 2022 at 3:02:31 AM

They're supposed to be for prebuilts only, it says, so... yeaaaah.

Still, now they're out in the wild, great.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#8805: Jun 21st 2022 at 12:09:47 AM

Cloudflare is down and looks like half the internet along with it.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#8806: Jun 21st 2022 at 1:20:31 AM

It's been resolved now.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8807: Jun 24th 2022 at 4:21:13 AM

Amazon uses kid’s dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake: Amazon taps emotional woes of pandemic, grief to push developing Alexa feature.

Amazon has demoed Alexa's ability to imitate voices, and has demoed this in the most disturbing, creepy way possible: by mimicking the voices of the dead.

The article half-heartedly suggests this could have some legitimate applications, but I think the potential for mischief and outright criminal behavior is just too great.

Also, Alexa is just not the right product for grief counseling.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#8808: Jun 25th 2022 at 5:42:32 PM

And this is why I will never, ever get an Alexa.

Is Amazon really thinking that this is a good idea?

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8809: Jun 26th 2022 at 1:07:46 AM

Apparently, they seem set on marketing it with this very specific idea of talking to your dead loved ones, or having your dead loved ones read stories to your children.

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Risa123 Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#8810: Jun 27th 2022 at 9:27:58 AM

[up][up] I can actually see the appeal. I mean people do have photos, videos etc of dead people. Now i do agree it is rather creepy.

Edited by Risa123 on Jun 27th 2022 at 6:28:14 PM

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8811: Jun 27th 2022 at 10:29:46 AM

There have always been people who got their pets stuffed.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8812: Jul 2nd 2022 at 9:52:34 PM

First review of Arc-equipped stuff that I'm aware of, at least in English.

It's less a hardware review in the end, and more holy shit is that buggy on the driver side. But maybe, once they've gotten it sorted out, it'll actually deliver the performance and tricks that it's supposed to. As noted, it's not like Ryzen had a much more graceful launch.

The biggest problem is that they didn't get it out in Q1, and now GPU prices are plummeting and people are much less willing to pay the early adopter tax.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8815: Jul 13th 2022 at 9:40:30 AM

Gamers Nexus got hold of an Arc A380:

Currently seems to be hanging around the 1050ti or 1030, which is bad. Even for the price point, it should be doing a bit better than that? Think I saw something about driver issues, I'll need to watch the full review later.

What's super awkward is it relies on Resizeable BAR support so much, which means newer CPU/motherboard combos.

Edit: Okay, so it's priced around AMD's 6400 and competitive with that in games, but only DX 12 and Vulkan titles; Intel just doesn't have the amount of DX 11 optimisation and driver development that AMD and Nvidia have put into it.

You're better off with a used RX 580 than trying to grab one of these things from China (for the same price).

Somewhere between the 1050ti and 1650ti in most stuff.

Might have time to shine in terms of hardware encoding.

Edited by RainehDaze on Jul 13th 2022 at 7:49:56 PM

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#8816: Jul 14th 2022 at 6:05:29 AM

I wish there was a virtual assistant I could buy that was not tied to a monolith that wants to know my entire shopping history. I don't get why that isn't a market.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8817: Jul 14th 2022 at 6:50:11 AM

How would it make money?

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8818: Jul 14th 2022 at 9:06:39 AM

Exactly. It makes money by targeting ads to you based on your shopping history, while also making sure that its own brand of products pops up first, if possible.

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RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8819: Jul 14th 2022 at 3:21:47 PM

Oh, no A750 benchmarks yet, but GN did get some hands on experience with one and a long in-depth video talking with an engineer about how it all works. Nice.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8820: Jul 15th 2022 at 12:44:24 AM

New Windows Media Player app travels back in time, gains the ability to rip CDs: Welcome news for anyone who's ready to retire their Sony Discman.

Am I missing something? Windows Media Player can still rip C Ds. I ripped one last week, in fact.

It is the old 2013 version, I guess, but I assume it is up to date, and Windows has never suggested an update to it.

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8821: Jul 15th 2022 at 4:07:55 PM

Report: Microsoft will return to releasing new Windows versions once every 3 years: But the Windows-as-a-service era is far from over.

There could be benefits to returning to more clearly delineated Windows releases; it’s an opportunity to make larger user interface changes or under-the-hood improvements while also benefitting from the extra user awareness and media attention that accompanies major updates. It's also a chance to change system requirements, ensuring that any system running Windows 12 has more capable hardware than one that runs Windows 11 (though the downside of that for users would be a further tightening of Windows 11's already restrictive requirements).

For third-party developers and IT administrators, on the other hand, the current plan sounds like the worst of both worlds: a continually shifting current version of Windows that's always being tweaked, plus a more-fragmented install base with big groups of users running one of three or four different Windows versions with different user interfaces and feature sets. IT admins could fall back on bad habits, skipping less-desirable versions of Windows (like 8 or Vista) while staying on "good" known-quantity versions (like XP or 7), missing out on meaningful new features and security upgrades in the process.

Sounds reasonable enough. Maybe they could tweak the timing a bit more, as three years does seem a little short.

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Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#8822: Jul 15th 2022 at 4:12:02 PM

I thought they pretty much went and done just that when they introduced Windows 11.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8823: Jul 15th 2022 at 4:18:02 PM

Fundamentally, there wasn't much change from Windows 95 to ME in terms of baseline features (it was all sitting atop DOS) so could be argued as largely one OS environment with limited visual changes and some new features, and they still had multiple service packs. XP was current for 7 years (2001 to 2008) with Service Pack 3.

Long Term Support versions of the Linux kernel are ~6 years too.

So 3 years for major upgrades is a bit short.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#8824: Jul 15th 2022 at 11:54:09 PM

It should be noted that XP was seen as an extreme outlier in how long it lasted, and caused no end of trouble because of it.

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RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#8825: Jul 16th 2022 at 12:02:24 AM

You're thinking of the long-term security upkeep that got demanded because nobody would migrate away from it, not its active service life.


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