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  • Microsoft unveils new Surface laptops, AI-powered Windows Copilot

    kmareikmarei
    macxpress said:
    Microsoft Surfaces are some of the biggest pieces of shit you could ever buy, including the Surface Pros which are way overpriced. 
    i mean if you are  a mac user, you would say that about any windows laptop :)
    have you ever used a surface laptop? the one piece laptop not the tablet with the attached keyboard

    we have many surface laptops at work, we do both macs and windows
    and never had an issue with any of surfaces
    i am actually writing this on a surface laptop 3 i have had for 3 years, zero issues
    i would say the only issue with them is the chargers go bad with that proprietary plug
    but we also replace those damn usb-c cables for macbooks on a regular basis when people twist them around the chargers
    so i would say excluding power supplies, there is zero difference in reliability
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  • Apple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on China

    kmareikmarei
    the only good news is all the MAGA merchandise will go way up in price
    because its ALL made in china :)
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  • Apple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on China

    kmareikmarei
    DAalseth said:
    Important point to keep in mind: Trump will never admit that he was wrong. No matter how much damage he does, no matter how bad things get, Trump will never even consider that he was mistaken. 
    the much bigger issue is republicans will never admit he is wrong either
    they will defend him to the death
    they are too invested in him now, and if they ever admit he is bad
    its a negative reflection on them for not seeing it sooner

    this is the opposite of quit when you are ahead strategy
    this is the i will dig myself deeper so i don't look bad strategy
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  • Apple's Magic Mouse charging port design has never been a big deal

    kmareikmarei
    AnObserver said:
    NEO_STEPHENS said:
    The Apple Apologist in full effect. If that was ANY other company that did that, you'd be talking about how bad of a design it was and who in the world would put the charging port on the bottom of a mouse so that you can't use it while it's charging.

    Doesn't matter how often or not it needs charging, still an awful way to do that!!
    I agree.  Apple should have moved the port🤢
    they will never move it, because if they do, its admitting they messed up

    entropyswilliamlondon

  • Will Apple save us from surveillance advertising?

    kmareikmarei
    first thing i do when i install any app is disable notifications and location (unless it really needs location)
    only about 5 or 6 apps on my iphone have notifications turned on
    the vast majority of apps DO NOT need notifications, although they would all love to have it turned on
    no game needs notifications
    maybe bank apps for when you use your credit/debit card
    ebay (for auctions)
    espn (for when my teams score)
    whatsapp/signal/imessage etc
    thats about it

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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

    kmareikmarei
    Pema said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Absolutely spot on. 
    This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
    Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

    Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

    Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

    We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

    This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

    And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 
    you started with your conclusion (MS s bad)
    then you made the facts fit this narrative

    only problem is, you didn't actually read the article :)
    Microsoft was not involved in this issue, it was Crowdstrike alone.
    which is why the solution came from Crowdstrike

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  • Apple's Magic Mouse charging port design has never been a big deal

    kmareikmarei
    NEO_STEPHENS said:
    The Apple Apologist in full effect. If that was ANY other company that did that, you'd be talking about how bad of a design it was and who in the world would put the charging port on the bottom of a mouse so that you can't use it while it's charging.

    Doesn't matter how often or not it needs charging, still an awful way to do that!!

    agreed
    it's a horrible design decision
    can't begin to tell you how many times i have heard users complain about that
    thing is, its a trivial point design wise
    how often have you seen the front of your mouse?
    i have a logitech MX master mouse, and when it dies, i use it as wired, with the cable plugged in the front
    and go about my business

    for my VIP staff, we actually have a spare mouse plugged in thats used when the primary one dies
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  • Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it

    kmareikmarei
    the sad thing is because of Skype, microsoft killed MSN Messenger, which was very successful at one point
    skype sucked since microsoft bought it
    and even though they pushed it out to all windows PCs
    no one uses it
    and everyone i know of that has used both zoom and teams, hates teams
    i am not sure what microsoft has done since windows and office that would be a success
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  • Touch screen issues hit iPhone 16 Pro and older models

    kmareikmarei
    verne arase said:
    kmarei said:
    I hate to ask the obvious question,
    but don't they test software before they release it?

    is this the crowdstrike school of quality control ?
    :)
    Don't be a dramatic - it's probably gonna be fixed with a 18.0.1 update, and it certainly isn't BSODing your phone.

    It happens infrequently enough that testers were probably thinking it was their screen protector causing the issue.
    yes it's not a BSOD, but this really should have been discovered with some basic testing
    that is why we have testing :)
    much like the crowdstrike mishap, if they had tested that update on one PC, they would have found it broke windows

    so where is the over dramatization?
    williamlondon

  • OpenAI wants the US government to legalize theft to reach the AI promised land

    kmareikmarei
    "Otherwise, the proposal alleges that the United States will lose the AI race"
    so the only way we can win this race is if we cheat and steal?
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