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I'm not sure why that is so hard to believe. I use Ubuntu and Windows at work daily and Windows at home. I know the challenges of both and Windows at worst just annoys me with them forcing the new Outlook app on me. Everything else just works. Plays games amazingly, Visual Studio is uncontested, syncs nicely with my Android phone and I have no driver issues whatsoever. Don't have to go diving into the command line to change settings either.

The only time Linux works perfectly for me is on my Steam Deck and that's entirely because Valve has handled all the driver issues for us on that hardware.

I think you're missing the point here. It's more that people couldn't even be bothered to search up how to do something (that takes seconds) that they want to do first, and instead just rely on someone they think is an expert without putting in any effort at all.

Your examples don't really make sense either as a lot of these are paid professions for larger tasks that most people simply don't want to do. There's a huge difference in searching online "how to install a Firefox extension" vs "how to do an weave", etc.

End of the day, the average person doesn't care and if they truly did they'd have the initiative to have just researched it and done it on their own.

Bringing it back to the whole thing about Linux, can you imagine how frustrating it would be to have to help debug a user's Linux installation when they already need help with installing a browser add on? I work with tech and Linux on a daily basis and I already find it frustrating doing it for myself (fuck Nvidia drivers). No way am I gonna recommend it to someone else.

Yea same here. In all my years using a computer, I've never seen such a thing aside from "preinstalled" apps. Is this a regional thing?

Now if they would only release a Steam Controller 2...

Man what in the world are they doing.

Adblockers apparently

This all just sounds like the publisher or MBAs speaking. Did they ask the actual developers on their opinions?

I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

Apple said EVERYBODY MAKE ARM APPS NOW, and compatibility problems lasted a year. Not ten years.

Because Apple's priority has never been legacy support and backwards compatibility but Microsoft's whole business model and key advantage with Windows is legacy support and backwards compatibility. It's a different beast when you're marketing to the enterprise instead of personal users.

That's such a slap on the wrist for what she has done.

Ads will probably stop me from watching YouTube completely. The huge surge of ads at some point was what stopped me from using Instagram.

Isn't the multi-monitor support better in 11? It properly supports restoring windows into the correct monitor when you reconnect monitors.

However, to me it's hypocritical to justify not having children by essentially claiming that their life wouldn't be worth living but at the same time you yourself continue your existence here.

I don't think it's hypocritical. To create new life and to sustain life are two different things. While there's a certain relevance, the act of creating life has more to it than simply sustaining life. Sustaining maintains the status quo which while not ideal, the opposite also means ending a life which has far greater implications that are closer to ending life.

It's not hypocritical to think that bringing someone to life might be a net negative and also agree that to stop continue living would result I'm a net negative because of reasons like how there's people who are reliant on them.

Considering Epic is funding Godot iirc, I'm sure they're more than happy with their competitor shooting themselves in the foot.

Adopt AI of course! That will definitely motivate them!!

hastily integrating the browser into everything, regardless of it making sense

So software development in general in the last couple of years?

Windows 10s death is going to force a lot of poorer folks to consider alternatives - and let’s be honest, it’s going to be Linux. The majority of hardware out there in the world can’t run 11, let alone a proposed 12.

For the more technically strong people, I can see that happening but I very much doubt the general public would do that. They probably don't even know what Linux is.

They're still pretty good at least here in Asia. The horror stories I hear of Asus support in the US is a might and day difference from what I experienced. Their Taiwan HQ needs to smash some sense into the US office and clean house.

The Surface Pros pretty much revamped the entire 2-in-1 form factor and the Surface Book was a really cool neat little device even though it was ridiculously pricey.

There was a time where Microsoft made some pretty exciting and cool hardware. The Neo was a really neat concept but nothing that came out since they unveiled and cancelled that thing has been interesting.

It doesn't help that they typically release with processors that aren't always the latest. If I'm looking for a Surface Pro now, I'd honestly much rather get Asus's Z13. I just wish that came with an AMD CPU instead.

Android phone makers are shipping on device LLMs?

Do people actually want these?

Yea it's the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to me cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys we brought into restaurants (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).

I can understand if they're blasting the audio out from the tablet and disrupting everyone else but if they're not I don't get what's the fuss.

Jump to what? Another Chromium based browser?

There's nothing stopping x86-64 processors from being power efficient. This article is pretty technical but does a really good explanation of why that's the case: https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/27/why-x86-doesnt-need-to-die/

It's just that traditionally Intel and AMD earn most of their money from the server and enterprise sectors where high performance is more important than super low power usage. And even with that, AMD's Z1 Extreme also gets within striking distance of the M3 at a similar power draw. It also helps that Apple is generally one node ahead.

Thai and Japanese TV ads are quite something else

Isn't this in some way the same as how China bans a number of foreign companies from operating? I don't think doing the exact same thing is entirely fair but when others aren't playing by the same rules, it's a lot less black and white.

The resolution is more than fine and I'm speaking from the perspective of an OG deck. Even if they brought the resolution up, the processor and battery wouldn't be able to keep pace with it.

Unpopular opinion but I think it's acceptable as long as its optional especially as multiplayer game where they are hosting servers. Those aren't cheap and I don't have the game so I wouldn't know but if they do release more multiplayer content for free, I think it's further justification because that's better than paid content packs. As an example, CoD on PC had a recurring issue of DLC content being useless since too little people would buy them. Titanfall saw this issue as well and it was even worse due to the smaller player base. So with Titanfall 2 they just made it free and added cosmetics microtransactions that were actually reasonably priced.

Maybe this is not the solution for everything but as long as it has no bearing on gameplay what's the harm? If you're not one to spend on microtransactions then you only get the benefits. I don't think a more benign implementation should be criticised just because we fear the potential of it potentially becoming worse.

What kind of long press menu? I have it installed but don't have any such menu.

Future proofing. GPUs are expensive and I expect to be able to use it for at least the next 7 years, even better if it lasts longer than that.

Do you mean a dedicated tab bar? If not, I'm using it on my Android tablet and foldable with no issues whatsoever.

I had a Flex 14 which had a broken keyboard. Sent it for repairs and it came back with the same issue happening a minute after I turned it on. Had a bunch of friends who got a Lenovo gaming laptop that were offered at a deal with our school (was a Y-something I can't recall). All of them ended up with strange green bands on their screens within 2 years. The whole superfish fiasco basically cemented that they're not a company I would buy anything from ever again.

I'm currently using a Asus Zephyrus G14 and it's been practically a flawless experience.

I sure hope so.

They were great. All the post launch cosmetics ruined it.

As a Singaporean myself, I'm not sure what the gotcha here is? Just because you're Singaporean doesn't mean you won't have connections with the CCP. There's a case that happened recently where a Singaporean spied on the US for China.

It doesn't help that Singaporean Chinese have been the target of psyops from China. It's not an uncommon train of thought from China that all ethnic Chinese regardless of their nationality owe their loyalty to China.

A lot of posts like these also seem to imply that the open source community should somehow be less competent than these companies and are surprised that the open source community can fix these issues. But the open source community has a ton of very respectable and extremely smart developers, it shouldn't be any surprise really.

Samsung is slowly moving some production from China though. For instance, my phone is manufactured in Vietnam instead.

Samsung has let you swap the back and menu keys for years.

At this point I'm hoping for a Steam Controller 2. The Deck had so many nice nifty features that I didn't know I needed.

Tell that to the huge amount of gullible older ethnic Chinese people who've been receiving all sorts of China propaganda. As someone who's living in Singapore and witnessed so much of this, it's disgusts me what they're doing.

I remember trying out the beta and finding out this is just slower Titanfall 2 with no Titans and worse movement.