The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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I hadn’t realized quite how dire things were (are) for Windows. The vid shows Windows market share is down from 95% in 2009 to 62% in 2023 (even less in the US where there are more Mac users). And that’s against a backdrop of a declining PC market.
Then there were all these misadventures trying to reverse the slide:
Nobody could miss the massive fail that was Windows 8 and the way they butchered the desktop experience before reversing course, but I wasn’t even aware of the mixed reality Windows version, Windows 10X and Windows 10S which were also soon to be abandoned.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I hadn’t realized quite how dire things were (are) for Windows. The vid shows Windows market share is down from 95% in 2009 to 62% in 2023 (even less in the US where there are more Mac users). And that’s against a backdrop of a declining PC market.
Then there were all these misadventures trying to reverse the slide:
Nobody could miss the massive fail that was Windows 8 and the way they butchered the desktop experience before reversing course, but I wasn’t even aware of the mixed reality Windows version, Windows 10X and Windows 10X which were also soon to be abandoned.
They are aware of their position, near as I can tell they are working towards an office/services cloud and Xbox for pc gaming future.
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Microsoft employees aren’t happy that they’re losing free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
The perk changes start in January 2024.
Funny to see the culture change at tech companies. A few years ago it’s, “can I offer you a free massage and a canape?” Now it’s, “fuck you peasant! Get back in the mines!”
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Lying ass Hog! Will never trust another Asian!
NEVAH! and we won’t rent to them either!
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Came across this olde. Nice try commie spying bastages.
Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple
Don't cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display.
Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple
Don’t cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display.
Consumers should rely on the green camera indicator light adjacent to their laptop camera, Apple told owners of MacBooks, MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros this month. Putting a sticker, Post-it note or other covering in front of the camera itself impedes the tightly designed computer’s ability to close and could shatter the screen.
One MacBook Pro owner’s internal display broke after he applied a webcam cover in April, MacRumors reported.
“If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances,” Apple wrote on its website. Camera covers can also interfere with the machine’s ambient light sensor and prevent features, including automatic brightness and Apple’s Retina display True Tone technology, from working properly.
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Enshittification is a contagious disease. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been watching a YouTube short and though, “Hang on, what was that?” and then wanted to rewind but you can’t. They’ve hidden the horizontal time scroller (in the YouTube web page anyway; you can see it when a video is embedded here for instance). So you’ve got to start at the beginning and wait for it to get back to where it was.
I blamed it on a half arsed implementation by YouTube and thought they’d fix it one day because, you know, pausing and going back 5 seconds to make sure you understood something is like basic functionality right? Well today I’m watching a video on Facebook “Reels” of the resort we’re staying at during our next vacation and, same thing happened: “Ooh, let me go back and see that water again… wtf? You can’t?” If both YouTube and Facebook are doing it, it’s not a fuck up, it’s deliberate.
Apparently being able to pause and go back is functionality that is too fucking complicated for us to be trusted with even though it’s been a feature of every recorded medium since the fucking gramophone. Stop making the world dumber and harder to navigate you cunts.
/rant
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Blame Gen Z. They watch it once and laugh or don’t get it and then move on without giving any effort to figure something out or understand why something happens. AI will only make it worse in the future when it says anything or does everything for them. Barely point and click and poof … it’s done. If it’s wrong nobody will care or remember.
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Microsoft gives in and lets you close OneDrive on Windows without explaining yourself
This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
Looking forward to seeing what happens when you try to shut down GPT in Windows 12.
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No worries, Kamala is on it. At least she can spell A.I.
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Hmm I haven’t been working in the salt mines of healthcare billing, I’ve been working on fancy things.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Hmm I haven’t been working in the salt mines of healthcare billing, I’ve been working on fancy things.
Kile at work like
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Well this seems like a gaping security hole:
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Charge your phone at night ya wankas!
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China does the same thing through TikTok.
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Some cabrõn in division 2 just now was named pendejo tactica
Hijo de la chingada
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Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntGTFO
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Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT, citing security concerns
Microsoft told employees on Thursday that "a number of AI tools are no longer available" due to security reasons.
The company initially said it was banning ChatGPT and design software Canva, but later removed a line in the advisory that included those products. After initial publication of this story, Microsoft reinstated access to ChatGPT.
Geez, given their huge bet on GPT and their rush to incorporate it into their products, the optics on that would have been terrible.
“Here, use our product”
“Do you use it yourself?”
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntEven I wouldn’t treat you that way!
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Facebook Messenger can’t die fast enough for me but a huge number of Cambodians (including my wife) use it and nothing else so I’m stuck with it. Chhunly sent me some audio recordings that he recorded with messenger. Of course I need to do something with the recordings but Messenger doesn’t let download them. So I had to install half a dozen different apps until I found one that would let me record the recording. Then I sent him a text message that had a mistake in it but you can’t edit sent messages. Fuck me.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntI am convinced that if you pass on and St Peter rejects you, at the end of the down escalator you will hear “welcome to AT&T”. Total shithole company.
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