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Server editions have IE/edge in locked down mode by default and all the crap removed so he should just stop running builds on client versions of Windows?
So the price to not get ads every update is 300$ I guess.
@shipilev Dear God, @danluu posted this at HackerNews, and now I have
people blowing this out of proportion and/or implying I should feel
bad about "misconfiguration". Jeez, it is at-home build node, not
the enterprise build farm. Most of the time I'm surprised it works
without problems :D
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As people use desktops less and less, they care less and less about what runs on them.
That narrative of the post-PC world collapsed when the sales of tablets like iPads collapsed.
See the recently revealed iPadOS: https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/
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How long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
Why not? We live in a world where the latest processor from Intel still boots into 16 bit real mode, and we have emulators and virtual machines.
Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…
I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…
Question: what enclosure did you get? I’m thinking of getting the Razer Core X myself, for an AMD card for bootcamp and macOS
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Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
I don't see any ads on my W10 machine and I haven't done anything to disable them. Where are you seeing this?
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How long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
Why not? We live in a world where the latest processor from Intel still boots into 16 bit real mode, and we have emulators and virtual machines.
Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…
I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…
The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. How they can simultaneously do incredible things for Github, and open source Windows components, while continuing to not fix the most user hostile Windows ever produced, is completely bonkers. My litmus test for whether Windows is finally fixed is whether of not it’s possible to install it without Candy Crush, but unfortunately without killing the network and…
> The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. See: http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts I don't work there, but I've heard Microsoft is more like a federation of organizations than one giant consistent, cohesive team.
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Seems to me that DirectX is the last remaining barrier to finally getting the majority of the Windows user base to migrate to Linux. That and driver support.
You are ludicrously incorrect, just as everyone for the past 2 decades has been when they have predicted the year of the Linux Desktop. This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.
Oddly, this is the factor that underlies most of my personal beefs with both Microsoft and Apple. What's wrong with my wifi? At least I can look in journalctl on linux. My laptop doesn't have enough screenspace - I can use i3wm on linux. I want double-click to include '*' and '/' and ':' in a "word", hey I can change xterm config. I want left-mouse-button to start a selection, and right to continue it, and middle-mouse-button to paste, and I want F2 to paste, X11 can do that. I don't want the focused window to pop to the top? Can do on Linux. There's so many things that Windows and MacOS make the decisions for you and make it very, very hard to do otherwise that really cramp your style on a basic level.