Some of these things were buried by Microsoft after already being dead, tbh.
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#322the Trackball Explorer and the Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick should get entries.
MSTE is my daily-driver, I've stocked up on spares in the event of failures. One had been so regularly used it's worn the paint off where my palm rests on it. NOTHING comes close it's excellent design (and I've got a bin FULL of pretenders-to-the-throne).
After 20 years, i used up my cache of MSTE's. I've found the "Elecom M-HT1UR" to be a suitable replacement, the only issue i have with it is the "wheel button" actuations are all too close together. "wheel click" is also "wheel left/right" too often.
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No... Sorry just no Nexus line was an Affordable/ value reference implantation of Android Pixel is an overpriced atrocity marketing platform for Google. Pixel IS NOT a replacement for Nexus
I think the Nexus 6 cost $50 more than the Pixel 6 does, even before you take inflation into account
The Nexus 6P has the same spec's as the FlagShip Pixel for 1/2 the price
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No... Sorry just no Nexus line was an Affordable/ value reference implantation of Android Pixel is an overpriced atrocity marketing platform for Google. Pixel IS NOT a replacement for Nexus
So, every time a company increases prices, it "kills" something? By that logic, every company kills nearly everything, every time.
When they double the price, in a single year, with no real spec increase, and no other justification other than profits
yes that it killing it
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https://killedbygoogle.com/ contains Nexus. That was clearly replaced by Pixel. Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.
Honestly some of the things that website includes seem a bit wacky to me. I feel similarly about the Google Home Max. Was it really killed in 2020, if the latest version of the firmware came out in 2022? Can we say that Google killed the Pixel 4, since the hardware is no longer being sold but it's still receiving updates? The inclusion of Angular 1 is also kinda questionable to me. Even though Angular 1 code isn't to…
I know many Angular 1 devs that would disagree, and who moved away from Angular all together do to the changes with Angular 2
to them, google killed Angular.
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#326If they could only ad Sharepoint to this list, the world could start the healing process.
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#327This is a pretty neat list
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Have you tried other tools? Discord, zoom, webex have way better audio and video quality and include video sharing. FaceTime has superb audio and video but no screen sharing.
Webex, really? Didn’t the zoom people leave Cisco to make a better Webex? The only people I know still using webex are the feds. Honestly I don’t have issues with teams voice and video, it seems largely commodity at this point, though zoom certainly talks up their ability to maintain quality over crummy connections.
Yes. In my experience the video quality in webex is better than in teams. And it supports multiple screen shares.
What I really dislike about teams is that it downgrades my 4K video feed to 480p.
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Some background reading on Nokia's demise under Microsoft: https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen... There are great links at the bottom of that page to Tomi Ahonen's exhaustive coverage of Microsoft's destruction of Nokia's lucrative, profitable business model.
Nokia was on its way down before Microsoft cane along. They prioritised hardware over software. Maintained multiple OS’s. Made lots of stupid derisions.
Ahonen's data was highly accurate and was being presented in a very compelling way in real time as the Microsoft-Nokia shitstorm was unfolding. He had already left Nokia years earlier so didn't have any direct skin in the game, but he did have an uncanny record of mobile phone industry insider knowledge, data, and contacts inside Nokia, Apple, Google, Samsung, Motorola, and a long list of carriers worldwide. The reports he generated were considered the "bible" for executives.
You are entitled to your opinion that Nokia was somehow "on its way down before Microsoft" but the facts are that Nokia was profitable and had products that were award-winning but never saw the light of day thanks to Stephen Elop's blundering and Steve Balmer's meddling. Ahonen laid down those facts back then. For anyone wishing to have a fuller, rounder understanding of Nokia's demise under Microsoft, take the time to delve into those links at the bottom of:
https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen...
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Maybe a Windows update fixed this? My parents are still using Picasa.
Okay, maybe. This was years ago when my dad complained about it not working. I installed FastStone Image Viewer as a replacement (what I use), but he preferred Picasa.
I will check that out, thanks for mentioning it. I've been low-key sweating about the potential loss of Picasa since it's been unmaintained, but aside from maybe the iPhone photo editor, I have never seen something as easy to use. And honestly, in my opinion, Picasa still has a slight edge over the modern iPhone editor...