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Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by goosedragons »

null_object wrote: post #99
coder543 wrote: post #51

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Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

> Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari. I would love to see a screenshot because this I simply don’t believe

This is an old thing they've been doing almost a decade now [0]. It's still around now [1]. You probably never because you either use Safari as your web browser or use it enough for the pop up to not trigger. I don't really get why you think this is unbelievable when Apple will regularly try to get you to use Apple Music, iCloud, etc. Why not Safari?

[0] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by Mistletoe »

the_third_wave wrote: post #265
Mistletoe wrote: post #146

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I'm never buying another Chromebook and Chromebox because Google sunsetted my perfectly fine working laptop and Chromebox and now it can't do things like play streaming movies from HBO Max because the chrome version is too low. Spotify doesn't work either. Leaves few things left to do with it haha.

Install Linux on it and you'll be able to use the latest version of Chromium and stream to your heart's content.

I think I'll just sell it and get a used Macbook Air, they go for like $99 on Ebay now.

Every time in my life I have installed Linux with such high hopes and get annoyed by all the crap that doesn't work.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by shepherdjerred »

smoldesu wrote: post #251
shepherdjerred wrote: post #194

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One thing to consider is resale value. When I tried reselling old Windows laptops like a Surface or XPS, the value dropped off a cliff from the MSRP. I would spend $2000 on a laptop and then it was selling for $700 used on ebay a year later. With MacBooks (and other Apple products) you can often recoup 70%-80% of your initial cost as long as it's in good condition.

If it's not a base-model. If you're one of the unlucky shmucks running an 8/256 M1 Macbook Pro, you'll be lucky to get $500 for it on the secondhand market.

Swappa shows that you can get much more. The current average sale price for a Macbook Air, M1, 256GB is $673 respectively. Compared to the $1000 MSRP you're getting about 67% back.

Note that Swappa takes a 3% cut, so the buyer would actually see around ~$650.

https://swappa.com/guide/macbook-air-2020-13/prices

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by lucb1e »

alxlaz wrote: post #183
return_to_monke wrote: post #171

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I am sorry, but that sounds like a scam. I doubt that it's an actual ms domain.

If it's a scam, it's a damn clever one, because a whois query reveals a domain registered to Microsoft, with azure-dns name servers and a Microsoft contact email. Also one that's, erm, been flying under the radar for a long time because I've been getting these things for years. Not sure about parent but this is pretty well-known by people who've had to deal with it.

Been looking for ten minutes now and I can't find how to differentiate between Azure customers and Microsoft official websites. Observations:

- the advertising domain is not bought by markmonitor whereas microsoft.com, office.com, and outlook.com all are. Maybe this advertising domain isn't an important enough brand or maybe some other reason. The DNS servers for all four domains are NS1-{0..99}.azure-dns.com, NS2-{0..99}.azure-dns.net, and two other TLDs for NS3 and NS4, and always in the same order

- IP space is all AS8068 and AS8075 (checking the same four domains)

- I tried duckduckgo for "how to differentiate between azure customers and microsoft ip space" but didn't find anyone asking that question anywhere. Probably bad phrasing on my part

- I tried looking for websites hosted by Azure to see if there is an IP space for customers by searching ddg for "powered by azure" and "hosted with azure" but I only get results from Microsoft themselves, random garbage, and things like "azure lessons" that aren't hosted with azure at all (heh)

I would also have expected this to be not-Microsoft-owned and a scam, but I'm failing to prove that hypothesis. That would mean Microsoft is not the company that I thought it was: I thought the difference between Facebook,Google and Microsoft,Apple is that some are in the business of manipulating people and others sell honest products (even if I have other issues with locked-down Apple devices, at least it's not adtech). Looking for revenue streams, I found https://www.kamilfranek.com/assets/images/microsoft_revenue_...>. So not quite adtech but ads was the biggest growing product last year and has been growing for at least a decade (also based on other sources). Interesting.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by the_third_wave »

Mistletoe wrote: post #273
the_third_wave wrote: post #265

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Install Linux on it and you'll be able to use the latest version of Chromium and stream to your heart's content.

I think I'll just sell it and get a used Macbook Air, they go for like $99 on Ebay now. Every time in my life I have installed Linux with such high hopes and get annoyed by all the crap that doesn't work.

Can you give some examples of "things which do not work"? Seeing how as I've been using Linux for close to 30 years and have it running on loads of different types of hardware with more or less everything working - yes even Bluetooth - I'm always somewhat surprised by these problems which fail to haunt me.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by goosedragons »

dehrmann wrote: post #176
jimmaswell wrote: post #155

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I wish antitrust enforcement focused on this stuff again. Remember when MS merely including a web browser at all was brought into question?

Microsoft also used to have 90% market share. It's less impressive now that Mac is a viable competitor and iOS and Android are good enough for 80% of common tasks.

How much of the Office Suite market do they have though?

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by thebiss »

Maxburn wrote: post #223
MagicMoonlight wrote: post #186

I left Windows for Mint about 2 months ago and it's just so much better. All that stupid bullshit you have to deal with on windows just went away, I felt actual relief. No more ads, no more forced updates because you walked away from your computer, no processes that it forces you to run so that it can spy on your mics. It just works. If you want it to look like windows 7 you can, if you want it to look like an iPad y…

Me too my friend, I find mint a decent general desktop OS and I rarely touch windows for personal use. Still struggling with iTunes though.

Can you use music.apple.com under chrome on mint?

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by ziml77 »

I have hope for Linux running on more desktops now that I've seen Proton in action. But there's still things here and there that stop me from switching, even if every game I want to play runs flawlessly.

One of the biggest issues is peripherals. None of the manufacturers write their software to work on Linux and they don't make their protocols open so others can easily do the work instead. Reverse engineering works to an extent, but that requires significant effort. I'm not going to be okay with losing functionality of my hardware.

Last time I checked, the HRTF options were also lacking on Linux. Meanwhile there's multiple choices on Windows (I'm currently enjoying SteelSeries Sonar) including built-in support for object-based 3D audio with multiple renderer options.

And the latest killer for me is lack of HDR support. I have an HDR monitor and I'm not going to settle for running it in SDR mode. I'm not even sure I'd want to switch if Linux supported HDR but didn't have an equivalent of Auto HDR (which I think does a decent job at scaling the luma of SDR games outside of the SDR range)

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