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- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 2 days ago:
Oh that’s neat, hope you can use them up soon or get a reimbursement of some sort. They just announced formally that they’re shutting the service down.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 2 days ago:
Do your credits still exist? I was under the impression that they phased out the credit system.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 2 days ago:
It seems like a very underrated feature but Skype’s overseas calling feature was great and the 60 mins I get each month with 365 was really nice. Them getting rid of that basically made Skype useless.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
There’s been reports of Valve looking at ARM for Proton actually but x86 chips keep getting better and more efficient. Not to mention Mali and Adreno are laughably bad compared to Radeon and Arc.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 5 days ago:
I had pretty much no driver issues either with my RX 580, Vega 64 and now 6950XT on Windows. The only issue I had was with audio sometimes being garbled on my Vega 64 in shadow recordings but I had worse issuss with Nvidia causing video corruption back when I was using a GTX 960 and 970 so I’m not sure if it’s even a GPU issue.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
It’s a lot more feature filled and frankly not very nice looking if all you want is a simple replacement for Notepad. Notepads (with an s) is much better imo.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
I would love to move off OneNote but the lack of alternatives that support inking is disappointing.
- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 1 week ago:
Have you played any games outside of those genres? There’s plenty of great modern games that are side scrollers. The idea that side scrollers are antiquated is frankly absurd. All that aside, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Tekken and MH Wilds all look pretty good.
Also considering the power of a Switch, it seems like a no brainer that it would look like a PS3? It’s chipset is almost a decade old and operates at a fraction of the power of other platforms.
- Comment on [Solved (gave up)] Any Android Qr app (preferably Open Source) that allows decoding via "open with" or share? 2 weeks ago:
Typically QR based payment systems don’t actually have a link. Rather they have a unique transaction id instead. End of the day as you said, it requires the payment app to support it. Here in Singapore, all the QR payment apps including Google Pay support selecting an image containing a QR from your phone’s gallery to do it.
- Comment on The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World 2 weeks ago:
You mean like one of those small casios? That’s the only watch that comes to mind that remotely fits that profile.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 2 weeks ago:
Tant that the name of the global surveillance system in one of the Mission Impossible movies? It’s like they’re not even trying to hide it…
- Comment on Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military 3 months ago:
I don’t think it’s hypocritical if you’re against a foreign nation from using your own nation’s tech in their military, especially if it’s hostile towards yours? That seems like a no brainer. It’s like selling weapons to your enemy, that’s essentially treason (not that it means anything right now with Trump lol). It’s only hypocritical if they are against it simply for using it.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 3 months ago:
Same here and with the price of GPUs, raytracing is expensive as hell for the wallet and it’s straight up not a good value.
- Comment on Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report 3 months ago:
What do you mean by understanding the difference between instruction sets?
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 3 months ago:
I’m curious to see how Valve will respond to this seeing as they have CS. I imagine they’d be interested to build a solution but I’m not sure how plausible that even is.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
That’s assuming there’s sufficient space. Even then if you look at the picture, you can see that the power button is on the bottom of the back side of the device. This makes it even harder to reach than if it were simply on the back since you’d need to contort your finger on top of a long awkward reach.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 3 months ago:
There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
I’m trying to say that it’s still a useful button to have in an accessible spot because, exactly as you said, it is still used to turn it on.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Sure but you still need to turn it on though?
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 months ago:
Eh this is nothing new since the biometrics portion has been part of the process for a few years. The only new part is that now you can skip the passport. The terrifying portion had already arrived many years ago unfortunately.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 months ago:
I’m mostly still on Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese artists and bands. Now plenty of them are jumping out BlueSky so off I go.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 months ago:
I think AMD should also get back into ARM and low-power devices. The snapdragon laptops have made a big splash, and that market could explode once the software is refined, and AMD should be poised to dominate it. They already have ARM products, they just need to make low-power, high performance products for the laptop market.
They don’t need to go with ARM. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the x86 instruction set that prevents them from making low power processors, it’s just that it doesn’t make sense for them to build an architecture for that market since the margins for servers are much higher. Even then, the Z1 Extreme got pretty close to Apple’s M2 processors.
Lunar Lake has also shown that x86 can match or beat Qualcomm’s ARM chips while maintaining full compatibility with all x86 applications.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 months ago:
I mean I guess? But the question here was about value and no way is RT worth double the price.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t be the first time they did this though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they jump back into the high end once they’re ready.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 months ago:
Were the 6000 series not competitive? I got a 6950 XT for less than half the price of the equivalent 3090. It’s an amazing card.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 4 months ago:
Is this blocked by ublock origin coz I’ve never gotten that at all on Firefox.
- Comment on Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. 4 months ago:
What in the world is a tiktok recruiter?
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 4 months ago:
Well no surprise here given what’s been going on with their MR departments. What a terrible shame.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 4 months ago:
Same here. Got in with he Fold 3 and I’m now on the Fold 6. They’re fantastic and I can imagine going back. The convenience of having a mini tablet with you that you can annotate stuff on is too good to give up.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 4 months ago:
I actually find the Z Folds to be far better for one handed usability than regular phones since they’re narrower. Honestly wished Samsung didn’t make the newer ones wider. I liked the Fold 3’s width. It was perfect for me.