Technofrood
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- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 5 weeks ago:
I’m fairly sure they want to, they keep trying to kill off the standalone version but always seem to keep giving it a reprieve.
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that’s basically what it is at the end of the day.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
It’s more they are focused on running ASP and CLI apps on Linux, there is no official MS GUI library/framework for Linux which is one big thing missing from modern .net, there are a couple of thrid party ones like Avalonia however.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Now if only they would add Linux support to MAUI.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
So Reddit gold?
- Comment on Betrayal 3 months ago:
Given Awdry was quite keen on accuracy to the real world engines (see the falling out with one of the first artists) I’m actually surprised there isn’t more consistency with the liveries. The Culdee Fell Railway has all engines with the same purple livery, and I think from memory the steam trains on the Skarloey Railway are red, which is more accurate to real life as generally each railway would have its own livery.
- Comment on Betrayal 3 months ago:
You were supposed to bring order to the railway not cause confusion and delay
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 months ago:
Hasn’t it always needed that? I remember having to do it shortly after launch.
- Comment on Boom’s first test flight could signal the return of supersonic air travel 7 months ago:
I mean as much as I like the Concorde, I really don’t see commercial supersonic flights being a major success, it might be of some use on certain long fight routes that are mostly over water.
But it’s going to have the same problems that were the nails in the coffin for Concorde, too noisy to fly over populated areas, high running/maintenance costs, low passenger capacity and reasonably small market.
Given the rise of the internet there’s even less need to just pop over to the US and back for the day which was some of the market for Concorde. The environmental impact of a commercial supersonic aircraft would also be under significant pressure. A lot of the current improvement in jet engines for commercial flight has been how to make them more efficient.
- Comment on BT ‘has failed to invest enough in UK's full-fibre broadband’ 8 months ago:
Another thing to blame Thatcher for
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 8 months ago:
Over here (UK) it’s pretty common for doors to be multi point locking, so you shut the door and lift the handle which engages a series of extra bolts between the door and frame, most commonly one at the handle then one at the top and bottom of the frame. The early PVC doors that introduced multi point locking did have an issue (poor construction) where people could kick out the middle panel leaving the frame in place, newer ones have improved it, and there are more expensive doors which are made of different materials, but will almost always feature multi point locking.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 8 months ago:
I mean ethernet has a range of 100 meters in one run (including with POE), which is probably going to be longer than the WiFi range assuming the WiFi access point is at the switch and it’s a relatively straight run. If you need more range a small 4 port POE switch is hardly likely to break the bank if you have a property big enough to need over 100 meters of ethernet in one run.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
The price makes a little more sense if you factor in it also includes YouTube music, which puts it more on par with a premium Spotify subscription, with the benefit of no ads on YouTube. Which is basically how I got YouTube premium, I was already paying a monthly fee for Google Play music as it was at the time, and the upgrade to add YouTube premium was only £2 extra a month.
- Comment on RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed 10 months ago:
Yes for a while now, also has tab support.
- Comment on Heat pumps can't take the cold? Nordics debunk the myth 1 year ago:
Yeah that’s part of my worry, my gas boiler is 10+years old so needs replacing at some point soon, Id be up for going to a heat pump, but I don’t really have the space for it out side. Guess I might just go for a top of the line gas boiler before they stop selling them (I mean I assume they will gradually phase them out so no new installs, only replacements of existing ones, then nope) to cover the next decade and hope for some smaller units.
- Comment on I respect that 1 year ago:
Is that a Red Dwarf reference (or maybe Red Dwarf is referencecing something else)? youtu.be/GQlaRpdWIGM
- Comment on Why google son't sells products instead of killing them? 1 year ago:
Don’t think it got sold off but Apache got it, it’s since been discontinued again after not much work.