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- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 1 day ago:
Teams has a lot of Skype references under the hood…
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 1 day ago:
What’s wrong with your windows.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 day ago:
Corps. All of the bells and whistles it has ties into the corps tenant which includes isolation of things like sync’d profiles, seamless sso, favorites, extensions, etc
Since it’s all under the tenant, all of that data is subject to the same privacy and policies the corp and MS agreed to, which makes it easy to work with other companies that have their own client policy requirements.
MS also makes it easy to control and harden all of their products including Edge using policy controls from a single UI.
You can’t do any of this with Firefox without extra effort.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 3 days ago:
Whether you like it or not, it’s almost the defacto for business collaboration.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 3 days ago:
Thunderbird lacks calendar, shared scheduling, and a number of other collab features.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 4 days ago:
Does it have an email/collab product line Outlook yet?
- Submitted 4 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Run Linux on your machine as a VM.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It always feels like it’s someone’s hobby and not a mature product.
Fixing nearly anything is digging through a text file that might follow a standard but never the same standard as the last text file.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 1 week ago:
Only historians can determine if we reached a tipping point.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
It’s hard to explain. The keyboards they built just felt and worked better. They clicked just right, they had the shape right. Once they licensed out production like their Android branded phones it wasn’t as good.
There was a device called Typo that copied their keyboard exactly but attached to iPhone that was good but they must have really copied BB because they got sued into smithereens.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
Lots of Americans have guns. Not just conservatives.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
Because the phone system is old
It’s also backwards compatible to an extreme:
I remember in the early nineties I found in my grandmother’s antique store one of those old black candlestick phones that you would jiggle to ring the operator. It didn’t have a rotary dial.
I plugged it in and got dial tone. I jiggled the hook and an operator answered the phone and asked me something. I don’t remember if I hung up or talked with them.
When mobile phones came out they improved the system significantly but it was still very much old tech.
Getting the entire world to switch to something better would be quite the undertaking.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 weeks ago:
I wish this was the in top 10 reasons to be upset with the US right now.
- Comment on Is there a word for items that require both hands to use (e.g. game controller, steering wheel, handlebars)? 2 weeks ago:
Half-quad.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 3 weeks ago:
It could give you bad information on making DIY cleaning chemicals.
- Comment on Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t the story. All that’s changed is that a 3rd party script is being flagged my Defender as malicious. You can still update unsupported machines like always.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
This should surprise no one. The reception was poor, delivery was poor. It’s a niche market item in an existing niche market. On top of that, the de facto spokesperson of Tesla isn’t well liked by a lot of potential buyers.
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 3 weeks ago:
What services specifically
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 3 weeks ago:
we both know i wouldn’t be in charge of correcting typos.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 3 weeks ago:
You would increase the cost/complexity of every appliance.
It’s easier to just have the solar inverter and battery system independent of the equipment. It’s relatively inexpensive to retrofit a home for an auxiliary power source. The complexity is when you tie into the grid.
Some appliances are solar ready. Some hvac systems and pool systems accept direct solar panel connections.
If i weee i charge, i would require all homes to be able to support solar panels and a battery system. The cost to do so at time of construction is insignificant.
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 1 month ago:
Every device that has a DisplayPort also has hdmi. Not every device that has hdmi also has a DisplayPort.
DisplayPort did not win even though I agree it’s better.
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 1 month ago:
DisplayPort is the better product but has lost out to HDMI. I’d be fine if it was discontinued.
- Comment on This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive 1 month ago:
Check the destro of your choice to see if it’s supported.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 1 month ago:
This will be the next malware/info leak.
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 1 month ago:
Post your phone number.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 1 month ago:
NYE: Bill Nye’s NYE Special Line from NY NY
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 1 month ago:
NYE: Bill Nye’s NYE Special
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 1 month ago:
Congrats on having a low-effort life?