Australis13
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- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 6 days ago:
I'm sure these idiots have no concept of the future. They want to burn everyone out in months to years for the sake of boosting their profits in the here and now. Doesn't matter that if you treat your workers well (and pay them well) you often get greater productivity over a longer period.
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 3 weeks ago:
That's my point. I feel like they have been sitting on this for a while and didn't release it ages ago because it would be one more thing to reduce the odds of people shifting from 10 to 11.
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 4 weeks ago:
Right, so they wait until just after Windows 10 reaches EOL to release the patch for this annoying bug. Typical. They've probably had the solution ready for ages.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 5 weeks ago:
That's quite possible, unfortunately...
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 1 month ago:
I have several use cases, a big one being that it gives me an alternate storage medium for backing up home photos and videos. Obviously there's caveats on how long BD-Rs last (although M-discs should outlast me) and the issue of needing a player in future, but it gives me more peace of mind knowing that I can backup these sorts of things to different storage types (external hard drives are all well and good until they're corrupted by power issues or user error, or you want to keep a copy at a relative's place and it's a multi-hour trip... with optical media you can just keep adding discs to the offsite backup as needed and update the external HDD less frequently).
The other major use case I have has already been mentioned - backing up Blurays that I've bought (or, in the case of a few shows I like, being able to compare the DVD vs Bluray frame by frame).
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 1 month ago:
Interesting to see that demand for optical drives is increasing, although apparently it's only in Japan: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/optical-drive-demand-surges-amid-windows-10-retirement-japanese-users-switching-to-windows-11-are-buying-up-blu-ray-drives
Still, hopefully that means Bluray writers stay on the market for a bit longer.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 1 month ago:
Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I'm well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 1 month ago:
Fortunately not... I'm generally the one responsible for IT maintenance with my parents' as they get older. Disabled OneDrive long ago since they don't use it.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 1 month ago:
Probably right on the money, sadly.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 1 month ago:
If I hadn't abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
The desktop application (both Windows and Linux) allows free users to pick tracks. The mobile application does not.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
The mobile application has always had this restriction for free users (as far as I know), but the desktop application has not.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 2 months ago:
This is definitely a decent starting point but not a complete solution, unfortunately. It's not always cost-effective if you only want a few tracks from an album or need to import it to get it at all (or if it was a limited release it can be hard to find at all).