Irina

Microsoft, forever and always, will keep trying to pivot Windows to whatever they think the Next Big Thing is going to be, and then fuck it up every time. They tried to pivot to Mobile (Windows Mobile), then Tablets (8, 8.1), then digital assistants (Win 10 Cortana), then 3D (Win 10 Paint3D, 3D Objects folder) and AR (why a bunch of Win10 got the semitransparent glass aesthetic), now AI. Maybe they got ahead of the curve enough to be the “leader” in “AI” this time, but that doesn’t make it a Good Operating System.

In some places Messenger is the default communications platform, more so than SMS or WhatsApp or iMessage or whathaveyou.

https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-doing-reverse-twitch-drops/

They’ve also done it with Halo and Fortnite that I’ve seen.

“promotions” telling me to play a certain game on stream in discord (and get some cosmetic item for it) are ads for that game. I don’t have a screenshot of it on hand, unfortunately.

without ads.

only if you have a very strict definition of Ad

If the claims in the article are true and can scale, that’s actually a really cool technology.

A 120hz or 144hz (reasonably common) monitor could do 24FPS with no issues, as that’s either every 5th or every 6th frame exactly.

that’s a lot more money for a smaller screen, though. 32" is a big monitor sitting in front of a desk, but a small TV if you’re on a couch.

A good article, a lot of those advantages I wasn’t aware of! I think DisplayPort unfairly got a bad rap as “oh, I have to buy another cable now” when it was new, but it’s obviously the better choice now. Although I still hate DisplayPort’s latching, makes it so hard to unplug cables in tight spaces. I’d rather old-style screws than the latch on all the DP cables I’ve used.

Is there any market research at all indicating that customers want 6"+ displays?

Unfortunately, yes. People who buy smaller phones are the people who buy a new phone less often, and small phones tend to sell worse than the big models (see S10e, iPhone 12(?) Mini) so don’t get renewed. Would be nice if they did.

I haven’t seen any of this in Firefox?

It’s a genuinely good security feature, but wrecks custom roms as a side effect (which I’m sure samsung doesn’t mind)

Yeah, there’s no real alternative here. Use messenger or Don’t talk to people.

They wanted to software-limit non-MFI usb cables, not sure if the EU will stop them in time.

Wouldn’t it end up implemented somewhere inside Chromium?

“attention tokens,” wow that sounds bad in and of itself

These laws exist in Australia already, Facebook and Google claimed they’d pull out of the country and of course they just came to an agreement with almost all news companies and life moved on.

I looked into it, but EGPUs are still not a great option. All of the enclosures seemed to have some major flaw, and performance is consistently low.

If you know the team, then that’s a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

My worry would be who is funding it and how they plan to keep operating. Venture Capital startups will always betray their users.