EricX2

As far as the USB Type C being mandatory for the EU, that's for charging, any coincidence with it leading to better data transfer is completely irrelevant. If Apple wanted to put a Type C charging port with a charger in the box but wired it only to charge the phone and still left the lightning port on or removed any data ports completely, they would be perfectly legal. In other words, the argument about how much better at DATA transfer is just a happy accident.

And the RIGHT reason would be? This is why I hate posting here, what's the point when nothing is ever right LAME

All I know as an owner of a Skylake NUC, these are stupid computers and the long term viability is non existent. Buy a laptop if you want a small computer. For two years I tried to get by with external GPU enclosure which basically cut my performance in half (at least) and the CPU itself is basically IDLE 100c during the summer heat.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it did it make a noise? Same answer as the apple watch.

If all you want is a CRT you just need an HDMI or DVI to VGA adapter. Also Nothing even close to PCI-E was around when DOS was in use and quake 2 ran on Windows and was compatible with Glide 3d or OpenGL so nothing that isn't hard to produce now with modern OS and hardware. I feel old, I was around when those were all released and probably still have my old CD!

It's great to have anything that makes intel and AMD have to compete with that market right? I may never buy one but if I get to buy a new low powered AMD laptop with a high powered GPU that's OK with me.

How can you question which OS the servers run without questioning what the purpose of the servers are? Servers aren't just boxes running an OS, they run applications that serve things and you have to pick which one runs the applications you have. If the answer is to virtualize the required OS then you still end up running Windows if it's virtual. your last comment about SSH, there are a million ways to connect to servers remotely, if that's the only query as to why they are picking which OS that's kind of a weird, the point of their servers is you rarely interact with it directly unless something is being done TO the server by the server administrator not the users. Users perform their functions on their systems and it connects to the served function of the remote server. You don't just RDP to the remote server and use apps on it.

Trusted Platform Module. I can only say what I used it with which was encrypting hard drives (bitlocker). TPM seemed like it would make sure nothing changed on the hardware and if it changed it would not let you boot up to the Operating System unless you changed back or input a code. Example, on an old dell laptop I got it to request a code by changing the boot options in the UEFI but if I changed them back it no longer requested the code. I'm sure there are other case scenarios but I'm sure most of them have to do with verifying that the system decrypting the encrypted data is the only one that should be able to.

I think the most obvious issue is that it's not "Youtube" that clickbait works on it's humans. Headlines in newspaper as long as there has been print have been written to get people to purchase the newspaper. Add in the algorithm that says "others like this so you will to" and you get the most views from the worst clickbait titles. It takes magic for something else to make a video go viral. Now the issue I don't understand is why do we want to get people clicking videos that once they get past the "bait" they don't like or understand the content? If they stick to the demographic that is into computers their growth will plateau and that's a failure in a business. Meh, it's linus. If we want to understand him it should always be "what will get more views" and there is nothing wrong with that.

So what stops a competitor of Amazon (or anybody) from uploading content and then reporting it anonymously if it's the host that gets the blame?

Sounds like somebody using a cloud licensing model and selling to individuals. Knowing what level of access that security software has, this is horrible. They can likely do a complete wipe of your system, not to mention a full inventory of every website and application you use.

I think it would depend on how close to a real PC is the PS5. Is it running a real UEFI or proprietary? If standard UEFI then it could have some understanding how to run a video signal through the PCI-E since that's just how they work. Then if the graphics card is close enough to the built in to run off the same video drivers it may work and it'd be pretty hard to install your own drivers I imagine. Any slight difference could cause it to try to do things the video card can't do though and probably crash. Otherwise if proprietary method of booting (not UEFI/BIOS) it may or may not know how to run a video signal through other graphics output. I don't imagine it'd hurt anything to try it not that I would. HAHA.

Companies like youtube need to make their algorithm visible. I'm sure most people think they are complex AI or machine learning algorithm but I bet most are just basic keyword searches with very clearly defined "if $include show video" "if $exclude don't show video" type rules. It doesn't have to be fully open source or anything, they just need to show something that says why a video showed up, what rule matched what criteria to determine why a video shows up. I don't think people question often enough why some videos show up when you search or in your feed and others don't, as long as they get something worth watching. I'd love to know when I see a video if it could tell me what video I watched in the past that made it recommend it or if a video is recommended based on trending or friends viewing habits or what. I'm sure each person has an entire database it uses for showing videos and results based on the browsing history and ads and everything else google has access to.

I have an old Lenovo laptop that has a recovery partition with Windows 7, I did the recovery and realized it was completely stuck at a pre-SP1 no hotfixes at all. Windows updates may be possible if I download them offline, but I didn't want to deal with that just to end up with a still obsolete OS so I ran the Windows 10 installation tool and it says the laptop is now licensed to windows 10 but where is the key from and what is the key tied to? My real concern is I am trying to sell this laptop, it's older than I want but still usable (core i5 3rd gen with 8gb RAM) but I don't want to sell it with a Windows 10 license that I'm unsure if it's really going to stay active. Does anybody know how the upgrade works in 2020 where you run the upgrade tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and install windows 10 if it's tying it to my Microsoft account or something? I'd hate to sell it saying "Includes Windows 10 Home" if it acts unlicensed as soon as someone other than me logs in.

Are we all just going to forget that bots and scalpers are higher than in a non pandemic year and bots and scalpers weren't uncommon in normal years? These aren't actual "bots" remember, they are people, people who buy them and resell them and make huge money because the people condemning them is a lot smaller than the ones who accept them. The same people who bought and sold Nintendo Wii consoles for $1,000 and every console since then. Just now they also lost their day jobs and now scalping is their only source of income. When a scalper buys 200 items, they don't sell 200 items right away at one price. They sell 20. Then 20. Then 20. Each time they sell that amount they look at the price and see if it's worth more or less. Only once it's worth less will they ever release more than a few at a time, then you'll see them all over. I collect sports cards. Basketball/baseball/football. 2020 has been the worst year of all time for buying them. Products that used to be $20 at target are now seemingly never making it to the target stores and instead sold online for $40 to infinity. Point being, it seems like in this year everybody is trying to make a buck anyway they can and all I am saying is I'm avoiding purchases at all cost if they are marked up. I'm treating it like pre-orders. They don't exist!